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"Unsaid in all this is that the U.S. government, like the Russian government, makes it a criminal offense to possess and distribute ma*****na. Defenders of the U.S. drug war can say that the federal penalty for ma*****na possession is lower in the U.S. than in Russia, but isn’t that a distinction without a difference? Moreover, let’s not forget that in the long, sordid history of America’s drug war, countless Americans have been forced to served much longer jail sentences for ma*****na possession than Griner."
"The mainstream press continues to emphasize that Bout is an 'international arms dealer,' which apparently makes him an extremely evil person. Well, if that’s true, then how about we focus on the world’s biggest international arms dealer. That would be the U.S. government! Yes, the pious, innocent U.S. government, the same government that prosecuted Bout and sentenced him to 25 years in jail."
"The mainstream press says that Bout was selling arms to terrorist groups. Well, notice on that list that the U.S. government knowingly sells arms to Saudi Arabia, a regime that most everyone in the world, including the family and former fiancé of Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi and even the CIA, knows is one of the most murderous regimes in the world. Is there really any difference in principle between selling arms to a terrorist group and selling arms to a murderous regime?"
"The mainstream press continually claims that Bout was accused of selling arms to al Qaeda. But U.S. officials never charged him with that. Lacking the evidence to convict him of that offense, U.S. officials simply decided to make up a crime and convict him of the made-up crime instead. That’s what goes for 'justice' in the federal criminal-justice system."
"Unfortunately for Bout, the jury in his case was not so inclined. They obviously felt that a made-up crime was just as good as a real crime. However, the federal judge who sentenced Bout apparently didn’t feel totally comfortable with what the DEA had done. The judge sentenced Bout to the minimum amount of time possible, which was nonetheless 25 years.
"There is something else worth noting about the Bout conviction. Bout never committed any offense within the United States. The fake negotiations took place entirely outside the United States. In fact, Bout was arrested while engaging in the fake negotiations in Thailand and then was extradited to the United States to stand trial on a fake made-up crime that never took place anywhere in the United States.
"It is also worth asking: What business does the DEA have in setting up an international arms dealer on a fake weapons charge? I thought DEA stood for Drug Enforcement Administration, not Weapons Enforcement Administration."
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WATCH | AIER Senior Researcher Phillip W. Magness joined the The Future of Freedom Foundation's 'End Inflation and End the Fed' conference to speak about 'A Public Choice Examination of the Inflationary Crisis.'
'The Federal Reserve (“the Fed”) began operations in 1914. Thus, many find it difficult to fathom an America without it. Yet as it conducts its own major framework review, everyone, including the Federal Reserve itself, knows that the Fed is unnecessary. Congress could abolish the institution and restore monetary matters to the free market.
But should we end the Fed? In a word, yes. What would replace it? You! And me. And every other person, negotiating through markets, just like the Founders wanted.'
AIER Senior Researcher Robert E. Wright features at The Future of Freedom Foundation.
stop using the word freedom---you have no regard for freedom --you want the dictator wannabe don the con to be back in office to run the country into the ground---where are you getting your financing---from russia---you and this page are so obviously unamerican------
sure---make so easy for a traitor like trump to sell out the country to putin---you have no freedom in mind--just tyranny--
What are some good objective American history books? Older books seem to gloss over the negatives of American history while more recent ones seem to point out only the negatives.
What has been the intent of 'government' during this colonial time period? It seems that despite proclamations and declarations to the contrary the real intent has been anything but the concerns and desires of The People to engage in their own freely chosen enterprise. Colonial systems, including especially the imposed colonial system of money, have been intent on controlling and directing the labor and resources of the colonized to the whim of the top 1% of the colonizers.
Here is what I am talking about:
https://modernmoneynetwork.org/sites/default/files/biblio/RiPE%20Forstater.pdf
The world wide export of imperial colonial control over what shall be money and then demanding that taxes be paid in that money is the present operating system of the non-working class and is one of the critical means by which sovereignty and liberty are destroyed, along with community cooperation, and labor stolen.
From the abstract:
“In the European colonies, land expropriation and forced labor were used, but another important means of forcing indigenous populations to work as wage-laborers or produce cash crops was taxation and the requirement that taxes be paid in colonial currency. This paper provides an overview of this method, and documents its historical importance, concentrating on Africa. Taxation also played an important role in the monetization and commoditization of African economies, and in the rise of a peripheral capitalism. As the paper demonstrates, Marx [and lots of others] was not unaware of money taxes functioning in this manner, and the phenomenon was in no way limited to Africa.” - Matthew Forstater
From the above paper by Forstater: ".... The problem was that if the subsistence base was capable of supporting the population entirely, colonial subjects would not be compelled to offer their labor-power for sale. Colonial governments thus required alternative means for compelling the population to work for wages. The historical record is clear that one very important method for accomplishing this was to impose a tax and require that the tax obligation be settled in colonial currency.
This method had the benefit of not only forcing people to work for wages, but also of creating a value for the colonial currency and monetizing the colony. In addition, this method could be used to force the population to produce cash crops for sale. What the population had to do to obtain the currency was entirely at the discretion of the colonial government, since it was the sole source of the colonial currency. This method was widespread and important enough to be called “a secret of colonial capitalist primitive accumulation” (since it was not the only method, it must be called “a” secret). This practice is extremely well documented, yet it has hardly ever been mentioned as an important method of primitive accumulation."
"......Several points concerning the role of direct taxation in colonial capitalist primitive accumulation need to be made. First, direct taxation means that the tax cannot be, e.g. an income tax. An income tax cannot assure that a population that possesses the means of production to produce their own subsistence will enter wage labor or grow cash crops. If they simply continue to engage in subsistence production, they can avoid the cash economy and thus escape the income tax and any need for colonial currency. The tax must therefore be a direct tax, such as the poll tax, hut tax, head tax, wife tax, and land tax. Second, although taxation was often imposed in the name of securing revenue for the colonial coffers, and the tax was justified in the name of Africans bearing some of the financial burden of running the colonial state, in fact the colonial government did not need the colonial currency held by Africans."
How can any one of us talk about "Free" Enterprise while still using the colonial systems of money that we are All Using Today?
You shouldn’t lie about other candidates! Kari Lake has found out how awful the MSM are!best candidate for governor. So sad the only thing you can do is say mistruths about people Tells me you must be on the cabal’s side!!!
Last week, Ron Paul joined the Restoring Our Civil Liberties webinar put on by The Future of Freedom Foundation . He presented an examination of how efforts to bring about equality and safety via government dictate threaten liberty and property rights.