Say no to infinite executive power:

I donated a small amount to the Obama campaign earlier this year. I received a call from Washington State’s Obama headquarters looking for another contribution. They first asked if he could count on my support. I told them that he could not until he advocated dismantling the federal reserve or else a return to a gold standard.

She said she was very confused, since her list named me as a supporter. I told her that I had in fact donated to his campaign in the past and that he seemed like a superior candidate to McCain, but that I wanted to support a candidate who believed in shrinking the role of the federal government, a candidate like Ron Paul. I wished his campaign the best.

She thanked me for support and we then ended the call.

It was a direct and honest conversation. It felt great!

Banks fought hard to privatize their gains when times were good, we should not allow them to socialize the losses now that times are bad.

It is wrong to force a hardworking person from Washington state to pay twice as much for his food, gas and heating because a banker made bad loans.

In the United States, businesses that make bad decisions lose money. Businesses that make very bad decisions go out of business. We should hold Banks to this same standard the rest of the country operates under.

We should not destroy a couple’s lifetime of retirement planning by destroying the purchasing power of their saved dollars to pay for corporate welfare for banks. We should not wipe out the middle class with hyperinflation because a 29 year old investment banker wants to drive around in a Maserati.

There is nothing wrong with a 29 year old driving a Maserati if he buys it from his own hard work, but he can’t afford it from his work! He needs Benjamin Bernanke to hand him a welfare check to buy one. 29 year old Washington Apple farmers don’t drive Maseratis. Why does Bernanke have the right to make farmers buy them for investment bankers?

Why would we prevent a young family from affording a home in a good neighborhood, just because the Federal Reserve, with the help of the Chinese, told JP Morgan Chase to give anyone with a pulse half a million dollars to buy homes at prices they cannot afford? We should not force this family to suffer in a rented home with higher food and energy costs just because Bernanke believes he can now command the value of that home to stay above its fair market value.

Bernanke’s vision of commanding the value of money will fail no less decisively than communists’ vision of commanding the value of production.

I agree with Jim Roger’s opinion in the embedded video: abolish the Federal Reserve.

The Seattle City Council recently approved a measure to take pictures of people speeding in order to send them $189 tickets if they are in a school zone.

If driving 25MPH is so dangerous to society, then we should arrest people for committing this crime. However, such a measure would receive very little support — because nearly everyone speeds, few would support giving the state the right to arrest them for driving 25MPH. But if driving 25MPH is not dangerous enough to detain the individual and remove him from placing others in danger, why does the state have the right to steal his income and property? The state has no such right.

The truth is that dangerous driving is dangerous. Speeding is often involved in dangerous driving, but the high velocity of your vehicle is neither a necessary nor sufficient means of concluding the driving is dangerous. Wielding a knife is often dangerous, but we should not arrest or fine every cook for brandishing this weapon in the kitchen; arrest him when he tries to attack someone. In the same vein, people should be arrested for driving dangerously, not robbed for speeding.

Speeding disproportionately effects the impoverished. Minimum wage is currently $7.50. So the city just approved a measure that enslaves an individual to the state for more than half a week for the high crime of driving 25MPH. The cost of gas and food is rising dramatically. Is it fair to take 15% of a man’s monthly wages for driving 25MPH? If he refuses to pay — a likely scenario given his circumstances — does the state have the right to arrest the man over this?

Both US Senators representing Washington State, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray currently sponsor the 110th Congress’ Senate Resolution 580. This resolution demands that the President follow the same course of inspection and international action in Iran that lead up to the war in Iraq.

We do not need a war with Iran. We cannot afford our current military expeditions much less new ones with Iran. Iraq is costing us thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, all needlessly.

Please write to these Senators and the other 24 co-signors of this bill. Tell them not to extend this needless, wasteful violence to Iran as well.

Iran is of little to no consequence. What Iranian Navy and Air Force threatens Washington or any other of the United States? Iran — and everyone else in the world — will be happy to trade their oil to us as long as they believe in the status of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

The most important matter to the national security of the United States is to prevent the collapse of the US dollar. Our greatest enemy is the federal reserve’s endless expansion of the money supply.

We cannot force the world to accept our dollars forever when Bernanke is trying so hard to make them worthless. No, we must tighten our belts and work hard to show the world why we have the greatest and most productive economy on the planet Earth. We can begin to do so as soon as we halt the Federal Reserve’s continual corruption that makes it more profitable to shuffle money around than increase production.

After all, Washington state has some of the country’s greatest businesses: Microsoft, Amazon, Nordstrom, Costco, Boeing…

I like that Obama is more open about his support for government-sanctioned theft than McCain. If Obama tells people to elect him so he can rob them and Americans willingly agree, that is far better than the con the right-leaning socialists rallying around McCain run: convincing people McCain can take and use all their savings without robbing anyone.

The next time you buy groceries ask yourself what you think about the following scenario: just before you pay I stick a gun in your face. I demand you pay twice as much as before. I will either shoot you or take everything you own and lock you up inside a dungeon for as long as I see fit if you refuse. Would you give me the right to do this? Does this suddenly become acceptable if I give you most of the money back?

Certainly I can ask for your charity. Perhaps I have a child who needs an education or medical care and you want to help. But if you have neither the means nor the desire to give this charity, do I suddenly gain the right to take this from you by force?

No. I have no right to steal from you. Nor may you give me the right to rob other people this way. Why would the theft that we do not allow as individuals suddenly become acceptable if it is done to everyone and done by a group? You and I have no more right to rob a third person as a group than we do as individuals; the fact that the three of us voted on whether this theft is legal is irrelevant.

Yet all this theft is exactly what we allow the government to do to us. Not only do we allow it, but anyone who supports Obama (or McCain) is demanding that our government steal: steal as much as possible as fast as possible from the very citizens it claims to represent.

It makes no difference how beautiful or honorable Obama makes his thieving desires sound — nor how many people believe him; it is wrong to loot, rob or steal.

Seattle is not a dangerous city. It is normally a pleasant one in which to live.

The LAST thing we need is to turn our peaceful city into some sort of soviet-state gulag where every street corner has the Gestapo waiting to arrest us under the guise of “protecting us” from big, bad, evil guns.

People in the United States gave themselves protection from unreasonable searches and seizures with the fourth amendment to the US constitution. It is one of the most important protections from government tyranny. We understand that what begins with “protecting us” from guns quickly becomes arresting us for being outside past our curfew without government issued identification cards.

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels wants to ignore this important protection against government abuses of power. He wants to give police the authority — and duty — to search everyone without cause. When did Seattle become willing to hand their right to privacy over to the police? Are we now governed by the same culture of fear which allows our federal government to spy on our emails and throw people in secret prisons for years without pressing charges?

Why did Greg Nickels support this measure? Does he lust for power or just not understand the proper role of government?

We need more mayors like Montesano’s Ron Schillinger. He decided to defend Americans’ fourth amendment right to freedom from unreasonable searches; his veto of Nickels’ requirement to search everyone on government property is a good one. The more such men make decisions like these in government, the further protected we are from a tyrannical police state overthrowing our constitutional republic.

You are going to see a lot of this leading up to November: a mother refusing to give McCain her baby.

Good. What entitles McCain to take money from you and me to help Iraqis one day murder this child?

If he is so interested in shooting people in Iraq for the rest of this century, he should use his own family and his own family’s money to do it. If he can convince people to volunteer their money and lives? Fine. But stop looting the US public’s purchasing power, savings and retirement in order to fund neo-conservative delusions.

The only thing questionable about the video is the belief that Obama will be any more effective at stopping this war than the inept Democratic congress and senate.

From Nolan Chart:

Paul charges that House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) removed a section from a bill, which would have barred the U.S. government from going to war [with Iran] without a congressional vote, at the behest of the “leadership of Israel” and “AIPAC” (the American Israel Public Affairs committee).

Ron Paul’s words from the same article:

The Democrats finally win the election in 2006,and it was a mandate, the Republicans get thrown out what’s the first act that Pelosi does? There was a supplemental bill that had a bill of ours we had gotten put in, and the bill said you shouldn’t need a bill like this! it said, you can’t go to war with Iran without getting approval from Congress. And she removed it, she removed it deliberately. And then, the astounding thing is, they asked her why, and she said the leadershiip in Israel asked her to. That was in the newspaper, that was in the Washington Post, that she was asked by AIPAC and others not to do that.” (1)

Why is Pelosi listening to foreigners’ interests before the interests of the California mothers and fathers who she represents?

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