Quote Originally Posted by headshake
i love my country too, i just hate my govt.



i guarantee you they know nothing of the declaration of independence.



the second amendment has already been to the supreme court and upheld. they tried to outlaw handguns in washington dc. they tried to argue that the second amendment was for militias as pertaining to fighting off the britts. a militia is merely a group of ordinary citizens banded together fighting a common enemy, right?

part of the problem is ELECTED judges!

check out my quote in the sig from the dec. of ind. i feel ya 1000% percent here!



a lot of our power being removed stems from the federal reserve act of 1933. when citizens had to turnover their gold to the govt. to establish the fed reserve (which is the biggest scam in the history of mankind). they aren't a govt. entity and they charge the U.S. $.10 on the dollar to print up out currecny.....the only currency accepted in the U.S. mind you.....and all in the name of our protection from americans trading gold with the germans/italians/japanese.

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, more sure way of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner in which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." --- John Maynard Keynes

unfortunately keynes is the creator of the most common school of thought when it comes to economics in this country. it's a scary thought to be sure. and then you have ben bernanke who is a joke. everything he says now is the direct opposite of his position from before his time with the fed.

and stalin killed more russians then hitler did jews. funny no one remembers that.

we already meet 5 of the 10 things outlined in the communist manifesto, and have partial matches to several others.



they are all on my "to read" list. it's funny the light they try to cast our forefathers in. most of the shit you hear about them now is so far from the truth that it's not even funny.

keep on bringing it my friend!


-shake
If you want a more modern perspective than Adam Smith and the founding fathers of our country, check out anything by F.A. Hayek or Ludwig von Mises. I'm sure our resident comedian/economist, phunnyman, would concur. These men are the fathers of the branch of economics known as the "Austrian" school, and do probably the best job of explaining why "top-down" control economies don't work. Human Action by Mises is the seminal work on the subject.

Prohibition is just one very small part of a much larger problem. FDR's appointees to the Supreme Court, and numerous ones thereafter, have construed the 9th and 10th amendments to our constitution so as to render them dead letters, when in fact they are probably the most important ones, and would have prevented the continual and progressively worse usurpation of power by the federal government vis-a-vis the states and you and I that has been going on since the depression (not this one but the last). And no, Obama will NEVER EVEN ADDRESS the legalization of marijuana. To do so would far too great an admission of government fallibility for him to ever countenance.