COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Frederic Bastiat
July 07, 2009 at 07:03 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 59.God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.
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This Too Shall Pass
July 07, 2009 at 04:05 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedPost under:In “Common Sense Revisited” the author describes the difference between surrogate power and indigenous power. Very briefly defined as follows, Indigenous power is the power we have from our creator; it is the only true source of power on earth. It cannot be taken away from us. We can, however, voluntarily give up some of our power to surrogates like corporations, governments, unions, partnerships, etc. These surrogate entities only have power that can be taken back at any time by individuals that the surrogates serve.
These entities do things for us, they are our servants. As long as they follow the contracts, constitutions, by-laws, or partnership agreements we put in place than everything is fine. However, the people who have been running our surrogates seem to have a natural tendency to assume more power than expressed in the original written agreements. That is why problems have arisen.
The philosophy of collectivism in all of its forms; communism, fascism, socialism, etc. is based on a falsehood. All forms of collectivism use propaganda, fear, greed, force, intimidation, and all forms of deceit to make the people believe that the state has indigenous power when it does not, and never can have, indigenous power.
When people are awake, educated, and fully conscious and empowered than they do not allow this illusory power to control them. The author of this article below entitled “This too shall pass” does a great job of explaining the current state of affairs. I suggest keeping this concept of indigenous vs. surrogate power in mind while reading this article. The best solutions to all problems in society always come from a bottom up structure where the individuals have the maximum amount of individual freedom. This kind of structure is diametrically opposed to all forms of collectivism.
My final comment on the following piece is that all of us who believe in freedom need to be solution focused. That is another reason why I like this piece because it gives a concrete example of a proven freedom based solution. When reading this article you can substitute bottom-up, or freedom based, for libertarian, they all refer to the same basic concept.
Read Bill Butler’s article here.
Truth, Freedom, Love, and Peace will triumph because of fundamental laws of nature.
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Restore the Republic
July 15, 2009 at 03:46 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedA great site for keeping active in the Ron Paul movement. It has a lot of good information and utilities to keep in touch with people.Organization under: -
Clyde Cleveland's Speech at END THE FED Chicago
July 07, 2009 at 04:10 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedE-video under: -
John Adams
July 07, 2009 at 04:34 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Reinhold Niebuhr, Andrew J. (INT) Bacevich, The Irony of American History (University of Chicago Press, 2008) p. 21.Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
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Thomas Paine
July 07, 2009 at 04:50 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) Introduction.Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.
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Frederic Bastiat
July 07, 2009 at 04:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 2.Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforhand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
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James Thomson
July 07, 2009 at 06:03 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) Front Cover..Man knows no master save HEAVEN, Or those whom Choice and common Good ordain.
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Samuel Adams
July 07, 2009 at 06:06 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Jim Hightower, Susan DeMarco, Swim Against the Current (John Wiley and Sons, 2008) p. 193.It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 07, 2009 at 06:17 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Karna Small Bodman, Checkmate (Macmillian, 2008) p. 279.A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have…The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
