Reason Reigns

God Speed, Beloved Brother

2012-01-13T02:43:00.000-08:00

Years ago, I prayed that God grant you happiness. He gave you three more founts of exquisite joy, in addition to the three you already had. Lately, I prayed so hard that you be granted a miracle. I may not be aware of it, but I believe you have experienced the most wondrous of miracles.

Hug and kiss Mamang, Papang, and other loved ones for me. Missing you all is painful sorrow, though it feeds the love for those you and I cherish. I wish I could have said it more often: I love you.

God speed, my beloved brother.

Vitriol Against Wall Street Men

2012-01-08T02:57:00.000-08:00

An American innovator financed more than 3,200 companies that went on to create millions of jobs. He became spectacularly successful, after which he was gestapoed. The media not only cheered - they assisted in the naked tyranny unleashed on the innovator and his family, including his ninety-two-year-old grandfather.

How could this happen in America? Why didn’t the people rise up to defend him? Because he is a spectacularly rich WALL STREET guy.

The government owns the monetary system. The Federal Reserve, SEC, other regulators, lawmakers, Attorneys General, czars, et al, LORD it over Wall Street and Corporate America. Government mistakes are blamed on businessmen. Some corrupt businessmen collude with corrupt politicians.

Many are blind to the fact that Corporate America is government-goliath’s scapegoat, that Wall Street is a slave pen, and that businessmen are rightless. Sadly, there have been no Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, Patrick Henrys, nor Samuel Adamses, among businessmen. Many are WILLING SLAVES.

Now, a Wall Street guy is running for president. The vitriol unleashed upon the aforementioned innovator is being unleashed upon Mitt Romney. I hope America will join me in declaring:

The successful and the affluent have rights equal to the rights of every other man. I am not a looter, nor a thug, nor envious. I am UNCOMMON. I am a moral descendant of the 1776 Revolutionaries. I am an American.

Republicans: Restore Your Party and Your Country

2011-11-19T13:54:00.000-08:00

A Republican is one who values the legacy of the American Revolutionaries: “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

“I believe with you that morality, compassion, generosity are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force; that a right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings; that no one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature; that justice is the fundamental law of society; that the majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest, breaks up the foundations of society; that action by the citizens in person, in affairs within their reach and competence, and in all others by representatives chosen immediately and removable by themselves, constitutes the essence of a republic…”

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Sean Hannity often declares, “I am not a Republican. I am a Conservative.” Many Conservatives have invaded the Republican Party because they have been rejected by America. Their resurgence in 2009 was defeated by NY-23rd. Recently, they have been defeated by Mississippi: MS rejected that life begins at conception.

Libertarians, like Ron Paul, have also invaded the Republican Party for the same reason. The Libertarian Party, whose founding principle is anarchism, has been rejected by America.

Democrats, like Ronald Reagan and Rick Perry, have conquered the Republican Party. Other Democrats, without joining the Republican Party, are admired by Conservatives who have invaded the Party: Newt Gingrich is a big fan of Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

Americans: Can you keep a Republic?

War on Young Girls and on Science

2011-11-16T02:50:00.000-08:00

Most of the GOP presidential candidates desire to COERCE YOUNG GIRLS into a lifetime of hardship. They seek the power to dictate to victims of rape and incest: Live with it!

To you who turn a blind mind on this WAR on YOUNG GIRLS: you are UNLEASHING MONSTERS upon helpless innocents.

This war on young girls is also a WAR on SCIENCE.

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson

The zygote has no brain activity, the criterion for human life. It has no brain. It is not sentient. It does not breathe. Whereas, the pregnant girl is an actual living human being. Yet, the pro-zygote, who tout “All life!”, blank out the life of a pregnant girl.

Envision a young orphan who gets pregnant and is abandoned by her boyfriend. She would not be able to afford daycare, yet she would have to earn a living. Evading the distinction between a zygote and a baby, the cavalier say, “Put the baby up for adoption.” They evince their monstrous cruelty: they do not care that giving up one’s baby is 24-7 torture for a lifetime.

Imagine a victim of incest, her mom and her rapist standing over her, saying, “Abortion is a sin.” Think of a rape victim who is forced to birth. She works part-time, goes to school, and takes care of the baby. She goes to a grocery store with her baby, and a man accidentally bumps into her slightly. As she freezes with fear and loathing, the baby innocently smiles at her, and for a moment, she feels hatred for her baby. At home as she breastfeeds, hatred for herself overwhelms her for that moment when she hated her baby, coupled with a wrenching dread that she will experience such moments again.

What kind creates fallible beings with sexual urges, even the young ones, and punishes them for a lifetime for making mistakes? What kind furthers the pain of rape victims? The CRUEL kind. The MALEVOLENT.

What kind gives legal coercive power to those who war on young girls and on science?

Defeat Obama or Advance Religion-based Coercion

2011-10-23T16:34:00.000-07:00

The 2008 presidential election was a contest between socialism and theocracy. Obama touted that he would redistribute wealth while McCain was hostage to the moral descendants of Galileo persecutors, evinced by his VP choice: Palin. Independents chose SOCIALISM over the DARK AGES.

In 2009: theocracy warriors led by Palin and Beck, chased out pro-choice, pro-gay-rights State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, chosen by local NY-23rd GOP leaders as their nominee. Theocracy warriors sought to dictate. NY-23rd, held by the GOP since the Civil War, rejected the candidate of the anti gay and anti birth-control pill. Kudos to NY-23rd for asserting their independence! Many thanks!

In 2012, the contest is between the destruction of the USA and the advance of religion-based coercion. GOP primary voters: the legacy of the American Revolutionaries is in your hands.

Mitt Romney, Thomas Jefferson, and the Injustice of Context Dropping

2011-09-11T16:32:00.000-07:00

The unjust or the dishonest drop context. “Individual mandate” is used against Mitt Romney as “slave holder” is used to tear down Thomas Jefferson. They are hurled without context, thus, unworthy of a search for the truth, a great injustice, and a triumph for “the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”

The United States Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) in 1986, under Ronald Reagan’s watch. EMTALA requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. EMTALA applies to virtually all hospitals in the U.S but includes no provisions for reimbursement. The law is therefore considered an "UNFUNDED safety net program" for patients seeking care at the nation's emergency rooms. As a result of the 1986 EMTALA legislation, HOSPITALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY FACE UNPAID BILLS AND MOUNTING EXPENSES TO CARE FOR THE UNINSURED.

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/09/romney-stands-up-for-persecuted.html

The choice of Governor Romney was the bankruptcy and closure of MA hospitals, or a mandate for those who can afford and would be buying insurance were it not on their reliance on the unearned: e.g. the EMTALA.

Honest critics offer alternatives. How would you fund unfunded entitlements while convincing others to end them? How would you avoid the closure of hospitals?

In the case of Thomas Jefferson, I have encountered shocking vitriol and utter malevolence. Logically and morally, one cannot be faulted for something outside of one's choice. Slavery was OBTRUDED on the Colonies by King George III. Jefferson INHERITED slaves. It was AGAINST THE LAW TO FREE THEM.

Chosen for the first time to be a member of a legislature at age 26, he submitted a bill for the EMANCIPATION of slaves. As a lawyer, age 27, Jefferson defended a slave, saying: "Under the law of nature, all men are born free."

In 1806, a law passed in Virginia which allowed ONLY the SELF-SUPPORTING to be freed. Freed slaves MUST LEAVE the state. If a freed self-supporting slave had children or parents who were not, he/she had to leave them.

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/02/under-law-of-nature-all-men-are-born.html

Twin Beau Ideals

2011-09-11T07:09:00.000-07:00

Twin Beau Ideals: The Declaration of Independence in towering steel - a free mind and ego soaring to the skies - happiness rising in architectural symphony.

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http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/02/royal-serf-rearranged-and-with-updates.html

After supper, Apollo invited, “Let’s go to The Pit Stop. I go there to rest and refuel. Together with my Journal of Heroes, The Pit Stop invigorates and gives me joy.”

Apollo opened the door to The Pit Stop, but did not turn on the lights. It was a large, high-ceilinged room containing works of art. At the end of The Pit Stop were twin miniature skyscrapers that almost reached the ceiling. Their upper floors were brightly lit. Apollo and Ian stopped by the door, solemnly gazing up at the skyscrapers named Twin Beau Ideals. They were of the same mind. “The Declaration of Independence in towering steel - a free mind and ego soaring to the skies - happiness rising in architectural symphony.”

The lit top floors of the left tower spelled B I G; its lower floors were strategically lit to spell B U S I N E S S. The right tower’s uppermost lights spelled E G O; its lit lower floors radiated S E L F I S H N E S S. The Twin Beau Ideals glowed with the following: BIG BUSINESS and EGO SELFISHNESS.

The towers represented a mighty threat to sacrifice-glorifiers and mind-destroyers. Rejecting the hands-off, nonintervention, noninterference imperative in freedom, the subhuman attacked.

Apollo and Ian remembered the day when enemies of freedom and free enterprise destroyed the real-life BIG BUSINESS tower, and haters of equal inherent inalienable rights struck down the real-life EGO-SELFISHNESS skyscraper. The towers were owned by Uncle Sam, but made possible by the private sector.

Apollo told Ian, “Many people revolted at the September 11, 2001 destruction miss the fact that the virtues that made the Twin Beau Ideals possible have been under vicious attack for over a century. Deluge of vilification and injustice have been heaped upon free enterprise, big business, brilliant innovation, spectacular success, and self-interested pursuits of profit and happiness.”

The guardian and his ward each vowed, “What the twin towers stood for must not crumble to ruins. I pledge my life and sacred honor to see you rise again, Twin Beau Ideals, together with the good you represent: reason, liberty, coercion-free economics, science, technology, pride, and joy.”

When Apollo turned on the lights, Ian gazed at a painting of the US flag and its inscription: The USA is a self-portrait of the American people. Autograph America with FREEDOM.

Perry Spurns God’s Gift of Reason

2011-09-10T12:55:00.000-07:00

God gifted each individual with reason, that anyone’s mind may soar to the heavens, like Galileo and the Wright Brothers.

Perry, a WIELDER of COERCIVE POWER, spurns God’s gift of reason. He does not advocate that individuals help themselves, but rather, he is of the kind that spouts: "Americans are helpless! We must repent! I declare a year of prayer and fasting!"

From wikipedia: Perry proclaimed August 6, 2011 as a Day of Prayer and Fasting. Earlier, he proclaimed April 22 to April 24 as "Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas" in response to the wildfires then covering much of the state. By late July, 75% of the state was experiencing exceptional drought conditions, as opposed to 10-20% in April.

Like his DARK-AGES moral descendants, Perry would Giuliani (i.e. Gestapo) Galileos, who proudly evince that God’s gift of reason is all-good. Perry is the candidate of DARK-AGES WARRIORS: the anti-mind/anti-reason, who crave to impose on rights respecters. The moral descendants of the persecutors of Galileo. Those who believe in a cruel god, one that imposes his will, contrary to the loving God's gift to man: free will.

In 2008, DARK-AGES WARRIORS scored a victory when Barack Obama's opponent, a speech infringer, anti-gun, anti-capitalism, whose hero is dedicated Antitrust enforcer Theodore Roosevelt, the first POTUS to endorse the income tax and the inheritance tax who also endorsed socialized medicine, chose a gravitas-free puppet of THEOCRACY WARRIORS as running mate. The country chose socialist Obama over the DARK-AGES WARRIORS.

In 2009, New York's 23rd Congressional District, held by the GOP since the Civil War, rejected DARK-AGES WARRIORS. - http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2009/11/theocracy-warriors-rejected-by-new.html

In 2011 for the 2012 presidential elections, DARK-AGES WARRIORS are ramming down a Roosevelt of the Theodore and Franklin kind who would burn Galileos at the stake: Rick Perry.

Romney Stands Up for a Persecuted Minority: Corporations

2011-09-05T15:52:00.000-07:00

The following popular convictions have been entrenched for more than a century. It takes courage and morality for a political candidate to dispute them. It is the only way to combat the unemployment scourge. It is consistent with freedom: a coercion-free existence.

"BIG corporations are robber barons." - Power-lusters and Looters

"Corporations are not people." - Ron Paul and many of his supporters

“Corporations are greedy crooks.” – Losers who spurn the presumption of innocence doctrine

Translation of the quotes: "I ENVY. I GREED to LOOT corporations. I SALIVATE to TYRANNIZE those WHO DARE SUCCEED!"

Little people are envious. Their response to achievement is not admiration but a desire to control or destroy. For over a century, corporations have been tyrannized by the Left and the Right. Big corporations are vilified as robber barons to justify Antitrust laws, which spit on logic: Free competition must be enforced!

Having pulverized logic, power-lusters followed up with undefined, flexible, contradictory laws. These thugs have solid allies: the envious and the irrational. Lusting for total annihilation, they now proclaim that people who associate to form corporations are not people.

In freedom, people are free to form associations, like corporations, and other people are free to deal with them or not. There are only two types of evil greed: greed for coercive power and greed for the unearned. The successful and the affluent have rights equal to those of other men.

I admire and thank Mitt Romney for standing up for a persecuted minority: corporations.

People criticize Romneycare but they drop a huge context and do not offer alternatives. They evade the following:

The United States Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) in 1986, under Ronald Reagan’s watch. EMTALA requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. EMTALA applies to virtually all hospitals in the U.S but includes no provisions for reimbursement. The law is therefore considered an "UNFUNDED safety net program" for patients seeking care at the nation's emergency rooms. As a result of the 1986 EMTALA legislation, HOSPITALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY FACE UNPAID BILLS AND MOUNTING EXPENSES TO CARE FOR THE UNINSURED.

Mitt Romney had nothing to do with the passage of EMTALA, but he had to implement it as governor. I have asked this of those critical of Romneycare but have never gotten an answer: How do you propose to fund unfunded federal programs like the EMTALA while convincing others to end them?

Unlike a governor, Obama or Bush could have advocated for the repeal of unfunded entitlements in the US Congress and throughout the country. Romney says he will advocate for the repeal of Obamacare, and while it is not repealed, he will grant waivers to all states.

Among the declared GOP candidates, I favor JOB CREATORS Mitt Romney and Gary Johnson.

"While in college, Johnson earned money as a door-to-door handyman. His success in that arena encouraged him to start his own business, Big J Enterprises, which was founded in 1976. When he started the business, Johnson was its only employee.[10] He eventually grew Big J into a multi-million dollar corporation with over 1000 employees.[11] By the time he sold the company, in 1999, it was one of New Mexico's leading construction companies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_E._Johnson

Gary Johnson’s first principle of good government is: “Become reality driven.” - http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/record

Sourced from Wikipedia:

“With Bain & Company, Romney had a record of success with clients such as the Monsanto Company, Outboard Marine Corporation, Burlington Industries, and Corning Incorporated.

In 1984, Romney co-founded Bain Capital. As general partner, Romney was FRUGAL and CAUTIOUS, spending little on office appearance and finding the weak spots in so many potential deals. Their first big success was Staples Inc.; Bain Capital eventually reaped a nearly sevenfold return on its investment.

The firm successfully invested in or acquired many well-known companies such as Accuride, Brookstone, Domino's Pizza, Sealy Corporation, Sports Authority, and Artisan Entertainment, as well as lesser-known companies in the industrial and medical sectors.

Romney left Bain Capital in February 1999 to serve as the President and CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing Committee. By that time, Bain Capital was on its way to being one of the top private equity firms in the nation, having increased its number of partners from 5 to 18, had 115 employees overall, and had $4 billion under its management.”

After viewing this speech, I decided I will vote for Mitt Romney. He proudly and passionately talks about the FOUNDERS, freedom, capitalism, truth, & integrity. It is an EXCELLENT speech from the mind and heart, without a teleprompter nor notes on his palm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBlIo4cgYAQ&feature=player_embedded#!

I hope for a Romney-Johnson team. I wish them best premises and good fortune. God bless.

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Pay the Freedom-Debt Forward

To the principle of Individual Rights
We owe our joy, wealth, Life
Secure the Declaration by moral might
Honor freedom: pay the debt forward.

Fight! That the Founders live on
Think! That innocents will breathe reason
Extol precious Liberty! By right: cheer
To freedom lovers: Happiness is dear.

More here: http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/09/pay-freedom-debt-forward.html
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http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2009/10/power-lusters-and-their-serfdom-tool.html

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2009/10/job-losses-dishonest-diagnosis-deadly.html

Declaration of Independence Outside of Work

2011-08-22T03:39:00.000-07:00

I am fighting for FREEDOM OUTSIDE OF WORK, for the fundamental freedoms of conscience, speech, and the press. I am seeking the justice system’s affirmation that I, a private-sector employee, OWN MY LIFE outside the work sphere.

http://www.law360.com/cases/4d472d3b1b63660f5e000027

These are the articles I have written related to this:

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/06/facebook-page-freedom-outside-of-work.html

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/06/freedom-outside-of-work-moneyed-vs.html

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/05/freedom-outside-of-work-nyll-201-d.html

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/02/marilyn-tagocon-v-jp-morgan-chase.html

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/12/feds-circumvention-of-first-amendment.html

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/12/jp-morgan-chase-contravenes-first.html

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/07/speech-and-press-infringement-by.html

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcvaBBHdrv0&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dUj6nOcQdw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abgo2QmdhYc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4FT2031O8Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSEIqvQW9YQ&feature=related

Reason Reigns

2011-07-30T08:30:00.000-07:00

“A is A.” - Aristotle

“What reason shows to be true is absolutely true, so that the opposite is absolutely false and impossible.” – Thomas Aquinas

From Ayn Rand’s Objectivism: Reason is the faculty that deals with the perception of reality. Reason organizes perceptual units in conceptual terms by following the principles of logic. Logic is noncontradictory identification within the full context of one’s knowledge.

Reason is the existence-oriented faculty. It is the faculty of proof. Reason is the human faculty which forms concepts by a process of logic based on the evidence of the senses. Reason is our means of gaining knowledge of this world and guiding our actions in it.

From Thomas Jefferson:

"Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven…. Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind."

"Shake off all the fears & servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear…. It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.”

"It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions."

‎"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."

"I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science."

"Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one."

Other quotes:

“Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” - Thomas Paine

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington

"When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit." - Ayn Rand

From Reason Reigns:

Heaven on Earth can be achieved when reason reigns.

Men of reason stand for freedom. They do not rule, nor can they be ruled by men because they are ruled by reason.

Independent thinkers cannot be ruled, so die they must. Between tyrants who crave to rule and thinkers who cannot be ruled, once again, the battle is joined.

On the book’s front cover is a sculpture of a naked woman triumphantly raising a torch, arms stretched high above her head, body straight and proud, feet firmly atop a skull over a thick book. Showing man’s goodness and efficacy, the sculpture represents the values depicted in Reason Reigns. The woman’s exalted pose is a salute to man’s intellectual and creative power. The sculpture is entitled: The Power of Science over Death. The sculptor, Dr. Jose Rizal, a polymath and polyglot, was executed by tyrants at age 35.

Excerpt:

The islanders were all ears as Ron solemnly addressed them.

“Reason is the faculty that deals with the perception of reality, while faith is the claim to a non-sensory means of knowledge. Principles and values derived from faith are often accepted without question even in the face of contrary evidence, while reason deals with facts and employs the method of non-contradictory identification.

Faith has been used to further ignorance, enshrine irrationality, and exploit people. With faith, there is no necessity for justification. Force is its corollary.

But if one's personal faith holds reason as its top value, then, faith and reason are not incompatible. If one's personal faith holds the life, freedom, and happiness of each human being as the most sacred of values, then, reason and faith can coexist, parallel to each other, in the same man.

This man uses reason for everything that can be explained, while his faith holds on to dreams that inspire him to live.

Faith in a God who is all-good and all-loving, who treasures each man, endowing him with a mind capable of understanding man's nature, the Earth, and the universe.

Faith in a God who so loves man that He respects his freedom of choice.

Faith that God shares the most sacrosanct of values: each man's life, his freedom, and his happiness here on Earth. Faith that Heaven and Earth are one and the same.

Faith that human life goes on until eternity, that everything is possible to man. Faith in miracles -

Think of a miracle. Believe that God has given the means to achieve it. Think, and find out the facts. Think, with the clarity of purpose. Let the vision of a miracle be a beacon to guide your actions. Think, and then act. Act with the confidence that miracles do happen to doers who strive to actualize them.

Rejoice! Angels do exist in our midst, though it takes the highest of virtues to recognize them.

Heaven on Earth can be achieved when reason reigns."

Alisa gazed at Ron adoringly. “A good man,” she thought. “His mind matches his looks.” Ron was six feet and three inches tall. He was proud and joyously confident.

Ron continued, “I respect the freedom of each man to celebrate the holy month, but I do not hold humility as a virtue. I think self-sacrifice is evil, suffering has no value, and one’s own happiness is the purpose of life.”

http://www.reasonreigns.com/Welcome.php

From Royal Serf:

Thomas Jefferson said: “Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments.” To remove the use of force from citizen interactions so that individuals may deal with each other only by reason and persuasion, citizens delegate their right to self-defense to their government. Citizens cannot delegate a right they do not possess – hence, the government has no right to regulate inherent inalienable Rights, including the rights of individuals who hold that selfishness is a virtue.

Excerpt:

Many voters, specially the young, pondered political principles. An eighteen-year-old student and babysitter was with a first grader and a kindergartner.

“Who gets your vote for president?” the first grader asked the babysitter.

“Apollo Marianto.”

“Why?”

“Because he stands for reason and rights.”

“What is reason?” the kindergartner asked.

“Reason is the human faculty which forms concepts by a process of logic based on the evidence of the senses. Reason is our means of gaining knowledge of this world and guiding our actions in it. Reason is not just for grownups. Would you like me to tell you a story about the ‘evidence of the senses’ and trusting one’s own rational faculty?”

“Yes.” The children chorused.

“The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen, written in 1837.

Many, many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was to be always well dressed. He did not care for his soldiers, and the theatre did not amuse him; the only thing, in fact, he thought anything of was to drive out and show a new suit of clothes. He had a coat for every hour of the day; and as one would say of a king “He is in his cabinet,” so one could say of him, “The emperor is in his dressing room.”

The great city where he resided was very gay; every day many strangers from all parts of the globe arrived. One day two swindlers came to this city; they made people believe that they were weavers, and declared they could manufacture the finest cloth to be imagined. Their colours and patterns, they said, were not only exceptionally beautiful, but the clothes made of their material possessed the wonderful quality of being invisible to any man who was unfit for his office or unpardonably stupid.

“That must be wonderful cloth,” thought the emperor. “If I were to be dressed in a suit made of this cloth I should be able to find out which men in my empire were unfit for their places, and I could distinguish the clever from the stupid. I must have this cloth woven for me without delay.”

He gave a large sum of money to the swindlers, in advance, that they should set to work without any loss of time. They set up two looms, and pretended to be very hard at work, but they did nothing whatever on the looms. They asked for the finest silk and the most precious gold-cloth; all they got they did away with, and worked at the empty looms till late at night.

“I should very much like to know how they are getting on with the cloth,” thought the emperor. But he felt rather uneasy when he remembered that he who was not fit for his office could not see it. Personally, he was of opinion that he had nothing to fear, yet he thought it advisable to send somebody else first to see how matters stood. Everybody in the town knew what a remarkable quality the stuff possessed, and all were anxious to see how bad or stupid their neighbours were.

“I shall send my honest old minister to the weavers,” thought the emperor. “He can judge best how the stuff looks, for he is intelligent, and nobody understands his office better than he.”

The good old minister went into the room where the swindlers sat before the empty looms. “Heaven preserve us!” he thought, and opened his eyes wide, “I cannot see anything at all,” but he did not say so. Both swindlers requested him to come near, and asked him if he did not admire the exquisite pattern and the beautiful colours, pointing to the empty looms. The poor old minister tried his very best, but he could see nothing, for there was nothing to be seen. “Oh dear,” he thought, “can I be so stupid? I should never have thought so, and nobody must know it! Is it possible that I am not fit for my office? No, no, I cannot say that I was unable to see the cloth.”

“Now, have you got nothing to say?” said one of the swindlers, while he pretended to be busily weaving.

“Oh, it is very pretty, exceedingly beautiful,” replied the old minister looking through his glasses. “What a beautiful pattern, what brilliant colours! I shall tell the emperor that I like the cloth very much.”

“We are pleased to hear that,” said the two weavers, and described to him the colours and explained the curious pattern. The old minister listened attentively, that he might relate to the emperor what they said; and so he did.

Now the swindlers asked for more money, silk and gold-cloth, which they required for weaving. They kept everything for themselves, and not a thread came near the loom, but they continued, as hitherto, to work at the empty looms.

Soon afterwards the emperor sent another honest courtier to the weavers to see how they were getting on, and if the cloth was nearly finished. Like the old minister, he looked and looked but could see nothing, as there was nothing to be seen.

“Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?” asked the two swindlers, showing and explaining the magnificent pattern, which, however, did not exist.

“I am not stupid,” said the man. “It is therefore my good appointment for which I am not fit. It is very strange, but I must not let any one know it;” and he praised the cloth, which he did not see, and expressed his joy at the beautiful colours and the fine pattern. “It is very excellent,” he said to the emperor.

Everybody in the whole town talked about the precious cloth. At last the emperor wished to see it himself, while it was still on the loom. With a number of courtiers, including the two who had already been there, he went to the two clever swindlers, who now worked as hard as they could, but without using any thread.

“Is it not magnificent?” said the two old statesmen who had been there before. “Your Majesty must admire the colours and the pattern.” And then they pointed to the empty looms, for they imagined the others could see the cloth.

“What is this?” thought the emperor, “I do not see anything at all. That is terrible! Am I stupid? Am I unfit to be emperor? That would indeed be the most dreadful thing that could happen to me.”

“Really,” he said, turning to the weavers, “your cloth has our most gracious approval;” and nodding contentedly he looked at the empty loom, for he did not like to say that he saw nothing. All his attendants, who were with him, looked and looked, and although they could not see anything more than the others, they said, like the emperor, “It is very beautiful.” And all advised him to wear the new magnificent clothes at a great procession which was soon to take place. “It is magnificent, beautiful, excellent,” one heard them say; everybody seemed to be delighted, and the emperor appointed the two swindlers “Imperial Court weavers.”

The whole night previous to the day on which the procession was to take place, the swindlers pretended to work, and burned more than sixteen candles. People should see that they were busy to finish the emperor’s new suit. They pretended to take the cloth from the loom, and worked about in the air with big scissors, and sewed with needles without thread, and said at last: “The emperor’s new suit is ready now.”

The emperor and all his barons then came to the hall; the swindlers held their arms up as if they held something in their hands and said: “These are the trousers!” “This is the coat!” and “Here is the cloak!” and so on. “They are all as light as a cobweb, and one must feel as if one had nothing at all upon the body; but that is just the beauty of them.”

“Indeed!” said all the courtiers; but they could not see anything, for there was nothing to be seen.

“Does it please your Majesty now to graciously undress,” said the swindlers, “that we may assist your Majesty in putting on the new suit before the large looking-glass?”

The emperor undressed, and the swindlers pretended to put the new suit upon him, one piece after another; and the emperor looked at himself in the glass from every side.

“How well they look! How well they fit!” said all. “What a beautiful pattern! What fine colours! That is a magnificent suit of clothes!”

The master of the ceremonies announced that the bearers of the canopy, which was to be carried in the procession, were ready.

“I am ready,” said the emperor. “Does not my suit fit me marvelously?” Then he turned once more to the looking-glass, that people should think he admired his garments.

The chamberlains, who were to carry the train, stretched their hands to the ground as if they lifted up a train, and pretended to hold something in their hands; they did not like people to know that they could not see anything.

The emperor marched in the procession under the beautiful canopy, and all who saw him in the street and out of the windows exclaimed: “Indeed, the emperor’s new suit is incomparable! What a long train he has! How well it fits him!” Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office or too stupid. Never emperor’s clothes were more admired.

“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last.

“Good heavens! Listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said.

“But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people.

That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, “Now I must bear up to the end.” And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist. – The End.”

“It’s a beautiful story, thank you,” said the first grader. “The child is honest.”

The kindergartner also thanked the babysitter. “The child told the truth.”

“Yes, the child is honest. It told the truth even when everyone was saying the contrary to the evidence of its eyesight.” The babysitter smiled at the children.

“Now I understand reason,” said the first grader. “I use it to know what’s real.”

The kindergartner held the babysitter’s hand. “You are voting for Mr. Marianto because he is for reason and what’s real, and he tells the truth like the child in the story?”

“Yes. He values reason, reality, and the truth. Many do not, like the emperor, his old minister, and his whole empire.”

“In the real world, what happens when grownups think and act like those in the story?”

“If there is freedom, it’s okay because there are people like Mr. Marianto. But if the people in government do not go by reality and truth, they stifle reason in many ways. Reason would be their enemy because it would expose their rackets. When people are conned into letting their government think for them, it is the end of freedom. The government has the monopoly on the use of force, that is, only the government can force others. It can force unreason on citizens.”

“Do we have freedom?” asked the first grader.

“We don’t have absolute freedom. Some can still speak out but we do not have property rights. The government can force us to pay any amount of taxes, even 90% of our income. Businessmen do not have rights at all. They create jobs but the government bashes them all the time and people who do not use reason vilify them at every turn.”

“Is that why many are going out of business and millions do not have jobs?”

“Yes.”

“But like the emperor, people in government do not admit that truth, do they?”

“Businessmen bashers do not, be they in or out of government. They think there will always be businessmen creating jobs and enduring being treated like slaves.”

“That’s contrary to reason.”

“You are right. If the government does not stop bashing businessmen, every goose that lays golden eggs will eventually die.”

“That is another good story you told us. Mr. Marianto must like businessmen.”

“He says they should be free like any individual. In freedom, individuals have equal inherent inalienable rights. Businessmen have been deprived of rights for more than a century.”

“Why? Aren’t many of them powerful?”

“They do not have the power to use force, remember? Only the government does. Good businessmen do not lobby the government to use force in their behalf.”

“Aren’t many of them rich and successful?”

“Many of them are. They become rich by using reason. People who revel in using force go at them because they are successful and because they respect reason, reality, and truth.”

The first grader looked earnest. “Everyone claims to love the poor. But one who claims so and bashes the rich is like the emperor and his people – such person is not using reason nor telling the truth.”

“Now I understand equal rights,” the kindergartner’s eyes lit up. “In freedom, the poor and the rich have equal rights. Please explain inherent and inalienable rights.”

“Rights are inborn. Mr. Marianto and Prime Minister Prince George explained that the source of rights is not the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution. This means that man-made laws are not the source of rights and that society cannot morally regulate, modify, or take away rights. Any action an individual must do in order that he might live and not die is a right, provided it does not infringe an equal right. Always remember: any action that infringes a right is not a right. Recognizing rights are inalienable, the Founders declared that government cannot deprive a rights-respecting individual of his rights. An individual who infringes rights loses his own rights after due process of law, though every individual can defend himself in an emergency.”

“Don’t the Republicans and Democrats in government respect rights?”

“Many from both parties do not. They enjoy being emperors. They can raise taxes at will and can destroy any business or businessman.”

“We should save jobs by stopping the government from destroying businessmen. We should champion reason.”

http://www.ilynross.com/

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Facebook Page: Freedom Outside of Work - Marilyn Tagocon v. JP Morgan Chase

2011-06-12T06:19:00.000-07:00

I created a facebook page: Freedom Outside of Work - Marilyn Tagocon v. JP Morgan Chase.

Many thanks to those who like this facebook page. It includes links to articles I have written about the case. I posted links to news items and other internet posts; I refuted inaccuracies and clarified misconceptions. For the benefit of other private employees who blog or who post comments on the Internet, I included information I did not know about until after I was fired: The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), New York Labor Law Article 7 Section 201-d, and related articles.

The discovery stage of the case has just passed. Of the 239,831 JPMC 2010 employees, I know of no other who openly objected to JPMC's outside-work speech infringement.

The civil justice system is unaffordable. A lawyer’s fee is $400.00+ per hour. It is my understanding that if there is no settlement after a court-mandated mediation, one could end up paying for the cost of the justice system procedures associated with the case.

The law firm representing me is getting paid on a contingent-fee basis. If the firm advises me to settle, I would be forced to, because I don't want to force the firm into representing me when I cannot pay the usual $400+ per hour fee. But I have made my terms clear: I am not going to take down anything I have written about the case, and what I refused to do while employed at JPMC, I cannot do at any point in time.

I worked on a consulting job for the last quarter of last year. I found another consulting job this year. Almost two months into the job, I was offered permanent employment – I pray it materializes. I am doing my best; I pray that God will do the rest.

Freedom Outside of Work – the Moneyed vs. the Penniless

2011-06-04T18:33:00.000-07:00

On June 11, 2010, I took the required JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) Code of Conduct online training. It prohibits OUTSIDE-WORK speech on the internet, e.g. “I think the financial services industry is over-regulated and should be governed by market forces only.”

This JPMC OUTSIDE-WORK prohibited statement is a premise in my second novel, Royal Serf, and in many of my blog articles. Royal Serf refers to Corporate America, shackled with regulations. As a backdrop in Royal Serf, I depicted how Mike Milken and his kind were gestapoed by tyrants in the justice system and in the financial services regulatory agencies.

The villain in my first novel, Reason Reigns, is named Hunsec. HUN-SEC. On my novel’s back cover are these words: Independent thinkers cannot be ruled, so die they must.... A moral man does not rule, nor can he be ruled by men.... Between tyrants who crave to rule and thinkers who cannot be ruled, once again, the battle is joined.

On the front cover of Reason Reigns is a sculpture of a naked woman triumphantly raising a torch. The sculpture is entitled, “The Power of Science over Death.” The sculptor was Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal, a polymath and polyglot executed at age 35 for writing novels that dramatized a double-faced Goliath: theocrats and a tyrannical government.

On the front cover of Royal Serf are the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the George Washington Monument under a sky that glorifies the Declaration of Independence, as well as the American flag with an A is A triangle bearing the names of the great advocates of reason: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Ayn.

My managers knew of Reason Reigns and of my penname when I was offered employment at JPMC. They knew of Royal Serf as soon as I self-published it in June 2009. It is dedicated to businessmen.

The JPMC OUTSIDE-WORK prohibited statement cannot coexist with freedom outside of work. My managers referred me to Code specialists. On July 2, 2010, a JPMC Associate General Counsel together with a Code specialist ordered me to shut down my blog and to stop talking about my novels using any media.

Thus, my firsthand instruction about lawyers and the existing civil justice system has begun.

Lawyers say that the First Amendment may not be violated by the government, but that private-sector employers may dictate what their employees can say or do outside of work.

I disagree, and so did the Founders:

"We are bound, you, I, and every one to make common cause, even with error itself, to maintain the common right of freedom of conscience." - Thomas Jefferson

“Conscience is the most sacred of all property.” - James Madison

After JPMC fired me, a lawyer advised me about the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA).

A New Jersey NELA lawyer informed me about New York Labor Law Article 7 Section 201d, which protects lawful outside-work political and recreational activities.

A lawyer’s fee is $400.00+ per hour. It is my understanding that if there is no settlement after a court-mandated mediation, one could end up paying for the cost of the justice system procedures associated with the case.

The civil justice system is unaffordable. It looks like the penniless have no chance.

Salute to a Filipino Soldier

2011-05-28T04:58:00.000-07:00

This Memorial Day weekend, my thoughts and love are with a Filipino teacher and soldier. He was my Father. http://www.sbgonzaga.ph/past_mayors.htm

My Father was widowed twice before he married my Mother. He was 56 years old when I was born. I am the youngest of many children. Having been imprisoned and tortured in WWII, my Father had health issues. He lived frugally. He owned substantial real estate properties, but even during hard times, he did not want to sell any, desiring that his children would inherit them. We were very poor.

I have two cherished childhood memories of my Father.

He was offered big bucks to join a company. He asked what would be his responsibilities. The answer was – none. He would be paid huge amounts of money for doing nothing. My Father refused the offer. I believe he suspected that his name would be used to seek special privileges, or even as cover for illegal activities.

One early morning, my Father asked me to accompany him. We walked to the Aparri Municipal building. He informed a male municipal employee that he was there in compliance with the agrarian reform law. My Father, I believe, further commented about the law’s injustice since he worked hard to acquire his lands. The employee rudely and angrily berated him. I felt rage. My Father kept quiet.

Then, the municipal judge arrived; he warmly and respectfully greeted my Father. The employee’s face was a sight – surprised and stricken.

The mayor arrived. Like the judge, he, too, showed my Father warmth and respect. After asking my Father why he was there and then instructing the employee about it, the mayor invited my Father to his office. The employee was trembling. As the mayor turned to lead the way to his office, the employee whispered a plea to the old man that he treated like dirt. My Father did not tell the mayor about the impolite man.

Thank you, Papang, for these memories which have inspired and strengthened me. Lovelots.

Freedom Outside of Work – NYLL 201-d

2011-05-09T21:08:00.000-07:00

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” – Thomas Jefferson

"[The] liberty of speaking and writing... guards our other liberties." - Thomas Jefferson

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.... When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality." - Thomas Jefferson

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

New York Labor Law (NYLL) Article 7 Section 201-d protects lawful outside-work political and recreational activities.

In 2008, I was offered continued employment as a Business Analyst when JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) acquired Bear Stearns. I had just then self-published my first novel, Reason Reigns, which I worked on for two years while having a day job. Reason Reigns honors independent thinkers. I decided to use a penname to separate my private life from a public one. Since I consider my close workmates as personal friends, I shared my joy with them when I finished my novel. My managers knew of Reason Reigns and of my penname when I was offered employment at JPMC.

After self-publishing Reason Reigns, I started to blog. In 2009, I self-published Royal Serf, which honors the Declaration of Independence and business heroes. As backdrop, I used Mike Milken’s financial services story. Royal Serf refers to Corporate America, shackled with regulations. Its dedication page contains the following:

The world’s work needs to be done
They toil, the glorious ones
For life’s comforts, jobs, and gems
Thank you, dear Businessmen.

Though shackled, their toil goes on
Unleash these noble Dons
Tyrants’ bashing must now end
Hands off the Businessmen!

The world is blind, soon it shall see
The Royal Serfs shall then be free
Hated as selfish, hogtied as greedy
Soar proudly, Businessmen, enjoy the glory.

On June 11, 2010, I took the online 2010 JPMC Code of Conduct Training which EVERY employee must affirm. Unlike the publicly published Code, the training module contained examples of activities that violated the Code, e.g. posting this statement on the Internet even outside of work: “I think the financial services industry is over-regulated and should be governed by market forces only.”

I then realized the meaning of the following policy in the publicly published Code: “You should not comment on or provide information relating to JPMorgan Chase’s businesses…, in public forums unless you are specifically authorized to do so. The concept of “relating to JPMorgan Chase’s businesses” is broadly defined and generally includes anything related to the financial services industry…”

The example in the training module made it clear that this policy drops the context of proprietary or confidential information.

I did not know then of NYLL Section 201-d, but my mind wished for such a law to protect freedom outside of work. I talked with my managers, who referred me to Code Specialists. I emphasized that I use a penname and that I have never identified my employer in any public forum. An Associate General Counsel together with a Code Specialist told me to take down my blog and to stop marketing my novels.

These words on my blog evince why I could not do as ordered:

Reason Reigns and Royal Serf - A Hearing

“It’s not criminals who provoke great hatred, it’s honest men.” The words of a polymath and polyglot executed by tyrants at age 35: Dr. Jose Rizal.

Honesty is fidelity to the truth. The truth is what conforms to reality. Integrity is fidelity to logic. It is the refusal to hold contradictions; it is the consistent cohesion of words and deeds; it is honoring one’s mental creations by giving them physical existence….

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Dr. Jose Rizal, the Philippine National Hero, was executed for writing novels that exposed theocrats and a tyrannical government. A sketch of his sculpture entitled The Power of Science over Death is on the cover of Reason Reigns.

I did not know of NYLL Section 201-d, so I used the words of the Founders to explain why I could not affirm JPMC's 2010 Code of Conduct:

From: Marilyn Tagocon
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:02 AM
To: Code Of Conduct
Cc: [Managers]
Subject: RE: ACTION REQUIRED: Your 2010 Code Affirmation

Hello.

I have talked with my Managers, Code Specialists, and others regarding this. Please see the attached emails.

I wrote the following when I realized I cannot affirm the Code of Conduct 2010:

May I point to an example given in the 2010 Code of Conduct training that is contrary to JPMC’s policy that employees adhere to the highest standards of integrity, thus must be an error? This is cited as an example of what a JPMC employee is not permitted to post on the internet: “I think the financial services industry is over-regulated and should be governed by market forces only.” The JPMC and privacy contexts are dropped.

It is difficult to suppose that the inclusion of this example is not erroneous because it would then be the most grievous breach of integrity. A Code of Conduct may not infringe Individual Rights:

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” – Thomas Jefferson

The aforementioned prohibited statement violates no one’s rights, thus the right to say it is inalienable. Prohibiting such speech on the internet, outside of an employee’s job responsibility, in one’s own time, and using one’s own resources, is rights infringement and is anti Founding Principles:

“Perfect Freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.” – Patrick Henry

“If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we maybe led like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington

“Our Liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.” - Thomas Jefferson

The principle of Individual Rights mandates that no individual may violate the equal rights of another. Individuals that make up JPMC are no exception. People cannot delegate a right they do not possess. Since the government’s just powers come from the people, it has no such right either. This is the basis of the Bill of Rights.

Since it is evil for the government or for any individual to infringe Rights, a Rights infringement must not find its way into JPMC’s Code of Conduct.

Respectfully,

Marilyn
7-0437

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My husband has been seriously ill. We are not rich. But our top value is freedom! We are proudly standing up for the liberty of speaking and writing outside of work. Many thanks for the support of family and friends. Our gratitude to The Ottinger Firm.

“I am terrified. But Toni and I do not care to live without the freedom to think and act. We will not follow blindly nor live in fear. No. Not ever. I cannot stand by in safety while other decent people confront evil. I cannot hold convictions without acting upon them. To do nothing is not an option because I won’t like myself then. I have to help expose and stop the evildoers.” -- Alisa Connor from Reason Reigns

When JPMC ordered me to affirm its speech-infringing 2010 Code of Conduct Training, to take down my blog, and to stop marketing my novels, I responded by quoting New Jersey Declaration Signer Abraham Clark. Dragooned to renounce his signature on the Declaration of Independence for the release of his two sons, officers in the Continental Army, captured and tortured by the British: Abraham Clark said, “No.”

I could not abandon the words of the Founders nor my own battle cry:

Assert Freedom! Fight the knaves!
Else, be crowned cowards, willing slaves.

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; … Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, may your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were ever our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." -- Thomas Paine

"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us to tamely surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them." -- Thomas Jefferson

WSJ Article on Ayn Rand – A Contradiction and Lie

2011-05-08T12:29:00.000-07:00

“Remembering the Real Ayn Rand” by Donald L. Luskin of the Wall Street Journal starts with a contradiction and lie: “The author of "Atlas Shrugged" was an individualist, not a conservative, and she knew big business was as much a threat to capitalism as government bureaucrats.”

Ayn Rand said the following - http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon.html

“An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.”

“When I say “capitalism,” I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.”

“The Antitrust laws were the classic example of a moral inversion prevalent in the history of capitalism: an example of the victims, the businessmen, taking the blame for the evils caused by the government, and the government using its own guilt as a justification for acquiring wider powers, on the pretext of “correcting” the evils. “Free competition enforced by law” is a grotesque contradiction in terms.”

An individualist respects EQUAL inherent inalienable rights, and advocates for the separation of state and economics. Thus, an individualist does not hold that big business is “as much a threat to capitalism as government bureaucrats.”

Contrary to what Donald Luskin asserts in his article, Ayn Rand held that Big Business is America’s Persecuted Minority. – Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

The MOST SUBLIME MORALITY

2011-04-22T12:53:00.000-07:00

“The early Christians did contribute some good ideas to the world, ideas that proved important to the cause of future freedom. I must, so to speak, give the angels their due. In particular, the idea that man has a value as an individual -- that the individual soul is precious -- is essentially a Christian legacy to the West; its first appearance was in the form of the idea that every man, despite Original Sin, is made in the image of God (as against the pre-Christian notion that a certain group or nation has a monopoly on human value, while the rest of mankind are properly slaves or mere barbarians).” – Dr. Leonard Peikoff, Religion vs. America

"But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country, was JESUS OF NAZARETH. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, EASILY DISTINGUISED BY ITS LUSTRE from the dross of his biographers, and as separable from that as the DIAMOND from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the MOST SUBLIME MORALITY which has ever fallen from the lips of man. The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this BENEVOLENT MORALITY, and rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems, invented by ultra-Christian sects, is a most desirable object." -- Thomas Jefferson to W. Short, Oct. 31, 1819

My God is just, so I reject original sin, the doctrine that guilts people out in order to crush their self-esteem. My God is just, so I reject that Jesus sacrificed for me. Glorifying sacrifice is ungodly because self-sacrifice is masochism and sanctioning it is sadism.

“Man is made in the image of God”, teaches the MOST SUBLIME MORALITY, that of Jesus Christ. God is all-good and all-loving.

236th Year Anniversary of "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"

2011-03-23T16:11:00.000-07:00

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry

"I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful servitude.... Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.... The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.... When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.” -- Thomas Jefferson

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” -- George Washington

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, may your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were ever our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." -- Thomas Paine

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." -- Thomas Paine

"Sad will be the day when the American People forget their history, and no longer remember that the Country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men." -- Roger Sherman, Declaration Signer from Connecticut

"Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors." -- Abigail Adams

"Let us have faith that right makes might..." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight.... The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared." -- General George Patton

“I am terrified. But Toni and I do not care to live without the freedom to think and act. We will not follow blindly nor live in fear. No. Not ever. I cannot stand by in safety while other decent people confront evil. I cannot hold convictions without acting upon them. To do nothing is not an option because I won’t like myself then. I have to help expose and stop the evildoers.” -- Alisa Connor from Reason Reigns, my first novel

"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us to tamely surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them." -- Thomas Jefferson

Assert Freedom! Fight the knaves!
Else, be crowned cowards, willing slaves.

Stop Bullying the Private Sector!

2011-03-19T02:16:00.000-07:00

The sole wielder of legal coercive-power enjoins, “Stop bullying!”

Government-Goliath: Practice what you preach. Stop bullying the private sector. End economic regulations and regulatory bodies. End your intervention in ALL non-force realms. Honor the Declaration of Independence: Your ONLY purpose is “to secure these rights” – equal inherent inalienable rights.

"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest."

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

- Thomas Jefferson

At the war's end in 1783, he took affront
When asked to be king, to wear a crown.
George Washington replied, “Abhorrent!”
Power-lust is for little fiends.
A moral man does not rule,
Nor can he be ruled by men.

http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/09/george-washington-found-it-abhorrent-to.html

God is so Benevolent that the Laws of Nature are Absolute.

2011-03-13T05:17:00.000-07:00

The Primacy of Existence in Metaphysics -

Since existence comes before consciousness, since reality exists independent of any perceiver's consciousness: an existent, like God, can exist though no human is aware of such existence.

e.g. A cancer cure may exist even if no human as yet has knowledge of it.

From Reason Reigns:

“God is all-good and all-loving. He is not a sadist. Neither is He malevolent nor whimsical. He is just, firm, and steadfast. His creations share the same attributes: nature is governed by laws that are unchanging.

Every creation of God has an identity that was, is, will always be, and had to be. Whether a man’s understanding of nature is real or not, true or false, right or wrong, depends on its correspondence to a thing’s identity.

God is so benevolent that the laws of nature are absolute. They are not subject to change by time, whims, nor even by prayers. They are not open to anyone’s choice. They remain constant to the good as well as to evil.

God is so just that the laws of nature are knowable by every man. They are not revelations arbitrarily disclosed to a favored few. God is so loving that He has gifted man with the faculties to understand nature.

Every man who chooses to use God’s endowments reaps benefits. Those who do not, constantly fear the unknown; they follow, copy, or repeat mindlessly. In the face of alternatives, they are never certain whom to imitate or what to borrow. They might choose to rule those who do use their minds, by force, or by the thinkers’ overly generous goodwill or unearned guilt.

It is necessary to build defensive structures against those who might use force.”

The Facebook Note

Related articles:

Can reason and faith coexist, PARALLEL to each other, in the same man?

Part 1 - Excerpt from Reason Reigns

Part 2: Objectivist-Thomist

St. Thomas Aquinas and the Founders are the proof that reason and faith can coexist, parallel to each other, in the same man. Like them, their moral descendants revere reason, freedom, and happiness....

Socialists: Adults Demanding to be Babysat

2011-03-10T16:54:00.000-08:00

From Royal Serf - Edition 2

CHAPTER 4
The MikeMilkenist Party’s Fundamentals

The Teenage Q&A show frequently invited Apollo Marianto. An eighteen-year-old boy from the audience asked, “Mr. Marianto, could we have a youngsters-friendly, rapid-fire Q&A about political principles?”

“Individual Rights?”
“Live and let live. Thou shall not coerce. A right is an action that can be exercised without anyone’s permission, limited only by the equal right of others.”

“Capitalism?”
“Mind your own business. Good work is the key to good fortune. The wall of separation between force and economics.”

“Socialism?”
“Babysitting adults by force. Legalization of robbery.”

“Mixed economy?”
“Clean water with drops of poison. A mixture of freedom and controls devoid of principles.”

“Antitrust Laws?”
“Russian roulette with the government holding the gun to every businessman’s head. Government-mined fields traversed by businessmen. Brazenly anti-logic.”

“Regulations?”
“Shackles for wealth and job creators.”

“Profit?”
“To the irrational: damn if you do; damn if you don’t. Greed if you profit; greed if you don’t.”

“Do good by force?”
“What President George Washington called ‘Abhorrent!’. The power-luster’s subterfuge. Absolving the lazy from the necessity of thinking.”

“Coercion?”
“Military draft. Taxation. Government as CEO of the economy. The breach of the wall of separation between government and any non-force realm like religion or the economy.”

“Centrist?”
“Too lazy or cowardly to take up a position. Revels in contradictions. Relativist.”

“Extremist?”
“A pragmatist’s description of one who has integrity.”

“Pragmatist?”
“Anti-reality. Anti-reason. One who blanks out the past, the future, the whys, the wherefores, and the hows.”

“Lobbying?”
“Courting crooks.”

“Dirty Politicians?”
“Power-hungry. Tax-guzzlers.”

“Freedom?”
“Coercion-free existence. The wall of separation between government, the entity that holds the monopoly on legal coercive power, and all non-force realms.”

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The Edition 1 version is here:
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2009/10/youngsters-friendly-rapid-fire-q-about.html

"We both consider the people as our children, and love them with parental affection. But you love them as infants whom you are afraid to trust without nurses; and I as adults whom I freely leave to self-government."

- Thomas Jefferson

Marilyn Tagocon v. JP Morgan Chase

2011-02-23T05:39:00.000-08:00

Bank's blogger booted
By KATHIANNE BONIELLO
Posted: 2:32 AM, January 2, 2011

Read more from the New York Post article.

The lawsuit states the following:

“6. Despite her unquestioned commitment to the Company, Ms. Tagocon was subject to unlawful discrimination for engaging in lawful recreational activities on her personal time, outside of work.

7. Specifically, for years Plaintiff has been a blogger and a novelist, about issues wholly unrelated to her employment with JP Morgan, a fact that she made no attempt to hide during her employment.

8. Indeed, at the time that Ms. Tagocon was offered employment by Defendant, the Head of her Department, __, and her Manager, __, knew that she was a novelist and raised no objections to her novels and blog.

9. However, in June 2010, when Ms. Tagocon was reviewing Defendant’s 2010 Code of Conduct, she discovered that Defendant had a policy of prohibiting its employees from posting certain information on the internet, even during their free time.

10. Although Ms. Tagocon knew that her novels and blogs were wholly unrelated to her employment at JP Morgan, she approached members of the Company’s management and human resources to confirm that her actions did not violate the Code of Conduct in any way.

11. When meeting with the Company’s representatives, Ms. Tagocon reaffirmed that her blogs and novels were of a personal nature and were unrelated to any of the work that she did for JP Morgan, nor did she use any information related to her employment in producing either her blog or her novels.

12. Plaintiff further explained that she uses a penname, has never revealed whom she works for on any public forum and that all of her blogging and writing was conducted outside of work hours using her own personal equipment.

13. Despite Ms. Tagocon’s explanations, she was informed that the Company would terminate her employment unless she took down her blog, completely ceased marketing her novels, and signed the Code of Conduct.

14. When Plaintiff refused to accede to these facially outrageous demands, Defendant terminated her employment without further explanation.

15. At no point did the Company tell her that her termination was warranted due to her performance or due to any other factor.

16. Plaintiff was informed of her termination, effective August 7, 2010, on July 23, 2010 and was instructed to not return to the office after July 23, 2010.”

Marilyn found out on June 11, 2010 that this is an example of what JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) employees may NOT post on the internet on their own time: “I think the financial services industry is over-regulated and should be governed by market forces only.”

Ten months earlier, her husband became seriously ill. He has since been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). Marilyn is the sole breadwinner of the family.

When JPMC’s representatives informed Marilyn to choose between her job and writing, it was a choice between her livelihood and freedom of speech, a choice between freedom outside of work and putting her family at grave economic risk, a choice between her family’s well-being and her self-respect, a choice between excruciating mental anguish and hating herself 24/7 for betraying her principles.

I know of her mental anguish and of her family’s pride in her decision because I am Marilyn Tagocon.

The National Debt and The Vitriol Against Jefferson

2011-02-20T17:42:00.000-08:00

Thomas Jefferson reduced the national debt from $83 million to $57 million while abolishing ALL excise taxes including the whiskey tax in the first year of his first presidency, while engaging in the Barbary War two months into his first presidency, and then spending $15 million to double the then size of the USA.

On the National Debt and Deficit Spending, Jefferson said:

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”

"The earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence."

On the Constitutionality of the Bank of the US [Federal Reserve], Jefferson said:

“Giving [Congress] a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole [Constitution] to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly, no such universal power was meant to be given them."

"The Bank of the United States… is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution… An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this Bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?"

Instead of talking about how Jefferson managed the nation’s money, Hamiltonians, the pro-Federal-Reserve, and gossips disparage Thomas Jefferson, saying he had personal financial difficulties. One’s personal life is no one’s business. For all the good that Thomas Jefferson did for FREEDOM, the lies, gossips, malevolence, and vitriol against him are shocking.

Jefferson was first elected into public office when he was 26 years old. In early 1809, when he finished his second term as president, he was almost 66. He said, "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."

Jefferson served the cause of freedom and his country during his prime and for forty years. After which, he pursued science and natural history through research, experimentation, and invention, he continued in his post as the elected president of the American Philosophical Society until 1815, and he founded the University of Virginia. Jefferson designed all of its campus buildings, set up its curriculum, and selected its faculty. The University is notable in U.S. history for being the first educational institution to offer academic programs in disciplines such as astronomy, botany, and philosophy. Its School of Engineering and Applied Science was the first engineering school in the United States to be part of a comprehensive university. In the University of Virginia, Jefferson implemented his vision that education should be completely separate from religious doctrine.

The University was established in 1819 and Jefferson died in 1826. Jefferson served the causes of freedom, science, and education his entire life. For emphasis, I repeat: Thomas Jefferson reduced the national debt from $83 million to $57 million while abolishing ALL excise taxes including the whiskey tax in the first year of his first presidency, while engaging in the Barbary War two months into his first presidency, and then spending $15 million to double the then size of the USA.

Yet, there are those who delve into his personal life and disparage him for his personal financial hardships.

It seems an injustice that he had personal financial difficulties. It is revolting that he is disparaged for it when he devoted his entire life serving his country, adding nothing to his private fortune during his public service, and retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

"Under the Law of Nature, All Men are Born Free." - Thomas Jefferson

2011-02-19T10:14:00.000-08:00

Slavery was OBTRUDED on the Colonies by King George III. Thomas Jefferson INHERITED slaves. It was AGAINST THE LAW TO FREE THEM.

When he was 26 years old, chosen for the first time to be a member of a legislature, he submitted a bill for the EMANCIPATION of ALL slaves. As a lawyer in 1770, age 27, Jefferson defended a slave, saying: "Under the law of nature, all men are born free."

Facts:

1769: Chosen for the first time to be a member of a legislature, Thomas Jefferson made one effort in the House of Burgesses for the permission of the emancipation of slaves, but was rejected.

From Jefferson's autobiography: http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff01.txt -

"In 1769, I became a member of the legislature by the choice of the county in which I live, and so continued until it was closed by the Revolution. I made one effort in that body for the permission of the emancipation of slaves, which was rejected: and indeed, during the regal government, nothing liberal could expect success."

1770: As a lawyer, Thomas Jefferson defended a slave, saying: "Under the law of nature, all men are born free."

"Under the law of nature, all men are born free; every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance." -- Thomas Jefferson: Legal Argument, 1770. FE 1:376

1776: He strongly condemned slavery in his draft of the Declaration of Independence.

1778: The legislature passed a bill he proposed to ban further importation of slaves into Virginia.

1784: His draft of what became the Northwest Ordinance stipulated that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude" in any of the new states admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.

1806: President Jefferson requested Congress to ban all slave importation to the US.

1807: As President, Jefferson signed a bill abolishing the slave trade: on March 3, 1807, as President of the USA, Thomas Jefferson signed a bill making slave importation illegal in the United States.

Thomas Jefferson is the author of the Declaration of Independence, the Father of religious freedom, the advocate of the Bill of Rights, and the President who abolished the slave trade: “the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, esp. black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.” Jefferson successfully abolished primogeniture in Virginia, the rule by which the first born son inherited all the land.

Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence evinces his abhorrence of slavery -

"He (King George III) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another."

The anti-freedom lie about Jefferson. They dishonestly drop context.

"While Jefferson did not free all of his slaves on his death (as did Washington), a law passed in Virginia in 1806 required that the legislature pass a special bill that would attest to the exemplary behavior of each slave to be freed. If freed, THE SLAVE HAD TO LEAVE THE STATE WITHOUT HIS OR HER FAMILY.

Jefferson tried unsuccessfully to get this law changed. Further, Jefferson trained his slaves in skills that would be useful when they were free. He believed that to free them first would be irresponsible -- since they would be homeless and without family."

- http://www.liberty1.org/defense.htm

Thomas Jefferson on gossips: "I should have fancied myself half guilty had I condescended to put pen to paper in refutation of their falsehoods, or drawn them respect by any notice from myself."

‎"A fact that went largely unreported was that the DNA test DID RULE OUT Thomas Jefferson as the father of Thomas Woodson, the eldest of Hemings' sons..."

THOMAS JEFFERSON: A DEFENSE OF HIS CHARACTER -- http://www.liberty1.org/defense.htm

Abraham Lincoln extolled: "THE PRINCIPLES OF JEFFERSON ARE THE DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS OF FREE SOCIETY… ALL HONOR TO JEFFERSON - to the man, who in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and sagacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”

Historians have lied about Jefferson. I compiled these facts when this came to my attention:

The Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia website states: “As historian David Brion Davis noted, if Jefferson had died in 1785, he would be remembered as an antislavery hero, as "one of the first statesmen anywhere to advocate concrete measures for eradicating slavery." After that time, however, there came a "thundering silence." Jefferson made no public statements on American slavery nor did he take any significant public action to change the course of his state or his nation.”

This is a MALEVOLENT LIE.

Other articles I've written about Thomas Jefferson and facebook pages I created:

I am a Jeffersonian.

- http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/01/jeffersonian.html
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-am-a-Jeffersonian/102951273112979?v=wall

Thomas Jefferson - The Mind of the American Revolution

- http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/03/thomas-jefferson-mind-of-american.html
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-Jefferson-The-Mind-of-the-American-Revolution/367591548897

A High-Speed Rail, Thomas Jefferson, & James J. Hill

2011-02-19T08:41:00.000-08:00

The bankrupt government wants to finance a high-speed rail. Thomas Jefferson would have deemed this highly inappropriate. In 1796, he wrote to James Madison:

"Have you considered all the consequences of your proposition respecting post roads? I view it as a source of boundless patronage to the executive, jobbing to members of Congress and their friends, and a bottomless abyss of public money. You will begin by only appropriating the surplus of the post office revenues; but the other revenues will soon be called into their aid, and it will be a source of eternal scramble among the members, who can get the most money wasted in their state; and they will always get most who are meanest. We have thought, hitherto, that the roads of a state could not be so well administered even by the state legislature as by the magistracy of the county, on the spot. How will they be when a member of New Hampshire is to mark out a road for Georgia? Does the power to establish post roads, given by the Constitution, mean that you shall make the roads, or only select from those already made, those on which there shall be a post?"

-The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Albert Ellery Bergh

A pro-freedom government would sell public transportation facilities to the private sector and end the U.S. Department of Transportation.

From Thomas J. DiLorenzo’s How Capitalism Saved America -

"James J. Hill built the Great Northern Railroad ‘without any government aid, even the right of way, through hundreds of miles of public lands, being paid for in cash,’ as Hill himself stated.

Quite naturally, Hill strongly opposed government favors to his competitors: ‘The government should not furnish capital to these companies, in addition to their enormous land subsidies, to enable them to conduct their business in competition with enterprises that have received no aid from the public treasury,’ he wrote. This may sound quaint by today's standards, but it was still a hotly debated issue in the late nineteenth century.

James J. Hill was hardly a ‘baron’ or aristocrat. His father died when he was fourteen, so he dropped out of school to work in a grocery store for four dollars a month to help support his widowed mother. As a young adult he worked in the farming, shipping, steamship, fur-trading, and railroad industries. He learned the ways of business in these settings, saved his money, and eventually became an investor and manager of his own enterprises. It was much easier to accomplish such things in the days before income taxation.

Hill got his start in the railroad business when he and several partners purchased a bankrupted Minnesota railroad that had been run into the ground by the government-subsidized Northern Pacific (NP). The NP had been a patronage ‘reward’ to financier Jay Cooke, who in the War Between the States had been one of the Union's leading financiers. But Cooke and his NP associates built recklessly; the government's subsidies and land grants were issued on a per-mile-of-track basis, so Cooke and his cohorts had strong incentives to build as quickly as possible, which only encouraged shoddy work. Consequently, by 1873 the NP developers had fallen into bankruptcy. The people of Minnesota and the Dakotas, where the railroad was being built, considered Cooke and his business associates to be ‘derelicts at best and thieves at worst,’ writes Hill biographer Michael P. Malone.…

The Great Northern's efficiency and profitability were legendary, whereas the government-subsidized railroads, managed by a group of political entrepreneurs who focused more on acquiring subsidies than on building sound railroads, were inefficiently built and operated. Jay Cooke was not the only one whose government-subsidized railroad ended up in bankruptcy.

In fact, Hill's Great Northern was the only transcontinental railroad that never went bankrupt.…”

Freedom is coercion-free existence. Freedom is made possible by a wall of separation between government, the entity that holds the monopoly on legal coercive power, and all non-force realms.

A freedom-respecting government would emulate Thomas Jefferson:

“I received duly your [letter]...covering an offer of Mr. McDonald of an iron mine to the public.... But having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there; for there competition brings it down to the minimum of value. I have no doubt we can buy brass cannon at market cheaper than we could make iron ones."

-The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Albert Ellery Bergh

2012 - Can An Honest Politician Get Elected?

2011-02-12T15:05:00.000-08:00

Should a candidate appeal to voters’ reason and love of liberty? What kind of a politician would not?

Many Republican primary hopefuls espouse Christianity-based policies in a government setting. I hope for a politician who would stand up for religious freedom, who would denounce theocracy warriors, and who would defend Thomas Jefferson’s wall of separation.

Republicans must bear in mind what transpired in New York 23rd in 2009. NY-23rd, held by the GOP since the Civil War, rejected theocracy warriors: Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and other supporters of the Conservative Party, described by Ayn Rand as “not an American political party, but a religious party – A PHENOMENON FORBIDDEN BY THE CONSTITUTION.”

The theocracy warriors chased out pro-choice, pro-gay-rights State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, chosen by local GOP leaders as their nominee. The theocracy warriors sought to dictate.

NY-23rd voters asserted their independence! Doug Hoffman, the candidate of the Conservative Party and the Dark-Ages warriors, lost in 2009 and in the 2010 primary.

I hope for a politician who has the courage to defend EQUAL inherent inalienable rights, who would stand up for ALL businessmen and not just for small businessmen, who would be a representative for ALL citizens and not pander to the poor, the middle class, or to particular minorities.

I hope for a politician who would expose the brazen dishonesty of context dropping.

The United States Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) in 1986, under Ronald Reagan’s watch. EMTALA requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. EMTALA applies to virtually all hospitals in the U.S but includes no provisions for reimbursement. The law is therefore considered an "UNFUNDED safety net program" for patients seeking care at the nation's emergency rooms. As a result of the 1986 EMTALA legislation, HOSPITALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY FACE UNPAID BILLS AND MOUNTING EXPENSES TO CARE FOR THE UNINSURED.

People who tout that the Obamacare/Romneycare individual mandate is unconstitutional evade that the EMTALA, Medicare, Medicaid, and drug prescription entitlements are unconstitutional, too, since independent equals do not have slaves that would provide manmade values like healthcare. It is dishonorable for a state to desire opting out of a healthcare individual mandate without an accompanying opting out of healthcare entitlements. This is wanting something for nothing: the creed of a looter.

Mitt Romney, the only 2012 presidential hopeful (based on my research so far - update 2/13/2011: Gary Johnson was a business owner) who has created jobs in the private sector, is being rejected because of Romneycare.

Sourced from Wikipedia:

With Bain & Company, Romney had a record of success with clients such as the Monsanto Company, Outboard Marine Corporation, Burlington Industries, and Corning Incorporated.

In 1984, Romney co-founded Bain Capital. As general partner, Romney was FRUGAL and CAUTIOUS, spending little on office appearance and finding the weak spots in so many potential deals. Their first big success was Staples Inc.; Bain Capital eventually reaped a nearly sevenfold return on its investment.

The firm successfully invested in or acquired many well-known companies such as Accuride, Brookstone, Domino's Pizza, Sealy Corporation, Sports Authority, and Artisan Entertainment, as well as lesser-known companies in the industrial and medical sectors.

Romney left Bain Capital in February 1999 to serve as the President and CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing Committee. By that time, Bain Capital was on its way to being one of the top private equity firms in the nation, having increased its number of partners from 5 to 18, had 115 employees overall, and had $4 billion under its management.

Romney answers health care critics - http://gop12.thehill.com/2009/07/romney-answers-health-care-critics.html

“His reply is two-fold. First, that if the criterion for the plan's success is greater coverage, it's worked. And not only has it worked, it's working "almost precisely as budgeted".

That being said, there are aspects of the program he doesn't like, and if he were King, he'd strip the program of some of its "excessive coverages" to help it break even.

Second, he claims the program's costs are unfairly maligned because they're LOOKED AT IN A VACCUUMM. Health care costs have exploded across the country, including Massachusetts. If you analyze one state, you need to look at the rest, too. One state alone can't quell health care costs, and some changes at the federal level are crucial to enabling success at the local.”

A CEO of a private company must deal with economic regulations while running his company, whether or not he endorses those regulations. Likewise, a governor must deal with UNFUNDED entitlements enacted by others.

Responsible individuals take care of their needs. Honorable citizens do not burden others. Dealing with UNFUNDED entitlements in one’s state so as not to burden other states is honorable. An honorable governor is not vilified by the just, by the honest, by those who do not drop context.

US citizens, do you want the EMTALA, Medicare, Medicaid, and drug prescription entitlements though they do not grow on trees and thus must be funded? If yes, how should they be funded? If not, how should they be funded while convincing others that they should be ended? Honest politicians and voters would not just condemn Romneycare but would answer these questions.

I hope for a politician who learns from his political mistakes and shares them to the world, who appeals to reason, who shows respect to voters by offering them the truth, and who has a firm conviction that the USA is a nation of just and decent people who learn from their own mistakes and would vote for an honest politician committed to the Declaration of Independence.

Royal Serf 300-word Pitch

2011-02-04T07:05:00.000-08:00

     Royal Serf is a historical and current events novel. Set in the UK and in the US during the 2012 elections, its plot-theme is: a royal’s flight and fight for independence, and an uncommon man’s struggle to uphold the Declaration of Independence.

     The British Crown Prince, youngster George, vanishes in 2002. He is succeeded by Prince Hari. Concurrently, Ian Washington arrives in New York bearing a letter from his departed grandmother to Apollo Marianto. The three met in 1996 when Apollo revived a British factory. Ian becomes Apollo’s ward.

     In 2012, Ian becomes the UK Prime Minister and Apollo runs for the US presidency.

     PM Washington proclaims: “Individual rights are inalienable, thus, not subject to a public vote. Therefore, every law and government practice in contradiction to Individual Liberty is hereby declared nonexistent.” King William, the Commander in Chief of the British armed forces, agrees.

     US Presidential candidate Marianto battles the camouflage used by statists to tyrannize: business’s Goliath image. Having a monopoly on legal coercive power, only the government can become a Goliath. Government-Goliath terrorizes Corporate America, the Royal Serf. The US is under a bipartisan dictatorship.

     Apollo also proclaims, “Sixty-one years ago, Presidents Truman and Eisenhower did not defend the West’s property rights in oil. In my administration, justice will be done. I will perform the solemn mandate of the government – all nationalized US businesses, including those expropriated by foreign governments decades ago, will be reclaimed!”

     Consequently, Apollo and Ian are in the crosshairs of a powerful quartet and a perfect assassin. Terror is unleashed using the Crown Prince desirous of freeing a Royal Serf of tradition, duty, and public opinion: himself. Apollo and Ian must choose: Freedom or Princes George and Hari.

     Apollo adores the beau ideal dragooned to kill him. Ian loves the perfect assassin.

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The first 5K words are here: http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/02/royal-serf-rearranged-and-with-updates.html

Royal Serf Rearranged and with Updates - The First 5K Words

2011-02-02T09:18:00.000-08:00

PROLOGUE 1
1996 - Northumberland, England

     A boy, around six or seven years old, and his grandmother gazed upon a factory which had been reported to be bankrupt. From their parked bicycles, they walked towards the main entrance.
     A young man emerged from the financially doomed building. Thin and tall, he stood remarkably straight. His wavy red hair was swept back from his forehead. Head held high on relaxed shoulders.
     The grandmother and the boy stopped, electrified by the sight of purposeful mien. She focused on the young man’s face. It reflected her grandson’s passionate earnestness and innocence, untouched by humility. Eyes, the aim of an artist’s quest: the focus of a photographic memory, the uncompromising twinkle, and the intensity that could come only from a brain of extraordinary throughput.

    “A teenager - ,” observed the old woman dressed in rags, “- but with the eyes of an active mind, the proud gait of the self-reliant, the aura rooted in rationality: the bearing of a thinker eager for action.”
     Her eyes met the teenager’s.
     “Hello, Ma’am. Hi kiddo. Have a fine day.”
     “Hello. My name is Diana Washington. This is my grandson, Ian Washington.” The boy had a chubby nose and an eyepatch over his left eye.

     “I am Apollo Marianto. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
     “You carry your name so well,” Ian greeted. “God of reason, you exude victory. Can this factory survive?”
     “It shall, if it operates in freedom.” Apollo, an American computer and financial genius, had decided to finance the factory.
     “I will see to it,” the little boy promised. Diana’s shining eyes embraced the boys.

     In the succeeding days, Diana and Ian delighted in the infusion of investments into the factory. Its workers and their families rejoiced.

PROLOGUE 2
2000 – New York

     Eliot Spitzer derived satisfaction from seeing fear in the faces of successful individuals. In the spring of 2000, he arrived at Lisa Jones Inc.
     “Hello Apollo!” Spitzer gleefully greeted as he entered Apollo’s office. The Attorney General eagerly anticipated the look of desperation masked by obsequiousness.
     “Mr. Spitzer.” Apollo did not attempt to hide his contempt.
     “Breaking news and headlines within the hour will report that Lisa Jones Inc. and its CEO are under investigation.” The king did not feel bound to state the charges. “You will lose everything and rot in prison.”
     “You threaten in my private property. Get out of my room in a minute and out of my building in five, or else.” Apollo’s face was as calm as his voice.
     “Great pain awaits you, brother of Lisa Jones!” Spitzer snarled and then hastily left.

     Shortly, an email was sent to employees and stockholders of Lisa Jones Inc. announcing that CEO Apollo Marianto would speak in ten minutes. The speech would be broadcast over the building’s public address system and on the company’s website.

     Apollo’s voice was clear and fearless. “Dear investors and colleagues: the New York City Attorney General personally delivered a message a few minutes ago. Quote - Breaking news and headlines within the hour will report that Lisa Jones Inc. and its CEO are under investigation. – unquote. I expect armed troopers and reporters to arrive at any minute.”

     A hundred New York State troopers wearing bulletproof vests entered, and many more surrounded, the Lisa Jones Inc. building. One of its security personnel quickly stopped elevator service. A trooper asked a security guard to turn the elevator service back on.

     “Use the stairs.”
     “Marianto is at the top floor. This is obstruction of justice. Think again. Hard!”
     “No one is obstructing you to use the stairs.”
     “Get me your building administrator.”
     “No one is obstructing you to go get him.”
     “Where is he?”
     “I plead the Fifth.”

     The hundred troopers in the building listened to Apollo’s speech. Many turned on their two-way radios enabling the troopers around the building to hear it, too.

     “This company has very high standards. I am proud of our hard work, integrity, and first-class business. I have never infringed nor will I ever violate anyone’s rights.
     The Attorney General revels in violating Liberty. Like any tyrant, he has no self, so he seeks it out by destroying those who have. I am a selfish man! I will not be enslaved! I cannot compromise with tyranny - The successful and the affluent have rights equal to the inherent inalienable rights of every man.
     I am honored to use the words of Patrick Henry: Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, or wealth and jobs so precious as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? There is but one course – Give me liberty or give me death!
    The essence of a respecter of freedom and his opposite is: A respecter of man’s rights is self-reliant, thus, selfish. A dependent has no self-esteem, thus, selfless -- dependence breeds moochers, looters, and power-lusters.
     I am proud to hold selfishness as a virtue. A selfish man does not rule nor can he be ruled. If the government deems selfishness a crime, then it has outlawed the Declaration of Independence and Individual Liberty. If a rich, successful individual is deemed a criminal for his wealth, then society has enshrined envy and irrationality as the good. If a brilliant achievement is considered depraved, then evil has triumphed.
     I interact with others by reason and persuasion. I create wealth and jobs without infringing anyone’s Rights. I offer my best to the market place. My best creates economic power which the intellectually dishonest equate with coercive power. Economic power uses the tools of reason, persuasion, and innovation – it is devoid of coercive power. The government holds the monopoly to use legal force. When it intimidates a citizen, it has abandoned reason. It is no longer a protector but an aggressor.
     Any law, any government act that infringes individual rights is unconstitutional. Patrick Henry said: ‘The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it comes to dominate our lives and interests.’
     Power-crazed individuals defile the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. A government that tramples on Rights has taken on the role of a thug.
     President George Washington would say: King Eliot Spitzer, his ilk, and their facilitators are abhorrent!
     The Attorney General has decided to destroy this company. To compromise with tyranny is to strengthen it. To expose the impotence of tyrants is to glorify freedom. Is my life so dear or this company so precious as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? I honor decent people who have been tyrannized – Give me liberty or give me death!”

     Eighty-five troopers walked out of the building. Those who remained looked at their chief for directions. He asked them to follow the others and go back to their precincts. He removed his bulletproof vest and handed it to his second-in-command.
     The chief trooper faced the security guard. “I have a warrant for Mr. Marianto. Let me do my job.”
     As the chief trooper entered the elevator, many television crews broadcast live that the troopers were leaving the Lisa Jones Inc. building with no sign of Apollo Marianto. Photographers and reporters recorded every detail of the events.
     The door to Apollo’s office was opened by his secretary. The chief trooper did not enter. Though he felt revulsion that his noble job had been perverted by a politician, his serious face registered no other emotion as he looked at Apollo. Apollo walked towards the chief trooper, and then followed him to the elevator.
     Camera flashes exploded as the chief trooper and Apollo exited the Lisa Jones Inc. building. Apollo was not handcuffed. He walked with the bearing of a free man: proud and unafraid.

     Trade volume in the Lisa Jones Inc. stock spiked up. Within the hour, instead of declining, the stock price rose by 20%! In the next hour, the price doubled.
     Bill Gates instructed his broker to buy the stock; he deposited $5 billion of his personal money for the stock purchase. CEOs like John Allison of BB&T Inc. did likewise, as much as they could afford. Many employees of the 3,200 companies that Mike Milken financed into prosperity emptied their savings to buy Lisa Jones Inc. stock. Numerous residents in Nevada, the state where Milken’s brilliant innovation created around 600,000 jobs, followed suit. Some senior citizens instructed their brokers to buy the stock at any price. Students pooled their resources to do the same.
     There were no sellers.

     Press releases from the Attorney General’s office flowed. The popular media that battered Mike Milken rehashed their vitriol.

     “Apollo Marianto is the resurrection of the decade of greed!”

     “The unbridled greed and arrogance of a self-confessed selfish man merit extreme punishment!”

     “The selfish speech – evil knows no bounds!”

     “Pure evil – unbridled selfishness!”

     “Marianto threatened Attorney General Spitzer!”

     Apollo had been studying law and would take the bar examinations in a year. He did not hire a lawyer nor request bail. He did not answer any of the prosecutors’ questions. Spitzer ordered the arrest of other Lisa Jones Inc. employees, but everyone followed Apollo’s lead.
     Apollo’s half sister, Lisa Jones, worried, “The inmates might believe the media’s vitriol that Apollo is evil.” She was terrified that inmates might hurt or kill Apollo.

     In jail, inmates asked Apollo about making spectacularly huge amounts of money. “How could you make so much money without being a crook?”

    “My mind and my effort create new wealth. If I did not think and endeavor, the new wealth I have created would not have existed. This fact shows that such wealth has not been taken from anyone. The Wright brothers invented the airplane – they created a value – no one had that value before. Thomas Edison created many great things. His inventions raised the standard of living for everyone. As a consequence of inventing more efficient products and methods, others are displaced. But such displacements are temporary and for the better. When a cart is displaced by a car, the cart manufacturer is displaced – if he values progress, he would endeavor to learn a trade involving the more efficient invention – this way, his displacement is temporary.
     A valuer of the good distinguishes between the earned and the unearned. If the cart manufacturer is such a valuer, he would admire, not resent, the car inventor. In a free market, in a society where only reason and persuasion are used in production and trade, the only way to acquire wealth is to earn it.
     Those who desire the unearned advocate the use of compulsion – they are looters. Lacking self-esteem, they believe they can’t compete in a free market. They don’t respect others and themselves – instead of living by their own effort, they claim entitlement to the fruits of their fellowmen’s labors. Those who do not distinguish between the earned and the unearned are intellectually dishonest. Those who champion regulation and expropriation are no respecters of rights.”

     A young inmate named Ben Allen stayed silent but his mind was fired up. Apollo’s words stirred his soul.
     A man twice Apollo’s age said, “There is a consensus that selfishness is evil. You don’t care if your stockholders lose money or if your employees lose their jobs. Not caring about others is evil.”
     “My values are in a hierarchy. Liberty is topmost. I value freedom more than life because I don’t care to live as a serf. If Lisa Jones Inc. goes bankrupt, if its stockholders lose money, or if its employees lose their jobs, it would be the responsibility of Eliot Spitzer as well as the lawmakers and judges who enable him to act like a thug. In the same way that I will never desire unearned wealth, I will never accept unearned guilt.”

    “Everybody says you are evil. Who are you to say everybody is wrong?”
     “I think I’m good while almost everyone in the press and the population thinks otherwise. What do I go by? The truth, which I could objectively arrive at by using reason and logic. Not infringing anyone’s rights is good. Achieving wealth without such infringement is glorious. Many denounce the achievement of spectacular wealth as unbridled evil, but they evade the means by which that wealth is achieved. Such evasion is a great injustice. It destroys the good; hence, it is evil.”

    “The media say you thumb your nose at public opinion. Why do you disrespect society?”
     “I respect a society that respects Rights. I go by reason and logic, by my own mind. One who goes by public opinion or consensus is a second-hander, not an independent thinker. A second-hander, one with no self-esteem, primarily cares about what others think while a first-hander, a selfish independent thinker, primarily cares about the truth, his sacred honor, and his happiness.”
     “Spitzer and the popular media tout that your refusal to answer the questions of prosecutors is tantamount to an acceptance of guilt.”
     “They defile the Constitution.”

     Some who hated Apollo wished he would be harmed in jail, but the inmates did not feel resentment towards him. The night before Apollo was to appear before a Grand Jury, his cellmate was replaced by a tall, muscled man with a scowling face. At his most intimidating, the man stared at Apollo.
     Apollo did not acknowledge him in any way.
     As soon as the lights were out, Apollo’s cellmate pounced. Thuds and grunts were heard by inmates in the nearby cells. There was a snap of broken bones, and then a final thud.
     Apollo appeared before the Grand Jury without a scratch. He proved that brute force was no match against a dedicated mind.

     Apollo answered all questions. The grand jurors pondered his words:

     “I make much money for myself and my investors. I create wealth through sustained thinking and innovating. I trade with others using reason and persuasion. I worship Liberty. I have never nor will I ever infringe Rights. I say it with great pride: I cherish myself, my sacred honor, and my happiness. I am a selfish man!
     I have delegated my right to self-defense to the government mandated by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to secure equal inherent inalienable rights. I await that government to do its noble mandate.”

     The Grand Jury ascertained that the evidence presented against Apollo did not warrant trial.
     Out of jail and walking to a waiting car, Apollo was asked by a young reporter named Eli Clark, “Mr. Marianto, what happened when you told Mr. Spitzer to get out of your office and the Lisa Jones, Inc. building, or else?”

     “King Eliot did not stay to find out.”
     “What would you have done?”
     “I would have called the police.”

PROLOGUE 3
2002 – London and New York

     On her deathbed, Diana Washington thought of the factory and the thousands more employees it hired. She held her grandson’s hands and whispered, “Ian, the government is putting shackles on the factory... because it is successful.”
     “Rest your mind, Grandma. I vow to remove the shackles.”
     Diana proudly admired her grandson, “A thinker with wings.” She saw in Ian what was unmistakable in Apollo.
     “A conned world will hate Apollo and Ian. Their uncompromising integrity will be denounced as arrogance, their radiant joy as evil-selfishness. Others might be destroyed by this unspeakable injustice, but not my boys. Ian and Apollo will build sanctuaries for human joy. They will fight for their kind of world: a benevolent universe.”
     Diana could not conceive of wickedness where opponents of happiness would plot to annihilate her beloved boys, where power-lusters would mark Apollo and Ian for destruction to stop them from erecting barriers that protect the innocents.

     The memorial ceremony for Diana Washington was fit for a queen.

     Within a month, Ian traveled to New York City. From the airport, he went directly to Apollo’s office at the top of the Lisa Jones Inc. skyscraper.
     “Grandmother wrote you a letter.”
     Apollo read the short request from Diana. He quickly recovered from his surprise. “I am but twenty-five and a guardian to a thirteen-year-old.”

     That day, Ian’s instruction about the business world started. When Apollo brought him home, they went straight to the study. Engraved on the wide wooden door was the following:

“Honesty is fidelity to the truth.
The truth is what conforms to reality.
Integrity is fidelity to logic.
It is the refusal to hold contradictions;
It is the consistent cohesion of words and deeds;
It is honoring one’s mental creations
By giving them physical existence.”

     Apollo showed Ian his Journal of Heroes. “George Washington rejected a movement to make him King of the United States, calling it, ‘Abhorrent!’ He is the embodiment of my morality: A moral man does not rule, nor can he be ruled by men.

     By the time Thomas Jefferson was six, he had read most of the books in his father’s library. A polymath and polyglot, he is the greatest political thinker. I revere the author of the Declaration of Independence, the father of religious freedom, the advocate of the Bill of Rights, and the President who abolished the slave trade in the US. Slavery was obtruded on the Colonies by King George III. Thomas Jefferson inherited slaves. It was against the law to free them. When he was 26 years old, chosen for the first time to be a member of a legislature, he submitted a bill for the emancipation of all slaves. As a lawyer in 1770, age 27, he defended a slave, saying, ‘Under the law of nature, all men are born free.’
     Abraham Lincoln extolled, ‘The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society… All honor to Jefferson - to the man, who in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and sagacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.’
     Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.’ He regarded John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton the ‘three greatest men the world had ever produced.’
     Isaac Newton, an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist, set forth in mathematical terms the laws governing the course of the heavenly bodies. Thinkers marveled at the proportion, balance, harmony and order resident in the natural tendencies of the world. They concluded that the order was consonant with human liberty, that the natural order provided means for man to use his faculties for his benefit, and that man has natural rights.

     William Pitt the Younger, one of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers, became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at age 24.

     José Rizal passionately advocated knowledge and rights at a time when independent thinkers would surely die. I love his sculpture of a naked woman triumphantly raising a torch, arms stretched high above her head, body straight and proud, feet firmly atop a skull over a thick book. Showing man’s goodness and efficacy, the sculpture entitled The Power of Science over Death represents my values. The woman’s exalted pose is a salute to man’s intellectual and creative power.

     At age six, Ayn Rand taught herself to read. I adore her books and her philosophy: Objectivism. I’ve read The Fountainhead a hundred times because it pleasures and fuels me. Reading Atlas Shrugged is like savoring the most delicious fruits from the tree of knowledge. Reading her nonfiction books, e.g. The Virtue of Selfishness, transports me to a sacred place of worship.
     She admired Aristotle, the Father of reason and logic, as well as Thomas Aquinas, who said, ‘What reason shows to be true is absolutely true, so that the opposite is absolutely false and impossible.... Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.’
     Ayn Rand regarded Victor Hugo as the greatest novelist in world literature because he depicted moral giants in his books. Their actions are heroic, noble, intelligent, and beautiful. A Romanticist, Mr. Hugo’s vision was always focused on the fundamentals of man’s nature, on those problems and those aspects of his character which apply to any age and any country. In Ninety-Three, he projected, ‘What greatness men are capable of, when they fight for their values’!

     Ralph Teetor, a prolific inventor, invented cruise control. Blind since the age of five, Mr. Teetor built his first car, a one-cylinder, by age twelve.

     At age thirteen, Bill Gates was writing computer programs.

     The world owes a lot of its comforts and high standard of living to Thomas Edison. He said, ‘Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.’ When asked about his over 2,000 failed attempts to make a working filament for the light bulb, he replied, ‘I didn't fail 2,000 times; I just found 2,000 ways not to make a light bulb.’
     I am inspired by his life, as a boy and as a man. I love the movies: Young Tom Edison and Edison the Man....
     The achievements of Edison are of public record: 1,368 patents out of which 1,093 are US patents. He founded several companies including General Electric. The world benefited and continues to benefit from his inventions.

     In 1907, Edison-worshipper Henry Ford declared, ‘I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessings of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.’
     Henry Ford helped win World Wars I & II. He developed mass production for the B-24 Liberator bomber. In World War I and after it, American farmers fed all of Europe. In this critical period, Ford brought out his first farm tractor, the first to be produced on a massive scale and the first to be affordable by average farmers and rural citizens. The inexpensive Ford tractors as well as American farming saved Europe from starvation. Ford held that his tractors were the key to eliminating war and improving the human condition.
     Ford was the first man to discover the advantages of mass production and the first to use an assembly line. He was the first to refute in practice the theory of class-warfare. Ford announced his $5-per-day program on January 5, 1914, raising the minimum daily pay from $2.34 to $5 for qualifying workers. Using the consumer price index, this was equivalent to $111.10 per day in 2008 US dollars.
     Ford opened up his plant and methods to all who wanted to copy them. His system spread like wildfire through the automobile business and into other businesses. Prosperity for every person, including the poor, exploded. The population of the cities flourished, and after nearly 150 years, agrarian America turned into an urban civilization practically overnight.
     Henry Ford invented mass prosperity! He extended his offer of employment and prosperity to any capable person who wanted it, including women, blacks, the handicapped, ex-criminals, and Jews. He stood alone against a mountain of criticisms, including accusations of bigotry. But his actions delineate and define him. It takes uncommon benevolence to think and labor, and then share the fruits of one’s labors to the world, without exceptions.”

     The ward looked up to his guardian, his hero. “The grandeur of your heroes and mine!”

     After supper, Apollo invited, “Let’s go to The Pit Stop. I go there to rest and refuel. Together with my Journal of Heroes, The Pit Stop invigorates and gives me joy.”
     Apollo opened the door to The Pit Stop, but did not turn on the lights. It was a large, high-ceilinged room containing works of art. At the end of The Pit Stop were twin miniature skyscrapers that almost reached the ceiling. Their upper floors were brightly lit. Apollo and Ian stopped by the door, solemnly gazing up at the skyscrapers named Twin Beau Ideals. They were of the same mind. “The Declaration of Independence in towering steel - a free mind and ego soaring to the skies - happiness rising in architectural symphony.”

The lit top floors of the left tower spelled B I G; its lower floors were strategically lit to spell B U S I N E S S. The right tower’s uppermost lights spelled E G O; its lit lower floors radiated S E L F I S H N E S S. The Twin Beau Ideals glowed with the following:

B I G      E G O
- - -     - - -

B             S
U             E
S              L
I           F
N         I
E             S
S           H
S           N
              E
              S
                 S

    The towers represented a mighty threat to sacrifice-glorifiers and mind-destroyers. Rejecting the hands-off, nonintervention, noninterference imperative in freedom, the subhuman attacked.
    Apollo and Ian remembered the day when enemies of freedom and free enterprise destroyed the real-life BIG BUSINESS tower, and haters of equal inherent inalienable rights struck down the real-life EGO-SELFISHNESS skyscraper. The towers were owned by Uncle Sam, but made possible by the private sector.
    Apollo told Ian, “Many people revolted at the September 11, 2001 destruction miss the fact that the virtues that made the Twin Beau Ideals possible have been under vicious attack for over a century. Deluge of vilification and injustice have been heaped upon free enterprise, big business, brilliant innovation, spectacular success, and self-interested pursuits of profit and happiness.”
     The guardian and his ward each vowed, “What the twin towers stood for must not crumble to ruins. I pledge my life and sacred honor to see you rise again, Twin Beau Ideals, together with the good you represent: reason, liberty, coercion-free economics, science, technology, pride, and joy.”

     When Apollo turned on the lights, Ian gazed at a painting of the US flag and its inscription: The USA is a self-portrait of the American people. Autograph America with FREEDOM.

CHAPTER 1
2012 - London

     Starlit skies and 20°C (68°F) temperature capped a sunny London day in June. Tall, flame-haired Prince Hari arrived late evening at Buckingham Palace. The eighteen-year-old heir to the British throne joined his parents, King William and Queen Aaryanna. Not long after, his twenty-year-old sister entered the Queen Mother Den. Princess Diana’s features were harmoniously integrated. Tall, blonde, and zesty, her eyes sparkled.
     The royal family watched television for a worldwide news broadcast. A new political party had won in the British general election of 2012.

    “The new head of government of the United Kingdom, Mr. Ian Washington, is a year younger than William Pitt the Younger when he became Prime minister of Great Britain in 1783 at age 24. As a teenager five years ago, the new Prime Minister distinguished himself in the business world. His advocacy of economic reforms propelled him, in 2010, to a seat in the House of Commons. His eloquence as a champion of individual rights, and consequently capitalism, marked his tenure as Northumberland’s Member of Parliament.
     This photograph was taken two months ago at a London charity event hosted by the former US First Daughter, Reina Roosevelt, voted the Most Eligible Bachelorette five times in a row by the World’s Best magazine. The Prime Minister and Miss Roosevelt met at Princeton University in his college days.
     Mr. Washington has always refused to answer questions about his private life. He has never commented on the scoffs directed at the four-year-old plastic surgery done on his nose which resulted, but for his blond hair, into an uncanny resemblance to Prince Hari, the Crown Prince.”

     In deference to the British royal family, the news report did not mention that if the king’s and queen’s firstborn were alive, he would be the spitting image of the Prime Minister.
     The television screen showed a current photograph of the Prime Minister together with two old shots: one taken at age seven and the other when he graduated summa cum laude from the Princeton University in New Jersey, United States, six years ago. The old photographs showed Ian Washington with a chubby nose and an eyepatch over his left eye.
     As King William and Queen Aaryanna beheld the young Prime Minister’s handsome face, they ached for their firstborn, Prince George, who vanished in 2002.

     Princess Diana contemplated Ian’s face. “Mr. Washington is a year older than George.” Her intense longing was well hidden.
     “The Prime Minister is left-handed while George is right-handed. I heard how he handles a gun with his left hand. He is a crack shot.” Prince Hari voiced the thoughts of the royal family. “I sometimes evade all the evidence that Mr. Washington is not George. It is a pleasure to think that George is back.”
     King William called attention to the book he was rereading. “His grandmother’s novel, Freedom, is great.”
     “What a marvelous book from an extraordinary woman,” the Queen enthused. “No wonder the boy she raised and home-schooled has such a brilliant mind.”

     The world watched the recent speech of the young Prime Minister.

    “King William has asked me to form a government and I have accepted… Beloved citizens of a great nation: William Pitt the Younger declared, ‘Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.’ I echo my beloved mentor, Apollo Marianto, - ‘The United Kingdom is a self-portrait of our people. Autograph our nation with FREEDOM.’ As I vowed before my revered Grandmother, I swear before you that I will forever be a dedicated advocate of equal inherent inalienable rights.…”

     The world noticed. “The Declaration of Independence from a British Prime Minister with an American accent.”

JEFFERSONIAN

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"In matters of principle, stand like a rock.... The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being… Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights… A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature…” -- Thomas Jefferson

Jeffersonian - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jeffersonian?o=100074

–adjective: pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson
–noun: a supporter of Thomas Jefferson or Jeffersonianism.

Origin: 1790–1800, Americanism ; Jefferson + -ian

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
Definitive Edition

CONTAINING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NOTES ON VIRGINIA, PARLIAMENTARY MANUAL, OFFICIAL PAPERS, MESSAGES AND ADDRESSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE, NOW COLLECTED AND PUBLISHED IN THEIR ENTIRETY FOR THE FIRST TIME INCLUDNG ALL OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, DEPOSITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND PUBLISHED IN 1853 BY ORDER OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS

http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff01.txt

A JEFFERSONIAN adheres to the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson:

Metaphysics – Thomas Jefferson adhered to the laws of nature.

“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature.”

“… to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them…”

“It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. The law of nature impels every one to escape from confinement; it should not, therefore, be subjected to punishment.”

Epistemology – "Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven."

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

Ethics – Every individual’s right to the preservation of Life, & liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness

“We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable;
That all men are created equal & independent,
That from that equal creation
They derive rights inherent & inalienable,
Among which are the preservation of
Life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness…”

"Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance."

Politics – Wall of separation between government, the entity that holds the monopoly on coercive power, and all non-force realms

Thomas Jefferson’s Republicanism:

1) That there exists a right independent of force;
2) That a right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings;
3) That NO ONE HAS A RIGHT TO OBSTRUCT ANOTHER exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature;
4) That justice is the fundamental law of society;
5) That the majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest, breaks up the foundations of society;
6) That action by the citizens in person, in affairs within their reach and competence, and in all others by representatives chosen immediately and removable by themselves.

I pledge allegiance to Thomas Jefferson’s Republicanism...
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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

The ONLY function of law and of government:

"… the preservation of
Life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness;
That to secure these ends,
Governments are instituted among men,
Deriving their just powers
From the consent of the governed..."

"Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established."

"The freedom and happiness of man... [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government."
"Persons and property make the sum of the objects of government."

“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

Justice -

"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens."

“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”

On the Constitution and the Bill of Rights -

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."

"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences." -- Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787

American Government -

"A government of reason is better than one of force…. In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance."

“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for…. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

“I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive…. When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty…. I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”

"[It is a] great truth that industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of [a] people."

‎Anarchy –

"[The] voluntary support of laws, formed by persons of their own choice, distinguishes peculiarly the minds capable of self-government. The contrary spirit is anarchy, which of necessity produces despotism."

“… In modern times we might say with truth, that in France, anarchy had done more harm in one night, than all the despotism of their Kings had ever done in twenty or thirty years.”

General Welfare -

"[The Constitution authorizes Congress] to lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the union."

“7. Resolved, That the construction applied by the General Government (as is evidenced by sundry of their proceedings) to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate to Congress a power “to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” and “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution, the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof,” goes to the destruction of all limits prescribed to their powers by the Constitution: that words meant by the instrument to be subsidiary only to the execution of limited powers, ought not to be so construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument…” -- The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 by Thomas Jefferson, http://www.constitution.org/cons/kent1798.htm

Property rights -

"I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away."

"The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management."

"A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings."

"The first principle of association: the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

"[If government have] a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to the full amount of their demand if we do not comply with it, [this would leave] us without anything we can call property."

Constitutionality of the Bank of the US [Federal Reserve] -

“Giving [Congress] a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole [Constitution] to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly, no such universal power was meant to be given them."

"The Bank of the United States… is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution… An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this Bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?"

National Debt / Deficit Spending -

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”

"The earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence."

While abolishing ALL excise taxes
Including the whiskey tax
In the first year of his first presidency,
While engaging in the Barbary War
Within two months of his first presidency,
And then spending $15 million
In the Louisiana Purchase
To double the then size of the USA,
Jefferson reduced the national debt
From $83 million to $57 million.

All Honor to Thomas Jefferson - http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/09/all-honor-to-thomas-jefferson.html

Post Roads & Post Offices [EARMARKS] -

"Have you considered all the consequences of your proposition respecting post roads? I view it as a source of boundless patronage to the executive, jobbing to members of Congress and their friends, and a bottomless abyss of public money. You will begin by only appropriating the surplus of the post office revenues; but the other revenues will soon be called into their aid, and it will be a source of eternal scramble among the members, who can get the most money wasted in their state; and they will always get most who are meanest. We have thought, hitherto, that the roads of a state could not be so well administered even by the state legislature as by the magistracy of the county, on the spot. How will they be when a member of New Hampshire is to mark out a road for Georgia? Does the power to establish post roads, given by the Constitution, mean that you shall make the roads, or only select from those already made, those on which there shall be a post?" -1796, to James Madison, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Albert Ellery Bergh

Socialism -

"We both consider the people as our children, and love them with parental affection. But you love them as infants whom you are afraid to trust without nurses; and I as adults whom I freely leave to self-government."

Economic Regulations -

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”

“Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”

"Were [a right] to be refused, or to be so shackled by REGULATIONS, not necessary for... peace and safety... as to render its use impracticable,... it would then be an injury, of which we should be entitled to demand redress."

"Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot; others as a cow to be milked; but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the plow.”

"What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals."

“It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.”

More on Capitalism [Separation of state and economics] -

"We believed that men, enjoying in ease and security the full fruits of their own industry, enlisted by all their interests on the side of law and order, habituated to think for themselves and to follow their reason as their guide, would be more easily and safely governed than with minds nourished in error and vitiated and debased... by ignorance, indigence and oppression."

“I received duly your [letter]...covering an offer of Mr. McDonald of an iron mine to the public.... But having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there; for there competition brings it down to the minimum of value. I have no doubt we can buy brass cannon at market cheaper than we could make iron ones."

Foreign Policy -

“It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation.... Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.”

"I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty."

Truth -

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."

"Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.”

‎"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

‎"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

"One of the amendments to the Constitution... expressly declares that 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,' thereby guarding in the same sentence, and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press; insomuch that whatever violates either throws down the sanctuary which covers the others."

‎”I am... against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents…. error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

"No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will…. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."

"If virtuous, [the government] need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics."

"[The] liberty of speaking and writing... guards our other liberties."

Religious Freedom -

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."

"I consider the Government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution of the United States from meddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.... Civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents."

"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone."

"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."

DARK-AGES WARRIORS - http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/01/dark-ages-warriors.html

Power -

"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest."

Thomas Jefferson’s Heroes -

Thomas Jefferson regarded John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton the "three greatest men the world had ever produced."

Isaac Newton, an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist, set forth in mathematical terms the laws governing the course of the heavenly bodies. Thinkers marveled at the proportion, balance, harmony, and order resident in the natural tendencies of the world. They concluded that the order was consonant with human liberty, that the natural order provided means for man to use his faculties for his benefit, and that man has natural rights.

‎"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by the grace of God."

Other Thomas Jefferson Gems -

"I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality."

"Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others."

"Nothing gives one person so great advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."

Articles on Thomas Jefferson:

Thomas Jefferson - The Mind of the American Revolution - http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/03/thomas-jefferson-mind-of-american.html

Revered Quotes - http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/01/revered-quotes.html

Are you a Jeffersonian or a Reaganite? - http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/01/are-you-jeffersonian-or-reaganite.html

Tea Partiers - http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/11/tea-partiers.html

The UNCOMMON BENEVOLENCE of Henry Ford

2011-01-12T13:09:00.000-08:00

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody."

-- Thomas Jefferson, http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter2000/jefferson.html

The following is sourced from Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius by Vincent Curcio -

Henry Ford SHARED HIS DISCOVERIES, opening up his plant and methods to ALL who wanted to COPY them. His system spread like wildfire, first through the automobile business and then into other businesses as well. Wherever it spread, the previously UNDREAMED-OF PROSPERITY for the COMMON MAN that went with it spread also.... The population of the great cities exploded, and after nearly 150 years AMERICA TURNED from an AGRARIAN civilization into an URBAN one practically overnight.

Indeed, what Henry Ford invented was not really mass production but MASS PROSPERITY, a state of being never before within mankind's reach.

Henry Ford extended his offer of employment and PROSPERITY to any capable person who wanted it, including women, blacks, the handicapped, ex-criminals, and JEWS.

Ford never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews in his business. His architect, Albert Kahn, his butcher, and his antiques dealer were both Jews. Every year, he gave a new Model T to Rabbi Leo Franklin, an old friend and neighbor.

There are Jews who deem Henry Ford an unforgivable bigot. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford -

"The articles explicitly condemned pogroms and violence against Jews (Volume 4, Chapter 80)... Ford's 1927 apology was well received. "Four-Fifths of the hundreds of letters addressed to Ford in July of 1927 were from Jews, and almost without exception they praised the Industrialist."

In January 1937, a Ford statement to the Detroit Jewish Chronicle disavowed "any connection whatsoever with the publication in Germany of a book known as the International Jew.

Distribution of International Jew was halted in 1942 through legal action by Ford, despite complications from a lack of copyright."

Henry Ford helped win World Wars I & II. He developed mass production for the B-24 Liberator bomber.

Ford produced tractors very cheaply, which staved off famine during the wars. The Ford tractors were the first to be produced on a massive scale and the first farm tractors to be affordable by average farmers and rural citizens. Ford held that his tractors were the key to eliminating war and improving the human condition.

From http://www.antiquefarming.com/farm-tractor.html -

"In World War One, American farmers fed ALL of Europe. Even a few years after the war, American farming saved Europe from starvation as countries tried to rebuild....
In this critical period, Henry Ford brought out his first farm tractor the Fordson. The Fordson was the first tractor to be built on a modern assembly line using all the mass production techniques Ford learned producing automobiles.... More important, it sold for considerably less, and brought tractors within the buying range of thousands of farmers..."

In 1907, Edison-worshipper Henry Ford declared, "I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessings of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces."

"Before Henry Ford built the Model T, it was generally believed that automobiles were luxury products that should only be sold at high prices to wealthy people. Ford’s vision was different: He foresaw a cheap ($450 - $650) reliable car that could dominate the mass market." - Dr. Edwin Locke, author of The Prime Movers

A revolutionary innovator, Mr. Ford stood alone against a mountain of criticisms. “He was the first man to discover the advantages of mass production and the first to use an assembly line. To achieve his visions, he hired the best of men, offering an unsolicited raise in workers’ wages, higher than any union scale at the time – he was the first to refute in practice the theory of ‘class-warfare’.”

“Ford announced his $5-per-day program on January 5, 1914, raising the minimum daily pay from $2.34 to $5 for qualifying workers. (Using the consumer price index, this was equivalent to $111.10 per day in 2008 dollars.) It also set a new, reduced workweek…”

Actions speak louder than words. One who employed thousands of Jews could not have been a bigot. Some hold that his apology was not sincere. Since he opened his discoveries to ALL, his apology, most certainly, was not purposed to earn more money.

Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson strongly denounced organized religions. These glorious men of reason were not bigots. Neither was a man who employed thousands of women, blacks, the handicapped, ex-criminals, and JEWS.

It takes UNCOMMON BENEVOLENCE to think and labor, and then share the fruits of one’s labors to the WORLD, without exceptions. Kudos, many thanks, and much respect and love to the INVENTOR of MASS PROSPERITY: Henry Ford.

"The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise." -- Calvin Coolidge

DARK-AGES WARRIORS

2011-01-05T20:42:00.000-08:00

"... Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State..." -- Thomas Jefferson, On New Year's Day in 1802

"I consider the Government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution of the United States from meddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.... But it is only proposed that I should recommend, not prescribe, a day of fasting and praying. That is, I should indirectly assume to the United States an authority over religious exercises, which the Constitution has directly precluded them from.... Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents." -- Thomas Jefferson

In 2008, DARK-AGES WARRIORS scored a victory when Barack Obama's opponent, a speech infringer, anti-gun, anti-capitalism, whose hero is dedicated Antitrust enforcer Theodore Roosevelt, the first POTUS to endorse the income tax and the inheritance tax who also endorsed socialized medicine, chose a gravitas-free puppet of THEOCRACY WARRIORS as running mate.

DARK-AGES WARRIORS remain popular:

1. Jim DeMint, Conservative of the Year 2010, evidently the Conservatives' 2012 presidential bet, is described by Wikipedia as a consistent supporter of school prayer. DeMint advocates STATE-MANDATED RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION.

2. Sarah Palin, the darling of many Conservatives, is against the wall of separation between church and state.

3. Montana GOP want homosexuality declared illegal.

4. Colorado's Conservatives endorse Amendment 62 which regards the BIRTH CONTROL PILL AS MURDER.

5. Allen West, another favorite of Conservatives, holds abortion and PROCREATION as national security issues. Imagine a PATRIOT ACT on PROCREATION!

6. Conservatives on the Texas Education Board want Thomas Jefferson deleted from history.

"Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as it was in his Almighty power to do....

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.....

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

-- Thomas Jefferson

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-25T20:58:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas by Thomas Jefferson

"But the greatest of all reformers… was JESUS OF NAZARETH. …his LUSTRE … and DIAMOND … have the outlines of a system of the MOST SUBLIME MORALITY which has ever fallen from the lips of man. The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this BENEVOLENT MORALITY, and rescuing it from the imputation of imposture… is a most desirable object."

On December 25, 1776, George Washington and other Continental Army heroes crossed the icy Delaware River, defeated enemy troops, and turned the tide of war. These noble souls enabled posterity to enjoy a Merry Christmas every year.

Six days before the Crossing, on December 19, Thomas Paine's The American Crisis was published. On December 23, General Washington had it read to his troops, who suffered great privations including blankets. Thomas Paine's words fueled uncommon souls:

“These are the times that try men's souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

Eternal reverence, my Heroes! Honored and adored!
The Voices, The Minds, and The Swords.

TERRY LAKIN – In the Company of Heroes

2010-12-19T08:12:00.000-08:00

This article by Jerry McConnell of Canada Free Press says:

“One day after being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, on Jan. 21, 2009, Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13489… The actual wording of Obama’s first Executive Order merely rescinded an earlier executive order issued by President Bush severely limiting public access to presidential records after they left office.

By doing this he was gaining points by making a Bush’s EO public and not kept secret while at the same time protecting his own personal records and keeping his critical personal information uber top secret and not subject to later disclosure by a succeeding presidential EO.”

On March 30, 2010, Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin wrote to President Obama:

“For more than seventeen years, I have had the privilege of serving my country as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, including overseas assignments in imminent danger/combat areas in Bosnia and Afghanistan….

Since the fall of 2008, I have been troubled by reports that your original birth certificate remains concealed from public view along with many other records which, if released, would quickly end questions surrounding your place of birth and "natural born" status. Many people mistake the online Certification of Live Birth for an original birth certificate. Until the summer of 2009, the Hawaiian Department of Homelands would not accept this Certification of Live Birth to determine native Hawaiian identity--the Department insisted upon also reviewing an original birth certificate. Many do not understand that the online document was from 2007, generated by computer, laser-printed, and merely a certification that there is an original birth certificate on file which may or may not be sufficiently probative. An original birth certificate is the underlying document that presumably includes a hospital and attending physician's or midwife's name that should lay to rest the "natural born" dispute….

Unless it is established (by this sufficient proof that should be easily within your power to provide) that you are constitutionally eligible to serve as President and my Commander-in-Chief, I, and all other military officers may be following illegal orders. Therefore, sir, until an original birth certificate is brought forward that validates your eligibility and puts to rest the other reasonable questions surrounding your unproven eligibility; I cannot in good conscience obey ANY military orders.”

Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin is a military doctor, the NOBLEST of professions combined. He declares, "The Constitution matters, so does the truth. Americans deserve answers, not a continuing coverup."

LTC Lakin has been sentenced to six months in jail. He is jail-bound because the coercive-power monopolist, supposed to secure individual rights, has turned oppressor.

LTC Lakin is in the company of heroes. Thomas Paine salutes him:

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams embrace LTC Lakin:

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, may your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were ever our countrymen. Forbid it, Almighty God! But as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

LTC Lakin does great honor to Continental Army Officers Thomas Clark and Aaron Clark, and to their father, Abraham Clark:

Dragooned to renounce his signature on the Declaration of Independence for the release of his two sons, captured and tortured by the British, Abraham Clark refused, honoring his country and solemn pledge: “We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

LTC Lakin has earned the love of the Glorious 56:

Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr. and Arthur Middleton
Lost their vast landholdings and estates while in prison.
As Signers of the Declaration of Independence
They were singled out for indignities and brutal treatment.

Richard Stockton was brutally beaten upon capture.
He was starved and subjected to freezing cold weather.
After nearly six weeks of brutal treatment,
He was released, his health ruined.
His belongings, crops, and livestock taken or destroyed,
His library, one of the finest in the colonies, was burned.

LTC Lakin is a Declaration of Independence man. Having FREEDOM and self-respect as top values, he does the right thing no matter the cost. No matter how difficult, he cannot do otherwise - he cannot sacrifice his sacred honor.

LTC Lakin embodies Jeffersonian principles:

"I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful servitude.... Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.... The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.... When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.”

“Honor, justice, and humanity,
Forbid us to tamely surrender that freedom
Which we received from our gallant ancestors,
And which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
We cannot endure the infamy and guilt
Of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness
Which inevitably awaits them
If we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.”

LTC Lakin fights with and for George Washington and his army. LTC Lakin goes through utter hell so that their uncommon heroism shall not be in vain.

George Washington’s uncommon ragtag army
Against an empire, unbeatably mighty
Great privations stretching to years
Sacrifice-free! Proud and fierce!

Angels do walk on Earth, but it takes the noblest of virtues to recognize them. Thank you, military doctor Terry Lakin. God bless, uncommon angel.

*****

Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin discusses the denial of access to key witnesses.

THE ONLY VIDEO COVERAGE FROM THE TRIAL: LTC Lakin Found Guilty of Obeying his Constitutional Oath

Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin Court-Martial Trial Update

Tyrant-Wannabe Charles Krauthammer

2010-12-12T07:33:00.000-08:00

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the WikiLeaks exposés are embarrassing and awkward but would not significantly complicate US foreign policy. Yet, tyrant-wannabes, like Charles Krauthammer, lust to gestapo Julian Assange.

Governments hold a MONOPOLY on coercive power. The ONLY nonviolent checks against this power are the freedoms of speech and the press.

"No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will…. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."

"If virtuous, [the government] need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics."

"I am... against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents. …error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

"A right of free correspondence between citizen and citizen on their joint interests, whether public or private and under whatsoever laws these interests arise, is a natural right… it is... one of the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established."

"[Let us] go on in doing with [the] pen what in other times was done with the sword, [and] show that reformation is more practicable by operating on the mind than on the body of man."

-- Thomas Jefferson

Tyrant-wannabe Krauthammer salivates at the unarmed and defenseless going through CREATIVE mental torture devised by the coercive-power monopolist.

When the police and armed forces become protectors of Goliaths bashing unarmed citizens, the latter will have no choice but to put into effect the purpose of the 2nd Amendment.

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”

“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to preserve or obtain their liberty, deserves the tyrants that rule them.”

-- Thomas Jefferson

Candle in the Whirlwind

2010-12-11T05:50:00.000-08:00

“It’s not criminals who provoke great hatred, it’s honest men.” The words of a polymath and polyglot executed by tyrants at age 35: Dr. Jose Rizal.

Honesty is fidelity to the truth. The truth is what conforms to reality. Integrity is fidelity to logic. It is the refusal to hold contradictions; it is the consistent cohesion of words and deeds; it is honoring one’s mental creations by giving them physical existence.

When millions are redefining religious freedom to mean faith in bed with force,

When atheism warriors are perverting Objectivism, shunning deists fighting for freedom yet supporting popular theocracy and anarchism warriors,

When many are avoiding Thomas Jefferson’s tempestuous sea of liberty,

When freedom fighters fail to grasp a concrete defiance against tyranny,

When loved ones and friends are distant or silent,

The lonely Jeffersonian must face a Rizalist fate almost alone.

The Fed’s Circumvention of the First Amendment

2010-12-10T01:27:00.000-08:00

“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” –- Thomas Jefferson

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” -- First Amendment

Congress may not abridge freedoms, but may the board members of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York? They can. They are circumventing the First Amendment.

Would NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC report on abuses of COERCIVE POWER or conflicts of interest at The Fed though their boss, Jeffrey R. Immelt, is a board member?

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, another current board member, issued an outside-work policy in its 2010 Code of Conduct Training prohibiting JPMC employees from posting a statement such as this on the internet: “I think the financial services industry is over-regulated and should be governed by market forces only.”

Would NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC assign reporters to find out which other Fed board members who head private corporations have issued the same directive? Have the Fed board members dragooned other CEOs into issuing this directive?

Jamie Dimon’s DECREE impacts the freedoms of speech and of the press, and of the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. If an action of one who wields COERCIVE POWER infringes these freedoms, it is a First Amendment violation.

A moral man does not rule, nor can he be ruled by men.

JP Morgan Chase Circumvents the First Amendment

2010-12-09T03:15:00.000-08:00

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase (JPMC), a current board member of a GOVERNMENT BANK, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, issued an outside-work policy in its 2010 Code of Conduct Training prohibiting JPMC employees from posting a statement such as this on the internet: “I think the financial services industry is over-regulated and should be governed by market forces only.”

I refused to affirm this infringement of outside-work speech and press. Consequently, my employment with JPMC was terminated on August 7, 2010.

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Other news items and information:

G.E. and JPMorgan Got Lots of Fed Help in ’08

The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed - Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?

JP Morgan Silver Manipulation Explained

GOVERNMENT-GOLIATH Gestapoes Job Creators

2010-11-28T05:10:00.000-08:00

“There exists a right independent of force; that a right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings; that NO ONE HAS A RIGHT TO OBSTRUCT ANOTHER exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.” -- Thomas Jefferson

Antitrust, Insider Trading, and other regulations have rendered businessmen rightless and have kept them under a silent, growing reign of terror. Terrorists and fish get better treatment.

Insider Trading laws allow intervention BY FORCE into the very process of gaining and using knowledge. They are undefined, flexible, and unpredictable monstrosities. Regulators can deem any businessman a criminal anytime.

The advocacy or sanction of coercion is THE MARK OF EVIL.

"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." -- Thomas Jefferson

The government established in the Insider Trading laws: UNEARNED PROFITS BY FORCE. Profiting from years of study and establishing goodwill with others is earned profit, but punishable with fines and imprisonment. Intellectual egalitarianism, the belief that the minds and the knowledge of all men must be equalized, is the root premise of full disclosure and insider trading laws.

Insider Trading and Antitrust laws have turned Wall Street into a SLAVE PEN.

Big New York Insider Trading Probe - 2009 & 2010
Insider Trading Persecutions under Ronald Reagan (Find CHAPTER 3)
The Injustice of Insider-Trading Rules

The American Revolutionaries fought a king and his mighty empire that ALL individuals be free from coercion by other men and by the government. When asked to do good by force – to be king of the USA – George Washington responded: “Abhorrent!” He upheld individual rights. He rejected power. Power-lust is for little men.

If the White House, US Congress, and Securities & Exchange Commission GOLIATHS were not coward power-lusters, they would shed their GOONS, compete with honor in a coercion-free market, and wipe out all no good businesses and businessmen. Instead, these rampaging GOLIATHS, on coercive-power steroid, puff up, “FREE competition must be ENFORCED! FREE men must be SHACKLED! FREE men are RIGHTLESS! You can have your job creators and pitchfork them, too!”

The successful and the affluent have rights equal to the inherent inalienable rights of every man.

When rights-protectors turned GOLIATHS bash unarmed citizens: Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, Patrick Henrys, Samuel Adamses, and George Pattons must rise up to defend Liberty.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

The time is at hand which must determine whether American businessmen are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their properties are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. Their cruel and unrelenting oppressors leave them only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. They must resolve to conquer or die.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, may your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were ever our countrymen. As for me, give me liberty or I will fight unto death!

Americans love freedom. American businessmen must fight GOLIATHS for three reasons. First, they must defend their loved ones and their properties. Second, they fight for their own self respect. Third, they fight because they are free men!

Job Creators:

Assert Freedom! Fight the knaves!
Else, be crowned cowards, willing slaves.

First POTUS to Propose Income & Inheritance Taxes, & Socialized Medicine

2010-11-21T03:35:00.000-08:00

Republican and Progressive THEODORE ROOSEVELT, John McCain’s hero, admired by Hillary Clinton and Bill O'Reilly -

1) Theodore Roosevelt was a dedicated enforcer of Antitrust (FREE competition must be ENFORCED!)

2) “In 1908 Theodore Roosevelt endorsed both an income tax and an inheritance tax, becoming the first President of the United States to openly propose that the political power of government be used to redistribute wealth.” -- Origin of the Income Tax -- http://mises.org/daily/1597

3) “Socialized medicine was first proposed by Republican Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, when he ran for a third term as president on the Progressive Party platform.” -- http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5697

Independent Equals Must Choose: Self-reliance or Dependence

2010-11-21T02:14:00.000-08:00

Independent equals must choose: self-reliance or dependence. Self-reliance requires selfishness. Dependence breeds moochers, looters, and rulers.

Men who glorify servility need serfs to provide their sustenance. They are not satisfied with benevolence; they demand sacrifice – the renunciation or destruction of the precious. They damn selfishness as evil, and preach masochism and sadism in the name of service and sacrifice.

Selfless means no self: no self-esteem, no self-respect, no self-love. One who is not self-reliant, a moocher or a looter, is selfless. He does not use his own mind. Having no self-respect, he needs others – for approval, guidance, and/or sustenance. One who babysits adults dishonors independence, and derives self-esteem from others. A rights-infringer is selfless - he recklessly risks his life and freedom for his need of victims. A power-luster tramples on individual liberty and derives satisfaction from enslaving others – he is not an individualist; he is not selfish.

Those who fear self-reliance, i.e. selfishness, demonize individualism - they advocate service and sacrifice. Since President Abraham Lincoln and his heroes had eradicated serfdom, citizens are conned into thinking that voluntary self-immolation is noble. Men conned into regarding selfishness as evil evade that it is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. They unwittingly facilitate power-lusters who recognize that man’s love of self must be destroyed so rulers could thrive.

To value is a function of the self – it is selfish to care for loved ones; their well-being or happiness is not divorced from the valuer’s. That good people live and prosper is in one’s own self-interest. One benefits from the advantages of social existence: exchange of knowledge, trade, division of labor, and defense from force. One wants to live in freedom and in peace – therefore, to cherish a society that respects individual rights is selfish.

The virtue involved in caring for loved ones and doing the right thing is integrity: you love, so you care; you think it is right, so you do it.

Individualists do not need sacrificial lambs. Men with self-esteem, i.e. selfish men, take pride in independence. One cannot achieve happiness without self-esteem. Without self-respect, life is not worth living. This explains why men of integrity do the right thing no matter the cost. No matter how difficult, they cannot do otherwise - they cannot sacrifice their sacred honor. Doing the right thing is not sacrifice – it is upholding the precious, not renouncing nor destroying it.

The people of the Enlightenment bequeathed virtue and glory to posterity. I call on individuals who value freedom to remember the founding of the nation conceived in Reason and Liberty. The legacy of the glorious thinkers and men of action has been trampled upon without compunction for decades. Just as they were faced with a mighty empire then, we are now faced with powerful kings.

Sons and daughters of Liberty: rise and mutually pledge to each other your lives, your fortunes, and your sacred honor that the nation conceived in Reason and Liberty shall not perish from the Earth.

-- Cut and pasted from my second novel, Royal Serf. The first half is posted here.

Tea Partiers

2010-11-14T11:57:00.000-08:00

The American Revolutionaries, the original Tea Partiers, fought a mighty empire. Now, we are faced with powerful dictators. Sons and daughters of Liberty must think and act that the nation conceived in Reason and Liberty shall not perish from the Earth.

The current Tea Partiers are composed of Independents, Objectivists, Libertarians, Republicans, Conservatives, and Jeffersonians. Their professed fundamental principle is freedom, but they differ in essential concretes. They differ because some hold contradictions to the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence: Individualism, the principle of Individual Rights, and that the sole proper function of government is to secure these rights, i.e. police force, courts of justice, and the military.

Its author, Thomas Jefferson, held: "I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality."

Jefferson stated the difference between Individualists and well-meaning socialists: "We both consider the people as our children, and love them with parental affection. But you love them as infants whom you are afraid to trust without nurses; and I as adults whom I freely leave to self-government." Socialism is babysitting adults by force.

Jefferson abolished ALL excise taxes including the whiskey tax in the first year of his first presidency. In 1913, the Republicans helped institute taxation-slavery. The Americans of 1913 consented to becoming slaves, spurning George Washington’s words: “The Parliament of Great Britain hath no more right to put their hands into my pocket, without my consent, than I have to put my hands into yours for money.”

The Republicans of 1913 helped legalized extortion and trampled on the first principle of association: "To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." – Thomas Jefferson

Earlier, in 1890, the Republicans instituted dictatorship, passing the Sherman Act, the antitrust law. The Republicans defied definitions and logic, dictating that FREE competition must be ENFORCED.

Forgotten are these Jefferson words: "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

Citizens who embrace individual liberty formed the Libertarian Party, but its founding principle is anarchism. Its members spurn these words of the author of the Declaration: "[The] voluntary support of laws, formed by persons of their own choice, distinguishes peculiarly the minds capable of self-government. The contrary spirit is anarchy, which of necessity produces despotism."

Ayn Rand created Objectivism whose ultimate goal is capitalism. She revered the Founders. She was an atheist but said, “THERE ARE RATIONAL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE. If you want to be a full Objectivist, you cannot reconcile that with religion; BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN RELIGIOUS PEOPLE CANNOT BE INDIVIDUALISTS AND FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. THEY CAN, AND THIS COUNTRY IS THE BEST PROOF OF IT....” But, there are self-described Objectivists on Facebook who are fighting, not for capitalism, but for atheism.

Ayn Rand said, "We should keep religion out of politics for the same reasons the Founding Fathers gave. Religion is a private matter... With the American separation of church and state, all religions could live together peacefully, because each man is free to hold his own beliefs but cannot force them on others.

Persuasion, reason, argument are not the province of religion. Religion rests on faith - on an acceptance of certain beliefs apart from reason. THIS IS WHY IT MUST BE PRIVATE. WHEN IT'S A PRIVATE MATTER, IT'S FINE - IT CAN EVEN BE A KIND OF INSPIRATION TO PEOPLE. Faith is what each man may choose for himself, if he wishes. I don't."

The Conservative Party spurns Ayn Rand and Thomas Jefferson, especially these words: "...Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State..."

Ayn Rand described the Conservative Party as “not an American political party, but a religious party – A PHENOMENON FORBIDDEN BY THE CONSTITUTION.” She further said: “the Conservative Party… subordinates reason to faith, and substitutes theocracy for capitalism…”

The Conservative Party is backed by Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth - 2009) and Pope Paul’s Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples - 1967). These encyclicals blame the PROFIT motive for all the world’s problems, and call for a worldwide REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH by a world government as the solution.

Ayn Rand further said: Pope Paul’s Populorum Progressio declares that capitalism is worse than Marxism and that the only morality is altruism (self-sacrifice). She explained: “Sacrifice” does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious. “Sacrifice” does not mean the rejection of the evil for the sake of the good, but of the good for the sake of the evil. “Sacrifice” is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don’t.

Tea Partiers must resolve good-versus-evil differences. We can do so by using reason and science.

“Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." – Thomas Jefferson

‎‎'Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose... not to propagate it by coercions on either, as it was in his Almighty power to do.... our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.....' – Thomas Jefferson

We have spent the prime of our lives in procuring (young men) the precious blessing of liberty. Let them spend theirs in shewing that it is the great parent of science and of virtue; and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free." – Thomas Jefferson

"We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, it is our boast that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States." -- George Washington

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness. -- George Washington

The opponents of abortion hold it is EVIL while I think their arguments are not science-based, thus reek of the Dark Ages persuasion. This is an EVIL-versus-DARK-AGES difference that must be resolved by science. Heed Thomas Jefferson: "It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason." (related article)

Tea Partiers: let us be guided by the Declaration of Independence.

Ayn Rand worshipped: "If it is ever proper for men to kneel, we should kneel when we read the Declaration of Independence… probably the greatest document in human history, both philosophically and literarily."

Abe Lincoln extolled: "THE PRINCIPLES OF JEFFERSON ARE THE DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS OF FREE SOCIETY… ALL HONOR TO JEFFERSON - to the man, who in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and sagacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”

Let us ponder the founding principles, sharpen our minds, and search our souls. Let us Pay the Freedom-Debt Forward.

When the Unborn Human Being Acquires Rights

2010-11-14T08:47:00.000-08:00

One's personal stand on abortion or on anything is no one's business. But when one proposes to impose on others, one's arguments must be based solely on reason and reality.

There are no rights other than Individual Rights. The power of any government, state or federal, comes from the people, which cannot delegate a right they do not possess. In freedom, the only right delegated is the right to self defense (except in case of an emergency), so that citizens deal with each other only by reason and persuasion, never by force. Abortion is a matter of rights, not subject to resolution by each state.

Arguments against abortion that are not based on science, i.e. reality, are theocratic and/or tyrannical. Only an actual living rational being has rights. One cannot reason with animals, so they do not have rights though they have life and brains. By nature, man is fallible, so a woman may get pregnant though she and her partner might not yet be ready to be parents. The question that must be resolved based on science is when the unborn human being acquires rights, and thus becomes equal to the mother when it comes to rights.

I use the criterion for the cessation of human life, brain activity, as the criterion for the onset of becoming an actual living rational being. Only a being with a rational tool can be considered human, thus the zygote or embryo, though has the potential to become human, is not yet an actual human.

A fetus has a central nervous system and brain activity. Thus, it is an actual living rational being. Hence, it has rights.

“The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.” - James Garfield

2010-10-30T04:18:00.000-07:00

Vote out ANTI-FOUNDERS! Be clear to the US-hating socialist-in-chief and his minions that you reject their agenda by voting out power-lusters.

“Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation… it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.” -- President James Garfield

Mark Twain on Congress:

"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."

“There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.”

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

Agenda of Government-Goliath:

C - coerce
O - obstruct job creators
N - negate rights
G - greed for COERCIVE POWER
R - redistribute wealth
E - extort; enslave LIFESAVERS
S - spend extorted money
S - spend money borrowed from communists

Related post - Goliaths: Afraid to Compete in the Reason-and-Persuasion-Only Zone

The Pursuit of Happiness Album

2010-09-22T05:55:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album:

1.   The Voice, The Mind, and The Sword
2.   The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
3.   Declaration Signer and Sons
4.   The Glorious 56
5.   When I Fight for Liberty
6.   George Washington Found it Abhorrent to be King
7.   All Honor to Thomas Jefferson
8.   The Gettysburg Address
9.   O Captain! My Captain!
10. Thinking
11. Perfect Freedom
12. 99 Percent
13. Pay the Freedom-Debt Forward
14. The Pursuit of Happiness

Extra songs:

15. Born Free
16. God Bless the USA
17. Philadelphia Freedom

The Voice, The Mind, and The Sword

2010-09-22T05:31:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 1st song:

The Voice, The Mind, and The Sword

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet,
As to be purchased
At the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take;
But as for me,
Give me liberty or give me death!"

"We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable;
That all men are created equal & independent,
That from that equal creation
They derive rights inherent & inalienable,
Among which are the preservation of
Life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness;
That to secure these ends,
Governments are instituted among men,
Deriving their just powers
From the consent of the governed..."

"The time is now near at hand
Which must probably determine
Whether Americans
Are to be freemen or slaves;

Whether they are to have any property they can call their own;
Whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed,
And themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness
From which no human efforts will deliver them.

The fate of unborn millions will now depend,
Under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us
Only the choice of brave resistance,
Or the most abject submission.

We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."

Eternal reverence, my Heroes! Honored and adored!
The Voice, The Mind, and The Sword.

‎The Shot Heard ‘Round the World

2010-09-22T05:03:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 2nd song:

‎The Shot Heard ‘Round the World

“Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year….

So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,—
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!

For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.”

On April 19, 1775
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard ‘round the world.”

The American Revolution began,
The fight for the right to bear arms.

Listen to the wisdom of George Washington:
“The very atmosphere of firearms
Anywhere and everywhere
Restrains evil interference –
They deserve a place of honor
With all that's good.”

“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined,
But they should have sufficient arms and ammunition
To maintain a status of independence from any
Who might attempt to abuse them
Which would include their own government."

Hear wise Benjamin Franklin:
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb
Voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb
Contesting the vote!"

Do you remember these words?

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...
Disarm only those who are neither inclined
Nor determined to commit crimes...
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted
And better for the assailants;
They serve rather to encourage
Than to prevent homicides,
For an unarmed man may be attacked
With greater confidence than an armed man."

“A strong body makes the mind strong.
As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun.
While this gives moderate exercise to the body,
It gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind.

Games played with the ball and others of that nature,
Are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.”

These gems are from Thomas Jefferson.

On April 19, 1775
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard ‘round the world.”

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References:

Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson

‎Declaration Signer and Sons

2010-09-22T04:53:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 3rd song:

‎Declaration Signer and Sons

The Declaration Signer from New Jersey
Two sons in the Continental Army
Thomas and Aaron had to endure
Capture and torture, oh hellish torture!

Renounce your signature, or else, Signer
Precious sons remain in painful danger
Retract your pledge, secure sons’ return
Else: Aaron and Thomas would burn.

Do you remember the Glorious 56?
What the New Jersey father did?
He said, “No.” Courageously, he refused!
Uncommon valor, sacred honor, mighty good.

Do you know these heroes’ names?
Father and Sons in great pain
D’you remember what they fought for?
Perfect Freedom! Oh Liberty above all!

The glorious family from New Jersey
D’you honor their love of Liberty?
Continental Army Officers Thomas and Aaron!
Signer Abraham Clark owns this song.

In the early hours of July 4, 1776,
Abraham Clark wrote, "Our Congress Resolved
To Declare the United Colonies Free and Independent States....
It is gone so far that we must now be
A Free Independent State, or a Conquered Country...."

Ten days later Mr. Clark wrote,
"Our Declaration of Independence I dare say you have seen....
A few weeks will probably determine our fate -
Perfect Freedom or Absolute Slavery.
To some of us freedom or a halter.
Our fates are in the hands of an Almighty God,
To whom I can, with pleasure, confide my own…”

Signer Abraham Clark’s epitaph reads:
“He loved his Country and adhered to her cause
In the darkest hours of her struggles against oppression."
Indeed! At all cost, Abraham Clark and Sons honored the Declaration!

The glorious family from New Jersey
D’you honor their love of Liberty?
Continental Army Officers Thomas and Aaron!
Signer Abraham Clark owns this song.

The Glorious 56

2010-09-22T04:43:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 4th song:

The Glorious 56

Do you remember the Glorious 56?
Do you honor what they did?
D’you care to sing and ponder?
The Declaration of Independence, every Signer?

From Delaware: Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, and George Read.
From Pennsylvania: George Clymer, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, John Morton,
James Smith, George Taylor, George Ross, Benjamin Franklin, and James Wilson.

From Massachusetts: Elbridge Gerry, Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Adams, John Adams,
And the President of the Second Continental Congress –
He attended Harvard College for a business education
And graduated at age 17: Mr. John Hancock.

From New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, and Matthew Thornton.

From Rhode Island: William Ellery attended Harvard College and graduated at age 15.
During the war, he saw his property and home looted and burned to the ground.
Stephen Hopkins, self-educated, age around 69, and with cerebral palsy,
Signed the Declaration of Independence with a shaking pen
But declared: ‘My hand trembles, but my heart does not.’

From New York: The homes, estates, and fortunes of Francis Lewis,
William Floyd, and Lewis Morris were plundered.
Philips Livingston’s great holdings were confiscated.

From Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton.

From Virginia: George Wythe, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton,
Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson…
Richard Henry Lee remarked on July 4, 1776:
“Let this most happy day give birth to the American Republic.
Let her arise not to devastate and conquer
But to re-establish the reign of peace and the laws….
The names of the American legislators will be placed, by posterity,
At the side of … all those whose memory has been
And will be forever dear to virtuous men and good citizens.”
Do you remember the other Virginian?
Who ordered his own home destroyed by cannon fire?
Do you know the reason for the uncommon order?
General Cornwallis had his headquarters
At the home of Thomas Nelson Jr.
At the battle of Yorktown,
He ordered his own home destroyed by cannon fire.

From North Carolina: Joseph Hewes, John Penn, and William Hooper.

From South Carolina: Thomas Lynch Jr.,
1st South Carolina Regiment Company Commander,
Fell ill shortly after becoming a Declaration Signer.
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr. and Arthur Middleton
Lost their vast landholdings and estates while in prison.
As Signers of the Declaration of Independence
They were singled out for indignities and brutal treatment.

From New Jersey: Francis Hopkinson.
John Hart’s farm was raided by British and Hessian troops.
Hunted down, the elderly Mr. Hart hid in the Sourland Mountains.
Richard Stockton was brutally beaten upon capture.
He was starved and subjected to freezing cold weather.
After nearly six weeks of brutal treatment,
He was released, his health ruined.
His belongings, crops, and livestock taken or destroyed,
His library, one of the finest in the colonies, was burned.
The British nearly destroyed the College of New Jersey, later called Princeton,
Rebuilt at great personal and financial difficulty by Dr. John Witherspoon.
To an objection that the country was not yet ready for independence,
Dr. Witherspoon replied that it “was not only ripe for the measure,
But in danger of rotting for the want of it.”
Dragooned to renounce his signature on the Declaration of Independence
For the release of his two sons, officers in the Continental Army,
Captured and tortured by the British:
Abraham Clark refused, honoring his country and solemn pledge:
“We mutually pledge to each other
Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

From Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott, Roger Sherman,
William Williams, and Samuel Huntington.
From Maryland: Charles Carroll, Samuel Chase,
William Paca, and Thomas Stone.

Uncommon thinkers and sons of Liberty
They risked life, fortune, and family.
Do you honor what they did?
Do you remember the Glorious 56?

George Washington Found it Abhorrent to be King

2010-09-22T04:31:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 6th song:

George Washington Found it Abhorrent to be King

George Washington led the brave Continental Army
Through eight years of war, privations aplenty.
He inspired a ragtag army, a fragile nation
Amid the threats of failure and disintegration.

At the war's end in 1783, he took affront
When asked to be king, to wear a crown.
George Washington replied, “Abhorrent!” Power-lust is for little fiends.
A moral man does not rule, nor can he be ruled by men.

Rejecting power, George Washington resigned his commission.
On Mount Vernon, the General retired to his plantation.
An incredulous King George III remarked, greatly awed,
“If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

The Electoral College elected General George Washington
Unanimously in 1789, and again in the 1792 election.
The only president to get 100% of electoral votes, he refused a third term
"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."

Thomas Jefferson honored George Washington:
“The moderation and virtue of a single character
Probably prevented this Revolution from being closed,
As most others have been, by a subversion
Of that liberty it was intended to establish.”

"His mind was great and powerful...
His integrity was most pure,
His justice the most inflexible I have ever known…
He was, indeed, in every sense of the words,
A wise, a good, and a great man....

The best horseman of his age,
And the most graceful figure
That could be seen on horseback....

On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect…
Never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great,
And to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies
Have merited from man an everlasting remembrance...."

“I served with General Washington
In the legislature of Virginia, before the revolution,
And, during it, with Dr. Franklin in Congress.
I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time,
Nor to any but the main point, which was to decide the question.
They laid their shoulders to the great points,
Knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves.”

On the one hundred and tenth anniversary
Of the birthday of George Washington,
The man who found it abhorrent to be king,
Was reverently exalted by Abraham Lincoln.

“Washington is the mightiest name on Earth —
Long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty;
Still mightiest in moral reformation.
On that name a eulogy is expected.
It cannot be.

To add brightness to the sun
Or glory to the name of Washington
Is alike impossible. Let none attempt it.
In solemn awe pronounce the name
And in its naked, deathless splendor
Leave it shining on."

‎All Honor to Thomas Jefferson

2010-09-22T04:03:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 7th song:

‎All Honor to Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln extolled:
"The principles of Jefferson
Are the definitions and axioms of free society…
All honor to Jefferson - to the man,
Who in the concrete pressure of a struggle
For national independence by a single people,
Had the coolness, forecast, and sagacity
To introduce into a merely revolutionary document
An abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times,
And so embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days
It shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block
To the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”

"I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring
From the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."

Ayn Rand said, “Definitions are the guardians of rationality,
The first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration…”
Axioms are perceptual self-evidencies.
They are the starting points of cognition, on which all proofs depend.
Axiomatic concepts are the foundation of objectivity.

Ayn Rand’s most admired Founder is Thomas Jefferson.
She worshipped, "If it is ever proper for men to kneel,
We should kneel when we read the Declaration of Independence…
Probably the greatest document in human history,
Both philosophically and literarily."

The author of the Declaration of Independence,
The Father of religious freedom,
The advocate of the Bill of Rights,
The President who abolished the slave trade –

Slavery was obtruded on the Colonies by King George III.
Jefferson inherited slaves - it was against the law to free them.
When it was permitted for the self-supporting,
Freed slaves must leave the State within a year.

In 1769: Chosen for the first time to be a member of a legislature,
Thomas Jefferson made one effort in the House of Burgesses
For the permission of the emancipation of slaves,
But was rejected.

In 1770: As a lawyer, Thomas Jefferson defended a slave,
Saying: under the law of nature, “we are all born free.”
In 1776: He strongly condemned slavery
In his draft of the Declaration of Independence.

In 1778: The legislature passed a bill he proposed
To ban further importation of slaves into Virginia.
In 1784: His draft of what became the Northwest Ordinance
Stipulated that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude"
In any of the new states admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.

In 1806: President Jefferson requested Congress
To ban all slave importation to the US.
In 1807: President Jefferson signed a bill
Abolishing the slave trade –
On March 3, 1807, as President of the USA,
Thomas Jefferson signed a bill
Making slave importation
Illegal in the United States.

Jefferson successfully abolished primogeniture in Virginia,
The rule by which the first born son inherited all the land.
His December 20, 1787 letter to James Madison
Contains objections to key parts of the new Federal Constitution.
Primarily, Jefferson noted the absence of a bill of rights…

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
Within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
I do not add 'within the limits of the law'
Because law is often but the tyrant's will,
And always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

"A wise and frugal Government,
Which shall restrain men from injuring one another,
Shall leave them otherwise free to regulate
Their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
And shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
This is the sum of good government."

"The first principle of association –
The guarantee to every one
Of a free exercise of his industry
And the fruits acquired by it."

While abolishing ALL excise taxes
Including the whiskey tax
In the first year of his first presidency,
While engaging in the Barbary War
Within two months of his first presidency,
And then spending $15 million
In the Louisiana Purchase
To double the then size of the USA,
Jefferson reduced the national debt
From $83 million to $57 million.

Thomas Jefferson said every word in the Constitution
Is subsidiary only to the execution
Of the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence:
First: Equal Inherent Inalienable Rights,
Second: The only proper function of law and of government
Is "to secure these rights."

Abraham Lincoln extolled:
"The principles of Jefferson
Are the definitions and axioms of free society…
All honor to Jefferson…”

‎The Gettysburg Address

2010-09-22T03:47:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 8th song:

‎The Gettysburg Address

“Four score and seven years ago
Our fathers brought forth on this continent,
A new nation, conceived in Liberty,
And dedicated to the proposition
That all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
Testing whether that nation, or any nation
So conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battle-field of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field,
As a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
That that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate –
We can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
Have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,
But it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here
To the unfinished work which they who fought here
Have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated
To the great task remaining before us –
That from these honored dead we take increased devotion
To that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion –

That we here highly resolve
That these dead shall not have died in vain –
That this nation, under God,
Shall have a new birth of freedom –

And that government
Of the people, By the people,
For the people,
Shall not perish from the Earth.”

O Captain! My Captain!

2010-09-22T03:36:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 9th song:

O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here Captain! Dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;

Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

-- By Walt Whitman in 1865, concerning the death of President Abraham Lincoln

Click here for a version on YouTube.

Pay the Freedom-Debt Forward

2010-09-22T03:22:00.000-07:00

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 13th song:

Pay the Freedom-Debt Forward

To the principle of Individual Rights
     We owe our joy, wealth, Life
Secure the Declaration by moral might
     Honor freedom: pay the debt forward.

Fight! That the Founders live on
     Think! That innocents will breathe reason
Extol precious Liberty! By right: cheer
     To freedom lovers: Happiness is dear.

Benjamin Franklin, polymathic politician and inventor
Described his social invention in 1784:
"I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you.
When you… meet with another honest Man in similar Distress,
You must pay me by lending this Sum to him;
Enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation,
When he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity.
I hope it may thus go thro' many hands,
Before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress.
This is a trick of mine
For doing a deal of good with a little money."

Ben Franklin prayed for the spread of Liberty:
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country....
God grant that not only the love of liberty
But a thorough knowledge of the rights of man
May pervade all the nations of the earth,
So that a philosopher may set his foot
Anywhere on its surface and say:
This is my country."

"The liberties of our Country,
The freedom of our civil constitution
Are worth defending at all hazards,”
Said Boston Tea Party organizer Samuel Adams.
“We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance
From our worthy Ancestors:
They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger
And expense of treasure and blood;
And transmitted them to us with care and diligence.

It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation…
If we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle;
Or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men….
Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity;
And resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, …
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it,
And… millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event."

Thomas Jefferson said: “Honor, justice, and humanity,
Forbid us to tamely surrender that freedom
Which we received from our gallant ancestors,
And which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
We cannot endure the infamy and guilt
Of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness
Which inevitably awaits them
If we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.”

The American Revolutionaries lit the Freedom Torch
     Swear to keep Liberty aflame, they sought
Pay the Freedom-debt forward, Dear Americans
     Go Liberty! Through many hands and lands!

Speech and Press Infringement by the Private Sector

2010-07-27T04:40:00.000-07:00

Dear Freedom Fighters and The American Civil Liberties Union,

The principle of Individual Rights mandates that no individual may violate the equal inherent inalienable rights of another. Yet, private businesses dictate what their employees may say or do outside the work sphere.

For my continued employment at a private company, I was told to take down my blog and to stop marketing my novels though I use a penname and I’ve never mentioned publicly whom I work for. The following is an example of what an employee is NOT permitted to post on the internet on his own time, using his own resources, and outside of his job responsibility: “I think the financial services industry is over-regulated and should be governed by market forces only.”

I cannot affirm rights infringement, thus my employment has been terminated. I hope you will help me uphold freedom.

Many thanks,

Ilyn Ross
‎"A moral man does not rule, nor can he be ruled by men." -- Reason Reigns and Royal Serf

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Contact Information:

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/emp08.htm
The American Civil Liberties Union
132 West 43rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10036
(212) 944-9800

ACLU of New Jersey
Executive Director: Deborah Jacobs
P.O. Box 32159
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973) 642-2084 | Email: info@aclu-nj.org
Web: http://www.aclu-nj.org/

ACLU at 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York NY 10004. Or call: 212-549-2500
http://www.aclu.org/contact-us

To Ms. Barbara Bush: Not Yours to Give by Davy Crockett

2010-06-27T05:27:00.000-07:00

In this video, Ms. Barbara Bush, daughter of President George W. Bush, agrees with Speaker Nancy Pelosi that healthcare is a right. Ms. Bush is glad Obamacare passed. The twin Bush sisters say they are not interested in politics. This explains Ms. Barbara Bush's understanding of Rights. Politics is not "a run for public office" - This is from my novel, Royal Serf:

Picture a five-storey building. The fourth floor is politics, where how man should treat other men is determined. Politics, the fourth branch of philosophy, defines the principles of a proper social system. The politics floor rests on the third floor, ethics or morality, the code of values to guide man’s choices and actions in determining the purpose and the course of his life. The third floor rests on the second floor, epistemology, which is also called the reason-and-logic floor. In turn, the reason-and-logic floor rests on the first floor and the building’s foundations: metaphysics - the study of existence, nature, metaphysical reality.

A political principle that does not rest on ethics is like the fourth floor of a building floating on air. Ethics or a morality code without an epistemological and metaphysical base is like a table with no legs. The proper code of values is established by means of reason in accordance with logic and in consonance with man’s nature.

Ms. Bush, Thomas Jefferson and his kind disagree with you and Speaker Pelosi:

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -- Thomas Jefferson

"A right is that which can be exercised without anyone's permission." -- Ayn Rand

Independent equals do not have slaves that would provide manmande values like healthcare. Capitalism, the separation of state and economics, is the only social system accordant with Rights. I hope Ms. Bush would ponder the Founding principles and this Davy Crockett video entitled, Not Yours to Give.

Science on Abortion

2010-06-06T03:08:00.000-07:00

One’s personal stand on abortion, on faith, or on anything is no one’s business.

But collectivists reject the hands-off, nonintervention, noninterference imperative in freedom. Power-lusters find ways to obtrude upon others. Antiabortionists claim that the human zygote is alive, thus, abortion is murder. To be considered alive, an object must exhibit all of the characteristics of living things, namely (reference):

• Living things are made of cells.
• Living things obtain and use energy.
• Living things grow and develop.
• Living things reproduce.
• Living things respond to their environment.
• Living things adapt to their environment.

To be able to respond to its environment, a human being must be sentient. A human zygote or embryo is not sentient because its brain is undeveloped. A person with no brain activity is considered by the medical profession to be no longer alive. It follows that since an embryo has no brain activity, it is not yet alive (reference).

A thing not alive has no rights. It cannot be murdered. To use the term murder to a thing not alive is to wipe out all definitions and all justice.

One who blanks out the life of the pregnant human being, one who champions destroying the life of an actual human being, most of the time: a young girl, one who advocates force – who advocates forcing a female human being to go through a lifetime paying for a mistake - is certainly not pro-life. He/She is no rights-respecter.

To spurn scientific evidence and hold that a female human being loses her rights to her own body and her own life when she gets pregnant - that she has no window to change course – is a mark of evil. The claim that a zygote or an embryo is a baby is akin to the claim that the sun revolves around the Earth.

By nature, man is fallible. For the pregnant, there is a window to change course. This is based on science, i.e. reason. It is consistent with the concept of a benevolent God. Abortion is safe during the embryonic stage, the pre-fetal stage, when brain activity is still nonexistent. It is no longer safe after the onset of brain activity.

Having a baby is a great responsibility. One can’t renege on it. Antiabortionists mention adoption as an alternative to abortion. A baby is an actual human being and giving one's baby up for adoption is 24/7 torture for life. It takes cruelty to impose a tortured life on a mother and the baby she would bear.

Pro-choice = Pro-science = Pro-reality = Pro-reason = Pro-liberty = Pro-happiness.

Anti-abortion = anti-science = anti-mind = anti-life = pro-Dark-Ages = TYRANNY = EVIL.

When I Fight for Liberty

2010-05-30T13:57:00.000-07:00

It’s uncommon to value Rights
     Heroes don’t sacrifice, they fight
Upholding freedom is not sacrifice
     It’s selfishness: Liberty’s the prize.

No, it is not sacrifice
     Fighting for the top prize
No! Not duty, but integrity
     When I fight for Liberty.

Perfect freedom or absolute slavery
     Oh Liberty, proclaims Patrick Henry
I cherish Life. Myself. Me.
     I desire to be free.

Risking one’s life, spurning chains
     Not sacrifice, with glorious aim
Free to choose virtue: Reason
     Sacred Honor in mighty action.

Your sons’ release, Abraham Clark
     Renounce your signature! Rescind! Depart!
For Aaron, Thomas: make amends
     Repudiate the Declaration of Independence!

Perfect freedom or absolute slavery
     Oh Liberty, or cherished family
Giving up Freedom is sacrifice
     Choose Liberty, say the Clarks!

George Washington’s uncommon ragtag army
     Against an empire, unbeatably mighty
Great privations stretching to years
     Sacrifice-free! Proud and fierce!

Perfect freedom or absolute slavery
     Independence, says the brave revolutionary
Selfish greed for my integrity
     When I fight for Liberty!

A Thug for New York Governor

2010-05-30T06:25:00.000-07:00

A thug is running for New York governor. Andrew Cuomo gets a reward for coercing banks to give risky loans: video-1 & video-2

From this article:

“New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is the "father of the subprime crisis" and his aggressive attacks on Wall Street could make him dangerous to the banking sector if he becomes the next governor of New York, well-known banking analyst Dick Bove told CNBC.”

From Royal Serf:

In one year, between July 2007 and July 2008, Merrill Lynch would lose $19.2 billion or $52 million daily. The company's stock price would also decline significantly during this time.

While struggling to survive yet desirous of maintaining its integrity, Merrill Lynch would offer to buy back $12 billion in auction-rate securities. A week later, in August 2008, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo would threaten to sue Merrill Lynch, accusing the company of misrepresenting the risk of mortgage-backed securities, grossly evading that government-licensed rating agencies gave AAA ratings to these securities.

On September 5, 2008 Goldman Sachs would downgrade Merrill Lynch's stock to "conviction sell" and would warn of further losses from the company. Bloomberg would report in September 2008 that Merrill Lynch had lost $51.8 billion in mortgage-backed securities as part of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Sons and daughters of Liberty: let us defeat power-luster Cuomo and his ilk to end the government of thugs, by thugs, for thugs.

Immigration, Coerced Welfare, Multiculturalism, and Terrorism

2010-05-30T05:38:00.000-07:00

The immigration argument should be tied to the coerced welfare and multiculturalism evils as well as the terrorism problem.

Immigrants did not cause America's problems - Americans voted for economic strangulations (e.g. Antitrust), extortion/slavery (e.g. 16th Amendment), the New Deal, and other tyrannical laws. Americans sanction politicians who gestapo job creators and protect government Goliaths (e.g. Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac).

Thomas Jefferson on immigration:

"I hold the right of expatriation to be inherent in every man by the laws of nature, and incapable of being rightfully taken from him even by the united will of every other person in the nation. If the laws have provided no particular mode by which the right of expatriation may be exercised, the individual may do it by any effectual and unequivocal act or declaration." --Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1806. FE 8:458

"Expatriation [is] a natural right, and acted on as such by all nations in all ages." --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:12

"Our ancestors... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice, has placed them, of going in quest of new habitations, and of there establishing new societies, under such laws and regulations as, to them, shall seem most likely to promote public happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. ME 1:185, Papers 1:121

More here: http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1280.htm

The Declaration of Independence Mandates the Separation of State and (church, economics, science, education, art)

2010-05-29T04:03:00.000-07:00

The separation of state and (church, economics, science, education, art) is in the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — …"

The ONLY proper function of government is to "secure these rights." Government is force, and force against non-force is evil.

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." – Thomas Jefferson

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson

“To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, ‘the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.’” -- Thomas Jefferson

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it comes to dominate our lives and interests." -- Patrick Henry

"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship." -- Patrick Henry

Thomas Jefferson said that every word in the Constitution is SUBSIDIARY ONLY TO THE EXECUTION of the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence: 1) equal inherent inalienable rights, 2) The ONLY proper function of law and of government is "to secure these rights."

7. Resolved, That the construction applied by the General Government (as is evidenced by sundry of their proceedings) to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate to Congress a power “to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” and “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution, the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof,” goes to the DESTRUCTION OF ALL LIMITS prescribed to their powers by the Constitution: that words meant by the instrument (Constitution) to be SUBSIDIARY ONLY TO THE EXECUTION OF LIMITED POWERS, ought not to be so construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor A PART TO BE SO TAKEN AS TO DESTROY THE WHOLE residue of that instrument... -- Thomas Jefferson, The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

Thomas Jefferson said: “Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments.” To remove the use of force from citizen interactions so that individuals may deal with each other only by reason and persuasion, citizens delegate their right to self-defense to their government. Citizens cannot delegate a right they do not possess – hence, the government has no right to regulate inherent inalienable Rights, including the rights of individuals who hold that selfishness is a virtue. -- Royal Serf

Thomas Jefferson - The Mind of the American Revolution

2010-03-14T09:41:00.000-07:00

Patrick Henry was the voice, George Washington was the sword, and Thomas Jefferson was the pen of the American Revolution. Jefferson’s pen is “a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression” – hence, little minds – Goliath wannabes – must discard the American Revolution’s pen, that coercive power might rule over reason and persuasion.

Little minds sought to destroy Jefferson with untruths, e.g. that the man and his exalted words were not integrated, that he was a man of contradictions. Their success emboldens them to write him off. The Mind of the American Revolution must be eradicated in order to rule the American mind.

Honest citizens seek the truth. The truth is what corresponds to reality.

The Goliath wannabes are ready for truth seekers. The Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia website states: “As historian David Brion Davis noted, if Jefferson had died in 1785, he would be remembered as an antislavery hero, as "one of the first statesmen anywhere to advocate concrete measures for eradicating slavery." After that time, however, there came a "thundering silence." Jefferson made no public statements on American slavery nor did he take any significant public action to change the course of his state or his nation.” This is a MALEVOLENT LIE.

In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson signed a bill abolishing the slave trade: on March 3, 1807, as President of the USA, Thomas Jefferson signed a bill making slave importation illegal in the United States.

Slavery was obtruded on the Colonies by King George III. Jefferson inherited slaves - it was against the law to free them. When it was permitted for the self-supporting, freed slaves must leave the State within a year. Other facts:

1769: Chosen for the first time to be a member of a legislature, Thomas Jefferson made one effort in the House of Burgesses for the permission of the emancipation of slaves, but was rejected.

1770: As a lawyer, Thomas Jefferson defended a slave, saying: under the law of nature, “we are all born free.”

1776: He strongly condemned slavery in his draft of the Declaration of Independence.

1778: The legislature passed a bill he proposed to ban further importation of slaves into Virginia.

1784: His draft of what became the Northwest Ordinance stipulated that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude" in any of the new states admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.

1806: President Jefferson requested Congress to ban all slave importation to the US.

1807: As President, Jefferson signed a bill abolishing the slave trade: on March 3, 1807, as President of the USA, Thomas Jefferson signed a bill making slave importation illegal in the United States.

Thomas Jefferson: author of the Declaration of Independence, the Father of religious freedom (Virginia is the first society on Earth to have religious freedom), the advocate of the Bill of Rights, and the President who abolished the slave trade: “the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, esp. black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.”

Jefferson had written in his Declaration of Independence draft: "He (King George III) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another."

Jefferson successfully abolished primogeniture in Virginia, the rule by which the first born son inherited all the land. Jefferson fought against the establishment of the Bank of the United States, a government bank. Since government is force, a government bank is as evil as government religion. This is Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank: "It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please."

Jefferson was certainly for capitalism: the separation of state and economics:

"[The] pillars of our prosperity are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise."

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association--the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread."

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."

"Were [a right] to be refused, or to be so shackled by REGULATIONS, not necessary for... peace and safety... as to render its use impracticable,... it would then be an injury, of which we should be entitled to demand redress."

Jefferson was an absolutist on reason and rights:

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

On immigration, Jefferson stated, “I hold the right of expatriation to be inherent in every man by the laws of nature, and incapable of being rightfully taken from him even by the united will of every other person in the nation. If the laws have provided no particular mode by which the right of expatriation may be exercised, the individual may do it by any effectual and unequivocal act or declaration.”

Jefferson reduced the national debt from $83 million to $57 million while abolishing ALL excise taxes including the whiskey tax in the first year of his presidency, and then spending $15 million to double the then size of the USA.

The ONLY proper function of law and of government is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence: to secure rights. In the Louisiana Purchase and in the Barbary War, Jefferson performed the ONLY proper function of government.

Aside from the aforementioned, theocracy warriors try to obliterate Jefferson because of this stumbling block: On New Year's Day in 1802, he wrote: "...Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a WALL OF SEPARATION between Church & State..."

To cut Thomas Jefferson from America is to cut REASON, TRUTH, and EQUAL INHERENT INALIENABLE RIGHTS. Republicans like those on the Texas Board of Education are THEOCRACY WARRIORS. They are TRAITORS to the American Revolution. This is the Jeremiah Wright moment of a Republican: are you with the American Revolutionaries or are you paving the way back to the Dark Ages?

Other Dark Ages warriors and Goliath wannabes often quote Jefferson. But they betray themselves as Trojan horses when they ask, “Who are you: Libertarian, Progressive, Liberal, or Conservative?” – Like the Texas Board of Education, they exclude JEFFERSONIAN. They out themselves when they sponsor a candidate of the Conservative Party, the party which Ayn Rand described as “not an American political party, but a religious party – A PHENOMENON FORBIDDEN BY THE CONSTITUTION.” The party, not endorsed by ACORN, but backed by these:

Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth - 2009) and Pope Paul’s Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples - 1967) -- These encyclicals blame the PROFIT motive for all the world’s problems, and call for a worldwide REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH by a world government as the solution. Ayn Rand further said: Pope Paul’s Populorum Progressio declares that capitalism is worse than Marxism and that the only morality is altruism (self-sacrifice).

Ayn Rand’s most admired Founder is Thomas Jefferson. She worshipped, "If it is ever proper for men to kneel, we should kneel when we read the Declaration of Independence… probably the greatest document in human history, both philosophically and literarily."

Abraham Lincoln extolled: "THE PRINCIPLES OF JEFFERSON ARE THE DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS OF FREE SOCIETY… ALL HONOR TO JEFFERSON - to the man, who in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and sagacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light,” declared George Washington. "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," proclaimed Thomas Jefferson. He also avowed, “I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

I am doing my very best to reach the mind of every honest man. I revere the American Revolutionaries and their legacy: FREEDOM. I am a Jeffersonian.