Tips for Making Liberty
© by Richard Rieben

One Odd Fellow’s Insights Into Making Liberty

Item 1:
Liberty cannot be achieved by fighting for it; that is, by means of force.

Item 2:
Liberty cannot be achieved by running away or escape, although a semblance of liberty may be achieved if one goes to a place where people will respect your difference (as long as you, as the intruder, respect how they live their lives).

Item 3:
Liberty is defined as respect for the sovereignty of the individual. (Read the rest here)
(Published again with corrected copy)

Trust - Hopless In Washington
By Ed Henry

How can you trust a government that violates the very idea of trust with its use and manipulation of phony trust funds? How can you trust a body of lawmakers who are supposed to establish and uphold the rules when that same body flaunts their own laws? Why bother voting if it just encourages and supports fraud?

Where do the new candidates for office stand? The outsiders or uninitiated whom we assume are not yet guilty of ripping us off? The people like Governor Howard Dean, Ralph Nader, General Clark, Jim Oberweis running for a vacant Illinois Senate seat, and all the others who talk glibly about reform but don't even mention the greatest economic crime of all time?

Do you want to know how phony federal trust funds are? It's no secret. Of 159 trusts managed by the government, only 16 are real. All the rest make up the Intragovernmental Holdings portion of the national debt. They hold nothing but debt markers. What kind of trust fund manages nothing but debt? (Read the rest here)

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