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Fed Fascists – Liberty Dollar Raided….
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Liberty Dollar organization announced this morning, via the letter appended here, that federal agents today raised its offices in Evansville, Indiana, and confiscated all its property and equipment.
This moves seems extraordinarily bold considering that Liberty Dollar’s right to operate already was being litigated in federal court.
Let’s hope that Liberty Dollar soon can force the government to answer in federal court for today’s action.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Comment:
I haven’t followed the case, so I am not sure what the claims on either side are, but obviously, my sympathies are with the poor folks who got stiffed. I recall when the Gold ETF was introduced, there was a lot of hand wringing about how much gold backed the etf, who had verified it, and the possibility of fraud. It’s why I still believe, contra most financial people, that midterm trading (month to a year) is smarter these days…..you never can tell.
Ron Paul Revolution: Crying Ronald Goebbels
Great post below from Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish on the Warcons’ increasingly amusing attempts to smear Dr. Paul as an anti-semite:
“The right has a new line of attack: some Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans support him! Muslims supporting Republicans? The horror … Look, it seems to me that Paul needs to do better at trying to distance himself from some others on the fringes, and his campaign is still a little not-prime-time in dealing with the usual suspects. But the general line of questioning – “Are you now and have you ever been an anti-Semite?” – is offensive. As Derb points out:
Has anyone else noticed that “Ron Paul” almost rhymes with “Goebbels,” if you drop the “s”? And look—it has the same number of syllables!
I see no reason why the campaign should not return any money given by neo-Nazis who are subsequently identified as such. But Jonah is right that this whole thing tells us more about Paul’s amateurism in rapid-response than anything else. It’s also a function of some neocons’ unfortunate tendency to cry anti-Semitism if anyone disagrees with them on foreign policy. Meanwhile, Wonkette offers a bipartisan “anti-Paultard” olive branch to RedState. Heh.”
Sullivan also has it right about the wind behind the Paul campaign:
“Along with conservative desperation at the Republican betrayal, no one else is urging a withdrawal from Iraq. It’s as simple as that, in some ways. And in Iowa, that could mean something: 53 percent of Republicans there want a withdrawal of all US troops within six months. The poll also confirms Huckabee’s current second place and the extremely tight race among the Dems. And check this out:
2. Do you see President George W. Bush as a conservative Republican in the mode of Ronald Reagan?
Yes 7%
No 74%
Undecided 19%
Comment:
My take on the reasons why Ron Paul has the following he has:
1. The number one spot goes to Paul’s record on Iraq: He voted no to going in, and he’s also the only one willing to advocate immediate withdrawal. I don’t mean just from Iraq, but from from the Warcon’s bloody little daydream (more like a psycho nightmare) of taking over planet earth (and a chunk of space) and killing anyone who objects too strenuously. Let’s just say Paul has an adult’s foreign policy.
2. A close second – and maybe even sharing first spot – is widening appreciation of the level of corruption and financial finagling that’s all in a day’s work on Wall Street. The college crowd seems to have got it. I was talking to a nineteen- year old the other day, who wasn’t especially political. And I got a earful about the bankruptcy of American empire, the rise of China, the death of the dollar, and – ye gods – the federal reserve.
Voting? Pure waste of time, he said, with a shrug. Both parties were full of it
I didn’t ask what.
Update:
I forgot the third major reason. It’s an important one too. Immigration. Looks like most of the pols have a tin-ear about it. We the People – left and right, natives and immigrants — can’t believe it’s this difficult for all these Ivy League educated yuppy lawyers to understand:
If illegals can get driver’s licenses — why should anyone bother becoming a citizen?
Oh, they’ll be driving anyway, you say? Here’s a thought. How about making car dealerships require a valid license before you buy a car. I mean, we seem to be able to have some kind of requirement for buying guns — which are a lot less deadly to the general population.
Ron Paul Revolution – not a man of the state…but a statesman
“Paul was a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard from 1963 to 1968; he was not assigned to serve in Vietnam. In 40 years as an OB-GYN in the Lake Jackson area, he estimates, he has delivered more than 4,000 babies.It pains Carol Paul to hear her husband booed or criticized by rivals during debates, but she takes pride in his attitude. “He has no animosity to these people,” she said. “He forgives. But I don’t know if he can ever forgive about the war, the boys we’ve lost and the fact we went in for lies.”
Ron Paul is the only GOP candidate unequivocally opposed to the Iraq war and was the only Republican representative who did not vote in support of it. He is also the rare congressman who refuses a Congressional pension, because he considers the use of taxpayer money in this fashion an abuse of power. For the same reason, he never accepted taxpayer-funded Medicare or Medicaid in his practice, nor did he allow his children to take federal loans for college.
Paul appears financially comfortable but not exceedingly wealthy, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Most of his holdings are in about two dozen gold and silver firms, many valued at less than $15,000 and none valued at more than $250,000….”
More at the Chicago Tribune in a profile on Paul.
Ron Paul Revolution: Time for A Texan Tea Party
Time to go Boston again…
Worldwide Ron Paul Tea Party???
How about this for an idea? Who else was like me and felt left out of the fun on November the 5th? The excitment of seeing the donations flood it was just what a campaign should feel like!Well how about one of the trusted American meetup groups set up an official Worldwide Tea Party Chipin? Then everyone around the world can donate to this chipin, just as our American friends make their official donations. That chipin can then be used for something specific, or just spread amongst key Meetup groups in the states? Good idea? If so, how about some promotion of it too!Glad to see there are people in this country helping to awaken others!
Click here to check out
The London Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group!
From Brits4Ron Paul.
Ron Paul Revolution: The Dollar Crisis
“Since Ron Paul has raised the issue of the gold standard, and is being treated like some kind of visitor from Mars for having mentioned the subject at all, we need to know more about the true American heritage of the gold standard. This is why I’m personally very fired up that the Mises Institute has brought back William Gouge’s Short History of Money and Banking, which I first read while working for Ron in his congressional office.
Gouge lived from 1796 through 1863 and was involved in all the great debates on banking in the 19th century. His book is a major attack on all inflationary finance, and reading him underscores just how universal are the lessons on money and banking — universal in the sense that they apply in all times and all places.
Back in the 19th century, there were many people who wanted inflation: bankers, debtors, and the government. What a surprise! Who has an interest in sound money? Consumers, savers, and liberty-loving citizens. This is the essential conflict. Are we going to have a monetary regime rooted in robbery, or one rooted in honesty? Gouge was on the side of honesty, and he inspires us today.
Coming a few decades later, but along the same lines, is Charles Holt Carroll’s Organization of Debt Into Currency. This is one of those books that develops a hard-core cadre of fans. When we started reprinting these great American economic classics, people began to ask us: what about Carroll? Well, here it is, and once you get into the book, you realize why Rothbard and George Reisman and so many others swear by it. He patiently explains the difference between money and debt and how the government goes about sowing confusion about what is what.
Now, Ron Paul stands in this tradition of thinkers in every way. Even on the campaign stump, he speaks about the evil of fiat money and Fed management of the nation’s money stock. In a true sense, he says, we’ve put a cartelized gang of central planners in charge of the good that constitutes half of every economic exchange, and we are paying the price in terms of declining purchasing power, exchange-rate chaos, rampant debt, and growing crises in sector after sector.
Is there a way out? Most certainly! It goes by the name of gold. Make the dollar as good as gold and you eliminate the inflation problem and the business cycles that go along with it. Here is the great secret of the gold standard. The problem is not that it is unviable from the perspective of economics; the problem is that there are many people allied against it: the big banks, the creditor class, and government. You see, gold would provide a hard-core anchor for liberty.
Under the right form of the gold standard, government could no longer spend with impunity or run up debt without limit. The resources it spent would have to be raised the old-fashioned way.
It behooves every American to read Ron’s book, really his manifesto on the topic. It is called The Case for Gold. He covers 19th-century monetary history and discusses several plans for instituting a gold standard.”
Ron Paul Revolution: Moolah from “Zionist” fascists-in progress OK, moolah from White fascists-in-waiting NOT OK
“Frankly, this is a no-brainer. Any other candidate would unequivocally reject that money as soon as its donor’s identity was known. That Paul’s campaign needs time to think about it is shocking.
Also of concern is the fact that Paul’s campaign has ignored my repeated attempts to interview the Congressman for JTA, the Jewish newswire service by which I am employed. I had intended to write a story about the Congressman, and to provide him with the opportunity to distance himself from his extremist supporters, to clarify his position on Israel, and to state his case to the Jewish community. Yet, after three weeks of repeated telephone calls, two chats with his Deputy Communications Director, and several left voicemail messages, I have yet to receive a callback to schedule an interview.
Which leads me to conclude the following about the Congressman from Texas: Ron Paul will take money from Nazis. But he won’t take telephone calls from Jews.
This should be a cause of great concern to those of us in the antifascist community, whereas, for me, it elicits echoes of Europe’s re-embracement of right-wing extremism, the attendant resurrection of ethnic nationalism, and the growing success of far-right parties, many of which have taken over large swaths of European parliaments.
They say such things could never happen in America, but guess what…Here it is.
The sad part is that, as a radical libertarian, I somewhat favored Paul as a candidate, though as a libertarian socialist, he is not my ideal choice. Now, I want him out of the running, and frankly, out of the Capitol. Those who pander to White Nationalists and neo-Nazis have no place serving in the United States government, which exists to serve the most ethnically and culturally diverse nation on Earth, which counts among its citizens Jews and Zionists alike.”
Comment:
Isn’t this a gem of tar-by-association and double-speak..
And, by the way, left libertarianism I understand, but what is a libertarian socialist? Ain’t no such beast….
More at Jewcy.com by Daniel Sieradski in “Ron Paul’s Jewish Problem.”
This, mind you, from the same pro-war crowd that was only too happy to get into office by canoodling with Christian evangelists (including, the no-doubt deeply philosemitic Pat Robertson) of the Darby Bible end-times variant, whose central thesis is the eventual disappearance of the Jews as a group….
But anti-semitism, we know, is sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
Of course, the Paul campaign should give back money from suspect groups. No question. I wonder if the other candidates should give back the money given them by their own ethnic survivalists/racists?
I have the solution. Maybe the big hedge-funds supporting Guiliani and Clinton could throw a few dimes Ron’s way. Then maybe he could be as picky about which group of thieving financiers, high-minded war-mongers, and ethnically diverse corporate-state criminals he could accept wads of money from…
Or maybe, FOX could just give him a show every Friday.
Where’s the business community? Why won’t it wake up and do its duty? Why won’t it support the only candidate whose policies will actually foster business and peace here and abroad?
Then he won’t need to be talking to opportunistic racists (or alleged racists) of any stripe, white, black or brown; Christian or Jewish; Caucasian, Semitic, or Mongolian. And he won’t need to be “necklaced” with this smear-of-last-resort of American politics.
Update:
The author adds:
“If a person was campaigning for President on the “killing niggers and Jews” ticket, should they be allowed to run?
I think the answer ought to be a comfortable and firm “no.”
My comment:
A firm no to people (where are they?) running on a ticket of killing “niggers and Jews” [sic]. Meanwhile, a firm yes to people (all over the place in goverment and Wall Street and with their hands on nukes too) running on a ticket of killing Ay-rabs and rag-heads.
Update:
Interesting that the Christian Zionist story of a “rapture” in which converts will be taken up into heaven directly by a reappearing Jesus is said by some to be the result of a Jesuit teaching originating in the Counter Reformation.
Until then, the visions of Revelation – especially of “the harlot” — were widely understood as referring to the Catholic church. The Jesuit’s counter doctrine undermined this belief by interpreting Revelations as something that would take place in the future.
The Jesuit teaching was taken up strongly by one group of Protestants – the Plymuoth Brethren – and one of their most influential preachers, John Derby, and from there came to influence the whole ‘Pentecostal’ wing of Protestantism, including the Moody Institute and its widely distributed, Moody Bible.
And so we end up with Christian Zionism today, an end time teaching that is really only a few hundred years old at best.
Ron Paul Revolution: The Buggy That Pulls the Horse
“In an interview on Friday, Mr. Paul, 72, a retired physician and a grandfather, acknowledged that his Internet support had surprised even him. He said he did little online but read the news, especially from the Middle East.
“We always knew it was supposed to be important,” he said of the Internet. “My idea was you had to have someone who was a super expert, who knew how to find people. But they found us.”
As for the record one-day fund-raising, he said, “I had nothing to do with it,” adding that he had so far neglected to thank the people responsible. (James Sugra, 28, of Huntington Beach, Calif., acting on his own, posted an online video proposing one big day of fund-raising; Trevor Lyman, 37, of Miami Beach, then independently created a site, www.thisnovember5th.com, that featured the video.)
Mr. Paul estimated that the one-day haul had brought ”$10 million worth of free publicity.”
And where do Ron’s supporters come from? Left and right:
“Andrew Fox, 28, who described his day job as “sitting on a bench with a soldering iron” repairing cable TV boxes, agreed the other night to become the treasurer for the Albany group. “I’m really frightened with what’s going on in this country,” Mr. Fox said. “We have effectively lost our form of representative government. The war is the worst thing, but we also have a police state at home.”
While most meetup members said they were Republicans, David Weck, 54, a chiropractor from Schenectady, said he was a Democrat but that he believed in smaller government and that Mr. Paul was the only candidate who seemed committed to that.
“Never in a million years did I think I would be interested in a Republican candidate,” Mr. Weck said, “especially after this administration.”
Mr. Gould said the country was “in turmoil’ and that he began researching Mr. Paul after seeing him on “The Colbert Report,” the late-night political-satire show on Comedy Central.
“I started learning about our currency,” he said. “It’s scary. Those Federal Reserve notes we’re using like a loan off of a loan that’s physically impossible to ever repay. So our whole country will continuously be in massive debt.”
Ron Paul Revolution: Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?
“Mark your calendar! 11/07/07 – Today is D-Day, the date the history books will record the start-date of the new Depression. Ironic – those “lucky numbers”. It’s not hyperbole, and here’s why (never mind the 400 point Dow drop, that’s happened before):
The Chinese had begun a sell-off of their US securities. They have dollars held by their government and, separately by their treasury (like the Fed).
Today, that entity has made clear that they will be unloading some $400 billion, which they already began in August (according to the China Daily, they sold off $9 billion – without buying any new debt in that month alone) in an attempt to divest of American Government securities. (They still hold over a trillion dollars of, well, other dollars – stock, corporate paper, etc)
The Japanese, not to be outdone, sold off some $24 billion in US treasuries in August.
Today, GM posted a loss of $40 billion in the 3rd quarter, because they had so much anticipated income from anticipated tax credits that they had opted to show as possible income FOR THREE YEARS in order to minimize the appearances of real losses – that they now had to suck it up and stick it all on the balance sheet for this one quarter, even though – at selling cars, they made a profit in that quarter! Can you wrap your mind around LOSING 40 BILLION DOLLARS IN 3 MONTHS? There are many nations that don’t have that number for a GDP, annually. This is America’s great manufacturing giant. And, as they used to say, what’s good for GM is Good for America……
…Today, like when banks began to fail in 1932, we know who’s in charge, and how his policies got us here. We’ll survive until we have a new president, and we will begin again. And the good news is that from here out, we will be in a rebuilding phase. The dinosaurs have failed themselves and us, but we will build a new and better economy. I’ll tell you all about it…”
Read the whole piece by Michael Fox at Smirking Chimp.
Uh, Fox….or Chimp…..I’m certain you both know all about political primates but you surely don’t think our George is actually canny enough to pull off financial monkey business on his own?
Hmmmm.
Let’s peek beneath that left-right divide and venture a wee guess: NO.
Banking scams are pulled off by…wild guess here…..bankers!
And who is the one candidate taking on the banking system?
Ron Paul.
Ron Paul Revolution: Dr. Paul and Dr. Dobson
On Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough just said a mouthful: whoever gets the Republican ticket may need to get Dr. James Dobson on his side.
Even without him, Guiliani is pulling the southern evangelical vote, against all appearances. But really, it’s not a surprise. Since many evangelicals seem to be leaving behind all conservative or Christian principles in favor of the security issue.
Could that be a strategy for the Paul campaign?