For Freedom

I urge every reader here to take ten minutes out of your day sometime soon and watch this video. Then, if you believe as I do, that it is the most powerful, most truthful exposé available as to the criminal government/Wall Street elements that are behind our current economic meltdown, please send it to as many people as you can.

I know many of you have volunteered, or will be volunteering, to work for the election of McCain-Palin. I will be doing the same. But there is no amount of envelope licking, phone calling, or wearing out of shoe leather that will be able to match the distributing via e-mail of this ten-minute video that fingers the culprits that the media are attempting to keep under wraps. Those culprits are directly involved in this election and the desire to attain the White House and retain control of Congress.

We cannot allow that to happen, and I believe the compilation of facts that this video represents, if placed in the hands of all thinking Americans, will see to it that it doesn't.

In his attempt to explain the causes of this crisis, the President insinuated in his speech of last night that it all started because America’s economy was considered so brilliant that it attracted investors from all over the world. As a result, banks and financial institutions were awash in money, and that state of affairs planted the seed for this debacle. (*choke*)

That is the greatest whitewash of the reasons for this catastrophe imaginable. Either President Bush is completely ill-informed and he believes that tripe, or he is the most blatant liar since Gepetto’s son walked off the woodcarver’s bench.

After the President’s speech, and after I stopped spitting nails, my husband and I watched Brit Hume and his panel on FoxNews offer up a brief analysis.

Charles Krauthammer, who is among my favorite political pundits, opined that the speech was quite good, and that he was surprised that the President spent virtually one-fifth of it attempting to explain the causes of the current crisis – since, in Krauthammer’s opinion, doing so amounts to simply an ‘academic exercise’.

An ‘academic exercise’? To discern what caused this major economic meltdown? Shall we just accept the notion that ‘too much foreign money’ floating around in American banks was the catalyst?

If we don't uncover the reason for this crisis, and determine who was responsible for it, will there be any reform? Or, post-bailout, will the perpetrators eventually continue with business-as-usual? Anyone who has an even rudimentary knowledge of government at any level has the answer to that question at his fingertips.

We are being fed whitewashed reports about the cause of this economic meltdown. If the true perpetrators of this massive criminal undertaking that promises to have devastating effects on the American people for decades to come are not uncovered, removed from power, and punished, there is no hope of realizing the kind of all-encompassing economic and political reform that will be necessary to not only stabilize our economy, but to ensure our very survival as a free republic.

My Commodities broker sent me this today......

“Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Dear Friends,

Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.

The events of the past week are no exception.

The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress’ throat is not just economically foolish. It is downright sinister. It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect. It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder. Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made America more communist than China! “This is welfare for the rich,” he said. “This is socialism for the rich. It’s bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters.”

That describes the current bailout package to a T. And we’re being told it’s unavoidable.

The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it. But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences - predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics - are being let off the hook. The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!

. The Treasury Secretary is authorized to purchase up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets at any one time. That means $700 billion is only the very beginning of what will hit us.

. Financial institutions are “designated as financial agents of the Government.” This is the New Deal to end all New Deals.

. Then there’s this: “Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.” Translation: the Secretary can buy up whatever junk debt he wants to, burden the American people with it, and be subject to no one in the process.

There goes your country.

Even some so-called free-market economists are calling all this “sadly necessary.” Sad, yes. Necessary? Don’t make me laugh.

Our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people. The two major party candidates for president themselves initially indicated their strong support for bailouts of this kind - another example of the big choice we’re supposedly presented with this November: yes or yes. Now, with a backlash brewing, they’re not quite sure what their views are. A sad display, really.

Although the present bailout package is almost certainly not the end of the political atrocities we’ll witness in connection with the crisis, time is short. Congress may vote as soon as tomorrow. With a Rasmussen poll finding support for the bailout at an anemic seven percent, some members of Congress are afraid to vote for it. Call them! Let them hear from you! Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.

The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care?

When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?

Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.

In liberty,

Ron Paul

“If we don’t uncover the reason for this crisis, and determine who was responsible for it, will there be any reform?”

I don’t do video’s joanie-f, because I’m in a rural location that I haven’t access to any connection other than dialup. Takes way too long to download anything, but the plain and simple answer is that basically it was caused by Democrats. Pure and simple.

The tentacles of the Democrat creature are embedded in everything from Government lawmakers, and Bureaucrats to Wall Street to MSM to Unions to Education......the list goes on. All coordinating together under the umbrella of socialism to take this Nation to its knees.

In an article today Bill Clinton admitted it was Democrats, but in the same breath lied about how he was on the side with Republicans trying to reform the system.

In 1976-77 the Democrats wanted so much to pass feel good law concerned with “redlining” by mortgage lenders/banks that they shunned the advice of all but the one source that provided them an excuse to go ahead and create the legislation that would become the Community Revitalization Act, and then President Jimmy Carter signed it into law.

The Industry as far as I can tell managed to skate around the ill enforced law until early in Clinton’s misAdministration. The following link to an article written in 1993 will tell the story better than myself:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n25_v45/ai_14779796

From there we know what happened pretty much. The Democrats under Clinton that were appointed to positions, the Democrats that were coerced into positions etc. etc. The Democrat lawmakers covering for each other. The money grubbing bastards were ripping us off every step of the way.

Today we are seeing Reid, Pelosi, Dodd, the MSM, and Democrats in general fighting to keep not only their gravy train going, but also prevent the exposure of their responsibility in the matter.

Anything else anyone wants to attribute to the cause of the meltdown is incidental to the cause. Democrat greed, and lockstep in their Socialist fantasies attempting to take this Nation’s economy to its knees to cause a desire for their type of Socialist change.

As long as there was only the MSM, which they control they had the chance to succeed. They may still yet if we don’t raise enough “H” in the “New Media” to expose them for the enemy within that they are.

It’s really not a Political Pissing match between Political Parties anymore, and hasn’t been for a long time, it’s a war. It’s a war between the Socialist/Democrats whom believe in Power over the people versus the Conservatives whom believe in Power of the people.

That’s my rather simplistic perspective of it all anyway.

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