Ron Paul vs Legal Plunder

When I read the book The Revolution A Manifesto by Ron Paul he talked about something caled "legal plunder" and referred to Frederick Bastiat as a source of reference to legal plunder. What is legal plunder?

Frederic Bastiat, a political economist (1801-1850), defined legal plunder as when “…the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.” He advised such a law be abolished without delay, for if allowed to remain, it would “spread, multiply, and develop into a system.”

That system would be Socialism followed by a Totalitarian state. When this country began itself, it too immediately thereafter began it's course for legal plunder as well. Those in positions to benefit themselves and their families took things for themselves through government such as the excellent paying jobs and benefits package that Congress voted themselves largesse, for example. This all comes at the expense of the taxpayers. Since then, we have become a country of freebies and government giveaways. Bastiat stated of Socialism:

“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.” ― Frédéric Bastiat

Simply put this means that their is always a price for government giveaways, that price is your freedom.

He further said:

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.” ― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

That is what exactly happens as is proven by the disparity in our gap between the rich and the poor. It can also be seen by the legal system which continuously creates laws which curtail our freedoms and expands the government to its current leviathan form.

We have become a country thats major employer is the U.S. Government! Where do you think all that money comes from? That's right TAXES! How does this Socialist activity come into existence? Through laws and bad legislation which seek to make government dependents out of us all, or most of us save for  the rich. What is law asks Bastiat? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense!`In other words, laws were not meant to impede liberty, but rather to expound upon it. It is only through Socialism that we find ourselves mired in State Stautes which curtail freedoms.

Conversely, Congressman and Presidential hopeful Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to get this and fully comprehends that we are on a road to economic mayhem which will abruptly culminate in economic collapse if drastic measures are not taken immediately, which is what he proposes in his plan to resore America to a far better state than what we think we have today.

For those of you who want to more fully grasp why Ron Paul is far and beyond any other candidate running for the office of president it is crucial that you understand what is currently going on in our economy and what has been happeneing the past hundred years. Below I will provide a link to the Mises Institute and a short (2 hour) audiobook titled The Law, by Frederick Bastiat in which you will most probably come to stark realizations you never thought of within 15 minutes of listening. I plead with you to take some time to endeavor to understand our plight and listen to this audiobook. I'm not asking you to give up your football games and sporting events, I'm just asking you to take a short time to understand what it is your government is doing to us all and the repercussions which are certain to follow if we don't take action immediately.

http://mises.org/media/2648/The-Law

The Tainted Tea Party

   Yesterday afternoon September 9, 2011 at about 3 pm Central time if I remember correctly, I was channel surfing when I came upon a CNN broadcast about the Tea Party. The Tea Party is the new populist political movement that began during the 2008 presidential campaign of Ron Paul which touts freedom and liberty including taxation and government intrusions into our personal lives. I had watched this movement sprouting up myself but what I heard on CNN, (as well as what I didn't hear because it was not reported on), proved my point altogether about the control over the mainstream media, and the correspondent’s reporting of what they tout as the actual news.



  The young correspondent’s erroneous claims when he described the Tea Party and how it had come into existence in 2009 (rather than 2007 via the Ron Paul Revolution) lacked all credibility of fact, integrity, and truthfulness. Furthermore, when he went on to state that it was going to be interesting which “top tier” candidate was going to outperform who, Rick Perry or Mitt Romney, without reference or mention of the true icon of the movement, Congressman Ron Paul or what his impact would be at the debates  I sat in anger, bewilderment and disgust of the erroneous information that I, and everyone else was being fed by this either misinformed or flat lying correspondent and was miffed because I had failed to catch his name. Sadly and again our mainstream media fail on every honest front to bring us truthful and accurate information while also marginalizing and outright ignoring the most popular and charismatic candidate in the coming Tea Party debate, Ron Paul.  I cannot help but ask, who, or which media controller or entity has the word out on Ron Paul? Who has so much power in the mainstream media that virtually all the networks have a blackout and blackball on Doctor Paul?

This question should not be ignored and should have every American deeply concerned whether you like Ron Paul or not because it blatantly demonstrates just how infiltrated our media as well as the Tea Party, have become.



   I myself am and have been aware for decades of media manipulation by the media owners but how is it that virtually every network has the word to ignore Ron Paul from his, unwitting perhaps, creation of the Tea Party to his very formidable candidacy? Why is he such a threat to the establishment that they choose to do so? Could it be that he is a threat to all of the pilfering and plundering of our economy which has us in the tens of trillions in debt?  How about the downsizing of our current police state government? Is too much freedom and liberty from all those ever expanding government regulations and useless programs a possibility? Perhaps it could be the monied interests of the Military Industrial Complex who will lose their massive windfall profits from their munitions sales and rebuilding contracts from our tax base that causes so much fear of a Ron Paul presidency.   



   For those of you that believe that there are no conspiracies, you simply must be in denial because next to the conspiracy by “private” bankers to create the Federal Reserve Bank in their covert 1910 Jekyll Island meeting, which has been funneling money out of this country into the hands of the Rothschild Banking cartel for almost a hundred years, the media conspiracy stands out on its own devastating merits. In fact the media manipulated thought on that agenda as well, and protected the monied interests long ago to allow its acceptance as they constantly indoctrinate public thinking by their barrage of falsities and lies on a daily basis without informing us that the Federal Reserve was screwing us all. In fact it took Ron Paul to do their job for them!  The conspirators even used the title “Federal” in the title to assuage any thoughts that the newly created Central Bank was a private entity rather than a government agency.  I cannot understate the repercussions which society is burdened with more than that of a society that is fed worthless and dishonest information with which to assimilate as fact! As for the outright lies told by CNN before my very eyes when I know otherwise, I cannot express my utter contempt more!



     Please consider that though you may not like Ron Paul for whatever reason, the mainstream media's disregard for truthfulness may, or probably already has, altered your own thought processes by feeding you lies and deceiving you. This alone should have you as irate and unhappy as I have become about what has become of journalism in this country!



    Getting back to the topic at hand and to substantiate and further back my claims on where, when and why the Tea Party came into existence I went to Wikipedia and read the following quote from that website:



The Tea Party's most noted national figures include Republican politicians suchformat. as Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, Eric Cantor, and Michele Bachmann, with Paul described by some as the "intellectual godfather" of the movement.



   The statetment "Godfather of the movement" is highly indicative of Congressmans Paul’s role though substantively misses the mark as usual to give proper credit to the man. I would call Ron Paul the “father” of the movement instead!  Furthermore, all the aforementioned others that Wikipedia claims to be founders of the movement, including Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann are not only latecomers to the movement, but outright infiltrators of the movement which have commandeered and altered it in a very negative way from its original direction, and also away from Congressman Ron Paul's ideals of personal liberty and freedom as well. Doctor Paul is the only candidate with the courage to address those issues that no other candidate will touch for fear of political attacks and retribution which makes him by far, a cut above the rest! The Boston Tea Party was a protest of taxation to an overseas government by those that desired freedom from the oppression of King George in Great Britain which set the stage for freedom and liberty in this new land. Those ideals are endeared by Ron Paul, the Thomas Paine of our day who himself was never given credit for his actions which led to the Declaration of Independence. I urge everyone to do the research and try to break free of the media lies and try to understand the freedom that Ron Paul and Thomas Paine spoke of, not that which the government and media are trying to sell you by lies, propaganda, and obfuscation.