Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun…. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter…. Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. …Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it becomes, marked: ‘Account overdrawn.’ – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

‘Alabama’s new immigration law targets unauthorized immigrants, those who don’t have federal alien registration or other proof of legal presence in the United States.’ – AL.com

So is the new term for bank robbers “unauthorized withdrawers” and murders “unauthorized killings”?   What about burglars, are they “unauthorized house guests”?

Mulishness on taxes dooms debt talks in Washington.  When one side will not consider that the problem is spending and not revenues (e.g. taxes) and insists on raising taxes, the talks are doomed to fail.

Do you want to be on the side of freedom for people or against freedom?  It seems the democrat party has decided they favor their own power over our freedom.

Washington is abuzz that the Republican Congress must “compromise” on their no new taxes pledge.   The press believes that they can paint the Republicans as obstructionists.  Why?  Why is one side that stands for freedom and liberty being painted as the “obstructionists” for wanting to prevent the loss of liberty?

Let’s do a little experiment.  You stand at your back door.  I am going to stand at the street at the edge of your property.  Now, I say, “I want to be able to use all the property from the street to your front door.”  You say “no.”  I say, “Okay, let’s compromise.”  You say “no.”  I reply, “why you are you being an obstructionist and extreme?  Why won’t you compromise with me?”  The correct answer is that individual liberty and individual rights are not to be compromised away.

We started at the street over one hundred years ago with the freedom guaranteed by the Constitution.  Every decade we have been told that the loss of freedom is “for a good cause” whether it be safety or health.  Now we are a substantial distance towards the front door.  Every year we compromise a little more freedom away.  Every decade the loss of liberty comes a little closer to your front door.  Every step towards the house is a loss of the hours of your life that are represented by the money you earn.   The power-hungry statists know without someone drawing a line in the sand, they will eventually reach the house.  It may be an inch a year, with some years being a few yards.  Slowly and steadily your freedom is being whittled away.

Goldwater was told that he was being extreme for avoiding compromise on the defense of liberty.  It is the technique of the power-hungry, anti-freedom crusaders to call those who stand for freedom “extreme” when the opposite is true.  The extreme spenders, and extremely power-hungry politicians in Washington are extremely eager to take your freedom from you and rule you from afar.

People who care about liberty are still being told “why don’t you compromise”?  Who compromises with the destroyers of liberty?  Why would anyone who is sane compromise on the defense of their freedom unless they want to be the ones who rule the rest of us?

Defense of the Constitution and Liberty is not obstructionism.  Defense of freedom is not extremism.