“Americans have bought into the ultimate doublethink described in Orwell’s 1984:
“War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength.” Our chains are now
called “entitlements,” and they are one of the main reasons we so love our
enslavement. And so long as we allow ourselves to remain ignorant, those
chains are guaranteed to remain in place.” Author unknown
Category Archives: Abuse of Power
Boston Tea Party Tax Rates and former President Clinton
“A lot of their candidates today, they make [Bush] look like a liberal. The Boston Tea Party was protesting abuse of power. This is now trading public power for the abuse of private power.” former President Clinton campaigning for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton, 9/14/2010.
One does not expect the former President to pay attention to history much and here is no exception.
Tax rates on tea at the time of the Boston Tea Party were approximately 8.3% and the colonists were protesting a government granted monopoly based on the tax on tea. East India Company tea was not subject to the tax while others were resulting in an effective monopoly by the East India Company and its tea. The colonists had no say in the matter and the effect of the monopoly was to reduce the influence of the colonies.
President Clinton misstates the issue here as what he refers to is an egregious abuse of power from Washington. Former President Clinton: in a free country there is no way to abuse private power. Actions are voluntary through mutual agreement. Only when the government gets involved is force and non-voluntary action the result.
There are two sides to the arguments in America: those who want liberty and those who want to deny it for their own power and control.
A note on the Boston Tea Party tax rate:
Boston Tea Party tax rate was 3 pennies per pound of imported tea. Tea sold for about 3 shillings per pound of tea in 1773. In 1773 (until 1971) there were 20 shillings per pound sterling and 240 pennies per pound sterling, so 12 pennies per shilling. So a pound of tea cost about 36 pennies per pound of tea, with a tax of 3 pennies meaning the tax rate was 3/36 or 8.3%.
NRSC states they won’t support Republican Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell in Delaware
Christine O’Donnell beat Mike Castle for the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware, but the National Republican Senatorial Committee has stated they won’t help her in November. Republican leaders have told Jonathan Karl, ABC News that “They will do nothing to help her campaign. They will not spend a dime on it.”
The National Republican Senatorial Committee will not be getting “a dime” from many people because of this.
Calls to the NRSC at 202-675-6000 were not answered and emails to info@nrsc.org have not yet been returned. The more people who call, the more likely we’ll be to get a response.
You can also register your displeasure on the NRSC’s Facebook page. Let them know that you will not support the NRSC when they are supporting the Democrat in Delaware. Christine O’Donnell has principles, Mike Castle had expediency for power. Without principles you have no guidance expect personal aggrandizement and power. And if your principles are not based in liberty, you will have no one to blame but yourself when your freedom is lost.
Stand up for freedom, not the same-old politicians. Donate directly to the freedom-friendly, liberty-loving candidates themselves and cut the good-old-boys in Washington out.
O’Donnell’s website:
Christine O’Donnell 2010.
And Facebook.
Obligatory McCain-Feingold-incumbent-protection mandated message
The “paid for” message at the end of this ad includes the observant and accurate “Obligatory McCain-Feingold-incumbent-protection-mandated message”. This disclaimer should be at the end of every political ad.
The ad is one of the most creative ones in a long time!
Every time we object to a thing being done by the government,the socialists conclude that we object to it being done at all
“Every time we object to a thing being done by the government, the socialists conclude that we object to it being done at all.” ~ Frederic Bastiat, French economist, “The Law” 1850.
Socialism, fascism, communism, the herpes of political systems
Socialism, fascism, communism, the herpes of political systems. You may unknowingly get it and once you’ve got it, you’ve got it forever. They are probably more of an ebola or other fatal virus since eventually they – and any other authoritarian, collectivist system – will kill the host country.
How quickly liberty and then a country dies is proportional to the degree they implement any anti-freedom system.
The idea that we would burn the sacred texts of someone else’s religion is contrary to what this country stands for. Its contrary to what this country, nation was founded on. Obama
“The idea that we would burn the sacred texts of someone else’s religion is contrary to what this country stands for. Its contrary to what this country, nation was founded on.” President Obama, Sept 10, 2010
Really?
“Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday. ” CNN, May 22, 2009
Double standards anyone?
Random Pat-Downs in Philadelphia
And continuing on the GPS police-state theme, Philadelphia claims they can now randomly search people. “We can conduct any kind of search we want,” said Delaware River Port Authority Police Cheif David McClintock.
Virginia Court upholds GPS tracking without warrant
A Virginia Appeals Court upholds GPS tracking without a warrant. Judge Randolph A Beales wrote “police used the GPS device to crack this case by tracking the appellant on the public roadways — which they could, of course, do in person any day of the week at any hour without obtaining a warrant.” The GPS, he wrote in the opinion, “did not provide a substitute for police behavior that would have otherwise violated a recognized right to privacy.”
Judge Beales, please consider, the police might have been able to track a person for a limited time, but the police could not track everyone, everywhere for an entire year. With an opinion like this, the police could track every single person in the United States (or world) continuously, forever at limited cost.
This is abuse of power plain and simple.
National Debt in first 19 months grows more than Washington Through Reagan
In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total of the national debt held by the public that was amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan. September 8, 2010