One Angry Austrian

The Puppet Theater

2008-01-29T08:11:00.000-08:00

Where does your news come from? It is becoming very obvious that our "news" is cooked, well more like chopped, stewed and then baked to a crisp. I love the scenes in the "Serenity" movie where they talk to Mr. Universe and he talks about the puppet theater that is broadcast news.

"There is no news. There's the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there's the puppet theater... the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public."
-Mr Universe

Can this cooking be any more blatant than the blackout of news on Ron Paul?

Can our news elite keep the truth from the people?

The old establishment news is dying. I pray for a quick and painful death.

My Recent Letter to the Editor

2007-12-17T12:38:00.000-08:00

Our federal government is out of control. It pretends to have authority to do anything it wants and take anything it wants. The officials and bureaucrats in Washington DC intend to tell us how to live, where to live, what to eat, and on and on. Practically no facet of our lives that is not shaped by our federal government. One of the reasons why the United States of America is great is because it was founded by men who understood how oppressive a powerful central government could be and they rebelled against that government. Those men went on to formulate a contract between the new government and the people. That contract, which is our constitution, put powerful restrictions on the government and the few powers it did assign to it were distributed around so as not to give any one branch of government too much. Our founders knew that the freedoms won for the people would have to be constantly fought for or they would be lost. We have stopped fighting. That contract has been ignored and stomped on by the vast majority of men and women in Washington who take an oath of office to uphold that very document.
It is no wonder that most of the population of eligible voters is apathetic towards our political process. Who cares to choose a leader from the sea of corrupt individuals. Where are the true servant leaders who care more about this country and the individuals that make it up than their own personal power and wealth. I think I found one. He has a 20 year track record of following the constitution even when it would cost him dearly. He has fought battles on principles even when every other person in congress would rather look good than be truthful. This man is actually running for president and his message is powerful and it is becoming very popular. We finally have a clear choice this election season. We can choose this man and hope for truly limiting this government or pick any other candidate for more of the same.
I would like to urge everyone to carefully study and consider Ron Paul for president.

William Jay Gaynor

2007-11-08T10:54:00.000-08:00

I am working my way through a collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock titled The Disadvantages of Being Educated and Other Essays. In this wonderful book is an essay about William Jay Gaynor, titled New York's Jeffersonian Mayor. In this essay is a quote from a message that was to be read to all the school children of New York on the Fourth of July. Here goes:

We must therefore be vigilant of every little approach to despotism, however little it may be. We must see to it that those whom we elect to office do not go outside of the laws, or set themselves up above the laws, and do as they please. It has always been the case throughtout the world that the officials who did this did it on the plea that the laws were not good enough; that they could do better than the laws prescribed. Beware of all such officials. We do not want officials who have any lust of power. We want officials who are very careful about exercising power. We want officials who are careful to exercise no power except that given to them by the people by their laws. There is no more dangerous man in a free country, in a democracy, than an official who thinks he is better than the laws. The good man in office should be most careful not to set a bad example or precedent for his bad successor, who will come along sooner or later.

Old and very sage words. Even now we see our supreme leader continuing to gather more and more power and create new bad precedents and in less than 18 months hand that very powerful job with all its new precedents over to ??????

It is time to put a "good man" into our supreme office, a man who will work within the laws prescribed by the people, our constitution. Calling Ron Paul, Calling Ron Paul....

Garrett's "The Revolution Was"

2007-11-02T08:17:00.000-07:00

I am just now finishing the rereading of Garet Garrett's The Revolution Was an essay from 1944. All I can say is wow.... Sometimes it is easy to forget anything that happened over a decade ago and say "ancient history - who cares", but the more I read this the more I think how incredibly important freedom loving people read this and understand what happened and learn to spot revolutions from within. Read and learn not just the what happened but the why and the how.

I find it incredible that in 1932 FDR ran on the ideas of: less government, an end to deficit spending and he bound himself to the Democratic party platform plank of sound money. Before the end of his first term he had rejected all those positions by greatly increasing the size and scope of government, did a great amount of deficit spending and had confiscated the peoples gold and devalued the dollar.

Hmmmm, Garet Garrett, good stuff.

Tax Me More???

2007-10-31T11:18:00.000-07:00

Warren Buffett thinks he should pay more taxes. Does he really think that our government or any government for that matter can better decide what to do with his money than he does? If he wants to give it away I am sure he can find more worthy causes than the government. Usually our tax money goes to blowing up stuff or to paying government buffoons to hinder people in their everyday en devours.

Money, Money, Money and More Money

2007-10-30T09:11:00.000-07:00

Yes, more Garet Garrett, this time from his 1951 essay Ex America.

Writing in 1920, John Maynard Keynes said: "Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this means they not only confiscate, but confiscate arbitrarily, and while the process impoverishes many it actually enriches some.

Yes, this is the same Keynes that is studied in our economic schools. And what is taught out of the Keynes book? Inflation is a good thing. Prime the pump by printing money. Bla bla bla. Yes, Keynes shows government how to overturn the existing basis of society. And the government did just that. We went from a constitution that bound the government to a government that is free to do whatever it needs. One of the reasons why the government is free is because they are no longer bound by money. If they need more money they just print it.

Unlimited money creation has to be stopped if we want our government back under control. We have to have sound money. Only one presidential candidate wants to speak to this issue and his name is Ron Paul.

Lessons on Inflation

2007-10-29T07:54:00.000-07:00

It is quite funny/disturbing to read news stories on inflation. The authors seem to be confused or mystified by this strange phenomenon. The talk of this "inflation" as if it springs up out of the ground like a mushroom or that it settles on a county as if it were a poison swamp gas blown in on an ill wind. I am always on a lookout for articles on US inflation and that ultra mysterious Zimbabwean inflation. Most articles talk of the horrendous Z inflation but never never tell us where it comes from as if no one knows. Even when an article does touch on the answer, the author stops short of obvious. Here is a quote from an article in the Scotsman

"Where money for projects has not been found, we will print it," the former guerrilla leader told town councillors on Friday, apparently ignoring the generally accepted view that printing money is a recipe for inflation.

Aaaaaah, "generally accepted view"!

No, wait there is more this time from the Timesonline.

President Mugabe, who holds an economics degree from London University and maintains that printing money keeps prices down, added a new weapon to his quixotic war with inflation this week, and signed laws to establish an Incomes and Pricing Commission. It will have sole right to set charges for the hundreds of price-controlled items, and establish profit margins. Anyone who violates the fixed prices can be jailed for up to five years.

President Mugabe, who holds an economics degree from London University??????? This makes me sooooo mad, I am laughing my head off.
"Printing money keeps prices down" Whaaaaaat?

How many times have the leaders of a country tried to have their cake and eat it too? LOTS. How many times has it worked? NEVER.

Mugabe should write a book, "How to ruin a country 3 easy steps". I doubt it would sell well though as most world leaders already know the steps and are putting them into effect, just a little more slowly.

Empire or Republic

2007-10-29T07:30:00.000-07:00

I have been reading Garet Garrett's Rise of Empire essay and the content is really great. Here is just a tiny taste:

"People do not easily change, but love their own ancient customs; and it is by small degrees only that one thing takes the place of another; so that the ancient laws will remain, while the power will be in the hands of those who have brought about a revolution in the state."

This he takes from Aristotle's Politics. Applying this to our constitution is obvious. What we have now is just a hollowed out shell of what it originally meant. Sometimes no just a hollow shell but the logic has been reversed and what was supposed to limit government is instead limit the citizens.
Here are the final words:

"No doubt the people know they can have their Republic back if they want it enough to fight for it and to pay the price. The only point is that no leader has yet appeared with the courage to make them choose."

So, have we finally found a leader that has the courage to make us choose? I think Ron Paul can lead us back to Republic if enough of us what it.

True Conservatives

2007-10-23T06:39:00.000-07:00

I have been reading Murry Rothbard's, "The Betrayal of the American Right" that is being put up on Lew Rockwell's website. In todays chapter 13 there is a great quote from Ron Hamowy on the "new right" which seems to perfectly describe all but one of the current republican presidential candidates.

"They may be summed up as: (1) a belligerent foreign policy likely to result in war; (2) a suppression of civil liberties at home; (3) a devotion to imperialism and to a polite form of white supremacy; (4) a tendency towards the union of Church and State; (5) the conviction that the community is superior to the individual and that historic tradition is a far better guide than reason; and (6) a rather lukewarm support of the free economy. They wish, in gist, to substitute one group of masters (themselves) for another. They do not desire so much to limit the State as to control it. One would tend to describe this devotion to a hierarchical, warlike statism and this fundamental opposition to human reason and individual liberty as a species of corporativism suggestive of Mussolini or Franco, but let us be content with calling it "old-time conservatism," the conservatism not of the heroic band of libertarians who founded the anti-New Deal Right, but the traditional conservatism that has always been the enemy of true liberalism, the conservatism of Pharonic Egypt, of Medieval Europe, of Metternich and the Tsar, of James II, and the Inquisition; and Louis XVI, of the rack, the thumbscrew, the whip, and the firing squad. I, for one, do not very much mind that a philosophy which has for centuries dedicated itself to trampling upon the rights of the individual and glorifying the State should have its old name back."

Is it a Revolution?

2007-10-22T12:01:00.000-07:00

Hey, face it, our country has been taken over. I don't think very many people today can with a straight face claim that the founding fathers of the United States would believe that the country we live in is the same as one they started. I don't think it is a worthless exercise to try to find out were it went wrong. Did our country lose its way by accident or on purpose? Is it possible to go back? peacefully? I hope to learn more and more of the slow decay of liberty here in the USA, then maybe figure out how to reverse it.

I believe that we are seeing a revival of liberty today. I don't know if it will die a quick death or spark a revolution of liberty for years to come, but I am hopeful. The fact that the Ron Paul presidential campaign is wildly popular on college campuses is very encouraging. The topics of discussion surrounding his candidacy are amazing. It is hard to imagine young people getting excited about small government - excorsizing the FED or hard money. Every time I see one of those rallys on youtube, this angry Austrian wants to smile.

Why?

2007-10-22T11:45:00.000-07:00

One Angry Austrian - let me explain.

One: This page does not represent a group or a business, just me an individual.

Angry: It is hard not to be angry watching what happens in our world. Truth is labeled as lies, lies masquerade as the truth, people robbed, countries plundered. I could go on and on. I guess you have two choices, one is to be angry and the other is to be amused. I find it hard to be amused.

Austrian: This refers to the Austrian school of economics. Espoused by the likes of Ludwig von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard and others.