GOVERNMENT AND LIBERTY LOCK HORNS

about liberty.The Declaration of Independence declares that life, liberty, andThe Greek government, October-18 Mafia, is the enemy of the Greek people.
Premier Papandreou, godfather of October-18 Mafia, hoodwinks that his mafia will
go straight, but nobody believes him anymore!Papandreou did not keep his
promise to abolish sinecures, government ownership, kleptocracy, Kangaroo
Justice, marilizardism, Marilizard Libel, Marilizard Spaghetti, and Marilizard
Towers.

Christine Lagarde of IMF has made it absolutely clear she does not trust
Graecokleptocrats, because they never apply what they vote in the Grand Brothel
on Syntagma Square!That's why she sends her inspectors to Athens to see things
are done as promised and voted.

Ron Paul a*serts liberty means to exercise human rights in any manner a person
chooses so long as it does not interfere with the exercise of the rights of
others.This means, above all else, keeping government out of our lives.Only
this path leads to the unleashing of human energies that build civilization,
provide security, generate wealth, and protect the people from systematic rights
violations.In this sense, only liberty can truly ward off tyranny, the great
and eternal foe of mankind.

The impunity of the 300 Graecokleptocrats of the Grand Brothel on Syntagma
Square is the most freakish thing on Earth.Even though Graecokleptocrats
looted many billion euros in kickbacks and churning, not a single
Graecokleptocrat has ever gone to jail!They are protected by the parliamentary
immunity, and nobody can touch them, no matter what.Moreover, they have the
nerve to jail dissident bloggers.It's a long way from the 300 Spartans of
Leonidas!Allons enfants de la Grece!Thomas Jefferson and his generation.It is the understanding derived from the
great freedom tradition, for Jefferson himself took his understanding from John
Locke (1632-1704).

Many eggheads predict a Greek revolution, an inexorable change which will
release the elastic energy of discontent inside Greeks.Eggheads' work is like
that of geologists who compile the signs of an imminent earthquake or volcanic
eruption.But the time of eruption and its form and severity cannot be predicted
in an exact way.So we know a tsunami of discontent will hit the Cradle of
Kleptocracy, but we do not know when.

To believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic
outcome.It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state
does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation.It permits people to
work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks
and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions.

Greek rabblerousers believe their job is to get kickbacks!These kickback
collectors are masters of bribery and cronyism, serving not the people, but the
pullpeddlers.These freaks try to gag all dissident bloggers, manipulate
justice, churn the pension funds of poor workers, and equate truth with treason.

The existence of the wealth-extracting leviathan state in Washington, DC, a
cartoonishly ma*sive machinery that no one can control and yet few ever
seriously challenge, a monster that is a constant presence in every aspect of
our lives, is proof enough that our leaders do not believe in liberty.Neither
party is truly dedicated to the cla*sical, fundamental ideals that gave rise to
the American Revolution.

Atlas shrugged in the Cradle of Kleptocracy.It's impossible for Greeks to
produce when Graecokleptocrats loot them with heavy taxes, especially the 23%
VAT, demand kickbacks, confiscate computers and personal files, impose stupid
laws and regulations, hara*s dissident bloggers, condone cybercop brutality, and
spread the cancer of socialism.

Of course, the costs of this leviathan are incalculably large.The twentieth
century endured two world wars, a worldwide depression, and a forty- five- year
Cold War with two superpowers facing off with tens of thousands of
intercontinental missiles armed with nuclear warheads.And yet the threat of
government today, all over the world, may well present a greater danger than
anything that occurred in the twentieth century.We are policed everywhere we
go: work, shopping, home, and church.

October-18 Mafia is the most disgusting predator of internet on Earth!Civil
society was shocked by the brutality and stupidity of October-18 fiasco,
initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of Greece.That's
why October-18 Mafia is the new name of the government of Greece!not even our houses of worship.We are encouraged to spy on each other and to
stand pa*sively as government agents scan us, hara*s us, and put us in our place
day after day.If you object, you are put on a hit list.If you fight to reveal
the truth, as WikiLeaks or Global Tax Revolt have done, you are targeted and can
be crushed.Sometimes it seems like we are living in a dystopian novel like 1984
or Brave New World, complete with ever less economic freedom.Some will say that
this is hyperbole; others will understand exactly what Ron Paul is talking
about.

The Fourth Reich bailout of the Cradle of Kleptocracy cannot succeed, because
the October-18 Mafia continues corruption, Kangaroo Justice, marilizardism,
Marilizard Libel, Marilizard Spaghetti, and Marilizard Towers.

What is at stake is the American dream itself, which in turn is wrapped up with
our standard of living.Too often, we underestimate what the phrase standard of
living really means.In Ron Paul's mind, it deals directly with all issues that
affect our material well-being, and therefore affects our outlook on life
itself: whether we are hopeful or despairing, whether we expect progression or
regression, whether we think our children will be better off or worse off than
we are.All of these considerations go to the heart of the idea of happiness.
The phrase standard of living comprises nearly all we expect out of life on this
earth.It is, simply, how we are able to define our lives.

Governments of many repressed countries, such as the Cradle of Kleptocracy, use
marilizardist tools to manipulate netizens.Marilizard Libel is accusing
dissident bloggers of treason, Marilizard Spaghetti is hurling charges against
innocent people, Marilizard Tower is a stack of imaginary charges to scare a
blogger, and marilizardism is terrorizing dissident bloggers.October 18 is the
international day against marilizardism, and October-18 Mafia is the
marilizardist government of Greece.individual freedom ever known.Yet look at where we are today: runaway spending
and uncontrollable debt; a monstrous bureaucracy regulating our every move;
total disregard for private property, free markets, sound money, and personal
privacy; and a foreign policy of military expansionism.

The restraints placed on our government in the Constitution by the Founders did
not work.Powerful special interests rule, and there seems to be no way to fight
against them.While the middle cla*s is being destroyed, the poor suffer, the
justly rich are being looted, and the unjustly rich are getting richer.

The threat to liberty is not limited to the United States.The hegemony of
dollar and euro has globalized the crisis. Nothing like this has ever happened
before.All economies are interrelated and dependent on the dollar and euro's
maintaining their values while at the same time the endless expansion of the
supply of dollars and euros is expected to bail out everyone.

This globalization of dollar and euro is made more dangerous by nearly all
governments acting irresponsibly by expanding their powers and living beyond
their means.Worldwide debt is a problem that will continue to grow if we
continue on this path.Yet all governments, and especially ours, do not hesitate
to further expand their powers at the expense of liberty in a futile effort to
force an outcome of their design on us.They simply expand and plummet further
into debt.

Kleptocracy, Kangaroo Justice, and marilizardism are anathema to civil society.
It is impossible to control the flow of information in the digital age without
harming public freedoms and damaging economic and social development.
Controlling the net is similar to the squaring of the circle, a problem that
could take ages for people to realize is impossible to solve. which we find ourselves.The contest between abusive government power and
individual freedom is an age-old problem.The concept of liberty, recognized as
a natural right, has required thousands of years to be understood by the ma*ses
in reaction to the tyranny imposed by those whose only desire is to rule over
others and live off their enslavement.

Ron Paul points out this conflict was understood by the defenders of the Roman
Republic, the Israelites of the Old Testament, the rebellious barons of 1215 who
demanded the right of habeas corpus, and certainly by the Founders of this
country, who imagined the possibility of a society without kings and despots and
thereby established a framework that has inspired liberation movements ever
since.It is understood by growing numbers of Americans who are crying out for
answers and demanding an end to Washington's hegemony over the country and the
world.

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into
believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly
distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior.If the
government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals,
history shows that that power is always abused.Every single time.

Over the centuries, progress has been made in understanding the concept of
individual liberty and the need to constantly remain vigilant in order to limit
government's abuse of its powers.Though steady progress has been made, periodic
setbacks and stagnations have occurred.For the past one hundred years, the
United States and most of the world have witnessed a setback for the cause of
liberty.Despite all the advances in technology, despite a more refined
understanding of the rights of minorities, despite all the economic advances,
the individual has far less protection against the state than a century ago.

Since the beginning of the last century, many seeds of destruction have been
planted that are now maturing into a systematic a*sault on our freedoms.With a
horrendous financial and currency crisis both upon us and looming into the
future as far as the eye can see, it has become quite apparent that the national
debt is unsustainable, liberty is threatened, and the people's anger and fears
are growing.Most importantly, it is now clear that government promises and
panaceas are worthless.Government has once again failed and the demand for
change is growing louder by the day.Just witness the dramatic back-and-forth
swings of the parties in power.

The only thing that the promises of government did was to delude the people into
a false sense of security.Complacency and mistrust generated a tremendous moral
hazard, causing dangerous behavior by a large number of people.Self-reliance
and individual responsibility were replaced by organized thugs who weaseled
their way into achieving control over the process whereby the looted wealth of
the country was distributed.

The choice we now face: further steps toward authoritarianism or a renewed
effort in promoting the cause of liberty.There is no third option.This course
must incorporate a modern and more sophisticated understanding of the
magnificence of the market economy, especially the moral and practical urgency
of monetary reform.The abysmal shortcomings of a government power that
undermines the creative genius of free minds and private property must be fully
understood.

This conflict between government and liberty, brought to a boiling point by the
world's biggest bankruptcies in history, has generated the angry protests that
have spontaneously broken out around the country -- and the world.The producers
are rebelling and the recipients of largess are angry and restless.

The crisis demands an intellectual revolution.Fortunately, this revolution is
under way, and if one earnestly looks for it, it can be found.Participation in
it is open to everyone.Not only have our ideas of liberty developed over
centuries, they are currently being eagerly debated, and a modern, advanced
understanding of the concept is on the horizon.The Revolution is alive and
well.
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