Democracy's stronghold lacking freedom
Published: 10 July, 2009, 18:40
TAGS: Politics, Human rights, USA
What does freedom look like? For many Americans it is Las Vegas – Sin City, where anything goes and government sits on the sidelines.
That’s why, every year, “FreedomFest” comes to town. It is described as the world’s largest gathering of free minds.
The three day event causes one to wonder: why are some of the brightest thinkers and leaders in America so worried?
”The government no longer represents the values or the freedoms that our founders fought for. The first American Revolution was incomplete. It wasn’t ‘We’re gonna have this revolution and you all can sit back and enjoy your freedoms and go back to sleep.’ They thought we would have a revolution with every generation,” says Adam Kokesh from Iraq Veterans Against the War.
The revolution many want now is economic, and it is hard to ignore their cries when people like Steve Forbes – one of the most successful entrepreneurs worldwide – start weighing in on the argument.
“We believe the government is encroaching on our freedoms by raising taxes, by hurting the dollar, by putting in more regulations, taking over companies, taking over industries. We know socialism doesn’t work,” says the Forbes magazine Editor-in-Chief.
Some believe the current plan to get out of the economic crisis is straying from America’s roots:
“Our current leaders have very little in common with the people who founded this country. Their philosophy is rooted in one of socialism or Marxism. They think prosperity comes from government, from central planning. They don’t believe in the free markets, they think free markets create problems. They think governments are there to provide solutions. They’ve got it all wrong,” says Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, Inc.
Considering his popularity for earlier predictions, Peter Schiff might have it right. This year has the highest number of participants in the seven–year history of the event. There might have been even more attending, were it not for the hefty registration fee of almost 500 dollars. Ironically, as the saying goes, freedom isn’t free.
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Freedomfest was held in Las Vegas for the simple reason being..."Sin City is going B-U-S-T & the hotel rates and speaking accomadation areas were C-H-E-A-P! They begged for someone to come forth. I remember there used to be a whole lot more sin going on around the city...until much of it left b/c it couldn't earn a living. Going to Las Vegas now feels like someone is having a huge party, yet noone has shown up.
The US Government no longer represents We the People. My government thinks they have the right to steal our hard-earned money. They think they have the right to control who does business in this country and who doesn't. The government has fouled up almost every aspect of American's lives. We live in a goddamned Police State where the government can wiretap your phone line, read your emails by going directly to your ISP like Comcast or Verizon. You have no more privacy in America. You are guilty until proven innocent anymore. The lamestream media ignores the elephant in the room...which is ever since the inside terrorist act of 9-11, we've allowed this government to shred our founding documents. 90% of the Federal Government is unconstitutional. The New World Order...the Money Power that created the creature known as the Federal Reserve, is a socialist monster hell bent on destroying the United States to usher in a one world currency. World Domination is the ultimate goal of these globalist banksters. The Rothschild family et al. (Why they're even still alive is beyond me.) The Federal Reserve is unConstitutional and if the American People every truly understood how the Fed operates, Ben Bernanke would be assassinated by morning. The Fed is the main culprit in destroying our liberty. We are all under the thumb of the globalist banksters who seek to keep us in perpetual debt. Debt = Control. They think they own us, but they forget that they're not bullet proof.