In Canada, the Bank of Canada is authorized to issue currency interest-free, in order to create all the money the government needs without borrowing a dime.  Instead commercial banks have been used to create 95% of all the currency in Canada.  This is a profit driven system, not the system chartered by the Canadian government.  In 1913, all the Western countries were yoked to a fiat currency trading system which would be easily converted from one to the other.  All the gold was seized as collateral for this scheme, and our buying power has been stolen 95% since.  Income taxes were required by the Central Banks to pay the interest on the money supply (as every dollar is being rented).  There is no need for income tax if the government can print up the money it needs.  Lincoln did it, and he was assassinated for it, and Garfield suffered the same fate when trying to keep Greenbacks in circulation debt-free.  The central bankers are the self-appointed governors of the world, and they hold all the cards.

Greg, think globally, act locally.  ;-) We are called as individuals to voluntarily do the good about which you speak.  To entrust a government of power-seekers to do good on our behalf is a misappropriation of responsibility.  It ultimately leads to dependency.  The poor are graced by charity; they are enslaved by subsidy.  Empowerment is more than a check.

Right!

"We" are not the government.  "We" are sovereign citizens that chartered a government.  Those we have elected as our representatives have no more power than we who have elected them.  The issue is that the people in government have usurped power from We the People.  They have turned the republic upside down — instead of the People being the masters and their government their servant, the government now claims power over the people.  Statism, supremacy of the state, is the core of socialism, fascism, communism, monarchy.  That is not We the People! Don, you are not my governor.

Hilarious!

It's hard to live happily with dishonor...

Frankly, I have never understood the desire to rule, but apparently, it's a thing. ;-)  It just goes to show, that freedom-lovers cannot rest on their laurels — we will forever have to defend ourselves against the authoritarians who have an insatiable desire for power.  It is hard for us to understand a person who 'gets off' on power over others, but the C19 pandemic has shown the true colors of our 'governors.'  Have no doubt, they mean to govern and to dictate — they love it.  How can we keep these hard-ons from public office?

We need stewards of the Republic, not power-seekers.  

Kind of difficult to outmaneuver the enemy without knowing their tactics and strategy. "You never truly know a man until you fight him." ~ The Matrix

Everett doesn't say freedom is guaranteed. Read the whole quote.  "so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred."  Then you start with the religious lecturing...

And how are we to come to know Natural law?  How are we to be sure that man's laws are in accordance with the God of Nature?  It is the same as determining what is 'right conduct.'  So, the greater man does what he has determined to be right, no matter the laws.

Judge the words not the man.  What if you did not know who said it?

Lame. Another ad hominem fallacy addressing nothing of the quote.  Instead of dumping on all the quotes, how about making a real argument?

You are free because you 'obey' Nature?  That's an oxymoron.

The battle, as always, is for your mind.  Who do you think you are?  Do you even have a say?

Sounds like NYC, Chicago, DC today... coming soon to a leftist city near you.

Sounds like Biden's basement strategy...

Love it! "shorn by menticide of their objectivity" !  I will have to start using "menticide" in daily discourse of progressive liberals.  ;-)

It's the same as it's ever been, only more blatant now.  When routing out the devil expect a lot of thrashing about, foul mouths, and dirty tricks.  The Ministry of Propaganda is a big business — as long as there is an audience and a megaphone to reach them.  Turn it off, and the conflict ends.  24/7 fear-mongering is their bread and butter.  If there is peace and prosperity, their local governments release violent prisoners from jail, tell cops to stand down, don't arrest or charge anyone with a crime, no bail, order all for-profit businesses shut-down indefinitely, empty the streets then promote burning them to the ground in the name of BLM 'protest'. 

Hatred and hypocrisy abounds — that is the goal, to divide the People, not unite them.  This is the mass psychology perfected by Nazis and Marxists, a classic playbook for totalitarian insurgency.  And now we have the mayors of NYC, Chicago, DC, Portland, and others encouraging the continuation of riots while ordering the police to stand down if not disband altogether.  This is sedition! 

The Swamp can't be drained if the citizens let their mayors and city councils assume authority they do not have while not performing their chartered duties.  The quiet coup is quiet no longer!  The insurgents are right in front of our noses, and they don't even care any more who knows it.

Trump Derangement Syndrome!  There's nothing else like it.  ;-)

Said Jack Nicholson as the Joker in "Batman" movie. ;-)

Even with the Covid pandemic essentially over (less than 5% of all causes of death), guidelines for wearing a mask are now turning into laws with criminal penalties — laws passed by city councils, not legislatures.  This is just more of the same, regulating the behaviors of the people.  Governors are extending their emergency powers indefinitely, pushing through practices and policies that couldn't get passed by the legislature.  Assuming more and more power over the people without lawful authority.  This is how socialism/authoritarianism creeps into a free society.

We're paying for that now.

Isn't this the essence of true liberalism?  It rings true because it is true.  People associate more due to rhythm and tempo than appearances.  It's the difference between being authentic and putting on an act.  Liberty is not having to put on an act.

One American?  Sheesh!!  More than half of America is being told to shut up!  The Left used to hate corporate power — now they adore it, in order to cancel any and all who do not speak the Party line.  Employees are fired for expressing opinions in private. 

Black privilege abounds yet it is never enough — how much more special treatment does a political class deserve?  50 years of this and the poor are still there — if there is systemic racism, it is in Democrat policies since these are the policies followed for the last 50 years.  And to speak this is to enrage the mob and justify any harm that may come.  

This is nothing new.  The emperor is still wearing no clothes, and it is still dangerous to point to it.  ;-)

And now, in 2020, newspaper editors are fired for publishing op-eds that contradict the Party line, people are fired for social media posts that contradict 'fake news', all whites are racist (they just don't realize it) and blacks cannot ever be racist, no matter what they say or how they act (somehow).  Certain words can only be spoken by a black person — considered criminal if a white person speaks them, even if reading the words of a black speaker using them.  A professor was fired the other day for reading MLK's letter from an Alabama jail(!!) 

Most conservative news outlets have been purged from social media access — if Twitter could ban Trump they would have done so a long time ago, but it would only bring attention to their bias and leftward spin (and cost them BILLIONS in revenue). 

Today, opinion is news — and opposing opinions are 'hateful,' and hate speech is not protected free speech.  Seems crazy since every other word out of the mobs is a hateful profanity aimed at shutting you up — permanently if they have their way.  Name-calling is the go to fallacy for every argument.  There is no debate, either capitulate to the statist authoritarians or be cancelled, neutralized, and destroyed.  Children are used as pawns for the Socialist Revolution, and should they succeed, they will reap the same rewards as communist Russia and Maoist China, servitude for all, ruled by a Democrat elite.  You may not leave the urban plantation!