Good grief, Fred.  Socialism is the great thief that lays claim to everything and everyone.  I have never seen such intolerance as that found among socialists.  They blame others, taking no responsibility.  Their love is conditional, and are truly ugly.  They do not respect life other than their own.  Their 'religion' is to the god of power with a history of murder no religious war has ever matched.  Delusion is the pillar, lies their modus operandi, and servitude is the result — every time.

Once again, Fred, you describe the 'end' without describing the 'means' to that end.  The freedom guaranteed by our Constitution is only supportable by men and women of honor and mutual respect for the rights of others.  This of course requires conscientious study and compassion for others.  Your philosophy ignores that without a voluntary adoption of your proscribed behaviors, the 'utopian' dream of 'sustainability' is impossible to implement without statist force.  True fascism is what you describe over and over, dressing up your posts with flowery words without substance.  The end result is the same: government above all, and everyone in 'service' to the state's dictates.

There truly is no equal to the Declaration of Independence.  I love the part "it was intended to be an expression of the American mind."  Indeed!  The idea that the individual possessed their natural-born, God-given, inalienable rights was a revolutionary idea.  The claim of the 'divine right of kings' was wholly declared null and void. 

This is the true legacy and inheritance of the American Revolution, and the most misunderstood by the rest of the world.  In no other country do the people have this declaration, and their minds are conditioned to remain subjects of their statist ideologies in their many forms.  Only the republican form of government acknowledges and defends the sovereign rights of the people.  

Socialism is neither 'socially responsible' nor 'reasonable.'  It is a deadly con leading to a bottomless pit of empty promises.

Self-evident.

Maybe, but that ain't socialism...  socially responsible my a$$.

I for one believe the Nazis when they call themselves socialist revolutionaries.  Socialism is a con for the lower classes, promising them the wealth of the 'capitalists', all the while the central government authoritarians steal it all for themselves.

Cleverly avoiding the absolutely abysmal record of socialism, I see, Fred.  THIS is socialism.  Your communist rhetoric cannot refute the undeniable fact that socialism is servitude.

If only! ;-)

Thoreau is neither demonizing government nor alienating ourselves from it.  A million ignorances do not constitute one truth.  True 'self-government' starts with governing yourself and limiting what a central government can rule — this is primarily accomplished by keeping our servant government within its limited boundaries and taking personal responsibility for the condition and quality of one's life.

Facts are stubborn things ...

How about we stick to the Common Law definition of what is a crime, i.e. mens rea, meaning that any act committed with a malicious intent is considered 'criminal.'  In order to determine 'guilt,' mens rea must be proved, otherwise, the verdict must be 'innocent.'

The sentiment remains the same today among the school unions.  They unequivocally agree that the children under their guidance are 'theirs' and that parents have no say, just pay your taxes and complain at PTA meetings but they are under no obligation to do anything they don't want to do.  Another example of 'socialist' appropriation.

In other words, school choice.  I agree.

NO!  Absolutely not!  We do not need an unelected body of self-serving globalists to run the world.  That would be servitude for all under a statist, totalitarian government.  THINK, Fred.  Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Government should be divided and subdivided into small manageable parts based on republican principles, not centralized authoritarian control, which has nothing but a dismal history of genocidal maniacs running things until the people can wrest control from them.  Communism has NEVER worked other than to reduce populations of independent thinkers to zero — hundreds of millions (perhaps billions) rubbed out.  Never forget!

"I have never suffered from self deception..." How would you know?  You've never been conned?  You've never believed a lie?  You've never lied to yourself?  Let me get this straight, upon examining your life, you have concluded that you have never been deceived by any idea you've ever had?  Wow, that's some real self-examination there!  Talk about self-deception...

Devils and angels come in all forms.  The 'devil' is a liar, the father of all lies.  Wherever there is purposeful deception, wherever there is hatred, wherever there is a blood lust, there is the devil. 

Indeed, the truth dispels lies and will order a disordered mind.  I invite you, Fred, to realize the Truth, for it not only brings peace and understanding, it liberates from the shackles of falsehood and deceit.  Have Americans been deceived by the powers-that-should-not-be?  Absolutely!  What can save us from this curse?  The Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth.

In order to realize the truth, one must first be truthful with oneself — we cannot see past our own self-delusion.  The truth is indestructible, unlike untruth which must ever be propped up with lies.  Once the lie is exposed, the veil is lifted, the deception dissolved.  

I consider myself blessed in that in the pursuit of truth and the desire to uncover my own self-deceptions, the devil was revealed.  It is my experience that the devil will never show his cards until the cheat is exposed.  This unfortunately is the way of this illusory world.  I didn't believe it either until I was shown the truth ever in front of us. 

We have so much invested in that which is false.  Upon its discovery we have two choices, accept it along with what we have lost or double-down in hopes that the next hand will recover our losses.  (Psst — you can never win a rigged game... the lie can never become truth.)

Here's a little known fact:  you must have a license to drive your car because it is in fact not your car, it belongs to the state.  You granted the car to the state which put it in 'trust' — you are the grantor, and the state is now the trustee.  In order to posses and operate the car, you have been made a 'beneficiary' of the trust and have been given 'title' to the car — a title is not ownership.  The conditions for this title are that you are licensed with the state as a commercial entity using the public roads for commercial purposes.  Conditions include the requirement to purchase insurance, obey all traffic laws upon threat of arrest, fines, and imprisonment, not the least of such punishments is to lose title to the vehicle and the revocation of your license.

Look at your title — you are listed as a beneficiary.  A beneficiary is not the owner.  This is an example of how statutory / commercial / colorable law has supplanted the common law, by treating the people as commercial entities rather than natural persons with natural-born and inalienable rights to property and to travel freely within these united States.

And in 2025, that house sells for $1.2 million!  The problem with inflation, by the time the average citizen figures out this scam, he/she is too old to fight it, and the youth are never taught the truth, in fact the truth is never broadcast; if you want the truth, you are going to have to seek it out yourself.

"The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist." ~ Charles Baudelaire

BS.  Why does a rabbit run away from a predator?  Because he doesn't want to get eaten!  Rabbits are FOOD, that's one of their functions in this world.  Everything lives off of everything else in this dog-eat-dog world.  Humans are not supposed to be food for anything except worms — we have dominion over the Earth.  But when we claim dominion over each other, we have usurped our authority, enslaving our brethren, becoming tyrants and corrupted souls.  As you sow, so shall you reap!

The solution McFadden was proposing was to NOT renew the Federal Reserve charter (happens every 20 years, I believe).  End the Fed!  The return to hard currency would be a tremendous blow to the globalist world order ruled by the international banking cartel.  War would soon follow, just like the War of 1812 the last time the central bankers were kicked out of America. 

All wars are bankers' wars.  As soon as a nation starts issuing its own currency interest-free and out from under the boot of the banksters, they are immediately warred upon.  Watch the African Union which is switching to a gold backed currency and no longer sending France its recently mined gold only to have the French issue them a fiat currency in exchange.  This servitude of Africa has been going on for centuries!

American citizens under their republican form of government are free like no other in the world.  They are superior to their chartered government.  They have rights that are recognized as natural-born, inalienable, and are not granted by any government authority and cannot be legislated away EVER.  They have the right to own land in allodium, which can never be taxed or seized other than by conquest and overthrow of their government.  Owning land, by possessing the land grant, was the qualification for being an elector — only land holders' votes were counted for electing their governor and president.  

With the introduction of fiat currency, we stopped actually buying anything or discharging debts — you can't buy anything with an IOU (promissory note) until that IOU is paid back with real money.  All transactions using commercial paper occur within the the commercial law jurisdiction (not common law) and are thus subject to the rules of commercial law and the terms of the 'adhesion' contracts that come with using commercial paper.

We have been written out of our common law rights!  We are all now treated as commercial entities, not natural persons, and thus subject to the reams and reams of statutes of the Uniform Commercial Code.

The powers-that-should-not-be have been working steadfastly for over a hundred years to erase all of this from law schools in America.  But Americans still have their rights and their Constitutions.  It will be a tall order to return to lawful governance — just look at the Supreme Court today, it is but a shadow of its original intent.

How will we educate Americans on their rights and 'who they are'?  True patriots will always be required, especially in the realm of American Common Law.

The greatest liars and fraudsters of the world are leash-free!  Their banker's theft has been 'legalized' despite the death penalty for anyone who debases the currency.  Heck our currency has been so debased that a dollar today is barely worth what a penny was 75 years ago!

The Waffler's of this world (and there are plenty of them) have no idea how the debt-based fiat currency we now use instead of a hard currency guaranteed by the Constitution makes it possible for the booms, busts, and credit scams to flourish.  What better tool for the greedy than to be able to print up money out of thin air and lend it at interest in order to issue it!  Whoever has that power can quite simply bankrupt us all, and buy up our property with this printed paper (now bits and bytes) and rent it back to us — and that is EXCATLY what they have done and continue to do over and over and over.  They have stolen all the nation's money and lay claim to all the property and labors of the people — it is SERVITUDE by any other name.  Waffler doesn't care because he worked for the IRS seizing property and now living off his government pension.  Useful idiots keep the scam going...  Wake up, people!