Town hall meetings are supposed to be an exchange of ideas and viewpoints. Instead, we the people see them as a place to vent frustration, and our elected officials see them as a venue for persuasion. Unfortunately, this leads to talking at each other instead of conversing with one another.

Why are we embroiled in such heated division? Allow me to explain.

Chess is a game of difficulty and strategy by design. Guidelines are in place governing the game board, the arrangement and movement of pieces, and how to achieve victory. A typical game is generally made up of three phases: early, mid, and end game.

Early game = opening movements. Mid game = the battle for board control. End game = the closing moves to capture the king.

Our founding fathers were driven by a set of principles, an end game strategy, as they designed our republic. Considering their precarious situation, a new union of sovereign states, they desired to prevent the threat of tyranny and division within that union.

A limited federal authority is the prescription they wrote. Our fathers, aware of the danger posed by a powerful and centralized government, designed a nation with certain “pieces” having specific duties, realizing that even the most powerful pieces need limits and accountability.

We see the division in our nation for one simple reason…our federal government has overstepped it constitutional limits! Our fathers tried to prevent this zero-sum game in which elections become more vicious with each cycle.

We should not fear losing an election, but we do because we know such a loss will inevitably be extended to the loss of our rights and property as the winners (majority) impose their will on the unwilling losers (minority). This reeks of democracy!

A republic protects the rights and property of the minority, regardless of the will of the majority. However, democracy is mob rule, all you need is a majority to take your neighbors house!

Hence, our divisions will find resolution when our government restricts itself to the limits of our constitution and resigns itself from playing one group against another for political gain.

We keep them accountable with our vote!

Restoring the Republic,

Mark “True Patriot” West

Suddenly, organized protest is a bad-word on the left…mere months after arguing that being a community-organizer was the best Presidential qualification!

Lost in the frenzied rush of imposing a public health care plan on the election losers is the opportunity for real health care reform. Do we really want to sacrifice another decade because a few people want a public plan when the majority of us do not?

According to polls, a majority of Americans want health care reform and oppose a federal health care plan. Evidence of this shift in opinion can be found in the rhetoric. Key Democrats moved the goal posts this weekend.

The new goal line: promotion of competition…while hyped as the “best option” the federal plan is now non-essential. However, will we see substantial regulatory reform or just some face-saving worthless piece of legislation?

Maybe, Congress could consider deregulation. I know, it’s a dirty word, but consider my point. What if every American had the same “exchange” of choices, hundreds of different plans, from which to choose an insurance plan? Deregulation will achieve this and create competitive choice.

How about cost? Regulations that protect good practitioners from bad patients would be one of many means of reducing the exorbitant costs of health care.

What would you rather have too many of:  doctor’s offices or ambulance chasers?

I could list many other reforms, but I’ve made my point.

We can have real reform if we will just throw the public health care plan out with the bath-water!

Check out my latest rant on this subject.

Honestly, any film promising to expose the criminality involved in international banking will instantly get my attention.

The intensity of the film was great, yet I can’t seem to shake myself from my own disappointment with the film. My frustration stems not from the facts but rather the form of the film.

Bankster motivation is central to the film. Their interest was not in controlling, but rather in funding conflict. The onus was on controlling the debt and the interest from the debt. Debt control was tantamount to nation control. Owning the debt created power!

A more accurate presentation of the motivation of criminal banksters is unlikely.

However, the film presents the criminal bankers as a major, international banking corporation. The corporation practically controlled the world. Reality is far more sinister. No instantly recognizable boogie-man group publicly presents itself. Rather we have a loosely organized banking cartel affiliated with one another through several political groups instead of one centralized corporation or agency.

Real banksters are more difficult to track and capture because their organization more closely resembles an organized, underground crime syndicate.

Yet, recently their robbery has become more pronounced and public. Has anyone heard the phrase “banker bailout”? Does anyone care to explain why, what was supposed to be only $700 billion has become nearly $13 trillion in less than a year? Has it escaped your notice that representatives from the Federal Reserve have been on a public relations tour?

As our nation is embroiled in two international conflicts, shouldn’t we begin to ask the logical question? Who owns the debt? Some would answer, ‘we the people’. However, this simply isn’t true because he/she who owns the debt also owns the interest.

Who is getting the interest from the debt?

Our biggest national debt is owed to the Federal Reserve who owns 50% of our debt. Another 28% of our debt is owned by foreign entities, leaving 22% actually owned by ‘we the people’ in some form or fashion.

Frightening!?

I write this letter having read 400 pages of the House Health Care bill that is currently being debated. As I was reading, I had an epiphany that I felt it necessary to share with my Congressional representatives.

Attempting to recall where in the Constitution, members of Congress had found the authority to develop a federally run health care plan. Some are unfamiliar with the Constitution, so I will state for the record that Article 1 lays out what things Congress has the authority to do.

I find, through much search, no authority whatsoever for Congress to establish a federal health care plan in Article 1 of the United States Constitution.

However, as I research history, I’ve found that the Constitution is really no boundary for Congress.

Congress HAS the Constitutional authority to regulate and coin our currency. Yet, in 1913, Congress delegated this authority to the private banking system we call the Federal Reserve, which through the fractional reserve system, has placed our nation over $5 trillion in debt to the Federal Reserve. Congress relinquished this authority and it has cost taxpayers dearly!

Congress HAS the Constitutional authority to declare war. Yet, during the last Presidency, Congress delegated this authority to President George W Bush, which has led to many billions of dollars spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress relinquished this authority and it has cost taxpayers dearly!

Congress HAS NO Constitutional authority to establish a federal retirement plan. Yet, several decades ago Congress developed the Social Security System, which is going bankrupt and will cost future taxpayers trillions of dollars to pay the liability it is incurring. Congress stole this authority and it is and will cost taxpayers dearly!

Congress HAS NO Constitutional authority to establish a federal health care plan. Yet, during the current Presidency, Congress has added this authority, which will lead to many trillions of dollars spent attempting to provide health care to all Americans. Congress is stealing this authority and it will cost taxpayers dearly!

Maybe, just maybe, Congress should do ONLY what the Constitution authorizes them to do and refuse to do what the Constitution does not authorize them to do.

If Congress had remained true to the Constitution, the United States would not:

·         Be $5 trillion in debt to a private banking system we know as the Federal Reserve.

·         Be paying billions to fund wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

·         Be the guarantor of trillions of dollars in Social Security liability.

·         Soon be the guarantor of trillions of dollar in health care plan liability.

I urge you to please, please, for the sake of my children and grandchildren; for the sake of generations to come; obey your Constitutional authority and refuse to pass any bill that creates a federal health care plan.

You are Constitutionally prohibited in not just the duties given in Article 1, but in the 10^th Amendment of the Bill of Rights to that Constitution which reads, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Article 1 give you no Constitutional authority to create a federal health care plan. The 10^th Amendment says such belongs to the States or the people.

It is pretty clear that a federal health care plan would be unconstitutional, and thus illegal. You violate your oath of office and should be removed from office if your vote is “Yea” to a bill that creates a federal health care plan!

A vote of “Yea” on a bill that would establish a federal health care plan is willful breaking of the highest law of the United States.

Now that I have dealt with the Constitutional prohibition for a federal health care plan, I would like to express my concerns over the future of health care if this plan passes.

I fear that the elderly will be ‘left behind’ if this plan passes. My understanding of this issue is a concern over cost. As President Obama himself stated, that those who are chronically ill, or near the end of life make up 80% of health care costs.

How can those costs be effectively reduced other than in rationing of the care they will receive? One proposed formula floating around concerns a cost versus use ratio. Basically, “A” amount equals “B” period of use.

In simple terms, how much are we willing to spend for each period of time that passes? If we spend $20,000 for an operation or treatment, how much projected life span will be needed to warrant this expenditure?

I’ve also seen advocates for a form of soft-kill of the elderly, a pleasant euthanasia, as the elderly are refused treatments and procedures because their lives are considered worth less than a younger person seeking the same procedures.

What age or how many health conditions must exist before an elder cannot have access to a hip replacement? As President Obama said this is a difficult moral issues that will be presented to us if we have a federal health care plan.

If the cost of those who are chronically ill or near the end of their life are not those being rationed, then most certainly the eugenics-style system of cost control advocated by Science Czar John Holdren would next logically follow.

Forced sterilization and abortion upon the poor and the undesirables will help drive up cost from that end of the spectrum. Restriction of reproductive rights, as advocated by Holdren and Ezekiel Emmanual, will lead to many moral issues that America faced prior to World War II. Factually, we inspired Hitler’s extermination of the masses with our eugenics application. Twelve states in the United States passed forced sterilization laws in the years leading up to World War II. Some of these laws still exist in some states.

Where will this measure lead our country? How far will cost cutting go?

Unfortunately, what I have not found in the bill so far, and I may find it as I keep reading, is any real reform of the regulatory problems that plague the health care industry.

Congress does have the Constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce. Why isn’t Constitutionally authorized regulatory reform a center-piece of what is being billed as health care reform instead of a Constitutionally prohibited federal health care plan?

I believe your constituents are going to ask you where the reform is. This federal health care plan is not cost savings, it is cost shifting. An accounting trick akin to the accounting tricks that ended Enron and put Madoff in prison.

If you have a problem with the Constitution, then please go through the proper Amendment process. Unfortunately, it’s easier for you to just violate the Constitution and hope no one notices. I think this is because you realize that Amending the Constitution in this way would fail.

Your article fails the logic test because you base your conclusions on faulty assumptions.

Assumption #1: Third Parties want to replace either the Democrat or Republican Party.

FALSE: Third Parties want to be exactly what the title implies...an alternative, not a replacement. Most people involved in third parties want the opportunity to represent viewpoints that neither the Democrat or GOP represent adequately.

Assumption #2: Third Parties have equal access to the political domain.

FALSE: Third Parties are hampered and stymied by regulations, rules, and groups that didn't exist when the Dems and GOP took over America. Interesting how all the Presidential debate rules changed after Ross Perot's impact. It is next to impossible for a Third Party to organize because of the stringent laws and regulations that prevent such from occurring.

Assumption #3: Third Party involvement in political process would increase Democrat numbers in Congress.

FALSE: Third Party support comes from the growing pool of independent voters, who, if given the choice, would support more third parties so inevitably you would see an increase in Third Party candidates in Congress. The American people by-and-large desire an alternate.

Personally, I would love to see as many parties as possible involved in government. This would create a couple of scenarios that would be best for the Republic.

Scenario #1: Gridlock. The American people would actually have the opportunity to digest what Congress was doing because it would take TIME to build the necessary coalitions for passage.

Scenario #2: Cooperation. Coalitions would be necessary to get major bills passed so it would encourage a cooperation between those of various viewpoints to compromise and work together to really, actually, try to do what is best for America as a whole rather than a right-wing or left-wing lobby that is funded by the same group of elitist oligarchs that are interested in the destruction of the Republic.

Your article fails because your assumptions are faulty.

Restoring the Republic,

Mark "True Patriot" West

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/West

I sense a spirit in the air tonight…a spirit we Americans know very well.

When tyranny threatens our Republic, this spirit awakens!

When fascism intimidates our people, this spirit arises!

When despotism jeopardizes our rights, this spirit attacks!

This spirit searches American hearts, including yours and mine, looking for patriots…not just any patriots…but THE patriots.

THE patriots, who’re willing to wake up when tyranny threatens our Republic.

THE patriots, who’re willing to rise up when fascism intimidates our people.

THE patriots, who’re willing to stand up when despotism jeopardizes our rights.

These patriots are ready…ready to heed the call of the spirit of independence…ready to put on the mantle of liberty…ready to defend our country, our freedom, our people, from any and all threats!

We face a dire challenge in America today…that threatens to destroy our liberty…that same liberty preserved for us by patriots of past…with their sweat…and with their tears…and with their prayers…and…with their blood!

Aren’t you tired of hearing the news talk about Cap N T8ors…I know I am…I want the headlines to talk about THE True Patriots.

You know who I’m talking about…they are willing to spend their sweat…their tears…their prayers…and their blood…to preserve liberty for this generation and those generations still to come!

What danger we find our liberty in tonight! Our Republic is teetering on the edge of destruction for many reasons. Unfortunately, people seeking real solutions are few…and don’t happen to work in our government.

If we are going to find real solutions, we must acknowledge the root of the problem.

In Our Holy Bible, Paul, got to the root of our problem when he wrote, “…the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.”

Our love for money has led us into a several major problems that are dismantling our Republic. I want to focus tonight on just one thing that our love of money has brought upon us…the inflation epidemic.

What exactly is inflation? It’s technical definition is that it is a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in (listen to this) the loss of value of currency.

Sadly, inflation is not natural! Inflation only exists when money is printed or coined without a steady standard. In ancient Rome, the coins at one time were filled with precious metals. Over time, the Romans (while going broke) began to fill the coins with lead instead.

Unfortunately, this didn’t solve the Roman financial problem. It created hyperinflation and helped destroy the Roman Empire.

In America, we have done the same. Our Constitution gives Congress the authority…the right…to “coin” our money. It is a common belief that many of our founding fathers were ill-disposed to the notion of a paper currency due to its’ tendency to loose its value over time.

Andrew Jackson seemed to be drawing upon that sentiment when he said that, “If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”

In this statement, Jackson reflects two sentiments.

Firstly, that the preferred currency be valuable coins, not worthless paper.

Secondly, that Congress alone should have the right to coin our currency…that this right was not to be delegated to any individual or corporation.

Why did he feel this way? He knew exactly what international banker Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild money dynasty knew.

Rothschild said defiantly, “Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws!”

He understood that a nation could do nothing without money. He also understood that manipulation of the money supply can be used as a means to control the people and their government.

We shouldn’t be surprised that a representative from the Rothschild banking dynasty, Paul Wharburg, who hailed from England and France, played a vital role in the formation of a central banking system in the United States…the Federal Reserve System, also known as the FED.

The FED is the result of reactionary politics run amok. In the early 1900s, the economy would face a cyclical inflation due to the annual harvest. It was a seasonal inflation.

Investors, at the same time, were over-leveraged in the copper market. Their investments went bust and suddenly we had the Panic of 1907!

Reactionary politics always erode our Constitutional rights!

Basically, it’s a private…not public…central banking system of debt and controlled inflation. The Federal Reserve is neither federal, nor a reserve…it is a system of control.

It’s called a fractional reserve because each bank is required to keep on hand, in print, a fraction…10%...of the total value it holds in deposits.

Every dollar that is in print supports ten dollars in an electronic ledger…that’s right…90% of our “wealth” exists only on a balance sheet.

This creates part of the inflationary pressure that is on the paper currency. The other inflationary pressure comes from the money supply itself.

Inflation occurs when the supply of money increases at a greater pace than the demand for products and services. The law of supply and demand…if there is more money to buy the same amount of products, people will be willing to give more money to buy the products.

Putting these two factors together, the FED estimates that we experience an annual inflation of 3 to 5%. That means one dollar last year would only purchase about 95 cents worth of products and services today! That is the Inflation Tax.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own calculator, you would need $21.60 today to purchase what $1 would purchase in 1913 when the FED was created.

Simply stated, the FED is responsible for a 95% loss in value for our currency in less than a century.

Since Congress cannot raise our taxes at such a pace, they instead choose to have the FED print more money to give the appearance of created wealth to pay for its pet projects.

Every single time the FED prints money, you essentially are taxed with the loss of your money’s buying power. I’m frightened to see how devalued our money is when all proposed spending from Stimulus bills and Health Care reform are added…not to mention the impact of Cap and Trade!

Inflation is also taxed…I bet you didn’t know that, did you? Congress taxes inflation when it taxes capital gains.

Congress taxes capital gains in full, without reducing for inflation. So if you have an investment or savings, you need to make at least an 8% gain per year just to break even after inflation and taxes! How many of your investments are doing that well? The same rule applies to property.

Do you realize that they are hiding their rip off scheme right in front of your face?

Capital gains taxes are the biggest rip off! They are a tax on the inflation of your money. Congress creates inflation through the FED!

If Madoff is a criminal, then by comparison, Congress and the FED are a crime syndicate…a banking cartel…akin to the oil cartels of the Middle East that control oil prices…and the drug cartels in Central America that create crime…the FED is a banking cartel controlling the value of money.

I think that’s reason enough to vote out every member of Congress and put an end to the FED?! What do you think?

Let’s continue our discourse, our grievance, over their long train of offenses.

Take our dollar, it is actually called a Federal Reserve Note, as it says right their on that piece of paper you call money. How many of you have a car “note” or a house “note”? Those are debts you owe, correct?

You pay for them with reserve notes! You pay for your debt with debt. You don’t own any money, you own debt.

Money is debt and debt is money! If we as a people and a nation get out of debt, we would have no money!

The FED agrees with me. A former Governor of the FED said, “If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money.”

Every dollar you “own” whether it be in your wallet…in your checking or savings account…in your investments…is “owed” to the FED, at interest!

If the FED prints our money at interest, how will we ever pay back the interest? We would have to request more money from the FED…at interest also!

Don’t you see it? We are trapped! Slaves in a system of debt!

We owe an $11.5 million debt. Guess who we owe it to? We owe the Fed 50% of it! We owe foreign investors 28% of it! Americans own about 22% of our debt.

Who really owns and runs our country? Apparently, the FED does, it has a majority share.

The FED was “supposed” to stabilize the currency from inflation and secure the economy from recession. Yet, since the FED came into existence, our money is worth 95% less than it was when they started…and our economy has seen 15 downturns…13 recessions…2 depressions…including the current depression we are now enduring.

What should frighten each of you is that the FED is totally unaccountable to Congress for its monetary policy! The FED’s monetary policies have never seen one audit in nearly a century of existence.

Alan Greenspan said that the relationship between the FED chairman and the President of the United States is irrelevant because the FED is a private entity and acts independently of Government oversight!

The FED is above the LAW! I don’t believe that is right and I definitely don’t believe that is American!

President Andrew Jackson, while speaking of the central bank that he put out of business in his day, could very well have been speaking of the FED today when he said, so long ago, “The bold efforts the present bank has made to control the Government are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution, or the establishment of another like it.”

The central bank in President Jackson’s day used money manipulation and bribery to control the government.

We have been “deluded”, as he would say, into allowing the Fed to exist. The Fed allows this money manipulation to occur…and it is robbing us all.

Why should we allow the Fed to print our currency for us at interest when Congress has the authority to do so interest free?

Congress delegated this right. In doing so, Congress is allowing a system of debt that is a threat to our security as a nation.

What does the bible say about debt? It says that, The borrower is slave to the lender. So, if we are all borrowers, then whom is our lender?

The FED! We are all the slaves of the Federal Reserve System!

He said, “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

He wouldn’t have been surprised to see the bankers and the companies deemed “too big to fail” get bailed out while everyone else goes without.

Nelson Aldrich, and the financial interests backing him, took control of America in 1913.

States would be controlled through contrived crises designed to manipulate the opinion of the populace.

People would be controlled through manipulative direct taxation designed to enslave them. Such was forbidden by the Constitution to prevent just such an outcome.

Economic control would be achieved through manipulating the currency, inflation and deflation, to steal the wealth of the nation. I would need $21.60 to purchase what $1 would in 1913. Since the Fed prints all of our currency at interest, how will we ever have enough currency to pay the interest being charged on the currency? We can’t! Perpetual debt has become the new motto of America under the Federal Reserve System.

How have they maintained this control?

The illusion of choice, allows us the opportunity to vote, even though our vote does nothing more than decide the path. The destination is predetermined!

Haven’t you noticed that both major national parties favor a powerful central government? Neither party supports the truly constitutional concept of decentralized government. Don’t you ever wonder why? Big financial interests provided approximately two-thirds of the campaign money for both major Presidential candidate in 2008.

So many of our past Presidents were under the sway of the money manipulators! Few, very few, have not been so inclined.

The Fed, the powers behind it, and those attached to it, have become more powerful than any politician or party in our nation. We have let them have this power by voting for candidates their money supported. I’m not surprised to see lost jobs and homes while banks are being bailed out. We didn’t heed the warning of Thomas Jefferson:

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

We can choose to wake up and get active now, or we can choose to stay on the program and awaken one day in our homeland homeless and conquered.

Restoring the Republic