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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Interesting.

Virginia Creates Subcommittee To Study Monetary Alternatives In Case Of Terminal Fed "Breakdown", Considers Gold As Option.

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MadDawg308 said...: Boy, I am am glad I live in a free state like this one. At least ours is looking into this. Go Virginia!; January 16, 2011 at 7:28 AM
Mamaliberty said...: The link doesn't go to the article, Mike, but a log in page. Can't see it.; January 16, 2011 at 8:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Unfortunately the Constitution reserves the right to coin money to the federal government (Article I Section 8 clause 5) and the ninth and tenth amendments kind of limit that right.; January 16, 2011 at 8:19 AM
Anonymous said...: Nice to see a fellow Virginian has the balls to introduce this. There is a reason why Virginia is the only state left in the Mid-Atlantic or North East that really scares the statists or that is considered a significant risk of revolting (e.g. like Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Texas, etc). We're also the most gun friendly state in the region and the only one that does not have a state budget [bankruptcy] problem.; January 16, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Pat H. said...: We're doing the same thing in South Carolina, rmember state Rep. Mike Pitt. I had dinner with him last month to talk about this subject.; January 16, 2011 at 10:06 AM
Rhodes said...: About damn time...; January 16, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Defender said...: This is HUGE. A VERY large proportion of the state's economy is military and CIVILIAN jobs related to military bases. The Pentagon -- whose workforce exceeds the population of some CITIES -- and Norfolk Naval Base, the world's largest, are here.
For these men and women with individual federal umbilical cords to talk openly about this is significant. Fed-heads casting a no-confidence vote. Whoa.
Would the federal government accept paying its employees in a currency it did not pwn?
You know "pwn," right? It's when an experienced player dominates a newbie in a multiplayer online game. "Own" mis-typed.; January 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM
John Robert Mallernee, KB3KWS, in Vernal, Utah said...: Mr. Vanderboegh:

Thank you for posting this.

I've now embedded it on my own web site, so others may become aware of it, and I'm giving you proper credit.

John Robert Mallernee
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Gulfport, Mississippi 39507; January 16, 2011 at 4:13 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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