I voted for Ron Paul (write-in) in 2012. I would love to shake his hand and the good Judge Andrew Napolitano. I love constitutionalists. God bless you all.

If Jefferson were alive today, he would be disgusted, not necessarily by the government and the monster it has become, but at the people, who have sold their rights for promises of security. He would be disgusted at the apathy of the public to the injustices they suffer on a daily basis. From income and property tax, to the foreign wars of empire, he would weep for the America he wonce knew and helped found.

Thanks for getting me strait on your comment. I agree. People judge success by the wrong things. By how much we make or how much we have. It would be better if we saw success in what we do for each other. Pease.

Yes, Ron Paul in 1983.

the result of an inquiring mind, a solid education, deep experience and a lack of vanity. clearly this man has spent many thousands of hours in contemplation and analysis.

I think the Judge is a great man" I wish he was on the S. Court

“The laws of Congress in respect to those matters do not extend into the territorial limits of the states, but have force only in the District of Columbia, and other places that are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the national government.” [Caha v. United States 152 U.S. 211 (1894)] “Legislation of Congress, unless a contrary intent appears, is meant to apply only within territorial jurisdiction of the United States.” Foley Bros. v. Filardo, 336 U.S. 281; 69 S.Ct. 575 (1949) Title 4 USC, Section 72 ("All offices attached to the seat of government shall be exercised in the District of Columbia, and not elsewhere, except as otherwise expressly provided by law."); "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." -- U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950) The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, least it comes to dominate our lives. Patrick Henry = "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"
-- Abraham Lincoln (debating Stephen Douglas), 1858 It is quite clear, then, that there is a citizenship of the United States and a citizenship of a State, which are distinct from each other and which depend upon different characteristics or circumstances in the individual. [Slaughter House Cases, 83 U.S. 36] [(1873) emphasis added] The first clause of the fourteenth amendment made negroes citizens of the United States, and citizens of the State in which they reside, and thereby created two classes of citizens, one of the United States and the other of the state. [Cory et al. v. Carter, 48 Ind. 327][(1874) headnote 8, emphasis added] We have in our political system a Government of the United States and a government of each of the several States. Each one of these governments is distinct from the others, and each has citizens of its own .... [U.S. v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542] [(1875) emphasis added] One may be a citizen of a State and yet not a citizen of the United States. Thomasson v. State, 15 Ind. 449; Cory v. Carter, 48 Ind. 327 (17 Am. R. 738); McCarthy v. Froelke, 63 Ind. 507; In Re Wehlitz, 16 Wis. 443. [McDonel v. State, 90 Ind. 320, 323] [(1883) underlines added] I have no doubt that those born in the Territories, or in the District of Columbia, are so far citizens as to entitle them to the protection guaranteed to citizens of the United States in the Constitution, and to the shield of nationality abroad; but it is evident that they have not the political rights which are vested in citizens of the States. They are not constituents of any community in which is vested any sovereign power of government. Their position partakes more of the character of subjects than of citizens. They are subject to the laws of the United States, but have no voice in its management. If they are allowed to make laws, the validity of these laws is derived from the sanction of a Government in which they are not represented. Mere citizenship they may have, but the political rights of citizens they cannot enjoy until they are organized into a State, and admitted into the Union. [People v. De La Guerra, 40 Cal. 311, 342 (1870)]

This man is a national treasure.

@rd264

5 ай бұрын

the Fed with trillions of national debt may be calling on this treasure

Napolitano should take an active role in restoring the GOP to its original beliefs & principles of individual liberty & small, non-intrusive government. Napolitano 2012!

Judge is so interesting to listen to. It is a shame that American Schools don't pay more attention to what he says.

@rd264

5 ай бұрын

but why should schools care what he says ??

@tlt61

5 ай бұрын

He's a Constitutional Lawyer, he knows a lot more than any teacher or professor.@@rd264

Yes, you're talking about the Gold Standard, which has been the means by which the British Empire has maintained a stranglehold whenever countries were stupid enough to allow them to do it. But they also imposed the Federal Reserve on us too as a means of bankers dictatorship.

Absolutely Brilliant!!!

Power (greed) does NOT corrupt strong minds. A strong mind is rooted in spiritual knowledge and reality and NOT in materialistic concerns. Materialism is a fools game.

We love Mises to peeses!

@neeltheother2342

4 жыл бұрын

Oh how you have fallen since then.

@brianfitzpatrick6554

3 жыл бұрын

@@neeltheother2342 Eh?

Great man for Liberty....i wish he was on the Supreme Court, but he is doing magnificent work...thank you for championing our Rights...

You gotta love The Judge!!

The US Federal Reserve (a private bank) should loose it's charter. The US needs a National bank with a commodity-based currency.

@247akrida

4 жыл бұрын

The feds have poisoned the commodities

Power" tends" to corrupt , but "absolute" power corrupts absolutly . no exceptions that is why we have ballance of power , so no man will have absolute power. Even good me get corrupted by absolute power. Even King David, am man after gods heart.

Its a sad world we live in when this important information has so few views and yet brittany spears can show some panty and get 12.5 million views ... Let it be said we were warned !

@brianfitzpatrick6554

3 жыл бұрын

Just as relevant today,12 yrs later👍👍✌

Very well done. Thank you for sharing.

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2 жыл бұрын

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@deondrejordan0

2 жыл бұрын

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Judge should say: "Power corrupts WEAK minds." Unfortunately there are many in power.

I'm not saying that Gold is the way, I'm saying that Fiat Money is not the way. A medium of exchange has to be backed by a valuable asset, it can't just be paper. And even if Fiat Money is the way (and it very well could be), our current banking system is corrupt.

Democracies last only 200 years. * From bondage to spiritual faith; * From spiritual faith to great courage; * From courage to liberty; * From liberty to abundance; * From abundance to complacency; * From complacency to apathy; * From apathy to dependence; * From dependence back into bondage. We are transitioning to dependence. watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI It seems it's like the seasons it can't be stopped. Hope is not a solution.

The government is out of the money business, the FRB is a private corporation, the only problem with paper money is that interest charges are allowed. Yes banking should be publicly owned.

yeah, knowledge of who you really are, beyond the physical body. Thats spiritual knowledge.

Still relevant today.

FDR's abuse of the Commerce Clause set a horrendous precedent. It was meant to prevent one state/colony from placing tariff's on goods from another state/colony, not to control every aspect of our lives

I was thinking vice president, but I like your ideas better. I can't even imagine how great this country would become.

So how should money be backed up? Our banking system and currency type are imposing the will of wealthy bankers upon the people.

I agree with you. My only point is that materialism is what we're talking about here: power equals greed. And materialism is the realm of stupidity. it is fleeting and does not give meaningful peace or joy. That is why people who indulge in "power" are ignorant.

To any and all who still believe in sound money, may I recommend an outstanding book that is available in a free pdf download titled, Coin Financial School. Authored by W.H Harvey (William Hope) published in 1895. In my opinion the most definitive book ever written about silver and gold.

The charisma in your words. Are you quoting someone or did you write it yourself? In any case, it is epic.

Jefferson was against making judges the final arbiters of the Constitution. He said that the people were the final arbiters of the Constitution. Unfortunately we abandoned that approach long ago.

Napolitano for President....

I have not heard any speakers from the Mises / Austrian school of thought address the problem that the vast majority of gold is held by a few banks, mainly European and Chinese. The amount of gold in the USA is actually rather small.

Debt always inevitably has to be paid off. It can cause short-term prosperity, but in the long-term, it will be catastrophic. Look at where we are today. A 16 trillion dollar debt. Unless we start cutting spending in order to turn our huge deficit into a surplus, we are going to be in a huge mess. Worse than the one we have been in since 2008.

Read Alexander Hamiltons 3 reports to congress on Banking, Credit, and Manufacturers.

But to do that they would have to miss the next enthralling episode of American Idol, get real already! 65 BC "It was believed by those who ran Rome that the people could be kept happy and content if they had access to varied and enjoyable entertainment. Caesar borrowed large sums of money to ensure that the entertainment provided was the best money could buy. As a result, he became very popular with the poor of Rome, a considerable part of the city's population." 45 BC Caesar = dictator

4 years ago now. The 1984 plan has only hastened it's installment.

i like the way judge nap thinks

Yup. Actually, if you look at it, full preoccupation with material wealth is what we call "hell" because you chase it and chase it and its never enough. It exhausts your spirit and you never get what you're looking for! Blessings.

Yes, but the commodity based currency at least has value. Fiat Money has nothing but the government's promise backing it up. The government can freely manipulate it, inflate it, etc.

wow this went out 10 years ago

I looked it up, and found that in his report to Congress about the Public Credit, part of his plan was to pay off the debt by selling government bonds. A bond is essentially a promise to pay money back, so how would you decrease the debt by adding on more debt?

Great speech. "Great love to you..." Hare Krishna.

Why not energy-backed currency? There could be several competing currencies... oil-backed, coal-backed, renewable-backed, etc. Drawing energy out of store cost money, and that money is taken out of circulation. That makes more sense to me than gold.

That is not what I meant. It might as well be some are incorruptible. Just that getting people you like into positions of power may not always be as good an idea as it seems.

People are not looking for answers. They are looking for a savior. When the people are ready their leader will appear.

The British bankers that own the company known as "federal" reserve bank and have printed our money since 1913 have printed the british pound since the 17th century and they have used the unlimited funding to buy up ALL hard assets in the world. A gold backed currency would be just as much under their control as this one issued by the FED. Paper currency is okay but it has to be under public control! Fractional reserve banking that allows bankers to loan 5000$ of their "own" money and generate a credit of thin air that amounts to 250.000$ plus interest and forces ordinary hard working humans to sweat blood and tears for decades to pay it back and a legal system that allows banks to take their home, security and public standing even if they only fall ill after having payed back 260.000$ of that out-of -thin - air - loan is a crime against humanity we must stop. today!!

Yes he did.

I sure hope judge Napolitano runs for the senate one of these days. -jcr

extremely sad but you are certainly right

Well Military trials is what I support 100%, so I agree with you on that point.

the sheep are us

And this was 3 years ago...

That is true. However, a Fiat-based currency is a much more manipulative form of money.

@norcofreerider604 Very well said, Sir.

Under the NDAA, people accused of being an enemy combatant don't even have the right to a military trial.

Was it Ben Franklin said to trade freedoms for security will have neither?

rec Aeropagitia by Milton, a nice essay on censorship

A real patriot, I'd say (what the heck, even from here, Europe, we can tell them apart!).

If Jefferson were alive today he would be PISSED!!!

@norcofreerider604 Napolitano once said that if Jefferson, Adams, and Madison were all alive today, they couldn't muster 3% in a general election. I laughed for a while.

If people want it, someone will produce it!

Is the debt for long term productive work around industrial and technological development or short term speculative gambling? Under the Glass-Steagall law (if we impeach Obama) most of the bailouts for the Too-big-to-fail speculator driven "banks" would be written off and the debt would be reduced to managable levels.

I love judge Napolitano but i disagree with him on immigration. I agree with Hoppe, even though the Judge would say I'm not a "real" libertarian

Youre putting humans back into the arguement I agree humans are sick and twisted especially those in power, but its our job to take ideas that can better our lives and use those, not follow their example , but to follow ideas and make perfect ideas that can help everyone.

Why? Power only corrupts. Why think he will be immune?

The judge is great, but he mistakenly claims that Jefferson wanted the Bill of Rights to be enforced by judges. Putting judges in charge of controlling the government necessarily means removing control of the government from the people, an idea which would have horrified Jefferson.

Restore liberty by abolishing the central government. The Feds need to go. Reduce that medium-sized city in the District of Corruption to just a normal, crime-ridden town and the whole world would be far better.

That's why you should read the other report on manufacturing because when we were a colony, manufacturing was forbidden, leading into his emphasis on internal improvements, protective tariffs and industry to use debt productively both to increase wealth, develop the land, and make an increasing number of people scientifically and technologically literate, increasing happiness.

Thats what military trials are for, not our courts

So you give your possesion away first. Even a good man will be corrupted by supreme power. No man should be given to much power if you want them to stay honest.

How do we get the Patriot Act repealed as un-Constitutional Law?!?

@immaculatesquid

3 жыл бұрын

overthrow the government or secede thats about it

Expansion: To claim to 'know' ANYTHING is misrepresenting yourself. ~spiritual agnostic

Jefferson knew it was a matter of time that the people will become fat and lazy if you will,(self-satisfied and unconcerned with the going on outside of their wee little corner)complacent will cause the Nation to distroy itself from within.

The 17Th Amendment needs to be repealed.

Sheep will always be sheep. The ones who know what's going on are the remnant. And of course the wolves and parasites hate that.

end the fed

My choice is neither john or barack, But Francis Schaffer Cox.

@KSReferee

5 жыл бұрын

Francis Schaeffer Cox was completely railroaded, set up and entrapped by the US government. Every single claim the federal prosecutors and the FBI made was 100% fabricated bullshit and they know it. He is simply a political prisoner because he dared to use his natural right of free speech to denounce the unconstitutional government we now have as well as the unconstitutional laws and application of those unconstitutional laws. Francis Schaeffer Cox is the epitome of what Judge Andrew Napolitano described when our government refuses to OBEY the foundational law of this once great nation. I pray Francis Schaeffer Cox will one day be vindicated but it likely will never happen because every single aspect of the United States government is corrupt to the core.

@immaculatesquid

3 жыл бұрын

@@KSReferee ive never even heard the name and I know who Alan Keyes is.

@KSReferee

3 жыл бұрын

@@immaculatesquid You're on here so that means you've got Google and other search engines at your fingertips. Hell, as far as that goes, you can even search KZread and watch several of his incredible presentations. So either look Francis Schaeffer Cox up and stop being a lemming ( www.thefreedictionary.com/lemming ) or continue waddling through your existence as fat, lazy and ignorant. I give a fuck which you choose.

please understand: if you truly believe your religion to be truth, you have to let people approach it as such. Don't blaspheme God by constantly associating God with the imperfect policies of human interaction.

Humans are imperfect. 'God' is perfect. To claim to 'know' God is blasphemous. Humble yourself. It is clear that religious texts contradict and religious leaders interpret those contradictions as they see fit. So long as you are limited by your human form, you cannot know God. the rules you stated above are about how to gain god's favor. not which actions people should prosecute each other for. 'he who has not sinned should throw the first stone'. Government imperfection should not relate to God

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Spiritual knowledge?

I don't think "follower" is quite the right term. Mises wasn't very big on telling anyone what to do. -jcr

Like I said, now listen carefully. Ideas can be perfected over time. Genocide is wrong, also Jefferson wasn't around when ex slaves existed! Why do you insist on hating ideas? Actions by humans will always have flaws don't discredit ideas because their creator lacked the knowledge to perfectly use those ideas.

Smart people always wear pink ties at a TALK

And your statement has to do with what exactly? Oh is it a reaction to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everyone except slaves? No one is perfect, no one can be but ideas can be perfected over time. Don't be so ignorant as to think Jefferson's ideas and beliefs are wrong because he owned slaves, so did Lincoln and other northern states durring the civil war!

Ugh.. why is it even the intelligent people that are pro-individual rights are still bringing 'God' into economics and politics? =/

So Napoletano is saying Gore would have been a much better choice? Wow, my Libertarian friends you amaze me sometimes. This extreme of all or nothing is whats going to bring us Obama after Obama following a true marxist. Why not use brains for once and use overton window theory, and use it to promote increasing freedoms with every generations. You CANT just abolish gvt. dependence all in one election.

Don't believe this plan either..the fact that it's controlled by claimed..or friends of users...

The libertarian Joe Pesci

Total load of Bull, there is a place and a standing of every Fiat to value gold. Now, I have bowl of soup and a sandwich, how much of your gold will you give me for it?

Quit whining - Get Some.