[Outcast_Searcher]

It's a hell of a system.

If you hold paper currencies, they ALL eventually get destroyed by inflation. Interest gets taxed and doesn't keep up once hyperinflation sets in.

If you hold real (tangible) assets, you risk them being confiscated (example: gold bullion in 1933 -- who knows what they will pull next time, given how intrusive the state now is). You also risk getting hurt badly if there is a true deflationary depression. If there is lots of inflation, you get heavily taxed when you sell them back into the (required for legal trade) fiat currency.

So, it's not difficult to see that the system is set up so government gradually confiscates the wealth of almost everybody (except the super-rich and powerful). Poor people get hurt the most. And yet -- the poor tend to want more government -- thinking they will "protect" them. Naturally, government promulgates this idea constantly -- both left and right wing.

Again -- it's a hell of a system. That's why I generally vote libertarian. In the words of Ayn Rand's John Galt of Atlas Shrugged, my stance toward government is "Get out of my way!".

[paimei01]

Of course he is a terrorist. The world is run by bankers. The money creators. He ranks as a number one terrorist for them.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Premise Four: Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

Premise Five: The property of those higher on the hierarchy is more valuable than the lives of those below. It is acceptable for those above to increase the amount of property they control—in everyday language, to make money—by destroying or taking the lives of those below. This is called production. If those below damage the property of those above, those above may kill or otherwise destroy the lives of those below. This is called justice.

[Tyler_JC]

The guy was trying to pass off his own creations as currency. That's counterfeiting. The government doesn't like counterfeiters, that's the Fed's job.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'T')he guy was trying to pass off his own creations as currency. That's counterfeiting. The government doesn't like counterfeiters, that's the Fed's job.

[radon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'B')ernard von NotHaus, US political prisoner.

http://www.gadaily.com/index.php/opinio ... -terrorism

[sjn]

The US hardly has a monopoly on the "$ sign", or the word "Dollar". "Liberty" clearly isn't something the US is even familiar with anymore!

[Sixstrings]

Holy cow, all this news out just today:

Two tunnel 'breaches' cause scare in NYC...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tunnel_punk_terror_scares_clfEzPGLRb3uHPN3pMj5HI

SUV 'bomb' scare ...
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/05/09/2011-05-09_bomb_scare_in_bx_is_2nd_of_weekend.html

Threats Divert Planes in Three Separate Incidents...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/09/national/main20060992.shtml

Passengers, flight crew subdue man banging on cockpit door...
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/05/09/passengers-and-flight-crew-subdue-unruly-man-on-sfo-bound-plane/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Terror-Filled Flight To Chicago Diverted To St. Louis

CHICAGO (CBS) – A flight from Houston to Chicago was diverted to St. Louis on Sunday after an unruly passenger, described as a 34-year-old Burbank, Ill. man, tried to open a plane door during the flight.

(snip)

“I assumed the worst, that it was some sort of terrorist attack,” she told CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/05/08/houston-to-chicago-flight-diverted-to-st-louis/

[Novus]

I fear more for our liberties disappearing than any actual terrorist attack.

[dolanbaker]

OBL i sdead , but the seeds of his terror live on! So glad I don't live in the US!

[Plantagenet]

Senator Chuck Schumer (Dem -- New York) wants a "no fly" list for trains.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'S')enator Chuck Schumer (Dem -- New York) wants a "no fly" list for trains.

[Cog]

Well there we have it. All the excuses we need to start another war in the Mid-East. Stay tuned. Fox News, as usual, is calling this an act of war. Flush the bombers and let loose the dogs of war. ABC News
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')BI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a "significant terrorist act in the United States" tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today.

The officials said the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were also discussed, according to the U.S. officials.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in an announcement today that the plan was "conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran" and called it a "flagrant" violation of U.S. and international law.

[AgentR11]

Nuke'em from orbit.
Its the only way to be sure.

[Pops]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBGPw_LBiRA

[Oneaboveall]

Fearless Iranians from Hell: "Blow up the Embassy"

http://youtu.be/6f0l9NoT4cE

[Plantagenet]

Iran also supplied many of the IEDs used to kill our soldiers in Iraq, and now is supplying IEDs being used for attacks on our soldiers in Afganistan.

On the other hand, Iran issued a statement last week in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

[Fishman]

Strange, O knew about this for some time but this comes out just as it looks like Holder is getting slammed for Fast and Furious. Wag the Dog?

[Cloud9]

There's oil in them thar sands. We have now become what we have purported to hate. Think about it. We are selling guns to the Mexican cartels by the truck load to destabilize the Mexican government and murder its people so that the left wingers here in the United States can push for stricter gun laws and shut down gun shows.

We have upended the rule of law. We have suspended the most fundamental right of the accused, a trial by jury. We have a caped crusader in the White House that now deals out vigilante justice. This president has created a tool to be used against the American people.

Tools are not to be taken lightly. Consider for a moment the lowly hammer, a tool designed to drive nails. Once created it makes an excellent weapon. In gifted hands, it can extract the most desired confession.

For those in power, the Constitution is nothing but a scrap of paper. We the people have no rights and no protection. We live in a lawless state.

[Pretorian]

Iran did not attack anybody in well over 300 years. How many independent countries were attacked by USA during the last 300 years?

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', 'S')trange, O knew about this for some time but this comes out just as it looks like Holder is getting slammed for Fast and Furious. Wag the Dog?