The Long Train

"Duty arises from our potential control over the course of events. Where attainable knowledge could have changed the issue, ignorance has the guilt of vice." AN Whitehead

"Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." Declaration of Independence

Duty and Despots

Most of us have experienced a “long train” literally by being forced to wait on the highway while it passes at an intersection. We tell ourselves various things to excuse [and justify] our inaction ... it's only temporary ... patience [which comes to us from the Greek word for suffering] is a virtue … it's the law ... there are no other options.

But some of us have experienced a “long train of abuses … pursuing invariably the same object … to reduce [us] under absolute despotism.” And this SHOULD eventually become the stuff of rebellions and revolutions [depending on which side you take] … personal and collective. It SHOULD not be tolerated ... ever ... inaction is the same as consent.

The federal government of the United States of America … including the Congress, the Executive and the Judiciary … has managed to string together some very long trains of serious abuse [domestic and foreign] in its 200+ year history but, perhaps, none so pervasive [domestic and foreign] and pernicious as the Federal Reserve.

Today we are seeing nothing short of absolute despotism attempted by the Federal Reserve on a scale nobody could have even imagined a mere decade ago … and almost NOBODY says a word. THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING.

The times they are a-changin'

Judy Shelton just wrote a piece telling us that the FED has clearly violated its powers with respect to “stable prices”. If she is right, is this just an innocent oversight we should tolerate? Or is it the tip of an established and dangerous iceberg ... the latest instance in a long train of increasingly serious abuses explicitly aimed at reducing us under absolute despotism?

• The Moment Janet Yellen Moved for ‘Greasing the Wheels’ with Inflation
• Maybe the FED has violated other aspects of its charter as well.
  
• Indeed, maybe its very charter is a violation of the US Constitution.
• Maybe the FED's attack on Bitcoin is final evidence of its tyrannical intent.

Only time will tell what comes next ... but this much we DO know:

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke, 1776

Are YOU "based" in the face of the lie

“The [Bitcoin] system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes.” - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Satoshi Nakamoto, 2009

These are trying times. Since you are reading this blog, you are probably already aware of some of the potential legal charges against the FED including, but not limited to, Shelton's revelations about "stable prices". But let's end by going beyond legality to morality which is ultimately the basis for all civil law and social order.

 

If you will carefully read the Nakamoto quote above, you will see that he claims the security of bitcoin [or any money] is ultimately based on one thing: the power of collective honesty.  In effect, the FED is lying to conceal its violence ... giving a false meaning to words that are clear. So how does one person deal with THE LIE? It is not an easy question to answer, but in his 1972 Nobel speech, A Solzhenitsyn shared some thoughts that will benefit us in our personal struggle:

"Violence does not and cannot exist by itself: It is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are linked in the most intimate, most organic and profound fashion: Violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who has once proclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle. At birth, violence acts openly and even takes pride in itself. But as soon as it gains strength and becomes firmly established, it begins to sense the air around it growing thinner; it can no longer exist without veiling itself in a mist of lies, without concealing itself behind the sugary words of falsehood. No longer does violence always and necessarily lunge straight for your throat; more often than not it demands of its subjects only that they pledge allegiance to lies, that they participate in falsehood.

"The simple act of an ordinary brave man is not to participate in lies, not to support false actions! His rule: Let that come into the world, let it even reign supreme — only not through me."

For a self-check on whether YOU are firmly "based" in your response to lies, consider this challenge by James Lindsay: A Manifesto for the Based. It begins [but does not end] with YOU.

The power of two witnesses

Finally, they say the Papacy ignored Copernicus as an outlier ... but came down hard when Galileo merely repeated what Copernicus had claimed. Why the delay? For it is written that "from the mouths of two witnesses it shall be established". Deut 17:6 

 

Well, Judy Shelton has spoken ... so what do YOU have to say?