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This article is not directly about gold
or economic matters, but in a very real and immediate sense
its subject affects all gold/free market advocates and their
readers more than any other subject. For, gold is “the
ultimate political metal” as Bill Buckler of The Privateer
so aptly states. Because of that, writing about gold is probably
the most political of all types of speech.
I am talking about the Federal Election Commission’s
attempts to stifle free speech on the Internet.
There may not be much that Americans living today can agree
upon. America has become an almost fatally wounded and fractured
society, where group is pitted against group in one seemingly
mortal battle after another, about issues as varied as race
baiting, religious vs. atheist, male vs. female, rich vs.
poor, haves vs. have-nots, left vs. right, etc., etc., ad
nauseam.
But there is one thing that all of us, all of the above groups
and often bitterly warring factions, agree upon with total
unison and without reservation, and that is our right to think
- and the right to say and write whatever we think.
That right cannot, must not - ever - be allowed to be curtailed.
Not by Congress, not by the president, not by judges, and
most certainly not by some unelected goof-ball administrators
of a faceless government commission - a commission the constitutionality
of which is more than just questionable, a commission whose
members think it is their job to tell you and me what we can
say concerning political issues, when we can say it - and
where we can say it.
To save space and to make sure that no vital issues and facts
get lost in vain attempts to summarize the problem, I am referring
all interested readers to the web site of DownsizeDC.org.
Lawyers in their self-importance may have succeeded over
the years, decades, and centuries to obfuscate pretty much
everything connected to the interpretation of our Constitution.
And, maybe, too many of us have acquiesced to this ongoing
effort, in too many instances, for far too long.
But there is one thing, one single overarching
principle, one most foundational of all fundamental rights,
that the founders tried to secure to us by writing the Constitution.
That right is so utterly beyond dispute, so immediate in its
clarity, so sacred to all Americans, that no dissension on
it exists - even in today’s insane world.
And that one thing is the right to speak
your mind.
Leftists value it. Conservatives value it. Rich value it.
Poor value it. The religious and the atheist alike value it.
There is only one class of people who do not value it, and
that is the class of those who covet the power to control
others’ lives.
They are found on both sides of the political aisles.
When it comes down to it, there is only one true battle raging
in American history, past present, and future, and that is
the battle between those who want to restrict people’s
rights on the one hand - and the People themselves on the
other.
It is time to remind those of the former group
that they are not only numerically in a minority, but that
they are also totally, utterly, and eternally on the wrong
side of the fence.
It s time to remind them that they, whoever they are, enjoy
their little rule-making powers only at the good graces of
We the People. And “We the People” are now finally
fed up.
Their attempts to fracture us into ever-warring interest
and splinter groups may have succeeded to some extent in the
past, but they have now finally found that one, incomparably
focal, vital to the core, hot-button issue that has the power
to turn all of the normally splintered factions against them
in a unanimity that they cannot fathom.
They have finally found that one major hot-button –
and they have 'stepped in it' all the way.
What is currently going on in the blog-spots on the internet,
what is now in the early stages of a nuclear fission-like
process of building to a mind-deafening crescendo, is the
battle cry of an entire nation, a nation that happens to be
the most powerful nation on earth for a reason.
And that 'reason' is not the political
and administrator class.
That reason is the American People - of all
persuasions - and our undying love of freedom.
And our roaring battle-cry to those who would steal our freedom
is:
WE’VE HAD IT WITH YOU !!!
If you like your little power position - however you may have
obtained it - stop now.
Or else, you will be removed.
This message goes out to politicians, administrators, executives,
and judges alike - and to those who finance them.
Do not deceive yourselves into believing that you can pull
the wool over our eyes about our right of free speech.
Do not think you can tell us that the words “Congress
shall make no law ...” mean anything other than what
they say.
The first Article of the Bill of Rights begins
that way - in case you have forgotten. It states: “Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the
right of free speech ...”
Notice to the Supreme Court: McCain-Feingold
is a law of Congress abridging the right of free speech. There
are no "concerns" that outweigh this right, Justice
O’Connor.
This is an appropriate time to re-introduce
the concept of nullification to the American people.
Nullification is the right of the People, collectively, to
simply nullify any law (or judicial ruling) which is in violation
of the Constitution.
The founders strongly believed in it.
Our entire Constitution is founded on it.
We have not forgotten it.
We do not need your opinion, Mrs. O’Connor (and those
esteemed justices who voted with her in the McCain-Feingold
case), to tell us what is “constitutional.” We can
(still?) read - despite decades of government re-education.
A law that restricts the right of ANYONE, at
any time, at any place or in any venue, to voice their true
and considered opinion, especially about political matters,
is an abridgement of the right of free speech!
A government commission whose job it is - whether
under the cover of an unconstitutional judicial fiat or without
it - to tell any American or even any alien who is here legally
what we can say about political matters - or any other matter
- and when, and where we can say it is abridging the right
of free speech!
We acknowledge that the right of free speech does not extend
to the intentional incitement of violence or physical harm
against others - but that’s where the restrictions end.
Yes, Americans are law-abiding. But we abide by a higher
law than those of Congress - or the mere opinions of a group
of judges, or the political goals of any president.
We abide by the law that created Congress, the presidency,
and the judiciary, the same law that you must abide by (and
to which you have sworn allegiance, remember?) but which you
have now broken.
There is an overseer of legislative and judicial
power, and that overseer is us, We the People, who created
your positions of power. We the People, who gave you
the power you are now illegally attempting to wield against
us.
We hope you can see the futility of this.
If you cannot, you are asking for total revolt.
What can you and the likes of you do - if all of the People
ignore your unconstitutional, un-American laws, pronouncements
and regulations?
Remember who you are - and remember who made you what you
are.
*****
Alex
Wallenwein
Editor, Publisher
The EURO
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