Allison Bricker

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying”. -Friedrich Nietzsche

BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – On Monday, former Governor of Alaska, and 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin endorsed Dr. Rand Paul¹ over his Primary opponent, Secretary of State, Trey Grayson stating:

“I’m proud to support great grass roots candidates like Dr. Paul — While there are issues we disagree on, he and I are both in agreement that it’s time to shake up the status quo in Washington and stand up for common sense ideas.” Sarah Palin Former Governor of Alaska

Recent polling was already showing Rand widening the gap substantially between himself and Grayson² as well as beating every possible Democratic contender in the General Election prior to Sarah the Rogue’s verbal thumbs-up, so it appears to this blogger at least, as more of a calculated political move by the former Governor, than a huge plus for Candidate Paul.

In addition to her official statement endorsing the younger Paul, her political action committee, SarahPAC donated $2,000 to the doctor’s already burgeoning campaign war chest, again mostly thanks to money-bombs from the grassroots and not PAC’s. Her endorsement, in conjunction with recent controversial actions taken by the Campaign for Liberty, the attempted co-opting of the Tea-Party movement by the likes of Dick Armey³ and indeed the questionable platform stances by Rand Paul himself have left many in the Liberty movement, myself included, scratching our heads. It begs the question whether cozying up to establishment figureheads will lead to a watering down of the message, or derail the momentum thus far gained on the road to restoring the Republic.

However, where some see the aforementioned as nails into the coffin of all the progress thus far, upon further contemplation, I see opportunity; opportunity to make strides towards the reclamation of our natural rights formerly unfathomable in the wake of the Bush administration, September 11th, and the status-quo’s brand of neo-patriotism.

Nevertheless, it was very deflating to listen early on to Scott Horton’s interview of Rand Paul over at Anti-War.com⁴. During the interview, the younger Paul espoused believing in the Chief Executive’s right to act unilaterally without a Declaration of War, support for continuing the war in Afghanistan, and the absurd notion of keeping Club Torture, i.e. Guantanamo up and running in lieu of a total and complete shuttering.

Additionally, while continuing to observe Rand’s campaign it seems pedantic to me when he offers, “term limits”, code for lazy democracy, as a way to combat corruption in Washington D.C. As we all know, the 22nd Amendment has done little to spare us of corrupt, disastrous, power-hungry Chief Executives. It has only succeeding in perpetrating the illusion of change with each successive changing of the puppet.

But wait, there is hope; Rand like his statesman father, understands the insidious parasitic relationship of the FEDERAL RESERVE and the U.S. government. This my fellow readers in my opinion is our “golden arrow”; our chance to come face to face with the absolute root which enables the promulgation of its siblings, the FEDERAL RESERVE. The reality that a private cartel of bankers and the cottage supporting industries, i.e. Goldman Sachs have intertwined themselves so tightly into government via currency creation and the endless list of their crony sycophants receiving high level cabinet and department level appointments are the core reason for the current dilapidated condition of our Constitutional Republic, once known as America.

The central banker puppet masters alone through legislation enacted almost a century age, ergo the FEDERAL RESERVE Act, 16th, and 17th Amendments succeeded in delegating ‘We the People’ as collateral to finance their odious debt, corrupted the Senate, and morphed us from Republic to populous democracy, whilst simultaneously bestowing upon themselves monopoly control over the currency.

Moreover fellow readers ask yourself this question, where was your political philosophy and understanding of the issues five, ten, twenty years ago? My sophomore year in high school for example, my mother and myself sat glued to the television watching Tom Brokaw declare Bill Clinton the 42nd President of the United States. Upon Mr. Brokaw’s announcement, I remember turning to my mother and asking, “Things are going to be better now –right?”

Up until the election of William Clinton, the previous Presidents were all ‘evil’ Republicans, save my infancy during the Carter administration, and we were a rust-belt working class “Democrat” family, so surely a Democrat in office would make life peachy. Unfortunately, reality painted a different picture and the election of Clinton was a furthering of my education rather than salvation for working-class families such as my own.

The actions of the Clinton Administration were the catalyst for me to dig beneath the nationalist sugary sweet veneer that was beat into my head throughout my tenure at government school. The nauseating actions undertaken especially by his Attorney General, Janet Reno forever removed my rose-colored glasses and prompted me to purchase my first copy of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man/Common Sense from a local bookstore.

In addition, contrasted against the largely college-centric movement of the late 1960’s whereby the focus was largely on the dissatisfaction of college-aged anti-war protesters, the Liberty movement is not so one-dimensional.

We are made up of not only the 13th Generation, a generation literally written off in our infancy as “the lost generation”, the roots to the movement run deep and are of a diverse stock. The movement includes not only those of us in our 30’s and 40’s, but we also benefit from the excellent work undertaken at the college level by Young Americans for Liberty, and are blessed with the veteran elders of the movement like Dr. Paul, Lew Rockwell, and Judge Andrew Napolitano, to name just a few.

In addition to spanning generations, my time in the movement has afforded me the opportunity to meet those from every walk of life under the sun; black, white, yellow, red, Christian, atheist, rich, poor, queer, straight, it matters not. The liberty movement redefines “big-tent” simply as American, people-group be damned.

So please ask yourself the last time you can remember something that freely unified such a wide swath spanning generations, race, and class. Liberty, my fellow readers is a most glorious unifier like no other. Thus, this is why we shake the puppet masters to their core. Fear not the endorsement of “Sarah the Rogue”.

As such, as we all continue to learn and expand our understanding; we must make room for this to apply to individuals like Sarah Palin as well, and seize the opportunity to begin a dialog with her and her supporters about the insidious nature of Central Banking, true Constitutionally limited government, and the doctrine of just, not preemptive war.

The Kentucky Senate race is likely to be watched closely both to gauge the threat to the establishment’s entrenched power via the inclusion of a Paul in the Senate and to see if Democrats could steal the seat currently held by Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) who announced his retirement last year. Let us seize the opportunity before us to spread the warm glow of the Sunshine of Liberty through educating and conversing with others on the principles of natural rights and the dangers of Central Banking.

Our posterity and our Republic deserve no less and the opportunity before us has never before in my lifetime been so self-evident.

Source(s): ¹Rand Paul U.S. Senate Campaign Website “Sarah Palin Endorses” by David Adams 02/01/2010 • ²Public Policy Polling “Paul Takes Big Lead in GOP Primary” 12/22/2009 • ³ Huffington Post “Operation Steele/Armey: GOP/Tea party Co Opt Each Other” by Alex Brant-Zawadzki published: December 17, 2009 • ⁴Scott Horton Interviews Rand Paul May 17, 2009 •

Allison Bricker

Aaron Russo sat down with Alex Jones in 2007 just months before his untimely passing from cancer. What follows is the full 90-minute interview, which is more accurately described as a very intimate and personal conversation with a true patriot from the liberty movement. Perhaps best known by the general public for producing the movie “Trading Places” with Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd, Mr. Russo’s documentary “America: Freedom to Fascism” along with his website, RestoreTheRepublic.net, now run by Gary Franchi  have gone on to become the capstones unto his legacy.

If you enjoy the interview, please consider purchasing the high resolution DVD from the InfoWars store in order to share copies with friends and family and to help ensure we continue to have access to such enlightening documentaries.

Allison Bricker

NOTE: This is the second part in a 4 part series. Your questions and commentary are both welcomed and appreciated.

• Part 1 – How to Save the Republic
• Part 2 – Abolish the Income Tax
• Part 3 – Repeal the Direct Election of Senators
• Part 4 – Similarities Between the Great Depression and Our Current Crisis

Few things are more complicated and harder to understand than our income tax laws. Each year Americans lose 6.6 billion hours and spend approximately $265 Billion Dollars¹ just filing their taxes. Imagine what we as a people could accomplish, build, invent; if all this time, money, and resource were not lost slaving over tax forms or paying others to file the forms on our behalf. Moreover, the fear of the tax man consistently ranks as a top fear of Americans.² This fear is well placed, what group other than the Internal Revenue Service can freeze your bank accounts, seize your property, garnish your paycheck, and throw you in jail?

Further, we see the confusion over the tax code illustrated whenever abolition is even mentioned. People often say, “What about the roads?”, “What about Social Security?” or “What about our schools?” To many, it seems logical that the money coercively removed from their paychecks would go to support these types of projects. However, truth be told, the roads are paid for by the gas tax, a tax levied on each gallon pumped into your car, Social Security is a separate tax unto itself withdrawn from our paychecks altogether, and schools are funded by local tax revenues, most often in the form of property taxes.

This logical fallacy perpetuated by the tax code, scares people into thinking that having their incomes pilfered by the nanny state is their “duty” of living in a “free country”. Politicians, beneficiaries of this structure, routinely repeat this fear mongering via soundbites such as Vice-President-Elect, Joe Biden who pompously stated, “It’s time (for the well-off) to be patriotic (taxes).”³ Thus, in the previous eight years we were told speaking out against an imperial foreign policy was “unPatriotic” and now that “change” has come to town, bristling at an oppressive tax structure has also been added to the list of “unPatriotic” actions according to the pull-peddlers in Washington.

Truth be told, every last cent of revenue successfully collected through income taxation is already gone before Congress even convenes to support the bloated ship of state. Even if the Federal government were to tax 100% of all incomes over $75,000, the government would only receive approximately $33 Billion (adjusted for inflation) or enough to keep the government running for an additional 7 days. Thus, everything from waging the war in Iraq to simply keeping the lights on, must be put on the Republic’s credit card in the form of additional borrowing, i.e. debt.⁴ The creditor who lends all this additional “money’ to the Federal government? Why it is our friends at the FEDERAL RESERVE. The central bank who cannot trip over itself fast enough to supply more “money” to the Federal government, ergo the national debt. Furthermore, the private bankers who actually own the stock in the FEDERAL RESERVE do not simply loan the Federal government this “money” out of the kindness of their hearts, they charge a fee for these “necessary” loans in the form of interest.

At the end of the year after Treasury has received the interest negotiated back from the FEDERAL RESERVE, the FEDERAL RESERVE still walks away with about $4 Billion tax-dollars annually solely from payments received on the interest of the national debt.⁵

The sinister nature of this scheme was brought to light for the public to see in 1984 in the final report from the Grace Commission. In their final report they said the following:

Resistance to additional income taxes would be even more widespread if people were aware that:

• One-third of all their taxes is consumed by waste and inefficiency in the Federal Government as we identified in our survey.




• Another one-third of all their taxes escapes collection from others as the underground economy blossoms in direct proportion to tax increases and places even more pressure on law abiding taxpayers, promoting still more underground economy — a vicious circle that must be broken.




• With two-thirds of everyone’s personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their Government.

Source: Grace Commission Final Report⁴

We must take note that both a heavy “progressive” income tax as well as a centralized banking monopoly are two planks clearly espoused in the “Communist Manifesto”, points 2 and 5 respectively:

[From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels, Section II]

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

Source: Avalon Project – Yale Law School – Lillian Goldman Law Library⁶

It is no coincidence that our government grew exponentially upon the pyramid scheme thrust upon us by the Federal Reserve Act, 16th and 17th Amendments all coming into existence in 1913. These linchpins allowed the state to centralize power and funnel the wealth of our nation into a relatively small group of central bankers, special interests, and politicians while fostering, sustaining, and antagonizing a class war between the American people.

The income tax is nothing but an endless stream of stolen wages used to line the coffers of the plutocratic oligarchs while keeping the masses numb to the scam perpetrated upon them by offering confusing doublespeak and scraps of embezzled wealth via welfare programs. As these same central planners sought to lower tariffs, thereby allowing companies to dump their outsourced foreign products back on to our shores, they simultaneously raise taxes and fees on individuals. This serves two purposes:

1. Makes us as a nation, wholly dependent on multi-national corporations to supply us manufactured goods after they close down domestic factories, relocate offshore, and import their goods back onto American shores. Thereby replacing the American people as “producers” and thus relegating us the singular sad role of “consumer”.




2. Reduces wages and thus spending ability by undercutting good jobs and replaces them with a wholly service-based economy.

This state-sponsored corporatism also leads more into the welfare state as costs rise due to inflation from the deficit spending coupled with a loss of sustainable employment, thereby enticing them to make up their personal budget deficits with the pittance from government social programs. As this cycle continues the amount spent on what are called “transfer payments” to individuals balloons, which then leads to higher rates of borrowing from the FEDERAL RESERVE to the Federal government, which leads to a further erosion of the currency via inflation.

Finally after 95 years of this ponzi scheme, the cycle has spun so far out of control we are on the verge of collapse. In 2007 “transfer payments” to individuals, totaled $1.6 Trillion or 87.8% of all available tax revenues, the other 12.2% went to interest payments on the national debt, leaving a zero balance and thus requiring more borrowing from…you guessed it, the FEDERAL RESERVE.

Fellow readers, while many worry our standard of living would sharply decline without the income tax based wholly on the misconceptions of its actual uses, if we do not repeal the 16th Amendment-Income tax, the vast majority of Americans will become paupers lining the streets standing in bread lines, while the central bankers, criminal financiers, and their cronies revel in their stolen treasure and move on to the next nation to exploit, eviscerate and rob of its wealth.

But why take my word for it, when Chairman Bernake says it so succinctly:

Source(s): ¹Reprentative Michael Burgess (R-TX) Statistics based on figures from 2005 • ²BusinessWire “Americans Say Tax Duties among Most ”Loathesome” Tasks; One Third Fears IRS More Than In-Laws or Outlaws Published April 5, 2006 • ³ Los Angeles Times |Blog “Joe Biden calls it ‘patriotic’ for the wealthy to pay more taxes” • ⁴ 1984 (PPSS) The Grace Commission Report, pg14 • ⁵ 2007 – 94th Annual Report
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, pg371 • ⁶ Avalon Project – Yale Law School – Lillian Goldman Law Library