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On Becoming Illegal. You'll love this! FORMS ARE GOING FAST- SIGN UP TODAY! Becoming Illegal (Actual letter from an Iowa resident sent to his senator,) The Honorable Tom Harkin 731 Hart Senate Office Building Phone (202) 224 3254 Washington DC , 20510 Dear Senator Harkin,   As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you. My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for only three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out. Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I'm excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005. Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year. Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as 'in-state' tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son. Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver's license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me, given that I still have college age children driving my car. If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance Your Loyal Constituent, (hoping to reach 'illegal alien' status rather than just a bonfire citizen of the USA ) Donald Ruppert Burlington , IA Get your Forms (NOW)!! Call your Internal Revenue Service at 1-800-289-1040 (Please pass this on to your friends so they can save on this great offer.)

 

 

 

 

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At Last, a Memorable Commencement Speech

At Last, a Memorable Commencement Speech
By Jeffrey Herbener
Friday, May 25th, 2012

Even at Grove City College where commencement speeches are not filled with leftist banality, they often enough succumb to the banality of the occasion. But once in a while, a memorable one is delivered.

Walter Williams, who is a member of the college's board of trustees, gave a positively Rothbardian talk last Saturday. He started out by telling the assembled that he would discuss "fundamental principles" necessary to "preserve the blessings of liberty." "The first principle of a free society," he said, "is that each person owns himself." And "the direct implication of self-ownership is people must own those things they produce." "The idea of self-ownership" he continued, "is what makes slavery, murder, rape, assault, extortion, theft, and the like immoral acts." The market economy not only preserves these fundamental rights of property, but brings into being a prosperous middle class and permits the leisure and extended division of labor necessary for civilization. In the market, income is earned by serving others and can be used for genuine charity towards those in need.

Our social problems do not stem from the market, but from the state. "The great problems that confront our nation,' he said, "have their roots in morality where we've asked government to commit immoral and unconstitutional acts."

The charge he gave to our graduates was "to be moral yourself and to try to sell to our fellow man on the superiority of personal liberty and its main ingredient, limited government."

If you have suffered through a commencement speech recently, console yourself with his speech.

http://bastiat.mises.org/2012/05/at-last-a-memorable-commencement-speech/

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May 25, 2012
"Markets and Morality"
Grove City College Commencement 2012
Dr. Walter E. Williams

Benjamin Franklin said "A frequent reference to fundamental principles is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of Liberty, and keep a Government free." That is what I would like to do today – talk about fundamental principles.

How often do we hear the suggestion that free markets or capitalism is immoral? Some of the alleged injustices of capitalism include that it is a system where there is unfair distribution of income, there is greed and materialism where the rich get richer whilst the poor get poorer, and there's systematic bias in favor of big business and bias against the little guy.

The attempt to find a definitive definition of morality has occu¬pied the attention of philosophers for centuries and has remained elusive. What we can say is morali¬ty is only applicable to human purposive behavior. Morali¬ty is a concept applicable to people acting, singly or in a group, with a purpose. The concept of morali¬ty can be applied to the actions of a corporation, a state, a family, a mob, an individual or any other agent capable of purposive behavior.

Morality becomes a fuzzy concept when applied to society since like any other system it is an organized, integrated whole composed of diverse people who have interdependent relationships. As such society cannot behave in a purposive fashion as does an individu¬al, or a group of individuals such as a corporation, a family or a state. For example, if a mob lynches an individual, we can all agree that the mob has committed an immoral act. We can also agree that non part¬icipants, the lynch mob and its victim are all members of soci¬ety. While we can indict the lynch mob for immoral behavior, we can be less certain about a similar indict¬ment against non pa¬rtici¬pants and the victim. The most defini¬tive observation we can make about social morality is to ask whether the society's laws appropriately punish such conduct or not.

Just as in the case of society, markets are incapable of purposive behavior; therefore, markets cannot be evaluat¬ed as moral or immoral. Howev¬er, we can ask whether a market system's institutions and set of relationships is more or less compatible with moral behavior of the individuals and groups of individuals who comprise and act within it.

The first principle of a free society is that each person owns himself. You are your private property and I am mine. Most Americans probably accept that first principle. Those who disagree are obliged to inform the rest of us just who owns us, at least here on earth. This vision of self-ownership is one of those "self-evident" truths to which the Founders referred in the Declaration of Independence that "All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Like John Locke and other philosophers who influenced them, the Founders saw these rights as preceding government and they said, "That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted." Thus, the major job of government is to prevent the initiation of force, fraud and intimidation and we're all duty-bound to cough up our share of the cost. Most other matters in our lives should be left to civil society and its institutions.

The direct implication of self-ownership is people must own those things they produce. If a person cannot own what he produces, self-ownership is meaningless. One way to describe slavery is that it is a condition where a person produces goods and services but he has no ownership rights to them. Those ownership rights are held by someone else. The idea of self-ownership is what makes slavery, murder, rape, assault, extortion, theft, and the like immoral acts. They violate a person's human rights to his property.

In order to promote and protect human rights it would appear that we would want to have a system that maximizes the probability that human transactions are voluntary. Of all economic systems, free market capitalism maximizes that probability best.

When there is free market allocation of resources, transac¬tions occur because individuals perceive themselves being better off than their next best alterna¬tive. In other words, when a person purchases a pair of shoes, he gives up title to his $100 because he perceives himself as being better off as a result of acquiring the shoes rather than further retention of the $100. The owner of the shoes gives up title to the shoes because he perceives himself as being better off by acquiring the $100 rather than further retention of his title to the shoes. When there is voluntary exchange, both parties to the exchange are better off in their own estimation. In other words, voluntary exchange is a positive sum game.

When there are coercive exchanges, regardless of the justifi¬cation, we have a zero sum game where in order for one person to be better off necessarily requires another to be worse off. In my example, this would be where the person steals the shoes. Clearly, he would be better off but only at the expense of the shoe owner who would be worse off. It is immoral for one person to be forcibly used to serve the purposes of an¬other. I might add that it makes little difference in terms of morality whether the person is being used privately or collectively through Congress to serve the purposes of another.

Rise of the Market
Throughout most of mankind's history, the route to great wealth accumula¬tion was through enslavement, pillage, plunder and conquest. In pre capitalist societ¬ies, a few people had enormous riches while the many were very poor and subject to arbitrary control and abuse by others.¬ Indeed it was the rise of free markets, that made the accumulation of wealth possible through serving one's fellow man, namely finding out what one's fellow man wants and providing it in a least cost manner. This vision does not apply to crony capitalism where people seek governmental special favors and privileges as a means to greater wealth.

Propaganda and stubborn ignorance has it that the advances of capitalism benefit only the rich. The evidence refutes that. The rich have always been able to afford entertainment, but it was the development and marketing of radio and television that made enter¬tainment accessible to the common man. The rich have never had the drudgery of washing and ironing clothing, beating out carpets or waxing floors. It was the development and mass production of washing machines, wash and wear clothing, vacuum cleaners and no-wax floors that spared the common man of this drudgery. At one time, only the rich could afford automobiles, telephones and computers. Now all but a tiny percentage of Americans enjoy these goods.

The output and wealth generated through free markets contrib¬utes to a more civilized society. For most of mankind's existence, he has had to spend most of his time simply eking out a living. In pre-industrial society and in many places in the world still today, the most optimistic scenario for the ordinary citizen was to be able to eke out enough to meet his physical needs for another day. But with the rise of capitalism and the concomitant rise in human productivity that yielded seemingly ceaseless economic progress, it was no longer necessary for mankind to spend his entire day simply providing for minimum physical needs. People were able to satisfy their physical needs with less and less time. This made it possible for them to have the time and resources to develop spiritually and culturally.

In other words, the rise of capitalism enabled the gradual extension of civilization to greater and greater numbers of people. More people have time available to read, become educated in the liberal arts and gain more knowledge about the world around them. Greater wealth permits them to attend the arts, afford recreation, contemplate more fulfilling and interesting life activities and enjoy other culturally enriching activities that were formerly within the purview of only the rich.

Income Distribution
The most frequent justification for the interventionist state is to create greater fairness and justice in the distribution of income. Considerable confusion, obfuscation, demagoguery and ignorance about the sources of income provide the interventionist with a plenty of ammunition to justify their agenda. Some people see income as being distributed as if out there is a dealer of dollars. That vision quite naturally leads to the conclusion that if some people have fewer dollars than others the dollar dealer is a racist, sexist or a multi-nationalist. Thus, justice and fairness requires a re-dealing of dollars, or income redistribution, where the "ill-gotten" gains of the few are returned to their rightful owners.

In a free society, income is not distributed. Income is earned. People serving one another through the provision of goods and services earn income. That income provides the earner with claims on goods and services produced by his fellow man. The quantity of income, and hence one's claim on goods and services produced by his fellow man, is determined by the value his fellow places on what he produces.

Let's look at it. Say I mow your lawn. When I'm finished, you pay me $20. I go to my grocer and demand, "Give me two pounds of steak and a six-pack of beer that my fellow man produced." In effect, the grocer asks, "Williams, what did you do to deserve a claim on what your fellow man produced? I say, "I served him." The grocer says, "Prove it." That's when I pull out the $20 I earned. We might think of those twenty dollars as "certificates of performance", evidence of service. This process promotes a moral discipline that says: Unless we are able and willing to serve our fellow man, we shall have no claim on what he produces. Contrast that moral discipline to government handouts where a person is told, "You don't have to serve your fellow man. We'll take what he produces and give it to you."

None of what I've said today is an argument against helping one's fellow man in need. I believe that charity is noble. Reaching into one's own pockets to help one's fellow man is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pockets to do so is despicable and worth of condemnation. The latter is nothing less than legalized theft. In the recognition of this, James Madison said, "Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." Moreover, I'm sure that when God gave Moses the commandment "Thou Shalt not Steal", I'm sure He didn't mean thou shalt not steal unless you got a majority vote in Congress.

The great problems that confront our nation have their roots in morality where we've asked government to commit immoral and unconstitutional acts. We don't have many years to turn it around so that today's young people can live in and bequeath to their children the robust nation that was bequeathed to us by our grandparents. But if there's an optimistic note for us is that we Americans have not done the wrong thing for a long time. However, we'd better get about the task of straightening out our nation while we have the liberty to do so.

The biggest part that you individually can play is to be moral yourself and try to sell our fellow man on the moral superiority of personal liberty and its main ingredient limited government. Good luck and congratulations to parents, graduating students and Grove City's dedicated faculty.

Grove City College Trustee, Guest Lecturer in Economics and distinguished author Dr. Walter E. Williams delivered the keynote address at the 2012 Grove City College Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 19, at 10 a.m., on the Quad between Harbison Chapel and Crawford Hall of the Grove City College campus.

“We, as Muslims, don’t have to tell people why we do the crazy things we do”

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Stealth Islamic Propaganda Shown to Six Million American Students

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Drones Shot Down Over Texas

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Context of the Korea Special Forces Story

Context of the Korea Special Forces Story

28.05.12

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Categorie: David Axe, North Korea, Special Forces |

Tags: North Korea, Special Forces



by DAVID AXE



Some folks have accused me of "fabricating" quotations I attributed to Army

Brig. Gen. Neil Tolley regarding U.S. surveillance operations in North

Korea. See the original story here . and skepticism here and here.



The context was a panel featuring theater Special Operations Forces

commanders at the SOFIC conference in Florida the week of May 21. Tolley

spoke on the record to an audience of hundreds of industry, government and

media representatives.



If he was speaking hypothetically, he did not say so. He spoke in the

present tense . and at length. (Probably five minutes or so.)



Update #1: Oops. Actually, don't take Paul McLeary at Defense News as

corroboration. He has a different spin on the story. And besides, I forgot

that he and I used some of the same notes - my notes. But my notes have

Tolley saying what I attribute to him in the story.



Look people, Korea's not my usual beat. Far from it. I don't always know

what's news and what isn't in Korea. But I was in the room at the

conference. I took notes. There were many hundreds of witnesses - and

cameras, too.



Update #2: People are telling me that surely Tolley was speaking

hypothetically. If so, he did not specify. Or if he did, I did not hear him.

I heard him describing the technical challenges of conducting human

surveillance in North Korea. He described the problem, and his solution to

the problem, and the challenges incumbent in the solution. Sounded pretty

concrete to me.



Update #3: Comment from U.S. Forces Korea:



    Brig. Gen. Tolley recently participated in a theater special operations

command commander panel discussion at a Special Operations Forces industry

conference.  Some reporting has taken great liberal license with his

comments and taken him completely out of context. Quotes have been made up

and attributed to him.  No U.S. or ROK forces have parachuted into North

Korea. Though special reconnaissance is a core special operations force

mission, at no time have SOF forces been  sent to the north to conduct

special reconnaissance. The use of tunnels in North Korea is well

documented. Several of the known tunnels along the DMZ are visited by

tourists every day.



Update #4: Frankly, I'm relieved to hear the military say we're NOT sending

troops into North Korea. Some observers wonder how I could ever believe that

we HAD - after all, that would be an act of war. Yes, but we routinely

strike military and terror targets in foreign countries in ways that could

be construed as acts of war. Pakistan, anyone? Korea watchers are SHOCKED at

Tolley's comments, whatever the general's true meaning was. I guess I wasn't

as shocked because I'm accustomed to creeping American warfare.



By the way, I'm beginning to realize what a big deal this all is. Wish I'd

realized that earlier. But all that doesn't change what Tolley said,

according to my notes.



Update #5: I got to say, I'm hating this. I honestly had no idea this tiny

little story would be such a big deal. Yes, the news was "surprising" to me.

But a lot of news is a surprise to me . that's why it's news.



Update #6: I really hope someone has a transcript of this panel. Are my

handwritten notes inaccurate? Was the general vague in his comments? A

third-party written record will help clear this up. Anyone?



Update #7: So I'm attaching photos of my notes. Hard to read, I know. And

yes, I could FAKE notes. So I realize these won't necessarily convince

anyone who thinks I'm a North Korean agent trying to incite a war. For what

it's worth .



Update #8: Any other reporters who want clarity on this chain of reporting,

contact me at david_axe-at-hotmail.com. I'm in U.S. eastern time.



Update #9: Can I reiterate please how much I'm hating this? I've been shot

at and blown up and even kidnapped without feeling as crappy as I do about

this. I'm in this weird vortex where so many people are telling me I could

not possibly have heard what I said I heard that part of me is beginning to

believe them. I keep re-reading my notes, as though looking for something

new. I'm a reliable note-taker and a fairly seasoned reporter (I think) but

I can only write down what I hear and what I understand. Did I really screw

something up here? Am I being snowed by a general who said something he

shouldn't have and now fears for his career? Is it all a misunderstanding? I

have no idea any more. I just have these two sheets of paper in my hand .

and a lot of people telling me I'm about to start a war.



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Wisconsin: Another large mosque forced on another rural neighborhood

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U.S. Special Forces are in North Korea

New post on Fellowship of the Minds U.S. Special Forces are in North Korea by Dr. Eowyn As the war drums beat ever louder against Syria, in the name of "human rights," the startling news this morning is that U.S. special forces have been parachuting into North Korea to, in the words of "a senior US officer," "gather intelligence about underground military installations." Ask yourself this question: What if one of our Special Ops is captured by the lunatic North Koreans? The UK's Telegraph reports, May 29, 2012, that at a conference held in Florida last week, Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South Korea, said that North Korea had built thousands of tunnels since the Korean war, which are hidden from our satellites. And so, Tolley revealed: "So we send (South Korean) soldiers and US soldiers to the North to do special reconnaissance. After 50 years, we still don't know much about the capability and full extent of the underground facilities. We don't know how many we don't know about." Tolley's comments were reported on the website of The Diplomat, the National Defense Industrial Association's magazine. Gen Tolley said the commandos were sent in with minimal equipment to facilitate their movements and minimize the risk of detection by North Korean forces. At least four of the tunnels built by Pyongyang go under the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. Among the facilities identified are 20 air fields that are partially underground, and thousands of artillery positions. In February, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that Pyongyang had built at least two new tunnels at a nuclear testing site, likely in preparation for a new test. +++ Here are some statistics to remember: U.S. national debt is now $16 trillion. But U.S. "defense" military budget keeps going up: from $370 in 2001, to $620 billion in 2006, to $900 billion in 2012. Since 1990 when America's most formidable enemy the Soviet Union fell apart, ending the Cold War, U.S. military expenses depleted the U.S. Treasury of $11.5 trillion. U.S. national debt in 1990 was $3.2 trillion. Today, it is $15.7 trillion -- a 500% increase in 22 years. In 2001, spending on "defense" was 17% of total governmental spending. In 2012, Defense, Homeland Security, and war spending account for 25% of government spending. We have thrown over $1.3 trillion down Middle East rat holes over the last 11 years with no discernible benefit to the citizens of the United States. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost America the lives of 6,470 soldiers and 47,545 wounded -- thus far. America's perpetual wars are stressing and pushing our soldiers beyond their limits. Suicides by soldiers increased by 80% between 2004 and 2008. There are almost as many deaths by suicide as deaths in combat. Half of our returning Iraq and Afghan wars soldiers will go on disability. Our military veterans, who make up 13% of the population, account for 23% of the homeless. Still on the fence about the U.S. Perpetual War Machine? ~Eowyn Dr. Eowyn | May 29, 2012 at 6:33 am | Tags: Afghan war, Gen. Neil Tolley, Iraq war, military suicides, military veterans, South Korea, US military spending | Categories: Military, Terrorism, United States | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-eHg Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/u-s-special-forces-are-in-north-korea/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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