We Are Not Free: Politicians and their fear of the free man

In light of Arizona politicians refusing to uphold the freedom of the individual mandate found in the Arizona constitution I thought it appropriate to explore this a bit further.
Arizona's constitutions says the following:
Article II.
Section 1. A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is essential to the security of
individual rights and the perpetuity of free government.
Section 2. All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their 
just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain
individual rights.


It seems to find an honest politician is very rare as they seek power and not the defense of liberty.  This story goes into how an Idaho politician has been berated by the system and his "fellow republicans" for not upholding the power of the state.

The Plunderbund's Persecution of Phil Hart
Rep. Hart's actual offense was not withholding payment of taxes, but rather refusing to surrender to the IRS the names and contact information of the thousands of people who purchased his self-published book Constitutional Income: Do You Have Any?, a detailed, scholarly examination of the history of the federal income tax.  


"I read your book `Constitutional Income: Do You Have Any?'" Hart was notified in a letter from IRS agent Barbara Parks announcing that the state-sponsored terrorist clique employing her was beginning an "investigation" of the book. The purpose of that inquiry, she continued, was "to determine whether or not your statements are commercial speech and whether this activity causes harm to the government."

With the help of the Center for Individual Rights, Hart successfully sued the IRS to interdict the agency's demand that he turn over the names of everybody who had purchased his book. Four years later, the IRS retaliated against Hart by issuing a final audit report denying all of his business deductions for eight years, hitting him with an additional tax liability of roughly $125,000.

Already under siege by the world's most despicable terrorist syndicate (no, not al-Qaeda -- the IRS), Hart now has to contend with spurious charges of seeking "special treatment" and "financial gain." Yet state Rep. Ken Roberts remains secure within the Idaho Republican Party in spite of the fact, recently disclosed by the Lewiston Tribune, that Roberts has received nearly $370,000 in farm subsidies since 1995.

Roberts, who ritualistically reviles subsidies directed at others, insists that when he's on the receiving end of plunder he's not redistributing wealth, but rather "recycling wealth." Predictably, nobody in the state Republican leadership has proposed that Roberts be subjected to an ethics inquiry.

My thoughts: Typical of politicians.  They have no moral grounding.

National News Monday 5/10/2010

Libertarianism:

• Stossel, What is a libertarian? 
• Stossel on Taxes 
• An Inconvenient Tax 
• The Simpsons & Civil Liberties 
• Ron Paul & Civil Liberties 
• Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 1870 

National Politics 

• Obama Doesn't Like that People Can Know the Truth see also Comments by Lew Rockwell 
• Thoughts on Elena Kagan the New Nomination to the US Supreme Court see also this article and this article
• National Debt 

This Week in Abuses by the State  

•  Kent State Killings and New Information Released from FBI
  
  • My Thoughts:  Don't trust the government to ever give you enough information to make a reasonable decision on policy and reactions to disasters.
• Joe Lieberman vs.  Citizen Shahzad see also this Times Opinion Piece and Terrorists and Over Blown Fear
• Update: Joe Introduces Bill to Back His Words
• US Military Special Forces May Have Been Involved In Capture 
• My Thoughts:  Ernest  Hancock talks about taking away of your citizenship in context of civil liberties.  It's interesting to see politicians actually talk about it.  It defeats the purpose of having civil liberties if we can arbitrarily take them away at a persons whim.  It's interesting that this already happens with President Obama being able to sentence Americans to death without due process.
• How Many Laws Are Useful?  Consider the consequences. 
• Suspicious Package: TSA Worker Jailed After Junk Joke
• Pulling away from a Federal officer is an assault (Listen to video)
• My Thoughts:  I was question the veracity of things I read and listen to.  Even with main stream media (MSM) I have to question it since I know I've been lied to so much.  But assuming this video is true it makes me ask the question, what are we doing?  This is not congruent to a free society.
• Gregory Girard: Political Prisoner