Is there no way to stop the Impending CIA Interrogation Report which will create violence?

Well said, Robbie.

You are always welcome here. Thank you for your time. I was glad to trade value (my $) for your book and time.

Rand's writings have nothing to do with wealth or riches, power, or any other item to designate one as set above or aside or higher in status than any one else. Remember the mother with the two children. The government, political, and social situation will not end until the entire system crashes and the leeches vanish. As in her writings and as you see on our current horizon, that will not be an easy or fast process and will not be quiet, peaceful, Most likely, we will not be able to physical leave, as in the book, but to speed up the process, we can stop participating. Stop giving them your intellectual coin. You can see them now using the intellectual information they receive from others then twisting it to serve the greater purpose for the improvement of the moment. They will implode, some of it is already happening.

Thank you for stopping by the Gulch

how do you as a pre-Vatican II traditional Catholic reconcile the teaching of Pope Pious IX on religious liberty, which forbids states to allow the public expression of any other religion which is not the true Catholic Faith? what would be the libertarian view point?

Thank you very kindly. :)
Please come again.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Thank you for joining us! Feel free to jump in at any time.

Ditto. Thanks.

Thank you for spending this time with us.
I look forward to reading your book.
And I look forward to the days ahead: they will bring correction, either though government reform or personal rejection.

All the best.

Let me say thank you to all of you who have spent an hour with me today. I think you’ll all enjoy Suicide Pact. I have a feeling that the questions came from people who are like me and it's a joy to be with you!

Judge, in the beginning the constitution designated Senators as state representatives (chosen by their legislatures), and that POTUS and VP were the top two electoral vote-getters.

With regards to the Senate, how much do you think this has taken away the essence and purpose/intent of the bicameral system and would you be in favor of returning to that? Would you agree that this amended rule is a significant factor in the disintegration of states' rights?

Regarding the presidency, what impact do you think that system would have today?

Obama's decision for "suspending deportation" of 5 million "illegals" seems to be based upon the Constitutional authority of YOUNGSTOWN SHEET & TUBE CO v SAWYER 343 US 579 [1952]. Justice Jackson seems to have granted POTUS a "zone of twilight" to issue executive decisions. Comments?

This happens when the wolves and sheep get to vote on what's for dinner. As soon as the balance tips to the favor of the wolves the banquet is on.

Oh that would be something I'd love to see!

Ding, ding, ding! We have winner! Perfect answer.
Thank's again. :)

Yet you are the nearest real-life analogue to Judge Narragansett. I realized that five years ago, when I attended my first "Tea Party" rally, and someone showed up with a sign: "Stop taxing us or Atlas will shrug."

It seems that no one has realized that we can figure out how fast Mike Brown was moving during the shooting from the physical evidence. Brown moved towards Wilson 25'. The audio of the shots is 6.572 seconds long with a 3 second pause apparently when Brown paused. That means that Brown moved 25' in 3.572 seconds. That means that Brown was moving at 4.77 mph, hardly a charge, more like a brisk walk. Try it yourself. So was Brown charging full speed, head down as Wilson and some witnesses allege or was he stumbling forward with 4 gunshot wounds? This goes to the reasonableness of Wilson's fear and the accuracy of his testimony. It certainly seems like enough to indict.

I think you know our oath, "I swear by my life and my love of it ..."

I prefer the system that was used before the federal income tax which is user fees on federal property typically ports or assessments to the states for services the federal government performed for the states.

I would abolish the federal income tax. I would not permit a federal sales tax or use tax at all.

The fantastic growth of the federal government began when the feds stopped assessing the states and started assessing individuals.

In my world view, the federal government wouldn’t have the money to do much of what it does today because the states just wouldn’t send it [money] in.

As interesting as it is, if the federal government assessed the states, there’s very little the feds could do to the states that didn’t pay the assessment. In fact, it would be a way of saying thanks but no thanks.

What is your opinion on whether the American People will ever be able to once again claim all rights once again now that our recent Federal Government from Eisenhower forward) has tried to take away through legislation and / or Executive Order? I am not confident that the voting booth is the solution. Especially with the electronic voting.

I was thinking more along the lines of Judge Narragansett. It will take much to make Atlantis a reality, but you will be one of the first invited when we open for business.

Well again I think it is governable by a Constitution when the Constitution is reposed in the hands of people who are faithful to it.

If you take the 535 members of US Congress each session since 1900, I’m adding the House and Senate together, and throw in the 10 or 12 Presidents we’ve had since 1900 (so you’re looking at the total number of occupants of the White House, House of Representatives, and the Senate in the 20th century and the first 15 years of this century) you’ll probably find less than 1 or 2 percent who are truly faithfully to the Constitution. That is the Madisonian version of the Constitution - the essence of which is not one that unleashes government but one that chains down the government to do only what the Constitution permits.

If the numbers were reversed. If you had 98, 97, or 96 percent that were faithful to the Constitution and only a few that were not we would not have this problem. Why do we have the problem? We have the problem because of what Jefferson warned about which is when the public treasury become a public trough and the public learns of it it [the public] will only send to Washington people that promise to bring home the biggest piece of the pie. Whether that pie is bailouts for the rich, tax breaks for the middle class, or welfare for the poor or corporatism - corporate welfare (a variant of bailouts for the rich).

The government will continue to reward those who keep it in power. Unless and until you have a critical mass of people in the government who are more faithful to the document to which they’ve taken an oath than to the love of power and office this will always happen.

When you can find people who love fidelity to their oath and to the document and love human freedom over power over other human beings we can return to a small-government-maximum-individual-liberty society which we haven’t seen in this country in the memory of anyone now living.