video: http://www.booktv.org/watch.aspx?ProgramId=LW-10300
----- Original Message ----- From: BOB TAFT To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 10:30 AM Subject: Robert Higgs on Book TV Excellent interview aired on C-Span2 this morning of one who epitomizes free enterprise which is sadly too often confused with monopoly capitalism, especially in Washington city. http://www.booktv.org/watch.aspx?ProgramId=LW-10300 If nothing else is gained from the interview, Robert Higgs, whose hero is Von Mises, made one extremely important point: BIGGER IS NOT BETTER! He really wasn't referring to the rash of dieting plans and weight-loss concoctions advertised on TV, though the idea is also there-applicable. He was talking about government, particularly of the current mass irresponsibility aired at concocting a world slave-state. While irresponsibility is the root of societal decline and death, the greedy humanoid desire to dominate is also extremely powerful. You see humanoid greed everywhere, especially as government disintegrates away from whatever freedom concept it once pretended to have, and towards total dominance of as many people as it may subjugate. At one time the USSR was the guilty party. Today the US is universally despised and for good reason. Most startling is that outsiders still struggle to gain entrance to our dying economy, because the freedom concept that started it off is still alive in their eyes. The one big point Mr. Higgs left us with that proves the decline of our society when the subversive 1787 Con-Job was imposed, was that when you eliminate choice between competing governments, you eliminate the people's choices of havens from dominance. Under our superior Articles of Confederation of 1777 (based as it was on the earlier Algonquin Confederation), we had thirteen sovereign states. If you found freedom waning in one state, you were free to move to another. This kept government in check. Then after thirteen years of freedom and independence, including the winning of that independence from the British Crown, our moneyed Founding Scoundrels snatched freedom away from the people and eliminated their free choice between no-longer competing governments. You can extend the idea of competition to other declining areas of present society, most dangerously in the money and banking scam. Allowing banks to cross state lines has increased bank dominance - and their reciprocal control over un-checked government - to where the people at large are now mere pawns in the games of their masters. This used to be called feudalism. Is it any different? Banks, like governments, should be strictly local affairs, if we allow non-usurious banks, their area of operation should be limited to a state, or better yet a county. I don't know if Mr. Higgs gets into an understanding of Exodus 18:21 government in his writing. I'll have to find out. There he would fully understand how to defeat the democratic scourge that pits competing groups within a society, each with the goal of dominance of others. Ordinarily competition is a valuable means of obtaining a worthwhile goal, but not when that goal is the elimination of freedom for others. http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=74897 If we are to reinstitute freedom one day, out of the ashes of the current dying civilization, we'd better start studying the past. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
