Based on Richard A. Epstein’s new Broadside, this video outlines the differences between the classical liberalism of the Tea Parties and the progressive agenda advanced by the OWS movement, and reveals that the painful performance of the American economy in the past decade is not a function of bad luck, but the product of flawed institutional design.
We are reaping the harvest of efforts to reinvigorate the progressive programs of the New Deal that stress high progressive taxes, large transfer payments, strong labor laws, and major barriers to free trade. This combination of public finance and market regulation has proved a potent force for disaster.
Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School.
“The Occupy movement seems to have dropped out of the news lately. Why did that happen? I think the people are still out there, but the coverage is mostly gone. There is this Drudge-linked AP report about campers in LA and Philadelphia getting rousted by the police. That’s a news event — cops in riot gear, people arrested — and it’s covered. What’s missing is all the attention to the demands and critiques of the protesters — the political substance of the movement.
I’m guessing that the expression of the protesters — in form and substance — wasn’t serving the interests journalists favor. Excessively left-wing speech coming out of an angry/confused/unclean face… it’s not helping the mainstream Democrats.”
Last month I dedicated Blogging Mothers Magazine to the difference between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
This Post is dedicated to my friend Ruth Mangus who died this past week.
(Ruth is in the purple t shirt in front of the gate at the Denver Capitol and I am standing on the UN flag counter demonstrating at an Anti War Rally in September of 2005)
I just watched/listened to this interview with Vinny Eastwood on Wide Awake News:
I completely agree with both men who make the case that while the organizers of OWS are Obvious Marxists, those sincere citizens who have taken to the streets around the world are mostly honest hearted souls who want some financial justice.
I also agree with Vinny when he claims that the biggest problem in the world is the Globalists who have been setting up a Genocidal Top Down Marxist Police State. Â The Money Mongers planned to use Modern Medicine and the Main Stream Media as the tool to control, regulate, and eventually depopulate the Masses of Humanity, but the push back from We The People has been intense the past few years and I like to think we have them on the run.
This post is my attempt to help expose the fact that for decades lefty activist leadership has been funded by Marxists to destroy the American Free Enterprise System and rob the American People of their sovereignty. They are constantly shoving the American People to the left through media manipulation and “all socialism all the time” in American Public Schools.
First a little history…
Like so many activists I first had to have my eyes opened before I was willing to begin researching the facts.
I experienced a nervous breakdown after the birth of my first baby in 1988 and was hospitalized for Post Partum Psychosis. Â I was breastfeeding my daughter and did not want to stop in order to take Psychiatric Medications. Â After a month long fight with the Michigan Psychiatric Association, I finally found myself in front of a judge who informed me that I was “Court Ordered” to eat psychiatric meds as well as an additional 90 day sentence in the local state mental institution.
Over the next year I ate a cocktail of drugs including Haldol, Stelazine, Lithium, and Prozac and was also treated for a sexually transmitted disease, herpes simplex II with an anti viral drug Zovirex. Â I was gang raped in the state mental hospital by four orderlies and a few months after being released from the hospital developed oral herpes. Â (I was raped orally and vaginally by these men while strapped to a four point restraint table the first night of my hospitalization). Â I was also put on a thyroid medication later in the year by my Family Doctor, and the week I started taking that drug I had significant symptoms of a heart attack, although I did not know that at the time.
In the spring of 1990 I read an article about Prozac in Newsweek Magazine and something in the article made me consider the idea that a suicidal incident I experienced a few weeks after starting Prozac could have been caused by the drug. Â I had been re hospitalized in the fall of 1989 for a week because I was suicidal. Â Thankfully the psychiatrist in that hospital took me off the major tranquilizers and I was able to begin my detox, but he doubled my dose of Prozac and that caused significant distress in my body and mind.
The spring of 1990 I worked with a female psychiatrist who was open to the idea of me weaning off all of my meds and helped me to carefully and thoughtfully break through the barrier to a drug free existence. Â Coming off Prozac was the most difficult thing I have EVER done.
Here is a collage of my healing journey
In 1990 I began to find my footing as a human being again and although suffering great emotional distress whenever yearly anniversaries from the times I was molested as a child and raped as an adult hit, I was able to get through that emotional pain without using medications and/or numbing myself with alcohol or illegal drugs. Â I understand the need for sexual abuse survivors to self medicate and don’t judge anyone for choosing to do that, but I want to throw out the idea that healing from the most devastating traumas can be achieved with sobriety because I have done it.
The love of my children and husband coupled with my Faith in Jesus Christ carried me through the most difficult
suicidal moments and I was also greatly aided by an absolute focus on nourishing my body and mind with whole foods, herbs, vitamins, exercise, sunshine, and fresh air. Â Living in Boulder County these past twenty years has also been therapeutic as I have healed these past two decades.
A huge part of my healing was aided by a willingness to ask my Heavenly Father to guide me to the truth about my life.
Why did I lose my mind after my daughter was born?
How did the psychiatric industry get so much power?
What forces were at work in terms of politics, money, and control that made it possible for the courts to have so much decision making power over my personal life?
And, What sort of trends were we as a society on as we moved towards this trajectory of using modern medicine for all that ails us and what was the long range result of all of us being dependent on pills and surgery to “cure” every ill?
Because I have worked mostly as an at home mother since marrying in 1988, I had the great opportunity to spend hours and hours every day reading. Â I mostly read while nursing my babies in the early years, and these past few years I have been sick in bed for hours every day and have loads of time to read, and read, and read.
My quest for the truth about why I went insane has taken me to some dark places in terms of learning the truth about the agendas, money, and people who are at the heart of the efforts to Collectivize the World into a Medical Police State.
Learning about those dark places compelled me to get active and start organizing against them.
I don’t claim to understand or know all of the agendas.
But I do understand that the destruction of the Family is the ultimate end game for many of those people who are pulling the levers and strings manipulating the people around the planet. Â For it is with the destruction of the Family Unit that the powers that be are able to sit back and reap a mountain of cash and control.
While I strongly affiliate myself with the Tea Party and Health Freedom Movements, I also consider myself a Neo Con Hawk who believes that War can be used as a tool for good when attempting to free those who are enslaved on our planet.
When this level of deception exists in America and those activists who don’t understand how a Police State is run DEFEND it, well you can understand why I would run into the arms of the Conservative Activists standing up for the Constitution, Rule of Law, and Separation of Powers outlined in the Founding Documents of the USA.  Yet I am revolted by the Anti Muslim rhetoric of so many on the right and feel that the Military Industrial Complex has lost its credibility and soul because of its marriage to Modern Medicine.  So many of our soldiers have committed suicide these past few years because of being over dosed on Anti Depressants.  Tens of Thousands of Soldiers have died since receiving the Squalene Adjuventated Vaccines that are constantly being  jabbed into our military and I think that horrifying fraud needs to be exposed and stopped.
At the beginning of the War in Iraq my brother was serving in Iraq and sent weekly emails to our family. Â He expressed frustration with the fact that the media was not reporting the good things happening in that country. Â So I affiliated myself with Free Republic and began attending Anti War Demonstrations to counter demonstrate against the left. Â As the years clicked by and I learned more and more about how the left organizes, plans, and conducts political street theatre, I became convinced that a Marxist Cancer was manipulating the minds of the American People through the Universities, Media, and Hollywood towards a medical police state.
And I stood up and yelled.
I am still yelling…but the blow back has been intense and it is not easy to know and understand all of the agendas.
But I can testify to this: Â At some level what I have written and what I have done has so upset the powers that be that they have done just about everything within their power to “quietly” shut me up.
This fact alone has taught me that the promotion of Family Sovereignty, Family Freedom, Mothers having autonomy over their bodies and minds and over the bodies and minds of their children upsets them and tells me that I am on the right track…
So I am going to keep yelling…
And I hope that as the yelling continues we can all come to a meeting of the minds about what sort of a society will be best for Fathers, Mothers, and Children.
Because if the Family is destroyed…society becomes a great big nothing.
I have been a fan of Ron Paul for many years. Â Although I have formally endorsed Michele Bachmann for President this election cycle, Ron Paul is a close second choice to lead our nation back to Free Market Sanity. Â I am so grateful he is in the race. His voice on the worlds stage gives him an opportunity to share the facts about Economics. Â Here is a clip from the interview yesterday on Meet the Press.
“What we’re witnessing today is the failure of a Keynesian economic model,” Paul said. “And today we have to replace it with something — we either replace it with more government, more authoritarianism, more controls, or we look toward the free market.”
To learn more about the difference between Keynesian Economics Vs. the Austrian Model as articulated by Hayek, please watch these informative videos:
Reason cartoon contributor Scott Stantis references the famous Hayek-Keynes debates in his syndicated daily strip Prickly City — with a punchline about how much, alas, most people care.
So the President is going to propose a new economic plan after his vacay at Marthas Vineyard.
He should not waste the mental energy attempting to put it together, Ayn Rand has already done the heavy lifting on that topic by taking Collectivism in America to its logical conclusion with Directive 10-289 in the chapter Miracle Metal of Atlas Shrugged.
Ayn used Fiction to help her readers understand what Marxism “Looked Like” in real life by creating fictional characters who could be played today by any of the secular humanists currently embedded in our National Government.
Barack, Tim, David, and Gene could easily play Mr. Thompson, Wesley, Eugene, Floyd, and Fred in the upcoming second installment of Atlas Shrugged, the Movie. Â But the Prez and his Economic team are busy with vacations and writing even more talking points blaming all of the economic morass on tea party activists like me. And preparing a “really big show” for September takes a great deal of time…
Here is a quick synopsis of the  Economic Plan of the Marxist Looters and Moochers from Rands book: (I really think to be congruent the President and his Economic Advisers should just bite the bullet and publish this plan as the logical next step.)
“Head of State Thompson meets with his economic brain trust: Wesley Mouch, Eugene Lawson, Jim Taggart, Dr. Floyd Ferris, Orren Boyle, Clem Weatherby, and Fred Kinnan, who is head of Amalgamated Labor of America. They are discussing Directive 10-289.
Wesley Mouch is upset that people are not sufficiently motivated to cooperate; he needs more power. Weatherby points out that the economic climate is deteriorating rapidly. Lawson says the people lack the proper social spirit, they don’t understand that production is a duty and that there is no such thing as a personal life. Thompson, the realist, says to make sure the Mainstream Media is on board. Ferris brings out an old George Washington quote about wise and honest men and disparages it as out of date.
Fred Kinnan says this is about jobs; he suggests forcing employers to increase their payrolls by one-third. Jim screams that he wouldn’t have any use for the extra men. Kinnan says it’s not about use, it’s about need, and need trumps profit. Jim is insulted by the word profit, but he thinks there might be room for agreement if the railroad can increase its rates. Orren Boyle says he can’t afford it, and Jim says that public need trumps Boyle’s profits. Boyle says no one can accuse him of ever making a profit! Boyle can absorb a rate increase if the government increases his subsidy, but Weatherby accuses Boyle of running a black hole for government money. Thompson says to go ahead with the directive, and he’ll widen the state of emergency. He leaves the meeting.
Mouch sums up. Deterioration of the economy is so great that the best solution is to freeze everything in place and hold the line. Freedom has been given a chance and has failed; stringent controls are necessary. He reads Directive 10-289.
All workers are bound to their jobs and can neither leave nor be fired under penalty of one year in prison. The Unification Board, reporting to the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources, possesses judicial authority. All citizens upon turning 21 must register with the Unification Board which will assign them jobs in the best interests of the nation.
All businesses must remain in operation and cannot close under penalty of nationalization and confiscation of property.
All patents and copyrights are to be gifted to the government by the use of voluntary Gift Certificates. The Unification Board will license those processes to all applicants to eliminate monopolies. All brand names and private trademarks are abolished.
No new inventions shall be produced or invented. The Patent Office is suspended.
All business establishments will produce the same amount every year as they did in the Yardstick Year, to be enforced by the Unification Board.
All citizens must purchase the same amount of goods every year as they did in the Yardstick Year, to be enforced by the Unification Board.
All wages and prices are frozen.
All cases arising from this directive are to be decided by the Unification Board.
There is agreement that this will provide security, although Jim gets a bit hysterical. Lawson says to hell with the little people; man’s mind is the source of all the problems in the world. Ferris says that genius is superstition, there is no such thing as the intellect, and man’s brain is a social product. A genius hoards ideas that rightfully belong to the society from which he stole them. Thought is theft.
Fred Kinnan brings them all down to earth. If the Unification Board isn’t owned by organized labor, the whole deal is off. Boyle says that Kinnan is trying to get a stranglehold on every industry in the country; Kinnan smiles and agrees. If Wesley Mouch agrees to let Mouch and Kinnan control the board, Kinnan can get the union membership to swallow the rest. Jim thinks the country won’t stand for it.
Kinnan laughs and says that if there aren’t rules any longer, then it’s about who robs whom. Kinnan controls the votes of his membership. He knows he’s delivering his people into slavery and they know it too, but they also know Fred Kinnan will throw them a crumb once in a while. If they’re going to be under a whip, they would prefer that Kinnan wield it. He knows he’s a racketeer and his people know it, but they know he can deliver the goods. Mouch gives in.”
No hard feelings guys, I know that my constant drumbeat the past eight years dissing your wives for their epidurals and prozac and your kids ADD meds and vaccines was somewhat annoying, but Rupert and his cronies at The Partnership for New York City have hell to pay for what they have done to humanity. Â He likely has a few freeper mods paid well for sending certain threads down the memory hole & banning loud mouthed bloggers who get a little too close to the truth and if a freedom loving health care blogging Mom gets thrust out of the conversations of the day because I talk too much about certain taboo subjects…well, WHO WILL NOTICE?
Just remember that when 60 % of young couples are infertile, the C-Section rate tops out at 96%, and 75% of our children are drooling in autistic straitjackets, somebody was trying to blow really hard on that whistle.
I watched this movie and figured it was a good one to share.
Last month I dedicated Blogging Mothers Magazine to the difference between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
