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Doggett, et. al voted to allow mandatory home inspections

Published July 2nd, 2009 in Web/Tech, Economic Independence and Current Affairs. 0 Comments

If you value privacy, then your dander should be up with the recent passage of the climate bill in CONgress. The bill contains provisions requiring that all homes be inspected by approved energy inspectors. The inspectors will check outlets, lamps, hot tubs, ceiling fans, windows and other appliances. The inspections will be required and are enforced with a fine. They are calling it the Comprehensive Home Energy Audit. Heaven help you if the auditors find your drugs, guns, porn or other items of interest to them as they go through your home.

Here is a list of the CONgress critters that voted for higher energy bills, mandatory home inspections and other silliness.

Henry Cuellar
Lloyd Doggett
Charlie Gonzalez
Al Green
Gene Green (who sold out the refineries of Texas)
Ruben Hinojosa
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Sheila Jackson Lee
Silvestre Reyes

If any of these are your CONgress Critter, you will know who to blame when there is a knock at your door for your inspection, when you pay more for fuel and electricity, and other maladies. Do not cry about the oil companies, rising taxes, gasoline prices-Vote them out of office. They are the ones to blame and hold accountable!
They sold you out. They do not value your freedom. They do not care about the sanctity of your home. They do not care about whose privacy they invade. They do not care about Texas or Texans. Remember them come 2010.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
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More of the same with a vengance!

Published June 26th, 2009 in Economic Independence and Current Affairs. 0 Comments

One of the definitions of insanity is when you keep doing what you have always been doing and expecting something different. Well, the Hussein regime wants to keep the community reinvestment act going. The same Carter era policy that provided the meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is back. Not only is it back, they want it strengthened!  Even with all the talk about change, in terms of policy, the Demokratic party is regressive in what it implements. Talk change, but govern regressiveley.

What does this mean to Southrons? It means more financial affirmative action. It means that all the talk about equality means nothing. It means the regime is into micromanaging the empire. The regime knows that in controlling the money, they control the people, hence they promote programs to micro-manage the finances. It was necessary to provide loans to the banks, not so much to prop them up, but to gain control.

As Southrons, we need to patronize local banks whenever possible. We need to avoid purchasing ANY government securities or bonds. We need to withdraw our consent to their financial machine. The Kingston Trio sang “I don’t give a daman about a greenback dollar”.  We need to recognize that the greenback is one of the ways they gained control. It was the same greenback that Salmon Chase declared was ‘legal tender’. That same Samuel Chase who subverted the Constitution and US law with the ruling in Texas v. White.

They (The Hussein regime) are also using debt to force the States into their program. They are masters at using debt for control.

Liberty for Texas and the South

J Murrah

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The cost of Union

Published June 15th, 2009 in Economic Independence, Current Affairs, Political Well Being and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Many of the critics of secession claim that the South could not make it in today’s world.  Rather than take a closer look at the numbers (which has been addressed before, and is available in the Grey Book, but for refreshers, the Confederate States would be the 13th most populous nation and have the 5th largest GDP in the world [somewhere between France and Italy]), let us examine what it costs to stay in the union of States. The regime of the usurper has taken steps to change the economy. He has also made it very clear that debt is only going to increase.  Here is an article in the Economist that addresses the debt issue and how expensive it is. Can Americans afford to stay “in the union?”. At the present rate of spending and debt, the government is already broke. It would be more expensive to “stay” in the union that it would be to leave the union. At present rates the debt is approaching 106% of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product). With such a burden, a nation cannot function in terms of setting up effective policies. By 2030, this figure could be at 200%. Having a good GDP does one little good, if it is all used up on the debt of the union and the giveaway programs they want in place.

The CONgress has been spending your money like a high stakes monopoly game. The problem is that the debt is real. When Obama and others wake up tomorrow it will still be there. 20 years from now, our children will be waking up with their children and going to work in order to pay for the debt this generation of politicians has created. The States cannot afford this national government. They cannot afford a nation that gives money to terrorist groups like Hamas, funds abortions around the world, keeps wars going around the world and wants to give jobs to criminal immigrants.

If you think secession is expensive, it is more expensive to stay in this union.

Have you had enough yet?

Are you in debt enough yet?

The answer is simple-leave. Secede from the Union. Go it on our own. We would have laws that reflected our values. We would be able to bring our sons and daughters home. We could stop the debt monster before it eats up everything you work for.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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Bailing out the Capitalists

Published June 15th, 2009 in Economic Independence, Current Affairs and Political Well Being. 0 Comments

 Bailing Out The Capitalists:
Our Southern Fathers Told Us What To Expect

Clyde Wilson

“ . . . and bank-notes will become as plentiful as oak leaves”

—Thomas Jefferson

“ They [the people], and not the rich are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labours and our amusements . . . our people . . .must come to labour sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses . . . .”

—Thomas Jefferson

“But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both parties concerned, effects of the same complexion with the usual fruits of national errour. The present age is cajoled to tax and enslave itself, by the errour of believing that it taxes and enslaves future ages to enrich itself.”

—John Taylor of Caroline

“A crocodile has been worshipped, and its priesthood have asserted that morality required the people to suffer themselves to be eaten by the crocodile.”

—John Taylor of Caroline

“We are now making an experiment, which has never yet succeeded in any region or quarter of the earth, at any time, from the deluge to this day. With regard to the antediluvian times, history is not very full; but there is no proof that it has ever succeeded, even before the flood.”

—John Randolph of Roanoke

“I said that this Government, if put to the test—a test that it is by no means calculated to endure—as a government for the management of the internal concerns of this country, is one of the worst that can be conceived . . . .”

—John Randolph of Roanoke

“Why should the government pay the expenses of one class of men rather than another?”

—John C. Calhoun


“A habit of profusion and extravagance has grown up utterly inconsistent with republican simplicity and virtue, and which was rapidly sapping the foundation of our government.”

—John C. Calhoun

“It was impossible to force the minds of the public officers to the importance of attendance to the public money, because we had too much of it.”

—John C. Calhoun

“It has been justly stated by a British writer that the power to make a small piece of paper, not worth one cent, by the inscribing of a few names, to be worth a thousand dollars, was a power too high to be trusted to the hands of mortal man.”

—John C. Calhoun

“We must curb the Banking system, or it will certainly ruin the country.”

—John C. Calhoun

“The government is the executive committee of great wealth.”

—Frank L. Owsley, Southern Agrarian, 1936

From the beginning of the U.S. Government, Southerners saw it as a locus of liberty, honour, and American mutuality. From its beginning, the predominant class in the North regarded the government as a source of profits. To Southerners, the Constitution was the means of the people’s control over government power. To Northerners, it was an instrument to be manipulated for their advantage. This difference came to a head in the struggle between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson and his friends, notable Virginians of the time like John Randolph and John Taylor, called Hamilton, John Adams, and their friends “monarchists.” By this was meant not only that they favoured kingship, which they did, but also that they wanted a strong central government built on patronage to the wealthy (at the expense of the ordinary hard-working producers). This patronage was to be financed through national debt, manipulation of the currency, and various types of business subsidy, which they falsely claimed were necessary and beneficial to all Americans.

Jefferson and his friends (which, to be fair, included a valiant minority of Northerners) managed to hold Hamilton’s schemes in abeyance for two generations, although the Hamiltonians never ceased to put them forward aggressively. Lincoln’s conquest and near-destruction of the South established the Northern program without any effective check. Yet Jeffersonian ideals continued to wield a certain power long afterward, right up to World War II. The regime of the Republican George W. Bush and the Democrat Barack Obama (there is no real difference) have now delivered the final death blow to the system of government and to the ideals of freedom established by our forefathers. The Constitution no longer exists except as a collection of minor procedural rules. The distinction between government spending for public purposes and for private profits has been abolished, as has the distinction between federal spending for national purposes and for merely local purposes. The government is now making sure the economy is frozen so that those who are presently wealthy will remain wealthy and so that your and my children and grandchildren will pay the price in diminished life.

Only among the Southern people is there still enough allegiance to the genuine American founding principles to offer a viable alternative, but these principles can never be made real under the present evil empire.

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Clyde Wilson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of the University of South Carolina, is the South’s leading historian, prolific author, and South Carolina Delegate to the Southern National Congress.

 

This article along with many others is archived at:

http://southernnationalcongress.org/truths

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Odd events in Italy

Published June 12th, 2009 in Economic Independence. 0 Comments

During this time of economic trouble, one would think that the mainstream media would be concerned about a story involving $134 BILLION dollars of united States debt. It seems that two Japanese citizens were found trying to cross the border from Italy to Switzerland with $134 Billion in US bonds. Italian authorities made the discovery. The discovery raises some important questions.

1. Were they real bonds or counterfeit? (If counterfeit, the US has some real problems in overcoming its debt problem. If they are real, why are people smuggling US debt?).

2. Why were the smugglers going to Switzeland with $130 Billion in US debt?

3. Who would want $130 Billion in US debt?

4.  Since Italian authorities found the cache, they are entitled to 40% finders fee. 40% of 130 Billion is 32.5 Billion dollars, which is a lot of money.

The questions raised by the discovery are disconcerting. Who would be moving that amount of money in a suitcase? The amount of money involved has repurcussions on the value of the dollar. Perhaps someone is wanting to dump their dollars? What does this elusive owner of $134 Billion know that we have not been told?

In these days, what is not being reported is often as important as what is being reported. The amount of the seizure is a considerable portion of US debt which someone was trying to move quietly. Debt is a concern to Southern Liberty since the occupational government uses debt as one of the devises to keep us locked into their union. If they loose $134 Billion, what else have they lost?

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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Wreckless Spending

Published June 1st, 2009 in Economic Independence. 0 Comments

Monday, 1 June 2009

 

Reckless Spending

Jonathan Ingram

The Federal Government recklessly spends money. I’m sure I am not the only one to have noticed. This is not news. It has been so for decades. However, the rate of government spending has increased dramatically in the last ten years. This year alone, the U.S. Government is on pace to spend about $6 trillion, with almost $2 trillion of that expected to be deficit spending. Such spending is unsustainable and will ruin the American economy.

To understand the enormity of the problem is to understand the scale of the numbers. Trillion is not a figure that is easily grasped. Breaking these numbers down should help.

The population of the U.S. is roughly 300 million. Of those, about 200 million Americans are working age. With $6 trillion in spending and a population of 300 million, the government is spending around $20,000 per person. That is $20,000 per man, woman, and child in the country. The numbers get worse when examining the spending per working aged adult, $30,000 per worker. With two workers per household, the average tax burden per household for Federal spending alone is $60,000. But the median household income in the U.S. is only $50,000! How is this possible?

Median is not the same as mean. The “average” income in the U.S. is higher than the median income because some people earn much more than others. In order to pay the bills, or rather to pay $4 trillion of this year’s $6 trillion, Americans who earn higher incomes are taxed much more heavily than those who earn less. I don’t intend to write about the merits of progressive, regressive, or flat taxation. Taxing those that make more money at a higher rate may not be a problem. However, many Americans pay no Federal Income Tax at all (most do pay Social Security and Medicare taxes). Many actually get money from the Federal Government. They are on the dole. Now, I’m not cheering for more taxes. I wish that all American’s who paid taxes paid less, and I don’t want those who don’t pay taxes to have to pay more either. However, having those who pay no taxes vote for the leaders who determine our economic policies is foolish.

Now don’t think that I am attacking the poor. Some poor people are competent and principled voters. Even those who vote for candidates that promise them more - more money, more services, more of everything – are only acting rationally. No, I blame the system and those who manipulate it. I blame the politicians and their pimps who pander to the poor.

Getting elected takes money and politicians know how to get it. They cozy up with big businesses, lobbyists, and well heeled special interest groups in order to get the money to win a campaign. They then tailor their campaigns to appeal to the large portion of the citizenry that is on the take. This is true whether it is President Bush promising to leave no child behind, sending out tax rebate checks, and bailing out the banks, or if it is President Obama promising socialized medicine and a college education for all while bailing out the car companies and the banks. They pander to slightly different groups, but by and large, Republicans and Democrats are alike. It is the system that is broken.

Politicians are bought and paid for by special interests. Pandering determines the outcome of political elections. Out of control government spending is the inevitable result. Voting is not a viable way to change policy because of the flaws in the system – getting elected takes lots of money, which makes politicians beholden to special interest groups, and lots of promises for votes, which ensure more spending. So what is a concerned Southerner to do? Make your voice heard through an alternate institution, the Southern National Congress. [See SNC Manifesto]

The Southern National Congress is a forum to give voice to Southerners who realize that they are not well represented by Washington politicians. The forum is composed of delegations from each of fourteen Southern States. The delegates are not elected by popular vote. Rather they are volunteers who meet a limited number of requirements. Why should you or any other American take seriously a body composed of members who are not elected democratically? Precisely because they are not elected in such a process. As shown above, the democratic process in its current form in these United States has led to the control of government by well backed special interests that demagogue to the masses. The Southern National Congress on the other hand is a place for those who believe free men should act in their national interest.

The Southern National Congress recognizes the danger posed by the current system. In the initial meeting of the Congress, December 5 – 7 in Hendersonville North Carolina, the Congress remonstrated against run away spending and the system that has produced it. The present crisis threatens a catastrophe more encompassing and ruinous than the Great Depression, yet the only “cure” we are offered is more of the disease itself: massive inflation, huge bailouts, and astronomical government spending. These will only prolong and deepen the crisis and destroy the dollar, and with it, the South’s remaining wealth. [Remonstrance on Economic and Monetary Policy]

As our current economic and political crises deepen, more and more Americans will recognize that the system is broken. Let us give them a voice to express their concerns and the leadership to show others that there is a peaceful way toward freedom and liberty. If you’re interested in helping, contact the registrar from your state today and become a delegate for the Second Southern National Congress and contact the Southern National Congress Treasurer to make a donation to support our cause.

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Jonathan Ingram is a Georgia Delegate to the Southern National Congress.

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Reality Check

Published May 20th, 2009 in Health, Economic Independence, Current Affairs and Political Well Being. 0 Comments

With all the wackiness running rampant in the news, it often helps to have reality checks in order to be on the safe side. In the past few months the regime has taken ownership of 79% of AIG. It now owns GM and is forcing the company to sell of part of the business like a corporate raider. Not only has it taken over the business, it is now dictating new fuel standards for the nation. These new standards are being done by fiat. The regime has taken over the census bureau form the commerce department, the SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) is being stripped of its powers, and access to medical records has been given to the administration.

Add to this mixture the restructuring of home mortgage market, and the credit market. Through the restructuring, the irresponsible are not held responsible. Responsibility has shifted to where the hard workign people are carrying the burden.

The regime is continuing with plans to centralize their control of the electrical grid, and medical/health insurance infrastructure.

What does all this mean? It means that there is a systematic centralizing of control into the Imperial City. The standards of living are being redefined. Our ability to compete in world markets is being stripped away. The playing field is being leveled, to where we are on the same level as other nations.

The free lunchers continue wanting free lunch and are loading up the national credit card with an overwhelming amount of debt. In order to pay for such programs, taxes both indirect and direct are being implemented in order to take control of the people and their productivity.

Each of these things would have been inconcievable a generation before. The reality is that Amerika is now a fascist nation which is quickly moving toward hard core socialism. The empire firmly believes it owns us, our children, the means of our productivity. If this isn’t slavery, what is?  Although Lincoln is credited with freeing the slaves, the Obama regime is making wage slaves of all the citizens subjects.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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Caribbean surprise!

Published May 17th, 2009 in Economic Independence. 0 Comments

In a surprising move, the prime minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Denzil Douglas is taking a stand to defend offshore banking. His courage in standing up to the big-banker controlled economies of North America is worthy of applause. As the empire cracks down on offshore banking, but turning the screws on UBS in an attempt to close offshore tax loopholes, the offshore banks are now striking back. The caribbean banking centers are not kowtowing and neither are the Swiss. In Switzerland, there is now a movement underway to punish the united States for its abuse of power against UBS. What is at stake is the question, “Whose money is it?” When you earn your money, does it belong to you or to the empire? From these news reports, there are some who believe that your money actually belongs to you.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

PS-In the latest news, British banks are revolting against the Hussein regime’s tax policies as well.  The regime’s plans are making it too difficult for an American citizen to open a bank account in Britain.

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Would you buy a car company from this man?

Published May 12th, 2009 in Economic Independence, Current Affairs and Political Well Being. 0 Comments

In the latest economic news, GM may move its headquarters from Detroit. This is not good news for this part of the nation that has been significantly impacted by government policies. Although the Obama regime campaigned about keeping American jobs in America and reducing outsourcing, their policies, programs and tax laws are making it impossible for companies like GM to stay in the highly unionized area of Detroit.

As often stated, look at what they do, NOT what they say. The reality is Obama’s policies are forcing GM to outsource.  The reality is his policy is hurting the American people. What he said in the campaign was teleprompter rhetoric designed to make the people happy. He said what they wanted to hear, and what would get him votes. Now that he is in office, the policies are about control.

This is the same Obama that denies that the current deficit are his problem or are due to his policies. He forgets that as a Senator, he voted for many of these spending items. The democratic policies that were put into place that created this monster are part of his making. If the CONgress had not been spending like there is no tomorrow, we would not have had the deficit in the first place. Although reality is creeping into the administration in terms of the out of control deficit, tax receipts being down, and the cost of the stimulus package continues going up, up, up the regime continues trying to blame it on others.

Now in the wisdom of the Imperial city denziens and hired help, they want to tax soda water. The rationale is that it will help pay for health care. They forget that their precious corn farmers get subsidies for growing corn and such legislation will hurt them, since most of the current soda water is nothing more than flavored corn syrup rather than cane sugar anyway. The policies are reminescient of England’s crazy taxes, where they taxed the powder used on wigs and other wacky ideas. Such a policy would also TAX families around the nation in a major way.

Bottom line, the American people have been lied to. We were lied to about outsourcing, we were lied to about taxes, we were lied to about who is responsible for the deficit, we were lied to about the Obama regime taking over the businesses faster than Benito Mousillini ever did in Italy.

Liberty for Texas and the South!
J Murrah

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Arrogance by another name

Published May 4th, 2009 in Economic Independence, Current Affairs and Political Well Being. 0 Comments

The Chosen One pandered to foreign governments by apologizing for American arrogance. His statements angered people around the nation. Now, barely a month later, he has the arrogance to demand that foreign banks issue 1099’s to American citizens subjects abroad. It seems that it is arrogance to tell foreign nations how to treat their people, but it is not arrogance to pressure them to acquiesce and surrender their soverignty to Mohammedean leaning nations (e.g. the EU with Turkey and Israel with Palestine) . He has no problem forcing people to surrender property that is not his to give. It is not arrogance to demand that foreign banks send out 1099’s to Americans living abroad.  Being that they are foreign entities, not under his control, it is not considered arrogance to have them do the paperwork that is the responsibility of other bureaucracies. It seems that he is waking up to the reality of the enormous debt and tax bill he created both as a Senator and as head of the regime. He’s been living high and counting on others to write the checks to cover his lifestyle.

If he shows such disregard to the soverignty of others, how will he respond to Southern and Texian sovereignty?

Look at what they do, not what they say. In this case, the arrogance continues, though in another area and by another name.

Liberty for Texas and the South,

J Murrah

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