Campaign for Liberty

Americans inherit from our ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression. Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity—a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.
But many Americans today are frustrated. The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all. For all their talk of "change," neither major political party as presently constituted challenges the status quo in any serious way. Neither treats the Constitution with anything but contempt. Neither offers any kind of change in monetary policy. Neither wants to make the reductions in government that our crushing debt burden demands. Neither talks about bringing American troops home not just from Iraq but from around the world. Our country is going bankrupt, and none of these sensible proposals are even on the table.
This destructive bipartisan consensus has suffocated American political life for many years. Anyone who tries to ask fundamental questions instead of cosmetic ones is ridiculed or ignored.
That is why the Campaign for Liberty was established: to highlight the neglected but common-sense principles we champion and reinsert them into the American political conversation.
The U.S. Constitution is at the heart of what the Campaign for Liberty stands for, since the very least we can demand of our government is fidelity to its own governing document. Claims that our Constitution was meant to be a "living document" that judges may interpret as they please are fraudulent, incompatible with republican government, and without foundation in the constitutional text or the thinking of the Framers. Thomas Jefferson spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution, and we are proud to follow in his distinguished lineage.
With our Founding Fathers, we also believe in a noninterventionist foreign policy. Inspired by the old Robert Taft wing of the Republican Party, we are convinced that the American people cannot remain free and prosperous with 700 military bases around the world, troops in 130 countries, and a steady diet of war propaganda. Our military overstretch is undermining our national defense and bankrupting our country.
We believe that the free market, reviled by people who do not understand it, is the most just and humane economic system and the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known.
We believe with Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, and F.A. Hayek that central banking distorts economic decisionmaking and misleads entrepreneurs into making unsound investments. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' interference with interest rates sets the stage for economic downturns. And the central bank's ability to create money out of thin air transfers wealth from the most vulnerable to those with political pull, since it is the latter who receive the new money before the price increases it brings in its wake have yet occurred. For economic and moral reasons, therefore, we join the great twentieth-century economists in opposing the Federal Reserve System, which has reduced the value of the dollar by 95 percent since it began in 1913.
We oppose the dehumanizing assumption that all issues that divide us must be settled at the federal level and forced on every American community, whether by activist judges, a power-hungry executive, or a meddling Congress. We believe in the humane alternative of local self-government, as called for in our Constitution.
We oppose the transfer of American sovereignty to supranational organizations in which the American people possess no elected representatives. Such compromises of our country's independence run counter to the principles of the American Revolution, which was fought on behalf of self-government and local control. Most of these organizations have a terrible track record even on their own terms: how much poverty have the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund actually alleviated, for example? The peoples of the world can interact with each other just fine in the absence of bureaucratic intermediaries that undermine their sovereignty.
We believe that freedom is an indivisible whole, and that it includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well, all of which are historic rights that our civilization has cherished from time immemorial.
Our stances on other issues can be deduced from these general principles.
Our country is ailing. That is the bad news. The good news is that the remedy is so simple and attractive: a return to the principles our Founders taught us. Respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, sound money, and a noninterventionist foreign policy constitute the foundation of the Campaign for Liberty.
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Respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, sound money, and a noninterventionist foreign policy constitute the foundation of the Campaign for Liberty.

I'd have to say most, if not all of us here at RIU feel that way. The problem is: what to do about it. Joining organizations may make "feel good", But seldom create any noticeable change. In a democracy, the best weapon is the vote. Hopefully the people have spoken and change will be forthcoming. If not, then the end of democracy has been reached and we'll have to take other means. Armed insurection is pretty much a non-starter without inside help, the weaponry of the government dwarfs the populaces feeble efforts, An AK47, although a formidable personal weapon, has no place in a war against cluster bombs, attack helicopters and napalm, all of which would be used against us if we looked like we had a chance. If the election turns out to be a sham, (Obamas promises), we shall have to regroup and redress our grievances.

I Think you might be right Med. Armed insurrection would be a bloody affair. Americans in general just don't have the stumich for it. If we as a people really wanted to, we could best "them" and "they" know it, or "they" would already have a police state in effect. (some might say it's already is in effect). There are allot of Former military, Active military and even Police, who see "it" coming down the pipe. No army in the world could police our streets unless we want them to. There are 80 million armed Americans with over 200 million guns and they will take none to kindly about forced door to door gun confiscations. "Sometimes the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson

We are a frog being boiled slowly. But Americans are an energetic Frog we may just jump out, so they boil us ever so slowly. The most effective way to "Boil" us is to get us with some "Event" Like 9-11 notice how the "patriot act" like a 900 page document was sitting there ready right after 9-11. They know we will rally against outsiders so anything happens they say "Terrorist" we all jump right in line. We even demand they take our rights to protect us. Fear. Fear gets us to tow the line. Not a big fan of FDR but he was right "the only thing we have to Fear is Fear itself." We are constantly reminded of the "barbarians at the gates" Al-Quada, Osama, Drug Wars in Mexico, Massive street gangs, Hamas, Iran and even Global Warming. They keep us all afraid and we bow before them saying "Please save us from all these evils." "Fear is the Mind killer" to quote Dune.

The best thing we can do is stand up for our rights even when we will be called Un-American, Be brave in the face of catastrophe. Even a Nuke going off or chemical attacks we must not give up on what we are, Americans. This is the "Land of the Free and home of the Brave." Now all we have to do is act like it.

This is what ends up happing when people get caught up in joining organizations in mass.......

Maybe, but this is an organization with almost exact opposite ideology to the folks in that picture. It is an organization that would attempt to stop this in our own country. See all the little commercials with the celebrity's pledging their undieing support to the president. And 2 million people cheering Obama on praying for socialism to their new found messiah. And 75% support before he's even elected.

We deserve what we will get.

Yeah, So far I still have some hope for him (Obama) But I doubt it will be better its just been getting progressively worse each president it seems. Now the Fascists are out now the Commies are in. Their just kinder gentler commies with Hollywood Image managers.