#66 - Freedoms Greatest Hits

Hey Guys,

I thought I'd take a moment take a moment to bring up some of the most informative posts here on Cause of Freedom. Again, this blog is about the Freedom Movement and the fight for liberty, so please join the Liberty Independence Alliance to be informed and organize in this fight against tyranny and oppression and effort to preserve the constitution.

ALSO CHECK THE LIA VIDEO SECTION FOR ALL THE BEST VIDEOS


The true path to freedom from slavery is knowledge


PHILOSOPHY

#22 - Collectivism vs. Individualism

#35 - Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick

#36 - Friedrich Hayek and Ron Paul

#47 - Ron Pauls Views on Austrian Economics

#48 - Isaiah Berlin and Positive/Negative Liberty

THE ISSUES

#1 - Introduction and Monetary Policy

#2 - Carbon Tax just Further Intervention

#3 - Civil Liberties and the Free Market

#12 - Immigration and the Language Barrier

OTHER

#5 - Isolationism vs. Non-Interventionism

#6 - The Free Market and the Value of Individuality

#17 - A Parable of Foreign Policies

#23 - The 10th Amendmant

#46 - The Carter and Wolfowitz Doctrines, Interventionist Doctrines

#54 - Why Fight for the Constitution?

#60 - Liberty isn't Easy, Ron Paul for Freedom

The Moment you stop fighting for Liberty You begin losing Liberty

This is what seems to be forgotten by the left, who criticize Ron Paul's aversion from letting Central Government control the states and individuals to make decisions for themselves in accordance to many issues, usually referring to sodomy laws in Texas. While these laws are ridiculous, and Ron Paul would agree, to give the issue to the central government is to say that the federal government can regulate social behavior even if the intent is one of liberty, this precedence gives authority for even greater controls on a national level.

Laws like the sodomy laws in Texas should be fought on the state level by getting involved and civil disobedience which Ron Paul continually endorses as great methods of change. Although, we can't for the sake of our liberty bring this to the Federal level and this is where this ideological divide occurs. The left feels that if the Federal Government just takes authority that then they can make the laws with the intention of protecting and granting rights and engineering an ideal society (same as the Neo-Cons), they differ on what their ideal society is.

The Left Feels the federal government should be used to promote protection from exposure to each others ideology while granting rights to certain individuals to create some fictional balance between humanly constructed people groups and force individuals to make decisions about their consumption and personal property that fall in their definition of ideal for the environment and social welfare cause of some imposed sense of what everyone elses responsibility to others should be.

This is the same Logic Neo-Cons use to justify using the federal government to promote a Fundamentalist Christian state where laws determine personally "moral" behavior where outside cultural influences are dealt with by military coercion to the principles of those in control of the state.

Ron Paul is fighting for freedom from both versions of a tyrannical state, where you can believe and act as you please, and so can he. Everybody wins in a Ron Paul world no matter how you differ on issues cause Liberty serves all ideals. Stripping the Federal government of it's accumulated power is the first step, but afterwards the battle for freedom on a local level occurs and is a fight that will always be fought but is much easier to manage. The fight never ends, but as anything can be manageable when broken into smaller chunks.

To Preserve Liberty is to preserve the ability for individuals to believe in something you don't agree with, and to protect the actions of those that you don't condone. Ron Paul has stood for this and this protection of Liberty is being used to criticize the most Honest American I'll ever have the pleasure of voting for.

#57 - Symbols of Liberty and the Freedom Movement

(Further Research shows the Civil Flag may be a fictional design, either way I'm a big fan of what the flag represents and still am adopting it as a symbol for the Freedom Movement here at Cause of Freedom)



There are many symbols of Liberty in this nation such as the statue of Liberty, The Liberty Bell, The Bald Eagle, The American Flag. These are all great symbols of this Nation built on the principles of the Rule of Law and Liberty. Although the Freedom movement needs a symbol in US history that really embodies us what we're fighting for and can differentiate those in the movement and a group of people have for this purpose revived the Civil Flag, an old US flag long forgotten meant to represent peacetime.

"Through usage and custom, horizontal stripes had become adopted for use over military posts, and vertical stripes adopted for use over civilian establishments. The Civil Flag, intended for peacetime usage in custom house civilian settings, had vertical stripes with blue stars on a white field. By the Law of the Flag, this design denoted civil jurisdiction under the Constitution and common law as opposed to military jurisdiction under admiralty/military law."


CIVIL FLAGS ON OTHER LIBERTY MERCH

Also for the Liberty Independence Alliance, the social network for the Freedom Movement I made a flag for the network itself to act as an extra symbol for those who Join the LIA, which you should do.

This flag represents a few things:

- The White circle represents the Constitution and the 10 stars represent the bill of rights
- the 9 Stripes represent the 9 principles of the LIA which are Liberty, Integrity, Accountability, Federalism, Law, Knowledge, Diplomacy, Individualism, and Civility

Just quick a tangent on Symbolism, it's now time to continue to fight for freedom from tyranny no matter which symbols you prescribe to and vote Ron Paul into office today.

#52 - Animal Rights, Genocide, other causes

Hey Guys,

Here I am watching a documentary about the History of PETA and such, and it shows much of the animal abuse footage we are all very familiar with by now. Also I have seen people using Ron Pauls position of Non-Intervention as the basis of saying he supports genocide which is ludicrous. I think everyone can agree that this kinda of treatment of animals isn't excusable and genocide is a heinous injustice to civil liberty and it's our duty as individuals to be informed and to inform others.

I do not believe it's the job of the government to get involved in these issues cause the job of the government is to protect the nations sovereignty and it's citizens rights, by doing so is helping in the spread of Liberty and justice by leading by example and providing the freedom to it's citizens to create change at home and around the world. The fact that many of these issues still exist is cause of the notion we believe government is responsible for fixing every injustice in the world, this thought is what holds people back from action from which is our duty.

It's our duty to be informed about the atrocities in this world and inform others and to address these issues in a civil manner through protests, divestment, proliferation of information, but to not violate the civil liberities of others by encouraging government intervention.

Animal Rights: The only role I see for the government in this issue is if people want to push for an amendment to the constitution introducing rights for animals, but until then there is no role for government in this issue except maybe pushing for divestment from any agencies that invest in violations, although the government should be small enough that this is not an issue.

Genocide: Government should not subsidize other nations on any level. There only responsibility is to it's citizens by trading with other nations and building diplomatic relationships. No foreign aid or military aid to other nations. Ron Paul is the only one who would take this action which would aid in reducing terrorism and genocide around the world without sacrificing the lives of troops.

The responsibility for these issues is ours, not the government, that type of thinking is what caused these atrocities in the first place, period.

#49 - Ron Paul and the Non-Agression Principle

Some people try to attack Ron Paul on this or that, usually very weak attacks due to Ron Pauls consistent integrity that makes it hard to really slam the guy. Although, if you want to buy into very unfound smear tactics that usually take advantage of his supporters you don't have to like Ron Paul or his supporters. Why? Cause his campaign has nothing to do with him or his supporters, it has to with a message.

A Message of Freedom

It's this message that underlines all the writings I've talked about from Robert Nozwick, Isaiah Berlin, and so many more. It's all about freedom, and if you love freedom it's hard not to love the message no matter what form it comes in cause it benefits everyone. The message itself has no fault and no bias and neutralizes bias from anyone who wields it. True freedom from any individual, is still true freedom. Beware the seller of fake freedom in the guise of Security and Welfare.

Epicurus is earliest speaker of the non-aggression principle:

"The justice of nature is a pledge of reciprocal usefulness, neither to harm one another nor be harmed."

This idea would come from many greats mind, and most influentially out of the mouth of Thomas Jefferson:

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’, because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."



It's this principle of true freedom Ron Paul is fighting, if you believe in freedom from tyranny, freedom from the chains that restrain true life, join the Freedom Movement and remove the bondage from which past generations have suffered so the generations to come will not suffer even the smallest crumb of tyranny we may have suffered.

#48 - Isaiah Berlin and Positive/Negative Liberty

In my continuing coverage of the great minds of Liberty we've already done pieces or mentioned several great names such a Frederich Hayek, Robert Nozwick, Edward G Griffin, Ron Paul, and many more we'll cover as time goes on. Today we will talk about Isaiah Berlin and his concepts of Positive and Negative Liberty, and the reason why Government should practice Negative liberty.

In Negative Liberty, the belief that there should be no constraints or actions on an individuals agency by the state. So basically the government has no role manipulate the control over your life and opportunities whether the intention is good or bad. The more negative freedom an individual has the more possibility of actions one has which gives the individual the autonomy to shape their own lives for better or worse. This can be characterized by Ron Pauls small government views and position against the drug war enabling individuals to make decisions about their own life whether they are bad or good decisions.

In Positive Liberty the priority is the idea that an individual should have the means to perform to the best of their potential. The states role in this vision is to manipulate opportunity in order to promote individuals performing at their best, and the ability to achieve this is freedom. Positive Liberty promote government action and individual involvement, so the drug war would fall into this ideology since it's "positive" manipulation to help the individual perform at their best. This can be characterized by Left wing view on healthcare which implies it's the governments role to assure people perform at their best health potential. This type of thinking would lead to even stricter life Doctrines against smoking and unhealthy foods, as Mike Huckabee has occasionally alluded to. Another example is "moral" legislation against homosexuality with the intention of encouraging an "ideal" lifestyle.

Positive Liberty sounds nice, but leads to Fascism

The dilemma here is what is definition of a individuals best potential? Who decides this? The positive liberty ideology would say those who participate in their government make this decision. Negative Liberty on the other hand prevents government from making these decisions for you so you can pursue your own Individual vision of what is your "best potential".

Negative = Without Restraints Positive = Without "Obstacles"



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#7 - Link for Freedom

Hey Guys,

Well, I write about all this information on the issues revolving our Civil Liberties, Strong Money, and upholding the constitution and so much more. Although, in order for us to unite and accomplish this goal of ending the downward spiral the US is headed in we need to find common grounds of discourse. Here are a variety of Websites in order to learn where people who care and fight for liberty unite and organize, and places to find information.


Social Sites
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These are sites that have social aspects such as Social Networks, Forums, and more. I recommend joining ALL of these in order to reach as many people as possible and stay informed.


General:

The Liberty Independence Alliance - This is a social network I started as bipartisan effort for Liberty minded people from all parties and faiths to unite. Come join the LIA and write blogs and post in the forum. This is a fairly new network, as the members grow I will be holding blog contests and video competitions in order to give an incentive to create Liberty minded media.

LibertyHQ.com - This is a blog network for Liberty focused Blogs


Ron Paul Related:

RonPaulForums.com - This is the heart of the Ron Paul grassroots, pretty much almost all Grassroots efforts usually found their start on this forum. If your not on this forum, you going to be the last in on the latest news and efforts.

RonPaulSpace.com - This a Ron Paul social network hosted on onesite.com, it has 650+ members that write new blog articles constantly, this is a great Ron Paul resource.

RonPaulKicks.com - This is a Ron Paul Social News site ala digg.com



Blogs and Information
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These are blogs and more informative sites that have information to keep you up to date on the issues and candidates.


General:

ACSblog.com - This is the blog from the American Constituion Society.

US Economy - Blog on about.com about US Economic indicators and what they mean

WatchMojo.com - A General blog about the economy, politics, etc.


Ron Paul Related:

RonPaulsAcrossAmerica.com - This is a blog by Trevor Lyman if I'm correct about different politicans across America running on the Ron Paul Platform.

DailyPaul.com - Daily news on the Ron Paul world



SO COME ON PEOPLE, get to it, let's keep the revolution going!!!