Recent content by madmon

The US federal prison population is over 200,000. I doubt there is any other nation that has that many political prisoners. It may sound like hyperbole to claim that most federal prisoners are political prisoners, but I think not. Here are some examples...

Sorry, I noticed that this topic is already covered here, but slightly differently. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=190134 I think the point is that pointing the finger at Iran and other countries is just a red herring for people to think that some how we're free because Uncle...

is the highest of any nation in the world, probably the highest in all history. Yet, the MSM freaks out when there's a single political prisoner taken by one of our Orwellian enemy states. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/world/middleeast/28saberi.html?hpw You can safely say that most...

45 caliber consensus? I'm increasingly becoming very cynical of "democracy." People absolutely do not have the right to vote my God given rights away. I'm sure many people here would agree with me on that issue. I'm wondering, however, how to build true consensual governments. Al Qaeda...

Transparency is a REALLY important issue. I would say it's one of the things that has lead to this recent economic collapse. We need to know absolutely where we stand or else we can't make decisions. Like so many policies of the federal government it's a tremendous disincentive to work hard...

At least with a sales tax you know exactly where you stand the minute you make a transaction. Not so with the income tax, a slave labor tax essentially. You really don't own anything for sure the way it is now. It's all subject to IRS approval. Small business people know this. It's an...

Free. Is there any doubt that governments repress productivity in societies? http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html

A few things to consider: 1. After slowing down for a few months, the rate of mortgage defaults is accelerating again. 2. There's a tremendous amount of "shadow inventory" of foreclosed, but unsold houses that banks still own. 3. Any progress towards a recovery will be stymied by increasing...

We have multiple levels of government tyranny starting with the federal government and moving down to the city level. It's amazing that we put up with so many levels of government thuggery in America. If the fed gov were gone, though, states would have to compete with each other for the most...

All police actions should be suspect by nature of what they do. I'm not saying that police are inherently bad. I'm just saying we've gone way too far in this country towards "bureauphilia," the worship of government officials. We should inherently distrust all police, and try to create a just...