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Thank You Warrior Concepts!!!

Thank You Warrior Concepts for a wonderful night of entertainment and opportunity. The SCLP and Lex Green were able to introduce ourselves to the public!!!! 

     Libertarians, MMA, Freedom Fighters and Revolution!!!

I saw a fight poster for a mixed martial arts event being put on by local fighter/promoter and owner of Warrior Concepts. The event was called don't tread on me. It got me thinking of how government once tried to stop law abiding people, like Mr. Ward, from owning and operating his business. They also tried to stop Mr. Ward and others from freely contracting with other supposed free human beings.

To some not familiar with the history of Mixed Martial Arts in America, it may seem like the sport just exploded over night.That was not the case. The UFC and other MMA events were once outlawed and/or harassed in America. Senator McCain was one of its enemies. The Senator (and others like him) tried to stop the sport. However, those familiar with freedom and free markets know that would not happen. The sport went underground. All government did was hurt safety, profits, entertainment and also hampered the peak money making years of hundreds of athletes.

Once government got out of the way look what happened.  Millions of people get hours of enjoyment watching their heroes do what they love. The athletes get compensated. The networks make money. The promoters make money. Schools, instructors, magazines, DVD's and numerous other products developed. A whole industry of jobs grew. At risk and aggressive males were given focus and a place to go.

So, next time you see an MMA event, attend it. Vote with your wallet. Tell your local fighter, promoter and school owner thank you. They may not know it, but they had a successful revolution.

I called Warrior Concepts and asked if I can set up a Libertarian booth at his event. It was no surprise to me that he accepted. Government is freedoms greatest persuader. On April 3rd, 2010 at 8pm I will go to the IL State Fair Grounds and participate in a true freedom summit. A monument to commerce and liberty. Not to mention, watch a good fight or two. Link to Warrior Concepts

Tom Ansell 

Sangamon County Libertarians

Be Not Afraid? 

By their fruits you will know them - Matthew 7:16

 I will give you quotes from V.I. Lenin. Please contemplate the policy of the American Government which follows directly after the quote:

Federal Reserve

Federal Reserve?

Federal Reserve?

Public Education?

Public Education and the Federal Reserve?

Federal Gun Laws?

Federal Gun Laws?

Armed Military and Police / Disarmed population (Hurricane Katrina)?

Years of De-industrialization / Record debt / Cultural De-stabilization / multiple wars?

  U.N.?

Many well meaning Americans do not focus on their government. They worry more about the foreign dictator across the ocean. They do not think the problems of the U.S. Government are institutional. They think the next election cycle will finally be the one where the right decider or changer will fix the nation.

Besides, the corporate media fills them with fear. Be afraid! We may have to go to war with those that might steal our freedom. Countries like North Korea, Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, Sudan and Somalia pose vital national threats to your freedom. Are you afraid?    

Which government currently should you fear most?

A foreign government across the ocean, or the government here at home?  The one that taxes your income? The one that can take away your right to free speech? The one that is taking away your right to bear arms? The one that has signed you into debt slavery? The one that can draft you against your will? The one that has seized and is in the process of seizing a substantial part of the economy? The one that can take your home? The one that regulates your business? The one that licenses you? The one that fines and fees you? The one that can wiretap and monitor you? The one that investigates you for your thoughts and political beliefs? The one that can audit you? The one that will entangle itself into military alliances all over the planet? The one that educates you? The one that is willing to tell you what portion of your income it will allow you to keep? The one that will tell you what Doctor, what treatment, what food, what idea, what drug, what school, what show, what party, what speech zone, what vehicle etc. etc etc. etc.

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Census Anyone?

I watched the local news do a one sided news story on the census. They trumpeted how much money we can get from the Feds. They eluded to your patriotic duty to fill out the form. They said many groups use the data. On this I found common ground with the reporter.

Those familiar with the story of Joseph and Mary know that all Caesars love having  their cattle counted. They love to number and brand their stock. This type of controlling behavior by government is as old as history. The U.S. Constitution uses the census to determine representation in Congress. However, those of us familiar to the ways of the state see possibilities for abuse.

To make the claim that the U.S. government may abuse the power of the census is almost a heresy today. The Idol worshipers of today love Government more than our freedom. They say that our government wouldn't let abuse happen here. So some of us bring up the ugly facts of history to warn people that if it happened in the past, it could happen in the future.

When confronted with the story of the Indians, it is dismissed as a  horrible mistake. When asked about the story of slavery, it too was a mistake. The origin of public schools with its hatred towards Catholics is also admitted as a mistake. More learned individuals may point to the numerous eugenics laws in America as a reason to fear central authority and its inquiry. This too is another admitted mistake. Scientific America had an article verifying that  the government used census data to gather Americans up for internment during WWII. This also was a mistake. 

But don't worry, we have worked it all out. Power no longer corrupts, especially if we have complete power. Time has cured us of all past human weakness. Modernity has washed away original sin. Man will no longer prey upon man and government will no longer harm a soul.

Though history may tell you otherwise, The Decider and/or the Changer will tell you differently. Go to sleep and wait for another chapter in history. All is well and please register with the proper authority. Your property, your religion, your guns, your thoughts need to be numbered and counted. 

Here are some quotes on safety that we should all reflect upon. 

 "Those that desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."- Benjamin Franklin

"While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be willing to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader." Samuel Adams

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."- Aesop

"Never could an increase in comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty."- Hillare Belloc

"No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting or reasoning as fear."-Edmond Burke

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."- Albert Camus

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for future security."-Declaration of Independence

"There is one safeguard known to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust."- Demosthenes

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are inevitably ruined."-  Patrick Henry  

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"- Patrick Henry

"The people must fight for their laws as for their walls."- Heraclitus

"Without law and order are nation cannot survive."- Adolf Hitler

"Who will watch the watchers?"- Juvenal

"The people are the ultimate guardians of liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"The State has taken on vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a state religion; its agents a separate caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot." H.L. Mencken

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it."- H.L. Mencken

"For when they say, "peace and safety," then sudden destruction comes upon them." - St. Paul

"The constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals."- Ayn Rand

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere- Voltaire."

"The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions."- Daniel Webster

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