If you do not know what stop and frisk is then this is a good video to learn.  I think this video also demonstrates how police in general have little to no regard for the public.  The ones that do are forced to harass the public because of the pressure applied to them by their superiors.

I found this talk pretty interesting, there was a lot of stuff said that I agree with.

Before you watch it you should read this short article and this longer article if you have time.  Here and here are two more.

(I don’t why anyone takes a Fed Bank President like Herman Cain seriously or that his views are those of a political outsider but here we go.)

Herman Cain wants a third party. But not a Ron Paul third party of course!  HAHA really Herman?  Who exactly is going to start this third party?  The only motivated grass roots people are those in the liberty movement and aparently you have already written off Ron Paul so who exactly is going to the extensive amount of foot work to get this thing going?  Third parties are hard to get off ground and the Republican Party’s demographics, except for the Ron Paul people of course, is getting older and older (old like the average Rush Limbaugh listener is 67). Besides, they all sit at home and watch Fox News. By and large they do not actually get up and get involved in the political system. Third parties take work, more than passive attention to TV and complaining to your wife how the president is “ruining America”.

 Herman simply does not get it.  He lives in a fantasy world where he can simply invoke the name of Reagan over and over again in the vain hope that people will come around to his brand of conservatism.  When they don’t he blames the media and media bias.  Well, the media does not have the choke hold that it used too.  The Internet and alternative media are informing a much greater amount of people.  I would even say that it is arguable that Mitt Romney lost because people are more informed.  I personally don’t mind that Obama won, after all, if I am going to drink collectivist poison, I at least want it be labeled correctly. Many voters might have felt the same way, or at least felt that their was no major difference between the two candidates.  The turnout was historically low this election, maybe it was precisely because they were educated and knew there was not a bit of difference between the candidates.

Anyway, I would really hope that Herman Cain does jump ship and start a third party.  If the warfare state wing and culture war wing of the Republican Party went with him all the better. Then maybe the Republican party really could “re-brand” itself without the neocon baggage.  At least the establishment Republicans are the kind of political stooges that can be pushed over by strong political pressure.  Without the Neoconservatives, that political pressure would come purely from the liberty movement.  This would obviously mean much more influence by us.   So good luck Herman, I hope it works out.

On a side not, unlike mainstream republicanism, those of the Liberty Movement did very well this election cycle.  So hold out hope ye lovers of Freedom

The Republicans lost because they not only failed to embrace the liberty movement in general but actively sought to diminish it and mock it at the same time.  The Republican Party has not had such a large infusion of young blood by motivated young people since the days of Barry Goldwater.  Not only that, Ron Paul appeals to minorities, women and LBGT community in a way that the Republican Party can only dream of.  It is mind boggling that the Republican Party would reject such a strong political ally.

There are number of articles that explain in a convincing way how the loss of the Ron Paul wing of the Republican party brought Mitt Romney down.  To me this is fairly obvious.  Almost all the people that I knew that were for Ron Paul either wrote his name in, voted for Gary Johnson, or stayed home on election day. With millions of Ron Paul supporters in the primary, even if half of them stayed home would have brought Mitt down.   Don’t get me wrong.  Mitt was a really bad candidate and would have likely lost on his own. He stood for nothing and was a pure politician in all the worst ways. The only thing that might have saved him was if he actively brought the Liberty Movement and the Ron Paul crowd on board. 

So ignore the spin by the right and the left on why the empty suit lost and the other empty suit.  This is why the Republican establishment went down.  The grass roots activists are fed up with this kind of behavior from their leaders.

 In the long run, the reelection of Obama will be a major victory for the liberty movement and the country as a whole.  Today we are in a war of ideas.  The philosophical underpinnings of the warfare/welfare state have existed since World War II.  Both parties have been complicit. Actually, the republicans have been in many ways worse. There was almost no difference between Obama and Romney.  Anyone who believed that Romney would have made any significant changes was deluding themselves and simply does not understand history.  Republicans have always increased the size of the state faster than Democrats, their rhetoric is merely cover.  Nixon created OSHA, the EPA and set price controls for the whole country, an act that a Democrat might have been impeached for.  Reagan vastly increased the Federal deficit, raised corporate taxes, increased foreign aid to bunch third world dictatorships and vastly increased the number of federal employees.  I am not even going to to start about the Bushes.  The point of course is that electing a Republican in the hopes that he will respect the constitution and reduce the size of government is a pure illusion.  This is not only the fault of Republican politicians either (many who have overtly emraced the New Deal) but most main street Republicans in general like small government rhetoric but in reality love the large government programs (for example, when polled self identified Tea Party members actually look favorably upon programs like social security and Medicare while at the same time say that they are for “small government” ). However, I am not writing this to explain how Republicans are big government parasites just like the Democrats, this should be obvious. I am writing this to explain where do we go from here and how will the re-election of Obama will be good for liberty in America in general.

The recession will get worse under Obama and will likely turn into a inflationary depression.  This has already been set into motion because of Federal Reserve policies and there would have been no way for Romney to change it.  Luckily, with Obama in office, there will no way this could be blamed on capitalism because the President is so overtly a welfare statist.  If Romney was elected on the other hand, the coming depression would have been very likely have been blamed on capitalism and the free-market, even though no such free market has existed for a hundred years.  After the impression by many that the “free-market” president Bush caused the 2008 crisis, an other crisis under Romney would have been a huge blow against capitalism.  Thank goodness Obama will be there to take all the blame this time!  I am sure that some worry that the media will try to put some of it on the Republican congress but history always seems to remember the President, not who controls congress.  Do you remember who controlled the house and senate under FDR, Kennedy, or Johnson?  If you do good job but most people sure don’t.  When this thing goes down, people will remember President Obama and his welfare state policies and hopefully the warfare state as well.

There is another reason this election is good for the liberty movement as well. A Romney Presidency would have led to all kinds of new regulations and government actions that the right would have completely capitulated to.  Just like how Bush passed massive new entitlements with little Republican opposition, Romney would have likely done the same thing. It can easily be imagined that Republican sweep would have been much worse than gridlock.

Currently, the political side of the liberty movement is largely in the Republican Party.  With the Republican Party out of power, it will allow the liberty minded republicans to gain influence.  It is obvious that the Republican Party needs to make some massive readjustments.  If they can not win against such an easily defeatable president, what will happen in the future?  Right now, it looks like the Republican Party might be destined to be unable to win national elections unless big changes are made.  Unlike the media pundits that who talk about the republicans need to soften their message, the true answer lies in the libertarian or liberty wing of the Republican Party.  It was only Ron Paul that motivated the youth in the Republican primaries.  The average age of Fox News viewers was 65 and the average age of rush Limbaugh listener is 67.  These demographics are not encouraging for the Republican Party.  They desperately need fresh blood and the Freedom agenda that was put forward by Ron Paul is the only path that could possibly offer them that.  The party is in a time of ideological and demographic crisis but this is also a time of opportunity for those who believe in liberty. Such a major loss should encourage many Republicans that are unsympathetic to liberty to do some soul searching about what went wrong for them in this last election.  Hopefully, many will be led to a better understanding the Constitution, what America truly stands for and the liberty movement in general.  Such a soul searching would have never happened under a Romney presidency.

The future has never been brighter for us.  Communism was permanently discredited when the soviet system collapsed.  The welfare/warfare state has been destined to collapse since the New Deal.  It may not be pretty but from a moral point of view it is necessary because it relies on force and violence to extract wealth from one group of people to be handed out to another. I look forward to the day when Americacan once again embrace its founding vision of liberty.  When that day comes nobody will remember who Mitt Romney was but Ron Paul on the other hand will look like one of the most prophetic men of the 20th century.

It is hard to believe that this stuff can go on in the Untied States but it does.  Here is a Reason article about it.  I hope this couple wins their case against the Feds.