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Talking Foreign Policy on FOX News Radio

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Schooler/100003032488972 William Schooler

    Great show Tom and you got me thinking so now I am going to hit you in the forehead with a shovel, If you cannot understand an independent mind which does not conform to normal I apologize now.

    The difference between We and THEY may not be that much different and may be the WHY.

    WE Agree

    THEY Agree

    So what is difference?

    Better yet what is Agreement? All things that have ever taken place, it is the cause and the effect of all ideas ever decided in all the universe in all of time.

    So what is it They agree to? Money, power, authority, Laws, Limits, growth, Debt, War, Republicans and Democrats, Democracy, Education, Control of resources and so on and so on and so on.

    So what do WE agree to? Money, Power, authority, Laws. Limits, Growth, Debt, War, Republicans and Democrats, Democracy, Education, Control of resources and so on and so on and so on.

    So what is different about these? The versions and ideas? So where did we learn to view these ideas? The same education resource with little variations?

    So here is the biggest question of all; are all these things we agree to the act of being independent, or are all of these ideas passed on to support the other idea?

    In the Declaration of Independence what does declaring mean? Isn’t a declaring a decision to be independent from something? If the something was the Rule of life and in the rule of life you have components when agreed to, achieve the rule of life, would you decide to be free of these components as well the concept of rule itself?

    So didn’t Authority support Rule, didn’t Money support Power and doesn’t this support rule? Doesn’t law support authority and if the authority makes the rules does this support Rule? Doesn’t education support these ideas to create and use these?

    So let me get this straight, we agree to use their ideas that support Rule with a different version of what they say and we do the actions by agreement to implement these ideas and are not going to be Ruled? What exactly are the results of all these efforts anyway? Ruled beyond belief?

    Didn’t we decide some time ago to be independent of these ideas to support Life, have Liberty and to Pursue ideas that directly support this way of living? Or maybe we didn’t decide, we didn’t agree with Independent living and decided and agreed to ideas that supported Rule, hmmmmmm thinking!

    Now when I read the Declaration of Independence and especially the original draft I discovered that this declaration was actually for me to consider and decide with, not only this but if others decided this same concept that our energy would be put into sustaining practices of ourselves and this would be OUR agreement.

    Doesn’t WE the People really tell us WE the DECIDING of these states and this union totally agree to hold Politicians to limits by an agreed upon constitution so that Liberty would clearly be present? Isn’t WE the People in essence WE the agreeing to be Independent in our lives and will resist authority by such an agreement? What I mean to say folks is this is what it means, but here is the big question for all of you to answer today; Have you decided to be this way, this independence, this decision and this agreement or did you agree to the ideas that support RULE?

    So today there is no difference between WE and They because its the exact same ideas that support rule and the Declaration of Independence was a very clear set of instructions to follow to be and decide independence as the way, the support and the actions to take and should this change the corrections and not one of you lives by it by your own agreement and the only difference between you and I is this choice. This will subside any confusion wont it?

    Now answer this to you, was this because of conforming education or was it made up in your own independent mind?

    The thorn of your future should you decide. Let me give you some lessons one day and you will never be the same I assure you.

  • me

    Kind of in the subject:

    Hans Hermann Hoppe, “The Hayek Myth”, PFS 2012
    http://vimeo.com/53850513
    By
    any chance maybe you thought Walter Block is kind of tight and scarry
    in his opinions. Just watch what are the implications Hayek ideas. Now
    that is what I call scarry – an intelectualist with a nuke I’d say.
    Similar stuff is being displayed by the left and W. Block has his thing
    to Coase and Coasianism – very vocal about it somwhere here:
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ABA632F42CCA3C9
    Faulty
    assumptions and flaulty reasonong used to dismantle reasoning at all –
    that’s what it is. We need more light on such cornerstone matter.

  • me

    This looks like a serious case of mental diarrhea – please consult your M.D. before posting again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Schooler/100003032488972 William Schooler

    It is because the trained are unable to recieve it in simple form thus our ruled lives continue. Its always everone one else isnt it, LOL