Up is down, down is up. We now have three hot wars going, all run by a Nobel Peace Prize Winner (see news of attacks in Libya in recent hours). And to add even more irony to this? The creator of the Liberty Dollar has just been convicted as a "terrorist." (ht: @WilsonHines)
Read what Ron Paul says about U.S. military action in Libya.
War is the health of the State.Libya: U.S. Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Hit Targets in Libya - ABC News: "U.S. military officials have confirmed the first American tomahawk cruise missiles have been fired at targets inside Libya from ships in the Mediterranean Sea."
-- Randolph Bourne
As an aside, I believe the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government the right:
"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States ..."
I don't read that as giving the federal govt. the exclusive right to make money. That is, I don't see anything in there to prevent anyone else from coining money.
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I feel very lonely in my opinion on our governments actions regarding the crisis which are embroiling the Near East and North Africa.
What we are asking the governments of Libya and such countries to do is to do exactly what we ourselves could NOT do in the same circumstances.
With the Whiskey Rebellion, George Washington called federal troops and personally crushed the rebellion. There is no right of rebellion in a democracy. In fact, Washington stated five years later, that such actions as the Whiskey Rebellion would bring an "...end to our Constitution and laws..."
It is the right of Kadafi, or Mubarak, or the President of the United States, or whomever the ruler of a nation is to maintain order. It is not the right of the people to damage property and wreak havoc.
If they want their leader out of office, they need to do so by other means. There are other ways.
The civilian population ceases to be a civilian population when they take up arms or join a group of armed people with the intent on rebellion.
While I am not a Khadaffi ( Or however you want to spell it.), the US should not be sending forces.
If the French and British want him out, let them pay for it. We are broke.
@Wilson Hines: I guess it depends on which Founder you prefer. Jefferson was pretty clear that the right to rebellion was one of the rights reserved to the people. Governments cannot abide rebellion. But we are not our government. Let's never lose sight of that. As Paine and Locke and many others understood so well, it is the citizen that is sovereign. "Government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed." When we retract that consent, the powers are no longer just.
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