Hello Patriots. I welcome your company. I began this truth-seeking path slightly over 50 years ago. When I began hunting this thing, I had no company. That was okay. I was following a hunch, anyway. So, I welcome your company. I welcome your willingness to become aware of your own best self-interest. At the base of that, your best self-interest is your personal liberty and that of the 'next' guy. It is easy to think of our own personal liberty but not so much the next guy's. Collectivism is the philosophy of sacrificing the individual to the collective. The individual is not held sacrosanct. We must be suspicious of those political constructs that compel or prohibit voluntary action, especially when we have a personal affinity to the end product. For instance, the space program. I love the idea. I saw 2001, eleven times when it came out in 1969. I was 20 years old. It was the moon landing. Vietnam was all the rage. So, we were going to Vietnam to 'fight' for the American Way of Life,' or so it was said. We went there for the process of stripping one American of his hard-earned dollar to gift it to another American's idea of an altruistic purpose. "Patriotism" was big, in some quarters.

The way it should work is for everybody to keep his greedy little hands off of every other America's spare change. You may know someone who has complained that 'our' money is unrighteously sent overseas to the aid of other peoples in other countries. You may have heard that same person say the money 'should' better be used for 'our' own poor, or the veterans, or the homeless. All our assumptions must be tested. This means we must look beyond the surface. We must look beyond the immediate cause or effect. We must look to the principle of secondary causes and effects. To those causes or effects that went before those that are immediate. Every effect has its cause and every cause its effect. To all of that we must apply the reasoning skills as applied to society and freedom Lord Edward Coke taught us in the 1600s. In this case, an individual is really saying it is not okay to take one American's money to send overseas but it is okay to fleece an American to help the vet. To make it worse, we patronize the Declaration of Independence and tout the word "freedom." That America is free! Yet by our own admission, we condone arbitrary and absolute power be levied upon each other, unchallenged. It was this type of power the U.S. Constitution was erected, in the first place. We are not free if we have no voluntary subjective control of what the fruit of our labor, levers. Beyond the immediate costs of the protection of America's borders, the persons, liberty and opinions of its citizens, everything else should be at the sole decisions of those who created it.

And here is the problem. People immediately gear into the knee-jerk reaction that certain 'necessities' require funding, which would not be if left up to People's free choice. Probably not. Something else would be. In our 'space' example, we have two men who created something in the 'Private' sector of society, not the 'Public' sector, who had an interest in putting up their own money. Now, those are extreme examples but that is how it rolls.

The fear is that if those 'non-profits' become malfeasant with 'your' money, there is no way to go 'after' them. There was a way. It was the first right in the Fifth Amendment. That same right could go after those in federal office who were bad.

In 1946, the Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights was truncated. The first Right was blunted by Progressive statute. It is the most maligned word in the Constitution.