O.T. [at-l] Regulation

[texas12step@hotmail.com (Texas Twelve-Step)]

...oh, what the hell. Let's make the thread truly Randian.

>> ...clip... (2) this money is YOUR money.

> Okay, this is going to sound entirely too Biblical but
> here goes... Take out a coin or bill from your pocket
> and look closely at it. Whose name is on it, your name of
> the "The United States of America"? Do I really need to
> go into a lengthy explanation of how the monetary system
> works? Give unto Caesar, etc.

"Money is the material shape of the principle that men who
wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give
value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who
claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it
from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men
who produce."

[...]

"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying
money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral
existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a
counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards
and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter
of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth
produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, 
backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.
Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which
is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the
day when it becomes, marked: 'Account overdrawn.'"

http://catalog.com/jamesd/money.htm

To *hell* with your Caesar.

> and stop focusing on money as the most important thing in
> life. 

<chuckle>

So says the "democratic socialist."

You'd better pray that government puts the screws to the
internet and cryptography, and soon. Otherwise, nation-
states may not be able to effectively relieve the serfs
of the burden of their money for much longer.

http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.9/history_nonlinear.html

Sure, the following are embryonic jokes now, but in another
fifty years or so they may not be so funny to those of
your philosophical bent:

http://www.e-gold.com/
http://www.digigold.net/

But don't worry, citizen! Governments have this whole internet
thing figured out.

http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1751598^501,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17391.html

> It's a medium of exchange and it belongs to the government
> who issues it to facilitate the flow of commerce for the good
> of society. 

http://www.rothbard.org/money.asp

>             You are part of both the society and the government
> but it is not "your money" any more than the land you hold a
> deed to is entirely yours (if you don't believe me on that,
> try not paying your property tax). You don't own your spouse
> or your children either. These are all cooperative arrangements
> for the good of society (meaning everyone not just you).

Really?

"Come and get it."

-TXIIS