Author's of fiction know that you have to make things worse and worse for your protagonist…in this case Tim. So you will need to have him arrested at dawn by black-booted thugs holding shoulder bazookas to his head shouting for him to get up. He says he can't get up because he has a…well you know what men have in the morning. They drag him out of the sack and haul him off to a satellite of guantanamo and do all the perverted stuff they do. But Tim is a man of courage and tells them nothing. So he's hauled into court, arraigned with a not guilty plea entered to the charge of murder when he refuses to speak. The trial commences, orange suit blazing in the court room, chains clanking under the defendant's table as his knees shake. Sasha is about to take the stand. Will Sasha, the eye witness lie or tell the truth. That is the crux of the story. Will the eye witness lie under oath and throw a monkey wrench in Tim's self-defense position or will Sasha tell the truth and throw a monkey wrench in the prosecutor's murder position.

There you have it. Intelligent readers want to know what Sasha will do. Now you write the ending.

kd wrote:

That's a government franchise isn't it? Did you have to give a SSN number to get licensed (i.e. if you are licensed)?

Franklin

Neo wrote:

Neo…you've misunderstood cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance is a necessary occurrence for new learning to take place. People will go to great lengths to avoid cognitive dissonance (usually by denial rather than rebuttal) so they don't have to give up their illusions.

In a real sense those people seek to be brain dead. (Most bureaucrats are voluntary brain dead rule followers…they don't want to hear or see evidence when their rules don't apply).

Cognitive dissonance occurs when a person realizes that they are holding two contradictory ideas. They become uncomfortable with the contradiction and seek to resolve it.

People who do not pay attention to evidence that contradicts what they think go into denial so they don't feel the contradiction and can maintain their comfort zone of ignorance.

When you study the material on this site you should have many moments of cognitive dissonance. As you read you might say…”I didn't know that…I always thought the opposite.” And then you learn something new.

Many famous and good people in the patriot community became so enamored of their own opinions that they did not let any other views inform their thinking or activities.

They criticized each other to protect their piece of intellectual turf and avoided cognitive dissonance (the condition for new learning) like the plague. Most of them have been taken out by federal administrative courts.

You should embrace cognitive dissonance whenever it occurs…because it is an invitation to think and reevaluate and add to or replace what you already know.

Don't be immune to cognitive dissonance or you will be just like the uninformed, unteachable, immune to reality people you find so frustrating.

Franklin

One could also imagine that the room where the constitutional delegates were meeting was blue with smoke from lit pipes. 😆

Thanks for the posts John and Bing.

One way to get non-smoking people who think regulating tobacco is a great idea thinking about the Constitution and commerce is by “dialoguing” with them.

Here's one script when you're chatting with someone. If you get playful you can come up with several for different people.

“Does your Constitution, the rule book the People gave the federal government, permit the president to micromanage companies and whole industries?…

“Or is he deriving those alleged powers from Karl Marx's ten planks in the Communist Manifesto which mandates government control of the means of production?”

If they say “I don't care I still think its a good idea” you respond by saying “Whatever, but the question is does the authority come from the Constitution or from the Communist Manifesto?”

They'll sense the trap here because it's unlikely that they are familiar with either document.

Either they'll be somewhat curious and then you can give them a quick explanation of what nobama is using for his authority. Or they'll feel trapped and get pigheaded about it and say something like: “I don't care, I think its a good idea”.

Then you can exit with something like “Ah, that clears that up. You're a marxist (slap self on forehead with heel of hand a al Columbo). Funny, you look like an American, had me fooled there for a minute.” (Then walk away smiling and shaking your head slowly from side to side).

If the pigheaded ones insist that they have a right to their opinion…Just tell them “Not with a marxist government you don't. You better shut up while the shuttin's good.”

(And if they come back with “You shut up you…you doo doo head [or something like that]….” Just have a good laugh. The pigheaded ones are actually fun to deal with. 😛 )

Some people you can inform.

Others you just have to stick it to them without mercy and without blinking.

The truth is always simple. Hit them with the truth whether they agree or not.

Let's take this constitutional thing from the forums to the streets on a one to one basis. Start calling marxists marxists right to their faces. Let's see if nobama can make hate speech out of that.

Just say NO to alleged Americans who want you to remain silent and deferential when they're spewing liberal, marxist or neo-con crappola at you. And have fun while you do it. 🙄

The People never gave the federal government authority to issue paper money. The feds got the exclusive authority to coin money and set its value (Article I Sec. 8).

If the People want paper money in the form of receipts, they can issue those privately for local use among themselves (there is a great deal on the internet about private currencies. At the moment the most famous is NORFED because of the recent arraignment of its executives).

It would be a serious crime under common law if you accepted someone's receipt for gold or silver in their possession and the holder of the metal could not meet each and every demand for redemption in metal 24/7. No fractional reserve wagering allowed on the presumption that not everyone will want their metal at the same time.

Anytime the government can print money, or the banks can give more receipts than there is metal, the temptation to corruption is irresistible…so much so that those who benefit will murder to protect the practice.

The scenario of nobama taking out the fed is plausible but he better have bullet proof glass kneecap protectors. However, a presumption that he is doing it to restore America to its constitutional roots would be just that…a presumption. So I wouldn't buy the T-shirts and bumper stickers showing him with a halo around his head.

Getting rid of the fed would certainly create the conditions for the restoration of the People (even the unbelievably stupid ones) as the sovereigns over the government. And that is the very reason why St. nobama doesn't want the People to know what's about to happen to them…so they cannot be educated to the fact that it is an opportunity to restore America as the Founders intended (minus the ability of the federal government to borrow money).

And as they say…nothing the government does is by accident. So the final destruction of America as it was intended by the Framers is indeed an opportunity. An opportunity for St. nobama to rebuild this nation as a marxist state (which, except for a few loose planks, it almost is as we speak).

The general point of this post appears to be missing so that it could organize all of this specific information to create new understanding.

Roman catholicism is the only religion with its own country, which sits among the nations of the world.

The Rothschilds have probably helped out most heads of state in their time. And they reciprocate. The queen of england helped her rothschild friend christen his toy railroad early this year. Heads of state + rothschilds = corruption. What's new?

The “moral” of the story statement is the classic rhetorical device called understatement, which makes the post even funnier to those in the know about rhetorical devices. 😆

While religious people talk about God intervening in human affairs to correct massive evils, non-religious people talk about “paradigm shifts”. Well either way, this is something that's been needed for a long time. It means goodbye to the US as we know it (i.e. to say, a den of vipers).

During the US gov's 9/11 debacle someone, a moslem, said Islam has no need to blow up buildings to bring down the US. All it has to do is stop using its currency. That's what's happening today. And it's about time.

The only thing I hope for, that is uncertain at this point, is that all of the corrupt politicians judges and bureaucrats who aided and abetted the great iniquity that has resulted in this “paradigm shift” received their bribes to destroy this country in worthless federal reserve notes. Now that would be justice 😆 .

Franklin