Do You Deserve Liberty?

"Those that would give up essential liberty in pursuit of a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security."

Benjamin Franklin


Ben Franklin was a true American success story. He was a self-made man of means. His wealth allowed him to concentrate on what he felt were important issues. The founding of a new country was at the top of his list.

His quote says something about how the founding fathers felt about liberty. We fought a war against a superior military force and managed somehow to defeat them for the right to enjoy personal freedom.

Today, Franklin must be rolling over in his grave. We have systematically surrendered our freedom in the name of security. A security that our government cannot provide.

If they cannot provide security, then why have we made such a big deal about it? Why is it that the government is so determined to convince us that we need protecting? The answer is really quite simple, but startling at the same time. You see the government wants to maintain power, power over the economy, the currency, and all aspects of our lives.

And they will do anything to stay in power.

Our leaders are not stupid people. Everything they do is for a reason. It's just that the reason is not clear to us and they wish to keep it that way.

But the signs are everywhere if we just wake up and look around. As a country, we are overextended. Our military is stretched dangerously thin. Our debt is out of control. Our empire, and that is just what it is, is fraying at the edges. We are beginning to look a lot like Rome. Fraying at the edges and rotten to the core. And all in the name of maintaining power. We are hated around the world, just as Rome was before the collapse.

Did anyone offer help to the poor Romans as their empire collapsed around them? No and the U.S. should expect no help either.

Now, the latest in our last ditch effort to maintain our power and control. Our government has been in high-level talks with officials of both Canada and Mexico about a merger of sorts, something similar to the European Union complete with a new currency, the Amero.

Since our currency has lost over 90% of its purchasing power since the Federal Reserve took over in 1913, we are probably due for a new currency. I see this as a last ditch effort to keep the party going a little longer, but as Mises wrote, manipulating the currency only works for so long, and then it ends…and usually quite badly.

According to Ben, we deserve neither security or liberty and I fear that is just what we will get.