Posted on 12/25/2007 8:24:57 AM PST by EternalVigilance
No, something more substantial than that. Zimbabwe?
The only polls that count are in the caucuses and the primaries. And, as the scripture says, "the last shall be first."
And, no matter the outcome of any particular election, Alan will finish first, because he's stood tall for the truth.
And a new born has as much to lose as Keyes has to lose in doing so. ; )
Well, it's further away from Washington anyway. /snicker
Last time I checked, they’re not running. We have eight men to choose from, and Dr. Keyes is head and shoulders above them all: in foreign policy experience, in fighting terrorism, and in understanding the crisis of our republic from within.
Have you read the document linked in post one?
ROTF!
It's a conspiracy I tell ya'! LOL!
Does the good ambassador still support exempting people from income tax based on their race?
he is a good man...but the way he comes across is quite pompous and that is what turns voters off. Sean Hannity told him that and he just made excuses and denied it. That’s not a good thing. He should have recognized the truth of the cricism.
What does Alan Keyes have to offer that Duncan Hunter does not???
He has advocated for years for exempting every American, including you, from the income tax - forever.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/keyes/990820
Liberty from the income tax would mean, of course, liberty from the IRS. We would no longer have our privacy invaded by a government that was interested — officially and legally — in rummaging about in our business to find out how much we make, where and how we make it, and what we do with it. These questions used to be considered private business, but now the government of this supposedly free people can ask them at its pleasure, compelling satisfactory answers with the threat of jail and confiscation. Such systemic bureaucratic intimidation is fundamentally contrary to any substantive notion of political liberty. By contrast, under a sales-tax system we would not have to report the facts of our individual economic situation or choices to a living soul.
The servile presumptions built into the income tax system have already had a deeply corrosive effect on the quality and extent of the responsibility we take for our own lives. The distance the income tax has already taken us down the road to servitude can be demonstrated by considering how rarely it is that we even question the government’s right to know how much money we make. We blithely file our income tax every year, straining to report with accuracy and completeness to anonymous clerks at a federal agency matters that we don’t expect any but our closest friends to ask us about, and which we probably would not discuss with our own children. Has it occurred to us sufficiently to ask what right or legitimacy there is to this fiscal exhibitionism?
The income tax is objectionable not only for economic reasons, and because the Founders took care to exclude it from the Constitution. It is also bad because it is based upon a premise that destroys one of the material foundations of privacy, and therefore of liberty. How can there be political liberty if there is no sphere of privacy beyond the reach of government? And how can there be such a sphere of privacy without a protected source of material support for it?
A free and vigilant people should never have tolerated this totalitarian beachhead for a moment. The income tax is an inherently communistic tax, precisely because one of the prerequisites of freedom is a sphere of privacy. It is based upon the premise of the preemptive claim of the government to full knowledge of the material foundations of private life. But when we allow any aspect of our lives to be treated as intrinsically the concern of the government, we implicitly accept the role of government to judge and control that aspect. The only reason government has to know about something is in order to regulate and control it. And so in granting in principle that the government has a right to know everything about our economic life, we have granted its right to control it as well. And if we intend to deny the government comprehensive control over our economic life, we will have to deny its claim to comprehensive knowledge — which is the essence of the income tax.
Inevitably, then, the decades of implicit acknowledgment that we are not sovereign in our personal economic lives have been like a universal solvent, dissolving the private and personal resolve each of us should have to control responsibly the actions we take in the acquisition and expenditure of wealth. The habits of American liberty run deep and have shown impressive resiliency. But habits, though long-lived, can finally die. Eventually the logic of the slave tax will work its way through the whole man, and we will make our peace with servility. Unless, that is, we root the thing out soon.
The issue is not the fairness or amount of the tax burden. The tax itself is the problem. The income tax must be replaced with a tax structure the first premises of which are the capacity of American citizens to make their own economic decisions responsibly, and the intrinsic role of such economic responsibility in the formation of the character necessary to preserve liberty. Men and women not fit to control their wages are not fit to control their government — this is the logic of the dilemma, and we must act accordingly.
If the moral case against the income tax is made forcefully and well, it will carry the day. The economic case against the tax is, of course, also overwhelming. And a further case can be made that technological developments will soon make the entire structure as much a relic as the doomed attempt of the Soviet Union to prevent its people from communicating among themselves. It is likely that the question is not whether to replace the income tax, but how to prepare for its collapse.
But these complementary arguments must not distract us from the fundamental one — a free people that pays slave taxes to its government is willingly training itself for bondage.
Oh, I have been with him.
* I was there when he debated Dershowitz(sp?) at F & M College in Lancaster, PA. Now that was fun.
*I was there when he spoke with the Freepers in DC.
*I was there as a photo journalist when he received the man of the year award from the American Legion (it might have been the VFW, I forget) in DC. In fact I still have the pictures to prove it. I did a nice article on him for a local newspaper.
* Finally, I was his Pennsylvania State coordinator during his run for president. I traveled all over the state with those brochures at great expense.
To this day I have never got a Thank You from him.
No more Keyes for me.
We gave Duncan a full year to prove he could light the fire needed to revive conservatism, the Republican Party, and this country. He couldn’t do it.
Having said that, I’ll repeat my opinion that he is a great American and a fine man.
I doubt anyone would dispute that.
Dear Alan,
Good luck.
Yours truly,
Harold Stassen
A pulpit instead of a podium. ; )
Maybe you were doing it for the wrong reasons? Do you need someone’s thanks, especially someone who is working with thousands of people all over America in this cause, and can’t possibly know all the fine actions taken by sovereign citizens in the same cause?
So, how is Ambassador Keyes helping us? We’ve been down this road before, Ambassador Keyes has run again and again, each time does he expect different results?
I honestly respect Ambassador Keyes and greatly enjoy each and every opportunity for him to speak, but I feel this is a bad move. I would much rather Ambassador Keyes get behind one of the Conservative candidates and help bring even a 1-2% margin to help put them over the top of the RINOs. Heck, if I may play to his ego, working with a campaign, possibly as a spokesperson, he could draw more attention to that campaign and bring far more people over, to say Thompson’s camp, than would vote for him (Keyes).
Just some things to chew on.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Great one Cedric!
A blast of meaningless political conveyance from the past!
Read the document that headlines this thread, in detail, and you’ll know why.
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