Here I stand; I can do no other.

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

 

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
 ~~Japanese Proverb~

 

The Enemy never stands before you--(s)he always lurks within.

Ami Ahlstedt

 

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

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A word from a Billionaire Biker

Jim Rodgers is a billionaire who spent approx. two years traveling the globe on a motorcycle looking for investment opportunities. The voice on this you tube clip is his.


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the American workingmans future

We wanted to something about bikers rights or motorcycle safety or even Butts, Boot's and Scoot's parties today. That's what we wanted to do.  But our primary focus is always on FREEDOM. Without it we can't afford the bikes and parties.

I would very much like to adopt Harley's promotional mantra, "screw it, lets ride".  But I can't. Besides being totally irresponsible it is not reality. It takes fuel to ride.  Yes, the price of gas has come down. The price of everything has come down.  But we can not suspend or ignore the laws of physics.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Where is all the money that the Fed is printing at right now? And what will happen when all that money hits the streets?

We also can not disregard that due to our own ignorance history inevitably repeats itself.  I understand that when I write posts such as these that number of hits on this site goes down. That saddens us but does not deter us.  The chains of bondage come in  many forms. Sometimes your only choice is to choose the chains that you will wear. 


Economic slavery is the most insidious of all bondage because the government does not have to enact laws to dictate your actions when you can not afford to Act!
Below I have laid out a very familiar scenario using info from here:

in an economic crisis or a war, the pressure to inflate becomes overwhelming. Any alternative may seem politically disastrous. Whether it be the Roman emperors repeatedly debasing their coinage, the French revolutionary government printing a flood of assignats, John Law flooding France with debased money, or the Continental Congress issuing money until it was literally "not worth a Continental," the story is similar. A government in financial straits finds its easiest recourse is to issue more and more money until the money loses its value. The entire process is accompanied by a barrage of explanations, propaganda and new regulations which hide the true situation from the eyes of most people until they have lost all their savings.

"The government did not want to upset people with heavy taxes. Instead it borrowed huge amounts of money "

 "But the fuel for inflation was accumulating in the form of vast hoards of money."

"Also, the new democratic leaders had promised the people all types of bounties--increased wages, reduced hours, an expanded educational system, and new social benefits. But all this meant a vastly increased demand on a limited production capacity."

"Meanwhile, middle-class people who depended on any sort of fixed income found themselves destitute. They sold furniture, clothing, jewelry and works of art to buy food. Little shops became crowded with such merchandise. Hospitals, literary and art societies, charitable and religious institutions closed down as their funds disappeared."

" The inflation was caused by the government issuing a flood of new money, causing prices to rise. Then, as the inflation gained momentum, events seemed to demand the printing of larger and larger issues of currency. To half the process would have taken political courage, and this was lacking. As usual, the true facts were hidden behind a barrage of excuses, explanations and propaganda laying blame on everyone except the true culprit.

First, it would be wrong to think that everyone was opposed to inflation. Many big business leaders accepted it cheerfully. It wiped out their debts. They knew how to protect themselves and even profit--by speculating in foreign exchange, by converting money into goods and fixed plant, by borrowing money from the bank and using it to buy up cheap stocks and competing companies. Their wage costs, in true value, decreased, swelling their profits. Yet many workers also thought that they were benefiting, at least in the earlier stages of the inflation. Their wages were increased, and it took time before they recognized that, with prices soaring even faster, they were actually suffering a cut in true income.

A crew of speculators arose who traded in goods and foreign exchange, they had a vested interest in continued inflation's. And the government could not help realizing that the inflation was wiping out its burden of debt and would ease its financial problems."

Millions of middle-class, normally the mainstay of a republic--were ruined by the inflation. They became receptive to rabid right wing propaganda and formed a fertile soil for a totalitarian leader. Workers who had suffered through the inflation turned, in many cases, to the Communists. The biggest beneficiaries of this enormous redistribution of wealth were feudalistic industrial leaders who distrusted the democracy and who proved willing to deal with the totalitarian leader, thinking that they could control it. The democratic parties and the labor unions lost their capital and were weakened. The liberal democratic regime was discredited.

The problem with this scenario is that it actually happened.  The Totalitarian Leader that industrial leaders were willing to deal with was Adolf Hitler. Head of Germany's Nazi Party misappropriately named the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

Many are not old enough to remember gas lines that blocked the roadways and the rationing that allowed you to buy gas on even or odd numbered days.  Our how corporations made good money of the backs of college graduates that were forced into menial jobs just to feed their kids.  That has happened in America.

Yeah, I'm a crazy son of bitch because I believe that history will repeat itself. That the laws of physics can not be ignored. That we have been lulled into a stupor by propaganda designed to immobilize us or that we have become frightend into inaction by our percieved "powerlessness".

And probably crazier yet because if I did focus on the butts, boots and parties I might could even make a buck or two doing this shit.

But what really validates my insanity is my conviction that someday Americans will wake up and become the Americans of our forefathers and put an end to the abuse perpetrated on us by those in power.

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RICCO, Bank bailouts, Freedom, Americas road to Fascism

Our PostNorth Carolina implements new "Gang" lawgot mentioned over on the "Back Talk Forum" on the "Horse Backstreet choppers " which is like a really good site. The problem for me is that most  of them folk are "wrench wizards". Like the kid that can listen to a song one time on the radio pick up his guitar and play it.  I don't think they read instructions. They just grab metal and start building. I on the other hand, need to read the instructions on a shovel. Alas, we all  do with what we got.

One of the posts however mentioned R.I.C.O. the grand daddy of all gang legislation. Now I never understood how my brain worked (a number of psychiatrist have wondered the same) but I immediately thought "Bank Bailouts."

Following is RICCO according to wikipedia (Note: It is not difficult to fall victim to RICCO) :

Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity." RICO also permits a private individual harmed by the actions of such an enterprise to file a civil suit; if successful, the individual can collect treble damages.

When the U.S. Attorney decides to indict someone under RICO, he or she has the option of seeking a pre-trial restraining order or injunction to temporarily seize a defendant's assets and prevent the transfer of potentially forfeitable property, as well as require the defendant to put up a performance bond. This provision was placed in the law because the owners of Mafia-related shell corporations often absconded with the assets. An injunction and/or performance bond ensures that there is something to seize in the event of a guilty verdict.

In many cases, the threat of a RICO indictment can force defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges, in part because the seizure of assets would make it difficult to pay a defense attorney. Despite its harsh provisions, a RICO-related charge is considered easy to prove in court, as it focuses on patterns of behavior as opposed to criminal acts.^[2]

There is also a provision for private parties to sue. A "person damaged in his business or property" can sue one or more "racketeers." The plaintiff must prove the existence of a "criminal enterprise." The defendant(s) are not the enterprise; in other words, the defendant(s) and the enterprise are not one and the same. There must be one of four specified relationships between the defendant(s) and the enterprise. A civil RICO action, like many lawsuits based on federal law, can be filed in state or federal court. [1]

Both the federal and civil components allow for the recovery of treble damages (damages in triple the amount of actual/compensatory damages).

Although its primary intent was to deal with organized crime, Blakey said that Congress never intended it to merely apply to the Mob. He once told Time, "We don't want one set of rules for people whose collars are blue or whose names end in vowels, and another set for those whose collars are white and have Ivy League diplomas."^[2]

RICO offenses

Under the law, racketeering activity means:

• Any violation of state statutes against gambling, murder, kidnapping, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in a controlled substance or listed chemical (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act);
• Any act of bribery, counterfeiting, theft, embezzlement, fraud, dealing in obscene matter, obstruction of justice, slavery, racketeering, gambling, money laundering, commission of murder-for-hire, and several other offenses covered under the Federal criminal code (Title 18);
• Embezzlement of union funds;
• Bankruptcy or securities fraud;
• Drug trafficking;
• Money laundering and related offenses;
• Bringing in, aiding or assisting aliens in illegally entering the country (if the action was for financial gain);
• Acts of terrorism.

Pattern of racketeering activity requires at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after the effective date of this chapter and the last of which occurred within ten years (excluding any period of imprisonment) after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity. The U.S. Supreme Court has instructed federal courts to follow the continuity plus relationship test in order to determine whether the facts of a specific case give rise to an established pattern. Predicate acts are related if they "have the same or similar purposes, results, participants, victims, or methods of commission, or otherwise are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and are not isolated events." H.J. Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. Continuity is both a closed and open ended concept, referring to either a closed period of conduct, or to past conduct that by its nature projects into the future with a threat of repetition.

NOTE all the different references to taking "assets".  Now I could provide a link to a definition of "assets" but it would be easier to look in you wallet and count the green stuff you may have in there.
If you are like me you do not have much.  Better yet, look at your retirement fund and compare how much you have now to how much you had like maybe a year ago. My bet is you do not have as many "assets" as you did like maybe a year ago.  Where did they go? And how did they go their?

I listen to CNBC (the financial channel). Not to keep track of my finances, hell I can do that on a matchbook cover. But I have learned that if you want to learn the truth about government, "FOLLOW THE MONEY"!

And where has YOUR money been going?  Well the banks and Investment houses that were holding on to YOUR retirement apparently lost quite a bit of it.  And when asked where did it go, they use terms like "mortgage (YOURS) backed securities",  "credit swaps" and some terms so "arcane" that even they do not understand them. In other words, discounting the gold plated flushers on their toilets
even they do not know.

AHA, you say well whats the government/police gonna do to help you get your money back (besides the fact that they can't because your small print probably says something about not suing but "arbitrating" instead.  Which is another way of saying, "bend over")?

Well here is what they are doing, they are taking more of your money via taxes and increasing YOUR debt by printing more money that YOU and I or OUR grandchildren are going to have to repay eventually. The latest estimates are that the original 700 BILLION is actually going to cost TRILLIONS and more are lining up at the pig trough. And they are giving it, few strings attached, to the same damn folk that lost your money to start with!!!

Now over on CNBC some folk are starting to throw around phrases like who is going to hold who ACCOUNTABLE and the other night the word TREASON was mentioned by more than one individual.

Now I have no idea why somebody would mention treason, unless of course they are familiar with how this country got started in the first place and get a little pissed over this "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESNTATION" thing.

Now go back up there and read RICCO again (so I do not have to retype the obvious).  Now if a case can not be made that at least a few bankers and government officials  are GUILTY of more than one RICCO offense I will kiss your ass.

But it won't happen, hell maybe that gig about stationing U.S. Military on U.S. soil to insure "HOMELAND SECURITY" we posted on here, U.S. Troops to Police America, is more about government preparing for a whole lot of pissed off Americans who can't find food or a roof to sleep under.  Conspiracy nut you say?  We ain't lied to ya yet!

Now we could go on about local Florida politicians conspiring to illegaly take your moeny through the use of redlight cameras. But hey, check out these posts. Or not.

But why all this on a Bikers Rights site???? FASCISM!!!!!!!!! 

Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: nationalism (including collectivism and populism based on nationalist values); third positionism (including class collaboration, corporatism, economic planning, mixed economy, national socialism, national syndicalism, protectionism,); authoritarianism and totalitarianism (including dictatorship, indoctrination, major social interventionism, and statism); and militarism.^[13][14]

You think I'm kidding then Read this:  The truth behind the "Be very afraid post"

Thats why all this is on a BIKERS RIGHTS site.  Bikers Rights by extension meaning ALL INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS which by extenson means FREEDOM!!!!

Do ya get it yet? If not it will soon be to late!

SOME RELATED POSTS (clicking on the post title will take you to the post even though it may not show as a link):

Freedom is relative, if you have relatives in the new Aristocracy

We were warned from the begining of America about banks. How come we didn't Listen?

America has become an Autocratic form of governance

Reflectons on the previous three posts and economic slavery

20/20's John Stossel's Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics.

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