The Revolution of 1913 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo

[@suoods34]

Great lecture to end the year with!

[@SuperBoyboys]

Gone With The Blastwave PFP spotted. Based credentials confirmed.

[@666devilknight]

No government, regardless how well formed or how strongly limited by its constitution, can be hoped to remain limited, and the liberty of the people preserved, if the people are not eternally vigilant, constantly restraining that government each time it steps even a little over the boundaries set by its constitution. Human nature is such that power always seeks more power, and people in places of power can never be relied upon to limit their own power. No set of rules written down on paper can ever hope to restrain this flaw of human nature. Only force, wielded by a vigilant, liberty loving people, can ever be relied upon to constrain tyranny. The problem with this fact of reality is that people tend towards laziness and complacency. Once a good system is established, they lose interest is even watching those in power, to make sure they don’t usurp power not authorized. And, they generally lack the courage, fortitude, and even the will, to stand up to restraint that government that overreaches its authority, until things are so bad that the endeavor has become monumental. It is not that limited constitutional government failed the people, but, rather, that the people have failed to do their part in preserving it.

[@1voluntaryist]

At 9, 1951, I was attacked by my teacher, roughed up, and taken to the principal's office for refusing to join the class in "The Pledge". With no input I was expelled. My parents asked me to please give in and "pretend" to join in, and they would soon move our family. I reluctantly agreed. Next year, they added the phrase "under god", and I told my new teacher I couldn't join in because I was an atheist. Once again, same attack, without explanation. My father, an atheist, still begged me to "fake it" and promised we would soon move. I agreed but couldn't completely comply. I stood, but did not speak or put my hand on my heart. I hated it. I felt I was being dishonest. Next year I started Jr. High, new school, without the pledge. So much for "Land of the Free". I have always been revolted by those who threaten others for asking questions, without respect for their feelings, humanity, or doubts. I boycotted 1st grade after being denied reading lessons. I desperately wanted to be taught to read because I was so bored. Also I resented the regimentation, the loss of freedom.

[@Thewonderingminds]

Good that *capital punishment* was absent .

[@BlackJesus8463]

bs

[@Lafnhyena]

Move to N. Korea they would love you over there!

[@cockyhemi]

I’m curious, what made you dislike America so much, a country that afforded the common man freedom for the first time in history, to not recite the Pledge of Allegiance? Even before the “under God” part? I would definitely fight and even die for your right to do so because I took an oath to protect the Constitution for the United States of America, but again, just curious. You have courage to do that by the way. Unlike the cowards that roughed you up. That was un-American.

[@DexterGraphic]

Good for you! Have you been able to maintain that independent spirit into adulthood, when the demands of conformity with ignorant and unprincipled stupidity are even greater?

[@ingunowner7088]

Top notch. Well paced, direct, and lacking unnecessary repetition. Thank you.

[@GeographyCzar]

I’m overwhelmed. I always thought I was Chicago School. Now I’m leaning Austrian. Damn.

[@BrewsterMcBrewster]

Both great! Friedman, Hayek!

[@rickstokes2239]

Importantly - The Founding Document ‘The Declaration of Independence’ still stands and if The People decide it They Can Tear it All down.

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

It’s not just an idea that the income tax is an infringement on individual property rights. It is the use of force to make me work for the government.

[@cockyhemi]

Thomas DiLorenzo. A great researcher. A great patriot. 🇺🇸. Time to restore the REPUBLIC.

[@BrewsterMcBrewster]

THE REPUBLIC! Good one, Cocky!

[@PrivateSi]

Either be proper, separate nations or be one big nation. The US, UK, EU proves the in between 'solution' is a messy nightmare at war with itself.

[@Madstsone]

Classic DiLorenzo!

[@JohnHarnick]

Most people didn't start paying income tax until the Victory Tax in the 1940s..

[@michaeldalton8374]

The so-called “Greatest Generation”, ignorant of the Constitution, mass mailed returns for 44 and 45. They did it again in 46, and shafted us all.

[@davidanalyst671]

29:00 It isn't a good ole DiLorenzo speech if there isn't something bad about lincoln

[@BlackJesus8463]

lol

[@cockyhemi]

Honest Abe isn’t the saint that revisionists have made him out to be. Not to say that he was inherently bad, but Thomas is correct about the motivations and reasons behind many of Lincoln’s actions during the war. He served his purpose to the power behind the throne, then was eliminated.

[@jaradshaw4723]

Started at shays reb

[@jaradshaw4723]

Prob i see is, the math. 1 vote 3 to 2 systems. State congress, state govern. , state reps for hiuse. ( THATS 1 BODY RESPONCIBLE FOR. 3. 3 is 1 and 1 is me. ) Then 1 vote to 1 state senator. State Supreme Courts (1 body to 2, which dictates pver you. ) Thren federaly its house senate then president. Ruling over all ecp Supreme Court. See how the system had no patern after state? The cjecks need another balance

[@jaradshaw4723]

The problem is Democracy, the system is shit. I vote 50 monarchys 1 royal family per state. Whos duty is to agree to spending, and Supreme court rulings And coild declare state separation from union and summon states militi. Where as govenor controlled state national guard

[@CalebFenton]

Bitcoin fixed this.

[@laurenglass4514]

Guess they should have stayed a confederation

[@13SharkBait]

Something about Jews? Was that it?

[@paulnicholson1906]

The direct election of senators was implemented to increase people's say in their government. Before the 17th amendment the Senate was more like the British House of Lords. The government had to change over history or the country would not have evolved and never would have amounted to much. It is ironic that the Supreme Court has basically proclaimed the President is a monarch.

[@davidanalyst671]

no. try reading more. The supreme court has said that when congress passes a law creating the official acts of the president, that there cant be action against the president when is is doing his job. The supreme court does not say the president is protected for everything they explicitly said "his official duties" and those are defined by congress.

[@paulnicholson1906]

@@davidanalyst671 Lets see how that works. The latitude of the president's duties are almost unbounded and you can see impeachment is a tool that almost never can be exercised since it takes a supermajority to remove the president in the Senate. In Trumps case a few senators of his own party voted to impeach but it proved how high a bar it is to clear. The Supreme Court did effectively create a monarch or at least an executive with almost dictatorial power. That certainly isn't what the founders wanted and it is a creation of recent history. That's why we go to war without the consent of Congress these days and that was before the Supreme Court gave the president unchecked power. This Supreme Court has rendered section 3 of the 14 amendment void.

[@cockyhemi]

You’re wrong. It was set up so that state legislatures appoint their senators for a reason. The 17th Amendment was unconstitutional when ratified and served as a big stepping stone for turning this Republic into a democracy, which the founders warned us about.

[@Oatriumph]

I wish the country hadn't amounted to much. "National greatness" isn't a good thing.

[@paulnicholson1906]

@@Oatriumph I think Jefferson might have agreed with that, Hamilton not so much.

[@GL-ld8ku]

A shallow thinker and presentation.

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

Just curious, do you support centralization?

[@666devilknight]

@Individual_Lives_Matter That certainly would be my guess.

[@michaeldalton8374]

It’s definitely shallow to read quotations. 🙄