Cindy Sheehan, Back in the Limelight?
I came across an interesting article about Cindy Sheehan’s possible run against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. I’ve never given Cindy Sheehan much credit for anything other than being passionate and outspoken about her anti-war stance, but her recent comments lead me to believe that she has a better understanding of the real issues than the majority of her supporters, or most Americans for that matter.
“I was a lifelong Democrat only because the choices were limited. The Democrats are the party of slavery and were the party that started every war in the 20th century except the other Bush debacle. The Federal Reserve, permanent federal (and unconstitutional) income taxes, Japanese concentration camps and, not one, but two atom bombs dropped on the innocent citizens of Japan were brought to us via the Democrats. Don’t tell me the Democrats are our ‘Saviors,’ because I am not buying it, especially after they bought and purchased more caskets and more devastating pain when they financed and co-facilitated more of George’s abysmal occupation and they are allowing a melt down of our representative Republic by allowing the evils of the executive branch to continue unrestrained by their silent complicity.”
She correctly lumps the Federal Reserve and the income tax in with some other significant atrocities committed by our government. As the author of the article, Justin Raimondo, points out:
“I know Sheehan is supposed to be a leftist icon, and her biggest fans no doubt consider themselves liberals with a Greenish tinge, but it turns out she’s more like a female Ron Paul. Liberals, especially of the establishment variety – of which there are plenty in Baghdad-by-the-Bay – are going to hate that stuff about the Federal Reserve and the income tax, but she’s right, of course. Without the Fed, the inflationary policies that fund our wars of conquest couldn’t be implemented; with no income tax, the empire our rulers envision would only be a megalomaniac’s fantasy.”
I would not go as far as to compare her to Ron Paul, but he hit the nail on the head when he suggests that we would be unable to wage unjust wars without the ability of the Federal Reserve to print whatever money they cannot confiscate from the taxpayers through the burdensome income tax.
Though declared unconstitutional when first proposed during the War of 1812, an income tax, was finally imposed to pay for the Civil War. Incomes were taxed off and on until the 1895 when they were once again found to be unconstitutional. The problem of constitutionality was circumvented by the ratification — though questionably so — of the Sixteenth Amendment which authorized the income tax. To repeal the Sixteenth Amendment would not only return much of our liberties to us, it would place another hurdle in the path of the elites who wish to impose their imperialistic vision on the world through the barrel of a gun.
Without the Federal Reserve, the proponents of unpopular foreign wars would have great difficulty obtaining the necessary funding through taxation. Being taxed up-front — rather than the hidden costs of inflationary monetary policy — would reveal the true cost of war. Americans would not tolerate such excessive taxation. Then again, I find it shocking that we are putting up with current levels of taxation (almost half of every dollar we earn is taken from us through the force of the government).
To truly be an opponent of unjust wars, one should support the abolition of the Income Tax and The Federal Reserve. I’m impressed that Cindy Sheehan recognizes this, and also that Democrats are not going to keep us out of unnecessary wars.