Independent American Party: Yo, Government, Thou Shalt Not Steal

From the Independent American Party website:

God says, “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” This is a clear and logical principle that every American can understand.

However, government says, “Government can steal, but not you.” How does THIS make sense? A collective right is based on an individual right. As explained by Frederick Bastiat in, “The Law:”

“If every person has the right to defend – even by force – his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right—its reason for existing, its lawfulness—is based on individual right.”

Explained another way by Ezra Taft Benson:

“[Person] A has no proper power to take [person] B’s property, [so] can he delegate any such power to the sheriff? No. Even if everyone in the community desires that “B” give his [property] to “A”, they have no right individually or collectively to force him to do it. They cannot delegate a power they themselves do not have.”

However, government theft, or “redistribution of wealth” is the basis for most everything today’s government represents. Medicaid, Medicare, and now Obamacare is based on collective theft. Our country’s education system is based on collective theft since teachers and administrators are paid by the government, which forces this money from the pockets of others. In fact, taking money out of the pockets of those who earn it, and giving it to whomever the government thinks is in need make up at least 70% of the Bills our Congress passes. THIS IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF THEFT!!!

In addition, the government industry creates no wealth, yet government jobs takes money from tax-paying Americans, and creates vast monolithic regulatory agencies, many of which are in competition with free-market industries. This is theft. Today the federal government is eighty times bigger, in proportion to the population, than it was in 1800.

And now for the motherload of government theft—I’m talking about the Federal Reserve System. Our money today is not based on gold nor silver. Nor is it based on anything of value, like capital or goods and services. It’s created out of thin air and spent on colossal government programs, AND lent to you and me in the form of bank loans. If you can’t pay back a bank loan, the bank takes your property. As well, bank loans charge interest, and money is collected, or stolen, from the interest on, for example, your house.

But in the words of G. Edward Griffin:

“[one house] is just a grain of sand in the Sahara. You have to multiply that by all the homes in America, by all of the hotels in America, all the high-rise buildings, all the factories, all the airplanes, automobiles, farm equipment, schools, everything, all the physical assets of America. …can you see it in your mind? We’re talking about a river of unearned wealth that is so wide you can’t even think of crossing it, flowing perpetually into the banking cartel.”

Finally, the Federal Reserve has yet another way of stealing from the American people, and that is in the form of diluting our money supply; this causes inflation which is a hidden tax and effect caused by the Federal Reserve Bill, enacted in 1913, and which America still abides by.

And remember, God says, “Thou Shalt Not Steal!”