150 Years of Tyranny

Tyranny in America has many birthdays. There are many Rosemary’s Babies in America’s past and they live on in America’s present. In 1862, Congress gave birth to the Legal Tender Act. And we are almost to 2013, which is the 150th birthday of the National Bank Act of 1863 and its successor in 1864. Lysander Spooner had these in mind in 1877 (Our Financiers: Their Ignorance, Usurpations, and Frauds): “Perhaps we may conclude that the right to live, and to provide ourselves with food, clothing, shelter, and all the other necessaries and comforts of life, necessarily includes the right to … Continue reading 150 Years of Tyranny