Cryptocurrency: Libertarian Party Partners With BTC Maxi's, Declares Independence From FED

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2qF-Np7Ls Libertarian Bitcoin End The Fed Live

Join the Libertarian Chair Angela McArdle and Vice Chair Joshua Smith
July 3 at 2:00 PM EST with the Bitcoin experts Saifedean Ammous, Marty
Bent, Stephan Livera, Jameson Lopp and Guy Swann.



We Need To Declare Our Independence From The Federal Reserve

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/we-need-to-declare-independence-from-the-federal-reserve
https://keepingstock.net/support-your-country-buy-bitcoin-da22fb21659f
https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09971.html
https://www.lp.org/platform/
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1542214066218774528
https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1243545652195450882
https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/from-the-desk-of-andy-masich/real-rosie-the-riveter
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/12/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56972/speech-once-more-unto-the-breach-dear-friends-once-more

The Democrat and Republican parties have been wielding social
movements as weapons in a culture war. Is it time the Libertarian
Party wields the Bitcoin hammer in the battle against the Federal
Reserve?

In the cypherpunk mailing list, Satoshi Nakamoto had a back-and-forth
exchange with an unknown cryptographer:

    “You will not find a solution to political problems in
cryptography.” — Unknown cryptographer

    “Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a
new territory of freedom for several years.

    “Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally
controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella
and Tor seem to be holding their own.” — Satoshi Nakamoto

Between Nakamoto’s emails, the Bitcoin white paper and the source
code, there was probably nothing they said with a more aloof tone than
this quote. I have to imagine they understood the economic
ramifications that would come with developing such a system and this
was likely why they remained anonymous. Then again, maybe they were
blissfully unaware that there is no more dangerous enemy to the power
of the state than economically free people.

Many early adopters of bitcoin were more likely software and tech
gurus than they were economists or libertarians, but this comment by
Nakamoto was profoundly libertarian. After all, if the government can
wage war on poverty, drugs, crime and terror, why can’t libertarians
and Bitcoiners alike wage war on money printing? It’s hard to
overstate the phrasing here: “[W]e can win a major battle in the arms
race and gain a new territory of freedom.”

The Libertarian Party, under new management, recognizes just how
important Bitcoin is in this battle. Angela McArdle, chair of the
Libertarian National Committee, embraces the importance of bitcoin’s
scarcity, self-sovereignty, and censorship resistance. On a phone
interview, McArdle shared:

“Inflation is being reported at 8.6%, but if you fill up the gas in
your car, you know that it must be higher than that. No one knows the
real rate of inflation, but what I do know is you cannot print more
bitcoin. You can print dollars perpetually until it’s worthless like
Venezuela, but you can’t print more bitcoin.”

Sure, the Libertarian Party is using the language, “Declare your
independence from the Fed,” in a metaphorical way, but we can never
forget that our country was founded on a very real Declaration of
Independence that led to something very tangible.

“We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the
omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual.” — The
Libertarian Party’s Statement of Principles

Today more than ever, the enforcement tool of the so-called
“omnipotent state” and those in power is their monetary policy. The
monopolization of fiat currency and the burden of taxes have become
weapons of the state to empower Washington and disenfranchise the
people. Libertarians and Austrian economists have been sounding the
alarms for decades, but as Ron Paul has attributed to George Orwell,
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”

At a certain point however, the truth comes out.

    Jerome Powell: "I think we now understand better how little we
understand about inflation."

    Host: "That's not very reassuring"

    Jerome : "This was unpredicted"

    Only the "experts" and the media didn't see this coming.
    Just about everyone else did.

    Sound ON pic.twitter.com/6Gv35rXPrW
    — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 29, 2022

This inflation was either due to incompetence or deliberate debasing
of the U.S. dollar, but Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve
Board, admitted that he doesn’t understand basic economics. I would
have preferred him to come out and admit he lied.

Our favorite Bitcoiner, Peter “Gold” Schiff, along with every Austrian
economist, pointed out how inflation works when the money printer
started in March 2020 (when Schiff comes to the same realization as
Bitcoiners, we will welcome him with open arms),

    As the Fed will create all this money out of thin air the people
will pay the cost through inflation. Consumer prices are about to
soar, wiping out the savings of millions of Americans, and destroying
the purchasing power of wages for millions more.
    — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) March 27, 2020

So here we are, July Fourth is coming up and we, the people, are in a
quandary. Our leaders lie, our media covers for them, our financial
institutions are corrupt and consent of the governed sounds more like
a brand slogan than the foundation of our government.

So what options do we have?

Fix the money, fix the world.

Bitcoin is the greatest peaceful revolution the world may ever know.
Back to that seemingly innocuous Nakamoto quote, “[W]e can win a major
battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for
several years.” The arms race they must be referring to is power —
political and economic — of governments versus economic power in the
hands of individuals. Maybe it’s time to turn Rosie the Riveter into
Dolores the Diamond Hands.

(Painting/J. Howard Miller)

Libertarians and Bitcoiners are allies in the fight for sound monetary
policy. Speaking of a Bitcoiner and Libertarian alliance, McArdle
said, “It’s important for us to build a parallel economy, so in the
event the dollar collapses completely, or some kind of financial
crash, we have something to shift over to laterally. The more people
that have Bitcoin and understand it, the better.”

Nakamoto had this revelation when they said, “It’s very attractive to
the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I’m better
with code than with words though.” Clearly, they weren’t wrong.
Nakamoto’s creation spawned a movement without a speech or catchy
slogan, just code and believers. Some of us libertarians may have been
a bit late to bitcoin, myself included, but the troops are coming.

    “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more” — King Henry
in “Henry V” by William Shakespeare

The Libertarian Party is hosting a livestream event at 2:00PM EST on
July 3, 2022. Join the call and declare your independence from the
Fed.

Declare your independence from the Fed

Join the Libertarian Chair Angela McArdle and Vice Chair Joshua Smith
July 3 at 2:00 PM EST with the Bitcoin experts Saifedean Ammous, Marty
Bent, Stephan Livera, Jameson Lopp and Guy Swann.

Think about doing three things in preparation for Independence Day:

    Watch the livestream and donate some sats (bitcoin) for liberty

    Stack some sats for yourself

    Help one friend or family member stack their first sats

I want you… to buy bitcoin.