Essential Liberties

Government lock down orders are ruining our prosperity and way to life while having done nothing to stop the spread of Covid-19. There is a solution and it is found in the very birth of this nation: mass non-compliance. It overturned the stamp act, armed our nation, disrupted slavery, ended prohibition, and produced the 2nd amendment sanctuary movement. The constitution supports it as a right and the supreme court has repeatedly affirmed that laws contrary to the constitution need not be obeyed. But none of us can do it alone, this is a group project but it will deliver us from the destruction of our natural rights to life, liberty and happiness. Who's with us!

Joe Biden is coming for your Gun Rights, make no mistake about it. His plan is on his website for all to see. This episode takes a look at his plan, what it means to you, and makes the case that we are obligated by the constitution and the supreme court to not comply with these infringements on our natural rights. "A law repugnant to the constitution, is void," writes Chief Justice Marshall in Marbury v Madison in 1803, and patriotic American citizens, law enforcement, and prosecutors have been voiding repugnant laws ever since. In the last 10 years many gun registration laws and gun bans have been rendered useless by resistance to them by overwhelming majorities of gun owners in several states. Let's take a look.

We're always being told to "follow the science" and that has never been more true than during the Covid Pandemic. But what does the science, not the scientists, really say about the efficacy of masks? In this episode we review the best scientific studies that have been done on this topic, and you'll be surprised how little evidence we have supporting and not supporting if they really work.

America is a philosophy, call it Americanism, and not just a place. Places represent physical location but philosophies tell us what something is about, what it means and how it affects the people who live there. America as a philosophy is what we are fighting to preserve, where it is located is just the place where the battle is happening. The battle is against socialism, Marxism, and anarchy- philosophies that would destroy the liberty, inalienable rights and limited and accountable government that America represents. The threat is real, the stakes are high. Socialism is not compatible with America, and its proponents are not American, but rather your enemy.

Politicians lie to us, they contradict themselves to say what will help them most in the moment, and we let them. Politics has stopped being about truth, and has become only about the accumulation of power. We've let that happen because we forgive the lies of those we want in power, and allow journalists to present information that we never independently verify. In this episode we take a look at the role the people had in allowing for misinformation in George Orwell's "1984" and look at a few examples from the 2020 presidential election, the confirmation of Justice Coney Barrett, and the Boston Marathon Bombing. Our politicians and journalists are to blame, but so are we for not demanding a higher standard.

Ayn Rand said, "There are not contradictions, check you premises." In political discourse today, most conclusions are argued from false premises, resulting in rampant contradictions in public policy. Today we take a look at the way false premises lead to contradictions in gun law, abortion and slavery, and what the correct premise actually is. When premises are challenged, contradictions disappear and we are left with a consistent and coherent frame work for thinking and governing.

Today we explore why all socialist governments must kill their own people to stay in power. Liberty and individual sovereignty were ordained as natural rights by the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776 and defined the fullest expression of human existence. Socialism takes those rights and make individuals the raw material of a social plan that denies the individual any control over their own lives. For their freedom people are willing to die, because they are essentially dead without it. Socialist governments must kill those who shout for liberty to maintain compliance and order. It is not just optional, it is an essential part of subjugation and one all socialists governments engage in.

Freedom of Choice is the leftovers after all natural rights are respected and protected. That's right, your freedom of choice is secondary to the preservation of the rights we all have as humans to life, liberty and property. In this episode we discuss our natural rights and how they must come first in a Libertarian world view, and how our freedom to choose is limited by the rights of others. Putting choice first is a flawed philosophical framework that has lead us to slavery, abortion, the redistribution of wealth and the erosion of our rights as individuals. Restoring fundamental rights to their primary position above anyone's choice brings us closer to Bastiat's vision of the law as a collective defense of individual rights and respects the sovereignty of each individual.

What does it take to win an election? Whatever it takes! At least that's how its done in modern politics where truth and right and wrong no longer exist and are replaced with power and the quest for more. In this episode we look at the response, not from the campaign, but from the dark money PACS working for Joe Biden and their response to lagging poll numbers in a few key voting blocs in Florida. Where truth no longer matters, this is how the game of elections is played.

Hello my friends. Today we are discussing "The Law" by Fredric Bastiat. Listen to find out why our government has lost track of what laws really should be, how laws have become the mechanism of plunder rather than of defense, and a few things we can do to bring laws back to their true and only purpose- of providing for the collective defense of individual liberties. We welcome you to listen, and defend your liberties with your vote for only those politician who understand.

In this episode of the Essential Liberties podcast we discuss why I, as a libertarian in philosophy, cannot vote for the Libertarian candidate. We look at the current state of the libertarian party, the 2020 candidates, and what the libertarians would have to do to be ready to lead at the state and national level.

In this episode of Essential Liberties, J. David Gilge discusses the nature of our 2nd amendment rights to self defense, the implication of a Joe Biden presidency on gun rights, and why you really want and need an AR-15 and a 30 round magazine.