"My Religion," by M. K. Gandhi

I've been reading the chapters on fasting and prayer in Mahatma Gandhi's book, "My Religion." It is clear that fasting is prayer, and the prayer must be for pure reasons. In my fast, I am echoing the opposition of the Ron Paul U. S. Presidential campaign to the existence of central bank of the United States, as it creates a false balance in the money supply by inflating currency and thus redistributing the value of labor from the poor into the whims of the politician. This must be overthrown in a world of peace, within an economy of permanence.

Other dynamics that must be overthrown in a world of peace include slavery (taxation of labor, taxation of property and numbering people like cattle to control the taxation of their labor and property).

Pro-Ron Paul Agenda Fast/ Happy New Year

Well, I'm about to go into the 3rd day of my Pro-Ron Paul Agenda fast at the New Year, 5 1/4 hours from now. All goes well with the fast.

"Economy of Permanence"

While the fast continues, I am reading "Economy of Permanence," by J. C. Kumarappa, Mahatma Gandhi's right hand man. The book goes into several cottage industries that can be utilized to live the permanent economy. One that strikes me is "soap making." I'm reading several websites on the topic and think I will try to make some soap.

The fast continues.

The fast began about 3 minutes ago.

3 day fast in support of Ron Paul agenda starts in 1 1/2 hours

In about 1 1/2 hours, I will begin my 3 day fast in support of the U. S. Presidential Candidate Ron Paul's agenda to close the central bank and its related functions of slavery (taxation of labor, taxation of property (indirectly) and numbering people like cattle (SSN)).

This may be the last opportunity for our agenda to gain this level of public knowledge for many years ahead, as Ron Paul leads in the polls of the Iowa caucuses, so I want to do all I can to echo Ron Paul's message in this fast.

TheGandhianEconomist.blogspot.com

A Three Day Fast to Promote Ron Paul's Focus on Abolition of the Central Bank and the Personal Income Tax

After my 123 days of combined fasting, from April, 2003 thru April, 2004, against the personal income tax (tax slavery), the social security number (slave number) and the property tax (three attributes of slavery in Antiquity), I put off fasting until I could gain more insight on the topic. I've lost some eyesight and gained high blood sugar from those days, I think. Today, I am better connected to Gandhiji's world with teachers and council in India and around the world.

With this in mind, I will be doing a three day fast to begin at 12:00 a.m. Central Time on December 30, 2011 thru 12:01 a.m. on January 2, 2012, in order to pay respect to Ron Paul and to the attention given through his campaign to the concerns of the Tax Honesty Movement, the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Tea Party Movement in their attempts to overthrow corruption in the United States Government in its support of the central bank and above related issues.

Gene Chapman

TheGandhianEconomist.blogspot.com

MahatmaGandhiGlobalLibrary.blogspot.com

Interesting Parellel

I was looking over my efforts in the context of Gandiji's efforts, and I noted some interesting parallels:

1) Gandhi had a JD from and English speaking nation (UK), which helped him navigate the machine of his opposition. I am seeking a JD in an English speaking nation for the same purposes.

2) Gandhiji had a university. I have a library (MahatmaGandhiGolbalLibraray.blogspot.com).

3) Gandhiji had a newspaper (Young India). I have a blog (TheGandhianEconomist.blogspot.com).

There is more, but the library was the big new thing that got my attention.

Suggested Positive Attention be Given to Ron Paul

Last evening, my teacher in India laid out a positive explanation of my 123 days of fasting against the IRS in 2003 to 2004, as satyagraha, bringing attention not in anger but in pity toward the IRS. The explanation is at TheGandhianEconomist.blogspot.com.

With this in mind, I feel it would be appropriate for a public silent protest/ fast (whatever) to take place in Iowa during the caucuses in January, 2012, a few weeks away, not in direct support of Ron Paul, as this would be partisan, but in recognition that he is the first U. S. presidential candidate who has addressed the most immoral issues of the taxation of labor and the redistribution of labor value from the poor into the whims of the political classes though central banking.

Gene Chapman

123 Days of Fasting was Right

Based on the previous explanation, I was doing a right act in my 123 days of fasting against the IRS in 2003 thru 2004.

Gene Chapman has raised a very importent question. He asks what is the difference between Satyagraha and Dharna ? Are these activities not the same? I think it is essencial to understand the meaning of both these terms. Dharna verbally means 'Sitting' against some one under protest. It means you are not happy with someone's action and you are annoyed therefore you sit on Dharna to express your unhappiness and anger. The basic-uniqness of Satyagraha is that it is not against any body but for self-suffering for the ignorence of someone invidually or collectively. For example some Authority or indvidual responsible for the State. We can say Gandhiji's Satyagraha against South African Colonial regime or against Gen. Sumuts, who was head of the State.

'Satyagraha' is an act of self-suffering, It is for the wrong act or, acts of someone to make him realise that he/she has committ ed an inhuman act knowingly or unknowingly. It is an act of love through self-suffering.for someone who is angry and may be having hatered. Dharna is an act of hatered against some one who has commited anger and negetive feelings of unhappiness. There is no scope for love. It is power of love that satyagrahi expersses through his own suffrings. We can say it is an act of changing a person through the force of heart, and not not with body.force.

Satyagraha is an extraordinary act of human heart to express oneness with the one who does not want to be one with you due to his/her ignorence. In his book Hind Swaraj, Gandhiji had tried so show humanity that there is much more power in human mind than physical body. Human being can change the world with his positive mind power than what millions of violent army people could not do. We have several hundred examples of Army-Power-Violent force vs Power of love force. Actually it is the power of love only which bring qualitative change. That is what Gandhiji had shown through his extraordinary example.

Gandhiji had not done any thing like invention. He simply discover the hidden power of man. This power is within every one. The question is of bringing it out and putting it into social action. So we can say that Satyagraha is a Social Action which is the demand of the Time. Humanity has been fedup with the Body-Force-Show[ militarism], and now human being is also going disillusoned with materialism [ Blind Consumarism]. We have to move beyond militarism and materialism.

I found some songs I sang in 2010: GeneChapmanSings.blogspot.com

Gandhiji's Spinning Wheel and the Overthrow of the Fed. Reserve

As I spend more time in a study of the spinning wheel used by Mahatma Gandhi, I see that it provided a path for the Indian people to remain independent of the European mechanization that so impoverished India. Like the Federal Reserve system in the USA and throughout the world, mechanization was used to undermine the labor value of the individual Indian.

What we need to overthrow the Fed is a path of money production that replaces fiat currency with barter. I suggest that the spinning wheel provides a real value of labor invested by the maker that can be transferred between us in the form of hand made cloth. A certain amount of hand spun cloth could be traded between us for services. We would have to determine the relative value of such exchange.

TheGandhianEconomist.blogspot.com

Overthrowing the Keynesian-Marxist System

1) Purchase and study the spinning wheel and the loom as your teacher.

2) Use a bicycle, walk or use a horse more each day to avoid fuel taxes. While these taxes are not intrinsically immoral, they are tools used to fund our enslaver.

3) Study careers that need no government permit or are hard to permit by governments ( i. e. car repair, welding, roofing, etc.).

Learning the Path

In a read of the last chapter of "Hind Swaraj," I realize that without a deep understanding of chapters 17 and 20, non-viloent resistance is laughable to seek to attain.

Gandhiji repeats to the educated elite in his 19 points that the loom, the loom, the loom allows the people to step away from English rule.

Each of us must at some point independent of one another determine that the Keynesian-Marxist will profit from my pulse no more. The doctor and lawyer must walk away from the money and sit at the loom.

When they say, "It's in the Constitution," we must reply, "Man is not made for the law; rather, the law is made for man, and if even the Constitution allows slavery, then it is no law from God, and thus no law at all." If they refuse to allow the Constitution to speak for itself, without lawyers redefining meanings toward slavery, then we must the refuse the whole.

I am buying a spinning wheel to study how to make a living without the IRS. And if they will not allow it, I will throw myself upon the butcher's knife, as Gandhiji instructed the Jews of Hitler's Germany!

The Ego, ID and Autocremation

In an examination of why auto-cremation has such a powerful impact on governments, it occurs to me that when one auto-cremates in front of an IRS Building, for example, the Ego and the ID cease to exist, and only the truth of the person is left for contemplation. There can be no redefinition of the individual into motivation being associated with ego or id at the point of auto-cremation. It is as if, Truth is an alternate universe that reaches out a touches us who remain alive. Humm.

El Paso Tolstoy's Farm Experiment

As I read, the use of Gandhi's Tolstoy's Farm was to provide living space for the families of the men in prison while they employed Satyagrah. For those involved in satyagrah against the IRS and other Marxist institutions, please feel free to use my 20 acres outside El Paso, Texas (USA) to set up shop at no cost to you.

Exchange with Gandhian Intellectuals in India:

Thank you all for your comments. The spinning wheel is $148 from India, made of mahogany and exactly what Gandhiji used, they tell me. I can see that it is self-contained; thus, it is a small factory that can be carried. I plan to own one.

I am curious what 20 cares of land in the country near (edited) would cost an American. My understanding is that Gandhiji did his Tolstoy's Farm Experiment on 20 acres in South Africa, so I would like to run my own while working on my Master's and Ph. D. in Gandhian Philosophy at the university there. Your ideas are welcomed.

To overthrow the IRS's Keynesian-Marxist tax system, these dynamics must be fully explored, I believe.

Humm. Spinning Wheels

I've been checking prices for spinning wheels, so central to Mahatma Gandhi's overthrow of British rule in India that they put it on their flag. I hope others will join me in this study here in the Unites States, as Gandhiji thought the spinning wheel so important that it is in the university mandate of the university he founded, still. Perhaps I will spin in front of an IRS building next summer to contemplate a path to non-violent overthrow of the Keynsian-Marxist system of enslavement.

Occupy Wall Street Moving in a Marxist Direction?

I was reading my daily email from mises.org, and it appears that Occupy Wall Street is taking on a pro-Marxist philosophical direction in some letter Mises quotes. While this is a sad development, it does provide us an opportunity to provide our side of the issue.

Lons Star International Film Festival

This past week, I spent Wednesday afternoon and Friday night as a volunteer at the Lone Start International Film Festival. Willie Nelson showed up the day between, when I wasn't there, but the head of the security detail and I spent time together Friday night talking about it. We were looking over the needs of Piper Laurie, the mother in the horror movie, "Carrie." I was there to get water and such and move her office chair around behind her, so she had an easy seat around the theatre. We had a good laugh on the elevator, as Piper said, "Maybe I should just stay in the chair," making fun at the the fuss that was being made over her, two security staff and me with the chair in the elevator. She dated Ronald Reagan a couple of times back when she was very young and had pictures of her with Tony Curtis, etc. She was "the Paris Hilton of her day," one person told me, and I believe it from her early pictures. A copy of her autobiography was offered by one of the security staff, but I passes, since I didn't feel I knew her well enough to rate a free signed copy.

Case Law Found on 13th Amendment and the Personal Income Tax

We have a case on Miss. Vivien Kellems concerning the income tax and the 13 Amendment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Kellems

I found this while reading page 105 of "For A New Liberty," by Murray N. Rothbard, suggested to me by the Mises Institute (Mises.org).

Death Penalty Position

While sitting in one of my Political Science classes today, it was asked where we stand on the death penalty. I said, "I've changed over the years to now oppose the death penalty for two reasons: 1) I think it fosters violence within the culture, and 2) I don't think there is a person on earth wise enough to know who needs to die." While I am not graduated to the point of Gandhiji and the opposition to eating a hamburger that comes along with that, I do understand that raising a machete (or some other item of death) to take the life of something that is looking you in the eye and can experience terror, somehow changes the executioner and defiles their innocence. On the second point, I think it speaks for itself.

Mahatma Gandhi Global Library and Book Exchange

If anyone would like to forward books to a "Mahatma Gandhi Global Library and Book Exchange," please send them to P. O. Box 295545, Lewisville, Texas USA 75029. There are many thousands of young people at the Wall Street protests across America who are desperate for Gandhian views to direct their protests, but they keep getting their heads bashed in by the police because they do not understand that non-violence is powered by truth and love, not arbitrary obstinance toward all authority. With Gandhian books, we can build an army of knowledgable non-violent leaders.

Occupy Dallas Unreasonably Attacked by Dallas Police

A young "Occupy Dallas" protester was evidently standing on a planter box, while the group was marching to a bank in Downtown Dallas a day or two ago. The Dallas Police sought the opportunity to bully the young person by telling him to get down from the planter. The young man did not get down, so the police took this as an opportunity to beat him down a cuff him.

This is the kind of frustration by police we can exploit. The police lost their cool. No child should be beaten for standing on a planter on an open street. If your parent beat you down and handcuffed you every time you did something a bit youthful in the grocery store, you would be taken away from your parents.

These Dallas police officers did not act properly, and they should be held accountable by their supervisors and the good citizens of Dallas for being less than adult in the midst of a non-violent march.

To the protesters, I quote Tolstoy', who quoted Jesus: "Resist no evil." This means that you should be happy with your victimhood and continue to stand. But stay off the planters from now on.

"compelling government interest"

The one term that keeps coming up in 'personal income tax' and 'military draft' cases that is used to counter the 13th Amendment as it relates to slavery is "compelling government interest." We must take that term away from government to be successful.

National Bank Transfer Day: Positive for Occupy Wall Street

I hear today that a move of over 600,000 bank account transfers have taken place in recent weeks out of the big corporate banks and into the local credit unions, more than happened in the whole of last year, according to NBC Nightly News. This is a positive Gandhian move toward choking out the Federal Reserve Banking system and the enslavement it imposes upon individuals. Keep thinking in this vein. We must become more independent or "unattached," as Gandhiji would put it, to the slave system. Think spinning wheels and Salt Tax marches.

Occupy Dallas Losing Steam

Well, the first signs that "Occupy Dallas" is losing steam appeared on the local news today. Some of them were covered in "fake blood" and laying on the ground. When the actors show up, the real issue falls to second place, as the public realizes that nothing of moral substance is forthcoming.

The conflict is between two continents of ideology: Keynesian-Marxism vs. Individual Liberty. The Great Divide between these continents is most evident in the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, as politicians and the wealthy fascists seek to talk of the taxation of labor, taxation of property and numbering people as cattle (the three primary attributes of slavery in antiquity) as being something other than slavery or involuntary servitude. Only here will we find the mechanism to move the issue.

Involuntary servitude^[15]

Refers to a person held by actual force, threats of force, or threats of legal coercion in a condition of slavery – compulsory service or labor against his or her will. This also includes the condition in which people are compelled to work against their will by a "climate of fear" evoked by the use of force, the threat of force, or the threat of legal coercion (i.e., suffer legal consequences unless compliant with demands made upon them) which is sufficient to compel service against a person's will. The first U.S. Supreme Court case to uphold the ban against involuntary servitude was Bailey v. Alabama (1911).

Fulfilment

I've been thinking a lot about how to live the rest of my life to its fullest, now that Marc, my friend from Welding class, who passed away being nine (9) months younger than me. One of my professors at Baylor referred to me once as a "philosopher." Hmm. I want to live the adventure of Hemingway, to be the Apostle of Mahatma Gandhi to the Western man and overturn the Keynsian-Marxist School of economics that so enslaves our culture.

Occupy Wall Street vs. Occupy Oakland Violence

My dear Gandhians in Oakland, California,

I am so pleased to see that you are disavowing the violence of those who infiltrated your ranks on yesterday. Violence is one of those cow bells that keep us from hearing the Truth's whisper. When the violent come, cast them out, walk away from them and point them out to the police. The police officer is quite literally your cousin, as is everyone else. Even the banker, who exploits the Federal Reserve Banking system to falsely inflate Wall Street stocks at the cost you your future . . . is your cousin, your family.

We must operate from a perspective of patient love toward a parent or other older family member who has left the good child accidentally in the cold. We must win with the power of our intellect and the depth of our love shown in suffering.

on Verizon

Gene Chapman

(Address Edited)

November 2, 2011

(Edit)

Dear (Edit):

Thank you for your recent correspondence of this past week on the phone contract issue with Verizon.

As a Gandhian, I am obliged to contemplate the highest truth and the highest solution in all matters. When I worked to push for new hours of service regulations within the trucking industry with House Majority Leader Dick Armey (edit), Senator Phil Gramm and Texas Governor George W. Bush in the early 2000's, I was amazed at how many trucking executives would look me in the eye over breakfast or in some other setting and discount the lives of your and my family in the name of profits. They would say, "Well, a certain amount of people have to die," and that I should focus my resources on more important things. We know now that 210 lives are saved each year because of the new hours of service regulations that went into effect under President George W. Bush in January, 2004 (over 1,600 lives saved to date).

While I suppose the issues discussed in the enclosed letter from the Verizon executive will not kill anybody, I know that when we seek less than the highest truth, we impoverish the world. When we accept less than that voice of logic and reason that speaks to us in the stillness of the night to a calm place in the center of our stomach, while the cow bells that surround truth are silenced, we open the door to great inequities and a world of disarray.

Clearly, a fourteen (14) day contract evaluation period is insufficient time for a person to know how a phone contract will impact them, when the first bill is thirty (30) days away and no concrete facts have been presented to the customer concerning taxes, etc. before the thirty (30) days. Perhaps Verizon should be asked to provide a lawyer to each client?

If we are to be the best world we can be, the executives in it will have to address the highest truths and the highest solutions available from that benevolent Spirit of the Universe that is both math-centric and truth-centric. Anything less will leave the world a filthy mess.

Most respectfully,

Gene Chapman

Three Things We Will Need to Defeat Keynsian-Marxism

The three things we will need to throw off Keynsian-Marxism are:

1) At least 1000 people willing to burn their Social Security Cards in front of the White House.

2) They must be schooled in Tolstoy's Farm Experiments to live without Social Security Cards.

3) We will need to provide a well reasoned alternative to the Keynsian-Marxist School of Economics.

"Gandhinomics"

I am reading Chapter 6 of "Hind Swaraj," wherein Gandhiji rails against mechanization as enslaving so called, "modern society." I think one might address the dingy work in factories and mines by employing ergonomic methods and the rest by pursuit of intellectual and beyond intellectual pursuits that I will term, "Gandhinomics."

Interesting Points From My Teacher in India

Gandhiji was man who try to explore all the three faculties, which are gifted to every human being when he/she is sent on the Earth, I mean when he/she comes out of mother's womb.

These three faculties are physical, intellctual and beyond Intellectual. We people try to use maximum Physical force, in democracy only physical force is used.{majority vs minority. Few people use itellectual. Rarely we find people like Gandhiji who use all the three.

Very Nice Work: Occupy Wall Street, Dallas

I am so happy to see the positive news coverage that Occupy Wall Street, Dallas got today, in support of the police. Whether you read my suggestion here on TheGandhianEconomist.blogspot.com or that of someone else, I know you see the path of Gandhiji's Truth-Force concept now.

We are the brightest and most loving child in the family, who has been accidentally placed outside in the cold night by an unknowing parent. This is out attitude that will change the circumstances away from the enslavement by the Keynsian-Marxist economics system toward a better paradigm.

Rick Perry Is a Statist in My View

I want to thank Comrade Rick Perry for forcing me and all Texas college students to take a meningitis shot before the first day of class in 2012. I am just now informed that it will be $124 on campus. Since my car engine just blew, this should make college attendance that much easier, not.

Bob Schulz following My Advice?

I've been recently emailing ideas and this blog address to We The People Founder Bob Schulz, and one of my contacts informs me that there is a link to "self-immolation" on the WTP web site. I have not seen that the link is attached for myself, but I have come to the conclusion in my recent studies portrayed here on this blog that "auto-cremation," which is the more specific term for burning one's self, is a Gandhian tactic with full Gandhian blessings.

Why I'm Not on the Streets with Occupy Wall Street, Dallas

While I support those opposing their enslavement by the Federal Reserve Banking system, which hands their futures away to inflate bank stock prices and fund unsustainable Social Security benefits to an older and better politically aware electorate, I find that my place is to operate to get back into the board rooms these days, as I did in my early 30's.

When I sought the Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States in 2008, it became apparent that I lacked the credentials to be at the proverbial "Big Boy Table." To be at that table, one must have more than a desire to do good; one must be able to fully articulate every side of the argument, then provide a holistic solution in order to move a nation in the correct direction. While I am happy to write letters to various leaders, and do, I am still about 30 hours from Tier One law school prospects. I need further studies with my teachers in India on Gandhian Economic Philosophy and here in the U. S. on Austrian School Economics. And a good dose of econometrics is still in the works. I am with you in spirit, but I am on "good behavior" to get the maximum good done for us all, over time.

On Herman Cain's Tax Proposal:

Mr. Cain said, "If 10% is good enough for God, then 9% should be good enough for government." The problem with this is twofold: 1) The tithe, to which Mr. Cain eludes, is not a tax upon labor; it's a covenant dealing with increase from property. 2) The tithe is not discussed in the New Testament.

Gandhian Advice to Occupy Protesters:

Gandhiji never blocked a door that I know of. Martin L. King's biggest opposition is from those who saw him laying in the street blocking traffic as being petty an unprofessional. My suggestion is to sit but not block roads or walkways. BE FRIENDLY AND DO NOT ALLOW AGITATORS TO GET MIXED IN WITH YOU AND GIVE THE GOVERNMENT AN EXCUSE TO ATTACK YOU. THOSE WHO DO NOT OBEY NON-VIOLENT PRINCIPLES SHOULD BE TURNED OVER IMMEDIATELY TO THE POLICE.

Three Deaths in a Month

Well, I found out Uncle Cleo died a week ago and was buried. (Mom's phone had been out, so no one could call.) I went to see him this last summer. He was 102 and was the one person on earth who set me on the course of my life to make the world a better place than I found it.

He had invented a valve that allows propane and butane to be carried on the same truck in his early days. This invention put him in high standing, allowing him to set up an entire plant in Canada to build it for the company where he worked. He had 67 patents, advised President Truman, House Speaker Jim Wright and other top officials of the U. S. in his day. He only had a 5th grade education; wonder what he could have done on a college degree in Engineering?

Uncle Raymond took me to catch my first fish. He died at 91.

And Marc's funeral is tonight (age 44). He was my welding buddy.

Better Law School Prospects Than Thought

I just got in from my Pre-Law advising session at school. After putting down the law schools I had in mind, the advisor says, "Oh, your prospects are better than that." I'm probably not Harvard material, but not too far away. We'll see.

Case Law, Not Socially Understood Definitions

Contemporary Issues Surrounding Slavery

I am finding in my LSAT studies that I need to focus on case law definitions of slavery in order to use it in U.S. Constitutional arguments, not socially understood definitions.

Gene

Notions of slavery in the United States have expanded to include any situation in which one person controls the life, liberty, and fortune of another person. All forms of slavery are now widely recognized as inherently immoral and thoroughly evil. Slavery still occurs in various forms, but when it does, accused offenders are aggressively prosecuted. Federal statutes punish by fine or imprisonment the enticement of per sons into slavery (18 U.S.C.A. § 1583), and the holding to or selling of persons into Involuntary Servitude (§ 1584). In addition, whoso ever builds a ship for slave carriage, serves on a ship carrying slaves, or owns a slave-carrying ship will be fined or imprisoned under 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 1582, 1586, and 1587, respectively.

The statute 18 U.S.C.A. § 1581 prohibits peonage, which is involuntary servitude for the payment of a debt. Labor camps are perhaps the most common violators of the law against peon age. The operators of some labor camps keep victims for work in fields through impoverished conditions, threats, acts of violence, and alcohol consumption. Offenders often provide rudi mentary shelter to migrant workers and demand work in return, which can constitute involun tary servitude. An individual can also be con victed of sale into involuntary servitude for delivering victims under False Pretenses to such labor camps.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, much of the debate surrounding slavery related to movements urging the U.S. government to pay reparations to descendants of slaves. Supporters of this movement suggest that cash payments made to these descendants is justified to compensate the victims of slavery for years of hardship, harm, and indignities. Local governments in such cities as Dallas, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland have urged Congress to consider this form of payment. Opponents of reparations note that the costs of reparations, if given to the extent that some supporters urge, would cost the federal government trillions of dollars. More over, many critics question how these cash payments would be made and how recipients would be identified for receiving them.

My Teacher in India says these are Four Central Concepts Followed by Gandhiji

Gandhiji spoke of four fundamental principles of Satyagraha. One of the four principles is, 'Nirbhaya', which means fearlessness. Other three are life of Truthfulness, life of Voluntary Poverty and Life of Brahmcharya, full devotion to Almighty.

An Interesting Link on Gandhian Economics

http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/34911/1/Unit4.pdf

I Endorse the Non-Violent Wall Street Protesters

One must be encouraged by the Wall Street protests. What we are seeing is a non-violent resistance to the Kensian-Marxist foolishness that has bankrupted the Nation over these past hundred years (since the signing of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913). I hope they are all fans of Aaron Russo's movie, "America: Freedom to Fascism" and mises.org.

Tolstoy

As I read Chapter 4 of "Hind Swaraj," by Mahatma Gandhi, I noted a great importance that he placed on Tolstoy's, "The Kingdom of God is Within You," so I bought it. Maybe I'll try the Tolstoy Farm Experiment. I've also asked my teacher in India to direct me to writings on "the many faces of truth" discussed in the Forward of HS that come out of "Mahavira and Jainism."

Friend Died last Night

I was informed about an hour ago that a good friend of mine passed away in his sleep last night. Marc (my age) and I met in welding classes a little over a year ago, and I bought him lunch when we took Saturday classes, sometimes. He was always talking about paying me back someday. He had been in the Navy and was planning to move to Portland, Oregon next year with his welding classes under his belt. He got me tuned into the Mises Institute (mises.org) and studying for an Economics degree. (I left his last name off the post because that's the way he liked it.) He beat cancer twice, I believe, only to get tangled up with a big IRS issue about a month ago. It put a lot of stress on him, and the CPA said that he didn't even have a tax issue when all the numbers were run. (Humm. Unnecessary stress).

Gandhi Does Support Auto cremation, One can easily Infer

Gandhi Shocker?

During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. “The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,” he said. “They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.” “Collective suicide,” he told his biographer, “would have been heroism.”

Reported by actor-senator Fred Thompson, who Ann Althouse (to whom the hat is hereby tipped) thinks isrunning for president. Confirmed here, albeit in the context of Gandhi's belief in the moral persuasive power of an absolute commitment to nonviolence:

[B]ecause he viewed many pacifists as specialists in evading unpleasant truths, [George] Orwell did admire Gandhi's unflinching honesty with regard to the Holocaust: When asked about resistance to the Nazis, Gandhi argued that the Jews should have prepared en masse to sacrifice their lives in nonviolence -- something Orwell regarded as "collective suicide" -- in order to "[arouse] the world and the people of Germany to Hitler's violence."

Why I Converted From Christianity to Gandhian Views

I have been trained in apologetics in my younger days, and so I've spent a lifetime defending Christianity. The big issue that caught me was the last couple of verses of Matthew 16, where Jesus tells a group that there will be "some of you" (more than one) standing here who will not taste death until you see the son of man coming in clouds of great glory (a reference to the Second Coming). So, unless there are some 2000 year old people (more than one) running around the Middle East (or anywhere), who have not yet been discovered by the Internet, Jesus Christ has to be an objective false profit by his own biblical standards.

Sorry, but Truth has to be followed.

Gene Chapman

First Law School Tour

Well, I just completed my first tour of a Law School. I'm looking at three areas of Law: 1) Patent Law; 2) Entertainment Law; 3) Constitutional Law as it relates to Tax Policy issues. I must admit that I feel most at peace inside with Patent Law, as there are no political or social mountains to climb there. (Note: I also found the "Innocence Project" at the Law School, so maybe we can get them to look at Irwin Schiff's situation).

Anyway, I am at a "Y" in my educational road: 1) I continue work toward a Econometrics Ph. D. or, 2) I redirect to Law School. I am 63 hours from starting a Masters in the Econometrics or 30 hours from entering Law School on a BAAS Industrial Dispute Resolution degree. Sure wish I could find a scholarship, as it's a lot of work to keep all the proverbial plates spinning.

Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian School economist who directs libertarian thinking, was first a JD, I understand. I'm sure I'll need two doctorates to impact a paradigm shift away from the Kensian-Marxist slavery model of the Western World.

I have a Gandhian intellectual from India, who is teaching me Mahatma Gandhi's, "Hind Swarji," chapter-by-chapter. It's Gandhiji's manifesto; powerful stuff.

Gene Chapman

The Social Security Number

The Social Security Number is as central to the enslavement of the American People as it has been throughout history to number people like cattle. Whether benefits are given or taken, the fact that people are as cattle makes them slaves to the will of masters.

The overthrow of the Social Security Number is key to the liberation of Americans. This requires a paradigm shift away from the assumptions of Kensian-Marxism, that people must be servants of the state rather then the state being servants of the people. For now, I see that noin-violence is far superior a path than violence, for Truth is not proven through violence.

1) We must breath Truth upon our elected officials.

2) We must look for moral paths of taxation.

3) We must consider the poorest person on earth.

Gene

Becoming the Paradigm Shift/ Email to India

I have been reading some of Gandhiji's thoughts on personal actions positively impacting the poorest of the poor, and as a result, I would like you to find the poorest person in India and have them make me a basket from reeds or do some craft with their hands. I'll pay for the shipping and sell it here in the USA. We'll see where it goes.

Most respectfully,

Gene Chapman

Gandhian Happiness Student Council

I am exploring the need for the formation of a Gandhian Happiness Student Council at school to explore Gross National Happiness (GNP) and the possibility of abolishing the corporation.

Gandhi/ Tolstoy Farm

As I study, I see that Gandhiji's tactic in South Africa was for 2000 people to march quietly and burn their government ID's that caused them to be identified as less/ slaves. It was around his Tolstoy's Farm experiment in South Africa that it all started.

Our overthrow of the personal income tax will be tied to such an event of burning our Social Security cards, perhaps in front of the IRS Building or the White House or Federal Reserve.

We must operate from a place of "pity" for the Kenesian-Marxist, and our slogan should be something like, "Kenesian-Marxist, Please leave our soil."

Gene

Will Morality Produce a Low Need for a Standing Army?

In one of Gandhiji's speeches, "Economic Development and Moral Development," he goes into the "Sermon on the Mount" and proposes that moral conduct in our homes will produce a lowering of a need for standing armies. So the proposition is that Muslims will not want to kill me for American policy, if I do not commit adultery, along with some list of what is "moral."

The problem I have with Gandhiji's speech is in the definition of moral. Here, I must agree with the Austrian School's general philosophy. We violate another when there is not informed consent. Gandhiji operates with the assumptions of Christianity, that there is a causal relationship between increasing wealth and immoral conduct. Again, what is immoral?

"Hind Swaraj" in Hand

One of the Gandhian School intellectuals from India, with whom I interact, suggested I read "Hind Swaraj," by M. K. Gandhi to understand his ideas in more depth. I have it in hand today, and I see that Gandhiji interacted with Leo Tolstoy a good deal. Tolstoy authored, "War and Peace" and is seemingly the central mind of influence behind the non-violence concept practiced by both Gandhiji and Martin Luther King Jr.

As I read the chapter on "Education," I noted that the central purpose of education is to make one "in harmony with Nature," according to Gandhiji.

Gene

Discussion on School in India

I need more Gandhian training before I press the U. S. Government to shut down Marxism in the country. For example, I was stumped in 2005 when the FBI began to ridicule me for fasting to no end. My solution was to move discussions into the realm of auto-cremation as a Gandhian tactic. I am curious how your university views this tactic in a Gandhian context?

Also, would I be able to continue Law School anywhere else in the world with a Master's in Gandhian Thought from India?

Most respectfully,

Gene Chapman

on God

"I adore God as that Spirit of the Universe that is math-centric, truth-centric and creative" (Gene Chapman).

"Necessary and proper"

Today, I was sitting in one of my Government classes when I was introduced to the central conflict I see between those jailed in the Tax Honesty Movement and the Government. In Article 1, Sec. 8, Clause 3, we read, "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers . . . ."

Congress gets away from the Gandhian understanding of the U. S. Constitution, which focuses on the direct intelligible Truth, by utilization of this single phrase, known as the "elastic clause." This clause is used to circumvent and make moot the entirety of the rest of the constitution by some in Congress. It's Orwellian double-speak to suggest that the U. S. Constitution can operate with such a phrase within it around a room of lawyers. What is "necessary and proper" is the opinion of the official. This explains why Congressmen are not known for carrying a copy of the constitution in their pocket these days, I gather. All they have to remember is "necessary and proper." Then the U. S. Supreme Court rules on its constitutionality. And who knows what a bunch of lawyers on a bench think?

Gene

Gandhiji Basics

It seems to me that Gandhiji opposition to anything can be summed in one term: "informed consent." From a contract that is online with click-thoughs and fine print, to abortion, rape and war, when one party is not offered informed consent, then is the violation against even the divine. We must then take great care to inform throughly so that consent may be made for border disputes, tax policy and so on.

Gene

Egalitarian-Libertarian School

I am thinking that a good term for my school of economic thought would be, "the Egalitarian-Libertarian School," "a marriage of the Austrian School with the Gandhian School and the blessing of Econometrics."

Gene

Property Rights Vs. Domain Rights

Property rights always seemed to ring untrue to me. I think the better term is domain rights. You see, when you awaken in the morning, you go to work. If your domain is "well defined," then you will perform better. Just as with property rights: if your domain is well defined, then you expect better performance in the context of domain rights. It is probably semantics, but I think it important down the road in my attempt to marry Austrian School and Gandhian School Economics with the seal of Econometrics.

When the American Indian, for example, talks, he mights say, "Who can own the sky, the land or the water?" Our short life span on earth is more true in terms of "domain rights" than the term "property rights," which describes a permanence that does not exist in reality.

Gene

Letter to Mr. Obama

Gene Chapman
P. O. Box 29945
Lewsiville, Texas 75029

August 31, 2011

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

As an Economics student, I take note that you have a new chief economic advisor from Princeton.

In my studies, I am attempting to marry the econometrics of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School, the libertarian views of the Austrian School and the reverence for the community found in the Gandhian School. I am concerned that you are pulling economic advisors from a very limited world view, as both Harvard and Princeton are of the Keynesian-Marxist School.

The Keynesian-Marxist School promotes attributes of slavery (i. e. taxation of labor, taxation of property, numbering people like cattle), while both the Austrian School and the Gandhian School reject slavery as morally bankrupt. And econmetric models support freedom over slavery, as the more efficient mechanism for building an economy, I understand.

I hope you will open your pool of thinkers to include non-slavebased minds.

Most respectfully,

Gene Chapman

gkchapman82@yahoo.com

On Naming Me

Through the years, it has been suggested by some people from India that I "could be the reincarnation of Mahatma Gandhi." I agree with Gandhiji that reincarnation seems a very cruel thing to impose upon a person, and I see no rational basis for the belief in reincarnation; therefore, I reject the idea or reincarnation.

I have been called by my close friends in a joking manner, "The Mahatma Lama." This is the Andie Kaufman sense of humor that I carry only, and I do not believe myself to be anything other that an attempted photocopy of ideas that will change the world for the better, I believe.

I have been termed "The American Gandhi" by some. This is probably most near to what I seek to be, but I recognize that some will ridicule even this.

What I would like to be called is, "Gene from America; the one who seeks truth above all else."

Gene Chapman

An Anti-Government Intrusion Act

I have been taking two U. S. Government classes this semester, as I work on my Econometrics degree here in Texas. (Texas is in the USA for my following that seems to be developing in India.) As I study, I feel my concerns could be best addressed in a larger context than taxation. An "Anti-Government Intrusion Act" seems a good fit for wording. It would address "taxation of labor, taxation of property, numbering people like cattle, surveillance of uncondemned free persons (as we do on the toll roads), etc. Anything to do with intrusion by government would be covered by the Act.

Gene

On Andrew Joseph Stack III

During one of my fasts in Austin, Texas, I am very sure that a man fitting Joe Stack's description came to see me, as I sat in a lawn chair outside the Regional IRS Building, day-after-day. He squatted down on the ground next to me and asked, "Do you think non-violence will work against the IRS?" I replied, "Gandhi taught that non-violence is an option, not a command." I went on to explain the matter of how governments that seek to be perceived as moral in the world can be moved by non-violence but that Marxist governments (like the United States) do not seek moral outcomes; rather, they seek efficiency, as they alone understand it. I think this conversation moved Joe over time to a place that he chose to fly his plane into the IRS building that day last year. His violence brought a balance in the war against the IRS that we must respect, but I think we are in a non-violent place now, as I describe in the post below. The Ron Paul and Tea Party movements returned hope to a people I thought were destined to remain enslaved.

On Violence Against Marxism

Is it appropriate to use violence against a Marxist? Well, there are always caveats in any conflict. It is not for me to say that violence is always the answer in every situation of one type. Non-violence is a choice, not a command. I think the Marxist has been so discredited these days by deficit spending on a global basis that he will have a hard time regaining control of humanity in an Internet driven world, so violence has no real place in our context.

However, the violence of the Marxism of Hitler (National Socialism) was such that it could not have been contained without violence. Can you imagine Mahatma Gandhi doing a fast against Hitler in Germany? The government must seek to perceived in the world as moral in order for non-violence to be workable, according to Gandhiji.

I do like to think that I have provided some moral foundation in my letter writing the past decade to various elected and religious leaders in America to embolden Tea Party and Ron Paul types, and I think this type of activity will prevail over time in an Internet driven world. I read a book here and an article there with a snippet of my case against the IRS, for example, and feel legitimized and prompted to stay within the United States. And so violence becomes less and less a reasonable option while these libertarian groups continue to flourish.

A new direction

I was just watching a PBS special on the "Pentagon Papers," and I began to contemplate a Buffett axiom that in order to be a great investor, we must first be absolutely honest with ourselves.

In that vein, I have been troubled with my Christian background since the reading a few years ago of a book entitled, "Jesus, Interrupted," by Bart D. Ehrman. I can no longer defend the pretense that Christian Truth is equivalent to Gandhian Truth. There are real problems in Christian Truth that are quite subjective and quantifiably errant, and I will allow the above described book speak for itself. Gandhi stated, "I worship God as truth only." I do believe that there exists a spirit about the universe that is both math-centric and truth-centric. This spirit seems benign, other than to say that there are laws based in math and cause-and-effect truth. This is what drives me into the study of economics. I must conclude that I am no longer to be classified as Christian but Gandhian: "I worship God as truth only."