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Thomas Jefferson on the "law" - his observations are more on point every single day. "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, 4 April 1819

Today in history, on April 5, 1933 - FDR signed Executive Order 6102 - one of the most tyrannical presidential actions in history. It purported to require all people to turn in all "gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates" to the Federal Reserve or a member bank under the...See more

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Thomas Jefferson on the "law" - his observations are more on point every single day. "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, 4 April 1819

Today in history, on April 5, 1933 - FDR signed Executive Order 6102 - one of the most tyrannical presidential actions in history. It purported to require all people to turn in all "gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates" to the Federal Reserve or a member bank under the...See more