UPCOMING EVENT: Next week, Wednesday, February 5, at noon. FFF is hosting a get-together in downtown Boston after the oral arguments in Ian Freeman’s appeal, where we will discuss the oral arguments. I will be there. Trillium Brewing Fort Point, 50 Thomson Pl, Boston, MA 02210; (857) 449-0083; https://trilliumbrewing.com. Reminder: The Court of Appeals is located in the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse, One Courthouse Way in Boston. The oral arguments are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on the 7th floor of the courthouse. Trillium Brewing is about one block away. See here for more details.
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President Trump and Elon Musk have stirred up a hornet’s nest among statists and CIA assets in the mainstream press with their threat to abolish USAID, which Trump said is “run by a bunch of radical lunatics.”
The statists and the CIA assets in the press are firing back with everything they have. For example, they are detailing all the poor people that USAID helps around the world with the U.S. taxpayer-funded foreign aid that USAID distributes. The point is to paint Trump and Musk as heartless people who hate the poor, needy, and disadvantaged. It’s a time-honored way to diffuse criticism of any welfare program, not just those funded by USAID. Just accuse the opponent of a welfare program of hating the poor and then trot out some starving children. Opposition to the program is supposed to wilt away.
It’s important to keep something important in mind though. Contrary to popular opinion, there is no care or compassion involved in this program or any other foreign-aid program or, for that matter, in any welfare-state program. That’s because USAID foreign aid is funded through the coercive apparatus of taxation and the harsh enforcement measures of the IRS, one of the most powerful agencies in U.S. history. When it comes to paying income taxes, people don’t have a real choice. If you don’t pay, you go to jail. Don’t forget that they forced income-tax opponent Irwin Schiff to die in prison rather than giving him a compassionate release so that he could die with his family around him.
There is no way to reconcile coercion with genuine care and compassion. The latter comes from the willing heart of the individual, not the coercive apparatus of the IRS and political decisions of USAID bureaucrats.
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Thus, contrary to what the statists and the CIA’s assets in the mainstream press maintain, USAID “aid to the poor” does not mean that America is a benevolent country or that American taxpayers are good and caring people. It simply means that the IRS collects taxes on people’s income and USAID bureaucrats distribute them in political ways.
Moreover, it’s long been an open secret that USAID is just a front for the CIA, one of the most evil agencies in U.S. history, one that specializes in the dark arts of state-sponsored assassinations, torture, indefinite detention, and other dark-side totalitarian measures. Given such, it is clear that the “helping the poor and downtrodden” with foreign aid is nothing more than a clever device to enable the CIA to keep using USAID as a cover to continue engaging in its secretive dark-side activity.
For example, in 2010 USAID created a Twitter-like program in Cuba called Zun-Zuneo. The aim was to foment dissent among the Cuban people, which, it was hoped, would lead to a violent revolution in Cuba, one that would oust Cuba’s communist regime from power and replace it with another U.S. puppet regime. Does that sound like a USAID foreign-aid program that supposedly helps the poor, needy, and disadvantaged? Nope. It sounds more like a standard regime-change operation of the CIA. After all, which part of the U.S. government has had the longest and deepest obsession with Cuba if it’s not the CIA (and the rest of the U.S. national-security branch of the government)?
The statists and the CIA assets in the press are saying that it’s illegal for Trump to abolish USAID with an executive order and without the permission of Congress. But according to an online article on nbcnews.com, “Then-President John F. Kennedy created USAID by executive order in 1961 after Congress passed a reorganization of foreign assistance.” If this agency was created by executive order, why can’t it go out of existence by executive order?
I would be remiss if I failed to point out the dark irony here: JFK creates USAID, which becomes a front for the CIA, which helped orchestrate and carry out the assassination of JFK — on grounds of protecting “national security” of course. See my book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, which details the CIA’s role in the cover-up of the assassination on the very weekend it was carried out.
It’s something that Trump should keep in mind as he aims to abolish a decades-old CIA front organization. As Congressman Chuck Schumer put it and as JFK discovered, “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.”
Finally, the statists and the CIA’s assets in the mainstream press pull out their standard fiscal argument: that USAID is only a tiny part of the overall federal budget, say, 1 percent. Therefore, their argument goes abolishing it isn’t going to really make a dent in overall federal spending. Therefore, they say, there is no point in ending it.
But what happens when one proposes abolishing the big ones, like Social Security and Medicare? The statists and CIA assets go ballistic. “There will be people dying in the streets!” they exclaim. “You’re heartless and cruel!” And so, they say, the big welfare-state programs can’t be abolished either.
What happens when one proposes abolishing the Pentagon, CIA, and NSA and restoring America’s founding governmental system of a limited-government republic? “Oh my gosh!” the statists and CIA assets in the press exclaim. “Who will protect us from the Reds, terrorists, Muslims, drug dealers, illegal immigrant invaders, Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and other scary boogeymen? No, far from abolishing the national-security state, we need to increase its power and money,” they cry.
That leaves the tiny ones, the ones they say aren’t worth abolishing because they’re so tiny. But if you add up all the tiny ones and abolish them all, aren’t we then talking about substantial savings?
Let’s hope that Trump and Musk stick by their guns and that they don’t cave in to the pressure being put on them by statists and the CIA’s assets in the mainstream press. Let’s hope they follow through and abolish this evil agency. Indeed, one of the best things they could do for America is abolish all foreign aid.
