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Topher on Freedom of Speech – why free speech is worth the cost:

http://theforbiddenhistory.com/

The Dangers of Democracy – Viv Forbes Part 1.

Leon is joined by Viv Forbes as they discuss the current political status in Australia and the world. Together they discuss the definition of freedom, the need to limit government control, the dangers of democracy, an ever enlarging bureaucracy, and the difference between rights and privileges. 16 Mar 2012. 37 min.

http://fairdinkumradio.com/resources/16312 Viv Forbes.mp3

Viv Forbes – Freedom part 2.

Viv joins Leon for a continuation of their discussion on the principles of freedom, in our individual lives and in Australia today. They discuss the changing social and political landscape in Australia today. 23 Mar 2012. 37 min.

http://fairdinkumradio.com/resources/23.3.12 Viv Forbes.mp3

Safe Worlds Television, as part of a series entitled “Heroes of Freedom”, came to Sherana at Rosevale to talk to Viv & Judy Forbes:

www.safeworlds.tv/vivforbes/

Subjects covered:

• The Early Years
• Economics
• Politics
• Mining Days
• The Environment
• A Day on the Farm

“If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.

“And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on ’til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering…

“And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”

~Thomas Jefferson

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”.

Patrick Henry

“We are taxed in our bread and our wine, in our incomes and our investments, on our land and on our property not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men, but for foreign nations, complaisant nations who will bow to us and accept our largesse and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace – these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare, and surely it is becoming bare! We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and order and the Pax Romana, a document which will fall into dust when it pleases our allies and our vassals. We keep them in precarious balance only with our gold. Is the heartblood of our nation worth these? Were they bound to us with ties of love, they would not ask our gold. They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more? … When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.”

Cicero http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero, 54 B.C

The Editor
The Australian

Dear Sir

The last time a mining tax was imposed, the infamous ‘Utah tax’, a $6 per tonne levy on every tonne of coking coal loaded on a ship by that company, a ransom on top of all the other taxes which had to be paid before any ship left the wharf, development of new mines by that company was stopped in its tracks for 3 years. Japan commenced investing in new mines in Canada, South Africa and South America. The equally infamous Fringe Benefits tax stopped the construction of mining towns in favour of Fly-in, Fly-out arrangements.

Surely it’s time to replace the tax happy chappies in Canberra with people who have at least some idea of the consequences of destructive tax policies.

Can I suggest they catch up on their holiday reading with an excellent tome ‘For good and evil, the impact of taxes on the course of civilisation’ by Charles Adams.

Regards
John McRobert
Indooroopilly

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vladimirle131407.html

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vladimirle180596.html

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vladimirle136307.html

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vladimirle384251.html

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vladimirle125951.html

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vladimirle403889.html

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vladimirle386289.html

Read more:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vladimir_lenin_2.html#ixzz1cxVs
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Viv Forbes writes on the late Ron Kitching:

I first met Ron Kitching in 1966 – he took me to inspect a copper prospect called Mount Colin near Cloncurry. We struck a chord that day and since then our lives seem to have crossed many times over his long life. I never failed to learn something useful or interesting from him.

Ron was never luke warm – he was either engrossed and enthusiastic, or indifferent, or fiercely opposed.

He was engrossed and enthusiastic about exploration, drilling, soils, pastures, cattle, water, the principles of freedom, sound money, classical liberalism, the history of the universe and the battle for carbon sense.

More: http://think-right.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/rip-ron-kitching.pdf [PDF, 336 KB]