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THE TERRY GILBERG SHOW

Posted by ICONIC FREEDOM on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:17:17 AM
Listen to KFYI, AM 550 in Phoenix on Sunday, Nov. 1st from 7-8pm (streams on the web - AZ does not do daylight savings time)

I'll be on the Terry Gilberg Show discussing the latest topics and my book - ICONIC FREEDOM!

Here's the link: http://stores.lulu.com/iconicfreedom
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ON THE ISSUES: WHAT UNITES US!

Posted by ICONIC FREEDOM on Friday, August 14, 2009 12:08:46 PM
For eons political parties are at odds with one another, each having their own set of rules, morals, values and precepts to follow, each wanting their vision of the world imposed and yet, one thing unites us all: FREEDOM
 
Sure, we can talk about social issues, we can debate all day long who was here first, who’s religion is more dominate, who corners the market on morals and morals denigrated, which party espouses values then spits in the face of ‘em, but at the end of the day the debates are fueled by: FREEDOM
 
The freedom of speech; the freedom of religion; the freedom of assembly; the freedom of the press; the freedom of contract; the FREEDOM OF CHOICE.

FREEDOM OF CHOICE CAN’T JUST BE THE CHOICE YOU AGREE WITH.
 
If we are to develop society toward personal responsibility, then this understanding must be assimilated at some point in our development. We can all vehemently disagree on how to solve issues; how infrastructure ought to be managed; how to look out for our kids; how to look out for our grandparents; how to look out for our society.
 
However, at the end of the day if we don’t all AGREE ON FREEDOM & FREE CHOICE FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL WHETHER WE AGREE WITH ANOTHER’S CHOICE OR NOT, we stand to divide ourselves as a nation for centuries to come, to our own peril.   Freedom or Control – which side are you on?
 
Democrats hate free markets because of the outcomes, it leaves people who have little motivation toward productivity, out in the cold – this is a natural consequence. Republicans and Independents love free markets because of the outcomes – it leaves success in the hands of the productive in our society – this is a natural consequence.
 
Social issues have natural consequences. Free markets can actually solve these social issues.
 
Get government out of our lives and allow innovation, creativity, education and solution oriented ideas to pour forth toward resolutions. Asking government to uphold your ideals over another’s is doing the same thing that Democrats do – forced imposing of what appears to be free choice, but is really control.

You live in hypocrisy when you ask the government to define marriage but then turn around and want free markets to prevail when it comes to education. Essentially: “I want my choices favored & enforced by government, but not your choices.”
 
This is a losing strategy.
 
When security and liberty are obtained, all things are possible. We have that! We just need government out of the way so all other issues can be solved. Value is in the eye of the beholder: we cannot tell another human being what to value & where to place that value, lest we, not only create a target for our own back of said imposing, but abscond with the freedom of the individual toward personal choice in this life.
 
Either you are for personal choice or not – you can’t be a little bit pregnant.
 
FREEDOM OF CHOICE CAN’T JUST BE THE CHOICES YOU AGREE WITH – otherwise, it’s not freedom, it becomes your version of imposing on the world.

If Republicans and Independents want to pull the rug out from underneath the opposition there is only one way: get out of the way.
 
Let creative minds come up with free market solutions to abortion, marriage, education, health care, immigration and the like. Utilize legislators to enact few laws by which these free market solutions are allowed to operate. Get off the soapbox of sanctimony which makes Republicans and Independents the target from the opposition.
 
Freedom can never be argued with except to reveal the controlling nature of the opposition – this brings enlightenment.
 
When you’re enemy is relieved of their weapons by which to attack you, then you stand on solid ground for advancement. Who is going to stand up in a free society and say, “I don’t want you to have freedom”? If they do, then let that be what is spotlighted: thank you for revealing yourself! Not the whining of morality, values or offensive remarks, the fact that the individual doesn’t want FREEDOM and wants to take YOUR freedom away! That’s a helluva powerful message to reveal about someone.

Republicans and Independents can stand for two things: Limited Government & Personal Responsibility.
 
Support the development of personal responsibility by teaching everyone the art of owning your choices, having the ability to respond to your choices, and upholding our Constitutional Rights of contract by not making choices without the consent of the other individual with whom you are interacting. You gotta want it – you gotta want it more than anything else because it advances freedom. It can be a challenge to admit you’ve made choices that sought to control or manipulate others, but meet this challenge you must if you’re going to advance freedom. Clean it up; clear it up and move on. All life is trial & error, if you’re not self-flogging you can get more done.

Get your power and control needs met somewhere else, not in the public arena of freedom, free markets and free choice. Play out your version of Hitler somewhere else.

Limiting choice is control and manipulation for your own personal self-interest.

An accurate choice for an individual comes from comprehension of ALL information relating to a particular concern, not limiting that information. Self- righteousness starts rearing its ugly face when provisional information is given by which to control an outcome because of personal self-interest. That’s not freedom; that is control; that is what Democrats want and do 95% of the time.

If Democrats really want to put their money where their mouths are, then let them set up societal charities where the unproductive can go get money, food, abortion allocations, welfare, healthcare and not off the backs of Americans who don’t want to pay for such. Let the rest of us set up systems of support whereby accountability is the foundation of such because it advances one’s development.

The greatest gift an American can give to another American, isn’t charity, it’s a job by which to create self-reliance; self-governance.
 
Let your actions toward free markets allowing for free choice reveal the nature of Democrats rather than beating Americans over the head with the obvious: Liberals are anything but liberal – they are about control, manipulation and re-distribution of your hard earned wealth.
 
I GUARANTEE you WIN every argument when you speak ONLY to FREEDOM, take the rest of it out and point toward that which is controlling, of the opposition. Anyone that wants to test this hypothesis to theory, feel free to comment here or email me iconicfreedom@live.com and we’ll go to the mat in order to create the warriors needed in this nation for sustaining and advancing freedom!

LET'S get this done!

NOW, is the time!

THIS is the moment!
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ON THE ISSUES: CAPITALISM

Posted by ICONIC FREEDOM on Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:53:33 AM
I posted the other day on twitter a simple challenge: I can define capitalism in two words, can you?
 
I didn’t have any takers.
 
Certainly I am a guy who will take hold of a subject and keep cleaning it up until I have what is the simplest of terms by which to express it – I understand we live in the sound-bite citizen – bumper sticker mentality. Moreover, I know it’s more efficient.

Defined in 2 words
Capitalism: voluntary contract

Defined in 1 word
Capitalism: consent
 
The reason capitalism works is because it’s voluntary.
 
I decide with my dollars where they will work most efficiently for my life and the seller to whom I turn over those dollars offers a product or service I want – one exchange for the other. The more choices I have of similar products or services, the less the price since the sellers are competing for my dollars.
 
What happens when our government attempts to control this process by limiting the number of sellers or controlling the price they can sell their products or services?  In a word: manipulation.
 
Can anyone say – Obama?
 
Whenever anyone is limiting your choices they are manipulating by controlling.
 
The question: why?
 
The question reveals the inherent nature of the government’s agenda and that’s all that is needed.
 
The government is limiting your freedom and freedom of choice. This is antithetical to our founding and why we are leaders in the world.

We should demand of those who seek office to define for the crowds what capitalism is, this will reveal two things and two things only:
 
1) Either you don’t inherently understand one of the greatest bearers of freedom and how Americans can prosper, eliminate poverty and elevate our way of life
 
2) Or you purposefully and willfully ignore it for personal agenda by which you seek to control & manipulate the people toward creating poverty toward dominance
 
Neither of these scenarios bodes well for the politician.
 
When you create poverty you are able to control others because they are no longer self-reliant or self-governing, they are dependent upon government for everything.   Dependence is dominance.
 
Apply this idea to every social issue that affects our nation and you quickly see how government is seeking dictatorship rather than freedom. Control is the implicit message: "you're too stupid to be trusted with this decision."
 
ICONIC FREEDOM speaks of Consent as one of the cornerstones of development of personal responsibility. Without consent we force others into subjugation, manipulation and control. Our society can easily and quite quickly move to personal responsibility if government were out of the way.
 
Accountability – own each and every choice you make in this life
 
Responsibility – have the ability to respond to each and every choice you make in this life
 
Consent – don’t make a choice that is at the cost of another human being who did not consent (voluntary contract)
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