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Journalist,
author and award-winning documentary film director, Bill Still,
announced today on radio station KTKK out of Salt Lake City, Utah that
he will seek the nomination of the Libertarian Party for President of
the United States. He says he is currently in discussions with potential
running mates.
“My
platform centered like a laser beam on the monetary reform issue,” said
Still. “This is the root cause of all our economic problems today and
until this is addressed, no amount of stimulus or austerity will fix the
U.S. economy. The Republicans and Democrats are barking up the wrong
trees. As the great populist of the 1896 Presidential election campaign,
William Jennings Bryan, put it in his famous "Cross of Gold" speech:
“We
say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin money and
issue money is a function of government. We believe it. We believe it is
a part of sovereignty….
“Those
who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper
money is a function of the bank and that the government ought to go out
of the banking business. I stand with Jefferson rather than with them,
and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the
government and that the banks should go out of the governing business.
“When
we have restored the money of the Constitution, all other necessary
reforms will be possible, and that until that is done there is no reform
that can be accomplished.”
Still
has already picked up support amongst the Libertarian delegations in
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Utah. “We may well be the front-runners
going into the Libertarian Party National Nominating Convention on May
2-6, 2012 in Las Vegas.”
According to Still, who wrote and directed the 1996 classic, The MoneyMasters, the 2010 award winning documentary The Secret of Oz, and the 2011 book, No More National Debt,
“Simply ending the Fed, won’t fix this. As Prof. Milton Friedman told
me, ‘If you end the Fed and do nothing about fractional reserve lending,
you’ve done nothing.’”
“My
proposal is very simple,” said Still. “It is really nothing new – just
rediscovered at this critical juncture in U.S. history. As Professor
Irving Fisher of Yale University explained it in his 1936 book, 100% Money:
“Nationalize money, but do not nationalize banking.”
“Here are the two inviolable pillars upon which any true reform of our economic system must rest,” said Still:
Pillar #1:
End government borrowing. A sovereign nation does not have to borrow,
in fact, being debt-free is the very definition of sovereignty. Pay off
the existing bonds -- which is our National Debt -- as they come due,
but pay them off with debt free U.S. Notes (or their electronic
equivalents) instead of Federal Reserve Notes, which are all borrowed
into existence.
Please see my short (3 min 54 sec) YouTube on this topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9oKt6vT-w
Pillar #2:
Banks should only be able to lend money they actually have. This is
called “full-reserve” banking. Before the crash, commercial banks were
lending out between 10 and 300 times the amount of money they actually
had. Therefore, they are in complete control of the American money
supply, instead of we, the people being in control as is called for in
Article 8:
“The Congress shall have Power To … coin Money, [and] regulate the Value thereof….”
Please see my short (5 min) YouTube on this topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULEfalVnMJI
A YouTube of Still’s latest documentary can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cq9yEVcGIU
1 Comments in Response to Bill Still Announces Presidential Candidacy
God the LP is so damn stupid, and I'm apart of it... this is the last chance we have to get a Libertarian in to the presidential set, Ron Paul, and they still decide to have some random guy run under the LP banner. The LP should be pushing all its support and power behind Ron, not Bill.