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01-03-14 -- Gary Franchi - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED)

Gary Franchi (Next News Network) comes on the show to give an update on N3 and what's in store for 2014 - Ernest goes over the Headline News on Freedom's Phoenix
Media Type: Audio • Time: 133 Minutes and 0 Secs
Guests: Ernest Hancock

Hour 1 - 3

Media Type: Audio • Time: 133 Minutes and 0 Secs
Guests: Ernest Hancock
 
Hour 1 -- Freedom's Phoenix Headline News
 
Hour 2 -- Freedom's Phoenix Headline News
 
Hour 3 -- Gary Franchi (Next News Network) comes on the show to give an update on N3 and what's in store for 2014

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January 3rd, 2014
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock
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Hour 1
2014-01-03 Hour 1 Freedom's Phoenix Headline News (Video Archive):

2014-01-03 Hour 1 Freedom's Phoenix Headline News from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

 
 
 
 
 
 




 

Hour 2

Guests: Ernest Hancock
Hour 2
2014-01-03 Hour 2 Freedom's Phoenix Headline News (Video Archive):

2014-01-03 Hour 2 Freedom's Phoenix Headline News from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

 
Ernest reads this letter sent from a listener:
 
An Open Letter From a Soldier, To Those Who Criticize the Troops
The following post is guest-authored by a soldier who is currently deployed in service to his country.
 

To whom it may concern:

It has come to my attention that many people have been directing some of their anger about our country’s foreign policy toward the members of the military themselves rather than to our political leaders who dictate what our policy is.

As a solider [editor's note: typo] soldier, this saddens and upsets me. I joined the military not because I agreed with the politicians, but because I felt a duty to serve our beautiful country and noble people. Our way of life is worth protecting, and it requires that men like me make personal sacrifices so that others don’t have to. Freedom needs to be preserved and protected from those who seek to destroy it, and they are legion. The modern world is complex, and what we have here in our country is attractive to despots, terrorists, tyrants, bolshevists, and religious extremists. They will use any means possible to enslave and control us.

I don’t want to spend my life in the military. I never really wanted to join in the first place, but the economy was such that there simply weren’t any other options that came close to providing the benefits, pay, and security for my family. I have children, and I did what I had to do to make sure they had food on the table and a warm place to sleep. I joined the military so they won’t have to. I want a better life for them, and the surest way to provide that is through national service.

If you haven’t served in the military, you won’t be able to understand the evil that exists outside our peaceful borders. I’ve looked into the eyes of our enemies. I’ve seen the atrocities they commit. I’ve heard their anger. The peace and tranquility you experience at home is the result of the willingness of brave soldiers to pursue evil wherever it takes hold.

I do not mean to say that our soldiers are perfect and always honorable. Of course there are mistakes. Of course innocent people die, and it is always a tragedy when they do. But we do our best to minimize those deaths as much as possible. Sometimes those deaths are out of our control. We don’t always know what is behind every door, and we can’t afford to assume the best of every situation.

Some have criticized soldiers for their willingness to imprison our enemies without trial or charges. I have worked at a detainment complex where some of these people are held. I won’t say the name of the facility, but you will no doubt be familiar with it, as it is probably the most famous of this type of detainment center. I know for a fact that some of the people that were held there were innocent of any crime, and I did what I could to lighten their burden. If I wasn’t there, some other soldier could have been there and he may not have been so kind. We had a lot of people come through, and I didn’t always know their fate in the end. That information was above my pay grade. There was nothing I could do about it. I always tried to treat them with respect and dignity. Of course I couldn’t help them escape, because I would have faced disciplinary charges, and they probably would have been found and killed. This would help nobody. From my position I could at least make their lives a little more tolerable.

I’ve never killed anybody; I’ve never even fired my weapon at another person. I won’t follow orders which go against our national principles. I have taken an oath to our country, our flag, and our Führer, and I will not violate that oath.

Now that I’ve laid out my defense of my chosen occupation, let me offer some solutions.

Those who criticize our troops are always welcome to find another country to live in. Nobody is stopping anybody from leaving. Granted, there are certain checks and procedures that need to be followed, but that is only for security; those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. Those who get disappeared by the Gestapo are criminals and represent a danger to our pure nation.

If you don’t wish to leave, I encourage you to write to your politicians. They are the ones who make the decisions; they have the power to change things. Our political freedoms allow us to have access to the legislators, and to vote out those who don’t represent the voice of our unified people. We are only their tools and cannot make changes on our own. It is they who determine the orders; we only follow them.

I may not like the stench of the incinerators, I may not agree with every race law, and I may not believe fully in the final solution, but the only reason you enjoy your freedom is that rough men like me are willing to do violence to protect you. It is our willingness to put aside our personal lives, sacrifice our liberties, and deploy to the harshest places on earth that allows you to be comfortable at home, to enjoy the blessings of living in the greatest nation on earth, and to have a peaceful and prosperous holiday season. Don’t forget, as you prepare the Weihnachtsplätzchen this Christmas, that we, the National Socialist soldiers of der Führer Adolf Hitler are away so that you can walk down the Reichsstraße to the Rhine in peace.

Remember the words of our German National Anthem:

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält.

Germany, Germany above everything,
Above everything in the world,
When, for protection and defense, it always
takes a brotherly stand together.

Sgt Heinrich Ehrlichmann
Military Post Number 34 539 F
Ukraine

soldier writing letter
 
This article is reprinted from NotBeingGoverened.Com

 


Hour 3

Guests: Gary Franchi
Hour 3
 The final segment of the interview for this hour's show needed to be edited for incorrect information. And since the video can't be edited, click on the download button for the 3rd hours' audio archive of the show (you will understand) to hear the interview with Gary Franchi.
 
Gary Franchi
Next News Network
 
 
 
 

According to Jason Zengerle’s recent GQ profile of Rand Paul, the U.S. Senate candidate had a private meeting on a recent trip to Washington:

“At a private office in Dupont Circle, he talked foreign policy with Bill Kristol, Dan Senor, and Tom Donnelly, three prominent neocons who’d been part of an effort to defeat him during the primary.”

Like Justin Raimondo, I am curious as to why Rand would bother to meet such people. They currently hold no office government. Kristol’s Weekly Standard magazine was worth peanuts on the open media market and all of their views and knowledge of foreign policy should have been utterly discredited after the debacle in Iraq. Why would a man presumably on a victory lap in his election feel the need to meet with people who have no discernible power, have been made to look like fools and who tried to keep him from getting nominated during the primary last spring? What’s next, a meeting with the leadership of the Kentucky chapter of the AFL-CIO in a Louisville parking garage?
 
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Paul Family Dynasty Ends Before It Began?

Rand Paul has declared, from the start, that he's the "tea party" candidate, and yet [Bill] Kristol's Weekly Standard has been viscerally hostile to the tea partiers from the very beginning, because anti-populism is a key plank in the neoconservative platform, unless – of course – it's anti-Muslim populism. The very phrase "big government conservatism," which the tea partiers justifiably detest, was invented by the Weekly Standard, along with the fiscally imprudent variety of "national greatness conservatism" Kristol and Co. have been peddling for years. Why, if he's riding the wave of tea party activism, is Rand forging an alliance with their worst enemies? He's way ahead in the polls. He doesn't need Bill Kristol and the Weekly Standard, he doesn't need the neocons – who aren't known to exist in any great numbers in Kentucky – and he doesn't need AIPAC either. In short, there was no good reason for him to run after and appease his father's nemeses. So why did he do it? You can ask him, but I'll save you the trouble. Rand Paul has no principles: he'll do or say anything to get into that Senate seat – yes, even give up his faith in Aqua Buddha. Or his loyalty to whatever values he once pretended to hold. He'd even betray his own father – and, indeed, he has done precisely that, giving Kristol's gremlin-bloggers a choice opportunity to once again mock the elder Paul. – AntiWar.com

Dominant Social Theme: Rand Paul is a wild-eyed libertarian.

Free-Market Analysis: Except he's not. We've written three articles on Rand Paul. The first one celebrated his coming of age as a Senatorial candidate with much the same anti-war, pro-freedom views as his celebrated father, the libertarian congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX). The second article, Rand Paul Disappoints, was a good deal more skeptical about the younger Paul's free-market credentials. The third article, Rand Paul's Anti-Libertarian Fence, was more skeptical still. We were reluctantly changing our mind about him as we received additional "inputs."

The mainstream media continued to flog the usual sub dominant social theme of Rand Paul "free-market thinker, racist and capitalist," but we were beginning to think the libertarian threat was greatly exaggerated. Yes, we were coming to a different conclusion about his candidacy. It was disconcerting because we couldn't find anything in the literature. He was Ron Paul's son after all, so the libertarian community itself was giving him a pass, from what we could tell. But our discomfort with his candidacy has never subsided and has only grown over time.

And now comes the legendary Justin Raimondo, founder of antiwar.com, good friend of Murray Rothbard, one of the pillars of the "hard," Misesian libertarian community, to corroborate our suspicions. You can see an excerpt from his article above at the beginning of this analysis. It is entitled "The Hollow Man: Rand Paul's Father Complex," and it pulls no punches. He compares Rand Paul to George W Bush and makes the point that in pandering to the neo-con America-as-empire crowd, Rand Paul is dissipating his moral authority even without any necessity to do so. Here's some more from the article:

The great danger is that the election of Rand Paul to the US Senate will change the ideological complexion of libertarianism, as it is perceived by the public, and quite possibly succeed in derailing the ongoing work of his father and the Campaign for Liberty in challenging the neocons' hegemony in the GOP when it comes to foreign policy. The recent release of the House GOP caucus "Pledge to America," which repeats this same neocon litany of endless war and extravagant "defense" expenditures, shows that this fight is far from over – and Rand Paul is on the wrong side.

This could certainly be seen as a danger and Raimondo summarizes cogently. From our point of view it's also something of a family tragedy. To have had a father-son team on Capitol Hill, one in the Senate and one in the House, firmly focused on free-market and anti-empire, anti-war issues, would have been an amazing turnaround. It doesn't sound like much, but two principled people in high office can make a big difference. Ron Paul has provided a catalyst for a sea-change in the American sociopolitical environment, one that is possibly unstoppable. His son could have added to the momentum. But alas apparently it is not to be. Here is what we have written about him previously:

If one runs on a platform that is both pro-war and pro-drug war, it doesn't seem to us that very much is left of a bully pulpit from a free-market standpoint (assuming that was what Rand Paul was originally after). Rand Paul is doing what he needs to do to win an election but in the process he may be switching off a vast constituency of quasi-libertarians types (growing all the time) who would have given him truly national support. Of course, it is entirely possible that Rand Paul believes in the various positions he espouses; in fact it would be cynical to impute anything else. But that makes his run all the odder as, given the nature of many of his positions, he sounds in a sense no different than a lot of other conservative Republicans.

You can see the article here: Rand Paul's Anti-Libertarian Fence.

In a sense, we were still trying to give him the benefit of the doubt back in June, (and feedbackers kept pointing out to us that his positions were being twisted by the mainstream media). But even when we visited his website, we didn't see the kind of libertarian clarity that his father espouses. There is something muddy about Rand Paul's perspectives, something less-than-convincing.

Having talked to him numerous times, ourselves, we were puzzled by it because he was an integral part of his father's presidential run. But Raimondo has come to the same conclusion. Rand Paul wants the Senate seat more than he wants to speak out on behalf of freedom. OK. Too bad. Life goes on.

Right now the freedom-movement in the US and abroad is still inchoate and tends to use mainstream sociopolitical methodologies to demand the end of Western empire. It probably won't work. Eventually, in our view, people will grown disenchanted with the system and seek extracurricular methodologies. After a few experiences with the Rand Pauls and Scott Browns of the world, people will begin to see perhaps that they must focus on more direct action. We are not proposing this sort of action will be violent, only that it will be different and more persuasive than what has come before.

Conclusion

Seen from this perspective, the freedom movement in both the US and Europe is an evolutionary enterprise. We like to compare what is going on now to the Renaissance or Reformation, which would not have been derailed by a single individual, or even two or three. What is going on seems to be a massive socio-political shift away from the regulatory democracy that the power elite has patiently been building up these past 200 years, From our point of view, the elite conspiracy is unraveling. Rand Paul may win his Senate seat, but in the process he may be choosing the wrong side.



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