MISSION STATEMENT · We Fully Believe that the Political Party System has FAILED the American People. (There is "NO" mention of party within our Constitution.) · We Fully Believe in a truly NON-PARTISAN Form of “Constitutionalist Protectorate” Government BY THE PEOPLE, as our Founders Implemented & Intended as endowed by our Creator. · We Fully Believe an educated public is an essential ingredient of a free society.
Our Core Mission & Principles begin with Fully Learning, Understanding, Upholding, and Protecting “The Declaration of Independance, The Bill of Rights, & The Constitution of the United States of America”.
We Personify the following Principles: FreedomSpirit is dedicated to presenting America's forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on the moral, religious, and constitutional foundation on which America was built – a foundation which, in recent years, has been seriously attacked and undermined. In accord with what was so accurately stated by George Washington, we believe that "the propitious [favorable] smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation which disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained." America became the most prosperous nation in human history through low taxes, constitutionally limited government, personal freedom, and a belief in sound money. We believe with Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, and F.A. Hayek that central banking distorts economic decisionmaking and misleads entrepreneurs into making unsound investments. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' interference with interest rates sets the stage for economic downturns. And the central bank's ability to create money out of thin air transfers wealth from the most vulnerable to those with political pull, since it is the latter who receive the new money before the price increases it brings in its wake have yet occurred. For economic and moral reasons, therefore, we join the great twentieth-century economists in opposing the Federal Reserve System, which has reduced the value of the dollar by 95 percent since it began in 1913.
Ambitious governments would have far greater difficulty implementing schemes that undermine liberty and prosperity, were they faced with an informed and vigilant population. Part of our mission is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and governmental activity.
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
Americans inherit from our ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression. Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity—a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.
The U.S. Constitution is at the heart of what FreedomSpirit stands for, since the very least we can demand of our government is fidelity to its own governing document. Claims that our Constitution was meant to be a "living document" that judges may interpret as they please are fraudulent, incompatible with republican government, and without foundation in the constitutional text or the thinking of the Framers. Thomas Jefferson spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution, and we are proud to follow in his distinguished lineage.
We believe that the free market, reviled by people who do not understand it, is the most just and humane economic system and the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known.
We oppose the dehumanizing assumption that all issues that divide us must be settled at the federal level and forced on every American community, whether by activist judges, a power-hungry executive, or a meddling Congress. We believe in the humane alternative of local self-government, as called for in our Constitution.
We oppose the transfer of American sovereignty to supranational organizations in which the American people possess no elected representatives. Such compromises of our country's independence run counter to the principles of the American Revolution, which was fought on behalf of self-government and local control. Most of these organizations have a terrible track record even on their own terms: how much poverty have the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund actually alleviated, for example? The peoples of the world can interact with each other just fine in the absence of bureaucratic intermediaries that undermine their sovereignty.
We believe that freedom is an indivisible whole, and that it includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well, all of which are historic rights that our civilization has cherished from time immemorial.
Our country is ailing. That is the bad news. The good news is that the remedy is so simple and attractive: a return to the principles our Founders taught us. Respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, sound money, and a noninterventionist foreign policy constitute the foundation of FreedomSpirit.
SOUND MONEY PRINCIPLES
The greatest economic fallacy of our time is that wealth and prosperity can be created through the actions of government. The creation of wealth can only come about through saving and thrift, through the actions of free individuals, unencumbered by onerous government regulations and incessant intervention and meddling with the economy. Taxation prevents new wealth from being created, and destroys wealth that already exists. No nation has ever become prosperous through taxation, but many throughout history have been destroyed by it. Taxation diverts resources away from productive sectors of the economy and significantly reduces incentives to produce and to save. We believe that taxes such as the income tax need to be eliminated in order to free the full productive potential of the American people as intended by the Constitution.
The Un-Constitutional establishment of the Federal Reserve System and government backing of fractional reserve banking has created a dangerous cartel and concentrates the creation of money and credit in the hands of large, politically-connected financial institutions. Collusion between government and bankers needs to be eliminated, and the regulations and subsidies that have served to concentrate wealth among Wall Street elites need to be abolished.
