CAPTAIN RICHARD PHILLIPS IS FREE

April 13, 2009 Blog

The 53-year-old Phillips was taken captive by the pirates on Wednesday, beginning a tense five-day hostage crisis. The Somali pirates demanded a $2 million ransom for the release of Captain Phillips.

THREE PIRATES ARE DEAD

Navy Seals needed only 3 shots to bring down 3 pirates and free Captain Richard Phillips. The ransom was not paid, but Phillip's freedom cost taxpayers much more than $2 million. Still, the rescue operation was worth every penny. Bravo Navy Seals!

WASHINGTON PIRATES ARE PROTECTED

A pirate is a person who seizes the property of others without legal authorization. If government agents seize a boat used to traffic narcotics, that is not piracy. If government officials take goods or money from law-abiding and tax-paying citizens without constitutional authority, that is piracy. If you disagree, I beg an explanation. What is the difference? Call it taxation if you want, but if it is unconstitutional, immoral and unethical, it is piracy.

No Constitutional authority exists allowing the U.S. Government or Federal Reserve to use public (taxpayer) funds for definitively private purposes (bailout of private businesses and institutions).

There are BIG differences between Somali pirates and Washington pirates. Obama gave our military permission to shoot the Somali pirates, but Washington pirates are protected by that same military.

Taxpayers are paying the ransom and getting nothing in return.  I may be alone, but I am going to have a protest tea party in Greenwich, NJ, where 40 colonists staged a tea party in 1774 to protest unfair taxation.

Come and join me at 10 am!

For more information and where the Tea Burner Monument is located, check The Historical Marker Database.

Monument in the center of Greenwich, NJ and photo from a reenactment last September