Allen West, why I do NOT support him.

I was having a conversation on Facebook dealing with Allen West and why I do not support him. What follows is my short answer, not included were his war mongering stances and pro-empirical view of America.

Andrew, Sorry it took so long to get back to this, I have had a busy few days. You wanted to know why I do not support Allen West. First you must realize that I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am a Libertarian, an Anarcho-Capitailist in its truest form. I believe in Free Market economic Principles with absolutely no Government interference, regulation or restrictions and the protection of civil and personal liberties for all human beings on this earth. With that being said let us begin.

Allen West supported the (House Resolution 4310) NDAA or National Defense Appropriations Act. This bill not only adds billions of taxpayers’ dollars to the National Defense’s already wasteful and bloated budget but also contains a clause that would allow the federal government to indefinitely detain American Citizens without trial or charges being filed. This is a violation of the Natural right to be secure in your person and effects, outlined and seemingly protected in the US Constitution. Mr. West even goes so far as to vote “NO” on a provisional amendment (House Amendment 1127) to NDAA 2013 to strip away this invasive power. This power of indefinite detention has been used in the past, research Brandon Raub, a Marine Corp veteran like yourself who was detained by federal agents and subjected to forced mental evaluations for posts made on Facebook about the abuses of the president and the rest of the government. He is not the only case of this but it is a good one to look at.

Mr. West has also supported the USA PATRIOT ACT. This act was put in place under President Bush, to explain why we must go back a bit in history to 1978 and President Carter. Carter following Nixon was coming into an age of information collection and wiretapping by government, all in the name of National Security of course (Sarcasm implied there). Carter signed into law FISA or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. A bill designed to give the NSA (National Security Agency) the ability to collect information on any and every citizen of the country. FISA has been extended and expanded every year since and was given a “YEA” vote from West. With FISA the NSA cold collect any information from any source on any citizen and use it for judicial purposes. FISA laid out the procedure for doing so. First all requests for the collection of info was brought before judge of the new secret FISA court and it was this judge’s discretion to allow or not the agency from collection info. Along with the requirement for court approval there was the requirement that any agency requesting the docs be witnessed in its efforts of retrieval by another federal agency, all collections were given specific time allowances and scope of searches. After the collection the federal agencies involved had to bring what they had obtained back into the FISA court to be determined by the judge on its methods of retrieval and its legitimacy to the case at hand. It was reported and later confessed that President Bush was using this power without court approval and outside any scope (roving wiretaps), hence no accountability. When this all came to light the USA PATRIOT ACT was quickly drafted and pushed through the republican held congress and senate to try and protect the president of charges of unconstitutional espionage on his country’s own citizens. The USA PATRIOT ACT removed all the restrictions and rules for obtaining information. No more court approvals, no more accountability. All the stories you hear of Obama and the NSA especially in the aftermath of the NSA leaker Edward Snowden are true and they have been going on for a long time, this isn’t something that can just be blamed on the current president. For more reading on this I recommend the book “How Does A Patriot Act” by Glenn Greenwald which is Edward Snowden’s choice reporter working with The Guardian UK news agency. Together the NDAA, FISA, And USA PATRIOT ACT are the 3 biggest threats to civil liberty and personal privacy that we have ever known.

Mr. west economically doesn’t stand for fiscal responsibility, having voted for huge taxpayer funded appropriations bills and even voting against a funding limit for operations in Afghanistan (H Amendment 1103) and the partial withdrawals of personnel and assets. He has voted “YEA” to appropriations for social programs, including the mega wasteful and inefficient “Violence against women act” (HR4970), which spend 10 of millions of dollars and has shown no real effect for its stated goal or intent. Mr. West voted “YEA” to a Budget presented by REP. Paul Ryan that would have actually increased spending and had no cuts on baseline spending in following years, only cuts to the next years projected rise in budgetary needs.

I will commend him on his co-sponsorship of the Federal Reserve Transparency Act attempt. This is one of the main underlying causes of our massive amounts of debt and out of control inflation. Though Mr. West’s proposal is a step in the right direction it still did nothing to actually cease the Federal Reserve in its ultimate destruction of the value of the American Currency and did nothing to stop the massive amounts of unbacked currency that was pushed in to the banks and eventually into the bubble of the housing market. You see the bubble in the housing market was not caused by unmet demand or over supply of new homes but from bad loans on bad currency from bad institutions like the Fed. The Federal Reserve is not a Federal department at all and has no oversight of any kind by congress or even the President, its sole purpose is to ask as a loaner of debt (credit) to the Us and then sells that debt to foreign countries as securities, only thing is they are not secure, match this with the fact that most of the world’s currency is tied to the value of the American dollar and as the dollars real value falls so does the world economy, just think of Cypress 2 years ago as the very tip of the iceberg. While, as I said he did co-sponsor the bill calling for more transparency, it is and was all for naught as the FED has no reason to be transparent.

As Henry Ford once said, “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”