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I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet:
downloadable videos of Michael Badnarik via bittorrent
The classes on the constitution are extremely insightful.

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This guy is an idiot. The Sixteenth Amendment gives the IRS authority:

uhh, Michael Badnarik has extensive knowledge of the constitution. Trust me, he knows about the 16th ammendment. If you don't believe me, download some of his videos on the constitution here

I can't remember which video it is, but his argument is that the 16th wasn't ratified by Kentucky,Oklahoma,California, and Minnesota even though the federal government says they did:

- The federal government claims Kentucky was the second state to ratify the 16th Amendment, on Feb. 8, 1910. However, the records of the State of Kentucky show that after the Kentucky House proposed a resolution to adopt the amendment and sent it to the Senate, on Feb. 8, 1910 the Kentucky Senate voted upon that resolution, but rejected it by a vote of 9 in favor and 22 opposed. Apparently, the Kentucky Senate never did ratify that amendment. Federal officials, who had possession of documents showing this rejection, nevertheless claimed Kentucky had ratified the amendment.
- In Oklahoma, the proposed amendment was passed by the Oklahoma House and the language of the resolution perfectly matched the one passed by Congress. However, the Oklahoma Senate obviously disliked what Congress had proposed, so it amended the language of the 16th Amendment in such a fashion as to have a precisely opposite meaning.
- The California legislative assembly never recorded any vote upon any proposal to adopt the 16th Amendment. And whatever California did adopt bore no resemblance to what Congress had proposed. Several states engaged in the unauthorized activity of amending the language of the amendment proposed by Congress, a power that these states did not possess.
- Minnesota sent nothing to the Secretary of State in Washington, but this did not deter Philander Knox from claiming that Minnesota ratified the amendment, regardless of the absence of any documentation from the State of Minnesota.
- Article V requires three fourths of states to ratify
- in 1913 there were 48 states, 36 required & only 35 ratified.

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It's safe to say he already did. Go watch his Intro to the Constitution. I've seen it on torrent sites as well.

Sure they know a few of their "government granted" rights

The government doesn't grant us rights! We, the people, have rights. We grant the government privileges to do certain things enumerated in the Constitution. What the hell is the point in enumerating anything if the ICC grants the government any privilege they can think of?

Understanding the purpose of the Constitution takes a bit more than just reading it.
Michael Badnarik's 8 hour course on the Constitution
enjoy,

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correct.
It's clarified here in a 8 hour class on the US Constitution.
The first hour should cover it.
or.. just read the thing yourself.

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Where in Article 1 Section 8 do we, the people, give Congress the privilege to do this?

Watch an 8 hour class on the Constitution: torrent format

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I was an early TiVo owner. I paid for Cable. I upgraded my TiVo's HD, and got DirectTV... Then I got a DirectTiVo...
But one day, I realized that I was paying too much for the limited number of shows on TV I watching... so I stopped paying at all, because the net is a good source of all media now.

Now, I download my favorite TV shows from the net. Within hours of the Simpsons airing on 'free tv', I can download a DivX of it, watching it on my MythTV box, which outputs to my 60 inch TV, with no commercials either. Looks as good as Cable or DirectTV ever did. HBO shows like the Sopranos? CBS/ABC/Fox/NBC? The same thing. Pretty much all of the 'good' tv programs, I can download right away, thanks to Bittorrent.

Mixing Mythtv, RSS and Bitorrent is the killer app for media. It's coming soon... I'll just subscribe to shows, and they will just appear on my box... And every other Myth-style Box out there will help spread them. Even better than Tivo, since I can trust someone to manage an good RSS feed and I'll get everything they think I'd like... Or I'll pick 2 feeds, or 3 feeds, or a dozen... Or run one of my own for friends, etc etc.

We are already seeing things like this:
Michael Badnarik (the 2004 Libertarian Presidential Candidate) using Bittorrent: He's put his entire Constitution Class on downloadable video, for free over the Internet, using BitTorrent. 7 parts, each one hour long.
What would buying Primetime TV for this sort of exposure cost? And who would watch it, all 7 hours, if they did? But this way, grassroot politics, simply by bypassing traditional media! Watch on demand... Educate people... Expose people to ideas they aren't getting on Mass Media.
I want to see this man in a debate with Bush and Kerry now...

Death of traditional Media, due to Growth of Net, predicted, Film at 11.com