An Overview of our World (proper role of governments)
These are John McManus'es two mindblowing video lectures called An Overview of our World (1971,1983) where he presents the concepts on which the American constitution was built and how it has been slowly destroyed by insiders who conspired for a totalitarian system ruled by them. It is a fact of history that most of the people ever lived were slaves or highly oppressed by various tyrannts. What is the proper role of government and how to make it work for the benefit of the society instead of being an instrument of tyranny as it was the case throughout our history? This was the main question which the founders of America have asked themselves before putting in writing the constitution and bill of rights hundreds of years ago. The conclusion was simple, chain the government powers as much you can and all problems of tyranny will simply vanish as the government is always the source of tyranny. And this is exactly what they did, resulting with the most prosperous nation ever established on the face of this planet. What they built was a republic, ruled by commonly known law which cannot be removed in any way. This political system indeed inspired the economic system of free enterprise. If capital is totally owned privately by the few or by the government then certain individuals, or the government, control all capital for a type of business or service and therefore set prices and the level of production output which in turn increases prices and produces low quality products. If capital is owned privately by the citizens all around the country prices are low as different businesses compete and therefore lower prices. There is an abundance of goods, quality is high as people buy the best products, which, logically, drives process improvement among competing producers even further. Communism, socialism, nazism, and fascism are all forms of monopolistic economic systems. Who chooses to live in a monopolistic society? Those who are too lazy to work against competition and too lazy to get competition underway. Monopolistic state-controlled systems are the work of criminals who seize control of governments and set themselves up as monopoly producers for their own profit and power. Four elements are required in order for you to have true private property: Total ownership (holding title), Total control, Total use, The ability to dispose of it. Fascism in the United States of America? From where? From all of our federal agencies. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the department of this and the bureau of that – so many regulatory agencies. The American Free Enterprise system is destroyed by these regulations. Are these regulations necessary? No. The U.S. Constitution makes no provisions for the federal government to be involved in these areas. Should states be involved? Yes. If a state exceeded what it was doing, then it would be shown and shown very quickly because the next state wouldn't exceed in its actions and people would move. Competition among the states is a beneficial thing, and it's one of the beauties of the federal system that the Founding Fathers gave us. But when Washington D.C. does these kinds of things, to what do you contrast it? You don't have anything else. What we see is government growing and growing and growing and growing. If it continues to grow it will be all-powerful and will soon become tyrannical. A quick and easy overview of world governments that you weren't taught in school (and never will). Both lectures cca 2 hours long. A must see for everyone.
About the Author
John F. McManus joined the staff of the John Birch Society as a Field Coordinator in New England in 1966. He was promoted to the headquarters staff in 1968. In 1973, he was named the organization's Public Relations Director and worked very closely with the Society's founder, Robert Welch, until his death in 1985. In conjunction with his public relations duties, Mr. McManus became the organization's chief spokesman. He has appeared on many hundreds of radio and television programs and given an equal number of interviews to representatives of the press. He has traveled the nation extensively and has conducted Society business in every one of the 50 states. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. McManus earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, and was employed in the early 1960s as an electronics engineer. Married in 1957, he and his wife are the parents of four. He is a writer, film and television producer, editor, speaker, and newspaper columnist. His weekly Birch Log columns have provided valuable insight about the affairs of our nation since 1973. His first book, An Overview of Our World (1971), analyzed the great conspiracy against mankind and its harmful effects on contemporary civilization. In 1991, he was named President of the John Birch Society.
Video specs:
Video codec: DivX, 320 x 240 (1983 lecture) 288 x 208 (1971 presentation)
Audio: Mp3, 22kHz, mono
