Freedom Power is a nation's power to attain freedom from empire. Freedom is the natural state of mankind's being, and no other barrier against it exists than that erected by empire. One can look back as far into history as one likes, freedom has always been blocked by various types of empire, from the smallest to the mightiest. The power of a nation to remain free is born by an inner strength that is spiritual in nature, but which is all too often easily eroded by the 'hypnotism' of the crafty who serve the masters of empire for a penny. In ancient days the craft was more readily understood, for its seduction was raw and unmistakable. The "whore of Babylon" was known by it. But in the modern world the whorehouses became more concealed, and their 'hypnotism' less obvious, though more powerful, to the point that they "deceive the very elect." And so, the nations loose their freedom one by one. All of Western Europe has now become imprisoned by this process, with some still applying to be let in to become imprisoned. In the Euro Zone no nation is free any longer. And the chains are being expanded. America, too, is no longer free. The chains were forged link by link with the Maastrisht Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty, while the masters behind the chains, the masters empire, prefer to remain hidden, although their colors are shining through.

LaRouche's warning poster against the slavery to empire

But what caused the chains to be forged? What caused the most precious to become lost? Perhaps the answer can be found by looking at how the USA was created.

Spirit of Freedom

It begins with spiritual alertness. The enslavement of mankind is not legitimate in any form in which it is administered. America once stood as a city built on the hill and the eyes of world were upon it, now the eyes of the world are still upon it, but wet with tears. How has so much been lost, so fast, and the loss become so deep reaching?

In the years before 1620 the empires were small, called kingdoms, but the mentality that ruled was the same as it is today. The value of the human being, other than royalty and nobility, had been discounted to zero and less. A human person was counted as of lesser value than a dog or a sheep. Now it is counted as cancer on the earth that the masters of empire wish to see reduced by 80% or even 90% depending on who makes that call. In the years before 1620 the laws and customs were such that the development of human worth was essentially prohibited. This was also the time in which the Thirty Years War began to erupt which unfolded out of this hell of an ever-deeper degradation of human worth.

The trend to hell was evidently started by design, by the empire of Venice, that was nearly defeated by the great Golden Renaissance a century early, which consequently vowed to destroyed the Renaissance and expand the bestial mastery of empire over mankind into the Netherlands and England. In the early 1600s this objective was achieved. But a band of humanist rebels fought against this rush into hell. They advocated England's rejection of the Venetian (Sarpian) liberal imperialism. Becoming persecuted, they escaped in 1608 to the Netherlands, to the University of Leiden where they began to publish their humanist ideals, which were of course deeply opposed of liberal imperial monetarism. 

The humanism the group promoted was a distant echo of the Golden Renaissance where the human being had raised tall and become the most precious of all forms of and the most powerful in creative potential, second to none. "Reason is that wherein man goes before all other creatures and only after God..." was written in one of the publications.

Some of the publications were smuggled into England and secretly distributed. In 1616 King James retaliated against this "puritan pest" as he might have called them, and won the Government of the Netherlands to his cause to stop the rebel ideology. One of the leaders, Thomas Robinson was arrested. The other leader, William Brewster, escaped to England where he organized a voyage in 1620 to the distant shores of North America that Columbus had discovered a century earlier. He was joined by 50 of his followers from the Netherlands, and 50 from England. He had chartered two ships, but was constantly delayed by sabotage. Eventually he left with but one ship, the Mayflower, now over-crowed, an a 66 day voyage across the Atlantic, with the hope to establish a free society there, free of the heavy hand of oligarchy and its slavery.

From this beginning emerged the Bay Colony of Massachusetts.

see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8F-Vrmmf08 - (LPAC video 1620)

Life of Freedom

But life is more than just a freedom of spirit. Life is for living. It has its own elements of freedom that need to be satisfied. Some of these are physical. The human being needs shelter, warmth, clothing, food. The raw land provides few of these. The pilgrims of the Mayflower found the raw land harsh and barren. They arrived on the 21st of November. The land was frozen, covered with snow. Diverted by bad weather they arrived at the tip of Cape Cod. Thy raised a few stores of corn that the Indians had laid up for themselves, which got them into trouble so that they had to move again. They sailed across the bay to a place that they named Plymouth (named after their port of departure). And so, on the 23rd of December, in the depth of a harsh winter (as the Little Ice Age had begun), they - that is, whoever was able to work - began the construction of a village on top of a small hill, while all remained living on the ship, probably wet, cold, and undernourished, so that life on the ship become a death trap for many. Over 40 of the pilgrims died on the ship of various types of diseases, and half of the ship's crew. Of the 18 adult women of the pilgrim, 13 died the first winter while another died in May. Only four adult women were left alive by Thanksgiving. A total of 53 had died.

At the end of January nine residences had been built and four common houses (19 residences had been planned). At this point there was enough space established to permit the unloading of supplies. By the end of March enough housing had been built for all the surviving passengers to move to the shore. In mid-April the Mayflower returned to England where she arrived in mid-May.

In November 1621, 37 more settlers arrived, and so, gradually the settlement grew to about 7000 by 1690. It is significant only in that it started a trend and illustrated a principle that had been missed.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony started equally small, under the 'ownership' of the Dorchester Company that was originally organized at the urging of the Puritan Rev. John White of Dorchester. But the settlement was not profitable, and the financial backers of the Dorchester Company terminated their support by the end of 1625. As an increasing number of Puritans wanted to join the company, John White sought a Royal Charter for the colony. He  had worked hard to obtain a patent in 1628 for lands between the parallel that ran three miles south of the Charles River to three miles north of the Merrimack River, and all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific – though they had no idea of the size of the land mass. King Charles granted the correspanding new charter in March 1629, superseding the land grant and establishing a legal basis for the new English Colony of Jamestown. It was not apparent that Charles knew the Company was meant to support the Puritan emigration, and he was likely left to assume it was purely for business purposes, as was the custom. The charter omitted a significant clause – the location for the annual stockholders' meeting and election of their leaders. This allowed formation of the Cambridge Agreement later that year, which set the locus of government in New England. The Massachusetts Bay Colony became the only English chartered colony whose board of governors did not reside in England. This independence helped the settlers to maintain their Puritan religious practices with very little oversight by the King, the Archbishop, and the Church. The charter remained in force for 55 years, when, as a result of colonial insubordination with trade, tariff and navigation laws, Charles II revoked it in 1684.
 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony

However, there is much more to the story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It just begins here. The first 400 settlers under this new charter departed in April 1629. Most of the members of the Company were Puritans. Events during the spring and summer of 1629 convinced them that many others would be attracted to such a colony. What came out of this started a great migration. Many ministers, reacting to the newly repressive religious policies of England, were eager to make the trip with their flocks of followers, just for that. John Cotton, was among them, and Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker, Samuel Skelton. They became the religious leaders of Puritan congregations in Massachusetts. John Winthrop, a respected political figure, was elected to become the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. With the support of wealthy Puritans, John Winthrop organized a flotilla of eleven ships in 1630, that brought 700 or up to 1000, new settlers to the New World, most of them skilled craftsmen of all types and trades. With this huge start he set up a pattern for the migration to come. The famous saying, "...we shall be a city upon a hill, and the eyes of all people are upon us..." originated with John Winthrop.
(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winthrop )

 In 1630 a page was turned by John Winthrop. What empire had lost sight of, the productive and creative skills of the human being, Winthrop had seen as society's greatest wealth, and had brought this with him to the new world in abundance, and had developed it further. While the early months were hard, nevertheless, a new age of development had begun that could no longer be turned back. In a decade the colony had grown into a community of 20,000. Also, in the new colony education became compulsory and universal, with academies being set up to prepare children for school. And for higher education the Havard College was organized. In addition a Constitution was created, complete with a charter of freedoms that established a tall platform of liberty for the guidance of the courts, so that the hard-won freedoms would never become lost. John Winthrop was the first governor elected, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and was reelected 12 times until his death in 1648. 

In order for the colony to advance its economic development, it created its own currency in 1652. It had to, it ran out of silver. It is simply not possible to operate an economy on the barter system. To solve the problem it created a scrip. It simply created a printed note that was accepted among the people to have the same value as silver coins. The project worked well. Massachusetts became a credit society. There was no shortage of money now in the colony to build what was needed to be built to make the operation of the colony more efficient, especially its farming, and thereby improve the standard of living. Everyone was happy with this arrangement, except the king of England. The colonists had snubbed him, saying in essence, who needs to borrow from the king at a king's ransom if one can create one's own economic lifeblood? The scrip was consequently outlawed, but apparently continued to be printed into the 1680s.

The Charter that Charles II revoked, was eventually renegotiated in 1692 by Increase Mather. When Mather successfully roused opposition to the revocation of the charter, he was nearly framed for treason. He traveled to London. eluding spies that were out to catch him, to petition the King.  He came back with a new charter that granted sweeping home rule and established an elective legislature. However, the puritan ideals that started the great success story, backfired. Religious extremism became irrationalism. With it the infamous witch trials began which effectively killed the republican ideals that had started the Massachusetts Bay Colony. When in June and July in 1692 the trials and executions grew worth, Mather made a number of sermons interpreted as a plea to cool the heated atmosphere, saying that "It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned." Nevertheless he refused to repudiate the process. The Salem Witch Trials, in which both Increase and Cotton Mather became entangled in, effectively closed the book on one of the grandest chapters of the republican spirit of mankind that nearly ended the history of freedom in America. 150 people were arrested, 19 of them hanged. One man was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to confess. The entire circus may have started as a politically motivated oligarchic operation.

It appears that 1692 marks the beginning of a phase of cultural warfare by the masters of empire that has not stopped to the present day. Evidently the Salem Witch trials didn't just happen. Evidently, in typical Venetian fashion, a covert operation was run to stop the explosive economic and humanist development that the masters of empire could no longer securely control. The trials brought this era of cultural optimism and freedom to an end. We have seen many such operations run against the leading edge cultures. Hitler's fascism was but an example. Then the specter became called communism, followed by terrorism, overlaid with the infamous project of promoting freedom from culture. Homosexuality became another specter. The hands of empire always appear in the background, of course. The latest specter is homosexuality. Soon the witch trials will begin anew. According to a message received (2/17/2010), a new law is promoted to be passed in Uganda that proposes life imprisonment for anyone convicted of having same-sex relations and the death penalty for “serial offenders”. NGOs working to prevent the spread of HIV could be imprisoned for up to 7 years for “promoting homosexuality”. Members of the public face up to three years in jail if they fail to report homosexual activity to the police within 24 hours! The Reverend Canon Gideon Byamugisha, one of the outspoken opponents says about the new law. "It is violating our cultures, traditions and religious values that teach against intolerance, injustice, hatred and violence. We need laws to protect people -- not ones that will humiliate, ridicule, persecute and kill them en masse." The objective is evidently the same as it had been during the witch trials: to set off a social bomb in the midst of a critical period. With empire racing to its doom, a ratcheting down of civilization is needed. The republican development in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was brought to a halt by this process.

Fortunately the republican development itself wasn't stopped by this intervention. The unfolding of life of freedom started anew in a different context. Jonathan Swift, an Irish satirist, essayist, poet, cleric, and political pamphleteer had picked up the cause of republican freedom and and begun organizing for it. At this time all the colonies were strung along the coast with the vast interior being lest untouched. It was a policy of the British/Venetian imperial establishment to keep the colonies limited to areas near the coast, in order to prevent their continuing development into a larger force. The Indian population, through the French who had established a network of trading forts in the interior, we used to assure that the settlers stayed at the coast. It also became evident that in order to break the hold the crown had on the colonies, the interior had to be developed. And so, in 1710 the push began into the interior. However, a natural barrier stood in the way, the Appalachian Mountains. Nevertheless, a pass had been found across them, the Blue Ridge Pass. Now it so happened that back in 1693, a certain Lord Fairfax, a great fan of Jonathan Swift, came onto the scene, who had obtained a proprietorship under a land-grand scheme of a hundred years standing, for a strip of land that led all the way from Chesapeake Bay to the upper Potomac River and to this Pass. Now the path lay open to the Ohio Valley, the Mississippi, and the Great Lakes. The masters of empire, who had an iron grip on all the accesses to the interior through the regional governors, had lost this round, because Fairfax's proprietorship lay outside their reach. The interior was no accessible for development.

When Lord Fairfax moved to Virginia to survey his territory he became neighbors to the Washington family who had a son, named George. Evidently the interior development proceeded. And here, all of the previous developments came into play again. When the time came to break with the empire with the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and to defend the colonies against the empire, George Washington recruited quite a few men for his army at Havard in Massachusetts, which by then had already incorporated the Plymouth Colony. And so, along a course of 150 years of constant development, improvement, and reaching out further and further to improve the standard of living for the people, the colonies became a nation. 

The freedom of life, as the experience has shown, lies in the constant development of the human potential. This is where today's world is failing. Development has been turned backwards. What the western world once produced is now largely imported form cheap labor countries that are thereby enslaved so that they cannot develop either. The productivity of the entire world is thereby collapsing. Farming is likewise turned backwards. Food is now turned into motor fuel while a billion people are forced into chronic starvation. The credit society principle has been scraped long ago, in favor of private monetarism. In the USA the strangulation of the nation with private monetarism started in 1913. It was temporarily lifted by Franklin Roosevelt, but as soon as he was dead, it was re-imposed again. In Europe the strangulation tool became the Euro. Now all of Europe is economically collapsing under the monetarist strangulation that enables looting, while the looting system itself is collapsing. Even the Salem Witch Trials are back, though under a different name, such as, fighting communism, now its called fighting terrorism. And in all of these cases the specter was artificially created for destabilizing purposes.

There is no return to the freedom of life possible without removing the global stranglehold of private monetarism and the returning the world to platform of sovereign national credit systems and strictly regulated banking that guarantees the redevelopment of the world. In today's world the equivalent to the interior development of North America that had powered the Colonies to become a nation, is worldwide. The interior development is now needed everywhere. Africa is in a desperate need for it, likewise Asia, Russia, Europe, India, the USA, and all of South America. There is no need for a billion people to be starving when the world's food supply can be tripled with ease, and countless millions to be homeless in an age when housing can be mass-produced in automated industrial facilities and be given away for free, and for millions to be unemployed, and millions more becoming consumed in squalor, crime, and war. The stranglehold becomes automatically broken once empire is vacated from the seat of power. And it appears that the days may not be far distant when society will cause this to happen and reclaims for itself the freedom of life.

Principle of Freedom

The principle of freedom is simple. Its name is scientific and technological development. For example, back in the days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when industrial products were needed of the type that the farmers and the villagers could not create themselves, they simply built the industrial infrastructure for it, like an ironworks. They brought in the skilled labor and whatever else was needed and built themselves a leading edge integrated industrial complex for producing iron products. Their blast furnace produced eight tons of iron a week. While this output seems minuscule in today's terms, it was a freedom engine in an iron-starved world. Suddenly all sorts of things became possible that were impossible before, like producing implements for construction, for making tools, and for producing farming equipment. Freedom comes with higher-order principles that supercede the scope of challenge by at least an order of magnitude in productive power. It today's age the equivalent is nuclear power. In a power starved world nuclear power fills the void. Windmills take us a step backwards. However nuclear power itself, needs to be superceded by a new power source that is an order of magnitude more efficient than what it replaces. Such a power source exists, but do we have the wisdom to develop the technology for it, or even the courage to look in this direction?

The current trend is to shut down scientific and technological progress. The recently announced shutdown of NASA's manned space program is the equivalent of shutting down the future of mankind, because the principle of freedom is located is located in scientific and technological progress, and in the arena of advanced power systems development NASA's manned space capability is a key component. A commitment to shutting down the infrastructure for the future, is a akin to a commitment to commit suicide. The European nations appear to be in a race towards suicide by shutting down their already built nuclear power infrastructure, racing back into the dark age of windmills and Don Quixote.

Mind of Freedom

There is no freedom possible without the development of the mind. Freedom begins there, and when it fails, ends there. For example, with nuclear fusion power development fast failing in its promise (see: The challenge of Mind) a new promise that unfolds instead - that of tapping into the electric plasma currents that surround us in space - now challenges the mind. While the challenge is of a higher-order magnitude than anything we have faced before, it offers an equally higher-order return in power-production potential, and in space-flight potential. It is here where we find the next step beyond nuclear fission power, and also the capability for long-distant space flight.

The development of the mind begins with education, but its future lies beyond its own leading edge. We don't even know what its shape will be. The most efficient path here appears to be at the present to search for the principles that are already operating in the universe naturally, and to replicate them on earth by relocating them in the mind, and then find ways to apply them. 

For example, the path towards the development of nuclear-fission power was easy, because we saw the process operating naturally in the universe. And so, we were able to replicate and apply it. The development of nuclear-fusion power is failing us, because as we have now discovered, it isn't really happening anywhere in the Universe. It was once thought to be powering the Sun, but this turned out to be a delusion. However, by discovering the galactic electric currents that power the Sun instead, we discovered a potential power source for ourselves that can never be exhausted. (see: Absolute Power - Solar Power) And so, as one door is closing, a bigger one is opening up. The new door promises to be so big that it might even give us the power to block the next Ice Age from occurring. (see: No Ice Age Allowed - we can block it)

This does not mean that some day in far future we might not supercede in our mind the creative processes that have constructed the Universe, and thereby bring a whole new creative dimension into the Universe. We might indeed one day develop principles that do not yet exist in the Universe, such as for producing power with nuclear fusion, or principles that produce negative gravity that would revolutionize transportation and especially space flight. While we may dream of these future potentials that we might never realize, we already have far greater real potentials laying at our feet than we are willing to acknowledge. This means that we have vast increments in the freedom of the mind immediately before us, enough of it to give the concept of freedom an advanced new definition.