Liberty Maven

Last night the US House of Representatives met in secrecy to debate the FISA (warrant-less wiretapping) bill. Did we elect our representatives to meet behind closed doors to discuss legislation that affects just about every single American? I didn’t. There is no reason for doing this. If Ron Paul had 434 like-minded friends in the House this never would have happened.

The House passed a $3 trillion budget plan, that dramatically increases domestic programs and allows the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010. Writing “$3 trillion” doesn’t really give one the enormity of the number. Let’s rewrite that more properly: $3,000,000,000,000.00.  My oh my government, what big pockets you have. If I put $3,000,000,000,000.00 in my Etrade savings account that currently yields about 4% interest, that would earn me about $10,000,000,000.00 or $10 billion per month. If Ron Paul had 434 like-minded friends in the House this never would have happened.

Two years ago the House voted to extend the Patriot Act, even making some of the civil liberty stealing provisions permanent. If Ron Paul had 434 like-minded friends in the House this never would have happened.

Last year the House passed the “Violent Radicalization And Homegrown Terrorist Prevention Act” which attempts to legislate thought crimes. Orwell was prophetic. If Ron Paul had 434 like-minded friends in the House this never would have happened.

I think you get my point. If we want true liberty we are going to have to take it. We need to elect as many liberty minded candidates to Congress. Find out who is running in your district. If a candidate demonstrates he believes in the Constitution and the rule of law, vote for him. If there is no such candidate think about running for Congress yourself.

Ron Paul doesn’t really need 434 like minded friends, he just needs about 15-20. Once that happens the rest may start to come around.