Liberty Maven

I’m not sure he even knows who he is. He preaches straight talk, but is just as wishy washy as any typical politician. One aspect of him that seems to escape many is his thirst for attention. His philosophy seems to be he who has the most attention has the most power. By itself that is an undeniable statement, but applying it to a potential President pushes it into the undeniably worrisome element.

For proof of this here is a quote from McCain’s memoir “Worth The Fighting For” after getting a huge amount of news exposure following coming out against Reagan for sending troops into Lebanon:

I was gratified by the attention and eager for more.

So McCain seemed to learn early on that playing the devil’s advocate, whether he actually believed it or not, was a boon for getting his name out there for recognition.

Fast forward to last week when he started making a big deal out of al Qaeda stepping up the violent attacks in Iraq for the sole purpose of helping the Democrats beat him in the general election. Wow.  This just puts him in the self important jerk category for me. It’s not like terrorists don’t already have a reason to attack us. And no it’s not because we are free. See Ron Paul for a bit of an explanation on that.

For more on McCain’s Clinton infection see John McCain: The Chameleon.

More Ron Paul on FOX Business News talking about the $200 billion Fed move to help the economy earlier this week.

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.

This is probably the most visually stunning Ron Paul video I’ve ever seen. Truly amazing and creative people make up the foundation of Ron Paul’s support. This video is a work of art.

For a much higher resolution version see the dedicated web site for this promo: High Tide Promo. Yes it is much better than the Youtube version.

The debate regarding the FISA, eavesdropping, warrant-less wiretapping, telco immunity bill being thrown back and forth between Bush and the House has grown into a substantial partisan political battle. Aren’t we all sick and tired of this kind of thing? Both the President and the House were elected and swore to uphold the Constitution when the took office, so help them God.

If they actually believed in that oath the debate would have been over long ago. In fact the debate may never have occurred in the first place. The language in the law relies on subjective reasoning (if there is such a thing) to determine if the monitoring being done is capturing purely domestic conversations or not.

It would be easy for the Feds to spy on domestic communications and then later say, “Well we were reasonably sure at least one of the communicators was foreign. Oops sorry. I guess that wasn’t true. We’ll try better next time.” According to the law this argument is a winner. Once again we are being asked to sacrifice our liberty and the rule of law in the name of security.

The federal government is acting like an abusive step-father embroiled in a nasty custody battle over our civil liberties. They treat us like children because we act like children. We need to stand up and demand that our rights not be taken away. Until we do that we are just handing over the keys to the government so they can drive us off the next cliff.

Of course, when they do we’ll be required to wear a seatbelt by federal law. The talk has grown tiresome. Instead of debating about whether or not to grant immunity to the telco’s, the debate should be about whether the law should have been penned in the first place. After all our Constitution is the “supreme law of the land” right?

Well, it used to be.

Here is Ron Paul doing his job on the House of Representatives floor yesterday. He talks about the economy, foreign policy, ear marks, and the role of government. It’s extremely satisfying to see someone do their job so well, upholding their oath of office properly.  Sure, we Ron Paul supporters have heard it all before from him, but there’s something sweeter about seeing him do it directly in front of his colleagues: those that need to hear it the most.

There was a rumor last week regarding Bob Barr and Ron Paul speaking about some future endeavor. The suspicion, of course, was that they were agreeing on running on a third party/indpendent ticket together for President. Since then Ron Paul has appeared on FOX answering the third party question the same way he always has: 99% unlikely, but not completely ruling it out.

If Ron Paul can maintain his congressional seat and run as the VP nominee with Bob Barr as the Presidential nominee on an independent ticket I think it would be winner for spreading the message of freedom. A good reason to not do this would be if it was detrimental to his congressional seat. The potential exists for it to happen, although it is probably unlikely.

For more information about Bob Barr check out his web site as well as his wikipedia entry.

If you like what you see, then go sign this petition to get him to run.

Vern Mckinley, candidate for Congress in Virginia’s 10th district was interviewed by Kurt Wallace on the “Wake Up America” show on Ron Paul Revolution radio this morning for almost an hour. Mckinley is running in my own district against the longtime incumbent Republican Frank Wolf. Wolf has a voting record more in line with big spending Democrats than fiscally conservative Republicans. Mckinley promises a return to the limited government principles of Ronald Reagan. This is a good interview and worth the time, especially if you live in Virginia’s 10th district.

Listen to the interview here.

Liberty Maven is also in the process of interviewing Mckinley. That interview can be viewed here.

Ron Paul talks to Neil Cavuto on FOX News about the Fed’s injection/bailout of lenders today.

The first 6 pages of Ron Paul’s new book “The Revolution: A Manifesto” have been posted at Amazon.com. This new book could be construed as just some more preaching to the freedom choir, but if it gets Ron Paul on the media circuit tour it can only help further spread the liberty cause.

Many were concerned that it would be just another Ron Paul book full of writings and speeches he has done over the years. As this excerpt demonstrates, this fear is unfounded. This book could prove to be an invaluable tool for those still encumbered by the idea that our government is on a dangerous path towards its own demise. It could be treated as the ultimate campaign literature tool. Purchase 4-5 copies and leave them in the bathroom stalls, bus stops, and airports of America.

Perhaps spreading this book will allow the masses to digest Ron Paul’s message of freedom without the words being chewed up by the media machine. In the end I hope we look back on the book as one of the guiding lights towards our realized prosperity and not a book to be tossed in someone’s face just to say “See? we should have listened to Dr. Paul.”

Read the excerpt at Amazon.com by clicking on the Search Inside link below the image.