Liberty Maven

Perhaps it is unflattering, and potentially offensive, to suggest that Ron Paul’s effort to restore the Constitution as the rule of law in America is a jihad, but a jihad it is. He has devoted his life to this cause. While the majority focus on the violent definition of the word, there is also such a thing as a non-violent jihad.

Ron Paul often speaks with praise for those that practice peaceful civil disobedience. He lists Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi among his heroes. Both men were practitioners of non-violent jihad.

From Wikipedia:

In Modern Standard Arabic, jihad is one of the correct terms for a struggle for any cause, violent or not, religious or secular (though كفاح kifāḥ is also used). For instance, Mahatma Gandhi’s struggle for Indian independence is called a “jihad” in Modern Standard Arabic (as well as many other dialects of Arabic)

Ron Paul, thanks mostly to the media, has earned the “extreme” label. Indeed some even transformed the word “libertarian”, as applied to Ron Paul, into a snarling invective. American politics has devolved into something akin to professional wrestling: numb skulls blustering into microphones followed by false maneuvers that excite zealots, but leave thinking people incredulous at the lunacy of it all.

Ron Paul doesn’t dream of picking up a chair in anger. Instead he purposefully rolls up copies of the Constitution and swings for their heads with his rhetoric. Unfortunately for all of us, it usually passes above their heads. In the rare occurrence it connects liberty is reborn.

It is a sad day when a man preaching the principles found in the supreme law of the land is deemed extreme while those that ignore the law and him are the status quo. So today, I am sad, but tomorrow is another day and another fight.

Ron Paul is a Constitutional jihadist extreme fundamentalist and he’s exactly the man America needs in these trying times. The pundits will again give him the extreme label if he chooses to run in 2012. They’d probably even do that in lieu of sounding the alarm about his age. To make his point really hit home he should embrace the extremism as a badge of honor. In 2012, whether he runs as a Republican or Libertarian, his campaign slogan should be:

Constitutional Jihad For America

Of course, he’d have to hand out a dictionary with the definition of ‘jihad’ highlighted to win votes from professional wrestling fans.

To win over his fellow lawmakers, he’d have to hand them something strange and foreign, the U.S. Constitution. Judging from recent years they’re already familiar with jihad.