Ron Paul delivered an excellent speech at CPAC this afternoon. He received a lot of applause and cheering for many of his lines. There were some obvious skeptics and shaking of heads in the audience as well, but overall he was on his game and hit all of his talking points and then some.
He talked about his bill calling for more Federal Reserve transparency. He claims it is getting bipartisan support in the Congress. That would be a great first step. He also spoke about abortion, foreign policy, and individual vs. groups with respect to liberty.
There were a few lines that I loved. It reminded me of the many rallies during his campaign in 2007 and and early 2008.
Quote of the Day: “All great truths began as blasphemies.” — George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska, 1919
Subject: Mexican Civil War could spill over into U.S.
You’re not hearing about it yet, but a civil war is raging in Mexico — between drug lords and the government. The Mexican government deployed 36,000 troops to fight this war in 2006, but the problem is getting worse. Here are the disconcerting results . . .
* There have been more kidnappings in Mexico than Iraq! 1,000 have been officially reported, but human rights groups estimate the real number at 3,000.
* Despite high-profile arrests but the bloodshed has doubled from 2007 to 2008, with between 5,300 and 5,700 dead in the past year from attacks related to the drug trade.
* The city of Ciudad Juárez ended the year with 1,600 of those deaths
Now this violence is threatening to spill across our border!
Ron Paul reveals why he was so outraged at the recent House vote condemning Gaza. Here’s one more reason he should be outraged.
by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution
Originally published January 14, 2009 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article5795.html
WASHINGTON, D.C. – I remarked in my last article “Ron Paul Shows Some Outrage (The Gaza Slaughter – Epilogue)” that Congressman Paul (R-TX) was visibly upset at the end of his 2-minute opposition speech to House Resolution 34 which called “on all nations to lay blame both for the breaking of the calm and for subsequent civilian casualties in Gaza precisely where blame belongs, that is, on Hamas.”
For those who do not follow Ron Paul quite so much, this is unusual as he typically constrains himself from showing anger. Well, this 4-minute video released Tuesday night by the Campaign for Liberty reveals why. The House had called a last minute vote the night before and started the session one hour earlier than normal. Dr. Paul claims he was notified at the last minute and was barely able to arrive and interject with his opposition for two minutes. (photo)
Paul also related that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair are skipping their appointments with the House Finance committee to fly off to the Swiss Alps to meet with the international banking cartel known as the BIS, or Bank of International Settlements. My guess is that their conversation will cover the price of gold at some point.
In the latest interview with Ron Paul with Russia Today he continues making claims that reveal why he is loved by so many people dreaming of hearing the truth from our representatives.
Perusing several comments found on liberal and conservative blogs the sentiment seems to be of the form, “I respect Ron Paul for telling the truth, but I still think he’s crazy and would never vote for him.” I think that sums up the main reason he didn’t win the GOP nomination. People truly respect his honesty but he may be too honest for the average voter. It’s almost like voters seek liars rather than truth tellers for public office.
Of course in my mind’s eye I see crowds of average Americans with sheep-like bodies wandering the streets on election day mindlessly chanting: “We can’t handle the truth. We can’t handle the truth.”
Hopefully in the coming 2010 and 2012 elections Americans find new respect for the truth. For a good start check out the interview below with Ron Paul.
I’ve long held that just about every U.S. President and U.S. Congressman deserve to be hanged (or at least some sort of punishment) for violating their oaths of office.
Upon entering office, U.S. Presidents must pledge:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Similarly, members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives must affirm:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
If our public servants aren’t held to their oaths, then the oaths are rendered meaningless.
In similar fashion, Bruce Fein has opined in the San Francisco Chronicle, that the actions of President Bush and Vice President Cheney have violated the Constitution in a variety of ways, and indeed deserve censure. Here’s a piece of what Fein had to say:
By wielding the threat of international terrorism, the Bush-Cheney team put the nation on a permanent war footing – the first time in history that war has been undertaken against a tactic. They maintained that the entire post-9/11 world is an active battlefield where United States military force may be used to kill suspected members of al Qaeda irrespective of international boundaries.
They claimed executive privilege and state secrets to conduct secret government – thereby circumventing political and legal accountability. This included directives to former White House officials Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to flout congressional subpoenas for testimony. They detained hundreds of people (including American citizens) as enemy combatants without accusation or trial. They authorized torture (waterboarding and extraordinary rendition), abductions, secret prisons and illegal surveillance of American citizens.
Like its immediate predecessors, the 110th Congress eagerly yielded its authorities – even the power of the purse – to the president. The Iraqi War Resolution, the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amendments, and the declination to hold Rove in contempt of Congress were emblematic.
If left unrebuked, the Bush-Cheney usurpations of power will become part of the constitutional firmament and risk creating a safe harbor for future presidential abuses. Every member of Congress, moreover, is required to take an oath to “support (the) Constitution” pursuant to Article VI. There is no corresponding oath to support the Republican or Democratic parties or to subordinate the Constitution in the name of political harmony. Censure would be no novelty.
Ron Paul is not one to beat around the bush (no pun intended), and his reaction to Israel invading Gaza in this video is no different. He calls the Middle East a powder keg and says the United States will ultimately be blamed due to support of Israel.
He believes that we should just get out of their business and focus on the problems here at home. I could not agree with him more (as usual).
He also delves into a bit of an economic prediction for 2009. He says inflation is what we need to worry about, not deflation. Also, his big worry is that fairly soon people (other countries) will no longer finance America’s debt.
“The victims will be the innocent American people.”
“The real tragedy will be an attack on our personal liberties.”
I’m starting to believe that Ron Paul will feel compelled to run for president again in 2012. Especially if what he is predicting comes to pass. I wrote following the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire Primary that America is not ready for Ron Paul in 2008. Perhaps America will be ready in 2012.
Digest Ron Paul’s words below. The words my give you indigestion, but sometimes the truth is uncomfortable.
It’s quite amusing (if not nauseating) to hear McCain and Palin calling Obama a socialist at every turn if you pay the slightest attention to the ideas McCain embraces. A nice little article at HighClearing.com successfully reams McCain for his hypocrisy:
The word “socialism” can mean many things to many people, anything from Western European style social welfare to state ownership of the means of production to the New Deal or the Great Society or a wide range of other usages. I’ll let those who know (or at least claim to know) more about the real meaning of the word have the debate over which usage is proper (mostly because I hate debates over whether somebody is using a politically-charged word correctly). Instead, I’ll engage the McCain rhetoric on its own terms.
McCain, just like Obama, believes that taxes should be levied for the purpose of funding social programs that redistribute income downwards. (We’ll leave aside, for the moment, the fact that both of them also believe that taxes should be levied for the purpose of funding a bloated military-industrial complex and other things that redistribute at least some of the income upward.) McCain and Obama may envision different forms and scopes for those programs, and those differences may or may not have profound consequences in practice. However, the McCain rhetoric is being employed to argue that just about any downward redistribution is a type of socialism. If it is (at least in McCain’s usage of the term) then McCain is a socialist. Maybe not as much of a socialist as Obama (we’ll leave aside welfare for the rich, for the moment) but a socialist nonetheless.
In this week’s Texas Straight Talk column, Ron Paul warns about the disastrous consequences of yet another bailout package congress is debating:
With news this week that Congress is poised to consider a new stimulus package, I am forced to again ask a question that seems silly in Washington:How will we pay for this?
While a few Members of Congress have raised the issue, it certainly was not the primary concern of the House Budget Committee when they interviewed Ben Bernanke on Monday.And, when they did direct this question to the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, his answer was the standard rhetoric about how Congress needed to make tough choices.Needless to say, not many specifics were discussed.
One of the most liberal members of the House, Barney Frank, has at least volunteered something of a suggestion: “We can let Iraq take care of itself.”This, of course, goes in the right direction, but hardly far enough.
We need to declare the facts and their obvious consequences.The deficit of the United States is now spiraling out of control, and the recent bailout package has only made it worse.Our crushing federal debt is one key reason behind our current economic turbulence.
As Congress begins to consider the third “stimulus package” of the year, we need to realize it is time to start setting priorities.Priority number one should be cutting spending in foreign countries. This does not simply mean Iraq, but everywhere.
The next stimulus package is likely to include money for infrastructure.While these investments are, constitutionally speaking, supposed to be made by state and local governments, it is not likely that Congress will suddenly begin to pay heed to the document we are all sworn to uphold.Still, we need to acknowledge the fact that the current Congress and Administration are rushing the nation toward bankruptcy.
This being the case, we could hope they would at least come to their senses regarding our debt and foreign spending sprees.Our nation’s foreign-held debt is at record highs and moving ever higher.Continuing to borrow money from Red China and others in order to pay “dues” to the United Nations and run “Plan Colombia” makes no sense at all.
Our whole carrot-and-stick approach to foreign policy makes no sense.The US government simultaneously gives money to Israel, and to Egypt.We send AIDS money to Africa while AIDS clinics in America shut down.“Millennium challenge” funding goes to countries which enact “market based reforms” as we push our own country further and further into a centrally planned economy.
Economic recovery will only come through financial prudence, savings and getting back to producing things of value again.But it seems to be a foregone conclusion that we are about to enact another government initiative to “stimulate the economy.” Instead, there should be some serious talk about cutting all of these foreign giveaway programs.But, alas and again, we should not hold our breath.Congress is still not close to being serious about ending its addiction to debt and spending, and is again faced with the deadly temptation to attempt to spend us out of a recession.We should not forget that in the 1930’s those types of efforts gave us the Great Depression.
Why, oh why can’t the rest of the world be as wise as those who live in Texas’ 14th Congressional District?
Liberty Maven
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