The Ron Paul REVOLUTION



So just how do you save a bankrupt Nation, awash up to the eyeballs in 80 Trillion Dollars ($80,000,000,000,000.00) of debt, with a declining middle-class, a declining standard-of-living, declining Civil Liberties, a declining currency, and that is mentally frozen into thinking it must behave as "an Empire" and maintain 750 unwanted Foreign Military Bases over all the planet, and Military systems littered all over even Outer Space itself-??

Answer:  The Ron Paul Revolution

Let the learning begin:


PBS NewsHour Part 1



PBS NewsHour Part 2



The Revolution in the streets!

The Revolution in the streets!



"The war in Iraq was sold to us with false information. The area is more dangerous now than when we entered it. We destroyed a regime hated by our direct enemies, the jihadists, and created thousands of new recruits for them. This war has cost more than 3,000 American lives, thousands of seriously wounded, and hundreds of billions of dollars. We must have new leadership in the White House to ensure this never happens again.

Both Jefferson and Washington warned us about entangling ourselves in the affairs of other nations. Today, we have troops in 130 countries. We are spread so thin that we have too few troops defending America. And now, there are new calls for a draft of our young men and women.

We can continue to fund and fight no-win police actions around the globe, or we can refocus on securing America and bring the troops home. No war should ever be fought without a declaration of war voted upon by the Congress, as required by the United States Constitution.

Too often we give foreign aid and intervene on behalf of governments that are despised. Then, we become despised. Too often we have supported those who turn on us, like the Kosovars who aid Islamic terrorists, or the Afghan jihads themselves, and their friend Osama bin Laden [CIA payroll]. We armed and trained them, and now we're paying the price.

At the same time, we must not isolate ourselves. The generosity of the American people has been felt around the globe. Many have thanked God for it, in many languages. Let us have a strong America, conducting open trade, travel, communication, and diplomacy with other nations."
                   -Ron Paul, U. S. Presidential Candidate



"The [ American ] Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the Colonies their money, which created debt, unemployment, and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonies to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War."
                -Benjamin Franklin


"If the America people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currencies, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them [ Military-Industrial-Complex ] will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
                --Thomas Jefferson


"These International bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government."
                -Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

"The Federal Reserve Act of 1913" and "The National Security Act of 1947" were the twin Orwellian evils that forever changed this Country. This is what remains broken with our Country today (it was never fixed).


Our Nation was founded by people wishing to escape the clutches of an authoritarian Empire and it's Central Bank.

Isn't about time we escape once again-??



Poll
Should America continue to act like the Roman Empire?
Yes, and when do we bomb Iran?
No, how about dusting off the U.S. Constitution and start following that!

Votes: 5
Results : Vote Link : Polls

Display:


and switch to the Gold Standard! (none / 0)

Ron Paul says some good things, but look at his other positions and you'll find he is misguided at best.


John McCain is a Bush ally on Social Security.
by John DE on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 12:32:46 AM EST

Re: and switch to the Gold Standard! (1.00 / 2)



Ron Paul does have real merit here (as well as authentic political courage) on most all of his positions, and is by far and away the best (for the middle class and workers) of the GOP field.


  • He is anti-U.S.Patriot-Act (unlike Hillary) and for restoring full civil liberties.
  • He is anti-NAFTA, anti-CAFTA, anti-WTO (that's a good thing for workers)
  • He is anti-IMF, anti-North American Union
  • He is anti-Monopoly, anti-Corportism, anti-Halliburton, anti-Insurance Company, etc.
  • He is anti-CORPORATE-Welfare (that's a very good thing)
  • He is much more than "just against Iraq", he is also anti-MILITARY_INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX, anti-Iran-War, anti-all-War (unless truly a National Defense response), and anti-CIA-lawlessness
  • He is anti-Gitmo and anti-Torture and anti-Blackwater
  • He is anti-Central-Bank (as our founding fathers were) and charging American citizens interest when dollars are printed.
  • He supports stable money where the value of the U.S. dollar doesn't go down and down and down (as our current fiat money backed by nothing does).


  • He wants to end the Taxes on our labor that takes away our wages (but not all taxes).
  • He is for freedom of speech, keeping the Internet free, Habeaus Corpus, and individual freedom.
  • He is for following the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and following International Treaties and Laws.
  • He is pro-trade (fair trade) between Nations and pro-diplomacy.

No other Republican candidate in the field has no many positive and humane attributes.

I don't agree with him about every single issue, like social security, but he has said that he will not throw people out of existing programs that they are already dependent on. He will just create non-Corporatist (market competitive) alternatives going forward.

Voting for Ron Paul is great strategy. By voting for Ron Paul in the Primaries, this will then make the General Election a Campaign about not bombast and a competition to go to War, but about a Competition and race for peace.  Our Country badly needs that conversation. It will also be a much more intellectual campaign about the real issues (Constitutional issues) and not about the usual  cheap superficialities and swiftboating, Osama commercials, etc.

That is a dialog that will be good for progressives and force the U.S. News Media to talk about real things for once in their corrupt lives and not about just the same old garbage.

Ron Paul helps to change the status-quo and help get our Country out of this George Orwell rut that we are in - where lies are truth and the truth is ignored.



For a "surge" in Truth:  Say NO to NeoCons!!!
by DerekLarsson on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 01:00:05 AM EST
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Re: The Ron Paul REVOLUTION (none / 0)

Oh, please!  Ron Paul's a loony tune.  Do some research before trying to foist some Lyndon LaRouche Republican on us.


by rlsumi on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 12:39:07 AM EST

Re: The Ron Paul REVOLUTION (none / 0)

he aint larouche, cmon


zombies are coming
by leewesley on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 12:49:28 PM EST
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Re: The Ron Paul REVOLUTION (1.00 / 2)


I've done my research.

Watch the videos, (study the U.S. Constitution),
and learn something before you demagogue and smear.



For a "surge" in Truth:  Say NO to NeoCons!!!
by DerekLarsson on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 01:11:09 AM EST

Re: The Ron Paul LUNACY (none / 0)

He appeals to people who are basically unclear about what a libertarian is.  

A libertarian is not a liberal.  You are confused by the first 6 letters.  The two are not the same.


by dataguy on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 08:29:55 AM EST
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Yer an idiot (1.00 / 1)

You can read whatever you want, but if you are an idiot, it won't help.


by dataguy on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 11:36:41 AM EST
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From the About MYDD page (none / 0)

"Users who are excessively bashing the Democratic Party, or being Republican trolls, will be banned. "

Ron Paul is a Republican.

He is a Republican who doesn't support unions, doesn't support things like the Department of Education.  

Go gush about your love of Ron Paul over at Free republic or someplace more fitting.


by dpANDREWS on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 04:27:14 AM EST

The Ron Paul Situation Is Unique (2.00 / 1)

Ron Paul is for many things that people here are very much against. However, he has a number of positions that are quite positive. I do not support him at all, but he is getting much support from people who are definitely not neocons. The Republican brand is a huge negative, but there have been some very progressive Republicans in the past.

For example, Republican U.S. Senator Lowell P. Weicker was defeated by "Democrat" Joe Lieberman in 1988 in the race for Connecticut U.S. Senator, with massive backing of Lieberman by William F. Buckley. But he became governor of
Connecticut in 1991, and went on to pass the first-ever graduated state income tax in that state.


by blues on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 07:12:45 AM EST
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There's a difference (2.00 / 1)

between liberal and libertarian.

You don't appear to understand that.

He is a troglodyte conservative libertarian.  His position on the war is good.  But that is it.  Every other position he holds is terrible and not good for America.


by dataguy on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 08:26:25 AM EST
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Ron Paul is anti-choice (none / 0)

his position on the gold standard is idiotic. He is also anti-
regualtion, meaning he is unwilling to do anything to stop large corporations from using their economic power o take advatange. He is not the working man's friend, even if he is a nativist or "ant-nafta"
"Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right"
by molly bloom on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 10:37:53 AM EST
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Re: The Ron Paul MORONS (2.00 / 3)

Anyone who votes for this blithering idiot is a fool.  He is a libertarian Republican.  That means that he opposes most programs that Democrats support.

He is NOT a progressive.  He is a libertarian.  Libertarians oppose the government in all forms.  If he wins, he will abolish the FDA, all government supported science, the Department of Education, HHS, and most programs which protect us against the real enemy of the American People, international corporations.

You must be a troll or a fool.


by dataguy on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 08:25:05 AM EST

Re: The Ron Paul REVOLUTION (none / 0)

Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."

"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal," Paul said.

Paul also wrote that although "we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers."

Stating that lobbying groups who seek special favors and handouts are evil, Paul wrote, "By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government" and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism.

right, that Ron Paul.


by KainIIIC on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 10:12:08 AM EST

More wrongheaded circa 2000 thinking (2.00 / 1)

We've heard it all before.

From 2000:

"I have several reasons I am voting for him, but to avoid a long email, I'll just mention two very important ones. I am voting for Nader because he sees the problems with these megacorp powers, and I think he will fight for the people (Gore and Bush are both Valenti-like corporate puppets)."

http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/7

I wonder if that poster still thinks Gore is a corporate puppet?

From Jim Hightower supporting Nader in PBS ( in an interview debate  with Paul Wellstone advocating Gore):

"But now I look up at my national party, and the Al Gores and the Democratic Leadership Council; they've taken off the old Sears Roebuck work boots and strapped on the Guccis and Puccis that the Republicans strut around in."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/ july-dec00/nader_10-24.html

Thinks anyone cares if Gore wears Gucci's these days?


by dpANDREWS on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 10:52:49 AM EST

Re: The Ron Paul REVOLUTION (none / 0)

I've seen it all, now. Support for a John Bircher on a progressive blog. What's next? Supporting the KKK?


by hwc on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 12:27:32 PM EST


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