Ron Paul (2010-2011)

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Ron Paul: Left and the Right Demagogue Mosque, Islam

LAKE JACKSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Congressman Ron Paul today released the following statement on the controversy concerning the construction of an Islamic Center and Mosque in New York City:

“Is the controversy over building a mosque near ground zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery?

“It has been said, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Are we not overly preoccupied with this controversy, now being used in various ways by grandstanding politicians? It looks to me like the politicians are “fiddling while the economy burns.”

“The debate should have provided the conservative defenders of property rights with a perfect example of how the right to own property also protects the 1st Amendment rights of assembly and religion by supporting the building of the mosque.

“Instead, we hear lip service given to the property rights position while demanding that the need to be “sensitive” requires an all-out assault on the building of a mosque, several blocks from “ground zero.”

“Just think of what might (not) have happened if the whole issue had been ignored and the national debate stuck with war, peace, and prosperity. There certainly would have been a lot less emotionalism on both sides. The fact that so much attention has been given the mosque debate, raises the question of just why and driven by whom?

“In my opinion it has come from the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia and are compelled to constantly justify it.

“They never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill conceived preventative wars. A select quote from soldiers from in Afghanistan and Iraq expressing concern over the mosque is pure propaganda and an affront to their bravery and sacrifice.

“The claim is that we are in the Middle East to protect our liberties is misleading. To continue this charade, millions of Muslims are indicted and we are obligated to rescue them from their religious and political leaders. And, we’re supposed to believe that abusing our liberties here at home and pursuing unconstitutional wars overseas will solve our problems.

“The nineteen suicide bombers didn’t come from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iran. Fifteen came from our ally Saudi Arabia, a country that harbors strong American resentment, yet we invade and occupy Iraq where no al Qaeda existed prior to 9/11.

“Many fellow conservatives say they understand the property rights and 1st Amendment issues and don’t want a legal ban on building the mosque. They just want everybody to be “sensitive” and force, through public pressure, cancellation of the mosque construction.

“This sentiment seems to confirm that Islam itself is to be made the issue, and radical religious Islamic views were the only reasons for 9/11. If it became known that 9/11 resulted in part from a desire to retaliate against what many Muslims saw as American aggression and occupation, the need to demonize Islam would be difficult if not impossible.

“There is no doubt that a small portion of radical, angry Islamists do want to kill us but the question remains, what exactly motivates this hatred?

“If Islam is further discredited by making the building of the mosque the issue, then the false justification for our wars in the Middle East will continue to be acceptable.

“The justification to ban the mosque is no more rational than banning a soccer field in the same place because all the suicide bombers loved to play soccer.

“Conservatives are once again, unfortunately, failing to defend private property rights, a policy we claim to cherish. In addition conservatives missed a chance to challenge the hypocrisy of the left which now claims they defend property rights of Muslims, yet rarely if ever, the property rights of American private businesses.

“Defending the controversial use of property should be no more difficult than defending the 1st Amendment principle of defending controversial speech. But many conservatives and liberals do not want to diminish the hatred for Islam--the driving emotion that keeps us in the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia.

“It is repeatedly said that 64% of the people, after listening to the political demagogues, don’t want the mosque to be built. What would we do if 75% of the people insist that no more Catholic churches be built in New York City? The point being is that majorities can become oppressors of minority rights as well as individual dictators. Statistics of support is irrelevant when it comes to the purpose of government in a free society—protecting liberty.

“The outcry over the building of the mosque, near ground zero, implies that Islam alone was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. According to those who are condemning the building of the mosque, the nineteen suicide terrorists on 9/11 spoke for all Muslims. This is like blaming all Christians for the wars of aggression and occupation because some Christians supported the neo-conservative’s aggressive wars.

“The House Speaker is now treading on a slippery slope by demanding a Congressional investigation to find out just who is funding the mosque—a bold rejection of property rights, 1st Amendment rights, and the Rule of Law—in order to look tough against Islam.

“This is all about hate and Islamaphobia.

“We now have an epidemic of “sunshine patriots” on both the right and the left who are all for freedom, as long as there’s no controversy and nobody is offended.

“Political demagoguery rules when truth and liberty are ignored.”

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Very accurate article and I don't usually agree with Mr.Paul. I think he knows the truth more than anyone else I've seen regarding this non-issue.

He's right about the smoke and mirrors.

The economy continues to slide down the toilet. With the census workers laid off, the unemployment is back up (over double digits in many states), foreclosures continue, national debt grows at $3.9 billion a day, peoples' holdings are dwindling either due to increased expenses or inflation (remember when you could buy a 1/2 gallon of ice cream?), we as a nation march closer to facism and totalitarianism every day, we continue wars overseas that we can't afford.

In the meantime, we are distracted by our bread (dignity cards) and circus (American Idol, sports, media created nonsense like celebrity break-up).

Most of the members here have awakened, are on a spiritual path and should continue on it.

Yep. I knew Ron Paul had to be good for something. If he runs for President, I'm certainly tempted. He'd have to keep his son Rand on a leash though. I strongly dislike Rand.

Ron > Rand

If I decide to vote, and Ron's in the running, he's my guy.

It's too bad this will get little or no coverage in the mainstream. It doesn't fit the agenda.

a clip, w/URL if anyone wants to read the full article, supporting Ron Paul's statement:

Masterminds, Mosques and Mass Insanity: “War on Terrorism” Propaganda Ratcheted up Ahead of War Escalation

By Larry Chin

URL of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=20703

Global Research, August 20, 2010

Exemplified by the furor over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” in New York, and rumors of a new Al-Qaeda “mastermind”, 9/11 “war on terrorism” propaganda has been ramped up to deafening levels by various political factions.



Nearly a decade since Bush/Cheney’s 9/11 false flag deception, a fearful, self-destructive American mass public remains fully brainwashed by “war on terrorism” deception--- ignorant of history, and militantly oblivious to facts.



“Ground Zero mosque”: the art of missing the point



The ludicrous uproar over plans to build a Muslim community center in New York, the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” has dominated mainstream corporate news headlines. Political players from all sides, including President Barack Obama have joined the fray, attempting to prove themselves the superior “anti-terrorist”, or the better “commemorator of 9/11, when 3,000 people were killed by Muslim terrorists”. The right-wing is going berserk, gleefully.



Heated arguments have exploded around religion, tolerance, democracy, etc.---everything except the only fact that matters: 9/11 was a false flag operation, courtesy of the Bush-Cheney administration, carried out by an elite consensus, in order to justify the “war on terrorism”, and everything that came with it. Mass murder. Unending resource conquest. A police state within US borders. Open criminality.



The perpetual threat posed by a fabricated outside enemy, and a militarized, fearful populace, remain the centerpieces of elite policy, and they have been consistently maintained by both Bush/Cheney and Obama administrations. The demonization of Muslims continues to facilitate pillage.



While violent hatred continues to be directed at Muslims (and all “foreigners”), the criminals who truly massacred 3,000 people in the World Trade Center continue to enjoy power, wealth, and high positions of world “leadership” and remain in control of virtually every aspect of society. Those who perpetuate the cover-up (including the Obama administration) still “run the world”, to mass public enthusiasm.



As the “Ground Zero mosque” mushrooms into a full-blown election year battle cry by one faction or another, not whisper of truth appears in any corporate media coverage. Meanwhile, the exhaustive and available information thoroughly exposing and destroying the official “war on terrorism” narrative is unknown to a minority of people whose critical faculties remain intact.



Mike Ruppert’s Crossing the Rubicon exposed why and how 9/11 was likely carried out by Bush/Cheney. Michel Chossudovsky’s America’s “War on Terrorism” thoroughly exposed the 9/11 deception, as well as the fact that 1) the “war on terrorism” is a fabrication that serves as the eternal pretext for global war, and that 2) “Al-Qaeda” and other “Islamic jihad” front are military-intelligence assets that have been continuously supported, managed and “run” by the CIA and affiliates such as Pakistan’s ISI on behalf of Anglo-American geostrategic interests (notably oil) going back to the Cold War. A vast number of researchers (all derided as “9/11 truthers”) such David Ray Griffin continue to detail various aspects of the case including physical evidence.



Oblivious to the availability of this mountain of “conspiracy fact”, the vast majority of the population chooses to embrace the Big Lie.



New “Al-Qaeda” mastermind named



In recent weeks, mainstream corporate news headlines have exploded with the “revelation” that “Al-Qaeda” has a new leader of global operations “in charge of planning future attacks”: Adnan Shukrijumah



According to Miami-based FBI counterterrorism agent Greg LeBlanc, whose Associated Press interview in early August is the single source for the new spate of repeated headlines, Shukrijumah is alleged to be a 15-year resident of the US “intimately familiar with American society”, and is the son of a Muslim cleric trained in Saudi Arabia. He have lived in Miramar, Florida before joining terror training camps in Afghanistan in the 1990s, in order to fight the persecution of Muslims in Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere.

Tagged by LeBlanc as the successor to his former boss Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), and taking orders directly from Osama bin Laden. A clip of Shukrijumah posted by the FBI is gibberish.



There is nothing new about the Shukrijumah narrative. It is an intelligence “legend” years in the making.



Chaim Kupferberg, whose classic analysis of post-9/11 “terror” propaganda (Part 1 and Part Two) are definitive, offered the following thoughts on Shukrijumah in 2004 in a piece titled The "Official" Operative Clique for the Next 9/11.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=O5spJ...yer_embedded#!

Find the online videos of Chris Martenson. Scary! Yes, this is going to be bad for many.

You know, Ron Paul does have his moments of brilliance.

But, until we see large food lines and stockbrokers jumping out of windows, there's no way this current economic situation even comes close to the Great Depression.

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But, until we see large food lines and stockbrokers jumping out of windows, there's no way this current economic situation even comes close to the Great Depression.

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1. There would be no food lines, because it's handled with food stamps now. About 40 million of them.
2. The few stockbrockers that jumped in the 30's, did that because they did lost everything, and still have hell to pay. Due federal regulations and securities, there is no such situation now. That's part of "Moral Hazard" problem .. when you can take risks knowing you would not have to pay for looses, you will never, ever leave the casino.

When you design a building, you make it to bend before it will break, so the people would evacuate in time. With current "building" walls are propped with so many clever "devices" no one really knows when critical failure will happen. One day gravity will do its thing. One thing for sure: looking at how normal building went down is no help in current scenario.

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You know, Ron Paul does have his moments of brilliance.

But, until we see large food lines and stockbrokers jumping out of windows, there's no way this current economic situation even comes close to the Great Depression.

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I wouldn't discount it. When the world gets tired of the dollar, it may be dumped as the world's reserve currency. Then all that printing the Fed Res did under the four stimulus bills as well as the mini-stimulus bills will come back to haunt us. Our dollars return home and our currency hyper-inflates. Over night savings will be destroyed. Hyper-inflation happened in the Confederacy here in America, Weimar Germany and more recently, Zimbabwe.

I also don't rely on government statistics on unemployment or GDP. When the numbers don't look good, they eliminate a factor to cause it to buoy up. ShadowStats still calculates figures as they were originally done. Unemployment is much higher than the 9.5% the government tells us about. Folks who don't qualify for unemployment aren't counted anymore and fall off the radar. About 40% of Americans don't pay taxes and 30% (or so) are living on Government support.

The bright side is that all this "economic" situation is man made. The important thing to focus on is spiritual salvation.

Here Here Ron Paul...

In perhaps his most impassioned and irate speech to date, Congressman Ron Paul unleashed a tirade of vilification at the TSA and their security procedures that have stoked nationwide outrage, stating “enough is enough” as he introduced new legislation to that would open the way for TSA employees to be sued for groping Americans or putting them through dangerous naked body scanners, preventing travelers ‘from being treated like cattle’.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=d-N5adYM7Kw&feature=player_embedded

Ron Paul introduced legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports:

A BILL – HR 6416

To ensure that certain Federal employees cannot hide behind immunity.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NO IMMUNITY FOR CERTAIN AIRPORT SCREENING METHODS.

No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a Federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives Federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), x-rays, or millimeter waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual’s body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft. The preceding sentence shall apply even if the individual or the individual’s parent, guardian, or any other individual gives consent.

How could one even want such a TSA job... ?
Not my kind of American Dream.

Perhaps perverts are lining up for these jobs

Is this the only sane person left in Congress? At least the one with the most guts and fire! Love Ron Paul. A true stateman!

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No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a Federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives Federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), x-rays, or millimeter waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual’s body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft.

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That's my man!!

Conk;
He has been the ONLY sane person in congress for 30 years!

This is why everyone else in Congress calls him a kook. Because he loves liberty above all else.

Ron Paul takes enormous personal risks making the statements he makes. Although we are all human and surely he also has skeletons in his closet, if certain factions we able to pin a salacious affair, financial ill-dealings, or other sordid acts on Ron Paul they would have done it by now, which is a testament to his character. That is not to say that at some point he will not have crossed the line and something will have to be done to correct the situation. Remember Paul Wellstone's "plane accident"? There are others who have already paid the price for having the courage to speak truth to power.

Ank;
Like I said above, he has a proven, 30 year history of saying exactly this kind of thing. And the so-called skeletons have been made up. I have been reading and listening to this man for almost 20 years. He is one of a kind.

If anyone has an interest, you can go over a collection of articles, and later videos, and speeches before congress, that go back to 1994 right here.

This speech is not, repeat NOT uncommon. It's just good ol' Ron Paul on a Thursday ;)
Fred

Well, he doesn't believe in liberty about everything...he does think states should outlaw abortion because of his religious beliefs. But I'm glad he's taking on this issue.

Fredkc I am an admirer of Ron Paul and have been for a long time. While I may not always agree with each and every position he takes on political issues there is an inner consistency and cohesiveness overall to Ron's positions on public policy issues that indicates that he is a man of integrity, honesty and true character, a rare phenomenon in political life. He is a one-in-a-million man in that sense. Unfortunately there are not many like him in the political realm or elsewhere!

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p.s. saramay - I believe Ron's position on abortion is that it is a state's rights issue, not one with which the US government should be dealing, which would be consistent with his very traditional conservative views of reducing the power and authority of the Federal Government in deference to the more representative decentralized power of the States who after all should be closer to the people and whose policies should therefor be more truly representative of the divergent views at that level. But maybe I am wrong about this.

Well the 112 is going to be interesting because Ron Paul now has others joining him on the edge of what Capitalists will allow...

[/COLOR]p.s. saramay - I believe Ron's position on abortion is that it is a state's rights issue, not one with which the US government should be dealing, which would be consistent with his very traditional conservative views of reducing the power and authority of the Federal Government in deference to the more representative decentralized power of the States who after all should be closer to the people and whose policies should therefor be more truly representative of the divergent views at that level. But maybe I am wrong about this.[/QUOTE]

Yep, that would be consistent with his opinion...however his personal beliefs are that it should be outlawed. State governments are generally run by the most conservative individuals in a given population, who can and will deprive us of our most basic rights, especially when it comes to issues involving religious beliefs. I don't support state's rights over individual rights. But enough of politics..bleh! Take down the TSA!

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p.s. saramay - I believe Ron's position on abortion is that it is a state's rights issue

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That goes to the heart of what Ron Paul has always been about.
Above all else. All. There is the Constitution.
It is a "comprehensive", and "inclusive" contract between people who are, and still are FREE with or without it(Something almost everyone has forgotten).

Government has no business sticking it's nose into any subject not mentioned that, and then there is a catch-all called the 10th amendment. This says that basically, "If we didn't give some power to the Fed. Govt. then it belongs to either the states, or the people.

The Feddle Gummint has an extremely short list of what it is to oversee; on purpose. And the only way you keep them out of your hair is by insisting it stick to it's knitting. What should be, and what Ron Paul's stance points out is that many things, including abortion are properly addressed locally.

...and, because the subject came up, I will hereby give the short version of the reasons why it should be a local issue:

"Government IS force!" - G. Washington
"Government has always been, and will ever remain incapable of acting morally," - Fred

Abortion is the perfect example. In it's 220 year history, the Federal government has:

• Said absolutely nothing about abortion. Then...
• Made it a crime, equivalent to murder. Then...
• Made it as legal as having your tonsils removed.

In which case was it acting morally?

Yes, it is a trick question, because it means that whatever your choice, said government has been acting immorally for 2/3'ds or its history!

Yet for the entire time, government is defended as acting correctly, but incorrectly assumed to be "moral". the plain fact is this is government completely our of its purview. Merely asking government to take a side in this, is asking for trouble.

I will save the legal argument over the nightmare of what we currently have for later. ;)
Fred

I personally agree that individual freedom SHOULD trump government at any level but we must take things into context here. The government in the US was NEVER envisioned by the Founding Fathers to be a pure democracy, in fact given the horrifying spectacle of the French Revolution during that time, PURE DEMOCRACY was the very last thing on the Founding Fathers' minds. The form of government WAS a Constitutional Republic. That is it was implicitly understood that power was delegated to "elected officials" constituting the House and Senate to represent the views of those eligible to vote as their conscience dictated. In other words the elected officials served as a check and curb on the frightening power of the masses. This ensured that an established power structure continue under the guise of "democracy" ..... understanding full well that most of the masses would not understand that pure democracy was never contemplated. What gave the movement a freshness and energy was the revolt against the overweening power of the British Monarchy...............this movement as we know inspired many similar revolutions against colonial power around the world. And yet, because the braking mechanism, the legislative institutions, had built-in features that made them accountable to established power and influence, over time it was inevitable that this form of "Democracy" would itself fall victim to the same forces against which it had revolted. This is because eventually the powerful would purchase influence for themselves and pack the Legislature, converting it into a pure instrument of power and control of the less than 1%. This is what we have today in most so-called "democracies" around the world. It was inevitable that this would happen and in fact was foretold even by intellectuals amongst the British House of Lords since shortly after the American Revolution. If you are patient enough and have the staying power and money to work behind the scenes for generations, eventually things can be manipulated to work out just they way you want them to!

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in fact given the horrifying spectacle of the French Revolution during that time, PURE DEMOCRACY was the very last thing on the Founding Fathers' minds.

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Bingo !!
"Democracy is two wolves and one sheep, deciding what's for dinner." - H L Mencken ;)

Also, I did a little research one time, concerning the notion that the Constitution, even the revolution, was something foisted upon a bunch of "ignorant farmers" but an elitist group. Balderdash!

In 1789, the literacy rate among us folk stood at 90%! Remember also that, in those days, being "literate" meant being able to read both English and Latin. And that the Constitution was one of the most published, and debated documents of the time, which included being on the wall of almost every pub in New England, along with the Federalist Papers, debating it.

Food fer thought,
Fred

It is an amazing thing to look into the literacy of people during the late 1700s in the US. If one reads, for example, the Federalist Papers - though this was the work of intellectuals not the common man - the complexity and subtlety of the thinking and manner of verbal articulation surpasses most of what reads or comes into contact with today! Of course this was during the "age of enlightenment" when true education and all that implies was actually valued. In contrast to the present, it is a sad commentary on human development and public discourse. To think that one room school houses and home schooling could produce that level of human intellectual development! What a waste, for the most part, our so-called educational institutions which are mostly human warehouses and Delgado training fields. A dictionary dating back to the 1800's is almost twice the size of current dictionaries indicating a reduction in our lexicon inversely proportional to our technological and scientific "advances" - which surely is not a mere coincidence!

I have a page on my site where I keep all of these documents.

• Dec. Of Independence
• U.S, Constitution
• Federalist Papers, Anti-Fed Papers,
• Minutes of the Constitutional Convention
• A Collection of Thomas Jefferson's Writings.
• Democracy In America
• and things-like-that-there.

My site is completely free. Completely non-commercial. It is one of my "pay it forwards" things, I do which came out of my desire to archive a collection of important documents and literature for my grand children.
Enjoy,
Fred

By Rocky Vega

12/10/10 Baltimore, Maryland – This morning, Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) held his first interview since being appointed chair of the House Monetary Policy Subcommittee. From what he says in the video below, he’s going “to think things through and not overdo things too soon,” but ultimately plans to stick to his guns, and “emphasize the oversight of the Federal Reserve.”

He also points out why he views his new role as important in these times…

“Obviously, it is very popular with the American people to audit the Fed and know what they’re doing when they can spend trillions of dollars and we don’t know where it goes. They have a bigger budget; they spend more money than the Congress does. Yet, we have no oversight. It was never intended that a secret body like this could create money out of thin air spend to take care of some banks and big business and foreign banks and the American people struggle? We have to look into it and we have to start to consider reforms.”

You can see and hear more details in the clip below, which came to our attention via Bloomberg Television in its recent exclusive interview with Ron Paul.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iHUCAYdq6I8&feature=player_embedded

We can only hope that Ron Paul executes his investigation with vigor and morality. Somehow the news that he's been appointed to audit the Fed sounds too good. I can't imagine "They" would allow this unless it was under "Their" control.

Executes might well be the keyword there, WyoSeeker

nobody else had the Kahunas to do it...

Ron Paul *** bring back the greenbacks so the Fed doesn't have the power to strangle our country for the benefit of a few elite bankers... ***

If more people took time to understand who the Federal Reserve is and what their function is there would be absolute outrage in the country! Unfortunately people will only take the time to understand when the Fed starts to change their lives. i.e. failure of the dollar, collapse of the economy or hyperinflation and by then it will be too late. The Powers that be would not be inexsitence if it were not for the Federal Reserve!
Ron Paul is and excellent start at turning the tide, lets hope and can make some changes, the very least of which would be an audit program!

rgray222, I given 10 minute dissertations to friends and family on the Fed, Jekyl Island, etc. Often the response I get is, "er, ah, hey, how 'bout those Yankees"?

If you can't explain it in 45 seconds their eyes glaze over. "Buy gold and silver? What would I do with that"?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=n2RYInpGyAc&feature=player_embedded

A further note to "Ron Paul's Moment"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/phot...8/ron_paul.jpg

Exerts from Bloomberg Businessweek's ~ most recent interview and article on Ron Paul;

It has taken Ron Paul 34 years to arrive at this moment and he does not intend to squander it. During that time GOP leaders have been "working to keep me away from this".

..."says Representative Bill Posey, a Florida Republican and unabashed Paul fan. "The depth of his knowledge on monetary policy, his understanding of it all, is second to known."

Posey nominated the Fed bill for "best legislation" award by House Republican freshmen this year. The bill, calling for a government audit of Fed operations, including its monetary policy decisions, won unanimously. Even though a watered down version included in the financial regulation law enacted in July. Paul wants to give the audit measure another shot and is counting on a new, high profile perch to do so. "traditionally, this subcommittee has been very insignificant," Paul says "I'm absolutely going to change that." :clap2:

From Phil Mattingly and Robert Schmidt

Ah, by gum and beggorah - the mainstream news is just sooooo transparently pathetic, isn't it?

*sigh*

So far, Ron Paul seems to speak out a lot of truth here, on mainstream media, too. That's a good thing, imo.

From a Fortune interview:

But some would consider ending the Fed is a bit extreme, don't you think?
No, I think printing money is extreme and crazy. I think the obscenity is allowing the Federal Reserve to print $3.3 trillion and we don't even know where it went. That to me is what's so extreme. And that's what the American people are waking up to. Government is extremely out of control.

Do you think we're better off without a Central Bank?
Sure, it's better off that we don't have depressions and inflations and financial chaos and the problems that we face. We of course wouldn't have this backdoor financing of big government fighting wars overseas and getting people to depend on the welfare state. None of that can happen without a Federal Reserve.

Whether your into US Politics or not you should all listen to one of the few Patriots & Libertarians left in American politics.

Ron Paul has an unblemished voting record and has been re-elected at least 10 times as a Texas Congressman!

You want to Hope & Pray he not only runs for President in 2012, but wins it aswell..!

Go Ron Paul..!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JM8d_Arjz6g&feature=player_embedded#at=232

Love the man!