Posted on 04/13/2013 5:56:31 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Ron Paul has been retired from Congress for only a few months, but he’s certainly not shying away from politics. The former US representative has already announced his new project: the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
In a press release sent to the media Friday afternoon, the Ron Paul camp confirms that the long-time Texas representative will launch a think-tank of sorts in order to carry on his ideologies after his time in office has ended.
“After decades in and out of the US House of Representatives leading the call for a non-interventionist foreign policy and the protection of civil liberties, Dr. Paul is launching a revolutionary new vehicle to expand his efforts. The Institute will serve as the focal point of a new coalition that crosses political, ideological and party lines,” the statement begins.
According to the press release, the Ron Paul Institute will focus mainly on two issues: education and coming generations.
“It will fill the growing demand for information on foreign affairs from a non-interventionist perspective through a lively and diverse website, and will provide unique educational opportunities to university students and others,” his office says.
“The neo-conservative era is dead. The ill-advised policies pushed by the neo-cons have everywhere led to chaos and destruction, and to a hatred of the United States and its people. Multi-trillion dollar wars have not made the world a safer place; they have only bankrupted our economic future. The Ron Paul Institute will provide the tools and the education to chart a new course with the understanding that only through a peaceful foreign policy can we hope for a prosperous tomorrow.”
Ron Paul, 77, says he will formally unveil his latest endeavor next Wednesday at a conference in Washington, DC, only a stone’s throw from the congressional office he occupied for nearly three decades. Slated to attend the conference are the members of the Institute’s board of advisors, which contains a number of high-profile names including noted economist Lew Rockwell, the CEO of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a longtime collaborator of Paul’s — he served as the congressman’s chief of staff from 1978 to 1982, and later advised the politician as he vied for the presidency.
Also on the Institutes board is Rep. Walter Jones, Jr. (NC), Rep. John Duncan, Jr. (TN), former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH) and Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Just earlier this month, Ron Paul unveiled his own homeschooling curriculum for students, which he describes as a program aimed to provide “education in liberty like no other.”
“Students will be exposed to thinkers they would never encounter in a government school. They will know history and economics better than anyone their age,” Rockwell wrote in an editorial announcing the start of the “Ron Paul Curriculum” published in The Daily Bell.
And it isn't just neocons. I wouldn't put it past Obama to start something with Iran for his own political benefit.
Paul is wrong.
Standing up to evil and fighting it with war is not wrong.
Wagging endless war with no intention of actually winning is.
We could have ended these wars in ONE HOUR with ZERO loss of life on our side, and little cost!
We CHOOSE not to! THAT is the real crime!
Poor Rand Paul. How can he ever acheive glory and make a possbile run for the White House if his ding-bat daddy is still on the scene?
There are many, including some on Free Republic who think Bradley Manning, Ron Paul and Code Pink are all on the right page.
After all, Ron Paul just said the other day that Bradley Manning deserves a Peace Price.
Conservatives are antiwar because we are afraid we might lose.
Leftists are antiwar because they are afraid we might win.
What we have now is not war, it's the President using US troops to advance his own personal global political agenda, under rules of engagement that are getting the killed.
“The Ron Paul Institute For Peace And Prosperity”
And there we have Ron Paul in his nutshell. He names an institute after himself. He has a crush on himself.
So the Neo-Isolationist Era has begun?
Problem with RuPaul is that some of his beliefs... like Free Trade and Open Borders.... are mainstays of the so-called NeoCons. Its like being against the Nazis....but you hate Jews and Slavs with as much fervor
The economic global inter-dependency is a much bigger problem than protecting our national interests abroad. We bail out foreign nations way too much more than we bomb them
Standing up to evil and fighting it with war is not wrong.
Wagging endless war with no intention of actually winning is.
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Well said!
Paul is a fool. Kusinich, really? Tells me all I need to know.
Given the far left background of the early neoconservatives, I can't agree with you on which side is better described as crypto-Marxist. I see nothing Marxist about a desire to conserve American lives, American power and security and American freedom.
Both comments are true, the former because it is human nature, the latter because it is traitorous (and the truth of that being both humorous and disturbing at the same time).
There is no excusing what Manning did. He should have been hung.
No excuse for violating a trust given by your country. I don't agree with what Paul said about Manning.
We are in agreement on this.
Hey, maybe he can get Bradley Manning in there as a thinker.
Nobody is as open borders as libertarians.
I wish that this old egotist would go away.
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