What gives us the right to stop them?
What gives us the right to stop them?
Good article. That type of thinking always has its simplistic appeal to people. In Ron Paul's case, unlike that of the mullahs, it's not even religious, since many of his social positions would certainly not gell with traditional Christians. But I think it does reflect a weird fantasy about a (mythical and non-existent) past time when there was a stronger, purer America, before it was corrupted by evil bankers and immigrants...
People should beware, because a lot of this thinking was behind the support for Hitler's theories in Germany. Again, Hitler arose during a period of economic hardship and confusion for Germans, and appealed to some supposed purer past. He demonized the wealthy and various industries, and of course picked the Jews as the supposed source of all this corruption and made getting rid of the Jews the key to the restoration of Germany's supposed purity.
I don't think there are enough weak-minded people in the US to fall for Paul's garbage, fortunately.
So, how has the private Federal Reserve, criminal Banksters, fiat currency and open borders worked out so far? The one good thing about Ron Paul's candidacy is that has laid bare who are the true freedom loving Americans and who are the boot licking Globalist meat-puppets.
Good piece. I agree with most of what he has to say. I would still like to see an audit of the Fed. If they are shipping trillions to shore up european banks I think we should at least be consulted. And I don’t think a return to a defacto gold standard is anything unrealistic to expect; the Fed’s job is or ought to be to preserve and stabilize the value of the currency. Instead they keep going back into stimulus-inflationary management.
And I’m still waiting for a mainstream candidate to make what I think is a clear and obvious point, which is that if you are bringing in half what it takes to operate your government, your government is twice the size it ought to be.
Beyond that, I will say that war is coming. Its coming whether Paul is in the White House or Gingrich or anyone else. So the question for me is, who understands it well enough to make the appropriate preparations for what is coming. In historical terms, do you move while Hitler is planning to attack, or do you wait until he is dipping his toes in the English Channel. I know, if you’re Paul, the answer is neither.
Paul’s popularity is rooted in the fact that a lot of people want a government that respects the constitution and lives within its means. That is what attracts most of his support. That, and the fact that the others are so muted and mealy-mouthed on the subject.
Paul’s constant refrain, that we caused 911, that we occupy half the world (really? which half? does he not understand basing agreements?), his sympathies for Hamas and the ayatollahs, these are too much for me and for most people. But I am looking for a candidate who isn’t embarrassed by the constitution, and someone who is prepared to do major surgery to get the government back under control and push power away from the center and back out to the peripheries where it belongs.
I don’t see that person out there. The best I see is who I support, which is Bachmann, Santorum, Gingrich. I wish there was someone better but I’m not running, so I’ll have to choose from among the ones who have dared to stick their heads up.
Also I would like to see Europe more involved in policing the middle east. Islam is in their back yard and a far greater problem for them then for us. Does that make me an isolationist? I don't like it that Paul would it seems stop supporting Israel, or allow Iran to go nuclear he loses me there, but I don't see him as isolationist.
C'mon Spengler, you're better than this level of egregious conflation. The Fed is a nasty piece of work that makes the country borrow it's own money from private banker families and pay it back at insane interest rates to burden a third of a billion people with endless debt. To link the destruction of that to some sort of blind nationalism vulnerable to global growth is not only absurd, but the reverse of what would happen economically as the dollar grew strong again and the world beat a path to our door - which is exactly what was the real case in 1957.
I find the comparison of Ron Paul to a Mullah unfair and defamatory.
I think an apology is in order. I just hope, for your sake, the Mullahs accept it.
Wow!
The military-industrial-complex that Eisenhower warned us about, that is ruining America, that is keeping us in perpetual wars, and that posts here regularly is terrified of Ron Paul. Guess Paul is the only candidate that the MIC hasn’t bought.
Each new attack on Paul is more outlandish and distorted than the last.
You excuse the Fed's concealed (and probably larcenous) abuse of money making power? How poetic.