Sunday, June 29, 2008

Endless Struggle

Ron Paul speech on the floor of the House, covering fuel prices, inflation, virtual war resolution with Iran, ten years of Iraq sanctions.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Chuck Baldwin

Issues

American Independence

The globalists are after our sovereignty, our freedom and our national independence. I will stand up for the economic security and independence of our people and the sovereignty of our American republic. Read more…

Economy

A Baldwin economic policy will provide opportunities and freedom for millions of average Americans, not obscene profits for international bankers and multinational corporations. Read more…

Education

I support the right of parents to provide for the education of their children in the manner they deem best, including homeschooling…and my administration will oppose any federal legislation that would interfere with or restrict that liberty.” Read more…
Military Adventures & Empire Building

We will stop this international meddling and empire building. When Chuck Baldwin is sworn in as President of these United States the ‘New World Order’ comes crashing down! Read more…

Health Care

I strongly support the freedom of choice for all citizens in their health care decisions and management! Read more…
Border Security & Illegal Immigration

America’s illegal immigration nightmare ends the day I become President! Read more…

Sanctity of Life

I will demand that Congress enact Dr. Ron Paul’s Sanctity of Life Act which would set forth that every unborn child is a ‘person’ under the Constitution, entitled to equal protection of the law and therefore, no unborn child could be killed without due process of law. Read more…
The 2nd Amendment

The Second Amendment Protects Our Liberty! To help keep your family safe and your country free, go buy a gun. Read more…

United Nations

As President, I will terminate United States membership in the United Nations. Read more…

Veterans & Military

I am eternally grateful to America’s veterans who have sacrificed so much to protect our nation and to preserve our liberty and, as President, I will honor our nation’s commitment to them in every way. Read more…

A Strong National Defense

We will have a national defense that is second to none, with armed forces that serve only under the American flag, and whose mission will be to defend these United States of America! Read more…

Restoring Liberty

Great are the dangers of giving unlimited, unconstitutional power to a government that does not respect the checks and balances intended by our Constitution and Bill of Rights! Read more…

Eminent Domain Abuse

I will champion the property rights of individuals and families and I will oppose eminent domain abuse whenever and wherever I find it in this country! Read more…
There is Still Hope for America

As we get out our message and it is received by the people of America, we will find a ready audience for our message of freedom and hope!

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Idaho GOP Says Abolish Federal Reserve

SANDPOINT -- It appears the Ron Paul wing of the Idaho Republican Party has scored its first victory at the party's state convention in this North Idaho resort town.

The state party's platform committee voted overwhelmingly Friday to add to state platform language supporting abolishing the Federal Reserve System and pegging the dollar to gold and silver.

The idea has been championed by Ron Paul, a libertarian-leaning Republican who recently gave up his run for the presidency.

Paul won 24 percent of the vote in Idaho's Republican primary and many of his backers are at the convention trying to pull the party to the right and get Paul delegates seated at the Republican National Convention.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

In the final analysis

In the final analysis,” I wrote in my new book The Revolution: A Manifesto, “the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.”

Interpreting The Constitution

Ron Paul's Compelling Manifesto
by David Gordon

To say this at once raises a new question: how is the Constitution to be interpreted? Paul answers that it must be read in a way consistent with the underlying principle of the document, the promotion of freedom. In this connection, he cites effectively a speech by Daniel Webster that condemned conscription as unconstitutional. The Constitution does not mention the subject at all: how then could he be so sure that the government lacked this power? Webster said that since the Constitution aims to promote freedom, no infringement of freedom could possibly be constitutional unless the document explicitly mandated it.

A free government with arbitrary means to administer it is a contradiction; a free government without adequate provisions for personal security is an absurdity; a free government, with an uncontrolled power of military conscription, is a solecism, at once the most ridiculous and abominable that ever entered into the head of man. (p. 56, quoting Webster)

Webster's view, here adopted by Paul, closely resembles Lysander Spooner's method of constitutional analysis, by which he controversially attempted to show the unconstitutionality of slavery, long before the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Of course the most well known of Ron Paul's recent attempts to use the Constitution to check federal power involves the Iraq war. The Constitution vests in Congress, not the president, to right to declare war. The Iraq war is then illegal, since Congress has not issued such a declaration. Supporters of the war cannot appeal to "authorization of force" resolutions. Congress cannot constitutionally delegate its power to declare war to the president, leaving it for him to decide when force is to be used appropriately.

Paul makes his criticism even stronger by connecting it to the just-war tradition. It is an uncontroversial part of that tradition that a war cannot be just unless it is initiated by one holding authority to do so. In our system of government, it is Congress that possesses this power. Absent a Congressional declaration of war, then, the Iraq war is unjust. (The point must not be misunderstood. It is not a requirement for any just war that it be authorized by legislative resolution: it is only that if a legal system vests the power to declare war in this way, it cannot be justly exercised otherwise. In the American system, war without a Congressional declaration is unjust as well as illegal.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Mini-Convention

Ron Paul is the real maverick.

Ron Paul plans his own convention
By David Brown
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Maverick GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has booked an arena in Minneapolis for a "mini-convention" that could steal some of John McCain's thunder just days before he accepts the Republican nomination.

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Friday, June 6, 2008

Let it not be said

HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 10, 2003

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy. A few have, and others will continue to do so, but too many—both in and out of government—close their eyes to the issue of personal liberty and ignore the fact that endless borrowing to finance endless demands cannot be sustained. True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Dr. Murray Sabrin on The Fed

Quotes from Dr. Murray Sabrin in this video:

Ron Paul is the only one who had blown the whistle on the scam that has been in effect for a hundred years. ... The federal reserve destroys the value of money ... that means our standard of living will go down.