Federal Governements NEED The War On Drugs

Free adults get to make choices.  If people to use drugs in the privacy of their own home, without hurting others (harming other's property or exposing children), they are exercising freedom.  I am free to make different choices.  If I impose my choices on others, those people aren't free - they are my subjects or my slaves.

Ron Paul spoke of the problems with drug laws and how the laws have inordinately been used to incarcerate minorities.

The recent marijuana decriminalization votes in several states have the federal enforcement agencies scared (about future funding).  The Federal spending beneficiaries of drug prohibition spending are spreading disinformation.

Ethan Nadelmann speaks on why the federal government, and foreign governments, need drug laws to maintain power and spending levels.  Watch Ethan Nadelmann's speech here:

End Torture, And The Torturers

Torture has been shown to provide confessions, and confessions for anything as outlandish as can be imagined.  Persons being tortured will confess anything to have the torture stop.

Torture is not allowed by international rules of war.  Torture is not compatible with freedom.

The CIA and White House are currently redacting a multi-thousand-page torture report to cover up the wrong-doings.  Ron Paul is right when he writes we should end torture and end the (criminal) organization that commits torture.

End Torture, Shut Down the CIA!

... Still the US administration denied that torture was torture, preferring to call it “enhanced interrogation” and claiming that it had disrupted so many terrorist plots. Of course, we later found out that the CIA had not only lied about the torture of large numbers of people after 9/11, but it had vastly exaggerated any valuable information that came from such practices. ...

Rand Paul Sues Obama Over NSA Spying

Rand Paul has followed through with his idea of suing the NSA and Obama for illegal spying.  He intends to have the suit certified as a class action, for all affected telephone users.

Working through the legislative process is one path.  Suing is another path.  Rand Paul is doing both.  Big-government Democrats and Republicans are speaking out in defense of the modern police state.

John McCain defends NSA

McCain continued to dismiss any concerns over privacy, saying it’s a “balancing act” and then targeted his fellows Senators.

Romney Confirms He Stole RNC Nomination

Under-handed dealings at the 2012 Republican National Convention excluded delegates (Maine), disenfranchised delegates on the floor (Boehner ignoring "point of order requests"), and state-level shenanigans were part of a coordinated plan by GOP bosses to exclude Ron Paul from being recognized and his votes counted.

Now Mitt Romney confirms he stole the 2012 RNC nomination,

“In some ways we kind of had to steal the Republican nomination. Our party is Southern, evangelical, and populist. And you’re Northern, and you’re a Mormon, and you’re rich.  And these do not match well with our party.”

Ron Paul's principled stands on governing within the Constitution was a handicap in attracting the big-government war-monger Republican insiders.  Ron Paul's delegates numbered in the hundreds, and would have been handily outvoted by the delegates aligned with big-government Mitt Romney.  There was no mathematical way for Ron Paul to take the nomination.  Therefore, preventing Ron Paul's delegate votes from being counted showed the pettiness of the GOP insiders.

Personal Check Into Business Account

The Federal Reserve, regulator of banks, has determined that in the future a check wrote to a person may not be deposited into a business account.  This is not about placing a hold on the funds - banks will not be allowed to deposit the check into a business account.

Ron Paul often spoke of the Fed in terms of money creation.  Another aspect of the Fed is regulation.  The regulatory squeeze will make it easier for the government to track who is being paid ... eventually for tighter taxation policies.

Propaganda in North Korea and America

This blog post compares state-funded propaganda in North Korea to state-controlled media propaganda in America.  Time magazine's choice of Ron Paul as person of the year could only happen in a society with a free press, not in the America of today.


Read on:

Their Propaganda....Our Propaganda
By Chris Rossini

Obama Acting Like Bush

Obama, in his cover-story for taking over Syria, is acting like Bush with Bush's cover-story for taking over Iraq.  In this case, Obama is arming known al-Qaeda sympathizers in Syria.  Arming al-Qaeda is sponsoring the terrorists.

In the following article, Ron Paul clearly lays out the facts against Obama's intervention in Syria.

Obama’s Syria Policy Looks a Lot Like Bush’s Iraq Policy

Ron Paul ends the article with, "Another multi-billion dollar war has begun."

Ron Paul or CATO?

Regarding federal government spying on Americans, Ron Paul repeated what he has been saying for decades about the overbearing and intrusive federal government:

“We should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald who see injustice being carried out by their own government and speak out, despite the risk,” said Paul in a statement on the Web site of Campaign for Liberty, his nonprofit. “They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret.” Glenn Greenwald is a reporter for the Guardian, which first published the story revealing the scope of the U.S. government’s surveillance programs.

Compare that will the establishment "beltway libertarian" CATO institute defense of Obama's warrant-less surveillance:

Legally, the president is on secure footing ... the program has enjoyed the continued support of all three branches of the federal government.

The authors of this CATO piece, Roger Pilon and Richard A. Epstein, twist the truth to defend big government.  When they say three branches of government support the programs, that doesn't mean the programs are constitutional.  Why don't Pilon and Epstein mention the Constitution and natural rights?  Because Pilon and Epstein are big-government apologists.  The authors continue:

 ... this nation has real problems if its people, at least here, can’t trust the combined actions of the executive branch and the Congress, backstopped by federal judges sworn to protect our individual liberties secured by the Bill of Rights.

  This nation certainly does have a big problem, as the USA government is acting like East Germany and the Soviet Union.

  The authors attempt to confuse the issue by changing the subject into "foreign" monitoring, when the controversy is about domestic monitoring:

In the realm of foreign intelligence gathering ...

  Big-government shills the delve into a fairy tale story in which the government supposedly doesn't have access to public phone books with names:

The government does not know — as some have charged — whether you’ve called your psychiatrist, lawyer or lover. The names linked to the phone numbers are not available to the government before a court grants a warrant on proof of probable cause ...

  The authors go on to say that abuse won't happen:

And even one abuse is not likely to happen given the safeguards in place.

 Actually, the NSA has now admitted they regularly record all phone conversations along with email and internet activity.  Big-government, D.C. beltway apologists Pilon and Epstein are completely, totally, wrong.

Military Style Occupation

After the recent Boston Marathon explosions, the suspects went out and partied with their friends.  Police then locked down parts of the city and brought in military-style weapons.  After not being able to locate the one live suspect, the police left the area and lifted the lockdown.  Thirty minutes later a homeowner found the live suspect hiding in a boat in a homeowner's yard.  The homeowner called the police, who proceeded to unleash flash grenades and shot up the boat and house.  The suspect was unarmed.


Ron Paul commented on the military style occupation:
In an article called “Liberty Was Also Attacked in Boston”, the former Republican representative and two-time presidential candidate compares the intense April 19 search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to “scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic.”

“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city,” Paul writes. “This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.”


Paul argues that the Boston case sets a dangerous precedent, recounting scenes of “paramilitary police riding in tanks and pointing automatic weapons at innocent citizens.”

“Once the government decides that its role is to keep us safe, whether economically or physically, they can only do so by taking away our liberties,” Paul writes. “That is what happened in Boston.”


Some people will say the police were justified in using military style weapons and locking down parts of the city.  These tactics were ineffective, as the police did not find the suspect.  While suspending resident's rights of free movement, the police proved their tactics did not work.  Therefore we should not allow the police to violate our rights while flashing their shiny combat weapons in our neighborhoods.

Rand Paul Filibuster

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) filibustered for about a day to hold up a confirmation.  Rand was demanding clarification about use of drones in USA airspace to kill people.  What may come as a surprise to some alleged conservatives, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized Rand on the issue of killing people on American soil without a trial.

Rand;s response to big-government Republicans McCain and Graham, "They think the whole world is a battlefield, including America, and that the laws of war should apply..."  Read more quotes and a TV interview here.


GOP operatives should not ignore the split in the Republican party on a couple issues:
killing suspects on American soil without due process;
amnesty for illegals (foreign invaders).

GOP's Hope

The articles about why the GOP lost have been published.  While Republicans mistakenly used 2010 voter demographics, Democrats turned out their 2008 voter base.  By nominating Romney, a liberal cultist elite bankster gun-grabber, there was no passionate base for Romney.  The lack of enthusiasm trickle down to state races.

I think the GOP won a consolation prize of staying in power.  The Democrats and Republicans again were able to keep voters away from third parties.  They stay in control of the game, and that is a win for the GOP.

If the GOP is to expand their base and win future elections, they should find candidates who don't repel the conservative base and who can attract young voters.  A person like Ron Paul is the model of a future winning GOP.

Article from the Washington Times:
Ron Paul Revolution: GOP’s last best hope

I am amazed at the diversity of folks who come up and say how much they admire Ron Paul.
At rallies around the country, from the liberal bastion of Berkeley, Calif., where 8,000 students came to an event, to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, kids from all over the political spectrum came to listen to Ron Paul.

I am amazed at the diversity of folks who come up and say how much they admire Ron Paul.
At rallies around the country, from the liberal bastion of Berkeley, Calif., where 8,000 students came to an event, to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, kids from all over the political spectrum came to listen to Ron Paul.


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Farewell Speech

Ron Paul gave a nearly hour-long speech to Congress.  One media outlet likened his speech to George Washington's.

Ron Paul now leaves office having introduced more ideas into the national debate than any other figure in either party. Not that that was much of a challenge. Can anyone name a single idea introduced by either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? ... And on foreign policy, Ron Paul pretty much singlehandedly made it possible to talk about the rather obvious fact that we're going broke trying to be the policeman of the world - and that we're not very good at it. If only Romney had listened to him he might have made some headway on foreign policy.

Read the enter article and watch the video.

Bernanke’s Nightmare

The bill for Ron Paul's long-standing effort for a full and complete audit of the Federal Reserve has passed the House of Representatives.  The banksters clearly do not want visibility of their books.  This issue will be raised at the 2012 Republican National Convention.

From Bloomberg:
... Republicans are considering including a plank in their party platform calling for a full audit of the central bank.  ... Paul, in an interview, warned that if Romney’s backers resist the effort, it could result in a politically distracting and messy fight in front of the national media. “It’s good economics and it’s good legislation, but it’s also good politics, because 80 percent of the American people agree with it,” Paul said. If Republican leaders “exclude it, I would think some of my supporters would be annoyed and feel strongly enough to take it to the floor under the rules.”

House passes Bill to Audit the Fed

The private cartel Federal Reserve has a fake audit on part of their activities.  We need and deserve a full and complete audit of all activities, including their bailouts and swap lines to other countries.

Today the House of Representatives passed the bill.  Will the Senate stand up to the banksters and pass the bill?

Today's vote marks a high point for Paul, who is retires at the end of the year. His signature bill requires a full audit of the Federal Reserve – a move that critics, including Fed chair Ben Bernanke, dub 'nightmarish.'

Check how your Representative voted.

Central Bankers

Ron Paul wrote an article for the Financial Times that calls out the bankrupt central bankers.  Decades ago, Americans were afraid of the Soviets and their command-and-control centrally planned economies.  Along the way, we have given central bankers authority to centrally plan and manipulate monetary policy.  When did we stop believing in free markets?


Our central bankers are intellectually bankrupt
By Ron Paul

Central bankers neglect the fact that interest rates are prices. Manipulating those prices through credit expansion or contraction has real and deleterious effects on the economy. Yet while socialism and centralised economic planning have largely been rejected by free-market economists, the myth persists that central banks are a necessary component of market economies.

Most Americans Agree

The Christian Science Monitor writes how most Americans agree with Ron Paul's foreign policy on Afghanistan.

Most Americans agree with him on Afghanistan pullout

It is the war that’s gone on for more than 10 years in Afghanistan – a war that is not going particularly well and that has seen a series of incidents where supposed Afghan allies have killed US service personnel – where the public’s agreement with Paul seems most evident.
“Support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats,” the New York Times reported this past week.

Winning Ideas

Ron Paul has advocated for ideas that stand the test of time.  Ron Paul is consistent.  The mood of the country is changing, and people are tired of endless foreign intervention.  The Republican candidates are starting to take Ron Paul's talking points.

Ron Paul: "It's about time" GOP rivals are rethinking Afghanistan

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says recent shifts by some of his rivals on the war in Afghanistan a sign that he's "winning the fight" with his signature hands-off foreign policy. ...

Constitutionally Illiterate Society

Pastor Chuck Baldwin wrote an article about our illiterate society and how the illiteracy allows our elections and rights to be taken away.

Observation Number One: We Have A Constitutionally Illiterate Society

For the better part of the Twentieth Century, the Constitution was ignored and neglected. Pastors have never studied the Constitution. Businessmen have never studied it. High school teachers and college professors have never studied it. Policemen and sheriff deputies have never studied it. Even attorneys and judges haven’t studied the Constitution. Let’s be honest: we have a constitutionally illiterate society today. As a result of this constitutional ignorance, people (including Christians and “conservatives”) simply cannot fathom–much less appreciate–constitutional solutions to America’s political woes.

Ron Paul Cured Richard Miller's Apathy

A Mormon who actively campaigned for Mitt Romney in 2008 has taken a look at his political beliefs, and found he was mistaken.  Read Richard Miller's reasons for supporting Ron Paul

Over the last 4 years, I studied a lot.

I read Ron Paul’s Revolution and End the Fed.

I re-read the Constitution for the first time in years.

I read George Washington’s farewell address.

I read Murray Rothbard, Peter Schiff, Ayn Rand, and Reason Magazine.

I listened to the CATO Daily Podcast.

I watched YouTube videos from Judge Napolitano, John Stossel, Tom Woods, and LearnLiberty.

Scales seemed to fall from my eyes. The principles I learned were coherent and satisfying. A bunch of topics “clicked” for me: macroeconomics, monetary policy, business cycles, political influence and lobbying, civil liberties, war, and foreign policy. Not that I know a lot, but these all make much more sense to me now.

I came to discover that liberty is a unifying principle. We can agree to live in a free society without having to agree on anything else. A free society is one that protects life, liberty, and property. The purpose of liberty is to allow us to develop “virtue and excellence”.

Read the entire essay here.

Jack Welch's Family Supports Ron Paul

The wife of Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, said "All four of our children are huge Ron Paul followers."

Jack Welch goes on to pledge, "I will support the Republican candidate against the current government under any circumstances."

When Jack Welch and his wife are no longer with us, their four children will be voting for liberty candidates like Ron Paul.