Lew Rockwell reports:
Recently, Ron Paul had to go through his first invasive pat-down at the airport; his knee replacements bar him from the gulagoscan. This is one of the most well-mannered men I know, but after four very hard jabs to his genitals, he asked the blue-gloved TSA agent: “How can you live with yourself, feeling up strange men all day long?”Ben Bernanke, btw, is exempt from having to go through the cancer scanner or a grab up.
“I love my job,” sneered the goon.
Rep. Paul is the first Congressman I've heard go through the gulag:
ReplyDeletehttp://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/2010/11/leadership-by-example-on-enhanced-pat.html
Finally, a leader.
Congressman Paul on InfoWars:
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The Bernank is exempt? What happened to equal protection under the law?????
ReplyDeletePaul needs to get on the Bernanke list, as does the rest of America:
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101124/ap_on_bi_ge/us_airport_security_vips
Who knew Americans were supposed to offer their genitalia in the war on terror?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-witcover-20101123,0,2276605.story
It's not the least bit WWII to me. It's much more Revolutionary War:
"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. Papers 1:548
America will get to boycotting the airlines just as soon as it finishes getting to where it needs to go, first.
ReplyDeleteAre the airlines the victims or the assailants? I remember reading Wenzel's other recent pieces asserting they're the latter, and that's a convincing argument but at the same time, is it somehow the airline industry's job to stand up for liberty and against tyranny, more so than it is even any of our jobs? Sure, the airlines could risk losing their business in order to stand up to Leviathan, but at the same time we could all risk going to prison in order to stop paying our taxes, which is how this gorilla-around-our-necks manages to sustain itself in the first place.
How about boycotting government?
Yeah, I mean, I just saw this on the Infowars link that Prest posted:
ReplyDelete"[Ron Paul] added that the American people deserve to be humiliated and demeaned by the government if they refuse to stand up and resist."
This was the same thing Celente mentioned in the interview you posted. And I am asking, seriously, why wouldn't the logic be the same in saying, "the American people deserve to be raped and pillaged by crony capitalist thugs and their politician wallet-molesting buddies if they refuse to stand up and resist taxation and the government in general"?
Why does Paul stop his civil disobedience call at resisting the TSA? The hell with the TSA, forget the branches, STRIKE THE ROOT!
I guess I have one more question after listening to the whole interview: will Ron Paul stop flying? Will he participate in his own boycott?
ReplyDeleteI don't get it, he said he's been repeatedly groped in his travels and it's disgusting. Why does he keep doing it? Live by example, Ron Paul! Be the change you hope to see in the world.
@Taylor Conant
ReplyDeleteWe would lose a great champion of liberty if he stopped flying. Until Congress gets Skyped, I don't see anyway around it for him. I doubt he'll be flying for leisure however. Boycotting non-essential flights is all that is needed to win this fight.
Also, to your earlier point, it's a little bit more understandable why the Sheeple don't resist taxes, but if they're so gone as a people as to not resist actual sexual assault, then they get what they deserve. As the old Franklin saying goes, those willing to sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.
Travis,
ReplyDeleteDefine "non-essential", and when you do, make sure you explain how you objectively determine for others which excursions are essential or non-essential.
I don't think you've addressed my other point, either. How is it more reasonable to resist sexual assault but not taxation? Taxation is an assault on an individual's very livelihood and material existence. Taxation is an assault on a person's ability to provide for the sustenance of themselves and their loved ones and is a direct violation of an individual's ability to pursue their own happiness. Taxation is an active suspension of a person's property rights in their possessions and their labor. It's an infraction on an individual's ability to freely exchange with others in a manner of their choosing. Furthermore, it is taxation that allows the government the means to assault an individual's other liberties in general.
Meanwhile, sexual assault is none of these things, while still being a gruesome affront and invasion of individual rights all its own.
"Sure, touch my wallet all you want, restrict my ability to pursue my own subjective values, but don't you dare touch my crotch... in so doing you challenge my sacred honor and there, sir, you have finally crossed a line."
Yeah, no, I don't buy it that crotchgroping is more offensive to a liberty minded person than taxation.
Taylor. That all sounds nice, but what do YOU do? Not pay taxes? Renounce citizenship? Not fly?
ReplyDeleteMatt M,
ReplyDeleteWhat I do isn't relevant as I haven't called for any boycotts.
Ron paul, however, has. Yet he doesn't seem interested in following his own boycott. Perhaps he judges he can't or shouldn't, because his travel convenience (by aircraft) is "essential" and therefore the benefits outweigh the costs of following his own boycott.
This would make the man a hypocrite. He asks people to do what he is not willing to do himself.
It might also make him something of an elitist. His convenience is necessary and "essential", while those he encourages to engage in a boycott are apparently flying on airplanes for frivolous and non-essential purposes and reasons.
This shouldn't be controversial.
@Taylor Conant
ReplyDeleteEssential flights: those that are not for leisure. It's up to each individual to decide what exactly that is.
You're preaching to the choir when it comes to taxation. My point is that this theft is so ingrained into society (most people are statists, after all, and don't see it as theft) that calling for a tax revolt--whilst admirable and reasonable--would fall mostly upon deaf ears. However, conditions may change, and a climate will arise where tax revolts are the prescription. But we're not there yet.
But where we are at is a place in history where the Police State is making a massive and unconscionable power grab (no pun intended). Women and children, wives and daughters, are being strip searched, physically affronted, sexually molested, disease infected, mentally traumatized... Yes, they're also being robbed, but it's specious to think that you can't revolt against the former while not the latter.
Hopefully this addresses your remarks to Matt as well.
Travis,
ReplyDeleteSure, that's more reasonable. I guess I was confused by your first comment.
I think it should all be resisted. I see there is a "practical" argument for picking this fight as a first step in getting to some of the others.
Taylor,
ReplyDeleteI was referring to this comment of yours below. So you were asking for Ron Paul to boycott government? I am confused. It sounded to me like you were saying that it isn't up to the airlines to resist this, but individual people. I was asking how you personally would resist.
The problem that I have with civil disobedience is that Americans have a pretty cushy life, myself included, and I have too much to lose. Guess that makes me a coward.
"Are the airlines the victims or the assailants? I remember reading Wenzel's other recent pieces asserting they're the latter, and that's a convincing argument but at the same time, is it somehow the airline industry's job to stand up for liberty and against tyranny, more so than it is even any of our jobs? Sure, the airlines could risk losing their business in order to stand up to Leviathan, but at the same time we could all risk going to prison in order to stop paying our taxes, which is how this gorilla-around-our-necks manages to sustain itself in the first place."
How about boycotting government?