Saturday, March 30, 2013

Ron Paul: "The same thing will happen to the Federal Reserve as happened to the Soviet Union."

Ron Paul spoke this morning in Santiago, Chile.

Jim Rickards sent out the following tweets from the event:
A raucous, extended standing ovation for #RonPaul here in #Santiago. Paul: "It sounds like the revolution has gone international!"
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One of the most attractive things about #RonPaul is his humility. Before he started speaking, he took time to introduce and thank his wife. [Note: This is genuine Ron Paul and not the "performance humility" of the new Pope-RW]
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#RonPaul in #Santiago: "The same thing will happen to the Federal Reserve as happened to the Soviet Union."
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More of #RonPaul in #Santiago: "The handwriting's on the wall; the system is failing."
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In #Chile #RonPaul: "What are they going to replace it with. It could go into a fascist state. I don't believe we'll work our way out of it"
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From #RonPaul in #Santiago: "If we do nothing to promote correct ideas, the other side will prevail."
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From #Santiago & #RonPaul: "Liberty has been divided into two parts; economic liberty & personal liberty. We must put those back together."
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More #RonPaul in #Santiago: "Those same fences that keep people out can keep us in. I'm talking about #CapitalControls."
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#RonPaul in #Santiago, #Chile: "People in Washington say we need to sacrifice. I say abolish the #IRS. That's not a sacrifice, it's a gift!"
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#RonPaul speech ran 20 minutes over. No one minded at all. The audience hung on every word.
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#RonPaul: Thing that encourages him most is reception he gets on liberal campuses like #Berkeley & #AnnArbor. Liberty unites left & right.

11 comments:

  1. In what ways have we lost personal liberties? Economic liberties? I always have trouble articulating the libertarian position on issues with people, mostly because they still believe that America is the land of the free. To a degree, I can see their point: we are still free to speak our minds and to become whatever we want. Please, give me some links or examples to point out to these people so my arguments can become more effective! I'm one of those people who can put something on paper but I choke on the words when I try to say them!

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    1. Read LewRockwell.com daily, including its blog, and in a month you'll have more examples than you need.

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    2. Given the fact that almost everything you do is regulated in some way I cannot understand why you can't find the examples on your own. Just off the top of my head I see simple thins such as the cars, appliances, lightbulbs, toilets, and showers that you buy are heavily regulated by government agencies that force you to buy products with features that you do not want or are inferior to what you need. You can go to jail for using a drug that is not approved or installing a toilet tank that is too big. You have to use gasoline that has additives that damage your engine and reduce performance. You have to pay more for sugar because the government prohibits you from buying it from cheaper foreign sources. Many people are forced to be licensed by the government before they can cut your hair, do your nails, or take you on a tour. There are roundness standards for tomatoes that keep certain types off the grocery shelves. If you own a business you cannot hire anyone without following certain government mandated standards even if neither you nor the person being hired is not interested in some of those standards. Your first class mail has to be delivered by the Post Office unless you are willing to pay much more and have it delivered as a package. I could go on but I suspect that I have made my point.

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    3. Nate, can you honestly say you own anything completely? Is not your home, car, money and travel subject to control and permission by the state? Can't any of the above be taken from you for an infraction of rules you never explicitly agreed to? It takes a tortured definition of freedom for an American (or Brit, Canadian, etc.) to call himself a free man.

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    4. Nate, have you been asleep for about 20 years!? Try reading 'Patriot Act,' 'Homeland Security,' 'Military Commissions Act,' 'DOMA,' 'CISPA,' 'PIPA,' and 'NDAA.' If you read those documents (or just go to any expert - like Glenn Greenwald - who has read and understands those pieces of legislation and can articulate the specific parts which threaten our Constitutional and Civil Liberties guarantees and protections) and still come away with the attitude you have now, then you are either stupid or evil. If you read people like Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Tom Woods, et al, you will quickly see how our economic liberties have verifiably been diminished, but threaten to turn our economy literally upside down. The answers to your questions lie with the orgs and people I - and others - have named.

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    5. Nate, have you been asleep for about 20 years!? Try reading 'Patriot Act,' 'Homeland Security,' 'Military Commissions Act,' 'DOMA,' 'CISPA,' 'PIPA,' and 'NDAA.' If you read those documents (or just go to any expert - like Glenn Greenwald - who has read and understands those pieces of legislation and can articulate the specific parts which threaten our Constitutional and Civil Liberties guarantees and protections) and still come away with the attitude you have now, then you are either stupid or evil. If you read people like Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Tom Woods, et al, you will quickly see how our economic liberties have verifiably been diminished, but threaten to turn our economy literally upside down. The answers to your questions lie with the orgs and people I - and others - have named.

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    6. Nate, can you honestly convince yourself you have complete control over your money, home, car, travel or even your marriage? Try having three wives. Try traveling with $50,000 in cash. Try driving without a license plate. I can't think of one thing you DO have control over. It takes a tortured definition of Freedom for any American (or Brit, Italian, Canadian, etc.) to call himself a free man.

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    7. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

      You can't be free if you are in prison. Doesn't take any subjective thought here.

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  2. Is this the "performance humility" of the new Pope Francis you are talking about?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRPjSI-vIzg#t=6m12s

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  3. "If we do nothing to promote correct ideas, the other side will prevail."

    To speak of marginal improvements through politics and politicians is meaningless and pointless if those politicians do not promote correct ideas. With the retirement of Ron Paul from politics, there is now not a single politician that consistently promotes correct ideas.

    Rothbard was accepting of marginal improvements through politics, with one significant condition:

    “How, then, can we know whether any halfway measure or transitional demand should be hailed as a step forward or condemned as an opportunistic betrayal? There are two vitally important criteria for answering this crucial question: (1) that, whatever the transitional demands, the ultimate end of liberty be always held aloft as the desired goal; and (2) that no steps or means ever explicitly or implicitly contradict the ultimate goal.”

    http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-strategy-for-liberty.html

    Any politician that is seen as helpful regarding (2) above, without being consistent in (1) above, is just another false prophet, furthering an “opportunistic betrayal,” as Rothbard labeled the action. Ron Paul never lost sight of the ultimate objective, and took every opportunity to keep this objective in the forefront.

    Blood may be thicker than water, but it is thinner than principle.

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