Nov

28

Robert Ringer on Fighting the Ugly Beltway Brew

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Warnings From Insiders
Hyperinflation Fear

By Robert Ringer

I had a long talk yesterday with an old friend, an ex-Congressman who served eighteen years before retiring in disgust. Back in the late eighties, he invited me to give a talk to a group of likeminded conservative colleagues in his office. (A couple of young Congressmen who were at that meeting are now very high-profile politicos, but, to protect their privacy, I will refrain from giving their names.)

Afterward, my friend told me how impressed they had been with what I had to say. But I didn’t buy it, because one of the things I remember most vividly about that meeting was their blank stares. Clearly, those supposedly conservative Congressmen were not prepared to hear my analyses of government, the economy, or the future.

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Aug

24

Interventionist profiteers and foreign agents

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“This is the situation in which the interventionists have placed our country: committed to go to war for countries and causes that do not justify war, against a Russia that is re-emerging as a great power only to find NATO squatting on her doorstep.”

Pat Buchanan nails another neocon scumbag.

And None Dare Call It Treason
08/22/2008
by Patrick J. Buchanan

Who is Randy Scheunemann?

He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States.

But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role.

He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man.

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Jul

26

The Mad Dogs of Empire

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Major General Smedley D. Butler wrote in his book WAR IS A RACKET, “Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

And what is this bill?

This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.”

The quest for empire and political hegemony and the tenacious grip to keep it at all costs is much the same as perpetual war. The same select few grow politically powerful and profit from it. To a sane man they seem glassy eyed and greedy to the point of madness. They lie ceaselessly about the merits of their cause and their so-called victories. If that isn’t enough, they create new emergencies and enemies, which are more often than not imaginary. To maintain their spell over the masses which are always the most naive and fearful they talk of patriotism, collective sacrifice, national greatness, and the glory of military service in far off lands.
They seem oblivious to the enormity of the expense of occupations of foreign lands and of military bases long rendered needless. No monetary cost or sacrifice is too great to maintain their grip and it is rarely themselves that shoulder any of the cost or sacrifice.

I think Pat Buchanan is spot on this piece, if there was an Honorable Exit From Empire— 10,000 rice bowls would be broken.

Jun

12

The Next Step in the Ron Paul Revolution

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The Revolution Continues

Dear Supporter,

These past 17 months have been among the most exciting and eventful of my life. Together you and I delivered a message of freedom the likes of which American politics had not seen in decades. I wasn’t sure the country was ready for it. But it was a message, I discovered, that many Americans had been waiting for a long time to hear.

I have been blessed with the most informed, well read, and enthusiastic supporters of any presidential campaign. Your extraordinary efforts in organizing and fundraising grabbed the attention of millions of Americans and shocked just about everyone in politics and the media. I still cannot get over all the fantastic work you did.

Something of great significance has just occurred in our country’s history.

With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign is at an end. But the larger campaign for freedom is just getting started. Therefore, I am happy to announce the official launch of the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty.

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Mar

22

The Last Straw—Vice President Cheney that is

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Former Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards, author of Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost–And How It Can Find Its Way Back denounces Vice-King Dick Cheny, his former ally.

Dick Cheney’s Error
It’s Government By the People

By Mickey Edwards
Saturday, March 22, 2008

For at least six years, as I’ve become increasingly frustrated by the Bush administration’s repeated betrayal of constitutional — and conservative — principles, I have defended Vice President Cheney, a man I’ve known for decades and with whom I served and made common cause in Congress. No longer.

I do not blame Dick Cheney for George W. Bush’s transgressions; the president needs no prompting to wrap himself in the cloak of a modern-day king. Nor do I believe that the vice president so enthusiastically supports the Iraq war out of a loyalty to the oil industry that his former employer serves. By all accounts, Cheney’s belief in “the military option” and the principle of president-as-decider predates his affiliation with Halliburton.

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Feb

8

Ron Paul Speech at CPAC

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PART 0: With introduction by Bob Barr

PART 1: HERE

PART 2: HERE

PART 3: HERE

Dec

5

Defenders of Liberty - Great Video

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Oct

29

My God! I’ve Been Banned From RedState

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Oh the humanity, I have had my comment on RedState obliterated and my account deleted, and I didn’t even shill for Ron Paul. Actually I never paid much attention to the RedState blog, and even forgot that I had registered an account there until today when I saw a link from Google to a blog entry titled “I support Ron Paul [annotated]”. I was intrigued by the title so I decided to check it out. As you can see (if it’s still there) it is a piece by a brave author named WildBill whose article was annotated by a representative from the RedState Ministry of Censorship and Propaganda, named Moe Lane.
What prompted me to comment was some unbelievable comments that insinuated that we have not had our freedoms diminished and even called the author a “complete blithering idiot” and called those that also see the fact that we have lost liberty in this country “Nimrods”. It then struck me why I stayed away from RedState so much, it was the insightful commentary.
Anyway, in a moment of spontaneity, I decided to chime in and make a point to those that don’t keep up on current events. Here it is as well as I can remember from memory:

“Those who think that our freedom and liberties are not at stake should read the latest constitutional aberration to get approved by the House. HR 1955 - the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 a.k.a. the Thought Crime Bill. What is really amazing is the number of AYE votes that were received from the followers of “disillusioned liberal intellectuals”, those would be neocons.
These phony conservatives were all up in arms against the “Fairness Doctrine”, but where is the outrage against this authoritarian ditty?”

The best I can surmise is that my crime was I exposed the Pro-War for Terror Jacobins of RedState as actually followers of the ideology of former hard left liberal Democrats like Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz or it is a crime to point out that many RedState hero’s, phony conservative congressmen vote in mass for liberty stealing legislation, even those sponsored by liberal Democrats.

May

28

Ron Paul on CNN Sunday Night - May 27, 2007

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May

26

Ron Paul on Bill Maher - May 25, 2007

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