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.

READ ON

Aug

4

Ron Paul vs The Hypocritical Jingoists

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“This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth–ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be, when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!” - Mark Twain (Letter to Rev. J. H. Twichell, Jan. 29, 1901)

Human rights abuses in every country on earth arises from one common element—big government.
The U.S. is no different but maybe more unique in the fact that it has had a Bill of Rights that protected the natural rights of each and every person in its states from federal encroachment.
Ron Paul as usual is the only one to scold the self-righteous ignoramuses of congress on what they’ve done to abuse human rights in this country and in others.

U.S. congressman opposes House resolution on China

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) — U.S. Republican congressman Ron Paul of Texas described the recent resolution by the House of Representatives on China’s human rights situation as “ill-conceived” and “hypocritical” and he urged the U.S. legislature to deal with human rights abuses in U.S. or those created abroad by U.S. foreign policies.

“I rise in opposition to this resolution, which is yet another meaningless but provocative condemnation of China. It is this kind of jingoism that has led to such a low opinion of the United States abroad,” Paul, who had run for U.S. president as a Republican candidate earlier, said in a statement posted on the official website of the House.

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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

10

Restoring the Republic 2008 on C-SPAN

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The Future of Freedom Foundation “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties.” conference held on June 6-8, 2008.

Video here on C-SPAN with the following speakers:
Ron Paul on “A Foreign Policy of Freedom.”
Stephen Kinzer “Regime Change: Promise and Peril.”
Andrew Bacevich “U.S. Foreign Policy After Iraq.”

Transcript of Lew Rockwell’s speech on “War and Inflation”

Apr

11

Ron Paul - One Brave and Honest Soul Out of 414

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He was the only one to vote not to play in the hypocritical tyrants denouncing other tyrants game.

House passes Chinese crackdown resolution

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Wednesday calling on China to end its crackdown on Tibet and release Tibetans imprisoned for “nonviolent” demonstrations.

The vote was 413-1. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who has not dropped out of the presidential race, was the lone congressman voting against it.


READ ON AT CNN

Feb

25

Pseudocomitatenses

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U.S. Northern Command, Canada Command establish new bilateral Civil Assistance Plan

U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command signed the deal.
Which brings up the question, where in the U.S. Constitution does it authorize the military to make treaties and deals committing soldiers to support another government in its internal affairs? More evidence (as if there wasn’t already enough) that the Constitution is a dead letter as far as D.C. and the military establishments are concerned.
The U.S. Constitution, the rule of law that was supposed to limit the power of the federal government has all but been replaced by a long set of Presidential Directives claiming in effect that the President has the power to declare what a “civil emergency” is (or any emergency anywhere in the world is for that matter) and seemingly authorizing himself to do anything he wants that comes to his head without debate or the approval of any other branch of the government.
If the terrible John Warner Defense Appropriation Act effectively nullified the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act allowing the federal government arbitrary power to “employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to… restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States”, then this “bilateral military plan” adds a whole new terrifying twist to the omnipotent federal police state.

Nov

13

Ron Paul - Entangling Alliances

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
November 13, 2007

In the name of clamping down on “terrorist uprisings” in Pakistan , General Musharraf has declared a state of emergency and imposed martial law. The true motivations behind this action however, are astonishingly transparent, as the reports come in that mainly lawyers and opposition party members are being arrested and harassed. Supreme Court justices are held in house arrest after indicating some reluctance to certify the legitimacy of Musharraf’s recent re-election.

Meanwhile, terrorist threats on US interests may be more likely to originate from Pakistan , a country to which we have sent $10 billion.

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Oct

29

Ron Paul - Struggling for Relevance in Cuba: Close, Still No Cigars

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“The irony of supposed Capitalist, free-marketeers inducing Communists to freedom with government hand-outs should not be missed.”

Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
October 29, 2007

Since Raul Castro seems to be transitioning to a more permanent position of power, the administration has begun talking about Cuba policy again. One would think we would be able to survey the results of the last 45 years and come to logical conclusions. Changing course never seems to be an option, however, no matter how futile or counterproductive our past actions have been.

The Cuban embargo began officially in 1962 as a means to put pressure on the communist dictatorship to change its ways. After 45 years, the Cuban economy has struggled, but Cuba ’s dictatorship is no closer to stepping to the beat of our drum. Any ailments have consistently and successfully been blamed on US Capitalism instead of Cuban Communism. They have substituted trade with others for trade with the US , and are “awash” with development funds from abroad. Our isolationist policies with regards to Cuba , meanwhile, have hardly won the hearts and minds of Cubans or Cuban-Americans, many of whom are isolated from families because this political animosity.

In the name of helping Cubans, the US administration is calling for “multibillions” of taxpayer dollars in foreign aid and subsidies for internet access, education and business development for Cubans under the condition that the Cuban government demonstrates certain changes. In the same breath, they claim lifting the embargo would only help the dictatorship. This is exactly backwards. Free trade is the best thing for people in both Cuba and the US . Government subsidies would enrich those in power in Cuba at the expense of already overtaxed Americans!

The irony of supposed Capitalist, free-marketeers inducing Communists to freedom with government hand-outs should not be missed. We call for a free and private press in Cuba while our attempts to propagandize Cubans through the US government run Radio/TV Marti has wasted $600 million in American taxpayer dollars.

It’s time to stop talking solely in terms of what’s best for the Cuban people. How about the wishes of the American people, who are consistently in favor of diplomacy with Cuba ? Let’s stop the hysterics about the freedom of Cubans – which is not our government’s responsibility – and consider freedom of the American people, which is. Americans want the freedom to travel and trade with their Cuban neighbors, as they are free to travel and trade with Vietnam and China . Those Americans who do not wish to interact with a country whose model of governance they oppose are free to boycott. The point being – it is Americans who live in a free country, and as free people we should choose who to buy from or where to travel, not our government.

Our current administration is perceived as irrelevant, at best, in Cuba and the message is falling on deaf ears there. If the administration really wanted to extend the hand of friendship, they would allow the American people the freedom to act as their own ambassadors through trade and travel. Considering the lack of success government has had in engendering friendship with Cuba , it is time for government to get out of the way and let the people reach out.

Aug

2

Quote of the Week

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Goes to Tom DiLorenzo. Referring to Mark Davis and his hit piece on Real Clear Politics.

“Only an intellectual pygmie would equate “America” with the federal government.”

It’s obvious that Mark Davis, when all is said and done is a one issue kind of guy, This proves it: “But it is the Ron Paul take on fighting terror that makes him unfit for even the briefest consideration for the presidency.”

I also eagerly await a Mark Davis follow up explaining the great Federal Reserve System and fiat money since he’s such a true non-artificial “know-it-all”.
The “John Birch-style conspiracy geekdom” of “three to six years of adulthood” want to know. It would give us another good laugh anyway and could only reinforce his intellectual pygmie status.

Jul

25

Jim Bovard - How Foreign Warring Subverts Freedom at Home

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Future of Freedom Foundation
Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties
At the Hyatt Reston, June 1-4, 2007

Part 1 of 6

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