Presidential candidate Ron Paul has warned that the US is now
at a crisis point because the people have been so neglectful of
protecting their liberties and big government has been so effective
in eroding them. He warned that the elite are prepared to concoct
events to scare the American people and asserted that the 2008
Presidential election is a contest between the people who care
about their freedoms and those who are willing to succumb to the
temptations of dictatorship.
Congressman Ron Paul joined Alex Jones on air this
week for a full hour to discuss his ongoing Presidential campaign
and give his views on what he believes the fundamental issues
are in America today.
The Congressman gave a candid interview in which
he discussed many topics in depth including the economy, foreign
policy, the North American Union, the possibility of a draft and
the situations in Iraq and Iran.
Known for what many have described as his impeccable
voting record, Ron Paul is a champion of individual liberty and
a strong campaigner for restoration of a true Constitutionalist
form of US government, a trait that has made him a rare and popular
candidate amongst people from all across the political spectrum.
When asked what he believes the overriding issue
in America today is the Congressman pointed towards the erosion
of personal freedoms:
"Probably it's the threat to individual liberty.
because our government is growing endlessly by leaps and bounds
and nobody seems to want to put a hold on it. every time government
grows it is at the expense of personal liberty."
The Congressman explained that freedom is the underlying
issue because the consequences of such erosion of individual liberty
have a knock on effect in many different areas. Economically,
for example, the country is becoming dependent, less productive
and less self sustaining.
"Economically the consequences will be that
there's going to be a wholesale rejection of the dollar, because
the world has trusted the dollar, especially since the breakdown
of the Bretton Woods in 1971, when the linkage of the dollar to
gold was broken, they still trusted the dollar as if it were gold,
and therefore we can print the money and we can spend the money
and foreign countries take our money, then loan it back to us,
so they're getting a bum rap." Paul stated.
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"They get a temporarily good deal but what
it does is encourage us not to be productive, it encourages us
not to have manufacturing any longer, we can let others do it
cheaper, cheap labour, and then we buy it with cheap money. That
is going to come to an end. That means later on there are going
to be a lot of changes here. Domestically the interest rates are
going to rise, the inflation rate, the price of all goods and
services, that will rise, and the economy will weaken, so we have
some very serious problems ahead."
Turning to foreign policy the Congressman asserted
that his first action if he were to be elected as President would
be to start to bring American troops home from all over the world.
"As a Commander in chief you could certainly
handle the troops around the world. I would start talking to all
our allies and tell them what the plans were and start coming
home. We are now spending close to a trillion dollars maintaining
our foreign policy. It's a lot bigger than most people realise
if you add up the Dod, the supplementals, the interest on the
money we spend and taking care of our veterans."
The Congressman made it clear that aggression abroad
and America as a world police force has had a disastrous impact
upon the very fabric of the country.
"We have turned our own country into isolationists,
diplomatically we don't talk to anybody, we have more enemies
than we've ever had before and fewer allies, and at the same time
our ability to defend this country is being diminished on a daily
basis. We worry about borders, all around he world, we worry about
borders in Korea, about borders around Iraq, and what do we do
with our own borders? Here we don't do anything."
Paul then turned to the issue of the North American
Union and made it clear that he believes the plans that have been
secretly laid in Washington to merge the US, Mexican and Canadian
economies are yet again the fallout from the souring of liberty
in America.
We have behind the scenes a plan for a North American
Union, that's the part that the American people are starting to
wake up to, although we have a long way to go to wake up Washington.
It's amazing to me how many people outside of Washington are very
much aware of the plans with this North American Union, at the
same time they are in total denial in Washington, except for the
few behind the scenes who are laying the plans and providing the
finances."
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Turning to discussion of his Presidential campaign,
Ron Paul championed the alternative media and the internet as
vital tools in allowing him to get his message across to a multitude
of people that never could have been reached before without huge
injections of money:
"The internet already has been very helpful
and I think it's going to be more helpful as time goes on, and
that's something that is becoming more so everyday, ten fifteen
years ago it wasn't so significant. The other thing is radio talks
shows like what you have are very important. Almost every place
I go somebody will come up to me and I'll say 'how did you get
involved' and it's through your show. So there are a lot of people
who have joined our campaign and have already started to show
up at our events because of your encouragement."
Paul emphasized that although the bigger candidates
can raise millions of dollars through special interests, a lot
of that money is wasted on private jets, huge salaries, advisors,
advertising and the like. So there isn't as big a gulf between
he and the other candidates as people may think.
The Republican Congressman, who has been dubbed
"founding father material", by his supporters has surprised
some with his initial success, having gained widespread support
from Libertarians, Liberals and Conservatives alike.
He stressed that you have to be in the game to have
any chance of winning it, and that this not only applies to his
own campaign but more importantly applies also to everyone who
wishes to remain free in America.
"Time is running out and we may lose our liberties
to the point where we won't have these responses." Paul stated.
"You know there's nothing that guarantees that
they will allow you to air your radio show forever. They have
already trampled on our rights, they talking about putting people
in prison today without Habeas Corpus... If we don't preserve
our fundamental freedoms we can't fight back. I'm convinced of
one thing, we could all be very very poor tomorrow and have to
start from scratch but if we have our freedoms and we have our
sound currency and we have the government off our backs, this
country would rebound so quickly."
Paul then outlined what he feels that the 2008 Presidential
election is all about, and also warned that the elite are prepared
to attempt to take the liberty of the people and change the course
of history:
"I think they are always prepared and everyday
they have more powers than before because under these emergency
powers acts, the President now has more authority than ever. And
the contest that is really going on in this Presidential election
is are there enough of us that care about our freedoms versus
those who are willing to succumb to the temptations of dictatorship.
Just think of the attitude, what it was like right after 9/11
when they passed the Patriot Act, I said 'you know it's not even
available, you can't even read it and we're getting ready to vote'
they said 'it doesn't matter, the people want us to do something,
this looks like we're doing something, it sounds good, there's
no way I'm even gonna question this', so they voted for it. They
got their signals from the people. it is true that there are a
lot of people who wanted something done, the big question is are
there more of them or more of us?" Paul commented.
in further reference to 9/11 the Congressman stated:
"I think freedom's been sliding for a long
time and it got a lot worse after 9/11 and I'm always afraid of
some concocted event that will scare the American people.... The
people in this country need a little bit more reason to go along
with the President, but unfortunately our leaders in this country
too often have been able to provide the incident that unifies
the country behind more militarism."
We implore our readers to listen to the entire interview
here
and support Ron Paul's campaign. His voting record speaks for
itself and he represents a genuine chance to attempt to put things
right in America today.
To support Ron Paul you can visit his website at
www.RonPaul2008.com,
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