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Monday, September 17, 2012

Ron Paul - U.S. is a Republic, Not a Democracy


Ron Paul - U.S. is a Republic, Not a Democracy



By: Dr_Ron_Paul

Last week marked the conclusion of the grand taxpayer funded spectacles known as the national party conventions. It is perhaps very telling that while $18 million in tax dollars was granted to each party for these lavish ordeals, an additional $50 million each was needed for security in anticipation of the inevitable protests at each event. This amounts to a total of $136 million in taxpayer funds for strictly partisan activities - a drop in the bucket relative to our disastrous fiscal situation, but disgraceful nonetheless. Parties should fund their own parties, not the taxpayer.

At these conventions, leaders determined, or pretended to determine, who they wished to govern the nation for the next four years amidst inevitable, endless exaltations of democracy. Yet we are not a democracy. In fact, the founding fathers found the concept of democracy very dangerous.

Democracy is majority rule at the expense of the minority. Our system has certain democratic elements, but the founders never mentioned democracy in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the Declaration of Independence. In fact, our most important protections are decidedly undemocratic. For example, the First Amendment protects free speech. It doesn't - or shouldn't - matter if that speech is abhorrent to 51% or even 99% of the people. Speech is not subject to majority approval. Under our republican form of government, the individual, the smallest of minorities, is protected from the mob.

Sadly, the constitution and its protections are respected less and less as we have quietly allowed our constitutional republic to devolve into a militarist, corporatist social democracy. Laws are broken, quietly changed and ignored when inconvenient to those in power, while others in positions to check and balance do nothing. The protections the founders put in place are more and more just an illusion.

This is why increasing importance is placed on the beliefs and views of the president. The very narrow limitations on government power are clearly laid out in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. Nowhere is there any reference to being able to force Americans to buy health insurance or face a tax/penalty, for example. Yet this power has been claimed by the executive and astonishingly affirmed by Congress and the Supreme Court. Because we are a constitutional republic, the mere popularity of a policy should not matter. If it is in clear violation of the limits of government and the people still want it, a Constitutional amendment is the only appropriate way to proceed. However, rather than going through this arduous process, the Constitution was in effect, ignored and the insurance mandate was allowed anyway.

This demonstrates how there is now a great deal of unhindered flexibility in the Oval Office to impose personal views and preferences on the country, so long as 51% of the people can be convinced to vote a certain way. The other 49% on the other hand have much to be angry about and protest under this system.

We should not tolerate the fact that we have become a nation ruled by men, their whims and the mood of the day, and not laws. It cannot be emphasized enough that we are a republic, not a democracy and, as such, we should insist that the framework of the Constitution be respected and boundaries set by law are not crossed by our leaders. These legal limitations on government assure that other men do not impose their will over the individual, rather, the individual is able to govern himself. When government is restrained, liberty thrives.

Dr. Ron Paul
Project Freedom
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas enjoys a national reputation as the premier advocate for liberty in politics today. Dr. Paul is the leading spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He is known among both his colleagues in Congress and his constituents for his consistent voting record in the House of Representatives: Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the "one exception to the Gang of 535" on Capitol Hill.


Saturday, September 15, 2012

Mitt Romney Campaign Questioned By GOP Activists


Now think of How they propped him in front of america, meanwhile blocking the world from hearing the truth that Dr. Ron Paul speaks!!! They are afraid... WRITE HIM IN come November!

RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT!
Mitt Romney Campaign Questioned By GOP Activists
By KASIE HUNT 09/15/12 05:03 PM ET

WASHINGTON -- Republican activists are incredulous: Why can't Republican Mitt Romney seem to break open a tight race with President Barack Obama given the nation's sluggish economy and conservative enthusiasm to beat the Democrat?

"He ought to be killing Obama, and he's clearly not doing that," said 32-year-old R.J. Robinson, one of the thousands of activists attending the annual Values Voters Summit this weekend. "He should be doing better."

Added Mike Garner, a 27-year-old hawking "Reagan was right" buttons at the meeting: "If Romney loses this election, the party really needs to do some soul-searching."

Their sentiments were echoed in interviews with more than a dozen GOP activists and social conservative leaders who attended the annual gathering focused on social and cultural issues and sponsored by the Family Research Council. The summit was filled with rhetoric meant to fire up the party's base voters.

Romney needs them to turn out in force at the polls in November and, between now and then, to convince others to do the same through extensive get-out-the-vote grassroots canvassing in swing-voting states. To energize them, dozens of high-profile conservatives – including former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor – used their speeches to paint the 2012 race as a transformational moment in the country's history and insist that the president is turning the nation into a place its founders wouldn't recognize.

Energy was high inside the hotel ballroom where the luminaries spoke.

But frustration with Romney coursed through the hallways, where groups like the National Organization for Marriage and Americans United for Life promoted their policy positions and conservative pundits hawked their books.



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Monday, September 10, 2012

To all Americans who didn't vote for Ron Paul, you still can!!


WRITE IN RON PAUL ON NOVEMBER 6TH 2012!
WE RUN THIS COUNTRY, NOT THEM... DO NOT BELIEVE THE PROPAGANDA!! wE ARE MONTHS AWAY FROM LOSING ALL OUR CIVIL RIGHTS, AND YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT THE RIGHT TO AN ABORTION?? WHAT GOOD IS ABORTION, WHEN WE ARE WITHOUT THE FREEDOM TO HAVE INTERCOURSE!




Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

It's Gonna Make US or Break US, VoTe RON PAUL






Ron Paul of Texas 14th congressional district HR, is still gathering delegates. It seems to differ from what he himself considers to tell his supporters, who have now took the majority of the state of Iowa RNC's (23 of 28) delegates, to vote at the 2012 Republican National Convention. On this day, Mitt Romney was on a Tour Bus around Pennsylvania.

* Fox News reports Paul earned 10 of 13 delegates. Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton called the election a "meaningful victory" and a "real validation" of the hard-fought campaign. In the end, Paul's backers voted a slate of delegates by a final vote of 794-689.

So what they are telling us is This is a "Real Validation" of Ron's campaign. He will give the rest of US real hope as "WE THE PEOPLE" will get our freedom back!

Lies, Loot, and Lack of Liberty should be denied once again by the free world!

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