Though I have held Dr. Ron Paul in the very highest regard for many years now, I have been very happy in the last weeks to have read the words "I just heard of Ron Paul" and "Wow, who is Ron Paul anyway?" over and over as his heroic stand for the truth in last Tuesday’s debate against Rudy Giuliani’s propaganda that al Qaeda targets America for our goodness has catapulted him to national fame.
Dr. Paul is not just a congressman. He is a true and tireless champion of liberty and the structures of our constitutional republic which protect it: The Constitution, its first ten amendments - all of them - the separations of powers, checks and balances and due process for all under threat of state action.
As Lew Rockwell writes today:
"I’m willing to predict that a hundred years from now and more, when all the current office holders are all but forgotten, Ron Paul’s name will be remembered as a bright light in dark times."
I have no doubt that this is true.
Americans who are tired of American aggression overseas and the expansion and centralization of police power in Washington, and specifically the Presidency; those who place the U.S. Bill of Rights as the most important legacy of the founding generation and mean for their kids to be protected by it; those who worry whether it is sound policy to spend 3 trillion dollars on our government every year; those who would like to know more about the only congressman - probably ever - to give much of his expense money back to the U.S. Treasury every year… Allow me introduce you to Dr. Paul at his finest:
How Long Will the War With Iraq Go on Before Congress Notices? February 2, 1999
Urging Caution on Action Taken Against Iraq February 12, 1998
During debate on the Iraq Liberation Act
A Republic, If You Can Keep It February 2, 2000
Is America a Police State? June 27, 2002
Questions That Won’t Be Asked About Iraq September 10, 2002
Opposing the Use of Military Force Against Iraq October 10, 2002
Unintended Consequences November 14, 2002
"Al Qaeda likely will get a real boost in membership once the war breaks out."
Sorry Mr. Franklin, We’re All Democrats Now January 29, 2003
Neo-conned! July 10, 2003
Torture, War and Presidential Powers June 15, 2004
Suicide Terrorism July 14, 2005
Why We Fight September 8, 2005
The End of Dollar Hegemony February 16, 2006
The Original American Foreign Policy March 16, 2007
I could keep going, but if you’ve read this far you get the point by now.
Here’s more anyway:
My recent article defending Dr. Paul’s point in the debate:
For Those Interested in Facts: They Hate Us For Our Foreign Policy
My most recent interview of him:
The Antiwar Republican
…Yep, the cat’s outta the bag now—The neo-Cons are going berserk.
Damn, you boys are up late! And someone’s got a show to do tomorrow….
…Basically stated: If perception is the better part of reality? Then the National Journal crowd is trying to equate Ron Paul’s statement with the late, Arch Leftist Susan Sontag’s take on the events of September 11th—When she blatantly commented on Nationwide Television in shock of their wake that “…We deserved it.” Of course it wasn’t a Presidential “Debate” but it nonetheless demonstrates the Left’s willingness to exploit tragedy for the sake of Political expediency, and the advance of a Socialist agenda.
Fast forward to the unforetold events of 3 May in Simi Valley, and you see a gang of affluent, mendacious Republican Bureaucrats and the assperations of mediocrity personified in expensive suits. All desperately attempting to hold the only objective speaker there accountable for what I see as the that same, outrageous indictment mouthed with the cavalier arrogance, that was typical of “Ms.” Sontag. This while knowing full Goddamn well that Mr. Paul was defining the very Policies, and irresponsibility of their being actuated, that led to the same attacks; and not holding the the entire populous—and shamelessly, the victims themselves, accountable for the same misdeeds, outright lies and Machinations rendered by this Junta and executive Cabal of corrupt and ruthless intriguers in the pilfered role of Leadership. These graceless men are the very same ones who have betrayed the best interest of the same Constituents-Citizenry they so piously and redundantly proclaim to be defending, by their continued support of this continued War of Occupation in Iraq…This travesty of the guilty smearing the innocent, is yet one more account and corroborative demonstration of why I hold Politics to be diabolic…and the neo-Conservitive architects of this debacle to be capable of any malefaction in the maintenace of their power…
Yet the events of 3 May, and the outspoken realities defined by Mr. Paul, and worse to what they portend are a departure. Mr. giulinai’s tirade bears thoughtless and loud wittness to the Roman Maxim: “Veritas Parit Odum.” Why else would he, and those with him, have been so outraged by the directness of a formerly obscure decent man?
Scott,
I share your delight in the many folks who are just discovering Dr Paul and am pleased to note how many seem to be eager to pass on the information.
Great article.
Does Ron Paul’s non-interventionism extend as far as to allow the Palestians to be at the mercy of, and exterminated by, the Israelis?
He certainly wouldn’t make you pay for it.