Ron Paul - Time Magazine Interview 9/17

[For_Liberty]

YouTube - Ron Paul - Time Magazine Interview 9/17 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_WQFcMrFZM)

http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/9lu69/ron_paul_time_magazine_interview_917/

[KramerDSP]

We already have a thread on this (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=210655) only 12 threads down.

[For_Liberty]

We already have a thread on this (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=210655) only 12 threads down.

No reddit link there...

[KramerDSP]

No reddit link there...

You mean the link in the OP that doesn't work? :)

And there IS a Reddit link in the fourth or fifth comment of the original thread I linked.

[ClayTrainor]

Man, i bet he's going to make a lot of the "left" think with that final answer.

Great Job, Ron!

[s35wf]

excellent interview. I Love this man :)

[KramerDSP]

Man, i bet he's going to make a lot of the "left" think with that final answer.

Great Job, Ron!

Can I ask what the final answer he said was ? You can paraphrase. I'm only asking because there is no transcript yet.

[ClayTrainor]

Can I ask what the final answer he said was ? You can paraphrase. I'm only asking because there is no transcript yet.



"What he's doing is a little more dangerous, because he has neutralized the anti-war left. The anti-war left, has just left. At least bush was honest, i mean, he was upfront and he believed in pre-emptive and preventive war, but everbody was hopeful that obama would do differently, but he isn't. So he has quieted down the left, and there is a very weak anti-war movement in this country right now."


That's not exact but pretty dam close.

[KramerDSP]

"What he's doing is a little more dangerous, because he has neutralized the anti-war left. The anti-war left, has just left. At least bush was honest, i mean, he was upfront and he believed in pre-emptive and preventive war, but everbody was hopeful that obama would do differently, but he isn't. So he has quieted down the left, and there is a very weak anti-war movement in this country right now."


That's not exact but pretty dam close.

+1776

Thanks.

[qwerty]

Bump!

[qwerty]

Bump!

[Matt Collins]

Editor Michael Scherer hit Paul with one hot-button question after another, and Congressman Paul, in his responses, once again showed why so many consider him the greatest Congressman of the century.

You can read TIME's edited version of the interview here (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102754039782&s=57420&e=001D5jZdGpo2fykvXJi9h2JXmRbDTBU2T5VIAulfUeKMcpXG H6jFsT4TpbynPkCGvI9pHb6vRDzLu3OBJl_YuOOJat-Gu32tC6MAOi7hfsOgTXPi9EWEbiqOkUwSjXTvc7Wsf2diFc7lv zGbyBSdm-lA2Td51Y_LviAAX6niyom8VS2ynxtrOOYHQ==).

TIME also put a video from the interview on YouTube (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102754039782&s=57420&e=001D5jZdGpo2fyZbohCy3bzlfn9naK4zXaPm66LS7HdMNZYr rmCEJ68J2_najx1crMTKNTlqf_azDsz5i4nTYChSkQFaxWe_x3 CpKDSgujLNhoN8AANwI9p8abPk2X4VtjMc3nqMtRZV1MxVe18B lNSc_A2a9UadwxXEeBh6_NRMqWP_l8QN_Ol-g==).

Here are some excerpts, slightly edited for space and clarity, from the video interview.

TIME: Why do you oppose the income tax?

Ron Paul: Because I have a right to my life, I have the right to the fruits of my labor, and government does not. If you concede the principle of the income tax, you concede the principle that the government owns all your income and permits you to keep a certain percentage of it.

And I believe in natural rights, God given rights to our life and our liberty. It doesn't come from government.

Equivalent to that idea is the idea of the government owning your life when you become 18. You have to sign up for the potential draft in case they need you to go over and die for some worthless cause.

So it's always there, [this idea that] the government owns you.

TIME: Why do you support the decriminalization of marijuana?

Ron Paul: Why support the criminalization of marijuana is the better question. I mean, this is a substance that grows in a natural way and some people use it for different reasons. In a free country you ought to have the right to do that.

And another good reason is that the War on Drugs is a total failure. It has created a monster of a problem for us, and we spend hundreds of billions of dollars. Prohibition is absurd.

TIME: What do you make of President Obama's approach to Iraq and Afghanistan now that he's in office?

Ron Paul: Every bit as bad as the last administration, maybe even worse. Because he's not getting out of Iraq, that's a pretense. And he's expanding rapidly what's happening in Afghanistan...

He has neutralized the anti-war left. The antiwar left has just -- left. ... There is a very weak anti-war movement in this country now. And that obviously is something I hope to participate in reviving. And it has to be coming from the Old Right as well as true progressives who believe that all this warmongering and killing makes no sense whatsoever.