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Travlyr
12-27-2011, 08:55 PM
Constitutional Government and Free Enterprise

We pledge ourselves:

1. To maintain the American system of Constitutional and local self government, and to resist all attempts to impair the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States, the final protector of the rights of our citizens against the arbitrary encroachments of the legislative and executive branches of government. There can be no individual liberty without an independent judiciary.

2. To preserve the American system of free enterprise, private competition, and equality of opportunity, and to seek its constant betterment in the interests of all.


The powers of Congress have been usurped by the President.

The integrity and authority of the Supreme Court have been flouted.

The rights and liberties of American citizens have been violated.

Regulated monopoly has displaced free enterprise.

The New Deal Administration constantly seeks to usurp the rights reserved to the States and to the people.

It has insisted on the passage of laws contrary to the Constitution.

It has intimidated witnesses and interfered with the right of petition.

It has dishonored our country by repudiating its most sacred obligations.

It has been guilty of frightful waste and extravagance, using public funds for partisan political purposes.

It has promoted investigations to harass and intimidate American citizens, at the same time denying investigations into its own improper expenditures.

It has created a vast multitude of new offices, filled them with its favorites, set up a centralized bureaucracy, and sent out swarms of inspectors to harass our people.

It has bred fear and hesitation in commerce and industry, thus discouraging new enterprises, preventing employment and prolonging the depression.

It secretly has made tariff agreements with our foreign competitors, flooding our markets with foreign commodities.

It has coerced and intimidated voters by withholding relief to those opposing its tyrannical policies.

It has destroyed the morale of our people and made them dependent upon government.

Appeals to passion and class prejudice have replaced reason and tolerance.



To a free people, these actions are insufferable. This campaign cannot be waged on the traditional differences between the Republican and Democratic parties. The responsibility of this election transcends all previous political divisions. We invite all Americans, irrespective of party, to join us in defense of American institutions.

Read more at the American Presidency Project: www.presidency.ucsb.edu http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29639#ixzz1hnH3gdcq
Ron Paul is the conservative Republican. The Republican establishment have lost their way.

Brian4Liberty
12-27-2011, 09:08 PM
Now that's a platform the GOP needs to read!

Travlyr
12-27-2011, 09:18 PM
Now that's a platform the GOP needs to read!
Indeed. Here is more,

Money and Banking

We advocate a sound currency to be preserved at all hazards.

The first requisite to a sound and stable currency is a balanced budget.

We oppose further devaluation of the dollar. We will restore to the Congress the authority lodged with it by the Constitution to coin money and regulate the value thereof by repealing all the laws delegating this authority to the Executive.

We will cooperate with other countries toward stabilization of currencies as soon as we can do so with due regard for our National interests and as soon as other nations have sufficient stability to justify such action.

Foreign Affairs

We pledge ourselves to promote and maintain peace by all honorable means not leading to foreign alliances or political commitments.

Obedient to the traditional foreign policy of America and to the repeatedly expressed will of the American people, we pledge that America shall not become a member of the League of Nations nor of the World Court nor shall America take on any entangling alliances in foreign affairs.

We shall promote, as the best means of securing and maintaining peace by the pacific settlement of disputes, the great cause of international arbitration through the establishment of free, independent tribunals, which shall determine such disputes in accordance with law, equity and justice.

National Defense

We favor an army and navy, including air forces, adequate for our National Defense.

We will cooperate with other nations in the limitation of armaments and control of tragic in arms.

Bill of Rights

We pledge ourselves to preserve, protect and defend, against all intimidation and threat, freedom of religion, speech, press and radio; and the right of assembly and petition and immunity from unreasonable searches and seizures.

We offer the abiding security of a government of laws as against the autocratic perils of a government of men.



Read more at the American Presidency Project: www.presidency.ucsb.edu http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29639#ixzz1hnOD3vkw

Philhelm
12-27-2011, 11:05 PM
This is why I maintain that I am a conservative. Screw the whole libertarian, paleoconservative, etc. labels. The term "conservative" has been usurped, and we cannot allow that! I also think it hurts us to not fight for the "conservative" label.

Aratus
12-27-2011, 11:14 PM
remember the group that decided that ron paul was the most conservative member of congress since 1937?

Philhelm
12-27-2011, 11:25 PM
remember the group that decided that ron paul was the most conservative member of congress since 1937?

What are you referring to?

Anti Federalist
12-27-2011, 11:31 PM
So, the GOP leadership has been bullshitting us since at least 1937?

Travlyr
12-27-2011, 11:43 PM
Somehow FDR won by a landslide.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1936
The United States presidential election of 1936 was the most lopsided presidential election in the history of the United States in terms of electoral votes. In terms of the popular vote, it was the third biggest victory since the election of 1820, which was not seriously contested.
[...]
By winning 523 electoral votes, Roosevelt received 98.49% of the electoral vote, the highest percentage since 1820. Roosevelt also won the largest number of electoral votes ever recorded at that time, so far only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election, when 7 more electoral votes were available. In addition, Roosevelt won 60.8% of the national popular vote, the second highest popular-vote percentage won since 1820.

MaxPower
12-27-2011, 11:47 PM
What are you referring to?
There was a study done- I can't remember by whom at the moment, but I think it is mentioned and linked to on Dr. Paul's Wikipedia page- a few years ago analyzing the voting records of everyone who held office in the federal legislature between 1937 and the early 2000s, which found Ron Paul to have the most conservative (primarily, I believe, based on the criteria of spending/size-of-government issues) voting record of anyone to have served in the legislature in that entire time period.

Travlyr
12-28-2011, 07:19 AM
Just three years after President Roosevelt confiscated privately held gold, the Republicans were holding firm to the principles laid out in the Constitution. Somewhere along the line the Republicans fell for the old line, "If you can't beat em... join em."


The Gold Confiscation Of April 5, 1933 (http://www.the-privateer.com/1933-gold-confiscation.html)

From: President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt
To: The United States Congress
Dated: 5 April, 1933
Presidential Executive Order 6102

Aratus
12-28-2011, 12:59 PM
an important history lesson! thanks travlyr!

Travlyr
12-28-2011, 08:55 PM
One more bump because this pretty much tells the story. We had liberty, sound money, opportunity for peace, and prosperity in America until Franklin Delano Roosevelt confiscated everybody's gold at $20.67 per ounce and then raised the price to $35 per ounce when he got it into the "right hands" ... pretty good take home pay if you were an insider. If not, and you objected, then you were subject to $167k fine and 10 years in a cage, ... stupid mundane,


Executive Order 6102 required U.S. citizens to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, all but a small amount of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve, in exchange for $20.67 (equivalent to $350.43 today[3]) per troy ounce. Under the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended on March 9, 1933, violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000 ($167,700 if adjusted for inflation as of 2010) or up to ten years in prison, or both. Most citizens who owned large amounts of gold had it transferred to countries such as Switzerland.

Of course your public schooling system promoted FDR as one of Sean Hannity's "Great Americans." That is because the more people the president kills the better he is. Abraham Lincoln killed 600k... he was really, really good, but FDR confiscated money and killed 60 million so he was a much better president according to O'Reilly... Bill O'Reilly of Fox News Fame.


FDR was a great president dudes and dudettes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties)
World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Over 60 million people were killed, which was over 2.5% of the world population. The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses.