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05-01-2013, 12:54 AM
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You didn't seriously expect Ron Paul to disappear into a quiet, uneventful retirement, did you? If you did, you probably weren't watching as over a couple of decades in Congress and a pair of long-shot presidential runs, Paul became the outspoken face of unapologetic libertarianism, and you probably didn't listen to his blistering final speech on the House floor.
And so, a month after announcing his rather unorthodox home school curriculum and two weeks after unveiling his new think tank, Paul has taken on the Boston bombings.
In a column penned for the website run by libertarian Lew Rockwell, Paul blasts the government's response to the attacks as a frightening "taste of martial law." [clips from Ron's essay omitted]
... Paul takes two lessons from the Boston bombing. One is that the government will seize any available excuse to erode civil liberties. The other is that private citizens, acting of their own free will, were the ones who made it possible to solve the crime. One gets the impression that police could have simply kicked back and waited while camera-wielding citizens and boat owners pieced together the clues.
And Paul makes a third argument: the Boston bombings weren't all that bad. The death of three people, he writes, is "tragic. But what of the fact that over 40 persons are killed in the United States each day, and sometimes ten persons can be killed in one city on any given weekend? These cities are not locked down by paramilitary police riding in tanks and pointing automatic weapons at innocent citizens."
Um. Well. I wouldn't put it exactly like that... (not so bad.... more, 'doesn't justify this incredible response'), but still...
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/04/ron_paul_the_real_terror_in_bo.php
You didn't seriously expect Ron Paul to disappear into a quiet, uneventful retirement, did you? If you did, you probably weren't watching as over a couple of decades in Congress and a pair of long-shot presidential runs, Paul became the outspoken face of unapologetic libertarianism, and you probably didn't listen to his blistering final speech on the House floor.
And so, a month after announcing his rather unorthodox home school curriculum and two weeks after unveiling his new think tank, Paul has taken on the Boston bombings.
In a column penned for the website run by libertarian Lew Rockwell, Paul blasts the government's response to the attacks as a frightening "taste of martial law." [clips from Ron's essay omitted]
... Paul takes two lessons from the Boston bombing. One is that the government will seize any available excuse to erode civil liberties. The other is that private citizens, acting of their own free will, were the ones who made it possible to solve the crime. One gets the impression that police could have simply kicked back and waited while camera-wielding citizens and boat owners pieced together the clues.
And Paul makes a third argument: the Boston bombings weren't all that bad. The death of three people, he writes, is "tragic. But what of the fact that over 40 persons are killed in the United States each day, and sometimes ten persons can be killed in one city on any given weekend? These cities are not locked down by paramilitary police riding in tanks and pointing automatic weapons at innocent citizens."
Um. Well. I wouldn't put it exactly like that... (not so bad.... more, 'doesn't justify this incredible response'), but still...
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/04/ron_paul_the_real_terror_in_bo.php