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04-17-2014, 05:46 PM
Ron Paul on 'The Independents' — But Why The Blindside?
written by daniel mcadams
thursday april 17, 2014
RPI Chairman Ron Paul appeared on the Fox Business program "The Independents" last night to discuss the recent standoff between a Nevada rancher and the federal government. Dr. Paul again expressed his support for people standing up to federal government abuses and noted that he was very pleased that although there were plenty of guns present on both sides, none were used. It was a small victory, he said, but he warned that federal officers may well return, because, as he put it, "authoritarians will be authoritarians" and the federal government hates to back down.
Watch the segment here.
Strangely, one of the talk show hosts went off-topic at the end of the interview in attempt to blindside Dr. Paul with a question about an article that appeared here on the Ron Paul Institute website.
The article in question, written by former Reagan Administration official Paul Craig Roberts, was mostly a strong critique of Washington and NATO's reckless Ukraine position, but it also included a few lines making it clear that he did not agree with the US government's assessment of the attacks of 9/11.
We have already addressed this issue in a clarification of our editorial policy, which pointed out our willingness to engage with people even though we may not agree on each and every issue.
Nevertheless the program co-host grilled Dr. Paul as to why the Ron Paul Institute would publish such a person on its website, and was so upset that he later Tweeted that it "pained him" to even provide a link to the original RPI piece by Roberts.
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read more:
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2014/april/17/ron-paul-on-the-independents-%E2%80%94-but-why-the-blindside.aspx
written by daniel mcadams
thursday april 17, 2014
RPI Chairman Ron Paul appeared on the Fox Business program "The Independents" last night to discuss the recent standoff between a Nevada rancher and the federal government. Dr. Paul again expressed his support for people standing up to federal government abuses and noted that he was very pleased that although there were plenty of guns present on both sides, none were used. It was a small victory, he said, but he warned that federal officers may well return, because, as he put it, "authoritarians will be authoritarians" and the federal government hates to back down.
Watch the segment here.
Strangely, one of the talk show hosts went off-topic at the end of the interview in attempt to blindside Dr. Paul with a question about an article that appeared here on the Ron Paul Institute website.
The article in question, written by former Reagan Administration official Paul Craig Roberts, was mostly a strong critique of Washington and NATO's reckless Ukraine position, but it also included a few lines making it clear that he did not agree with the US government's assessment of the attacks of 9/11.
We have already addressed this issue in a clarification of our editorial policy, which pointed out our willingness to engage with people even though we may not agree on each and every issue.
Nevertheless the program co-host grilled Dr. Paul as to why the Ron Paul Institute would publish such a person on its website, and was so upset that he later Tweeted that it "pained him" to even provide a link to the original RPI piece by Roberts.
...
read more:
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2014/april/17/ron-paul-on-the-independents-%E2%80%94-but-why-the-blindside.aspx