Bryan
01-22-2008, 06:35 PM
Will we choose constitutionally limited government with a strong defense or will we go down the road of socialism with a loss of personal freedom and national sovereignty? That is in fact the choice we face that Fred pointed out at the recent South Carolina debate.
When you look at the records and platforms it becomes clear that now only Dr. Paul supports personal freedom in the American and Reagan Republican tradition: a strong national defense, no encroachments on the Second Amendment, no universal health care, a repeal of the freedom stealing income tax, get us out of the UN (who wants to try our soldiers in the ICC), no new federal bans on whatever. No big government!
The two biggest issues I hear from Fred Thompson supporters with Ron Paul are that: the gold standard is outdated; we need to fight terrorism. Please consider the following:
- As written, the Constitution only provides for gold and silver to be used as legal tender by the state, Dr. Paul points this out but also supports moving to a constitutional system of competing currencies and not a strict gold standard. The idea is to let the free markets decide what is best- one should not pass judgment on this issue until they've spent many hours studying the complex economic issues involved. This video is a good primer on some of our current problems:
Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-466210540567002553
On terrorism, Dr. Paul supports defending ourselves he just disagrees with the policy used to do that. Some things to consider:
- We are currently fighting fourth generational warfare with third generational military tactics, it's extremely cost-ineffective and kills a lot of innocent people that will help generate more terrorists (blowback). Dr. Paul fully supports attacking our enemies that are a clean and present danger to our security, one tool he proposes to use is the use of letters of marque and reprisal (as authorized in the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Section 8, paragraph 11) which effectively puts a bounty on the heads of specific people. This basically means using good intel and special ops to get the job done in a more precise tactical style rather than using masses of foot soldiers policing streets. Here is some legislation he proposed back in 2001 on this: "Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001"
http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2001/pr101101.htm
"Once letters of marque and reprisal are issued, every terrorist is essentially a marked man,"
- Dr. Paul recognizes that our military is over burdened, are under equipped and that our veterans are getting sub-standard treatment, he wants to change that. We'll never be strong if the best people see it as a mistake to sign up for service, we're moving into that area now.
- Dr. Paul may be the only one to point out that it's not in the best interest of our national security to borrow 2.5+ billion a day from the likes of the communist Chinese to fund our military operations. Our ever growing $9 trillion national debt is as much of a security problem as anything else.
- It is completely unimaginable that a Dr. Paul presidency would ignore the will of the people to fight if Congress declared an act of war. Congress must do their job!
Please learn more about Dr. Paul here:
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org
Join us, the future of the Republican party and America depends upon it!
When you look at the records and platforms it becomes clear that now only Dr. Paul supports personal freedom in the American and Reagan Republican tradition: a strong national defense, no encroachments on the Second Amendment, no universal health care, a repeal of the freedom stealing income tax, get us out of the UN (who wants to try our soldiers in the ICC), no new federal bans on whatever. No big government!
The two biggest issues I hear from Fred Thompson supporters with Ron Paul are that: the gold standard is outdated; we need to fight terrorism. Please consider the following:
- As written, the Constitution only provides for gold and silver to be used as legal tender by the state, Dr. Paul points this out but also supports moving to a constitutional system of competing currencies and not a strict gold standard. The idea is to let the free markets decide what is best- one should not pass judgment on this issue until they've spent many hours studying the complex economic issues involved. This video is a good primer on some of our current problems:
Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-466210540567002553
On terrorism, Dr. Paul supports defending ourselves he just disagrees with the policy used to do that. Some things to consider:
- We are currently fighting fourth generational warfare with third generational military tactics, it's extremely cost-ineffective and kills a lot of innocent people that will help generate more terrorists (blowback). Dr. Paul fully supports attacking our enemies that are a clean and present danger to our security, one tool he proposes to use is the use of letters of marque and reprisal (as authorized in the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Section 8, paragraph 11) which effectively puts a bounty on the heads of specific people. This basically means using good intel and special ops to get the job done in a more precise tactical style rather than using masses of foot soldiers policing streets. Here is some legislation he proposed back in 2001 on this: "Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001"
http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2001/pr101101.htm
"Once letters of marque and reprisal are issued, every terrorist is essentially a marked man,"
- Dr. Paul recognizes that our military is over burdened, are under equipped and that our veterans are getting sub-standard treatment, he wants to change that. We'll never be strong if the best people see it as a mistake to sign up for service, we're moving into that area now.
- Dr. Paul may be the only one to point out that it's not in the best interest of our national security to borrow 2.5+ billion a day from the likes of the communist Chinese to fund our military operations. Our ever growing $9 trillion national debt is as much of a security problem as anything else.
- It is completely unimaginable that a Dr. Paul presidency would ignore the will of the people to fight if Congress declared an act of war. Congress must do their job!
Please learn more about Dr. Paul here:
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org
Join us, the future of the Republican party and America depends upon it!