2016 RPI Peace and Prosperity Conference - Sept. 10, 2016

[AZJoe]

Ron Paul Institute's Peace and Prosperity Conference 2016

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rpis-pe...ts-25681900255

WHERE Washington Dulles Airport Marriott - 45020 Aviation Drive, Dulles, VA 20166

How did the use of military force become the first option in US foreign policy? Why must we spend a trillion dollars each year to fund a global empire that leaves us poorer and less safe? How does the military-industrial complex rip off working Americans while becoming obscenely wealthy? And what can we do about it? Join Ron Paul and the Ron Paul Institute for a one of a kind event making an uncompromising case for a foreign policy of peace and non-intervention.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/

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Who all is going?

[jct74]

[AZJoe]

Big News: Jacob Hornberger to Speak at RPI's 'Peace and Prosperity 2016' Conference!



Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. : http://fff.org/

[Suzanimal]

I wish I could go. Anybody know if they're gonna live stream it like they do the Mises events? I didn't see anything on RPI's website about it.

[AZJoe]

Colonel Wilkerson will be speaking at Ron Paul Peace and Prosperity Conference.



https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rpis-peace-and-prosperity-2016-conference-tickets-25681900255


Col. Wilkerson Interview:

[AZJoe]

CIA Counter-Terrorism Specialist Philip Girardi to speak at RPI Peace and Prosperity Conference

Former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, Philip Giraldi will be joining Jacob Hornberger, Brian McGlinchey, Lew Rockwell, , and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson next month. ... Giraldi was very active in the last two Ron Paul presidential campaigns, serving as a foreign policy advisor to the Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign. Like Col. Wilkerson, Philip Giraldi has a special understanding of what is wrong with our foreign policy because he spent the greater part of his career in the midst of it.


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rpis-pe...ts-25681900255

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/donations/

[AZJoe]

Ron Paul Institute 'Peace and Prosperity 2016' Conference

Opening Remarks:
Daniel McAdams "The Case for Doing Nothing"
Special Address by US Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)

Presentations:
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson "War: The Surest Route to Tyranny"
Lew Rockwell "How War Warps and Deforms—Morally and Materially"
Jacob Hornberger "Republic, Not Empire"
Philip Giraldi "The American Deep State and the Persistence of an Interventionist Foreign Policy"

Panel Discussion:
John Sharpe "The Burden of Patriotism and the Sanctity of the Civil Law: Anecdotes and Explorations"
Paul-Martin Foss "The Symbiotic Relationship Between Central Banking and Total War"
Brian McGlinchey "Revealing Foreign Policy Hypocrisy 28 Pages at a Time"
Jessica Pavoni "Individual Accountability in Times of War: A Case for Conscientious Objection"

Keynote Address:
Fmr US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

[Brian4Liberty]

Bump: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...Paul-Institute

[Son_of_Liberty90]

Sounds cool, I might possibly be able to go to that.

[AZJoe]

The Truth About War and the State ​(Excerpts)
This talk was delivered at the Peace and Prosperity 2016 Conference of the Ron Paul Institute.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives...and-the-state/

the influence and consequences of war are so pervasive and far-reaching that we cannot think of it as just another issue, next to sugar quotas. War and militarism warp and deform whatever they touch. …

First and foremost, war deforms us morally. ... We’ve imbibed the idea that the state may legitimately do things that would be considered unspeakable enormities if carried out by private individuals. If I have a grievance, even a legitimate one, against someone else, no one would make excuses for me if I launched an attack on that person’s entire neighborhood …

Or suppose Apple computer, or the Staples office supply chain, or the Elks club, launched a series of missile attacks that killed a thousand people. The outrage would be ceaseless. The attacks would be portrayed as evidence of the incorrigible wickedness of the private sector.

But when the United States government launches an indefensible war against Iraq, spreading death, destruction, and dislocation to an extraordinary number of people … even most opponents of the war stop short of drawing sweeping conclusions from this about the nature of the state. … Not even the horrors of war cause them to revisit this crippling assumption. And the next time they’re on an airplane, they’ll applaud the soldiers who fought in that very war. …

War and the preparation for war deform the economy. … everyone has heard at one time or another that war can stimulate economies. … war can stimulate parts of economies … it stimulates, as does a plague, the funeral industry. But war cannot stimulate the economy in general. … During the war, the needs of the people take a back seat to the demands of the military. … seizing money and spending it on, say, cruise missiles, can’t make the public wealthy. It merely diverts resources away from civilian use.

There need not be a hot war raging for militarism to deform an economy. … when half or more of your research and development talent is diverted into military purposes, that means so much less devoted to civilian needs. When the Pentagon becomes your major customer, you lose the competitive edge to which market discipline gives rise. …

War and war propaganda deform our views of other peoples. … The various hate campaigns carried out against US enemies is why it’s so shocking for most Americans to watch videos made by Western travelers and filmmakers about ordinary life in Iran. … modern cities bustling with activity. …

A wedding party is blown to smithereens in Afghanistan, and Americans yawn. But we’d certainly pay attention if the federal government blew away a wedding party in Providence, Rhode Island. We’d be nearly as shocked if in pursuit of an accused terrorist the US government bombed an apartment building in London. …

War corrupts the culture. … “The culture of war kills something precious and indispensable in a civilized society: freedom of utterance, freedom of curiosity, freedom of knowledge.” … once a posture of being uncritical of the military takes hold, it bleeds over into other areas of life. “The obedience culture is certain over the long-run to shrivel originality and to constrict thought, to encourage witless adaptation and social dishonesty.” …

War distorts our sense of what service to others truly means. Only to members of the military are we urged to say, “Thank you for your service.” Toward the great entrepreneurs who extend our lives and make them more fulfilling, we are taught to be envious and resentful. …

A soldier who perished in the Iraq war was said to have been “serving his country.” … The war was launched on preposterous pretexts against a leader who had not harmed Americans and was incapable of doing so. … War distorts reality itself. … In what way was American freedom threatened by Iraq, or Panama, or Somalia? … the superstitious reverence people have for past and present members of the military. …

war is inseparable from propaganda, lies, hatred, impoverishment, cultural degradation, and moral corruption. It is the most horrific outcome of the moral and political legitimacy people are taught to grant the state. Wrapped in the trappings of patriotism, home, songs, and flags, the state deludes people into despising a leader and a country that until that point they had barely even heard of, much less had an informed opinion about, …

Things are much easier for us today, thanks in large part to Murray’s commitment and Ron Paul’s extraordinary example. There are now millions of people who are resolutely antiwar, and who don’t care which political party the president launching any particular war happens to belong to. …

the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is poised to do so much good for this country and for the world in the years to come. There’s nothing else like it, and yet it articulates the inchoate views of millions of Americans who search politics and the media in vain for a consistent voice for peace.

This in my view is Ron Paul’s greatest legacy. It’s up to all of us to help carry it forward.

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[PursuePeace]

So bummed. I bought early-bird tickets but then something came up at the last minute and I couldn't go.
Looks like it was a great event. Hope there will be video.

[AZJoe]

Video of RPI Peace and Prosperity 2016 Conference:

Part 1: https://www.c-span.org/video/?415088...foreign-policy

Part 2: https://www.c-span.org/video/?415088...nciples-part-2

Part 3: https://www.c-span.org/video/?415088...nciples-part-3

[AZJoe]

2017 Peace and Prosperity Conference tentatively planned for September 9, 2017.

RPI needs Host Committee Members

[AZJoe]

It's Back!!!


Get your tickets here.


From RPI:
We are witnessing a fascinating phenomenon that may signal that the neoconservative movement is nearing its "sell-by" date. As Glenn Greenwald documents in a recent article, there is a mass migration of neoconservative leaders back to the Democratic Party they left in the early 1970s. ...

What does all of this mean for us? Opportunity.

The interest in Ron Paul's foreign policy of non-intervention in the affairs of others, a defense of this nation, and an end to the trillion dollar military empire overseas is growing daily. ...


On September 9th at the Washington Dulles Airport Marriott we will again make history, as the Ron Paul Institute holds its second major foreign policy conference. Last year's sold out event was also seen by millions on CSPAN and enjoyed by so many who came out to join us. ...