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Between 1957 and 1960,, to the best of my memory.
Things have gone downhill from then.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
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It's all about Freedom
The actual intent of the 4th of July was to commemorate the bravery and balls of our Declaration of Independence from tyranny
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor
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"All eyes are opened, or opening to the rights of man, let the annual return of this day(July 4th), forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
Thomas Jefferson June 1826
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December 2nd, 2042. The future is history wrapped in a present. DURRRRRRRR. Yeah, before the natives were wiped out--everything that followed that is tainted as far as I am concerned.
1987-1989. Well...that is what I would say.
Slavery, war, tyranny, the strong forcing their will on the weak, all of that existed from the moment the first people set foot on the continent. Contrary to Hollywood the pre-Columbian era wasnt just wise and peaceful people sitting around the teepee and smoking the peace pipe.
The best era, albeit brief, was under the AOC. Things were still fairly decent though, but took a turn for the worse in 1913 and its been a slow progression downhill from there.
Summum Jus, Summa Iniuria - More Law, Less Justice
There is really a dividing line in American history.
I think we had a republic prior to Lincoln and now we have a nation. It's hard to compare the two periods because we have never experienced living in a republic of sovereign states.
Disrupt, Deny, Deflate. Read the RPF trolls' playbook here (post #3): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...eptive-members
I am not particularly versed on the Korean War (it often slips analysis in what I've yet read) but regardless the population being taken from, that is, wealth squandered, at the behest of at best, a handful of unaccountable representatives of people who cannot be named or held accountable either, to finance another country's defense is particularly egregious regardless of what promises said unaccountable representatives offered and when.
The justification you are using could be used for intervention in virtually anything. From the continuance of Social Security, welfare programs, to providing the military industrial complex income, to actually paying the interest on 'our' national debt. Considering that no one is legitimately contracted to these debts, aside from perhaps the representatives who can be named as having borrowed the money and their estates, I'd say there is no true obligation to any of it. If Korea was promised something by someone, perhaps those someones should have traveled there and tried their damnedest to keep their word? And for the few (or many) of the era who wished to protect the boundaries at the 38th, they should have gone as well rather than involving the entirety of this country within their vision of how borders should look and without socially contracting (as illegitimate as it is, it doesn't much matter in the current world) their fellow neighbors with an unpayable debt.
Though I certainly never contracted anything for the Korean War.
Aside from that, the means that were used in Korea were atrocious. Agent Orange, various biological contaminants. Look at the mess that it is now. South Korea doesn't even want 'us' there. 'We' won't leave and continue to spend millions of dollar annually. Billions when they get their war game, masturbatory shows going on.
I really should be better versed on the conflict in Korea but frankly I find North Korea's military prowess comical and find the whole thing rather uneventful compared to even recent military disasters. As a non-interventionist, in the true sense of the word (versus neo-isolationist, etc.), I oppose the war happening on moral grounds.
Immigrants were actually kind of staying with each other and carrying their traditions on, which prompted the first wave of major American immigration laws in the 1800s, which only got worse as the 20th century rolled in. Immigrants not being American and white enough was also one of the excuses used to start federal healthcare intervention in the 1920s.
Plus towards the end of the 1800s, the US government started colonizing the Pacific islands and started going full blown empire mode.
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The epitome of libertarian populismOriginally Posted by Ron Paul
It's a little more complicated than that. A ground war in NK would be sinkhole hell. Unless done perfectly, a ground war in North Korea will absorb whole brigades and divisions into the soil. Mind you they have basically zero capability to project power. However they have demonstrated a nuclear capability, and they are working on long range missiles, with the extremely limited resources they have. Even lacking resources, there is the internet, and so it is only a matter of time. We will see better missile tests from them before such a thing becomes a threat. If Uncle Sugar doesn't classify it into oblivion. Will they decide to act in lunacy? Only time will tell, but don't assume they would be afraid to because they will be easily conquered. They will NOT be easily conquered and they know it.
NK has a vast underground tunnel system almost as intense as our interstate freeway system. They can transport entire Army formations from basically any spot to any spot in the country in minutes. They hold their entire air arsenals in the heart of mountains behind blast doors, and are airborne at full speed before they emerge from underground.
If (presuming a worst case scenario for the sake of the argument) these guys start popping off nuclear missiles at the United States, chances are some antimissile system we've never heard of will kill it, but then it will be war. There is a way to win it, and I actually know how to do it even minimizing bloodshed some on their side and especially on ours, but it is very targeted strategy so chances are most likely, given our tendency to fight the last war tomorrow, it would be the bloodiest war in American history. Mass and maneuver will not work in NK like we have grown accustomed to everywhere else. We will be unable to take out their air power, even if they are overmatched in the air, our doctrine relies on taking them out before they take air. Break one point of doctrine and things have a way of happening.
So yeah, NK has basically zero ability to project power, but their whole national infrastructure is dug in for WW4, and they are doing their level best (retarded though they are) to put a nuke on an ICBM. When they make it happen, they will either keep it as a chip in the game, or one of Kim Kim's voices will wake him up from a drunken slumber and tell him to go push the button, for the glory of Sun Myung Moon. I don't think it will be armageddon, but I think NK is liable to turn out more insane and more ferocious than people give them credit for.
Just something to watch on the horizon for indicators. If they start going BSI there is no telling what might happen. "Loose Cannon" in the dictionary and the entire Kim dynasty has a family portrait. No fearmongering, just rational analysis. I was in a position to know a lot about NK once. The ruling family is raised to always live on a hair trigger. The servant misses some dirt they can be shot where they kneel begging, and the next servant comes to clean up. Usually though they systematically collect dissenters and unpleasants and run them in front of the regular rifle squad. The reason that is relevant is because if gives you an idea of what is going on inside this kid's head.
I don't want anybody to be 'afraid' of NK. Even in the worst case scenario, their 'big dream stick' is probably going to get taken out by some classified antimissile system, so even then I have no expectation of mushroom clouds in the US. However, these people are legit insane, and if their tether finally trips one day and they start lobbing nukes, you already know we will be marching to war. If you think a ground war in NK is going to be easy, then you will get a profound education. Their 'war infrastructure' is basically 'safe' from even a full on nuclear attack by us, which we would never do even if they launched a nuke at us due to the proximity of China and South Korea.
I don't have the energy, Gunny.
I would disagree with a few portions of your assessment, though.
Most notably them "lobbing nuclear weapons", being particularly suicidal, and just their general military ability.
I can hardly edit a youtube video yet could produce a propaganda piece better than their government sanctioned ones. Their country sits largely in the dark.
A ground war in any foreign country would be largely a quagmire. Why? Because they are familiar with the landscape and have had time to take up strategic positioning.
From their perspective, it is not suicidal. Their nation is basically built to survive a sustained nuclear attack by the United States. It is highly unlikely to the nth degree that they would choose to launch a nuclear missile, but if you knew the Kim reign, then you would know that it is not even close to 'impossible,' as you seem to imply. And that does not even account for 'accidental' launches. When a war-level event has a better than zero chance of happening, then you should prepare some contingency for it. I always roll my eyes when I see people, even here who talk about NK being a pushover if the day came. But that spoken in ignorance.
Sure you can, and sure they do. And at any moment 95% of their military infrastructure is buried deep beneath mountains, heavily manned, and well lit to brilliance.I can hardly edit a youtube video yet could produce a propaganda piece better than their government sanctioned ones. Their country sits largely in the dark.
NK is not 'any' country though. Our pain on engaging a ground war in NK would be way out of proportion to an 'ordinary' country. They haven't quite fortified every single meter of their country, but they are getting around to it. It's not just a quagmire with dropping squads, it's wide open sink holes where whole battalions and light regiments dropping into oblivion. It's not the same as anything we have ever seen, not even last time in Korea.A ground war in any foreign country would be largely a quagmire. Why? Because they are familiar with the landscape and have had time to take up strategic positioning.
It's all fortification though, even if they have subterranean mobility. It's not itself mobile. They are as feeble as a butterfly outside their own borders. If something goes horribly wrong, there will be boots on the ground in NK. And unless we do it a very specific way, that war will go horribly horribly wrong.
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