A Ron Paul post?
I don’t consider myself a member of the Ron Paul revolution or anything, but I like a bit of what he says and I also think his new book (the reason for this post) sounds interesting enough that I could end up checking it out. Here is a review I read, and here are a few of the quotes that caught my attention (for good or bad):
On the idea of a “living” Constitution:
A “living” Constitution is just the thing any government would be delighted to have, for whenever the people complain that their Constitution has been violated, the government can trot out its judges to inform the people that they’ve simply misunderstood: the Constitution, you see, has merely evolved with the times. Thus, as in Orwell’s Animal Farm, “no animal shall sleep in a bed” becomes “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,” “no animal shall drink alcohol” becomes “no animal shall drink alcohol to excess,” and “no animal shall kill any other animal” becomes “no animal shall kill any other animal without cause.”
On propaganda:
Toward the end of 2007, Senator Jeff Sessions declared, “Some people in this chamber love the Constitution more than they love the safety of this nation. We should all send President Bush a letter thanking him for protecting us.” What kind of sheep must politicians take Americans for if they expect them to fall for creepy propaganda like this?
On Iraq:
The leadership of al Qaeda hoped to lure us into a “desert Vietnam,” an enormously expensive war that would deplete our resources and help their own recruitment by stirring up the locals against us. And that is just what happened. The war’s ultimate cost is being estimated in the trillions. The dollar is collapsing. And more terrorists are being created. According to a study by the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel, the vast bulk of the foreign fighters in Iraq are people who had never been involved in terrorist activity before but have been radicalized by the U.S. presence in Iraq – the second-holiest place in Islam.
The terrorists, in short, have played us like a fiddle.
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Your comments on the Living Constitution mirror my own thoughts. My favorite Animal Farm quote “All Animals are Equal, but some animals are more equal than others”.
I just finished Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope” book and he says much the same thing about Iraq as you just stated. It is one of the reasons I hope he beats out Hillary in the primaries.
LOVE Ron Paul, but he doesn’t have a chance. I believe in everything he talks about. He truly wants our country to build itself up and stay out of everyone elses affairs worldwide. We are doing EXACTLY what Osama Bin Laden said we would do, and that is bankrupt our country. Im between the 2 Democrats: I think neither of them would dare screw up because they will ruin it for future women presidents and black presidents. I smell a DRAFT with McCain.