{"id":14111,"date":"2012-11-16T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14111"},"modified":"2012-11-16T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:36:52","slug":"usg-corrupt-dictatorship-promoting-assassination-around-the-world-fare-ye-well-congressman-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14111","title":{"rendered":"USG, Corrupt Dictatorship, Promoting Assassination around the World – fare-ye well Congressman Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Govt. is Corrupt, Dictatorship, Promoting Assassination around the World \u2013 Ron Paul<\/strong>
\n16 November, 2012 – Jafria News<\/p>\n

JNN 16 Nov 2012 Washington : Rep. Ron Paul, the iconic libertarian congressman from Texas, has delivered a speech what will most likely be his final address to Congress .He criticized the US Government of its Corruption, bent on promoting wars, undermining liberties, and assassinating those it considers terrorists.<\/p>\n

In a sprawling, 52-minute speech to the House chamber, Paul lambasted U.S. government, politicians and special interests, declaring that the U.S. people must return to virtue before the government allows them to be free, and that the Constitution has failed to limit the scope of an authoritarian bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,\u201d Paul said. \u201cThe Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the retiring Republican, 77, the \u201ccurrent crisis\u201d isn\u2019t quite what it is for other members of Congress, who routinely use that word to describe the economic recession that followed the 2008 financial crash. To the Texas Republican, that\u2019s part of it, but the causes are deeper, and it\u2019s also a crisis of governmental authoritarianism and the vanishing of personal liberty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties,\u201d said Paul, an obstetrician-gynecologist by training.<\/p>\n

The problem isn\u2019t just government\u2019s size, but its use of force, both in starting preemptive wars and as it coerces U.S. citizens with police power. To Paul, this is the fault of Americans who no longer prioritize liberty, and it will lead to the unraveling of orderly society unless people change.<\/p>\n

\u201cRestraining aggressive behavior is one thing, but legalizing a government monopoly for initiating aggression can only lead to exhausting liberty associated with chaos, anger and the breakdown of civil society,\u201d Paul said. \u201cWe now have a standing army of armed bureaucrats in the TSA, CIA, FBI, Fish and Wildlife, FEMA, IRS, Corp of Engineers, etc., numbering over 100,000 civil society.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than coercive, to Paul the government is also corrupt: \u201cAll branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare\/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Throughout his speech, Paul questioned not only the fundamental health of America\u2019s social compact, but specifics like fiat money, the power of the Federal Reserve, the PATRIOT Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act modifications, undeclared war, the illegalization of medical marijuana, mandatory sentencing requirements for drug crimes, the illegalization of hemp, TSA searches, federal debt and borrowing, the White House\u2019s authority to assassinate those it declares terrorists, the legalization of detaining U.S. citizens for national-security purposes, the political power of AIPAC, and the regulation of light bulbs and toilets in people\u2019s homes. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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