The Honorable Ron Paul (R-TX)
The Honorable William R. Barker (Me, Myself, and I)
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Last week marked the conclusion of the grand taxpayer
funded spectacles known as the national party conventions.
YEAH... AT A TIME WHEN CERTAIN OF OUR EMBASSIES AND
CONSULATES ACROSS THE GLOBE ARE - LITERALLY - ON FIRE... POLITICAL THEORY CAN
BE EXPECTED TO TAKE A BACK SEAT. STILL... THE TRUTHS RON PAUL ADDRESSES HERE
ARE SO FUNDAMENTAL TO EVERYTHING THIS COUNTRY IS SUPPOSED TO BE... I'M POSTING
IT.
It is perhaps very telling that while $18 million in tax
dollars was granted to each party for these lavish ordeals, an additional $50
million each was needed for security in anticipation of the inevitable protests
at each event.
This amounts to a total of $136 million in taxpayer funds
for strictly partisan activities - a drop in the bucket relative to our
disastrous fiscal situation, but disgraceful nonetheless.
(*STANDING OVATION*)
Parties should fund their own parties, not the taxpayer.
HEAR, HEAR!
At these conventions, leaders determined, or pretended to
determine, who they wished to govern the nation for the next four years amidst
inevitable, endless exaltations of democracy. Yet we are not a democracy. In
fact, the Founding Fathers found the concept of democracy very dangerous.
AS ANYONE WITH EVEN A HALFWAY DECENT EDUCATION SHOULD
KNOW!
Democracy is majority rule at the expense of the
minority.
WHICH IS WHY CERTAIN RIGHTS ARE ENSHRINED WITHIN THE
CONSTITUTION. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS... WHEN NEITHER THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE PEOPLE (THE PRESIDENT... HOUSE MEMBERS... SENATORS...) NOR EVEN THE
SUPREME COURT CAN BE COUNTED UPON TO VIEW THE CONSTITUTION AS A RESTRAINT UPON
THEIR OWN POWERS...
(*SIGH*)
Our system has certain democratic elements, but the Founders
never mentioned democracy in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the
Declaration of Independence.
In fact, our most important protections are decidedly
undemocratic.
For example, the First Amendment protects free speech. It
doesn't - or shouldn't - matter if that speech is abhorrent to 51% or even 99%
of the people. Speech is not subject to majority approval. Under our republican
form of government, the individual, the smallest of minorities, is protected
from the mob.
IN THEORY... (AGAIN... WHEN THE CONSTITUTION IS DIMINISHED THE RULE OF LAW IS WEAKENED AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS... MIGHT MAKES RIGHT.)
Sadly, the Constitution and its protections are respected
less and less as we have quietly allowed our constitutional republic to devolve
into a militarist, corporatist social democracy.
(*PURSED LIPS*) (*NOD*)
Laws are broken, quietly changed and ignored when
inconvenient to those in power, while others in positions to check and balance
do nothing. The protections the Founders put in place are more and more just an
illusion.
SOUND FAMILIAR, FOLKS...?!?! SOUND LIKE WHAT YOU'VE
READ RIGHT HERE - PENNED BY ME - TIME AND TIME AGAIN?!
FOLKS... IT'S THE TRUTH! WAKE UP! I DON'T MAKE UP THESE
NEWSBITES! WHAT I "REPORT" TO YOU IS TRUE! MY ANALYSIS... IF YOU
DON'T BUY IT THEN YOU'RE WELCOME TO COME UP WITH YOUR OWN... BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE
BASE IT UPON REALITY - NOT WHAT YOU'D "LIKE" TO BELIEVE!
This is why increasing importance is placed on the
beliefs and views of the president.
YES... THE "COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF" AS HE'S KNOW
WHENEVER THERE'S DISPUTE AS TO HIS POWERS OR THE "RIGHTEOUSNESS" OF
WHAT HE'S DOING. (AND, YES...! IT WAS THE SAME WITH BUSH! INDEED, IT STARTED
WITH BUSH! AND IF YOU'LL RECALL... I RANTED AND RAVED AGAINST IT WHEN IT WAS
BUSH JUST AS I DO NOW THAT IT'S OBAMA!)
The very narrow limitations on government power are
clearly laid out in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. Nowhere is there
any reference to being able to force Americans to buy health insurance or face
a tax/penalty, for example. Yet this power has been claimed by the executive
and astonishingly affirmed by Congress and the Supreme Court.
AGAIN... THE RULE OF LAW IS ITSELF UNDERCUT BY THIS
PRESIDENT (AND OTHERS BEFORE HIM)... BY MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATORS... BY
EVEN MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES - INCLUDING THE BUSH
APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE!
WAKE UP, PEOPLE! WAKE UP!
Because we are a constitutional republic, the mere
popularity of a policy should not matter.
WE WERE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. "WERE." WE
NO LONGER ARE.
MY GOD, PEOPLE... FORGET OBAMACARE... IT IS NOW
ACCEPTED OFFICIAL UNITED STATES "LAW" THAT A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES CAN ORDER AMERICAN CITIZENS ASSASSINATED ON HIS ORDERS ALONE! NO TRIAL.
NO JUDGE. NO JURY. NO DUE PROCESS. AND SHORT OF DEATH A PRESIDENT CAN NOW...
SINCE BUSH... SIMPLY "DECLARE" A UNITED STATES CITIZEN AN "ENEMY
COMBATANT" AND SUMMARILY STRIP HIM OR HER OF ALL CONSTITUTIONAL
PROTECTIONS!
MY FRIENDS... AMERICA 2012 IS CLEARLY NOT THE
CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC OUR FOUNDERS BEQUEATHED US!
If it is in clear violation of the limits of government
and the people still want it, a Constitutional amendment is the only appropriate
way to proceed.
YEP. THAT'S WHAT THE CONSTITUTION CALLS FOR. IT'S RIGHT
THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE!
However, rather than going through this arduous process,
the Constitution was in effect, ignored and the insurance mandate was allowed
anyway.
AND ON AND ON AND ON... FROM FOREIGN POLICY TO DOMESTIC
POLICY TO SECURITY POLICY... THOSE WITH THE POWER DO WHAT THEY PLEASE.
This demonstrates how there is now a great deal of
unhindered flexibility in the Oval Office to impose personal views and
preferences on the country, so long as 51% of the people can be convinced to
vote a certain way. The other 49% on the other hand have much to be angry about
and protest under this system.
We should not tolerate the fact that we have become a
nation ruled by men, their whims and the mood of the day, and not laws.
ALAS... THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE LARGELY LAZY, IGNORANT,
AND SELFISH. WE ARE NOT THE MEN AND WOMEN OUR FOREBEARERS WERE. "WE THE
PEOPLE" HAVEN'T BEEN ROBBED OF OUR HERITAGE - WE'VE SURRENDERED IT.
It cannot be emphasized enough that we are a republic,
not a democracy and, as such, we should insist that the framework of the
Constitution be respected and boundaries set by law are not crossed by our
leaders.
These legal limitations on government assure that other
men do not impose their will over the individual, rather, the individual is
able to govern himself.
When government is restrained, liberty thrives.
LIBERTY DEFINITELY DOES NOT THRIVE IN 21st CENTURY
AMERICA.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
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