Letters to the Editor
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Ron Paul
Jefferson said that the tree of liberty needs to be nurtured from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. We've all heard of the "Ugly American", but there has always been a counterpart to the ugly American, and that is the quintessentially decent, freedom-loving and hard-working American. That's Ron Paul. Throw in a very sharp and curious mind, and the courage to go where the truth leads and you have a man that many believe people will be able to nurture the tree of liberty before we are in the dire straights that Jefferson refers to. Not all of his supporters (or detractors) understand certain of his more complex policy positions exactly, e.g. regarding the gold standard or the Fed, but they do recognize that he is a man of principle and freedom, and that greater freedom and a prosperity will come from his leadership. The welfare/warfare state is a prescription for totalitarianism and the good doctor offers a prescription which will honor America's hard-won patrimony. I honor the freedom-loving people of the Texas congressional district that have given Ron Paul this platform. For the sake of freedom and prosperity, we need it to be writ large.
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Hey, balony59
Jefferson never said that "the tree of liberty needs to be nurtured from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
We've all heard of the "Ugly American", but there has always been a counterpart to the ugly American, and that is the stupid American, and that is you.
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L.W.M. too busy writing letters to Salon
I understand that LWM, being a smart fellow, and having written 2000+ letters to Salon might not have time to run a google search, so here goes..
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff109180.html
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
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Business Week Q&A with Ron Paul on the Fed
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_50/b4062021769214.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5
Worth reading.
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HAHA
the Elites are actually scared that Ron Paul may become a potential threat to their unquestioned predominance and control over both parties.
So they fill up these online boards with paid sock puppets who rail against RP and his fans and followers, as if he is somehow criminal or insane.
'Insane' is the current state of this nation.
Less government is very good
Less totalitarianism is very good
More adherence to our nation's founding documents is good
Traitors and thieves (the two political parties) are BAD
Americans who cover up for and sycophantically keep propping up the DemRep criminals and thieves is INEXCUSABLE.
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You clueless moron!
balony59 is the best name for you.
If you think a link to Brainyquote is definitive sourcing, you should be taken out and shot for stupidity and gullibility. You dickweed.
Lyn Nofziger is the man responsible for the quote, you stupid American. TJ never said it.
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Find a cite with some credibilty
or you are a clueless boob. It's bound to edumacate you. Brainyquote hasn't helped you.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/l/lynnofzige389657.html
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Small Government, Big Corporations
This is in answer to HubcabHalo's letter about how he likes Ron Paul as a candidate, but how would a small government control the big corporations. You can find his letter at the top of the editor's choice (of which there are only three at this time).
In answer, I ask what makes HubcabHalo think the government controls the large corporations now? The people who run the large multi-national corporations control the government! Largely through $$ contributions, junkets, career advancements, cushy jobs after they leave government, social climbing etc..they make sure the right politicians are in place to do basically 3 things:
1. Pass legislation and make regulations that makes it the law to send taxpayer $$ into their coffers. It is way easier than having to actually compete for business.
2. Protect them from competition from within and from outside of their industry.
3. Protect them from liability when their products do harm.
In actuality, it is big business that oversees the government! They used to call it fascism, but now they call it corporatism or public-private-partnership.
Ron Paul is the enemy of all of the above, because he believes in true free market capitalism. He has come out against allowing corporations to escape liability from damages caused by defective products.
For one thing, if we controlled our borders, we would not have the problem of e-coli in spinach due to illegals defecating in the fields they harvest.
Just as it is fear of being killed in an auto accident that makes drivers obey the law, it is fear of a huge hit to the bottom line that makes corporations tow the line. Look at vaccine manufacturers like Merck. They lobby for laws to immunize themselves from lawsuits (pardon the pun) when their vaccines kill or hurt people.
What was that drug that killed all those people...vioxx? What did the FDA do to protect the public? How many died before they finally did something...28,000 to 55,000 people, depending on who did the count! Boy, the government sure did a good job on that one!
Ron Paul would work to restore true competition to the marketplace.
How is electing another politician who has spent a lifetime facilitating all of the above going to improve anything?
How is electing yet another fox to guard the henhouse going to help anyone other than the foxes?
Ron Paul is the only viable candidate who gets his $$ from the grassroots. He won't take contributions from PAC's or from any corporations. We must open our eyes and see the truth of what's going on.
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What a load of crap!
Ron Paul is the enemy of all of the above, because he believes in true free market capitalism. He has come out against allowing corporations to escape liability from damages caused by defective products.
Where?
For one thing, if we controlled our borders, we would not have the problem of e-coli in spinach due to illegals defecating in the fields they harvest.
Hilarious! You are a funny racist!
Just as it is fear of being killed in an auto accident that makes drivers obey the law, it is fear of a huge hit to the bottom line that makes corporations tow the line. Look at vaccine manufacturers like Merck. They lobby for laws to immunize themselves from lawsuits (pardon the pun) when their vaccines kill or hurt people.
You cretin. Government Regulation is what makes corporations obey the law. The very thing Ron Paul is against.
What was that drug that killed all those people...vioxx? What did the FDA do to protect the public? How many died before they finally did something...28,000 to 55,000 people, depending on who did the count! Boy, the government sure did a good job on that one!
It used to work fine until Republican cretins you voted for, just like Ron Paul, gutted the government. "Let's break it and then we can blame it."
Ron Paul would work to restore true competition to the marketplace.
How? By further dismantling the federal government, you moron?
How is electing another politician who has spent a lifetime facilitating all of the above going to improve anything?
Precisely my point!
How is electing yet another fox to guard the henhouse going to help anyone other than the foxes?
Ditto!
Ron Paul is the only viable candidate who gets his $$ from the grassroots. He won't take contributions from PAC's or from any corporations. We must open our eyes and see the truth of what's going on.
--Anonymous
Yes. We must. Read Digby and piss on Ron Paul and these idiotic propagandists. I've never heard such a load of crap since the perpetual motion machine or cold fusion.
Populist Monarchs and Subjects
By Digby on December 2, 2007 - 6:38pm.
American right-wing populism is an interesting phenomenon that's coming to the fore once again in its usual nativist and racist form, but also as smooth misrepresentation of "tax reform"; clever, misleading public relations messaging about fair trade; and some fairly outlandish paranoia about conspiracies to erase the borders. Various permutations of these fairly common right-wing themes abound among conservative politicians and thinkers alike. But conservative populism is an oxymoron.
As Phil Agree wrote in this much discussed article about the definition of conservatism, "Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy ... [it] is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world."
Modern conservatism's most successful strategy was to merge public relations and politics into a seamless operation in which it could use modern marketing methods to convince people to vote against their own interests. In that sense, right-wing populism is just another marketing campaign for the aristocrats. And it's working...
http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/populist_monarchs_and_subjects