Re: From Ron Paul...

On May 23, 9:21 am, Carlisle <carrie-...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 23, 11:52 am, Walter Karmazyn <walterkarma...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



I've been posting his stuff for some years, might as well not stop now
that he's a presidential candidate. This bill, if it doesn't die in
committee, should prove for some interesting debate when it hits the floor.

W

Congress Must Do Its Duty
by Rep. Ron Paul

Many of my colleagues, faced with the reality that the war in Iraq is
not going well, line up to place all the blame on the president. The
president "mismanaged" the war, they say. "It's all the president's
fault," they claim. In reality, much of the blame should rest with
Congress, which shirked its constitutional duty to declare war and
instead told the president to decide for himself whether or not to go to
war.

Congressman Ron Paul Speaks Out!

The Federal income tax is UNCONSTITUTIONAL

"When I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean
abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing." -
Ron Paul

"The other day, I made a huge "gaffe" on national TV: I told the truth
about the crimes of the U.S. government. As you can imagine, the
ceiling fell in, and a couple of walls too. Congressmen are supposed
to support the government, I was told. Oh, it's okay to criticize
around the edges, but there are certain subjects a member of the House
of Representatives is not supposed to bring up. But I touched the real
"third-rail" of American politics, and the sparks sure flew.

I was interviewed on C-SPAN's morning "Washington Journal," and I used
the opportunity, as I do all such media appearances, to point out how
many of our liberties have been stolen by the federal government. We
must take them back. The Constitution, after all, has a very limited
role for Washington, D.C. If we stuck to the Constitution as written,
we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve;
no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We
would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American
troops in 100 foreign countries; no Nafta, Gatt, or "fast-track"; no
arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private
property; and no income tax. We could get rid of most of the cabinet
departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The
government would be small, frugal, and limited. That system is called
liberty. It's what the Founding Fathers gave us.

Under liberty, we built the greatest, freest, most prosperous, most
decent country on earth. It's no coincidence that the monstrous growth
of the federal government has been accompanied by a sickening decline
in living standards and moral standards. The feds want us to be
hamsters on a treadmill--working hard, all day long, to pay high
taxes, but otherwise entirely docile and controlled. The huge,
expensive, and out-of-control leviathan that we call the federal
government wants to run every single aspect of our lives. Well, I'm
sorry, but that's not America. It's not what the Founders gave us.
It's not the country you believe in. It's not the country I believe
in.

So, on that TV interview, I emphasized not only the attacks on our
property, but also the decline of our civil liberties, at the hands of
the federal police. There are not supposed to be any federal police,
according to the Constitution. Then I really went over the line. I
talked about the Waco massacre. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno claim
those 81 church members, including 19 children, burned down their own
church and killed themselves, and good riddance. So they put few
survivors on trial, and threw them in prison for 40 years. We're not
supposed to remember that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms--talk about an unconstitutional agency--rather than arrest
David Koresh on his regular morning jog, called in the TV stations for
big publicity bonanza, and sent a swat team in black masks and black
uniforms to break down his front door, guns blazing. They also sent in
a helicopter gunship, to shoot at the roof of a church full of
innocents. The Branch Davidians resisted, and after a heartless siege
of almost two months, and after cutting off food, water, and
electricity, and playing horrible rock and roll through huge speakers
24 hours a day, the feds sent in the tanks to crush the walls of the
church, and inject poisonous CS gas. Now, CS gas is banned under the
Paris Convention on Chemical Warfare. The U.S. could not use it in a
war. But it could and did use it against American civilians. After the
tanks did their work on the church, the place burst into flame, and
all 81 people--men, women, children, and babies - were incinerated in
a screaming horror. Did some feds set the fire? Did the flammable CS
gas ignite, since without electricity, the parishioners were using
lanterns? Did a tank knock over a lantern, striking one of the bales
of hay being used against the thin walls as a "defense" against
bullets? Or did the Davidians, as Clinton and Reno claim, kill
themselves?

A new documentary- -Waco: The Rules of Engagement- may show, through
FLIR infrared photography, FBI snipers killing the Davidians by
shooting through the back of the church, where no media cameras were
allowed. This film won a prize at the famed Sundance Film Festival. It
was made by people who took the government's side, until they
investigated. Whatever the truth, there's no question that an
irresponsible federal government has innocent blood on its hands, and
not only from Waco. And the refusal of corrupt and perverse liberals
to admit it means nothing.

In my interview, in answer to a caller's question, I pointed out that
Waco, and the federal murders at Ruby Ridge- especially the FBI
sniper's shot that blasted apart the head of a young mother holding
her baby- caused many Americans to live in fear of federal power. Then
I uttered the sentiment that caused the media hysteria: I said that a
lot of Americans fear that they too might be attacked by federal swat
teams for exercising their constitutional rights, or merely for
wanting to be left alone. Whoa! You've never seen anything like it.
For days, in an all-out assault, I was attacked by Democrats, unions,
big business, establishment Republicans, and- of course- the media, in
Washington and my home state of Texas. Newspapers foamed at the mouth,
calling me a "right-wing extremist." (Say, isn't that what George III
called Thomas Jefferson?) I was even blamed for the Oklahoma City
bombing! And by the way, I don't believe we've gotten the full truth
on that either. All my many opponents were outraged that a Congressman
would criticize big government. "If you don't like Washington,
resign!" said a typical big-city newspaper editorial. But the media,
as usual, were all wet. (Do they ever get anything right?) The average
Congressman may go to Washington to wallow in power, and line his
pockets with a big lobbying job for a special interest (so he can keep
ripping-off the taxpayers). But that's not why I'm in Congress. It's
not why I left my medical practice as a physician. It's not why I put
up with all the abuse. It's not why I refuse a plush Congressional
pension. I'm in this fight for a reason. I want to hand on to my
children and grandchildren, and to you and your family, a great and
free America, an America true to her Constitution, an America worthy
of her history. I will not let the crooks and clowns and criminals
have their way.

I'm in Congress to represent the ideas of liberty, the ideas that you
and I share, for the people of my district, for the people of Texas,
for the people of America. That's why I'm working to stop federal
abuses, and to cut the government: its taxes, its bureaucrats, its
paramilitary police, its spending, its meddling overseas, and every
single unconstitutional action it takes. And not with a pair of nail
scissors, but with a hammer and chisel. Won't you help me do this
work? Not much of the federal leviathan would be left, if I had my
way. But you'd be able to keep the money you earn, your privacy would
be secure, your dollar would be sound, your local school would be
tops, and your kids wouldn't be sent off to some useless or vicious
foreign war to fight for the UN. But Jefferson and the other Founders
would recognize our government, and our descendants would bless us. By
the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I
mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with
nothing.

Recently, I asked a famous Republican committee chairman- who's always
talking about getting rid of IRS- why he engineered a secret $580
million raise for the tax collectors. "They need it for their
computers," this guy told me. So the IRS can't extract enough from us
as it is! The National Taxpayers Union says I have the highest pro-
taxpayer rating in Congressional history, that I am the top
"Taxpayer's Best Friend." You know I won't play the Capitol Hill games
with the Capitol Hill gang, denouncing the IRS while giving the
Gestapo more of your money. Or figuring out some other federal tax for
them to squeeze out of you. I also want to abolish the Federal
Reserve, and send Alan Greenspan out to get a job. The value of our
dollar and the level of our interest rates are not supposed to be
manipulated by a few members of the power elite meeting secretly in a
marble palace. The Federal Reserve is unconstitutional, pure and
simple. The only Constitutional money is gold and silver, not notes
redeemable in them. Not fed funny money. Without the Federal Reserve,
our money could not be inflated at the behest of big government or big
banks. Your income and savings would not lose their value. Just as
important, we wouldn't have this endless string of booms and busts,
recessions and depressions, with each bust getting worse. They aren't
natural to the free market; they're caused by the schemers at the Fed.
President Andrew Jackson called the 19th-century Fed "The Monster"
because it was a vehicle for ...

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Why is it that folks like Ron Paul can bring up something like Waco or
Ruby Ridge, but never seem to get around to talking about something
like, say, the murder of Fred Hampton or the firebombing of a whole
neighborhood in Philadelphia in 1985, or the killings at Jackson State
in the 1960s (everyone knows about Kent State, no one sings about
Jackson State.)
The idea that a nation of 300 million is not going to have taxation
and a large government is dumb and historically unprecedented. This
guy is a demogogue who pretty much offers emotional rhetoric rather
than solutions.
Yea, he says some interesting things, but even a broken clock can be
right twice a day.
Larry

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