Freedom Watch 17: Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, and more!

Open the door on bailouts (again), and we are going to end up with another AmTrak. 40 years after they said AmTrak was going to be profitable in 3 years or so, AmTrak is STILL running at a loss costing taxpayers money. And worse, it is illegal to start a company to compete with them. Is this where the auto industry is headed? Soon we may not be able to buy a Ford! Ron Paul discusses this, but there is so much more. The gutting of Ron Paul's HR 1207 to audit the Fed, and a great interview with Lew Rockwell.

Ron Paul: "Either we win this fight or we lose this country!"

ATSers, let's show these sukkas where the power is, and hit these videos like mad and get our ATS link up on top of their statistics! It's on Fox, so credit does go to them for providing us with this, despite my complaints on their corporate greed with the Monsanto thread.

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Good videos here folks, highly recommended. Last attempt to raise awareness. This is recent Ron Paul, doing what he does best.

Ron Paul made the observation that nobody even asks the question as to whether it is lawful for the US gov't to nationalize industries. Nobody challenges it in the courts.

My question to him, is, why doesn't he challenge them in the courts? Who is better informed and equipped to do this?

On a seperate note, I believe that he should create a 'Citizens Coalition' of like-minded people to put pressure on the gov't in the form of faxes, phone calls, letters, and protests. People are frustrated and don't know what to do.

I would gladly join such a coalition. There is power in numbers. Let's use it.

Who knows RP well enough to convince him to start such a group?

My question to him, is, why doesn't he challenge them in the courts? Who is better informed and equipped to do this?

Because it's not his job. He's already 100X more than anyone else in this country, so go ahead. Form a group and fill a lawsuit.

But he knows you can't win in court against the federal government, especially when Obama appoint scum like Sotomayor at the Supreme Court.

The only way to fight them is to expose them.

Every time I hear Daniel Hannon speak, I find something more that I like about him. This time, he speaks out against the concept of career politicians.

I have advocated term limits for a long time now. Entrenched politicians are almost inevitably corrupt politicians.

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It isn''t his job? Poor excuse. He is a leader with a strong following. He can motivate and mobilize many people.

Remember the amnesty bill a few years ago? It was almost a done deal until the public rose up and voiced their displeasure. They defeated the bill.

RP obviously isn't going to be elected POTUS. So what else can he do? Put pressure on the gov't, by using the voices of hundreds of thousands.

Originally posted by jsobecky
On a seperate note, I believe that he should create a 'Citizens Coalition' of like-minded people to put pressure on the gov't in the form of faxes, phone calls, letters, and protests. People are frustrated and don't know what to do.

I would gladly join such a coalition. There is power in numbers. Let's use it.

Who knows RP well enough to convince him to start such a group?

He has essentially already done that jso:

www.campaignforliberty.com...

From:
www.campaignforliberty.com...

Campaign For Liberty's Mission
Our mission is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity.

Statement of Principles
Americans inherit from our ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression. Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity—a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.

But many Americans today are frustrated. The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all. For all their talk of "change," neither major political party as presently constituted challenges the status quo in any serious way. Neither treats the Constitution with anything but contempt. Neither offers any kind of change in monetary policy. Neither wants to make the reductions in government that our crushing debt burden demands. Neither talks about bringing American troops home not just from Iraq but from around the world. Our country is going bankrupt, and none of these sensible proposals are even on the table.

This destructive bipartisan consensus has suffocated American political life for many years. Anyone who tries to ask fundamental questions instead of cosmetic ones is ridiculed or ignored.

That is why the Campaign for Liberty was established: to highlight the neglected but common-sense principles we champion and reinsert them into the American political conversation.

The U.S. Constitution is at the heart of what the Campaign for Liberty stands for, since the very least we can demand of our government is fidelity to its own governing document. Claims that our Constitution was meant to be a "living document" that judges may interpret as they please are fraudulent, incompatible with republican government, and without foundation in the constitutional text or the thinking of the Framers. Thomas Jefferson spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution, and we are proud to follow in his distinguished lineage.

With our Founding Fathers, we also believe in a noninterventionist foreign policy. Inspired by the old Robert Taft wing of the Republican Party, we are convinced that the American people cannot remain free and prosperous with 700 military bases around the world, troops in 130 countries, and a steady diet of war propaganda. Our military overstretch is undermining our national defense and bankrupting our country.

We believe that the free market, reviled by people who do not understand it, is the most just and humane economic system and the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known.

We believe with Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, and F.A. Hayek that central banking distorts economic decisionmaking and misleads entrepreneurs into making unsound investments. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' interference with interest rates sets the stage for economic downturns. And the central bank's ability to create money out of thin air transfers wealth from the most vulnerable to those with political pull, since it is the latter who receive the new money before the price increases it brings in its wake have yet occurred. For economic and moral reasons, therefore, we join the great twentieth-century economists in opposing the Federal Reserve System, which has reduced the value of the dollar by 95 percent since it began in 1913.

We oppose the dehumanizing assumption that all issues that divide us must be settled at the federal level and forced on every American community, whether by activist judges, a power-hungry executive, or a meddling Congress. We believe in the humane alternative of local self-government, as called for in our Constitution.

We oppose the transfer of American sovereignty to supranational organizations in which the American people possess no elected representatives. Such compromises of our country's independence run counter to the principles of the American Revolution, which was fought on behalf of self-government and local control. Most of these organizations have a terrible track record even on their own terms: how much poverty have the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund actually alleviated, for example? The peoples of the world can interact with each other just fine in the absence of bureaucratic intermediaries that undermine their sovereignty.

We believe that freedom is an indivisible whole, and that it includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well, all of which are historic rights that our civilization has cherished from time immemorial.

Our stances on other issues can be deduced from these general principles.

Our country is ailing. That is the bad news. The good news is that the remedy is so simple and attractive: a return to the principles our Founders taught us. Respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, sound money, and a noninterventionist foreign policy constitute the foundation of the Campaign for Liberty.

Will you join us? Click here to sign up!

I even copied over the url for ya bud, just in case you feel like joining up. We gotta do something, that's for sure.