yep. The neoCONs and the colluding media convinced us that a freedom loving man like Ron Paul was a ‘nut’; when in fact he was the patriot we needed.
Instead, we got traitors and lunatics like mccain and romney and the bush family etc.
“For most of our history we didn’t have those institutions. The FBI came in during the First World War and interestingly enough, the one thing Woodrow Wilson did he used the FBI to spy on American citizens and actually arrest them if they disagreed with his foreign policy about going to war in Europe.”
Paul is wrong to say the FBI “was designed to spy on Americans”. That conspiratorial idea is not compatible with the history of the development out of the Justice Department that became the FBI, even if “spying on Americans” became a consequence of unchecked authority the DOJ put on the FBI.
Maybe an idea would be to separate the FBI from the DOJ, making it less of a handmaiden of the politically biased DOJ, while demanding the DOJ must rely on it’s investigatory services. I have always found corruption in all our policing at all levels has arisen with investigators the handmaidens of the prosecutors. Investigations are twisted to give the prosecutors what they want.
He was ahead of his time before the base caught on completely to the neocon agenda.
Walls need to be built between the FBI and greedy hungry politicians (of both parties) who want power ‘the easy way’...
There should be no FBI, period. Start with the Counterintelligence unit. Its only purpose is to spy on Americans, including Trump.
It’s too corrupt to fix. Send the decent agents to the US Marshals. Fire everyone else. Knock their HQ down. Salt the dirt.
At least he was against the PATRIOT act!
Anyone who supported the PATRIOT act has exactly no credibility to EVER complain about government surveillance or intrusion into their finances or communication (and should be impeached and jailed).
He had a huge number college age groupies. I saw some of that collection the first time Rick Perry ran for governor. The convention was in Ft. Worth. Ron and his groupies ate at the same restaurant as my wife and I did.
Why so many? A lot of them wanted pot legalized, from what I've heard.
Ron Paul was/is right about a lot of things. But is also strange.
Both Ron and Rand are very outspoken and they have always been dedicated to reducing the size of government and government spending.