Posted on 09/07/2007 10:40:07 AM PDT by NapkinUser
Edited on 09/07/2007 2:31:57 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Has this been a hectic and encouraging time! First we got almost 17% in the Texas straw poll, an event set-up to represent the establishment, with very restrictive voting rules. That 17% of the Republican hierarchy would support our views, after a full day of pro-war propaganda, is good news. Then we won the more open Maryland Republican straw poll with 28%. In both cases, as usual, hard-working, well-organized volunteers made all the difference.
The Fox debate was a lot of fun as well. It's true that a few of the network people are not exactly with us on foreign or domestic policy (though one famous guy whispered to me that he is a libertarian), but the audience—with lots of students from the University of New Hampshire—was definitely fair and balanced, as their enthusiastic reaction showed.
My opponents called for more war, more torture, more secret prisons, more eavesdropping, more presidential power. Some seemed to identify the government and the people as if they were one entity. But you and I know that once the government moves beyond its very limited constitutional mandate, it is an opponent of the people, a rip-off operation that takes our money and our freedom and our social peace, and gives us a mess of statist pottage in return.
The government failed miserably on 911 to protect us, despite spending trillions. So the answer was supposed to be the giant, socialist Department of Homeland Security, protecting you and me from taking our toothpaste on the airplane. I was ridiculed for saying that the airlines, which know best how to protect their property, should have been allowed to arm their pilots. But then, you and I really believe in the Second Amendment. It is not just a political slogan for us.
When I discussed the blowback that came from us intervening on the Arabian peninsula, Chris Wallace asked me if I wanted to follow the marching orders of al-Qaeda. I responded that I wanted to follow the marching orders of the Constitution, and not wage undeclared, aggressive wars that cause us only trouble. This is a mystifying to some, of course, but not to more and more Americans.
There was much talk of taxes, and a pledge not to raise rates. But as usual, I was not allowed to discuss my lifelong pledge to abolish the income tax. Just holding the line, when the government takes such vast sums through an illegitimate guilty-until-proven-innocent system, is hardly enough. We need to slash taxes and spending if we are to have a future of prosperity for ourselves and our families.
After the debate, many young people gathered around the stage to discuss our ideas and ask questions about them (and to have me sign their badges). My colleagues got no such response, and after a few moments, "security" ordered me off the stage. Can't have any such demonstration of interest in liberty.
But the young are with us, and so are Americans of every stripe. Even party officials. When one of my opponent said it was OK to lose elections through supporting the Iraq war, that set party people's teeth on edge, and rightly so. The Republican party is shrinking. We need new people. It's either our ideas or President Hillary, and more and more people recognize it.
But the media, and everyone else, will be looking at fundraising totals at the end of this month. They'll judge us by how we do. And we need help to wage what we hope will be a full-scale, 50-state campaign. Please help me head into the next quarter fully armed to do battle for freedom, peace and prosperity. Make your most generous contribution https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/. This Revolution is on the move, but it very much needs your support.
Sincerely,
Ron
Ron Paul is not all there. He is a bit over his head.
He should go off and see the wizard of OZ.
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The First Crusade played a very important part in Medieval England. The First Crusade was an attempt to re-capture Jerusalem. After the capture of Jerusalem by the Muslims in 1076, any Christian who wanted to pay a pilgrimage to the city faced a very hard time. Muslim soldiers made life very difficult for the Christians and trying to get to Jerusalem was filled with danger for a Christian. This greatly angered all Christians.
One Christian - called Alexius I of Constantinople - feared that his country might also fall to the Muslims as it was very close to the territory captured by the Muslims. Constantinople is in modern day Turkey. Alexius called on the pope - Urban II - to give him help.
Oh, and the Barbary Pirates should count because they were tools of the Ottoman sultan in his war against the 'Holy Roman Empire'.
A Howard Dean moment
The Muslims are beginning to see that the Islamic Jihad does not represent their nation and their people's best interests thanks to the US Military presence.
It's called progress.
Then I must sadly point out that you don't understand the difference between republic and empire......of course, you're not in that particular leaky little boat alone. OUR military is supposed to be for OUR protection, not the protection of other nations and peoples whether we may consider them 'friendly' or not. The middle-east has been unstable for hundreds of years and the only thing we're accomplishing there is to get our young men and women killed and maimed while increasing Muslim hatred of the U.S. Just how the heck is THAT making us 'safer'? Also, it's pretty easy to side-line quarterback but I tend to trust the opinions of those who are and have served in the military and they are overwhelmingly supporting Ron Paul with their hard-earned dollars. That fact alone should make one think about the differences in the candidate's positions on the middle-east.
No kidding! That was so funny, it was almost scary.
Does Ron Paul have overwhelming support of the military based in the Middle East?
What say ye?
Of course I do - you're the one who is unclear.
Empires don't garrison their allies - they garrison their overseas possessions.
When the US posts troops in foreign countries at the request of those countries' governments we are doing so as an act of friendship and a preservation of our interests - not to expand the frontiers of our sovereign territory.
Israel was formed at the time of Christ and maMapped on the Roman Empire charts long before WW1, the rest of the world seems to forget it has existed before Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ appeared in the flesh.
This is a Biblical Battle that has been going on since.
So to try and lay the blame on Modern civilization, is hogwash.
No way, they see him as he is, weak with no resolve.
No. Our bases all over the world are a testament to the fact that we seem to think we have some inherent right to control the world. I hate to be the one to break this to you but, we do NOT have that right or even some perceived moral authority to police the world. We have the right to blow the you-know-what out of anybody who threatens our nation or our people (uh oh!! - getting back into that declaration of war thing again...) but that's where our responsibility ends. Actions have consequences and part of the current mess in the mid-east goes all the way back into the 50s with our meddling there. The blowback just never ends and we've gotten to the point that we can't even patch things over fixing things without getting thousands of our military killed.
Hmm....to continue putting money in the pockets of the military/industrial complex????
First of all, a lot of people have worn the uniform, that doesn't make them right.. John Murtha was a dedicated Marine.. of course, that may not be the best analogy since Paul and Murtha sound alike on the war..
Also, you should really check the 'military overwhelmingly donating to Paul' fact(sic).. that has been debunked.. The tiny total he has received from those who list their employer as the Air Force, Army, or Marines, pales in comparison to the totals the others have received if you also add in people who list the Department of Defense and other variations of military/defense organizations as their employer... For example, John McCain has received $96 thousand dollars from people who list themselves in the defense industry compared to a paltry $5 thousand dollars for Paul. The analysis you are referring to that is parroted by Paulites was flawed in that it only looked for about 4 terms and didn't all the variations of military service terms that could be used. http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/sector.asp?id=N00005906&cycle=2008 http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/sector.asp?id=N00006424&cycle=2008
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