Posted on 09/30/2007 10:12:11 AM PDT by traviskicks
Edited on 09/30/2007 4:01:53 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Manchester – Calls to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and repeal the Constitutional amendment that established the federal income tax drew loud applause yesterday for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
The Texas Congressman drew an eclectic mix of more than 500 supporters -- young and old, Libertarians and anti-war Democrats, independents and conservative Republicans -- who cheered his message of limited government, low taxes, free markets, bringing the troops home from Iraq, and returning to a monetary policy based on the gold standard.
Paul said the gathering at Veterans Park wasn't about him, but about his message -- which, he said, has been resonating with more and more people.
"Something very significant is happening in this country today. The paradigm is shifting away from government controlling our lives by force," he said. "People are sick and tired of what's happening and want to control (their) own lives."
He said people should be able to keep 100 percent of the fruits of their labor. Income tax is an example of the government controlling people, he said, as are the draft, prohibition on drugs, seat belt laws and other regulations.
Paul said current monetary policy amounts to a "secret sinister tax" that takes wealth from the middle class and poor, and redistributes money to Wall Street and the wealthy. The crowd broke into applause when he said the federal reserve system should be abolished.
Earlier in the day, Paul told three New Hampshire reporters he hoped to turn the enthusiasm his campaign has generated -- through the Internet, in "meet-ups" and through campaign donations -- into votes.
The physician-turned-politician said he expects to spend more and more time in New Hampshire. "The slogan on your license plate would indicate this should be fertile ground for us here," he said, alluding to the state's "Live Free or Die" motto.
Paul said he is running on the same policies President Bush advocated when he ran in 2000, which, he added, are the same ones Republicans have run on for years: a balanced budget, limited government, personal freedom and no nation building.
"Most Republicans -- the leadership in Washington -- don't believe in their own platform; that's why they are losing," Paul said.
Rather than try to spread democracy around the world, he said, politicians ought to focus on some of the shortcomings in this country.
"You don't get a fair shake unless you join the establishment," he said.
Paul, who ran for President in 1988 as the Libertarian Party's nominee, said it's more practical to run as a Republican, noting he spent half of his money in 1988 just trying to get on the ballot in all 50 states.
The door-to-door canvassing that followed the rally -- dubbed the Paul Family Walk -- included about 30 family members who led groups of campaigners in the Queen City, Concord and Nashua. Paul himself visited New England College, Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth Medical School after the rally.
Liz Viering and her husband Peter, from Stonington, Conn., said Paul's opposition to the war in Iraq is the major reason they are supporting him. "Money spent on wars of choice takes money away from other programs," she said.
Miles LaPlant, a 21-year old college student from Attleboro, Mass., said Paul is the first candidate who has captured his attention. LaPlant said he likes Paul's stances regarding the Constitution and the country's founding principles.
Jason Kantz, his wife, Angela, and their two children came up from Cambridge, Mass., for the rally. Kantz said Paul "is the only candidate that gives logical answers and means what he says."
He said Paul's stand on the war in Iraq is also an important issue for him. "We need to reduce our involvement around the world and the amount of money we are spending," Kantz said.
Long-time Libertarian Party member Dennis Corrigan of Boxford, Mass., said he supported Paul when the Congressman ran for President as the Libertarian nominee. He said he has been a Libertarian for 40 years and headed the party in Canada at one time.
Corrigan and a friend were soliticiting signatures for a Massachusetts ballot initiative outlawing the income tax. Corrigan said his friend moved to New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project, adding that he plans to move to the state, as well.
Thomas Clark, Minister of the Somersworth Tri-City Convenant Church, gave the invocation for the rally. Before the rally, he said he supports Paul because of his pro-life stance. "The pro-life issue is a major issue for me," Clark said.
Paul concluded the rally by encouraging his supporters to keep the faith, saying most mass movements have been driven by only 2 or 3 percent of the population.
"You are part of that 3 percent today," he said.
A word from Jim Robinson to the moonbats:
To all antiwar moonbats, Paulistas included:
Hey, if you don't like FR and or our support the war policies leave. Go find a website that supports your unfortunate, short-sighted and misguided antiwar efforts. It's really that simple.
In case you antiwar Paulistas haven't noticed, Free Republic supports the war effort 100%. Many of our chapters protest against the antiwar moonbats either weekly, monthly or whenever the opportunity arises. The DC Chapter has been protesting against the antiwar moonbats EVERY Friday night at Walter Reed for three years.
Free Republic has co-sponsored several cross country caravans and hundreds of rallies in cities all across the country and in DC against the antiwar moonbats and in support of our Commander-in-chief, our troops, the war effort and our Gold Star and Blue Star families, many of whom are FReepers.
When you are supporting antiwar moonbats you are working against Free Republic's mission, hurting our efforts, hurting our families who have lost loved ones or have loved ones involved in the fighting, hurting our troops, damaging their morale, working against our efforts to defeat the enemy, and, in fact, giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Antiwar moonbats are the domestic enemy. Antiwar moonbats willingly give aid and comfort to the enemy during wartime. In my book, that's tantamount to treason. Ron Paul is an antiwar moonbat. You figure it out. If antiwar moonbats are the enemy and Ron Paul is an aid and comfort supplying antiwar moonbat, then Ron Paul IS the enemy!
If you Paulistas are looking for support on FR for an antiwar moonbat who is giving aid and comfort to our enemies, you're nuts! Free Republic will NEVER support antiwar moonbats!
As far as our official policy on Ron Paul is concerned, it's the same policy we have for his antiwar moonbat allies the traitors Harry Reid, Chuckie Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha, Cindy Sheehan, Barbara Streisand, Jane Fonda, CodePink, International Answer, et al and their flaming antiwar spam monkeys. Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!
Where the hell did you guys ever get the idea that enemy supporting antiwar moonbats would be welcome on FR?
That plain enough for you or do I need to spell it out?
"The brief exposition of the constitution of the United States, will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government.
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty;
"If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes;
"Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded.
"If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."
Once again, is English your first language?
No, he wasn't, so why did you waste your time?
Really. So show me her signature on the Declaration of Independence. And of which delegation to the Consitutional Convention was she a member?
You really do just make this stuff up as you go along, don't you?
Yeah, I’ve heard Jesus and the early Church called communist, too. Doesn’t make it so.
True liberty in Christ is based in righteousness. His righteousness, of course, but we only partake of that blessing as we commit ourselves, either individually or as a people, to carrying it out in practice.
Hey, if you don’t understand her role in the founding of this nation, I can’t help that.
Ok, so you’ve demonstrated that you have the skills of copy and paste down to a fine art. Now let’s see if you can master context and subject.
I don’t see a single thing about liberty and the promotion of it in there.
Do you get a lot of people wandering away from you in mid-sentence? I’ll bet I can tell you why.
That's good. Why then do you lay claim personally, and for the Founders, to a modern label that is so sullied?
Really, your personal attacks and insults mean nothing to me.
So, since you're so good at this copy and paste business, let's see some scripture in which Christ tells us to compel our fellow man to righteousness at the point of a gun or by the scruff of his neck.
Here it comes. The hallmark of a weak argument. "Sniff. Your insults don't mean anything to me." Really, get over yourself. You have been using the intellectually dishonest maneuvers of substituting volume for content and attempting to pull the thread off on all sorts of side topics. That is incredibly insulting.
You said the founders were not libertarians. That is false. You have not demonstrated otherwise.
Wasting time may not be as bad as you wasting your vote on a loser. But you are free to do so. This is America.
The poster is probably confused. Abigail Adams was a First Lady, not one of America's Founding Fathers.
"The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." - 2 Samuel 23:3
Again, there is plenty more, if I care to take the time to post them.
A fact can be. But, do grace us all with your brilliance as a Ron Paul supporter on how an opinion can be?
I agree with most of what he says. It’s that small part I don’t agree with that concerns me. . .
BTW, the 14th Amendment was used as a basis in Roe v. Wade to support a woman’s right to abortion.
I don’t think an amendment of any kind will stop abortion. In fact, abortion has been legal since a procedure has existed for it because one in four children were expected to die in childbirth and one in ten women were expected to die during pregnancy.
What we are talking about is abortion-on-demand versus abortion.
Abortion must always have a legal basis because a doctor by oath is sworn to do no harm. If that means saving the life of the mother, the unborn child or both then an abortion procedure must be sanctioned.
So abortion will always exist because pregnancy and childbirth can be risky.
That leaves those that are prolife with the dilemma of how to distinguish between a legitimate abortion and an abortion on demand. When that dilemma is codified into federal law, the dilemma is compounded by involving the federal government into a decision between doctor and patient.
Most every doctor is honorable and will always attempt to make the decision that leads to greater health. If they are confronted with abortion on demand, they will in most cases refuse because of their religious beliefs. They know that abortion on demand is usually due to underage pregnancy or economic hardship (a mother cannot take off from work, she cannot survive economically a pregnancy). This latter cause is a result of our high taxation and no-fault divorce laws, as well as the fact that the breadwinner of a family cannot in most cases today provide 100% for a family.
But when the federal government gets involved in this decision, the doctor has a Catch-22 situation. If they don’t do an abortion when necessary, then they are liable to claims of malpractice. If they perform an abortion, they are subject to federal criminal investigation if they miss documenting.
As an example in this latter case, suppose a woman suffers stroke while pregnant and the doctor determines the pregnancy is nonviable because of the women’s condition. If the doctor does not perform the abortion the woman could die and he could be sued for malpractice. If he performs the abortion to save her life, she may sue him later for emotional damages and harm. The doctor must document everything because if there is a lawsuit against the doctor for performance of the abortion, there will surely be a federal investigation of criminal wrongdoing on the part of the doctor.
In today’s litigious society, even if you save a person’s life, they sue you. And the federal investigators don’t care what you did, they will hang you if they can. The fifth amendment requires that life not be denied without due process of law. That means in emergency cases the doctor has no choice but to be the law and they can hang for it too. No thanks.
For the kinds of reasons noted above, most doctors have quit doing obstetrics leaving pregnancies to lower level midwives. But difficult pregnancies get bumped by midwives to an Obstetrician, often with little prior notice. The result is those that practice obstetrics are fed up. To add the additional dilemma of determining legitimacy of a possible abortion with the specter of a federal investigation is going to drive away even more obstetricians.
State investigations into medical practices are already feared and dreaded because often the investigator is a low level government employee with very little background in medicine. They can take months or years to close a case because they don’t have the background to ascertain medical violations or they have to follow arcane procedures that require various inputs at various levels to complete a file of CYA documentation. All the while the doctor or medical practice remains in fear that the investigator will take something out of context which often happens.
What is the best social medicine in this context is to go back to basics, when this country had low taxes, prosperity, children were considered a joy and blessing and a measure of family prosperity, and the government stayed out of people’s lives leaving them to enjoy their freedom. The only laws that directly affected social mores were given at the local levels. Look carefully at the Bill of rights, each amendment put a restriction on federal government, not a restriction on immoral behavior. A federal amendment to prohibit abortion-on-demand would necessarily involve parts of the federal apparatus to monitor and enforce it. And once we have federal police looking into our behavior, it won’t stop at abortion. Americans do not need that. They need more than ever to connect with their local governments and determine best policies for themselves and their neighbors.
The problem with America today is not abortion, prohibition of school prayer, gay marriage, teen promiscuity or any of the behaviors that are collectively determined to be off limits. The problem is the scope and size of the federal government, all three branches. The problem is an out of control federal government, period, end-of-story.
All the perceived behavior problems we can think of have a root in federal misjurisdiction. Abortion was ‘federalized’ with Roe v. Wade, school prayer was prohibited by federal involvement in education (I can still hear the ghost my great aunt born in 1898 having lived in Washington DC all her life even during the insanity of Eleanor Roosevelt, she lamented “How did the federal government ever get involved in education?”). All out social ills are amplified by an unconstrained federal government.
This is why we need Fred Thompson. He is the only candidate with the legal intellect to move the federal government back to the main road of federalism. This is a Ron Paul thread but Ron Paul, as admirable as are his views on the Constitution, will never be able to get the DC lawyers to jump through the hoops as Fred Thompson can. And make no mistake, lawyers do indeed control the federal government.
Blackmun also admitted openly in Roe that if an unborn child was a person, they would be protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Do you think an unborn child is a "person"?
I doubt that a child who is having his skin burned off in a saline abortion, or is having his limbs torn from her body, cares much for such distinctions without a difference.
If that were true, they would have called it "the Bill of Limitations on Government."
Fact is, the Bill of Rights does limit government, but its primary purpose is the protection of the God-given, unalienable rights to life, liberty and property.
The heart of the original BoR is the Fifth Amendment prohibition on the taking of human life without an individual being charged, tried and convicted on a capital offense.
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