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Abuses like this tend to move people to support someone like Ron Paul, whose evident blindness toward the danger from Islamic terrorism and the increased threat from Russia, China, and their Marxist allies is as dangerous to our national safety as overbearing social workers, tyrannical judges, and brutal SWAT teams are to our personal liberty. Much of what Paul says on the domestic front is accurate, but his foreign policy views are disastrous.

Bureaucrats like this sheriff and social worker are a much more immediate danger to America and our liberties than are a few Islamists who have a hard time deciding to spend the night with their wife or their camel.

[from occupied ga]

Bureaucrats like this sheriff and social worker are a much more immediate danger to America and our liberties than are a few Islamists who have a hard time deciding to spend the night with their wife or their camel.

AMEN!!!

[Wallace T.]

I agree with most of Paul's domestic agenda, with the exception of abolishment of the Federal Reserve. The attacks on Paul by both the MSM and many conservative spokesmen have been scurrilous and trivial in nature. This includes the frothing at the mouth anti-Paul attackers on FR who think ridicule replaces reason and baseless slander is a legitimate tactic.

The overseas danger is greater than a few terrorists. One could argue that it was wrong to fight the Nazis, the Japanese, and the Communists because this nation had its own abuses, such as segregation and racial discrimination against nonwhites. History showed that proposition to be wrong. The threat from the Islamic world, and behind them, Russia and China, is greater than that of a few terrorists. Since the Cold War era, the nationalists and Islamic extremists have been supplied with weapons and funding from the Soviets. Ultimately, the Islamic radicals are underwritten from Beijing and Moscow. Neither China nor Russia are our friends, and Putin is as much an enemy of this nation and the West as any of his Soviet-era predecessors. China's economy will surpass ours in the near future, and both nations have the resources to serious challenge America's superpower status.

There is no reason that we cannot prune back Federal power and restore states rights and individual liberties while still maintaining a strong presence against our Islamic and Communist enemies. Believing that if we withdraw our military presence, these enemies will become beneficent is a level of unreality greater than Chamberlain had toward Hitler.