I think he has a problem of Gov’t tracking financial transactions of your money.
What’s he talking about? What entrapment?
Now if he wants to talk about eliminating this Orwellian law requiring banks to snitch on us when we spend our own cash, I’m listening.
"They tried to make me go to rehab
I said no, no, no."
Objectively speaking, what Spitzer did was really not that bad. But he had been such a dick for so long to so many people for so long, the line to kick him when he is down stretches out the door and around the block.
Moral of the story: Don’t be a dick.
Wonder what Ron Paul’s client number is?
I hope for his sake he does. It's his only hope as a human to join the human race.
This is the exact argument being used in all the libertarian blogs.
Oh' No.
Ron Paul just lost half his base, the 9/11 truthers
BULLSH*T!!!
This scum bag, cum Czar, (no pun intended) got his comeuppance he so justly deserved and as there IS a GOD there is a distinct possibility he may become a statistic of the justice system he so abused in prosecuting and "persecuting" so many others--for no other reasons than personal aggrandizement and political gains.
He set himself up for blackmail, you idiot.
This was hardly a “sting.”
Any hope I had for Ron Paul and sanity just vanished. The old boy just needs to go away and shut up at this point.
Eliot Spitzer was the governor of the state of New York. He got elected as governor largely because he’d been state attorney general. He got elected AG largely because he’d been a member of the New York County (aka Manhattan) DA’s office. In either of which offices, had he caught a pol doing what he was doing (and thought for a moment it might be good for the resume), my impression is he’d have run the sucker over and not even left skidmarks.
Didn’t deserve it? Yeah, he did.
“Idiot” meaning Paul and like-minded apologists for public officials, not you, pissant.
Yes he did deserve this, but long before they caught him with a prostitute.
Ron Paul may have had some good ideas, but he's a nut-job.
“But the real reason for all this surveillance is to build the power of the state. It arises from a virulent dislike of free people running their own lives and spending their own money. Statists always demand control of the people and their money.
disregarding the rest of the article, these two sentences I absolutely agree with..
Paul is a goofy SOB
I heard a shortwave radio station this week that was Ron Paul cwazy. it was in the 5000 khz range.
This guy wont quit, I’ll give him that
I'm sure Paul is very much aware of that. He is claiming that the wiretap used to bring down Spitzer is in violation of Spitzer's Fourth Amendment rights (questionable, IMO - was it pursuant to a warrant?), and that government power over Americans is dangerously growing with relatively recent acts of Congress, including those mentioned.
BTW, I don't necessarily agree with Paul on the specifics of each part of each of the acts he cited, but his general concern about overreaching government power over American citizens is much appreciated.
Breaking the laws you make and swear to uphold is big.
whadda’ fool