[DugwayDuke]

“Yeah this is a standard gripe of libertarians - the loss of civil liberties due to the WOT.”

The one question that should be asked of Ron Paul is this: which do you consider the greater threat, Islamic Terrorism or the Federal Government?

[RightWhale]

• A lot fewer lives died on 9/11 than they do in less than a month on our highways

  Candidate for Cap'n Obvious Award of the Month.

[rhombus]

The one question that should be asked of Ron Paul is this: which do you consider the greater threat, Islamic Terrorism or the Federal Government?

Well put. And I do think he fears the Fed Gov worse. This means he'd accept a certain number of American deaths as a "collateral damage" trade off for the maintenance of civil liberties. I wonder if he's thought about how high that number would be before he'd draw some sort of line.

[Iwo Jima]

He's already been asked that. The obvious answer, with which I entirely agree, is that the federal government is a greater potential threat to our freedom than Islamic terrorism, Which while a threat to us, Islamic terrorism cannot compare to the loss of liberty that can occur at the hands of a tyrannical, all powerful government.

Terrorists are a serious problem, and one which we must be ever vigilant to fight against. But it is not our worst problem or threat.

Our founding fathers recognized that the greatest threat to our freedom and the very existence of our Republic would come from our own government. Do you disagree?

[traviskicks]

The Federal government is a much worse threat than islamic terrorism! I’ve said it before on here, the fed gov steals 50% of what you make, spreads socialism, indoctrinates our children, spreads immorality and economic disaster, limits our freedoms, constrains our creativity and on and on. Islamic terrorists are a bunch of stone age thug parasites whose only hope is prick us enough into a hyperreaction that destroys our own society.

It is sad that people fear Islamic terrorists more than our government... It shows a misunderstanding or ignorance of what the government does to us, and an exaggerated importance/overfixation on a bunch of stone age stooges, why respect them so?

This discrepency is likely what paul was addressing in his comments here.