“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.”
It’s not just this statement that would lead you to that conclusion. I believe Ron Paul has said (roughly) that while he doesn’t believe the federal government was behind 9/11, the federal government is not above exploiting it to gain power.
Do you think Ron Paul would have responded to Pearl Harbor? After all, at that time Hawaii was not an American State. It was a territory where we had ships based. If we weren’t there then the Japanese wouldn’t have been mad with us. So fast forward today. Should we give up all territories worldwide and withdraw? Are all American bases to be no longer defended since they might be provocative to someone?