The Ron Paul Question

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Tuur Demester in Belgium sent me the link to this netroots Ron Paul for US President video. It’s very well-done.

I’m vexed. I’ve never voted Republican, but see little to no difference between the front-running Democrats or Republicans these days in political courage or will. I don’t get the hype about Obama or Hillary, for example, when I hear their punch-pulling sound-bites about our invasion of Iraq, our crumbling constitution, or our need to confront the creeping religious fundamentalism that threatens our environment, our education system, and more. They seem afraid to speak with courage.

But I’ve got problems with Paul too: his views on gun control and reproductive rights, as well as on trusting the “free market” to self-regulate its pollution output, frankly disturb me. But in so many other ways, I have to admit Paul seems shockingly - a sad but accurate adverb - intelligent, rational, educated, knowledgeable.

I’d be really curious, as an American abroad, to read any comments from my compatriots at home, as well as others around the world. This election, in the age of a disastrous American Empire, is fatefully important.

Here’s the video:

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Written by Clay Burell

October 12th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

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Ron Paul offers some deeper insights in his views on gun control and free markets in this interview at Google headquarters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCM_wQy4YVg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsimplesem%2Ecom%2Fblog%2F2007%2Fron%2Dpaul%2Dat%2Dgoogle%2Fnl%2F

For those people who are in doubt about Paul’s libertarian views on society I would as to consider this: compare Washington with Brussels. 20 years ago we had no legislation whatsoever coming from the European Union. And Europe did fine. Now we are moving very rapidly to a situation where about 200 non-elected politicians regulate the day- to day business of the 500 million Europeans with their power to overrule French, Brittanian, German, all national governments. Just like our countries would be better of without this supra-national uncontrollable regulatory body, I would argue that the individual States of the US would be better off with less government regulations coming from Washington.

Ron Paul’s mission is to lessen government intervention from Washington, so that you as a citizen can have more power to make legislation the way you see fit in your state.

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Tuur Demeester

14 Oct 07 at 5:13 pm
Once I heard Ron Paul the whole “different party affiliation” dissapeared from my thinking.

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ron paul money bomb

20 Dec 07 at 1:33 pm