Great Speech by Ron Paul!

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Ron Paul speaks plainly about what is going on with the American Republic. A very good summery of the situation.

[video=youtube;UBNxZF5L5Ug]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBNxZF5L5Ug[/video]

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No comments on this? I personally think it's a great speech!

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If he really believes his speeches, why is he a Republican???......like bogart blaming the 07-09 Republican Recession and Iraqi war on the liberals.

They wish to have their cake and eat it as well.

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No comments on this? I personally think it's a great speech!
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You and Ron Paul are connected at the hip. It was a good speech and I think I will vote for him because I have seen what he can do since 2006. He was a independent in 2008 for a bit gone republican.

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Why not?

He believes in the republic and the constitution. The foundation for the republican party.

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If he really believes his speeches, why is he a Republican???......like bogart blaming the 07-09 Republican Recession and Iraqi war on the liberals.

They wish to have their cake and eat it as well.
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Why not?

He believes in the republic and the constitution. The foundation for the republican party.
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Wikipedia:

Republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government. The term is generally also understood to describe a government where most decisions are made with reference to established laws, rather than the discretion of a head of state, and therefore monarchy is today generally considered to be incompatible with being a republic. One common modern definition of a republic is a government having a head of state who is not a monarch. The word "republic" is derived from the Latin phrase res publica, which can be translated as "a public affair", and often used to describe a state using this form of government.
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In modern republics such as the United States and India, the executive is legitimized both by a constitution and by popular suffrage. In the United States, James Madison compared the republic to democracy, and found democracy wanting.
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Why not?

A Republic is a form of government in which the people or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government.

Wiki. had Paul (Republican Party) in mind when they defined "Republic" - "or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government".

The Republican Drive to Put Voting Rights in Reverse Policy News, By Carolyn Fiddler at May 13, 2011

Republicans in state legislatures around the country are rewriting voting laws to make exercising oneâ€™s right to cast a ballot more difficult.

After examining the plethora of bills introduced in statehouses this year that, among other things, would reduce poll hours and require voters to show photo ID, it seems clear that Republicans are trying to make it harder for certain groups to vote. The Advancement Project, an advocacy group of civil rights attorneys, called the push â€œthe largest legislative effort to scale back voting rights in a century.â€

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Republican legislators have introduced bills that would diminish access to the voting booth in over 40 states.* All of these Republican proposals focus on one apparent goal: restrict ballot access and shrink the electorateâ€”often in ways that would decrease Democratic votes.
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Wisconsin voter ID bill slammed as vote suppression. Peoples World, May 17 2011

MADISON, Wis. - Labor and community leaders here said today that the "Voter ID" bill the Senate approved today and that was passed last week by the state Assembly is nothing more than blatant voter suppression.
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In states, parties clash over voting laws that would affect college students, others. By Peter Wallsten, Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 8, 2011; 10:41 AM

New Hampshire state House Speaker William O'Brien addresses a crowd saying students lack "life experience" and "just vote their feelings." Network NewsX Profile
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ETC. ETC. ETC.
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We the people, life - liberty for all........Paul (seems) an anathema to America and the freedoms the Constitution provides in the most perversive manner of duplicity in the guise of self governance that in fact is a self serving, restrictive agenda opposite to an independent and collective wholeness he implies by his speeches but defies in actual meaning - Explains why he is a Republican and not a true individualist, libertarian.

From Wikipedia:

Newsletter controversy: Ron Paul newsletter controversy.

Controversial claims made in Ron Paul's newsletters, written in the first person narrative, included statements such as "Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day." Along with "even in my little town of Lake Jackson, Texas, I've urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming." Two other notable statements that garnered controversy were "opinion polls consistently show only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions", and "if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be." An issue from 1992 refers to carjacking as the "hip-hop thing to do among the urban youth who play unsuspecting whites like pianos." In an article titled "The Pink House" the newsletter wrote that "Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities."
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Reason magazine contributing editor Matt Welch found numerous references to the newsletters in news coverage of the 1996 race, many showing a defense of the newsletters by Paul and his campaign. But in 2001 Paul claimed he only said otherwise in 1996 because it was too confusing to explain in the fervor of a campaign.

*The 1996 campaign by Paul to win the election.
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Ron Paul Would Have Opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.: The Atlantic Wire, Ujala Sehgal Ujala Sehgal â€“ Sat May 14, 1:03 pm ET

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul told Chris Mathews on MSNBC Friday that he would not have voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, if he were a member of congress at the time. Though Paul said that while he thought Jim Crow laws were illegal, he would have opposed the Civil Rights Act "because of the property rights element, not because they got rid of the Jim Crow laws." Video of the interview is below.

When Matthews appeared surprised, Paul accused him of being a demagogue on the issue. "He said that talk of the segregated South that the Civil Rights Act aimed to reform is too old to be relevant, because "Whites Only" signs are "ancient history." Like many who opposed the civil rights reforms at their time, Paul said, in true libertarian form, that Jim Crow laws would have ended anyways, because of the free market.

* From a previous post - Paul as subject.
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