we petition the obama administration to:
Answer ALL the questions posed by Congressman Ron
Paul in his final speech on the House floor, Nov. 14, 2012.
On Wednesday, Ron Paul stood on the floor of the
House of Representatives, where he has spent 23
years, to deliver his last speech to the body
prior to his impending retirement at year's end.
He proposed several questions throughout this
speech. This petition is to address those
questions, and receive the answers from the Obama Administration.
Created: Nov 15, 2012
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/answer-all-questions-posed-congressman-ron-paul-his-final-speech-house-floor-nov-14-2012/y6DRpYbL
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Questions
Excessive government has created such a mess it prompts many questions:
* Why are sick people who use medical marijuana put in prison?
* Why does the federal government restrict the drinking of raw milk?
* Why can’t Americans manufacturer rope and other products from hemp?
* Why are Americans not allowed to use gold
and silver as legal tender as mandated by the Constitution?
* Why is Germany concerned enough to consider
repatriating their gold held by the FED for her
in New York? Is it that the trust in the U.S. and
dollar supremacy beginning to wane?
* Why do our political leaders believe it’s
unnecessary to thoroughly audit our own gold?
* Why can’t Americans decide which type of light bulbs they can buy?
* Why is the TSA permitted to abuse the
rights of any American traveling by air?
* Why should there be mandatory
sentenceseven up to life for crimes without victimsas our drug laws require?
* Why have we allowed the federal government
to regulate commodes in our homes?
* Why is it political suicide for anyone to criticize AIPAC ?
* Why haven’t we given up on the drug war
since it’s an obvious failure and violates the
people’s rights? Has nobody noticed that the
authorities can’t even keep drugs out of the
prisons? How can making our entire society a prison solve the problem?
* Why do we sacrifice so much getting
needlessly involved in border disputes and civil
strife around the world and ignore the root cause
of the most deadly border in the world-the one between Mexico and the US?
* Why does Congress willingly give up its
prerogatives to the Executive Branch?
* Why does changing the party in power never
change policy? Could it be that the views of both
parties are essentially the same?
* Why did the big banks, the large
corporations, and foreign banks and foreign
central banks get bailed out in 2008 and the
middle class lost their jobs and their homes?
* Why do so many in the government and the
federal officials believe that creating money out of thin air creates wealth?
* Why do so many accept the deeply flawed
principle that government bureaucrats and
politicians can protect us from ourselves without
totally destroying the principle of liberty?
* Why can’t people understand that war always destroys wealth and liberty?
* Why is there so little concern for the
Executive Order that gives the President
authority to establish a “kill list,” including
American citizens, of those targeted for assassination?
* Why is patriotism thought to be blind
loyalty to the government and the politicians who
run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of
liberty and support for the people? Real
patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
* Why is it is claimed that if people won’t
or can’t take care of their own needs, that
people in government can do it for them?
* Why did we ever give the government a safe
haven for initiating violence against the people?
* Why do some members defend free markets, but not civil liberties?
* Why do some members defend civil liberties
but not free markets? Aren’t they the same?
* Why don’t more defend both economic liberty and personal liberty?
* Why are there not more individuals who seek
to intellectually influence others to bring about
positive changes than those who seek power to
force others to obey their commands?
* Why does the use of religion to support a
social gospel and preemptive wars, both of which
requires authoritarians to use violence, or the
threat of violence, go unchallenged? Aggression
and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing
to do with the teachings of the world great religions.
* Why do we allow the government and the
Federal Reserve to disseminate false information
dealing with both economic and foreign policy?
* Why is democracy held in such high esteem
when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all
rights relative to the dictates of the majority?
* Why should anyone be surprised that
Congress has no credibility, since there’s such a
disconnect between what politicians say and what they do?
* Is there any explanation for all the
deception, the unhappiness, the fear of the
future, the loss of confidence in our leaders,
the distrust, the anger and frustration? Yes
there is, and there’s a way to reverse these
attitudes. The negative perceptions are logical
and a consequence of bad policies bringing about
our problems. Identification of the problems and
recognizing the cause allow the proper changes to come easy.
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/national-blog/transcript-of-farewell-address/
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