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Wed Mar 5 02:02:54 2003
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Congressman Too Truthful
by: Congressman Ron Paul - House of Representatives
203 Cannon - Washington D.C. 20515
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/truthful-paul.html
The other day, I made a huge "gaffe" on national TV: I told the truth
about the
crimes of the U.S. Government.
As you can imagine, the ceiling fell in, and a couple of walls too. Congressmen
are
supposed to support the government, I was told. Oh, it's okay to criticize
around
edges, but there are certain subjects a member of the House of Representatives
is not
supposed to bring up. But I touched the real "third rail" of American
politics, and
the sparks sure flew.
I was interviewed on C-SPAN's morning "Washington Journal," and I
used the
opportunity, as I do all such media appearances, to point out how many of our
liberties have been stolen by the federal government. We must take them back.
The
Constitution, after all, has a very limited role for Washington,
D.C.
If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling
in our
schools; no Federal Reserve; no U. S.
membership in the U.N.; no gun control; and no
foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the
"poor"; No
American troops in 100 foreign countries; no Nafta, GATT, or
"fast-track"; no
arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property;
and
no income tax. We can get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of the
agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and
limited.
That system is called Liberty. It's
what the Founding Fathers gave us. Under liberty,
we built the greatest, freest, most prosperous, most decent country on earth.
It's no
coincidence that the monstrous growth of the federal government has been
accompanied
by a sickening decline in living standards and moral standards. The feds want
us to
be hamsters on a tread mill working hard, all day long, to pay high taxes, but
otherwise entirely docile and controlled. The huge, expensive, and out-of
control
leviathan that we call the federal government wants to run every single aspect
of our
lives.
Well, I'm sorry, but that's not America.
It's not what the Founders gave us. It's not
the country you believe in. It's not the country I believe in. So, on that TV
interview, I emphasized not only the attacks on our property, but also the
decline of
our civil liberties, at the hands of the federal police. There's not supposed
to be
any federal police, according to the Constitution.
Then I really went over the line. I talked about the Waco
massacre. Bill Clinton and
Janet Reno claimed those 81 church members including 19 children, burned down
thier
own Church, killed themselves, and good riddance. So they put a few survivors
on
trial, and threw them in prison for 40 years.
We're not supposed to remember that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms--talk about an unconstitutional agency--rather than arrest David
Koresh on
his regular morning jog, called in the TV stations for a big publicity bonanza,
and
sent a swat team in black masks and black uniforms to break down his front
door, guns
blazing. They also sent in a helicopter gun ship, to shoot the roof of a church
full
of innocents.
The Branch Davidians resisted, and after a heartless siege of almost two
months, and
after cutting off food, water, electricity, and playing horrible rock and roll
through huge speakers 24 hours a day, the Feds sent in tanks to crush the walls
of
the church, and inject poisonous CS gas.
Now, CS gas is banned and under the Paris Convention on Chemical Warfare. The U.S.
could not use it in war. But it could and did use it against American
civilians.
After the tanks did their work on the church, the place burst into flames, and
all 81
people--men, women, children, and babies--were incinerated in a screaming
horror. Did
some feds set the fire? Did the flammable CS gas ignite, since without
electricity,
the parishioners were using lanterns? Did a tank knock over a lantern, striking
one
of the bales of hay being used against the thin walls as a defense against
bullets?
Or did the Davidians, as Clinton
and Reno claim, kill themselves?
A new documentary- -Waco: Rules of
Engagement--may show, throughout FLIR infrared
photography, FBI snipers killing the Davidians by shooting through the back of
the
church, where no media cameras were allowed. This film won a prize at the
Sundance
Film Festival. It was made by people who took government's side, until they
investigated.
Whatever the truth, there's no question that an irresponsible federal
government has
innocent blood on its hands, and not only from Waco.
And the refusal of corrupt
perverse liberals to admit it means nothing.
It my interview, in answer to a caller's question, I pointed out that Waco, in
the
federal murders at Ruby Ridge'--especially the FBI snipers shot that blast
apart the
head of the young mother holding her baby caused many Americans to live in fear
of
federal power. Then uttered the sentiment that caused the media hysteria: I
said that
a lot of Americans fear that they too might be attacked by federal swat teams
for
exercising their constitutional rights, or merely for wanting to be left alone.
Whoa! You've never seen anything like it. For days, in an all-out assault, I
was
attacked by Democrats, unions, big business, establishment Republicans, and of course
the media, in Washington in my
home state of Texas. Newspapers
foamed at the mouth,
calling me a "right-wing extremist". (Say, isn't that what George III
called Thomas
Jefferson?)
I was even blamed for the Oklahoma City
bombing! And by the way, I don't believe
we've gotten the full truth on that either. All my many opponents were outraged
that
a congressman would criticize big government. "If you don't like Washington,
resign!"
said a typical big-city newspaper editorial.
But the media, as usual, were all wet. (Do they ever get anything right?) The
average
Congressman may go to Washington
to wallow in power, and line his pockets with a big
lobbying job for a special interest (so he can get keep ripping-off the
taxpayers).
But that's not why I'm in Congress. It's not why I left my medical practice as
a
physician. It's not why I put up with all of the abuse. It's not why I refuse a
plush
Congressional pension.
I'm in this fight for reason. I want to hand on to my children and grandchildren,
and
to you in your family, a great and free America,
an America true
to her Constitution,
an America
worthy of her history. I'll not let the crooks and clowns and criminals
have their way. I'm in Congress to represent the ideas of Liberty,
the ideas that you
and I share, for the people of my district, for the people of Texas,
for the people
of America.
That's why I'm working to stop federal abuses, and to cut the government:
its taxes, its bureaucrats, its paramilitary police, its spending, its meddling
overseas, and every single unconstitutional action it takes. And not with a
pair of
nail scissors, but with a hammer and chisel. Won't you help me do this work?
Not much of the federal leviathan would be left, if I had my way. But you'd be
able
to keep the money you earn, your privacy would be secure, your dollar would be
sound,
your local school would be tops, and your kids wouldn't be sent off to some
useless
or vicious foreign war to fight for the U.N.. But Jefferson and the other
Founders
would recognize our government, and our descendants would bless us. By the way,
when
I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income
tax and
the IRS, and replace them with nothing.
Recently, I asked a famous Republican Committee Chairman--who's always talking
about
getting rid of the IRS--why engineered a secret $580 million raise for the tax
collectors. "They need for their computers," this guy told me. So the
IRS can't
extract enough from us as it is! The National Taxpayers Unions says I have the
highest pro-taxpayer rating in Congressional history, that I am the top
"Taxpayer's
Best Friend". You know I won't play the Capitol Hill games with the
Capitol Hill
gang, denouncing the IRS while giving the Gestapo more of your money. Or
figuring out
some other federal tax for them to squeeze out of you. I also want to abolish
the
Federal Reserve, and send Alan Greenspan out to get a job.
The value of our dollar in the level of our interest rates are not suppose to
be
manipulated by a few members of the power elite meeting secretly in a marble
palace.
The Federal Reserve is unconstitutional, pure and simple. The only
constitutional
money is gold and silver, not notes redeemable in them. Not fed funny money.
Without
the Federal Reserve, our money could not be inflated at the behest of big
government
or big banks. Your income in savings would not lose their value. Just as
important,
we wouldn't have this endless string of booms and busts, recessions and
depressions,
with each bust getting worse. They aren't natural to the free market; there
caused by
the schemers at the Fed. President Andrew Jackson called the 19th centuries Fed
" The
Monster" because it was a vehicle for inflation and all sorts of
special-interest
corruption. Let me tell you, things haven't changed a bit. I also work to save
our
schools from D.C. interference. Thanks to the feds, new curriculums not only
smear
the Founders as "racist, slave owning elitists," they seek to dumb
down all our
students so they will all be equal. "Look-say" reading and the
abolition of phonics
has the same purpose, and so does the new "fuzzy" math, in which
there at no right
and no wrong answers. That must be what they use in the U.S. Treasury! It's
certainly
what they use in the U.S. Congress.
But ever since the beginning of federal aid to education and accelerating with
the
establishment of the rotten Department of Education, SAT scores have been
dropping.
Schools, with few exceptions, are getting worse every year. To save our kids,
we must
get the sticky fingers of the feds off our local schools, and let parents rule.
That's what the Constitution says, and the Bible too.
And then there's my least favorite topic, the U.N.. World government is
obviously
unconstitutional. It undermines our country sovereignty in the worst way
possible.
That's why I want us out of the U.N., and the U.N. itself taking a hike. After
all,
the U.N. is socialist and corrupt (many votes can be bought with a "blond
and a case
of Scotch" one U.N. ambassador once said). It costs many billions, and it
puts our
soldiers in U.N. uniforms under foreign commanders, and sends them off to
unconstitutional, undeclared wars. When Michael New, one of the finest young
men I've
ever met, objected to wearing U.N. blue, he was kicked out of the American
Army. What
an outrage! Not one dime for the U.N., and not one American soldier! Not Haiti,
not
in Bosnia, not
in Somalia, not
in Rwanda. I
know its radical, but how about devoting
American military efforts to defending America,
and only America?
Such ideas, said one newspaper reporter, make me a maverick, who will never go
far
because he won't go along to get along. Darn right! What does "go
far" mean? Get a
big government job? To heck with that. And I won't sell my vote for pork
either. When
I walked through the U.S. Capitol this morning, I got angry. The building is
filled
with statues and paintings of Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founders. Those
great
men sacrificed everything to give us a free country, and a Constitution to keep
it
that way. When I was first elected, I placed my hand on the Bible and swore an
oath
to uphold the Constitution. That's exactly what I'm fighting for. Such ideas
drive
the liberals crazy. That's why I badly need your help. I've been targeted
nationally
for defeat. The Democrats, the AFL-CIO, the teachers union, big business PACs,
the
trial lawyers, the big bankers, the foreign aid lobbyists, the big media, and
the
establishment Republicans want to dance on my political grave. The Fed, the
Education
Department, in the U.N. are anxious to join in. They can't stand even one
person
telling the truth. And they're terrified when that truth gains the people
support.
Right now, four well funded Democrats are competing to try to beat me, and
Republican
is rumored to have been offered money at a secret meeting in Mexico(!) if he
would
try to knock me off in a primary. Won't you help me stay up here to fight?
Frankly
I'm in trouble if you don't. My Texas
district has 22,000 square miles (not a
misprint). I've got to travel all over it, set up small offices to be manned by
volunteers, advertise, pay phone bills, and distribute video and audio tape to
the
people to get around the big media lies. As I know from my last election, which
I won
by the skin of my teeth, the media will carry any smear, repeat any libel,
throw any
piece of mud, no matter how untrue. In fact, the less true, the more they like
it.
They are determined to silence me. But you can help me overcome all this.
Together,
we can beat the bad guys arrayed against our country and our freedom. We can
support
the Constitution. We can win. Your generous contributions of $25 or $50 would
be
great. $100, $250 , or even $500 or $1000 would be magnificent. Of course, any
amount
would help, and in return, I will keep you up-to-date on this fight as a member
of my
"kitchen cabinet". What great men founded this country! What great
people have
carried on their fight! That fight is not lost, not if you will join in. Washington,
D.C. is a loser, but among the people, our
ideas are gaining every single day.
Keep the tide turning in our direction. Please make your most generous
contribution.
Join this fight for the Constitution, and stop those who want to rip it up, and
throw
it in the Potomac. Together, we can join the Founders
fight. Together we can make
this history.
Sincerely,
Ron Paul
U.S. Congressman
203 Canon,
Washington D.C. 20515
Committee to Re-elect Ron Paul 837 West Plantation, Clute, TX 77531
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