----- Original Message ----- From: "J. R. Atnip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Atnip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:27 PM Subject: The truth
> This is the only man/woman in D.C. that tells it like it is. > Congressman Ron Paul > Congressman Too Truthful > Wed Mar 5 02:02:54 2003 > 208.152.73.98 > > 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 > > -- > > >
