The Popularity of Freedom
The problem with Freedom is that too many don’t really know what it means, and I think that’s the essence of all political problems in America right now. Far and away too many people believe that freedom means a guaranteed job, food, clothing, and health care; it means "freedom" from being offended, insulted, marginalized or ever made to feel uncomfortable. "Freedom" means the luxury to disregard — indeed to flat out deny — one’s shortcomings.
So I don’t know that Ron Paul’s claim that "Freedom is Popular" is altogether true if we’re talking about real freedom. Nonetheless, it’s a good message and I really like how he’s been getting to the essence of the message; which is, that good people don’t force their will upon other people. Of course, talking "freedom" where the presumption is that people ought to be free to be as stupid or as quirky or eccentric or perverted as they want to be in one thing. The freedom to produce and to receive all of what one has bargained for and owing no one anything for that right (it’s not a privilege) is quite another.
The "Philosophy of Liberty" link over to your far right lays it out in more explicit terms for those interested.
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Ron has never voted to raise taxes.
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Ron has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
Ron has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
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Ron voted against the Patriot Act.
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Ron votes against the United Nations.
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How can you not love this guy listen to him he is truly a man who
tells the truth "We The People" are taking our country back and
restoring the original Constitutional Republic and returning Amerika
back to America not the "United States of Surveillance"
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor
moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling
through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor—he speaks in the accents
familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and
he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He
rots the soul of a nation—he works secretly and unknown in the night
to undermine the pillars of a city—he infects the body politic so
that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
— Cicero: orator, statesman, political theorist, lawyer and
philosopher of Ancient Rome.
"In the time of universal deceit, telling the truth
is a revolutionary act" GEORGE ORWELL
"None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
— Goethe
Chris:
Wow. You must have an alert set, or something. And you clearly have a prepared comment. That post hasn't been up but three minutes. Not even long enough to have watched the video. But I'm sure you've already see it.
Gotta love your spirit and enthusiasm. Keep it up. It's probably futile, but keep it up.