7 thoughts on “Why I Like Him”

  1. I’ll be honest. I can’t get a good grasp on wether I like him or not. In my limited knowledge, I’m with him on every position except the war. The war is a big one for me, so that’s a bit of a stumbling block. I can appreciate someone who sticks to their convictions though. The jury is still out I guess.

  2. I can understand that. I think he does a great job of explaining things in the video though. War is the favorite tool of the state to consolidate power, and wrestle power away from the people, which diminishes freedom.

    I supported the war in the beginning, when the purpose was to depose Saddam Hussein. However, when the purpose changed to an ill-defined attempt to wipe out terror groups and set up an American-style “Democracy”, my support was withdrawn. I don’t believe that we have lost, as the media would like us to believe. However, I don’t think we can win the war as it is currently defined. I am for withdrawl at this point. I think it needs to be done in a way so as to save face and not embolden Al Qaida, but we need to leave. Perhaps we can find a way to blame the new Iraqi government, which seems to be intent on using our soldiers as free permanent security services rather than strengthening its own services so as not to need our boys over there. The only thing I differ with Paul on is the speed of withdrawal, as I think he would prefer to leave quickly and without regard to our reputation.

    The argument for the war is that it is best to fight the terrorists over there than here on our own soil. While I appreciate that argument, I am for more afraid of my own government than I am of distant Jihadist boogeymen. I am quite confident that if people had a correct understanding of one’s right – and responsibility – to self defense (keeping and bearing arms), terrorism would not be a problem in America.

    I really feel that our nation is at a crossroads. We can either turn to men like Ron Paul to turn our country back in the direction of freedom and self-determination, or we can continue our slow suicidal spiral to death. We are heading right now in the same path that Rome went when it degraded from a Republic to an authoritarian Empire. We need Ron Paul to remind the people that the socialistic poison we are devouring is going to destroy us.

  3. I’m not nere as up to date on these issues as you are. You make very compelling arguments, I’ll give you that. AS far as the U.S. to Rome comparison, I guess the best indicator of the future is the past. I’ve felt for quite some time that we are on a downward spiral, however, I have no ansers as to how to fix it. I’m of the opinion that it is due to the moral decay that exsists today. The country has abandoned our roots, and turned to “sins of the flesh” fo rather than God for support. We’ve lost our blessing. Just a thought. I’m not disagreeing with you on anything.

  4. Sadly, I fear you are right about the moral decay. Our Constitutional system of limited government is the answer to all our problems, but it only works if the people have a moral foundation guided by Judeo-Christian ethics. Not everyone at the time of the ratification of the Constitution was Christian (or Jew), but those who weren’t were just as willing to live by Christianity’s rules as the Christians. They understood the logic behind the morality. Today people wish to create their own morality, which basically boils down to “if it feels good, it must be good.”

  5. “I am quite confident that if people had a correct understanding of one’s right – and responsibility – to self defense (keeping and bearing arms), terrorism would not be a problem in America.”

    I’m curious about that paragraph… I might just not have a “correct” understanding. It seems to me that if every one of us carried guns on our persons, we would be shooting each other quite often. Not everyone is sober minded enough to controll themselves. Also not sure how that would stop a terrorist from hi-jacking a plane and flying it into a sky scraper. I suppose someone on the plane would have shot him?

  6. EZ,
    Though you may have been for the war in the beginning and changed your mind, I think that we are in now was the intent from the beginnning. You said yourself war was the tool to consolidate power. One must always ask the question, who benefits. One need not look far to see who has. This was ans has always been a war waged to consolidate power. Terrorism was just a convenient excuse.

  7. True enough. In the end I was probably wrong to support the war initially, when it was to depose Saddam. Though had we pulled out when Bush declared the war won (mission accomplished), my opinion would likely have remained unchanged.

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