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UPDATE III: 'That's How Ron Paul Rolls' (Tosses & Gores Trump )
written by Ilana Mercer on 12.05.11
Finally, Ron Paul takes the gloves off and goes hard-core. Yes, we want to drain the swamp. Yes, we are tired of the Tea-Party bark which has turned into the whimper of little Shih Tzus (or is it shit-so-and-sos). Department of Education? Gone. Interior, Energy, HUD, Commerce? Gone. Later bureaucrats. That's how Ron Paul rolls."
Excellent ad (thank you Roy Bleckert for sending the link). Give me more. If Ron Paul shakes off the shackles of the Beltway libertarians, and sticks to his original Old-Right instincts, we're there. One problem: My man Ron forgot the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The goons must go. That is the first peace offering any candidate of mine must offer up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MXCZVmQ74OA
Now how does a president do all this without his party taking both Houses? And how does he do all this as a pragmatic matter?
UPDATE I: JT ( on Facebook): We need a uniter in this fractured country of ours. If Ron Paul can drum some sanity into the Nation of Islam, what's wrong with that? Today I heard the Left speak fondly of him, on MSNBC, and joke about Paul's cutting everything. Good. We want the Left neutralized. Paul is the candidate most likely to remain on the Right, and unite all factions.
UPDATE II: Newt; Serial Hypocrite and worseserial statist. I feel a visceral urge to vomit each time I see that sanctimonious so-and-so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWKTOCP45zY&feature=player_embedded
UPDATE III (Dec. 6): Paul tosses and gores Trump. Needless to say, BAB won't be covering the upcoming Idiocracy debateand not because Trumpt promised to attend, but was a no-show at the Republican Party of Iowa's annual Reagan Dinner:
- "The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee rejects the selection of Donald Trump as moderator for the Republican presidential debate to be held on December 27th in Iowa.
- "We have conferred with our Iowa campaign chairman Drew Ivers and vice-chairmen David Fischer and A.J. Spiker who are all RPI State Central Committee Members, and they concur with this decision.
- "The selection of a reality television personality to host a presidential debate that voters nationwide will be watching is beneath the office of the Presidency and flies in the face of that office's history and dignity. Mr. Trump's participation as moderator will distract from questions and answers concerning important issues such as the national economy, crushing federal government debt, the role of the federal government, foreign policy, and the like. To be sure, Mr. Trump's participation will contribute to an unwanted circus-like atmosphere.
- "Mr. Trump's selection is also wildly inappropriate because of his record of toying with the serious decision of whether to compete for our nation's highest office, a decision he appeared to make frivolously. The short-lived elevation of Mr. Trump's stature as a candidate put him on the radar of many organizations and we recall that last spring he was invited to keynote the Republican Party of Iowa's annual Reagan Dinner, yet at the last minute he left RPI holding the bag by canceling. In turn, RPI canceled its biggest fundraising gala of the year and suffered embarrassment and in addition RPI was required to engage in refunding measures. Our candidate will not even consider participating in the late-December debate until Mr. Trump publicly apologizes to Iowa party leaders and rectifies in full the situation.
- "Therefore our candidate Ron Paul, the champion of the Constitution, has advised he will not attend."
- "We have conferred with our Iowa campaign chairman Drew Ivers and vice-chairmen David Fischer and A.J. Spiker who are all RPI State Central Committee Members, and they concur with this decision.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Freedom in Iraq
by Jacob G. Hornberger
According to the New York Times, "The American Embassy in Baghdad has placed sharp new restrictions on how government workers can travel inside the walled-off International Zone, citing serious threats of kidnapping and terrorist attacks across Iraq and near the embassy's own doorstep."
Wait a minute! Isn't Iraq supposed to be the country that is now a paradise of freedom and tranquility? Haven't the Pentagon and the CIA had nine years to bring into existence the model society of "freedom, order, and stability" in the world? Haven't they had free rein to do so, with no interference from the Constitution, Congress, and the federal courts? Haven't they had maximum latitude to employ their nation-building skills and show the world what they could accomplish with nine years of omnipotent power? Haven't they had more than enough time to cleanse the country of everyone who resisted their invasion and occupation?
The fact is that Iraq is now the model for a supreme dysfunctional society, one run by a brutal dictatorial regime, albeit democratically elected, that has, with the help of the U.S. government, killed multitudes of its own people, arbitrarily arrests people without formal charges, incarcerates them indefinitely without trial, tortures them, and even executes them.
In other words, in principle there is no difference between the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein and the regime governing Iraq today. All that's changed is the identity of the dictators and the victims.
Consider Vice-President Biden's recent surprise one-day trip to Iraq. The operative terms are "surprise" and "one-day." There is no way that President Obama or Biden would announce trips to Iraq in advance because it would be unsafe for them to do so. By the same token, neither of them would ever consider the possibility of spending even one night in Iraq for the same reason.
Think about that: Nine years of nation-building and the president and vice-president still don't feel safe about traveling to Iraq. For that matter, neither do any members of Congress, none of whom have chosen Iraq for their vacation junkets. For that matter, I'd be willing to be that not one single American family has taken its summer vacation in Iraq for the past nine years and that none of them has any plans to do so in the foreseeable future.
Ironically, when Iranian officials travel to Iraq, they announce their plans in advance, travel openly, and are happy to stay in the country several days.
So, why do U.S. officials and the mainstream media consider the invasion and nine-year military occupation of Iraq to be such a big success? Because they perceive that Iraq is now governed by a pro-U.S. regime. That's how the success of U.S. foreign policy is measured by the extent to which a foreign regime is pro-U.S.
It doesn't matter how brutal the regime is to its own people. The only thing that matters is: Is the regime pro-U.S. or not? If it is pro-U.S., then that nation is considered to be free and Americans are expected to embrace it. If it is anti-U.S. or independent, it is considered to be an enemy and Americans are expected to oppose it.
If a regime is pro-U.S., it can be expected to receive largess from the U.S. government in the form of millions of dollars in cash or armaments. If a regime is anti-U.S. or independent, it becomes the potential target for punishment or, in the extreme case, of regime change. That's where such things as sanctions, embargoes, coups, assassinations, invasions, and occupations come into play.
U.S. officials now consider Iraq to be free society, owing to the U.S. invasion and nine-year occupation of the country and the installation of what is perceived to be a pro-U.S. regime, notwithstanding the fact that the government and U.S. troops wield the omnipotent power to make arbitrary arrests, detain people indefinitely without trial, torture people, and even execute them after some sort of kangaroo judicial proceeding.
Perhaps that's why the U.S. Congress is now considering permanently granting the same types of powers to the president, the Pentagon, and the CIA as part of their never-ending war on terrorism. The members of Congress apparently want to make the United States as free as the U.S. government has made Iraq.
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-12-06.asp
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