by Ron Paul
Until the late 1990s, individuals interested in Austrian economics, U.S. constitutional history, and libertarian philosophy had few sources of information. They had to spend hours scouring used book stores or the back pages of obscure libertarian periodicals to find the great works of Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, and other giants of liberty. Local library and university collections ignored libertarian politics and economics.
Today, however, the greatest classics of libertarian thought, libertarian philosophy, and libertarian economics are available instantly to anyone with internet access. Thanks to the internet, it is easier than ever before for liberty activists to spread news and other information regarding the evils of government power and the benefits of freedom. For the first time in human history, supporters of liberty around the world can share information across borders quickly and cheaply. Without the filter of government censors, this information emboldens millions to question governments and promote liberty.
This is why liberty-minded Americans must do everything possible to oppose– and stop– government attempts to censor or limit the free flow of information online.
One such attempt is known as “CISPA”, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. This bill will create a monstrous coalition of big business and big government to rob Americans of their protections under the 4th Amendment of the Constitution.
CISPA permits both the federal government and private companies to view your private online communications with no judicial oversight, provided they merely do so in the name of “cybersecurity.” But America is a constitutional republic, not a surveillance state– and the wildly overhyped need for security does not trump the Constitution.
“Cybersecurity” is the responsibility of companies that operate and make money in cyberspace, not taxpayers. Those companies should develop market-based private solutions to secure their networks, servers, cloud data centers, and user/customer information. The role of the US intelligence community is to protect the United States from military threats, not to provide corporate welfare to the private sector. Much like the TSA at the airport, CISPA would socialize security costs and remove market incentives for private firms to protect their own investments.
Imagine security-cleared agents embedded at private companies to serve as conduits for intelligence information about their customers back to the US intelligence community– while enjoying immunity from any existing civil or criminal laws. Imagine Google or Facebook reporting directly to the National Security Agency about the online activity of US citizens. Imagine US government resources being wasted on a grand scale to “assist” private companies in the global market. All of this would become reality under CISPA.
As of this writing, it appears that the House and Senate will not agree on a final version of CISPA this year. However, the Obama administration seems ready to impose provisions of this bill by executive order if Congress does not act soon.
The past five years have seen an explosion in the liberty movement, fueled in large part by the internet. Preserving that freedom is crucial if the liberty movement is to continue its progress. Therefore, all activists in the liberty movement have a stake in the battle for internet freedom. We must be ready to come together to fight any attempt to increase government’s power over the internet, regardless of the supposed justifications. We must resist voices from both the political right and left which alternatively seek to legislate morality or enforce political correctness with force. Copyright protection, pornography, cyberterrorism, gambling, and “hate speech” are merely excuses for doing what all governments have done throughout human history: increase their size, scope, and power.
Once we understand this, we understand the critical link between internet freedom and human freedom.
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Amazing that the people have been bamboozled into thinking that either Barack or Mitt are a solution — when both are AGAINST these principles upon which our Nation was built!
PRINCIPLES we must stand by!
“A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have….” Thomas Jefferson
“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.” DOROTHY THOMPSON
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.” FREDERICK DOUGLAS
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.” —Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” EDMUND BURKE
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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Voting for either anti-American would be legitimizing the further government corruption that seems to have no end!
VOTE for Garry Johnson — who stands for these principles, or face the dire consequences of failing to do so — TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA!
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Another garbage propaganda speaking for Gary Johnson as a supporter!
RON PAUL 2012 AND RESTORE AMERICA NOW!
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VOTE for Gary Johnson (do not write-in Ron Paul, please)!
Here is why:
The Establishment fears Ron Paul so much that they will do anything to stop him and his (our) movement for Liberty on the election level.
The Apparatchiks have been instructed to shred all write-in ballots where Ron Paul’s name appears (for proof just watch after the election and see if Ron Paul is even mentioned, let alone how many votes he got)!
Gary Johnson is on the ballot in all 50 States — and agrees with about 90% of what Ron Paul stands for — so a vote for him is a vote COUNTED against the wannabe despots of America! (Plus, if he breaks the 5+% level, the Libertarian Party (Ron Paul’s original party) will be eligible for federal funds to the tune of about 90 million dollars for the next election — and no longer will be a financial shoe-string operation!!!).
VOTE GARY JOHNSON — do NOT get bamboozled into voting for the “lesser of two evils”: the Kenyan Barack or Mitt the Mormon!
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Ron Paul ran for the GOP nomination, but they kicked him out because they didn’t like his ideas.
This man is a personal hero of mine. After watching thousands of his videos, I’ve seen that the two main parties are, in reality, what have caused our depression through complex economic tricks that benefit them and their friends. This is why so many have been chanting “End the Fed” this election cycle.
Vote Gary Johnson. Neither Obama nor Romney want to help you, just themselves.
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Write In Ron Paul 2012 and tell all of the Gary Johnson supporters out there to take a hike and go away!
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You are correct to say that empire and compulsive intervention into the afairs of other sovereign nations will continue under either candidate. Deficit spending, horrendous military budgets, nation building, militarism, balance of trade deficits and a dumbed-down American people are prescriptions for disaster, and they will remain under either candidate.
Emma Goldman: “If voting changed anything it would be illegal.”
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CISPA
This means private companies can view your online activity. legally. NO.
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CISPA
This means private companies can view your online activity. legally. NO.
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SHUT UP YOU LYING GARY JOHNSON SUPPORTER SCUMBAG TRAITOR!
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SHUT UP YOU LIAR GARY JOHNSON SUPPORTER SCUMBAG TRAITOR!
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Rand Paul’s pro-liberty record:
Filibustered the Patriot Act
Blocked a bill from being interpreted as authorizing war on Iran or Syria
Introduced a bill that would end warrantless domestic drone surveillance
Voted against SOPA and CISPA
Opposes the TSA
Stopped an increase in minimum punishments for drug crimes
Opposes the NDAA
Removed a provision that would’ve allowed detainment even with a court ruling of innocence
Thumbs up for RAND PAUL 2016!!!!!
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I appreciate Ron Paul. I accept his choice to stay silent. The ideas mean more than his name. Ron Paul = Libertarian in Republican clothes. One day in a history book somewhere he will be labeled as the man who shifted the youth at the time, some of the GOP and some Democrats to the Libertarian idea. I am a Libertarian. Ron Paul just pointed me/us in the right direction.
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Philippe Desrameaux — Bravo!
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Would ask all that find merit in the below to SPREAD IT! Thanks.
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VOTE for Gary Johnson (do not write-in Ron Paul, please)!
Here is why:
The Establishment fears Ron Paul so much that they will do anything to stop him and his (our) movement for Liberty on the election level (since so far they have not been able to control the internet, and thus shut us down completely)!
The Major Networks will show after the election NOTHING for Ron Paul (not even that he got ANY of the Vote, for that would be admitting that some actually dared to write-in his name).
The Apparatchiks have been instructed to shred all write-in ballots where Ron Paul’s name appears (for proof just watch after the election and see if Ron Paul is even mentioned, let alone how many votes he got)!
Gary Johnson is on the ballot in all 50 States — so a vote for him is a vote COUNTED against the wannabe despots of America! (Plus, if he breaks the 5+% level, the Libertarian Party (Ron Paul’s original party) will be eligible for federal funds to the tune of about 90 million dollars for the next election — and no longer will be a financial shoe-string operation!!!).
VOTE GARY JOHNSON (or write-in Ron Paul if you must) — as long as you vote for what you realize is BEST for our Nation, and NOT get bamboozled into voting again for the “lesser of two evils”: the Kenyan Barack or Mitt the Mormon (this path only leads to more and bigger evil, for the next election cycle…should there be one)!!!
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To all of the Ron Paul haters out there that supported Gary Johnson!
Gary Johnson is a liar! He did NOT leave a budget surplus at all! He left a budget deficit much worse than Bruce King and Barack Obama! He increased spending by 240% much worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger by 40% and lost thousands of jobs under his watch!
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Ya know what’s wrong with you fuckin’ Paultards? I’ll tell ya what’s wrong with you.
You want what you want and you want it right now …..just like the little crybabies that you really are.
WAA WAA WAAAAAH!
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Ron Paul sucks the monkey’s pud and so do the xtians.
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BTW, when did I say that being pro-choice was the same as being an Anarchist? I said you’re an Anarchist who says that: “a fetus is a parasite. Pure and simple.”
That’s pretty consistent with the moral fiber of every Anarchist I’ve ever spoken to. They can barely make it through a conversation without calling people “christards”, stupid sheep, cretins… You get the drift. One thing is connected to the other.
Pro-murder = Pro running your mouth and denigrating everyone around you.
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BTW, when did I say that being pro-choice was the same as being an Anarchist? I said you’re an Anarchist who says that: “a fetus is a parasite. Pure and simple.”
That’s pretty consistent with the moral fiber of every Anarchist I’ve ever spoken to. They can barely make it through a conversation without calling people “christards”, stupid sheep, cretins… You get the drift. One thing is connected to the other.
Pro-murder = Pro running your mouth and denigrating everyone around you.
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Here’s Jane Roe from Roe Vs Wade. I hope you never understand the pain she feels.
watch?v=AjSqpm3iC8s&feature=plcp
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He did run for the Republican but he was basically robbed. He should of won the nomination but from what i can see, the GOP or what ever it is is rigged. (an opinion from a foreigner)
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Pro choice does not mean the same as anarchist.
Fetuses aren’t people, that’s why they’re called fetuses.
The president can’t control abortion policy anyway, Roe v Wade is still in effect. I would agree with Dr Paul’s “let the states decide their own policy” but I’m glad Roe v Wade is there to protect women’s right to choose from social conservative retards such as yourself.
Good day.
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Pro choice does not mean the same as anarchist.
Fetuses aren’t people, that’s why they’re called fetuses.
The president can’t control abortion policy anyway, Roe v Wade is still in effect. I would agree with Dr Paul’s “let the states decide their own policy” but I’m glad Roe v Wade is there to protect women’s right to choose from social conservative retards such as yourself.
Good day.
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Pro choice does not mean the same as anarchist.
Fetuses aren’t people, that’s why they’re called fetuses.
The president can’t control abortion policy anyway, Roe v Wade is still in effect. I would agree with Dr Paul’s “let the states decide their own policy” but I’m glad Roe v Wade is there to protect women’s right to choose from social conservative retards such as yourself.
Good day.
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Robin,
Yes, I usually have a good memory, especialy when people talk about frequent guests on the Alex’s Jones Show.
Here is Bev Harris interview:
It starts at: 1:09: 40
The Alex Jones Show – Wednesday, October 24, 2012 (Full Show)
http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.ca/2012/10/the-alex-jones-show-wednesday-october.html
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“a fetus is a parasite. Pure and simple.”
Spoken like a good Gary Johnson Anarchist.
Speaking of parasites, I see Anarchists as parasites living inside the liberty movement, something worthless in the defense of liberty, something that can’t exist on their own and needs to hid in OWS camps and Libertarian rallies.
If you think it’s okay to kill insignificant people who you define as a disease, let’s put Anarchists second in line behind a fetus. Let’s call that justice and liberty?
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Nothing Good!
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You know that’s not true at all, but you wish it was. I go work and am surrounded by people who care, and wish they lived in a country where Ron Paul can win, where Liberty can win, where we get justice rather than injustice.
Things get worse before they get better.
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Nobody cares!
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What is your fetus then if not a person; a disease? A wart you’re having removed? Something so small and insignificant that it as a human being is okay to destroy?
Well, if a fetus is okay, than I say Anarchists are next.
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A lot of people are going to regret not voting for this man. By then it will be too late.
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>Kill people
Sorry, not people, foetuses.
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Do not miss this powerful interview done on October 22, 2012:
Lew Rockwell: A Return to Totalitarianism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACwpv_xAD5I
And today on the show one of the guests will be: writer, activist, and founder of Black Box Voting Inc., Bev Harris, about voting fraud and fixed elections. Harris is the author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century.
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Hi French Canadian. Got a chance to talk to Bev Harris last year for almost an hour. What an upbeat and committed woman she is for trying to keep elections transparent and honest. Sounds like she’s been helping so many people in their communities around the US. Wish we could clone her. A very down to earth person who said she is willing to help anyone anytime who just shows her some initiative that they will follow through. My sister=in-law today asked if I watched the debates, and my response, why would I waste my time because they are just like pro=wrestling=staged just for show and to keep the masses distracted and thinking there is any real difference and that our vote counts. She used to be a Obama supporter until we got her to vote for Ron Paul. Told her today why we are now voting for Gary Johnson and why, but I suspect she will vote for Obama. Talked to a young man with a family the other day and he is voting for Obama because he believes he is looking out for the little guy. Says he doesn’t get his info. from the MSM, but says he gets it from alternative sources. Likes Ron Paul and Gary Johnson but didn’t vote for them he said because they never had a chance of winning. Will ask if he ever listens to Alex Jones, Ben Swann, Lew Rockwell, etc. Just saw a post that read not all Libertarians support Ron Paul and Gary Johnson=some support Ralph Nadar.
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Hi Robin,
Yes, I know you talked to Bev Harris last year for an hour… I remember you saying this on this site. This is why I wanted you to know that she is on the Alex Jones Show today. If you want, after midnight, I will post her interview on this site. Can’t do it before midnight… but after that time, every site on Internet as the permission to post the whole show for free.
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Thank you. You have a good memory. I will listen to it when you post it. My son is finishing up his essay for the Voice of Democracy contest, so we’ll see what he has to say about the Constitution and it’s relevance today. He has his own ideas.
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It has very much to do with the government, but should not be CONTROLLED by the government. He who shall not be named is AGAINST gay marriage, as he says that is just because of his own religion. He is taking religion into politics. Mr. Paul here however said once that he believes marriage rights between homosexuals and the like should be decided by the state.
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“Your fears are now revealed”
ROFL
Anarchist, you have NOTHING to do with Libertarianism. You’re WORTHLESS in the defense of liberty because as you say: “no individual with real knowledge of liberty wants to impose values by force.”
I value justice, and the use of force is just in the defense of liberty, otherwise it’s all for not. Libertarians support liberty because we want a society and government that serves JUSTICE, not injustice.
Anarchists want a free market of profane overlords.
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Gary Johnson supporter: “You christards pretend you love liberty until someone else does something you don’t agree with.”
Like killing human beings? Ya sorry. That’s my pesky Libertarian way. Your rights don’t include the autonomous choice to kill people without facing justice. Do you even know what liberty is?
Welcome to a civilized society that values human life, and thank your lucky stars for it, because if it wasn’t for “God and that moldy book”; you’d be in big trouble.
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