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Ron Paul on the Alan Colmes Show

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8274tKej8
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6etSBfKABZM
Show: Alan Colmes Show
Date: 4/21/2009
Transcript:
Alan Colmes: I’m Alan Colmes, and I want to welcome back to the microphone Ron Paul, the Congressman from Texas who served in Congress on and off for almost 30 years, ran for president in 1988 as a Libertarian Party candidate, sought the Republican nomination this time around. Dr. [...]

The Solution to Piracy: Self-Defense and Marque & Reprisal

In his latest column Ron Paul offers a beautifully simple, inexpensive and constitutional solution to the growing piracy problem: First, allow ship owners and operators to defend themselves. Second, issue letters of marque and reprisal to private individuals and organizations to hunt down and capture pirates. — tmartin

Download the column as an MP3 file here [...]

Ron Paul: How to Fight Somali Pirates

Channel: Fox News
Date: 4/15/2009
Transcript:
Newscaster: These attacks on US ships off the coast of Africa pose a huge problem for the US Navy. The issue is real estate and manpower, just how do you police an area larger than the Eastern Seaboard of the United States while trying to fight two wars in the Middle East [...]

Ron Paul, Peter Schiff on Freedom Watch

This April 15, Ron Paul joined Peter Schiff, Lew Rockwell, Michelle Muccio, Shelly Roche and Liam Fox on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s online show “Freedom Watch” in a refreshing discussion about Somali Pirates, a recent DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremism, and other economic and political developments.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-BvWg3e1I (Ron Paul)
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVboJmwzYx0 (Ron Paul)
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ4NbiFs3lw
Part [...]

Ron Paul: Allow Ships To Defend Themselves Against Pirates

Source: Campaign for Liberty
Recorded on: April 12, 2009
Today the American people heard the good news that the American ship captain who was being held hostage by the pirates in the Indian Ocean off the shores of Somalia was released and this is very good that his life was spared. But it does raise some questions [...]