By Congressman Ron Paul - House of Representatives
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The other day, I made a huge "gaffe" on national TV: I told
the truth about the crimes of the U.S. government. As you can imagine,
the ceiling fell in, and a couple of walls too. Congressman are supposed
to support the government, I was told. Oh, it's okay to criticize
around the edges, but there are certain subjects a member of the House
of Representatives is not supposed to bring up. But I touched the real
"third-rail" of American politics, and the sparks sure flew.
I was interviewed on C-SPAN's morning "Washington Journal," and
I used the opportunity, as I do all such media appearances, to point out
how many of our liberties have been stolen by the federal government. We
must take them back. The Constitution, after all, has a very limited role
for Washington, D.C.
If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no
federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership
in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare
for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign
countries; no Nafta, Gatt, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges
usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; and no income tax.
We could get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies,
and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.
That system is called liberty. It's what the Founding Fathers gave us.
Under liberty, we built the greatest, freest, most prosperous, most decent
country on earth. It's no coincidence that the monstrous growth of the
federal government has been accompanied by a sickening decline in living
standards and moral standards. The feds want us to be hamsters on a
treadmill--working hard, all day long, to pay high taxes, but otherwise
entirely docile and controlled. The huge, expensive, and out-of-control
leviathan that we call the federal government wants to run every single
aspect of our lives.
Well, I'm sorry, but that's not America. It's not what the Founders
gave us. It's not the country you believe in. It's not the country
I believe in. So, on that TV interview, I emphasized not only the attacks
on our property, but also the decline of our civil liberties, at the hands
of the federal police. There are not supposed to be any federal police,
according to the Constitution.
Then I really went over the line. I talked about the Waco massacre.
Bill Clinton and Janet Reno claim those 81 church members, including 19
children, burned down their own church and killed themselves, and good
riddance. So they put few survivors on trial, and threw them in prison
for 40 years.
We're not supposed to remember that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms--talk about an unconstitutional agency--rather than arrest
David Koresh on his regular morning jog, called in the TV stations for
big publicity bonanza, and sent a swat team in black masks and black uniforms
to break down his front door, guns blazing. They also sent in a helicopter
gunship, to shoot at the roof of a church full of innocents.
The Branch Davidians resisted, and after a heartless siege of almost
two months, and after cutting off food, water, and electricity, and playing
horrible rock and roll through huge speakers 24 hours a day, the feds sent
in the tanks to crush the walls of the church, and inject poisonous CS
gas. Now, CS gas is banned under the Paris Convention on Chemical Warfare.
The U.S. could not use it in a war. But it could and did use it against
American civilians.
After the tanks did their work on the church, the place burst
into flame, and all 81 people--men, women, children, and babies - were
incinerated in a screaming horror. Did some feds set the fire? Did the
flammable CS gas ignite, since without electricity, the parishioners
were using lanterns? Did a tank knock over a lantern, striking one of the
bales of hay being used against the thin walls as a "defense" against
bullets? Or did the Davidians, as Clinton and Reno claim, kill themselves?
A new documentary- -Waco: The Rules of Engagement- may
show, through FLIR infrared photography, FBI snipers killing the Davidians
by shooting through the back of the church, where no media cameras were
allowed. This film won a prize at the famed Sundance Film Festival. It
was made by people who took the government's side, until they investigated.
Whatever the truth, there's no question that an irresponsible federal
government has innocent blood on its hands, and not only from Waco. And
the refusal of corrupt and perverse liberals to admit it means nothing.
In my r~interview, in answer to a caller's question, I pointed
out that Waco, and the federal murders at Ruby Ridge- especially the FBI
sniper's shot that blasted apart the head of a young mother holding her
baby- caused many Americans to live in fear of federal power. Then I uttered
the sentiment that caused the media hysteria: I said that a lot of Americans
fear that they too might be attacked by federal swat teams for exercising
their constitutional rights, or merely for wanting to be left alone.
Whoa! You've never seen anything like it. For days, in an all-out
assault, I was attacked by Democrats, unions, big business, establishment
Republicans, and- of course- the media, in Washington and my home state
of Texas. Newspapers foamed at the mouth, calling me a "right-wing extremist."
(Say, isn't that what George III called Thomas Jefferson?)
I was even blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing! And by the way, I don't
believe we've gotten the full truth on that either. All my many opponents
were outraged that a Congressman would criticize big government. "If you
don't like Washington, resign!" said a typical big-city newspaper editorial.
But the media, as usual, were all wet. (Do they ever get anything right?)
The average Congressman may go to Washington to wallow in power, and line
his pockets with a big lobbying job for a special interest (so he can keep
ripping-off the taxpayers). But that's not why I'm in Congress. It's not
why I left my medical practice as a physician. It's not why I put up with
all the abuse. It's not why I refuse a plush Congressional pension.
I'm in this fight for a reason. I want to hand on to my children
and grandchildren, and to you and your family, a great and free America,
an America true to her Constitution, an America worthy of her history.
I will not let the crooks and clowns and criminals have their way. I'm
in Congress to represent the ideas of liberty, the ideas that you and I
share, for the people of my district, for the people of Texas, for the
people of America. That's why I'm working to stop federal abuses, and to
cut the government: its taxes, its bureaucrats, its paramilitary police,
its spending, its meddling overseas, and every single unconstitutional
action it takes. And not with a pair of nail scissors, but with a hammer
and chisel. Won't you help me do this work?
Not much of the federal leviathan would be left, if I had my way. But
you'd be able to keep the money you earn, your privacy would be secure,
your dollar would be sound, your local school would be tops, and your kids
wouldn't be sent off to some useless or vicious foreign war to fight for
the UN. But Jefferson and the other Founders would recognize our government,
and our descendants would bless us. By the way, when I say cut taxes, I
don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the
IRS, and replace them with nothing.
Recently, I asked a famous Republican committee chairman-who's
always talking about getting rid of IRS- why he engineered a secret $580
million raise for the tax collectors. "They need it for their computers,"
this guy told me. So the IRS can't extract enough from us as it is! The
National Taxpayers Union says I have the highest pro-taxpayer rating in
Congressional history, that I am the top "Taxpayer's Best Friend." You
know I won't play the Capitol Hill games with the Capitol Hill gang, denouncing
the IRS while giving the Gestapo more of your money. Or figuring out some
other federal tax for them to squeeze out of you. I also want to abolish
the Federal Reserve, and send Alan Greenspan out to get a job.
The value of our dollar and the level of our interest rates are
not supposed to be manipulated by a few members of the power elite meeting
secretly in a marble palace. The Federal Reserve is unconstitutional, pure
and simple. The only Constitutional money is gold and silver, not notes
redeemable in them. Not fed funny money. Without the Federal Reserve, our
money could not be inflated at the behest of big government or big banks.
Your income and savings would not lose their value. Just as important,
we wouldn't have this endless string of booms and busts, recessions and
depressions, with each bust getting worse. They aren't natural to the free
market; they're caused by the schemers at the Fed. President Andrew Jackson
called the 19th-century Fed "The Monster" because it was a vehicle for
inflation and all sorts of special-interest corruption. Let me tell you,
things haven't changed a bit. I also work to save our schools from D.C.
interference. Thanks to the feds, new curriculums not only smear the Founders
as "racist, slave-owning elitists," they seek to dumb down our students
so they will all be equal. "Look-say" reading and the abolition of phonics
has the same purpose, and so does the new "fuzzy" math, in which there
are no right and no wrong answers. That must be what they use in the U.S.
Treasury! It's certainly what they use in the U.S. Congress.
But ever since the beginning of federal aid to education and accelerating
with the establishment of the rotten Department of Education, SAT scores
have been dropping. Schools, with few exceptions, are getting worse every
year. To save our kids, we must get the sticky fingers of the feds off
our local schools, and let parents rule. That's what the Constitution says,
and the Bible too.
And then there's my least favorite topic, the UN. World government is
obviously unconstitutional. It undermines our country's sovereignty in
the worst way possible. That's why I want us out of the UN, and the UN
itself taking a hike. After all, the UN is socialist and corrupt (many
votes can be bought with a "blonde and a case of scotch," one UN ambassador
once said). It costs many billions, and it puts our soldiers in UN uniforms
under foreign commanders, and sends them off to unconstitutional, undeclared
wars. When Michael New, one of the finest young men I've ever met, objected
to wearing UN blue, he was kicked out of the American Army. What an outrage!
Not one dime for the UN, and not one American soldier! Not in Haiti, not
in Bosnia, not in Somalia, not in Rwanda. I know its radical, but how about
devoting American military efforts to defending America, and only America?
Such ideas, said one newspaper reporter, make me a maverick who will
never go far because he won't go along to get along. Darn right! What does
"go far" mean? Get a big government job? To heck with that. And I won't
sell my vote for pork either. When I walked through the U.S. Capitol this
morning, I got angry. The building is filled with statues and painting
of Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founders. Those great men sacrificed
everything to give us a free country, and a Constitution to keep it that
way. When I was first elected, I placed my hand on the Bible and swore
an oath to uphold the Constitution. That's exactly what I'm fighting for.
But such ideas drive the liberals crazy. That's why I badly need your help.
I've been targeted nationally for defeat. The Democrats, the AFL-CIO, the
teachers union, big business PACs, the trial lawyers, the big bankers,
the foreign-aid lobbyists, the big media, and the establishment Republicans
want to dance on my political grave. The Fed, the Education Department,
and the UN are anxious to join in. They can't stand even one person telling
the truth. And they're terrified when that truth gains the people's support.
Sincerely, Ron Paul
U. S. Congressman
203 Cannon,
Washington D.C. 20515
Committee to Re-elect Ron Paul
837 W. Plantation
Clute, Texas 77531
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