No Treason

Another rambling, indirect, wasteful performance today by Ron Paul.  He gets 5 minutes to question Geithner, and should have asked him about his comments to the CFR regarding the dollar, or any of the hundred other pressing issues of the day, but instead he has another ad lib ramble about innocent until proven guilty, which Geithner easily evades without saying anything meaningful.

I don’t even know why Lew Rockwell links to this stuff, because Ron has been off a lot more than he has been on lately.  Would it kill him to make a forceful prepared statement Daniel Hannan style?

The other day, Paul defended his style of questioning, I think it was on Glen Beck.  That wasn’t convincing either.  We can all get all of the Ron Paul opinion time we want on the ‘net.  He has published books, he has his Texas Straight talk, he gives speeches on the house floor, he’s on TV a couple times a week.

But when he gets a few minutes to challenge those in power, he turns into an ideologue and a wallflower and it is immensely frustrating.

Bill Anderson on the LRC blog writes,

Lew, as I watch that video, it dawns on me that Ron Paul might as well be speaking Ancient Greek to Geithner (emphasis mine). Most people in Washington have no clue as to what he means about delegation of powers, or what we have called the “Non-delegation Clause” of the U.S. Constitution.

And that is the point.  Because Ron chooses not to properly prepare and goes off on esoteric tangents, he comes off as speaking in Greek, and the clever bureaucrats play dumb and can avoid answering him.  Ron is not speaking to a friendly audience where he can deliver the same lines and stories over and over, but he’s there as an investigator and an interrogator.

I appreciate everything Ron Paul has exposed me to, and his personal sacrifices to further liberty, but it’s not hard to see how a guy can be punchless in the Congress for so long, when he just can’t ask a few direct questions, and insists upon going on and on about abstract moral and ethical issues that don’t even relate to the hearings.

What a wasted opportunity.  And opportunities are so few they can’t be squandered so carelessly.

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Too much happened with the bailout today, I didn’t have time to document it. Tomorrow will be a mega-update.

I will say there is so much backlash against the bailout, I’m loving it. If the bailout goes through and then inevitably fails to accomplish it’s goals, that pushes RP further into the spot light and agitates the people more.

If it doesn’t go through, those idiots in the United States Congress will have been put on notice. People will not stand for their corruption and ignorance any longer.

Win, win.

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Today was exciting, because it was the day that former (some say current) neocon neolibertarian Bob Barr decided to melt his campaign down. Not that it was much of a campaign, he struggled to get on ballots, he struggled to differentiate himself from the other candidates (informing people you are different, “Bob Barr is different from the Bob Barr you know, and Bob Barr is also not John McCain”) and he has struggled to create any energy or excitement about his campaign.

So today, I tried to post on the Bob Barr 2008 blog in the comments, and the site went down for what seemed to be a long time, then it came back, but comments were turned off.

So I posted a comment to another post from today, and it was moderated, and has been censored, with later comments showing up on the site, but not mine.

Now my comment wasn’t rude, mean etc. but it was critical. I believe I posted, “Is today the day the Barr campaign implodes?”

Regardless, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to spin control for the shenanigans perpetrated by the Barr campaign today. I mean, big deal if Shane Cory has a tiny ego and the Barr staff have to sock puppet post to their own campaign blog to defend Bob’s lousy actions. Even censorship is not surprising, as Bob was the least libertarian of all of the potential LP candidates at the convention! Statism for the win Bob and Shane!

So I also want to point out what mental midgets the LP are. Read this,

I have been hearing a lot from many LP Members about concerns over Bob Barr not attending Ron Paul’s press conference.

However, before you form an opinion, perhaps you may want to consider the facts and not rely on blogs for your news.

Guess where that was posted? Yep, on an LP blog.

The LP is a joke. They select a former CIA agent, and neocon mega-statist to be their leader, and he can only pull that selection off, by making a deal with his VP Wayne Allyn Root, whom Barr threw under the bus today.

So the LP compromises on quality, integrity and ability (blog posting an advisory not to read blogs for news), and now is performing what FSK might term, “the Death March“, pathetic antics meant to distract from and apologize for the shortcomings of Bob Barr and his stillborn campaign, by blaming it on someone else they seek to eject from the liberty message political sphere.

Next year, Ron Paul will be in Congress. Bob Barr will be a memory of when the LP sold it’s soul for electoral success, instead of principled gains towards a libertarian future.

Almost 12 hours after Barr stood up the Campaign for Liberty, the future still belongs to Ron Paul.

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Ron Paul held a press conference, urging his supporters to vote 3rd party. The candidates, including Bob Barr, who was not present and continues to squander opportunities, all agreed to a 4 point plan detailed here.

Basically, Foreign policy, privacy, national debt and the Federal Reserve. The 4th is the most important point.

Returning recently to the Ron Paul Forums, DailyPaul and Campaign for Liberty sites, I’ve been so disappointed that people were still very focused on electoral politics, and not on the monetary and economic liberty issues. Electoral politics are useless, as long as the system of corruption and theft is not directly attacked, and attacked primarily through the illegal, immoral and unconstitutional Federal Reserve system.

The great thing about this press conference, is that left candidates like McKinney and Nader will carry the FED message back to their supporters, who are probably oblivious to the way that institution works, or how it enables the warfare and corporatist state, while robbing from those dependent on the welfare state, keeping them in a permanent state of poverty and servitude.

This is a huge opportunity, and I hope that the CFL and the individual candidates capitalize on that opportunity to generate a legitimate movement, not just in America, but worldwide, to get rid of inflationary fiat money and central banking.

Any RPers who are reading this, please, please, please I plead of you, it is necessary that you learn how the monetary system works, and precisely why sound, free market money is a must if there is ever going to be a smaller state, and an end to the usurpations of fascist big government.

I will post a follow up with some resources to get people started, in the meanwhile Tom Woods at the CFL seems to be the most knowledgeable person there about the inner workings and history of the Federal Reserve system. Lean on him for knowledge, he’s a great resource to have in the struggle for liberty.

Also, Bob Barr not attending does irritate me. He’s intentionally avoided confronting the monetary system which is why I feel that he is not gaining traction and people are not buying into his campaign.

If Bob wants people to trust him, he will have to take risks, speak truth to power, and attack the state at it’s central nexus. Libertarians are not stupid, and his campaign generates next to zero excitement, because he’s boring, dour and cowardly in his approach.

Bob, you screwed up by missing this press conference. You can make it up by standing up to the FED starting today.

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