chemTrailActivist · @chemTrailActivi
26th Apr 2014 from TwitLonger
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Ron Paul CG #06 – The Authoritarian State
Ron Paul & Charles Goyette, 4/25/14
“We’re suffering today from a philosophy where the people have accepted authoritarianism thinking they’re going to all benefit from it, but they don’t realize that the system really backfires on them…Granting this power means the powerful special interests are going to rule…”
According to Dr. Paul, authoritarianism, “Invites those people who can get benefits, manipulate the tax code, manipulate the military-industrial complex, work for the benefits and the grants and the special privileges.”
“One of the main purposes of a government in a republic is to protect liberty…Authoritarianism, is essentially, the way I see it, the opposite of what freedom is about.”
http://tinyurl.com/lntk87m
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Waco and Bundy Ranch standoffs, eavesdropping on American citizens, forcing Americans to purchase insurance, regime change overseas — has the US become an authoritarian state? Speaking with Charles Goyette, Ron Paul says that, sadly, we are already there. In a republic, the job of government is to protect liberty, he adds, but unfortunately the US government is instead focused on exercising its power over people.
One of worst areas where authoritarianism gets out of control, said Dr. Paul, is in all the militarism. All you have to do is listen to some of the neocons on TV on liberal and conservative stations — and the ones in Congress — and they tout all this patriotism and Americanism and our superiority, he said. But they are just supporting the military-industrial complex and getting us involved in places we have no business being.
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Politicians and bureaucrats can, and will, arbitrarily change the rules governing the land.
In the 19th century, some Americans moved to Nevada because the government promised them that they, and their descendants, would always be able to use the federally-owned land.
The Nevada ranchers believed they had an implied contract with the government allowing them to use the land for grazing.
When government bureaucrats decided they needed to restrict grazing to protect the desert tortoise, they used force to drive most ranchers away.
By contrast, if the Nevada land in question was privately owned, the dispute over whether to allow the ranchers to continue to use the land would have likely been resolved without sending in federal armed agents to remove the Bundys’ cattle from the land.
This is one more reason why the federal government should rid itself of all federal land holdings.
Selling federal lands would also help reduce the federal deficit.
It is unlikely that Congress will divest the federal government’s land holdings, as most in government are more interested in increasing government power than in protecting and restoring private property rights.
A government that continually violates our rights of property and contract can fairly be descried as authoritarian.