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Ron Paul gör oväntat uttalande om moskén

13:09 Monday 23 August, 2010
Skriven av Peo
Om : Religion, Ron Paul (r) , Kommentera

Ron Paul är inte fullt så kritiskt till moskén som alla andra i Tea Party verkar vara. Tvärtom.

Is the controversy over building a mosque near ground zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery?

It has been said, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Are we not overly preoccupied with this controversy, now being used in various ways by grandstanding politicians? It looks to me like the politicians are “fiddling while the economy burns.”

The debate should have provided the conservative defenders of property rights with a perfect example of how the right to own property also protects the 1st Amendment rights of assembly and religion by supporting the building of the mosque.

Instead, we hear lip service given to the property rights position while demanding that the need to be “sensitive” requires an all-out assault on the building of a mosque, several blocks from “ground zero.”

Just think of what might (not) have happened if the whole issue had been ignored and the national debate stuck with war, peace, and prosperity. There certainly would have been a lot less emotionalism on both sides. The fact that so much attention has been given the mosque debate, raises the question of just why and driven by whom?

In my opinion it has come from the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia and are compelled to constantly justify it.

They never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill conceived preventative wars. A select quote from soldiers from in Afghanistan and Iraq expressing concern over the mosque is pure propaganda and an affront to their bravery and sacrifice.

The claim is that we are in the Middle East to protect our liberties is misleading. To continue this charade, millions of Muslims are indicted and we are obligated to rescue them from their religious and political leaders. And, we’re supposed to believe that abusing our liberties here at home and pursuing unconstitutional wars overseas will solve our problems.

The nineteen suicide bombers didn’t come from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iran. Fifteen came from our ally Saudi Arabia, a country that harbors strong American resentment, yet we invade and occupy Iraq where no al Qaeda existed prior to 9/11.

Many fellow conservatives say they understand the property rights and 1st Amendment issues and don’t want a legal ban on building the mosque. They just want everybody to be “sensitive” and force, through public pressure, cancellation of the mosque construction.

This sentiment seems to confirm that Islam itself is to be made the issue, and radical religious Islamic views were the only reasons for 9/11. If it became known that 9/11 resulted in part from a desire to retaliate against what many Muslims saw as American aggression and occupation, the need to demonize Islam would be difficult if not impossible.

There is no doubt that a small portion of radical, angry Islamists do want to kill us but the question remains, what exactly motivates this hatred?

If Islam is further discredited by making the building of the mosque the issue, then the false justification for our wars in the Middle East will continue to be acceptable.

The justification to ban the mosque is no more rational than banning a soccer field in the same place because all the suicide bombers loved to play soccer.

Conservatives are once again, unfortunately, failing to defend private property rights, a policy we claim to cherish. In addition conservatives missed a chance to challenge the hypocrisy of the left which now claims they defend property rights of Muslims, yet rarely if ever, the property rights of American private businesses.

Defending the controversial use of property should be no more difficult than defending the 1st Amendment principle of defending controversial speech. But many conservatives and liberals do not want to diminish the hatred for Islam–the driving emotion that keeps us in the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia.

It is repeatedly said that 64% of the people, after listening to the political demagogues, don’t want the mosque to be built. What would we do if 75% of the people insist that no more Catholic churches be built in New York City? The point being is that majorities can become oppressors of minority rights as well as individual dictators. Statistics of support is irrelevant when it comes to the purpose of government in a free society—protecting liberty.

The outcry over the building of the mosque, near ground zero, implies that Islam alone was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. According to those who are condemning the building of the mosque, the nineteen suicide terrorists on 9/11 spoke for all Muslims. This is like blaming all Christians for the wars of aggression and occupation because some Christians supported the neo-conservative’s aggressive wars.

Ändringar i konstitutionen

07:08 Wednesday 11 August, 2010
Skriven av Peo
Om : Ron Paul (r), USA , Kommentera

Libertarianer och Tea Party anhängare med Ron Paul i spetsen har länge framstått som konstitutionens främsta förespråkare. Under senare tid har det dock framgått att republikanerna och kanske speciellt sonen Rand Paul märkligt nog vill ändra en hel del i konstitutionen.

En lång lista på ändringar presenteras i den här videon cirka 4 minuter in. Men se hela videon för en förklaring av hur svårt det är att ändra konstitutionen i verkligheten.

Mitt Romney vann första testet inför presidentvalet 2012

02:07 Sunday 11 April, 2010
Skriven av Peo
Om : Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee (r), Mitt Romney (r), Newt Gingrich (r), Republikanerna, Ron Paul (r), Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty , Kommentera

Under den precis avslutade Southern Republican Leadership conference i New Orleans vann Mitt Romney omröstningen om vem deltagarna vill se som partiets presidentkandidat. Det är ett styrkebesked eftersom han själv inte deltog. På plats fanns dock konkurrenterna Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum och Mike Pence. Ron Paul var också på plats och tippades vinna denna omröstning, men blev slagen med en ynka röst.

Mitt Romney 439 (24%)
Ron Paul 438 (24%)
Sarah Palin 18%
Newt Gingrich 18%

Tim Pawlenty och Mike Huckabee var inte heller där. Några kandidater som var på plats fegade ur och strök sina namn från omröstningen: Rick Perry, Haley Barbour och Bobby Jindal.

Både Romney och Paul hade betalat anhängare för att delta på konferensen. Paulanhängare hade sponsrat 600 personer, medan en Romneygrupp betalat för 200.

Huckabee nu favorit inför 2012?

21:26 Saturday 19 September, 2009
Skriven av Peo
Om : Jeb Bush, John McCain (r), Mike Huckabee (r), Mitt Romney (r), Newt Gingrich (r), Presidentkandidaterna, Ron Paul (r), Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty , 1 kommentar

Mike Huckabee vann en viktig omröstning som följs av många konservativa på Value Voters mötet i Washington idag. Sarah Palin och Newt Gingrich deltog inte men i övrigt var “alla” där som tex Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee och Pence.

Mike Huckabee 28 % (170 röster)
Mitt Romney 12 % (74 röster)
Tim Pawlenty 12 % (73 röster)
Sarah Palin 12 % (72 röster)
Mike Pence 12 % (71 röster)

Längre ner på listan fanns: Newt Gingrich (40 röster), Bobby Jindal (28), Rick Santorum (15), Ron Paul (13).

Ron Paul i Sacha Baron Cohens nya komedi

07:04 Tuesday 16 June, 2009
Skriven av Peo
Om : Homosexualitet, Ron Paul (r), Satir & humor , Kommentera

Spanar du riktigt noga kan du se Ron Paul lätt upprörd i trailern för Sacha Baron Cohens (Borat) nya komedi:

Brüno handlar om en österrikisk fashionista som är gay. Efter att programmet lagts ner i Österrike bär det iväg till USA för ett försök att återuppliva karriären.

I den fem minuter långa scenen med fd presidentkandidaten och republikanske kongressledamoten från Texas försöker Brüno förföra honom på ett hotellrum i Washington.

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