On a foggy field, in the last Fortress of Freedom, a Spitfire is rising into the early morning dawn, silhouetted by the ghosts of ancient Anglo-Saxon Liberty: The Right to Trial by Jury, Magna Charta, and Habeas Corpus. In the cockpit is Wing Commander Ron Paul, ascending once again into the firmament to combat the Hitlerian hordes of Junkers-88s and Messerschmidts, wanted to drop their loads of collectivist necrophilic filth on the heads of Free Man. Behind him, in squadron formation, the Ron Paul 37-Thousand, Yanks who have volunteered their support to the anti-Fascist cause, and come over and made the commitment to defend one of Freedom’s last redoubts. Some of the Brits and their Glams have taken to calling them the R.A.F. — the Rothbard Analytical Force.
The Religionists in America often try to maintain that our law came from the Bible, or recently, on one Islamic sight, that our Constitution was based on the Quaran. Amazing.
Our law actually originates from English common law, which goes back to the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Jefferson greatly admired these people, who instituted Trial by Jury and other Civil Rights which the bi-partisan collectivists of modern America are trying to abridge. Later, Magna Charta further secured the Rights of the Individual, for the King had to concede that within the Estates of the Nobles, they were the boss, not he. An Englishman’s home is his castle. A statement with which virtually every real estate owner in America would heartily concur.
But even before Magna Charta and the English Anglo-Saxon common law, the laws of Imperial Rome were really the most important in their influence on our current jurisprudence. Those Fundamentalists, who want the Ten Commandments in front of every courthouse, should really be yelling for a statue of Hadrian or Augustus, since they probably had more to do with the judge’s ruling than Moses. However, this is not to deny the enormous influence that religion has had on the formation of our legislation. And many religious immigrant groups have had a great impact on legislation by settling in one area, electing their own public officials, and then passing legislation that reflects their religious values. (This is true too for that organized religion in America known as Communism, which formally and officially has been defeated, but which has basically taken over the framework of the two largest American political parties. And one of the larger minor parties even thinks America is not communistic enough!) Now this increase in a religious minority’s political power by moving into a concentrated geographical area is just fine, as long as it never violates the Constitutional and guaranteed Rights of any Individual Citizen within that area. In that sense there is no denying that our laws are greatly influenced by the so-called “Judeo-Christian” tradition. But the influence of the Enlightenment Philosophers, thinkers like Bacon, Newton, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Grotius, Puffendorf, Hume, Voltaire, and many others were the true filip to Jefferson’s, and through him our own, political and legal development. Sorry, Newt.
The Ron Paul Freedom Squadron is high above the English Channel now, that narrow strip of water the Frogs call “La Manche” — the sleeve. They are on the lookout for enemy planes, but they see nothing. The Junkers-88s, dropping their payload of garbage into the major news media networks, are trying to destroy the airfields that the Ron Paul Freedom Squadron use to launch their attacks of truth on the Fascist liars. “It’s only a matter of time,” joked a jovial Field-Marshall Hermann Goering. “If Ron Paul ever polls more than 5%, well then, you can call me Meyer,” (hearty laughter from the SS and the mainstream press interviewer), while Propaganda Chief Joseph Goebbels quipped, “I’d bet my last five Reichspfennig that Ron Paul won’t be elected President.” Lucky for him he didn’t bet five Rothbards, or five Ron Paul Dollars.
It looked for a while there like the Collectivists of the Third Raw Deal might have an easy time of it. The Squadron was low on fuel, the pundits said they’d never get anywhere near 37-thousand volunteers, only a few cranks and nut cases, probably living in one of those places like Nevada, Arizona, or Oregon. They knew the type.
But the Ron Paul Freedom Squadron, downing Junkers and Messerschmidts day by day, hour by hour, the tally being kept on a giant scoreboard on the front of their operations room, never faltered and never despaired. They knew the struggle must be engaged. On it rested the future of the Republic, and the psychological soundness of all mankind. Would it choose justice and the rule of law, or would it choose to fudge, hedge, prevaricate, and finally overthrow the rule of law? And then condemn anyone who objected in the name of Humanitarianism. Right. Through Fascism will come Freedom. Sure. The folks Orwell warned us against, right there in Washington.
The battle over the skies of Liberty will continue for a good while yet. The Hitler machine has vast stores of natural resources. But it will be worn down surely, for it cannot hold out against Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison. The Ron Paul Freedom Squadron will continue to patrol, and continue to protect the Land and the Lovers of Liberty. It will grow in size, until the great Libertarian wave of Freedom engulfs the whole planet.
When you go into the booth November 2008 to vote for Ron Paul,and place your hand on the stylus or the voting lever, you are placing the noose around Adolf Hitler’s neck after his war crimes trial. Mark that ‘x’, punch that chad, pull that lever. So long, scumhead!
Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww. — Silverwolf
Tags: Adolph Hitler, collectivism, Ron Paul
November 26, 2007 at 10:46 pm |
This was an entertaining read. Since in all likelihood, Ron Paul will not win the Republican Nomination, is there any buzz building for Mr. Paul to run as an independent?
November 26, 2007 at 11:01 pm |
David — Glad you enjoyed it. I don’t think he will say anything about it until he definitely doesn’t get the nomination. Then I think he will say he is retiring from the race, and mean it, but the clamour from all his supporters and the public will be so great that he may run as a 3rd party nominee. I don’t care what he calls himself or the party, though I think it’s a great chance for the Libertarian Party to get established as a third force, which the Republic sure needs now as a check and balance factor. He’s not a strict Libertarian in my view, far from it, but he’s 90% there, understands the correct Austrian economic theories and praxeology, and has long experience in Congress. What a combo! I’ll support him. I think he also epitomizes the best of smalltown America and its generosity. I’d like that feeling to come back to the whole country. But I always doubt everything and every politician, so we must watch his actions too. But so far, he’s by far the best. All the others would be a disaster, and the public senses it very acutely.
November 27, 2007 at 6:56 am |
I agree completely. I notice how all the candidates are ignoring him hoping he will go away. The Republicans can’t really deal with him because their war doesn’t make sense. The democrats can’t deal with him because he is more adamant about bringing the troops home and will lower taxes and eliminate wasteful government spending.
He really is the strongest candidate against any democrat because he opposes the war, something most Americans oppose at this point.
November 27, 2007 at 6:08 pm |
Timur — And I in turn agree with you completely. More striking to me than the candidates ignoring him, though, is the way the media ignores him. Look down a list of the main topics in the political sections of major news sites and you won’t see his name pop up very often near the top of the page. He’s always mentioned way down at the bottom — this is a dead giveaway that he is growing in popularity bigtime — or that he truly doesn’t have the support, which I don’t believe. But notice the switcharounds on the media. Neil Cavuto gives him an extraordinarily courteous interview on FOX, which has been spitting in his face for months, StephanopoLie suddenly calls him a creditable candidate — wont it be fun for historians to play back that clip where he says he’d bet his last nickel Paul won’t win, when Paul wins — David Brooks, a horrendous analyst, and that whole group of Wills, et al., goes from trying to depict him as the “crazy old uncle at the dinner table always ranting about the gold standard” to a suddenly respected candidate, with valid opinions—all in the course of a week.( At least Mark Shields almost always makes an valid and interesting point.)
The important things to remember though are 1) that its the economy that will be the main factor in propelling Dr. Paul’s candidacy, not what a few manufactured media-pundits say on their subsidized “news” dispersal mechanisms. FOX, CNN, are worthless as far as objectivity. I knew about FOX but after the smears from Glenn Beck and David Horowitz recently, trying to associate the Mises Institute, which is as non-violent as Ghandi and the most pro-capitalist University in the country, with Islamofascism, it’s obvious that CNN is to be considered “Yellow journalism” about as valuable as the National Inquirer. $4 gasoline will do more to get him elected than anything we write or the pundits say.
And the second important thing is that its the message, not Dr. Paul, that will convince people when they hear it.
Remember Daphne Rosen’s tirade in favour of goverment? She’s completely forgotten that the sole function of government, according to Jefferson, was to guarantee to the individual the inalienable rights given by their “Creator” and innumerated in the Declaration and warranted in the Bill of Rights. That’s it.
And thats why I’m for national soupkitchens as the very first Federal expenditure along with guaranteeing property rights (cops and military to insure order on American streets) because soup kitchens literally guarantee the Right to Life mentioned in the Declaration. Most Libertarians would attack me for being a “socialist” for advocating this. But I view this one social program as being constitutional under Jefferson’s definition. And its one of the very few that I would advocate the government get involved with.
(As a practical matter though, under a Paul administration, the fact that you could donate your income tax payment (if we still had it)directly to a charity that was carrying out social work like soupkitchens/homeless/shelters/pet spaying, etc., in combination with the elimination of the restrictionist minimum wage laws, which would mean the homeless could easily get jobs, and the working poor and poor pensioners could hire them, so the destitute could get something to eat by their own efforts if they were desperate — all this would probably mean that government soupkitchens might well close after a few years from lack of use, because no one would be hungry and sleeping on the streets unless they wanted to do that).
So Dr. Paul’s campaign is teaching people to think about government more correctly than heretofore, or at least getting them to debate these false assumptions in their minds; assumptions that have been brainwashed into people since FDRoosevelt’s New Deal and Keynesian (it’s OK to inflate if the panel of experts say it is) economics ,which is collapsing right now before our eyes, after rotting for 22 years from the inside, like an oak, so that few would or could notice it. Dr. Paul was one of the few who did, and warned against inflation long and hard for 30 years, and was marginalized and regarded as a nut. But now we can see he was right. I also caught on to this about 5 years after Dr. Paul mentions he caught on to it, so I have been agreeing with him for decades, though I wasn’t really aware of his gold standard books and the Mises Institute until this year. I picked up a copy of Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy and State at a booksale a few years back and read it after wading through Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. It’s THE BOOK on economics in my view, after reading Heilbroner and Thurow, Samuelson, Friedman, Aba Lerner, etc. Rothbard got it right; they all got it wrong. Rothbard’s work is the culmination of the whole Austrian School economics movement. These two works, along with The Road to Serfdom of F A Hayek, are a must for all Libertarians and Ron Paul Supporters.
So the message and the economy will get him elected.
Additionally, Timur, I was going to suggest that if you do do a blog, you consider putting it on this wordpress site because I believe it is the largest in the world, though I’m not sure, and you can get hit statistics and other stats that aren’t offered on other blog sites. Be a shame to write a good blog and have it buried somewhere obscure, and not know if it got a good response.
And also, if you want to have really sharp, mind-stimulating discussions on points of economic and libertarian theory, I’d strongly recommend the blogs and forums on the Mises.org website. They touch on many topics that are very important to America, but that no politician would ever mention in public except for Dr. Paul. And if you comment, you’re going up against Grad students and Profs. so you’d better have your arguments and backup well-honed. It’s great fun. — Silverwolf
December 24, 2007 at 1:28 am |
Actually, I get some of my backup from articles from mises.org. I also have in my pocket, an expert on economics, libertarian politics and the like so he is very helpful in answering some questions I have.
Yes, the media is disgusting. They think they are the power. What are they Swamees that they can predict the course of the election?
I don’t know anything about Glenn Beck but his hour with Ron Paul was excellent. I think he surprised a lot of people.
The Tim Russert interview was a joke. He is asking him about slavery and Lincoln and not on monetary policy??? The reason is Tim Russert knows nothing of economics so he would have no knives to throw at him.
I will look at those sites you mentioned.
Thanks,
Timur