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Subject: Our Only Congressman Ron Paul
Congressman Ron Paul
House of Representatives
203 Cannon
Washington D.C. 20515
Dear Friend:
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.
Congressmen 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 the 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 a 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 cuttin 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 TV 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 the 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, and 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 foreign 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 it's
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? The 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 paintings 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.
Right now, four well-funded Democrats are competing to try to beat
me, and a Republican is rumored to have been offered money at a
secret meeting in Mexico(!) if he would try to knock me off in a
primary. Won't you help me stay up here to fight? Frankly, I'm in
trouble if you don't.
My Texas district has 22,000 square miles (not a misprint). I've got
to travel all over it, set up small offices to be manned by volunteers,
advertise, pay phone bills, and distribute video and audio tapes to
the people to get around the big-media lies. As I know from my last
election, which I won by the skin of my teeth, the media will carry
any smear, repeat any libel, throw any piece of mud, no matter
how untrue. In fact, the less true, the more they like it.
They are determined to silence me. But you can help me overcome
all this. Together, we can beat the bad guys arrayed against our
country and our freedom. We can support the Constitution. We
CAN win. Your generous contribution of $25 or $50 would be great.
$100, $250, or even $500 or $1,000 would be magnificent. Of
course, any amount would help, and in return, I will keep you up-to-
date on this fight as a member of my "kitchen cabinet."
What great men founded this country. What great people have
carried on their fight. That fight is not lost, not if you will join it.
Washington, D.C., is a loser, but among the people, our ideas are
gaining EVERY SINGLE DAY. Keep the tide turning in our
direction. Please make your most generous contribution. Join this
fight for the Constitution, and stop those who want to rip it up, and
throw it in the Potomac. Together, we can join the Founders, fight.
Together, we can make history.
Sincerely, Ron
P.S.: Without you, I may be lost, and they'll be breaking out the
champagne in D.C. PLEASE, DON'T LET THIS FIGHT FOR THE
CONSTITUTION AND LIBERTY FALTER. HELP ME WIN IT. Forwarded for info and discussion
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