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Posted 22 May 2010 - 12:13 PM
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Posted 22 May 2010 - 12:39 PM
In response to liberal media attacks, Dr. Rand Paul today released the following statement:
“I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. I have clearly stated in prior interviews that I abhor racial discrimination and would have worked to end segregation. Even though this matter was settled when I was 2, and no serious people are seeking to revisit it except to score cheap political points, I unequivocally state that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
“As I have said in previous statements, sections of the Civil Rights Act were debated on Constitutional grounds when the legislation was passed. Those issues have been settled by federal courts in the intervening years
“My opponent’s statement on MSNBC Wednesday that I favor repeal of the Civil Rights Act was irresponsible and knowingly false. I hope he will correct the record and retract his claims.”
“The issue of civil rights is one with a tortured history in this country. We have made great strides, but there is still work to be done to ensure the great promise of Liberty is granted to all Americans.
“This much is clear: The federal government has far overreached in its power grabs. Just look at the recent national healthcare schemes, which my opponent supports. The federal government, for the first time ever, is mandating that individuals purchase a product. The federal government is out of control, and those who love liberty and value individual and state’s rights must stand up to it.
“These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.”
TAXES & DEBT
With our national debt over 12 trillion dollars, the deficit spending by Washington DC continues to mortgage fruits of our future labor to fund federal programs we don’t need and cannot afford. Rand Paul would fight to balance the budget and dramatically reduce spending, before further interest on our debt requires government to reach deeper into our pockets and into our children’s piggy bank.
HEALTH CARE
As a doctor I have had first-hand experience with the vast problems facing health care in America. Like other areas of the economy where the federal government wields its heavy hand, health care is over-regulated and in need of serious market reforms. As Senator, I would ensure that real free market principles are applied to fix this problem.
FEDERAL RESERVE
With so much blame going around for the current financial crisis it is surprising that so few in the mainstream press have discussed the role of the Federal Reserve System. For too long the Federal Reserve has operated behind a shroud of mystery—as Senator I would make sure that all Americans understand the dangers of unsound monetary policy and shed light on this secretive organization.
PRIVACY & LIBERTY
The Federal Government must return to its constitutionally enumerated powers and restore our inalienable rights. America can prosper, preserve personal liberty, and repel national security threats without intruding into the personal lives of its citizens.
ENERGY INNOVATION
If we leave our energy policy to the special interests in Washington, we will never solve our energy problems. Our energy crisis stems from too much government intervention. The solution requires allowing businesses and ideas to compete.
LIFE
I am 100% pro life. I believe abortion is taking the life of an innocent human being.
I believe life begins at conception and it is the duty of our government to protect this life.
Posted 22 May 2010 - 05:53 PM
The establishment is in full blown panic over the runaway success of Kentucky primary winner Rand Paul and has set about attacking the son of Congressman Ron Paul from every conceivable angle in an attempt to undermine his support base and ensure his defeat by a Democratic opponent in November.
Whatever your personal agreements or disagreements with the nuances of Paul’s policies, the fact is that he represents the rarest breed of politician – one not controlled by special interests – and that is a fundamental threat to the status quo and the gravy train for the crooks and scoundrels in Washington DC.
On the one hand, establishment neo-con news organs like the New York Daily News have attempted to eviscerate Paul’s Tea Party base by implying that he is not “conservative” enough in that he doesn’t support endless unconstitutional wars of aggression that have not been authorized by Congress. Of course, classical conservatism of the George Washington, founding fathers variety, dictates that foreign policy should be based around a strong national defense while avoiding foreign entanglements and interventionism – which is exactly what Rand Paul embraces.
So the sight of the neo-cons trotting out the universally loathed Dick Cheney – he had the lowest approval ratings for any Vice President in recent history – to back Paul’s opponent Trey Grayson was a pathetic effort to characterize Paul as being soft on foreign policy, a tactic that went out of date some five years ago, and its failure was evident in the size of Paul’s crushing victory.
Establishment neo-con Republicans have to know that the game is up. Unless they can completely take over and subvert the Tea Party movement, which they have openly called for, it’s all over for them. The fact that the Tea Party got right behind Paul despite his openly stated desire to bring the troops home proves that neo-con sentiment within the ranks of the Tea Party is on the wane. Conservatives are finally starting to understand that unconstitutional foreign wars of aggression are not conservative.
On the flip side of the rigged political spectrum we have the neo-libs crying foul about Paul’s libertarian credentials. Despite the fact that Paul has vehemently supported his father’s stance of shrinking big government, legalizing marijuana and ending the drug war, putting a stop to banker bailouts, reducing the national debt, lowering taxes, and restoring personal liberties, just because Paul hasn’t explicitly supported gay marriage, this invalidates everything else according to this warped and myopic argument.
In reality, the issues of abortion and gay marriage have always divided libertarians into socially conservative and socially liberal camps. Rand Paul believes that one of the few roles of government should be to protect life, which he believes begins at conception. Just because Paul doesn’t believe that individual freedom should give people the freedom to kill their own children doesn’t make him a neo-con.
While people who profess to be libertarians may grandstand with righteous indignation and attack Paul for his stance on abortion in the belief that they are performing some kind of moral duty to “expose” him as a neo-con, in reality they are only doing the bidding of the establishment in acting as the left-wing of the pincer attack on the Senatorial candidate’s support base.
The establishment does not care from which direction the mud is thrown at Rand Paul – so long as some of it sticks – which is why they will continue to desperately try to undermine him before the elections in November, while still failing to grasp that real populist candidates who resonate with the burgeoning resistance to big government are all but immune to such smears.
Aided by helpful attacks from both sides, Democrats are apparently “giddy” about taking on Paul come November, but so long as the Senate contender sticks to his core principles, he should have little problem in seeing off an opponent who will be unable to extricate his campaign from the plunging popularity of Barack Obama and the big government agenda that he fronts for.
“I say bring it on,” Rand Paul shot back yesterday. “Please bring President Obama to Kentucky, bring him to campaign as much and as often as they can because he’s incredibly unpopular here, the Democrat policies are incredibly unpopular here – so I say bring it on.”
Posted 23 May 2010 - 04:37 AM
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Edited by Alex Libman, 23 May 2010 - 11:39 AM.
Posted 23 May 2010 - 05:21 PM
Posted 23 May 2010 - 08:44 PM
Posted 23 May 2010 - 09:08 PM
I am coming ever-closer to the conclusion that the only value that has ever existed and will ever exist in this universe is located inside Alex Libman's mind, and that all worldly stupidity should be remedied by a bio-engineered flesh-devouring virus that slowly reduces all other humans into limbless 30lb worms before their prayers for a faster death will finally be answered; (yes, that was a semicolon - and you know I don't use them lightly) and I will then clone ever-more copies of myself, build an army of robots, expand my empire outward, building a hyperspace network of perfectly optimized Dyson spheres as I swiftly utilize every atom of this universe into a gigantic super-computer to endlessly search for all possible modes of communication through which my disappointment with humanity can be epitomized for all time!
Posted 23 May 2010 - 09:10 PM
You know, Alex, this is pretty funny, but I'm scared...it may not be a 100% actual jokeI am coming ever-closer to the conclusion that the only value that has ever existed and will ever exist in this universe is located inside Alex Libman's mind, and that all worldly stupidity should be remedied by a bio-engineered flesh-devouring virus that slowly reduces all other humans into limbless 30lb worms before their prayers for a faster death will finally be answered; (yes, that was a semicolon - and you know I don't use them lightly) and I will then clone ever-more copies of myself, build an army of robots, expand my empire outward, building a hyperspace network of perfectly optimized Dyson spheres as I swiftly utilize every atom of this universe into a gigantic super-computer to endlessly search for all possible modes of communication through which my disappointment with humanity can be epitomized for all time!
Posted 23 May 2010 - 09:28 PM
You know, Alex, this is pretty funny, but I'm scared...it may not be a 100% actual jokeI am coming ever-closer to the conclusion that the only value that has ever existed and will ever exist in this universe is located inside Alex Libman's mind, and that all worldly stupidity should be remedied by a bio-engineered flesh-devouring virus that slowly reduces all other humans into limbless 30lb worms before their prayers for a faster death will finally be answered; (yes, that was a semicolon - and you know I don't use them lightly) and I will then clone ever-more copies of myself, build an army of robots, expand my empire outward, building a hyperspace network of perfectly optimized Dyson spheres as I swiftly utilize every atom of this universe into a gigantic super-computer to endlessly search for all possible modes of communication through which my disappointment with humanity can be epitomized for all time!
Posted 23 May 2010 - 09:42 PM
And you wonder why I pointed out that your philosophy consists of nothing more than childish desires to be free of any and all accountability for yourself. Your endless self worship is getting boring.
You know, Alex, this is pretty funny, but I'm scared...it may not be a 100% actual joke
Edited by Alex Libman, 23 May 2010 - 09:48 PM.
Posted 23 May 2010 - 09:49 PM
You know, Alex, this is pretty funny, but I'm scared...it may not be a 100% actual jokeI am coming ever-closer to the conclusion that the only value that has ever existed and will ever exist in this universe is located inside Alex Libman's mind, and that all worldly stupidity should be remedied by a bio-engineered flesh-devouring virus that slowly reduces all other humans into limbless 30lb worms before their prayers for a faster death will finally be answered; (yes, that was a semicolon - and you know I don't use them lightly) and I will then clone ever-more copies of myself, build an army of robots, expand my empire outward, building a hyperspace network of perfectly optimized Dyson spheres as I swiftly utilize every atom of this universe into a gigantic super-computer to endlessly search for all possible modes of communication through which my disappointment with humanity can be epitomized for all time!
I've read far too many of his rants to think it's a joke in any sense.
Posted 23 May 2010 - 10:02 PM
I've learned from Alex, but I think personal anger is a major basis for his adoption of ideas.I've read far too many of his rants to think it's a joke in any sense.
Posted 23 May 2010 - 10:46 PM
Edited by chris w, 23 May 2010 - 11:38 PM.
Posted 23 May 2010 - 11:24 PM
Posted 24 May 2010 - 05:03 AM
I can get along with progressive libertarians, to me you guys are just wrong on the starting point but still belong in the forces of MiddleEarth nevertheless, but a libertarian and social conservatist is a marriage made in Mordor, and where I live that's pretty much the only type.
What's this shit with state enforced abortion ban ?
And I hate when somebody equalizes the good name of a certain oil company with the good of the country as a whole, that's some twisted concept of patriotic loyalty
( not that I'm a patriot of any kind - "workers have no motherland !" ).
Posted 24 May 2010 - 08:54 AM
People who have simplistic answers for the abortion issue just simply haven't thought about it very hard. Human life has value - both economically as well as morally! It will soon be possible to surgically remove an unborn child while it is still a bunch of undifferentiated cells and artificially incubate it into a child that is just as healthy or even healthier as one that spent all 42 weeks inside its mother, and even in absence of government there would clearly be enough people willing to pay for this procedure to save a human life, myself among them! I am against the impossible prohibition on abortion in today's world, based on the mother's self-ownership of her own body, but in tomorrow's world abortion will be 100% identical to infanticide! Leaving this matter up to the states (or up to neighborhood associations / family contracts / etc in an Anarcho-Capitalist society) will boost the economic incentive to look for other alternatives that neither kill the baby nor violate the Rights of its mother
Posted 24 May 2010 - 01:50 PM
All libertarians / capitalists are progressive (they push the civilization forward), and all socialists / statists are regressive (they hold the civilization back).
People who have simplistic answers for the abortion issue just simply haven't thought about it very hard. Human life has value - both economically as well as morally!
The BP oil spill is a great example of government failure:
(1) The government created this oil-based economy in the first place by subsidizing it, including all the trillion-dollar wars in the middle east
freer society would have probably switched to (post)nuclear, geothermal, and/or perhaps even space-solar by now.
There are eco-religious nuts out there who literally think the world is coming to an end!
It's funny and yet sad, how you can point out the slaughter inflicted by the state throughout times, but when it's Coca Cola hiring thugs to KILL union activists, who paralized the production - it's just private entrepreneur protecting his "Rights". "My" violence - horryfying, "your" violence - justified by fundamentalist free market philosophy. The end, and thanks for holding yourself this time from saying something about blood on my hands . You may not believe me, but I hope you guys succeed in that seasteding thing, I wish it turned out that a strictly voluntary and prosperous at the same time society could be built, just don't make people of the world having to participate in libertarian experiment that may turn out to be a catrastrophe, by supporting the demontage of the state. But by all means go and try on your own - "let a thousend flowers bloom", Alex .Tens of millions of soldiers marching in the name of the "workers" have killed tens of millions of others in the name of their "motherland". It is a shame that irrational 19th century collectivist abstractions have spilled into the 20th century, but let's hope they wouldn't also ruin the 21st.
Edited by chris w, 24 May 2010 - 02:48 PM.
Posted 25 May 2010 - 12:17 AM
All libertarians / capitalists are progressive (they push the civilization forward), and all socialists / statists are regressive (they hold the civilization back). Ron Paul is an Ayn Rand thumping atheist IRL, a strategic genius, and a darn good actor. His son is playing to a slightly different audience, though he's not as good an actor just yet, and his role is a lot more difficult.
Posted 25 May 2010 - 04:53 AM
Posted 26 May 2010 - 01:24 PM
Is the Mainstream Croporate Media "out to get" Rand Paul?
Posted 26 May 2010 - 06:00 PM
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 06:36 PM
Abolish government involvement in the American healthcare system and Britain:
http://mises.org/daily/4434
Edited by progressive, 26 May 2010 - 06:43 PM.
Posted 27 May 2010 - 01:20 AM
Abolish government involvement in the American healthcare system and Britain:
http://mises.org/daily/4434
Edited by bobdrake12, 27 May 2010 - 01:53 AM.
Posted 27 May 2010 - 01:29 AM
Is the Mainstream Croporate Media "out to get" Rand Paul?
Does "Mr. McMahon" really hate "Stone Cold Steve Austin"?
Posted 27 May 2010 - 11:32 AM
I'm moderately libertarian but I'm not a social conservative like Paul.
I'm a pacifist, social liberal and very multicultural.
Posted 27 May 2010 - 04:34 PM
I'm moderately libertarian but I'm not a social conservative like Paul.
I'm a pacifist, social liberal and very multicultural.
Good, so you're against taxation.
Posted 27 May 2010 - 04:54 PM
I'm moderately libertarian but I'm not a social conservative like Paul.
I'm a pacifist, social liberal and very multicultural.
Good, so you're against taxation.
Not completely. Taxes are needed to operate a police force, emergency services, sanitation and so forth effectively.
Edited by chris w, 27 May 2010 - 05:03 PM.
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