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AA,
Here's something on private property rights that might interest you.
http://innworldreport.net/video_launcher.php?2007-06-14i
Interested in you thoughts on this.
Peace
This was posted on another article by Tom Carter. I watched the video as many of you hopefully did and was stunned and amazed by what I heard coming from an American Presidential Candidate.
First Ron Paul seems to have a grasp on the common sense approach to most major issues this country is facing. He appears to not be in bed with any special interest groups at least from his tone and ideas. If he is in bed with a special interest group I believe it is with the largest of them all, the American people.
He is calling for investigations into what lead to this war, a common sense alternative to people who bum are rushing to extremes of impeachment and something which I think all Americans can get behind. Let's not put the cart before the horse here, but should investigations reveal something concrete, and then let's follow the Constitutional guidelines and move forward, which ever way the facts take us. He openly voiced hi opinion that he believes there is questionable information on who introduced what kind of evidence on the need to go to war but he is taking the common sense approach of investigating prior to a public lynching which is what many on the left are trying to do.
He understands my point about the dividing of people by color, creed, national origin, sexual preference etc calling them all part of the human race. I would have preferred he say Americans but the idea is the same. We are equal from the start and no one group is any more deserving of a special right than any other. I applaud his conviction on this point.
He is quite clear on his feeling about the U.N. and the role it should take as a negotiating forum and not a leadership role and that they have done little in the past to prevent war, a major reason for their initial charter. As well he is clear on the WTO and other international organism having no power within the United States except that which we grant under U.S. law.
On private property rights he makes it clear that the power lies with the people and it is their choice as to whether to sell any property to anyone. The government’s role in this should only be to protect the property owner, period. Land should never be taken and given to another private entity.
When it comes to prohibitions of just about everything, he makes sense when he says there should be none, nor should there be any force used to make people do or act a certain way. This true freedom people and I doubt very much that liberals can understand this concept. But I fear even more that many conservatives will see this as ceding power and that is an attitude that must be abolished from the conservative movement. Our power is in our freedom.
As for the Patriot Act, he wants it repealed and I can not argue with that one bit. Not for the reasons you people think but because I think it has accomplished little more than make Bush look strong on the war on terror the day he signed it, after that it has been used for nothing more than what other laws and regulations would have allowed under proper pre-thought.
On the Medical system in this country again he showed a grasp of the situation from a common sense point of view. The government will control, and then expand than destroy U.S. medical care in this country if they take it all the way over. They have been moving in this direction since the 60's and we are all witness to the wildly rising costs. And though many of those costs are in the hands of corporations they are a direct result of law suits that should never have been filed, legislation that has forced the corporations at times to make certain changes in policy that increase cost and Medicare standing on the throat of Doctors. According to one study I read some time ago there are three times as many lawyers in school today than Doctors, why do you think that is?
His feelings on privacy laws are right on the money. The government is charged with protecting our privacy not intruding on it for the good of the country. One the war in Iraq he even made sense saying that once this war is over we need to learn from it and we need to support but not create the government that will eventually take over. This is so very true that the commonality of it seems inescapable.
He believes in free markets but is quick to realize that even in a free market, which despite what we think we do not really have, there is a place for government in protecting the level playing field. But he does not see one company making money while another might not as unfair, it is the opportunity that he wants to keep level, as it should be. Common Sense again.
There is much more that I could go on about, from the internal spending we do on the war on drugs, a failure, the war on poverty, a failure, and the constant infighting we produce through ignorance but these are not matters of state for the Federal Government, and Ron Paul seems to truly understand this.
This guy can out Liberalize liberals and out Conservativize conservatives. I can not understand why any other candidate would get more attention than Ron Paul. He may just be what is needed in the White House, a non-partisan President working for a huge lobby group, the American people.
If you have not taken the 20 or so minutes to watch this video, please make time prior to commenting. It might just change your mind.
But what would I know; I’m just an Average American.
Property rights?
Our forefathers made it clear that one of the issues that is first and foremost with freedom and democracy is property rights. Owning land free and clear without it being taken by the Government is America's heritage. That is why so many of our ancestors(mine did), got land patents.
I got one myself as it is a historical precedent etched in stone. There have been no cases of land or property being taken in any court with a valid land patent on said land. It is assumed and was explained to me that a person is supposed to be ethical(define ethical),and a land patent is never to be used as an excuse to not pay your property taxes.
There have been more incidents of land taken in Arizona where the line of "in the interests of the public" have been stretched to really shady lengths.
The part about no force used to make people do or act a certain way? That is so ambiguous it isn't funny. No one wants to address how people should act anymore anywhere, in public, on the roads, or in schools that it has become acceptable to act any way you want. Well, not really acceptable, but the attitude is just "let it go". There is nothing that defines any manner of behavior nowadays or a line you don't cross and I don't see aanything redeeming about it and the whole of society is worse off for it.
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