Monthly Archives: March 2015

Rand Paul Wins CPAC, Foreign Policy on Israel and Russia, Possible 2016 US President
Rand Paul Wins CPAC 2015 straw-poll which may help his 2016 Presidential Campaign. Rand Paul is backing support for Israel. Rand Paul has been mentioned to be a Libertarian, however he is ...

By: Luis Rosales

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Ukraine Being Played by NATO and The West
The best thing for Ukraine is to force NATO, the US, and regional players out of the country, former US congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul said.. Ukraine Being Played by NATO...

By: Holly Murphey

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Ron Paul #39;s Texas Straight Talk 3/9/15: Dont Be Fooled by the Fed #39;s Anti-Audit Propaganda
http://RonPaulCurriculum.com http://RonPaulChannel.com http://RonPaulInstitute.org http://VoicesOfLiberty.com http://RonPaulMD.com http://The-FREE-Foundation.org http://facebook.com/ronpaul...

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National ID
https://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/from-ron-paul-via-a-reader-mandatory-national-id-system-requiring-all-americans-to-carry-a-government-approved-id-containing-biometric-features/

By: John Barleycorn

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National ID - Video

Many Americans associate Homeland Security with the colorcoded terrorist warning system and the "if you see something, say something" public relations campaign. These programs were designed to inspire public confidence in the department, but instead they inspired public ridicule.

Ironically, the best case for shutting down this department is its most well-known component the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). More terrorist attacks have been thwarted by airline passengers than by the TSA! The TSA may be ineffective at stopping terrorists, but it is very effective at harassing innocent Americans like Lucy Forck. Three-year-old Lucy, who uses a wheelchair, not only had to endure an intrusive screening from TSA agents, but the agents also took away her beloved stuffed animal.

Read MoreWhy the Homeland Security standoff is riskier for Republicans

TSA also subjects airline passengers to rules that seem designed to make air travel as unpleasant as possible. For example, TSA recently forced a Campaign for Liberty staffer to throw away a jar of Nutella she had in her carry-own luggage. I am sure all airline passengers feel safe knowing that TSA is protecting them from sandwich spreads.

Ending the TSA would return responsibility for airline security to airports and airlines. Private businesses have a greater incentive than a government bureaucracy to ensure their customers' safety. Those conservatives who think this is a radical idea should try to think of one area where they trust government bureaucrats to do a better job than private business owners.

Another agency within Homeland Security that the American people could do without is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Having spent fifteen years in Congress representing a coastal area subject to hurricanes and floods, I have seen first-hand how FEMA places adherence to bureaucratic rules ahead of aiding victims of a natural disaster. As a result, it is not uncommon for disaster victims to wait months or even years for assistance.

Read MoreElizabeth Warren's new crusade

FEMA not only fails to provide effective relief to disaster victims, it also impedes private disaster relief efforts. FEMA even hinders disaster victims' efforts to help themselves. While in Congress, I heard stories of individuals being threatened with fines or even jail time if they returned to their property without FEMA's permission. One individual in my district was threatened with arrest if he removed a tarp that FEMA put on his house even though FEMA was supposed to have put it on his neighbor's house!

Ten years after the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, it is clear that this department has failed to protect our security, but has infringed on liberty. If Congress really wanted to enhance our security and our liberty it would shut down this unnecessary, unconstitutional department.

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Ron Paul: Shut down Homeland Security

WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) Youre going to make me blush, said Edward Snowden.

It was a little after 6 p.m. Friday, and the National Security Agency whistleblowers face and shoulders were gazing out, billboard-sized, at hundreds of cheering young libertarians. Snowden was beamed in to talk to the largest-ever International Students for Liberty conference, newly relocated to Washingtons largest hotel. Snowden, whose highest degree was a GED, was honored as an honorary alumnus of the 8-year-old organization. For 15 minutes he restated a case against the surveillance state that had no rebuttal in the room.

As they take the private records of all our lives, and they aggregate a dossier, how can that be said to be constitutional? asked Snowden. Why have we been funding and instituting this system of mass surveillance of people in our country and people around the world if theres no track record that shows it works?

As he honed in on his argument, Snowden tailored it to young libertarians most of them college students. I think many of the people in this room take a more pro-liberty pro-rights perspective than others in the U.S. political agreement, said Snowden. Theres an argument to be made that perfect enforcement of the law is not a good thing. In fact, its a very serious threat. law is a lot like medicine. When you have too much it can be fatal.

Alexander McCobin, the president of the Students for Liberty, posed a few friendly questions. First, did Snowden regret anything?

Im concerned that wed be in a better place if Id come forward sooner, said Snowden. He described a conversation hed had with Daniel Ellsberg, and how both of them came to regret how long it took them to produce their leaks. He like myself couldnt get over the psychological burden of fear of law-breaking, said Snowden.

In a small moment of irony, the Moscow-bound Snowden remembered how he had talked to colleagues at the NSA, and found them quietly agreeing with his worries, but unready to expose the agency. We had more on Americans than we had on Russians, for example, he said. Should we be focusing on ourselves more than we focus on our adversaries?

After Snowden wrapped, a slightly smaller audience remained in chairs to hear former Texas Congressman Ron Paul chat with Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano and Reason.com editor Nick Gillespie.

You know, my name was connected to Edward Snowden, said Paul. They really wanted to blackball him, to destroy him, so they said: He donated to the Ron Paul campaign!

Paul called Snowden a truth-teller, and asked why whistleblowers like him were demonized.

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Edward Snowden, Ron Paul kick off Students for Liberty conference

Those who are willing to make an "exception" to the principle that parents should make health-care decisions for their children should ask themselves when, in history, has a "limited" infringement on individual liberty stayed limited. By ceding the principle that individuals have the right to make their own health-care decisions, supporters of mandatory vaccines are opening the door for future infringements on health freedom.

Read MoreVaccines should be voluntary: Rand Paul

If government can mandate that children receive vaccines, then why shouldn't the government mandate that adults receive certain types of vaccines? And if it is the law that individuals must be vaccinated, then why shouldn't police officers be empowered to physically force resisters to receive a vaccine? If the fear of infections from the unvaccinated justifies mandatory vaccine laws, then why shouldn't police offices fine or arrest people who don't wash their hands or cover their noses or mouths when they cough or sneeze in public? Why not force people to eat right and take vitamins in order to lower their risk of contracting an infectious disease? These proposals may seem outlandish, but they are no different in principle from the proposal that government force children to be vaccinated.

By giving vaccine companies a captive market, mandates encourage these companies to use their political influence to expand the amount of vaccine mandates. An example of how vaccine mandates may have led politics to override sound science is from my home state of Texas. In 2007, the then-Texas governor signed an executive order forcing 11- and 12-year-old girls to receive the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, even though most young girls are not at risk of HPV. The Texas legislature passed legislation undoing the order following a massive public outcry, fueled by revelations that the governor's former chief of staff was a top lobbyist for the company that manufactured the HPV vaccine.

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Ron Paul: Vaccine mandates are dangerous

Former Texas congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul has long been one of the most vociferous opponents of interventionism in American foreign policy, but the libertarian-leaning conservative has some harsh i.e., racist words for some of his allies in that fight.

In an interview earlier this month with Lew Rockwell flagged today by BuzzFeeds Andrew Kaczynski and Megan Apper Paul asserted that members of the Congressional Black Caucus oppose military intervention abroad because theyd rather spend funds on food stamps than war.

I was always annoyed with it in Congress because we had an anti-war unofficial group, a few libertarian Republicans and generally the Black Caucus and others did not they are really against war because they want all of that money to go to food stamps for people here, Paul told Rockwell.

Paul proceeded to criticize Black Caucus members as ineffective advocates against war, arguing that too many of them voted for sanctions against U.S. adversaries, which Paul said never get the results that they thought there were going to get.

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Ron Paul: Black lawmakers oppose war because they the money for food stamps