HereAmI's Blog

by Congressman Dr. Ron Paul

Tragically, over the Thanksgiving holiday, the world was reminded how evil and cruel people can be.  According to emerging accounts of the events in India, about a dozen well-armed and devastatingly well-trained terrorists laid siege on the city of Mumbai, killing almost two hundred people, and terrorizing thousands.

Regardless of the reasons, the indiscriminate shooting on masses of unarmed and defenseless people is chilling and reprehensible.  How were these terrorists able to continue so long, relatively unchallenged, killing so many?

India’s gun laws are her business, of course.  However, once the shock of these events and the initial reaction of fear passes, Americans should take away a valuable lesson about real homeland security and gun control from this tragedy.

Gun control advocates tell us that removing guns from society makes us safer.  If that were the case why do the worst shootings happen in gun free zones, like schools?  And while accidents do happen, aggressive, terroristic shootings like this are unheard of at gun and knife shows, or military bases.  It bears repeating that an armed society truly is a polite society.

The fact is that firearm technology exists.  It cannot be uninvented.  As long as there is metalworking and welding capability, it matters not what gun laws are imposed upon law-abiding people.  Those that wish to have guns, and disregard the law, will have guns.  Gun control makes violence safer and more effective for the aggressive, whether the aggressor is a terrorist or a government.

History shows us that another tragedy of gun laws is genocide.  Hitler, for example, knew well that in order to enact his “final solution,” disarmament was a necessary precursor.  While it is not always the case that an unarmed populace WILL be killed by their government, if a government is going to kill its own people, it MUST disarm them first so they cannot fight back.  Disarmament must happen at a time when overall trust in government is high, and under the guise of safety for the people, or perhaps the children.  Knowing that any government, no matter how idealistically started, can become despotic, the Founding Fathers enabled the future freedom of Americans by enacting the second amendment.

In our own country, we should be ever vigilant against any attempts to disarm the people, especially in this economic downturn.  I expect violent crime to rise sharply in the coming days, and as states and municipalities are even more financially strained, the police will be even less able or willing to respond to crime.  In many areas, local police could become more and more absorbed with revenue generating activities, like minor traffic violations and the asset forfeiture opportunities of non-violent drug offenses.  Your safety has always, ultimately been your own responsibility, but never more so than now.  People have a natural right to defend themselves.  Governments that take that away from their people should be highly suspect. 

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“I, for one, never want to find myself in the predicament of that photographer in Mumbai who says: ‘I only wish I had a gun rather than a camera.’” (Joseph Farah. When cops don't shoot back.” WND.com Posted: December 02, 2008 1:00 am Eastern.)

Related (Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ggg0LwhrH0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1u0Byq5Qis

An open letter to the people of America:

You have been taken in by what the media promotes as the issues.  It is not the simple issues of pro-life, define marriage, manage the economy or war. The issue is a government within its limits, the Constitution.   

The Congress, the Office of President and the Supreme court have exceeded their Constitutional Authorities.  The federal budget continues to be exceeded annually and our federal debt soars.  Most legislation which occurs in DC is outside of the authority granted by the Constitution. 

The Founding Fathers sought to promote liberty and limit government.  Centralized government fails serve the interests of the people, as we witness this today as our elected officials serve corporate agendas or agendas of their own of greed and power.  Our officials are lobbied by special interest groups, primarily large corporations, seeking their advantage while most Americans are focused on the daily task of raising families. 

These lobbying corporations promote themselves by seeking regulations which limits competition, provides for subsidy and government contracts.  Joe the Plumber has sent his elected official to “represent” him in Washington DC.  Poor naive Joe.  Little does he know that these “hired guns” have their sights set on his representatives with slick marketing and lavish gifts.

The Founding Fathers knew that government is easily corrupted and the reason centralized government was viewed with such caution in the Constitution.  Local government provides that citizens can better supervise their representation.  The voice of the Average American can better be heard in the Council Chambers rather than in the House Chambers.

If the issue of a Constitutional form of limited government is the main issue then why is it hidden from public view?  Let this be repeated.  “Our elected officials serve corporate agendas or agendas of their own of greed and power.”  These men and women start out with the best of intentions though once in DC they are indoctrinated, normalized and acclimated to their new environment by their “seniors” and those same corporate lobbyists.

Should we really limit government?  Let’s face it, politics is the only popular American game where the boundaries seem to have been removed.  Baseball, basket ball, football and even mixed martial arts all have boundaries.  They also have referees to assure these boundaries are adhered.

What can be done to stop this insanity?  There are a few seeking to make changes to put the federal government back within its Constitutional pen.  Presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr and Alan Keyes, and others such as Tom Coburn and Michele Bachmann are names which come to mind as cowboys rounding up the herd.  Two of these ‘pokes have fire shoots into the air in alarm: Ron Paul’s Revolution: A Manifesto and Tom Coburn’s Breach of Trust.  I challenge you to read these.

A greater challenge.  I challenge every American to read the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and then look at what is happening within our government; look at what is happening to our country.  With these ideal from over 200 years ago as perspective you  will view the role of government as did our fore fathers, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…”

See CampaignforLiberty.com

Americans, may God bless each of you.

Shelby Glenn Turner, Jr.

Proper etiquette requires that President Bush shall remain the proper address for George W. Bush for the remainder of history.  This morning I heard him referred to as Mr. Bush.

I do not agree with most of what I know to be Senator Obama's philosophy and politics though he, too, will be respectfully referred to as President Obama in short time.

What does it say to the world and to our children when we fail to provide proper and due respect to our leaders?

By MIKE ALLEN | 8/1/08 9:38 AM EST

“Friday’s proposal says Obama ‘is proposing to offset the cost of his emergency energy rebates over the next five years by enacting a windfall profits tax on big oil companies.’”

“’Obama simply asks that big oil companies contribute a reasonable share of the windfall profits they receive from high oil prices over the next five years to pay for emergency assistance for families right now,’ the campaign says.’”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12237.html

How does this strike you?  Do you have more than your neighbor?  Will they soon be knocking at your door for a “contribution?”

Paranoid Americans or Ignorant Immigrants

Could it be that Americans are overly fearful of loosing freedoms? 

As I stood across and from the long lines for the Democratic Primaries listening to the heavy accents and broken English (if they spoke English) it was my observation that many were first generation Americans.  Now, past these same primaries, I notice yard signs, bumper stickers and shirts with the Obama moniker are most often associated with these same first generation people.

This causes me to wonder if the Obama I see and hear on the television is the same socialist they see and hear?  Do they not remember the government programs of the socialist and communist regimes from where they come?  Why would they stand for Obama who would remove so many of the free processes which have created the society and technology we enjoy in the United States and replace them with government?

Could it be that I do not see what they see?  My forefathers have been in Texas since the mid- 1800’s let alone the generations before in other states.  Why am I concerned of gaining government sponsored or “free” healthcare, education, housing and jobs?  Surely they came to the USA for some reason?  What is it that I am missing? 

Yes, Obama as President concerns me.

Help me understand?   

Abridged from http://www.campaignforliberty.com/mission/

Americans inherit from their ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression.  Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity – a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.

But many Americans today are frustrated.  The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all.  For all their talk of “change,” neither major political party as presently constituted challenges the status quo in any serious way.  Neither treats the Constitution with anything but contempt.  Neither offers any kind of change in monetary policy.  Neither wants to make the reductions in government that our crushing debt burden demands.  Neither talks about bringing American troops home not just from Iraq but from around the world.  Our country is going bankrupt, and none of these sensible proposals are even on the table.

This destructive bipartisan consensus has suffocated American political life for many years.  Anyone who tries to ask fundamental questions instead of cosmetic ones is ridiculed or ignored.

That is why the Campaign for Liberty was established: to highlight the neglected but common-sense principles we champion and reinsert them into the American political conversation. 

We believe that freedom is an indivisible whole, and that it includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well, all of which are historic rights that our civilization has cherished from time immemorial.

Our country is ailing.  That is the bad news.  The good news is that the remedy is so simple and attractive: a return to the principles our Founders taught us.  Respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, sound money, and a noninterventionist foreign policy constitute the foundation of the Campaign for Liberty.

Will you join us?

Free republics are not known to have long life expectancies. At the ripe old age of two hundred and thirty-two, America is definitely showing her age. She is long past her prime, and some are predicting her demise. No, some are PLANNING her demise.

Thomas Jefferson and the other founders of this once-great country believed there was a controlling cabal that was crafting America’s servitude. With the assistance of Heaven, they decided to fight those forces. Pastors fought with fiery sermons from the pulpit; newsmen fought with the power of the pen; statesmen fought in the halls of Congress; and merchants fought with the sacrifice of their material gain. Together, they lifted Lady Liberty to her feet and defeated the powers of darkness.

It took the global elite a long time to recover, but they have reemerged with a vengeance. They are now on the precipice of accomplishing what their great granddaddies failed to do: bring the “Liberty or Death” colonists under their power and control.

Sadly, we no longer have the will to resist servitude. Our pulpits are too busy preaching a prosperity gospel; newsmen are in bed with the forces they once disdained; statesmen have been replaced with opportunistic, self-serving politicians; and merchants know no god but money. Hence, it is left to a small–and I mean very small–remnant to sound the clarion call for freedom and independence. Unfortunately, few seem to be listening to their cries.

2010 seems to be a banner year for these designers of despotism. That is the target year for the implementation of the North American Community, which will commercially unite the United States with Canada and Mexico. The global elite suffered a minor setback when the U.S. Senate failed to pass the Bush/McCain/Kennedy/Graham amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill. But if you think that John Mccain is going to let that bill lie on the floor of defeat, you don’t understand these people. Should McCain become President, He will do everything he can to implement some kind of amnesty law. Barack Obama will do the same. The reason? It is essential to the designers of despotism that our borders be eliminated.

Yes, I am saying it: George W. Bush, John McCain, and Barack Obama are part of the global elite that seeks America’s entrance into an international New World Order. In fact, neither Presidential candidate from the two major parties will offer any resistance to this obstinate and oppressive oligarchy.

Perhaps one day the American people will wake up and realize that they are being led as sheep to the slaughter. I’m just not sure that it will be soon enough, however. 2010 is just around the corner.

There seems to be only one obstacle standing in the way of the globalists: America’s citizens are the most heavily armed people in the world. That fact must surely stick in the throats of the globalists like a chicken bone.

Thank God that America’s founders put the Second Amendment in the Constitution. Without America’s deep-rooted commitment to the right of the people to keep and bear arms, we would have been sold into slavery decades ago.

Without the intellectual understanding of the principles of freedom and the moral resolve to maintain those principles, however, guns, by themselves, will only protect us for so long. In the end, our strength and protection come from God, and not too many people these days seem to be interested in His opinion.

Lady Liberty is walking very gingerly these days, and the path she treads is laden with traps and quicksand. The globalists have their handpicked puppets positioned to take up where The Three Amigos (George Bush I, Bill Clinton, and George Bush II) have left off. The pieces of the puzzle are almost all in place. 2010 just might be the year that Lady Liberty lowers her torch, folds her arms, and falls fast asleep.

For what it is worth, however, I pledge no loyalty to this emerging New World Order. Neither will I let Lady Liberty die without a fight. I will say it again: the battle today is not between conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats. It is a battle between Americans and globalists. And, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am an American!

Kudos go to Oklahoma Legislators as they pass Joint House Resolution 1089 by an overwhelming 92-3.  The resolution states, "The State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States."

I have written my state representatives, Representative Charlie Howard and Senator Kyle Janek, and expressing my support of such a resolution for the Great State of Texas.  I have put my federal representatives, Representative Nick Lampson, Senator Kay Baily-Hutchison and John Cornyn, on notice that I support such a resolution as it appears to me those in Washington D.C. have forgotten The Constitution of the United States and the authorities and limitations there contained which they have solemnly sworn to uphold.

Why don't you do the same?

Remember Gonzales!

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Obama tells black fathers to engage their children

Jun 15, 3:31 PM (ET)

By CHRISTOPHER WILLS

CHICAGO (AP) - Barack Obama celebrated Father's Day by calling on black fathers, who he said are "missing from too many lives and too many homes," to become active in raising their children.

"They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it," the Democratic presidential candidate said Sunday at a largely black church in his hometown.

Reminding the congregation of his firsthand experience growing up without a father, Obama said he was lucky to have loving grandparents who helped his mother. He got support, second chances and scholarships that helped him get an education. Obama's father left when he was 2.

"A lot of children don't get those chances. There is no margin for error in their lives," said Obama, an Illinois senator.

"I resolved many years ago that it was my obligation to break the cycle - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father to my girls," added Obama, whose daughters, Sasha and Malia, and his wife, Michelle, watched from the audience.

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Yes, Senator Obama, all fathers should step up to their responsibilities to their offspring.  I include all fathers of all colors and creeds.  I include all offspring from conception to death.

The first responsibility of a father is to love the mother of his children unconditionally. 

Are we still in agreement?

Here is a thought for you.  If we elect a leader that will force “universal” health care out of our pocket books will we find that Katrina will hit our health.

Can you imagine healthcare brought to you by the same people that manage the ferderal budget, the IRS, FEMA and preveously the Post Office?

With FEMA managed healthcare you will need to be prepared to care for yourself for the first 72 years as the federal government is not in the business of first response.

Why do we forget so quickly?  How can we not see that government is one of the greatest examples of mis-management in history?

Did you notice that healthcare programs do not decrease the cost of healthcare but rather increase those covered costs? Have you never been asked if you are insured to find that there are two costs for a procedure with the uninsured cost being cheaper?

Did you notice that uncovered elective procedures become cheaper every year yet covered health costs increase? Have you ever asked yourself why? Think free market and free enterprise. Accountability to the consumer is the reason and government accountability is an oxymoron.

Please do not vote for government sponsored healthcare; I cannot afford it.

In countries around the world divorce rates have been rising, and each time a family dissolves the result is two new households.

"A married household actually uses resources more efficiently than a divorced household," said Jianguo Liu, an ecologist at Michigan State University whose analysis of the environmental impact of divorce appears in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

More households means more use of land, water and energy, three critical resources, Liu explained in a telephone interview.

Households with fewer people are simply not as efficient as those with more people sharing, he explained. A household uses the same amount of heat or air conditioning whether there are two or four people living there. A refrigerator used the same power whether there is one person home or several. Two people living apart run two dishwashers, instead of just one.

(http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TA7U7G1&
show_article=1 . accessed 12/40/2007)

Ron Paul was asked if he was getting a fair shake from the media.

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