A Personal Message from Ron Paul - August 22nd 2007
Ernest Hancock
Website:
http://www.ernesthancock.com
Date: 08-22-2007
Subject: Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
A message from Ron Paul
August 22, 2007
Not all the media are biased. A local newspaper in New Hampshire
reported on an annual GOP bbq in the town of Hollis. It could be
called "the Ron Paul show," they said, since the far bigger
crowd that usual consisted mostly of our supporters. One
volunteer even rented an airplane and flew a wonderful sign
around the sky. What great, creative, self-starting people I'm
meeting, at every stop, all of them united by a love of America
and American freedom.
Politics is usually about division. But this campaign is just
the opposite. Not only are our volunteers a bunch of happy
warriors, but they also practice the virtues of tolerance and
peace, just as they want the nation to do.
The other day, the state chairman of an opposing campaign (not
in New Hampshire!), angrily tore a sign out of one of our
supporter's hands and trashed it. Different people with
different beliefs might have responded differently. But our
people, though they'd been standing in the rain all day, applied
the Golden Rule. It's because of quiet heroes that I know we can
change this country.
A reporter in New Hampshire told me this story about Florida:
she had seen the same three supporters working every day passing
out our literature, and so decided to interview them. She was
startled to discover that one was a Republican, one was a
Democrat, and one was an Independent. But I wasn't.
Freedom brings us all together. We can all agree on leaving
people alone to plan and live their own lives, rather than
trying to force them to obey at the point of a gun, as runaway
government does. Instead of clawing at each other via the
warfare-welfare state, people under liberty can cooperate in a
unity of diversity.
There is no need to use government to threaten others who have
different standards, or to be threatened by them. Looking to our
Founders, our traditions, and the Constitution, we can build, in
peaceful cooperation, a free and prosperous society.
At a talk show in Nashua, New Hampshire, the host asked me about
the fair tax. Well, I agree on getting rid of the IRS, I told
her, but I want to replace it with nothing, not another tax. But
let's not forget the inflation tax, I said.
This was something she had never considered, but after I talked
about the depreciation of our dollar by the Federal Reserve, its
creation of artificial booms and busts, and its bailouts of the
big banks and Wall Street firms, to the detriment of the average
person, she loved it. That is another tax, she agreed, a hidden
and particularly vicious tax.
They try to tell us that the money issue is boring or
irrelevant. In fact, it is the very pith of our social lives,
and morally, Constitutionally, and economically, the central
bank is a disaster. Thanks to the work of this movement,
Americans are starting to understand what has been hidden from
them for so long: that we have a right to sound and honest
money, not to a dollar debauched for the special interests.
Unconstitutional government has created a war crisis, a
financial crisis, a dollar crisis, and a freedom crisis. But we
don't have to take it. We don't have to passively accept more
dead soldiers, a lower standard of living, rising prices, a
national ID, eavesdropping on our emails and phone calls, and
all the rest.
We can return to first principles, and build the brightest, most
brilliant future any people on earth has ever aspired to. Help
me teach this lesson. Help me campaign all over this country, in
cooperation with our huge and growing volunteer army. Help me
show that change is not only possible, but also essential.
Please, make your most generous contribution (
https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/)
to this campaign for a Constitutional presidency worthy of our
people. Invest in freedom: for yourself, for your family, for
your future.
Sincerely,
Ron
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