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Race, liberty and Ron Paul

Jan 03, 2012 12:43

Did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 put America on the path to a police state? The answer is yes, according to Ron Paul, the Texas Republican Congressman and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Paul explained that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “destroyed the principle of private ( Read more... )

ron paul, libertarian party, abraham lincoln, patriot act, civil rights, libertarians

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rainbow_fish January 3 2012, 20:30:51 UTC

This is a really delightful article.

"While abuses of military and police power are to be guarded against, the idea that the military and police and government as such are inherently tyrannical, a familiar theme in libertarian and anarchist thought, is utterly alien to America’s Lockean republican tradition."

What a beautiful sentence. <33333333333333

celtic_thistle January 3 2012, 20:33:48 UTC

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romp January 4 2012, 07:42:08 UTC

Yeah, why is the concept of RIGHT AND WRONG so fucking hard for them to understand? Sometimes you don't allow something to be done to your fellow citizens because it is a BAD THING.
*sits on hands*

farchivist January 3 2012, 20:48:35 UTC

And all I can really think of here is "shades of badlydrawnjeff".

roseofjuly January 4 2012, 04:53:14 UTC

YES

farchivist January 4 2012, 06:17:01 UTC

Watch SF_D. Ron Paul, BDJ...and oh god more.

browneyedguuurl January 3 2012, 20:55:25 UTC

Things overheard this morning at my job (I live in Georgia, so yeah)

"I can't wait 'till Ron Paul wins the caucus!"
"I KNOW! He is awesome! Less government!"
"Yes! Can't wait until America wakes up!"

Me: "Why would Ron Paul even want to BE President if he hates goverment so much? Also, if he hates its benefits so much, why doesn't he surrender his health care and future pension he will receive for his years of service?"

*silence*

Jesus take the wheel.

intrikate88 January 3 2012, 22:32:22 UTC

THANK YOU. God am I tired of all these Ron Paul fans on my facebook page.

bmh4d0k3n January 4 2012, 04:21:09 UTC

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roseofjuly January 4 2012, 04:54:33 UTC

And he's in third right now!

castalianspring January 3 2012, 21:03:34 UTC

By equating the Civil Rights Act, which expanded American civil liberty, with the Patriot Act, which reduced it, on the grounds that both are federal laws with sanctions, Ron Paul displays the moral idiocy of someone who declares that a person who pushes a little old lady out of the path of a bus is just as bad as a person who pushes a little old lady into the path of a bus, because both are equally guilty of pushing little old ladies around.

I love this analogy so hard. PREACH IT.