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Ron Paul Tells Missouri Republicans That U.S. Is ‘Slipping Into A Fascist System’

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Ron Paul is still in the Republican race, and he is continuing to deliver his unfiltered message to audiences across the nation. Last night he spoke to an annual conference of Missouri Republicans, where he had some words of warning for the direction the United States is heading in. Because Paul was speaking near the United States’ World War I statue, he took the opportunity to attack Woodrow Wilson, of all people, for being part of the catalyst that has brought the nation to its present predicament.

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Paul minced no words:

“We’ve slipped away from a true Republic… Now we’re slipping into a fascist system where it’s a combination of government and big business and authoritarian rule and the suppression of the individual rights of each and every American citizen.”

Paul’s message resonated with many people in the crowd, including one supporter who told the Associated Press that “his foreign policy is one of peace.”

h/t SFGate

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  • Anonymous

    There have been a number of things that Paul has argued during the course of the campaign that I can sympathize with — particularly his hard line against corporate welfare. But his economic proposals are downright Darwinian and he advocates that we simply walk away from most of our international commitments, which would have devastating consequences to our interests around the globe.

    As polls show, Paul is way too radical for the vast majority of voters, and frankly, he’s never issued a satisfactory explanation for those racist newsletters. It shows that either he was irresponsible about what got published under his name or else he’s lying today about the despicable views he held — and promoted — not so long ago.

    Either way, when combined with most of his questionable campaign positions, Paul has demonstrated that he simply isn’t qualified to be president.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is right. Watch the documentary Freedom to Fascism by Aaron Russo and you can see what a fraud the FED and the IRS is. Ron Paul brings the left and the right together. He transcends politics. He wants to lower taxes, pleasing the right, and end the wars, pleasing the left. He’ll cut spending, pleasing our grandchildren.

    Ron Paul R3VOLution!

  • Carl Emmoth


    Now we’re slipping into a fascist system”, well, duh!

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Paul is the Only Republican qualified for the Presidency!

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    There they labor in prison industries
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    Open modern doors
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    This latest version of the American slave
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  • Anonymous

    The slip began happening soon after SCOTUS selected W.

    Citizens United, Koch Brothers, Fox News, Tea Party, and Christian Facists comes to mind when viewing this gem from 1946:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY8GzJNuz7I&feature=related

    14 signs of Facisim:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJOD9nbDU1I&feature=related

     

  • Anonymous

     You again with the newsletters, give it a rest already. You know nothing of how it happened, so stop trying to rationalize it.

  • Jardino

    Ron Paul should move before he is put into a concentration camp.

  • Anonymous

    The Republican Party Platform is a template for fascism and corporate control of our lives, from the conservative jihad against taxes and sane regulations, to nationwide attacks by ALEC on voter’s rights and the middle class’ only champion, unions.

    The social issues have been adopted by the ruling elites in our corporate boardrooms solely and cynically to manipulate the great unwashed masses into voting against their own interests – tea anyone?   

  • Anonymous

    I’ll give it a rest when Paul can actually explain how such vile rantings were published under his name. He wasn’t some innocent bystander. This was HIS NEWSLETTER. He published it, he promoted it, he has to take full responsibility for it.

  • Anonymous

    Would someone please take responsibility and come pick up their crazy uncle!!!!!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/6GUBQ2DTK7S3KKXRB3JNJSWOLI LIPS

    THAT DOESN’T WORK ANYMORE…AS THE ONES CALLING HIM CRAZY ACTUALLY ARE THE CRAZY ONES. I HAVE NEVER SEEN AN INTELLIGENT POST FROM SOMEONE AGAINST RON PAUL. NEVER! RON PAUL’S SUPPORTERS ARE THE SMARTEST ONES.

  • Anonymous

    Here is the results of a Fascist state and how it will be even worse with Romney in as President !!!!!

    Did Whitney Houston fall Victim to a Psychiatric Pharmaceuticals Industry
    ?????
    This is why I think we the people have a real worry about a Romney
    Presidency becoming a Plutocracy that will threaten Individual Liberty because
    the Multi-National Corporate sector that is a Powerful force of policy Influence
    at the Lobby firms of our Governments backdoor of Congress . This is whats wrong
    today with economic and monetary and tax code policies , so just imagine what a
    Romney Presidency will mean to a already Bought off Congress ???
    These are Romney Owned Mental Healthcare
    Organizations that uses Pharmaceuticals in their treatment centers . Are they
    Really doing all the Studies necessary in making sure the Individual is getting
    the right kind of Treatment and drug use ??? Studies say NOT , that marketing
    has taken a Front line Position to Boost Profits in a One size fits all approach
    to treatment and use of the most Profitable drugs used .
    http://www.crchealth.com/
    http://www.familylight.com/link3/3.03/3.031/aspen.html

    http://leverageacademy.com/blog/2010/03/10/bain-capital-taking-out-psychiatric-solutions-for-1-35-billion/

    This Bain Capital Owned Company is a Mental Health
    treatment organization that treats mentally ill people , and after watching
    these 2 videos , Is Whitney Houston Victim of a mental
    health care Pharmaceutical Industry that Kills 3000 people a month , lets debate
    this use of the capital System !!!!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExPxawBa2Ao&feature=youtu.be

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lglCDwifzio&feature=related

    We could say that Whitney went from being dependent on a Illegal use of
    drugs to being treated for this dependency only to become Dependent on the
    LEGAL abusive use of chemical dependency on the Pharmaceutical Industries drugs
    used in treatment it is worth debating if this kind of use of Capital tax code
    and monetary policies are actually driving the expansion of Quality of Life or
    are they just driving Drug use to Boost Profits rather than enough funding is
    being done at the level of scientific research BEFORE a Drug is prescribed to a
    Individual patient , as is talked about in this link , http://www.fredreichheld.com/bainweb/PDFs/cms/Public/rebuilding_big_pharma.pdf
    , or is it being prescribed to drive Profits with a One size fits all Health
    care policy like Obama and Romney seem to simulate in their state and federally
    mandated health care Programs ???

    The way healthcare is being cast as a One size
    fits all study today by the Experts in the Field , are they creating the path to
    organizing the healthcare Industry to become a treatment of mind instead of body
    with a One Size Fits all approach that Obamacare’s authors like Dr. Ezekiel
    Emanuel wrote into the bill ?? And he recently wrote this about the medical
    field being a flawed system if you want to continue on the path of Individual
    health care , this flies in the face of the US Constitution’s Individual
    Liberties provisions that give us a right to seek a Free choice of Healthcare ,
    a full contrast to what has made Medicine in the USA one of the biggest
    accomplishments in world history !!! http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/science/2011/11/09/conference-future-personalized-medicine-kicks-off-with-challenge/FEaRVxvee9vQFmTmoMaSCM/story.html

    What We the People face as a Society of Freedom
    loving and Liberty Preserving people is a challenge by a elite group of
    Ideologues that are head strong and really the mental case that we the people
    need our Local Law Enforcement officers help with security from if we are to
    Preserve the US Constitution’s Liberty and justice for all . see this link on
    how the local County Sheriff’s can help us preserve our Liberty from the
    Ideologues that want to take over our Individual Liberties for Ideological
    purposes !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4RuWK2Ww-4&feature=player_embedded

  • Anonymous

    Get a grip lipless,then have someone show you how to keep your lip off the shift key.

  • http://www.facebook.com/david.hymes1 David Hymes

    It easy to say “Walking away from our international commitments would be devastating.” but you have not provided any meat on the reason why or why not. The United States is not entitled to anything beyond it’s own borders, and the assumption that we are is what has gotten America into so much trouble around the world.

    You say that we have commitments overseas, the reason America has these commitments is for doing exactly what the constitution warned us against and that was getting involved in entangling alliances that we have no business being involved in. Our government is supposed to be committed to the civil liberties and prosperity of the People of the United States, not enriching dictators of foreign nations.

    What so many of us fail to understand is that America is broke and we have people in our own country suffering because of it. And as long as even 1 single American is suffering the loss of his/her god given right to a free and prosperous life not one dime of any tax payers money should leave the shores of the United States to help any country.

    We need to fix America first and foremost, get our own house in order and stop the suffering of our own people here at home.

    I am what is left of the American middle class and am watching it be pissed away by politicians that think it is more important to worry about the borders between Afghanistan and Pakistan than fixing our economy here at home and returning the American dream back to the people of this once great nation.

    Ron Paul is the only brave American talking about the real issues facing our great country, if you don’t want to watch what we have left vanish then I suggest you start educating your self on what it means to be 15 Trillion Dollars in debt and what happened to so many other countries that set a course to try and dominate the world through a system of fiat money and dept, they all failed to include Russia. We are on that same path, so please, please wake up America.

    Ron Paul for president 2012. 

    By: David Hymes

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul did not make those commitments and did not agree with them and should not be responsible for the acts of others. Dr. Paul is looking out for America as every president should. We don’t live in the rest of the world, we have sacrificed more than enough blood for other nations and corporations, time and time again. It’s time we started worrying about our own country and it’s people and getting rid of our corrupt self serving government. Paul gave an explanation about his news letters, you don’t except it, that’s your problem. He is more honest and sensible than you will ever be.  

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Alcohol kills more people in the U.S. than all the drugs combined, lets make alcohol illegal also and see how that goes over. Oh, we tried that once and it didn’t work either. If marijuana and drugs are made legal, is everyone going to run out and use them ? The people that are looking for drugs now will find them sooner or later, even if they are illegal. People drank illegal alcohol during  prohibition until the government realized how much tax money they were losing. Jesus even drank alcohol. The government has no business in your house or what you do in your house, we are not in a communist state yet. Outlawing drugs has increased crime just like outlawing alcohol did during prohibition. People are responsible for their actions, we don’t need a nanny state to tell us what to do. I personally have never used drugs and never will, but as long as an addict doesn’t bother me, I have no objections to what someone else does. It’s called minding your own business.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    The latest polls show Paul doing best amoung the GOP and against Obama in Iowa.  He beats Obama 49-42.  Not exactly “too radical” for most Americans.  He is the only candidate on both sides who is against war and corporate bailouts.  And he is the only candidate who has tried to stop the Patriot Act and NDAA in an attempt to save our civil liberties.  Crazy!

  • jeffrey melton

    NOBAMA in 2012 amen.

  • ORAXX

    Republicans love name calling however, the real Fascist’s of the 1930′s and 40′s, were far more in line with today’s Republicans than Democrats.  The last thing the Fascists were, was liberal.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jo-Hargis/100002882420472 Jo Hargis

    Under a Ron Paul agenda, he says he would immediately cut $1 trillion.  All reputable economists say that would result in an immediate 7% plunge in GDP, which would throw us immediately into not a recession, but full blown depression.

    Yet not ONE Paulbot dares to address this.

     Ron Paul is clueless, and that is exactly why he’s a “fringe” candidate.  His cult members need to pull their collective heads out of their arses and get concrete information from sources other than Ron Paul fansites.  You can’t vote smart if you don’t get good, concrete and TRUE information.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    If you see what’s going on in Greece then you’ll understand that Greece is fighting for its sovereignty in the streets while the banksters are loading them with debt and asking the people to pay for it. It’s exactly what is happening here but since we can print money in the FED we can inflate ourselves out of it, while the people take a 30% haircut over the next 4 to 6 years. Our dollar is worth 3.8 cents so you can see the Germans, Chinese, and Japanese beginning squirm as they sit on trillion of worthless dollars, hoping our government keeps the charade going, and the people don’t revolt. The question who bails first, the people or the bond holders? My guess is the people.The results will be just as it has happened in South America, and now happening in Europe, the military will be called out, and the government will turn to harsh measures to control the crowd, as it becomes authoritarian, with possibly a dictator taking control. Just saying……….. They said it could never happen here. So where is Paul on addressing the banks?
     
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Kirkland/100000195274498 Brian Kirkland

    He’s not even qualified to serve in the congress. The fascism he speaks of is what would come from the logical conclusion of his “libetarian” views, which would lead to gangs of “libertarians”
    “free” to run around in brown shirts, standing on street corners heckling Jews, African-Americans and foreigners. Freedom to lock people out of restrooms and restaurants would prevail. After all, it’s property rights that must be protected, even at the expense of the overall comfort level in society as a whole.

  • Anonymous

    Seems to me that that is exactly what Obama is trying to protect against! Oh, and the Occupy people also! Maybe Paul and Coulter shouls read some pre-WWII history of the Hitler era.

  • http://www.facebook.com/joe4gov Joe Kirkpatrick

    You are an absolute idiot.

  • http://www.facebook.com/joe4gov Joe Kirkpatrick

    Yes, very understated.

  • http://www.facebook.com/joe4gov Joe Kirkpatrick

    Yeah, that’s the joke all of the Jews living around Dakow were telling in 1939.

  • http://www.facebook.com/joe4gov Joe Kirkpatrick

    Actually, it is both parties moving toward the same thing (tyranny) from different directions. Ron Paul is a Republican because it is the only one of the two false parties that still has a few people remaining who want to restore the Constitution.

    Fascism is nothing more than state intervention in the private economy, that is, picking winners and losers through tax breaks and subsidies. The government has no role in business except for protecting free trade and the Constitution does not give it any power other than that. The existing system is a perversion.

    Fascist states where economic manipulation already occurs is also usually ripe for police state antics as well. The two things are still separate, and if you re-read Paul’s statement, he does exactly that.

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