The Revolutionary

It saddens me that in our country of "liberty and freedom," we are forced to vote for one of only two men. Our two-party system is not fully representative of our people and it is wrong for our government to pride itself on open elections by telling citizens to vote for whomever they want while the reality is only two men have somehow gained the right to win because a group of fanatics have chosen to play politics like a game of Red vs. Blue.

If any of you are unaware, I am currently planning on voting for neither John McCain or Barack Obama. McCain, to me, means more Bush policies, while Obama means using fancy speeches to defame those awful policies while doing nothing under the guise of "Change."

I voted for Ron Paul in the Alabama primary, and while people laughed and called Paul supporters crazy as our candidate failed to get a tenth of the delegates McCain garnered, I would do it again in a heartbeat.

What people can't seem to understand about Ron Paul is that, it's not about gaining the Presidency like it is with the other candidates. I'm sure he wouldn't mind being President, if that weren't the case he wouldn't have run. However, the Presidency and really, candidacy for that office, was simply a way to push the ideas of political reformation into the public sphere.


Ron Paul will not be our next President. But he represents the good left in this country, concerned not with affiliations or petty cookie-cutter two-party arguments, but with liberty and making America the "light on the hill" it used to be.


September 2, Paul hosted his own convention along side that of the Republican National Convention. Paul sold 10,000 tickets to the Rally for the Republic for $17.76 and made a statement that there are a substantial amount of people in this nation unhappy with our Republicrat government.

I'm currently reading his book The Revolution: A Manifesto, and let me tell you, it's an eye-opener to see how far we have strayed from the original foundation this country was built upon.

Here are some highlights from his speech at the Rally which you can watch here.

"You know the survival of the Republic was discussed at the time of founding, and the founding fathers came to the conclusion that we would and could have a Republic, but the Republic depended on a moral people so we complain a lot about the government and all that is going on and we blame this person or the other person, but in a way, it is the reflection of the morality of the people. So in doing this we have to understand the morality of the law and the morality of what we do. If we are not a moral people [even] a perfect Constitution cannot save us. We don't have a perfect Constitution, but we have a real good one. But the fact that if we have people who ignore it, it won't serve our purpose so you have to have a moral people and a system of government and moral politicians who represent us."

"Another thing that has happened is that we've lost track that the Constitution was written to restrain the government. Now, it's turned on its head, the Constitution or the government that's there, they use it to restrain us and that is upside down."

"And not only that, we get taught history in our public schools, and who are the great Presidents? The great Presidents are always said to be the ones who run a war. Why don't we have the peace candidates be the great Presidents?"

"Something else has happened over the many decades and that is our confusion on what patriotism is all about. Guess who the true early American Patriots supported? They didn't support the current government that they had and yet today they want you to believe that patriotism means that you support everything the government wants. A true patriot defends liberty and the people. And just naming a bill the Patriot Act and voting for it, doesn't make you a patriot. The true patriots will repeal the patriot act. That's what they would do."

"In one of the debates we were asked as a group what do you think is the greatest moral crisis that we're facing today in this country and the thought that crossed my mind in that debate and I still believe it's one of the most serious moral crisis we face and that is, we as a nation have come to accept, at least the policies go in that direction, that we as a nation now accept the principle of preventive war, actually starting war. There is no moral justification for that and there certainly is no Constitutional justification to fight these many wars that we have been fighting without a declaration of war."

"We do a pretty good job defending against foreign threats. We overdo that because we have no foreign threats. We have no threat that somebody is going to invade this country. We have the threat of terrorism but that is a consequence of a seriously flawed foreign policy."



Cheers