news.aol.com— Say what you want about Ron Paul and his legion of tech-savvy supporters, but they do make the Republican party a whole lot more interesting to watch.
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Oh so like someone questioning Obama in an Obama article? Sounds like Obama articles should be banned/buried automatically too. Makes sense to me I will have to apply that.Because as far as I am concerned Obama articles.1. Are spammed onto Digg over and over and over.2. In said stories, anyone with a differing viewpoint is buried regardless of merit.3. Obama supporters refuse to allow any discussion of their glorious leader.Simple and straighforward you never learned sarcasm doesn't help. Congratulations!
Ok, so, I’ve now read the ”We the People Act”…aka H.R.300. And I smack you across the face with my glove and shout “hypocrite”. Yes, hypocrite.The Constitution, as written by the Founders…white Christian landowners and lawyers to the core…was not intended as top down document. It was intended as a document of “the people” that constructed a Federal Government that was to operate within very specific boundaries. All other powers not specifically mentioned as being Federal are reserved to the People themselves, or to the States. This is not only codified in the Constitution, it is also contained in the Federalist Papers and the correspondences of many of our Founders. They all feared a strong central power, but saw a certain amount of central power as a necessary evil, especially to unify the country in the face of British and French and Spanish military strength.Hence, laws regarding drinking ages, driving ages, abortion, and sex acts vary from State to State in accordance with the wishes of the people living there. California, although largely pro-choice, is one of the few States to recognize a fetus as a person, and as recently as last year convicted a man of double homicide for murdering a pregnant woman. Yet, a California mother can choose to kill her fetus as a result of Federal Law…I believe the the State law provides exemption for abortions. But Federal hubris extends to more than just abortion…also in California, medical marijuana is legalized by the State, and yet Federal DEA agents arrest people for breaking Federal drug laws. Very few people…among them Dr. Paul…stand up and point out that the DEA doesn’t have the f**king jurisdiction, though I believe my crude opinion was upheld in circuit court last week.You are correct when you say that State rights do not supersede individual liberty. The individual is sovereign in America, and only gives up those rights to the State and Federal governments which he and his local peers agree upon. And I won’t deny you that some State laws, approved democratically by the voters, due intrude upon certain minorities within those States. It is up to those minorities to convince the majority of their rights, or move somewhere that the majority is supportive of them. In a republic, the law protects the safety of the minority even if it doesn’t grant them special considerations.What we have now is a Federal government that unconstitutionally imposes it’s will upon the People in the various States. Roe v. Wade is an example of that. So is a 21 year old drinking age, and the 65 vs. 55 mph speed limit., and the drug laws mentioned earlier.Where are you a hypocrite, you may be wondering? Well, if the people of the various States VOTE for a law which effects the members of that State, then when the Federal Judiciary steps in and overturns said law the Federal Judiciary is ignoring the will of the people. It is essentially issuing a Federal edict…something which the Founders had their fill of and shed blood to free themselves from.In this country the People are the bosses, not the judges. As things stand, different minorities…or special interest groups…are impressing their ideals upon the majority through unconstitutional judicial activism and massive media support. You are a hypocrite to claim Ron Paul intends to force his fundamentalist views on others, when in fact opposing fundamentalist views are already being enforced by judicial activists and the MSM.How is one form of force and fundamentalism better than the other? Well, the “We the People Act” simply forces the Federal courts to obey the Constitution…something they really shouldn’t need to be reminded of. It simply puts the decisions back into the hands of the people most affected. And if the voters in California decide to allow gay marriage, then some future Supreme Court can’t overturn that. Or vice versa.In your version of force, the majority of the people nationwide are forced to cower before the loudest minority with the best Supreme Court attorney and PR department. How well would you support such a system if the religious right had the money to use the judiciary to overturn Roe or nationally outlaw homosexuality?Leaving the decision with the people within the States levels the playing field…it makes everyone fight on equal ground. And those ideas that don’t earn the support to succeed won’t. It’s philosophical Darwinism….survival of the fittest idea. Each State becomes its own incubator for different forms of republican government, and those that fail will look to those that succeed as examples. That is how a republic is supposed to function. That is what the Founders intended, and that is all Ron Paul is looking for.
Ron Paul can be the saver of the Grand Ole Party. The NEOCON and Corporate Sellout republicans for the past 20 years have destroy the party and along with their socialist democratics are almost destroying the country.The Patriot Act may be good legislation for Stalin or Hitler, but it is coming to an end. The Wealth/Elitists/Zionists, you and your NEOCON PUPPETS are done!The Ron Paul Revolution, the Grassroots, the US Constitution, Peter Schiff, Jesse Ventura, and more are emerging from the Oppression of the DC criminals and their colluding Main Stream Media.Prepare Mike Pence, Mike Duncan, John 's**t SANDWICH' Boehner, Eric Cantor, and POS like Steele, lamar alexander, and the rest of the facsist dust baggers are done.Liberty and Freedom will Smack the RNC back to true conservatism for republicans, libertarians, and independents.
I posted this message on that thread, but it is worth repeating.How many people realize that "High Times" ran full page ads for Ron Paul, and charged the Dr. nothing.
tbyrd073Jan 6, 2009
Yea because I only want to see articles on the front page about Obama and Palin's wardrobe costs.
tbyrd073Jan 6, 2009
Oh so like someone questioning Obama in an Obama article? Sounds like Obama articles should be banned/buried automatically too. Makes sense to me I will have to apply that.Because as far as I am concerned Obama articles.1. Are spammed onto Digg over and over and over.2. In said stories, anyone with a differing viewpoint is buried regardless of merit.3. Obama supporters refuse to allow any discussion of their glorious leader.Simple and straighforward you never learned sarcasm doesn't help. Congratulations!
tbyrd073Jan 6, 2009
I think spending like drunken sailors kinda covered it but I guess its good to clarify.
realunderdogJan 7, 2009
Who?
dcbpeJan 9, 2009
Ok, so, I’ve now read the ”We the People Act”…aka H.R.300. And I smack you across the face with my glove and shout “hypocrite”. Yes, hypocrite.The Constitution, as written by the Founders…white Christian landowners and lawyers to the core…was not intended as top down document. It was intended as a document of “the people” that constructed a Federal Government that was to operate within very specific boundaries. All other powers not specifically mentioned as being Federal are reserved to the People themselves, or to the States. This is not only codified in the Constitution, it is also contained in the Federalist Papers and the correspondences of many of our Founders. They all feared a strong central power, but saw a certain amount of central power as a necessary evil, especially to unify the country in the face of British and French and Spanish military strength.Hence, laws regarding drinking ages, driving ages, abortion, and sex acts vary from State to State in accordance with the wishes of the people living there. California, although largely pro-choice, is one of the few States to recognize a fetus as a person, and as recently as last year convicted a man of double homicide for murdering a pregnant woman. Yet, a California mother can choose to kill her fetus as a result of Federal Law…I believe the the State law provides exemption for abortions. But Federal hubris extends to more than just abortion…also in California, medical marijuana is legalized by the State, and yet Federal DEA agents arrest people for breaking Federal drug laws. Very few people…among them Dr. Paul…stand up and point out that the DEA doesn’t have the f**king jurisdiction, though I believe my crude opinion was upheld in circuit court last week.You are correct when you say that State rights do not supersede individual liberty. The individual is sovereign in America, and only gives up those rights to the State and Federal governments which he and his local peers agree upon. And I won’t deny you that some State laws, approved democratically by the voters, due intrude upon certain minorities within those States. It is up to those minorities to convince the majority of their rights, or move somewhere that the majority is supportive of them. In a republic, the law protects the safety of the minority even if it doesn’t grant them special considerations.What we have now is a Federal government that unconstitutionally imposes it’s will upon the People in the various States. Roe v. Wade is an example of that. So is a 21 year old drinking age, and the 65 vs. 55 mph speed limit., and the drug laws mentioned earlier.Where are you a hypocrite, you may be wondering? Well, if the people of the various States VOTE for a law which effects the members of that State, then when the Federal Judiciary steps in and overturns said law the Federal Judiciary is ignoring the will of the people. It is essentially issuing a Federal edict…something which the Founders had their fill of and shed blood to free themselves from.In this country the People are the bosses, not the judges. As things stand, different minorities…or special interest groups…are impressing their ideals upon the majority through unconstitutional judicial activism and massive media support. You are a hypocrite to claim Ron Paul intends to force his fundamentalist views on others, when in fact opposing fundamentalist views are already being enforced by judicial activists and the MSM.How is one form of force and fundamentalism better than the other? Well, the “We the People Act” simply forces the Federal courts to obey the Constitution…something they really shouldn’t need to be reminded of. It simply puts the decisions back into the hands of the people most affected. And if the voters in California decide to allow gay marriage, then some future Supreme Court can’t overturn that. Or vice versa.In your version of force, the majority of the people nationwide are forced to cower before the loudest minority with the best Supreme Court attorney and PR department. How well would you support such a system if the religious right had the money to use the judiciary to overturn Roe or nationally outlaw homosexuality?Leaving the decision with the people within the States levels the playing field…it makes everyone fight on equal ground. And those ideas that don’t earn the support to succeed won’t. It’s philosophical Darwinism….survival of the fittest idea. Each State becomes its own incubator for different forms of republican government, and those that fail will look to those that succeed as examples. That is how a republic is supposed to function. That is what the Founders intended, and that is all Ron Paul is looking for.
zubataJan 10, 2009
I'm for anyone other than the Obamanation.
mcliebermanJan 10, 2009
Ron Paul can be the saver of the Grand Ole Party. The NEOCON and Corporate Sellout republicans for the past 20 years have destroy the party and along with their socialist democratics are almost destroying the country.The Patriot Act may be good legislation for Stalin or Hitler, but it is coming to an end. The Wealth/Elitists/Zionists, you and your NEOCON PUPPETS are done!The Ron Paul Revolution, the Grassroots, the US Constitution, Peter Schiff, Jesse Ventura, and more are emerging from the Oppression of the DC criminals and their colluding Main Stream Media.Prepare Mike Pence, Mike Duncan, John 's**t SANDWICH' Boehner, Eric Cantor, and POS like Steele, lamar alexander, and the rest of the facsist dust baggers are done.Liberty and Freedom will Smack the RNC back to true conservatism for republicans, libertarians, and independents.
leadman584Jan 10, 2009
I posted this message on that thread, but it is worth repeating.How many people realize that "High Times" ran full page ads for Ron Paul, and charged the Dr. nothing.
hugolpJan 10, 2009
The most socialist democrats are also scare of Ron Paul. They know he can show the right way to the most pasionate and caring ones.