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• Ron Paul Urges Colleagues to ‘Pursue the Cause of Liberty’ in Farewell Address to Congress

  November 15, 2012 at 2:57am

  In reply to TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12.

  TIME_2
  I knew that your were an adherent to blind following (confidence before jealousy) but down right ignorance is a new low. John Locke was speaking of the transcendent natural law (divine ownership) in which you quoted. A law that humans were incapable of knowing.John Locke in his “Two Treatises” and “Question” would being forth traditional natural law views and then take them apart. In fact his divine ownership theory was put there so his theories could have a traditional foundation without being “strange.” You should read Locke a little more and try to understand his true philosophy. With humans right to the executive power of the law of nature (not the transcendent natural law) and his thesis on self ownership, humans in fact have the right to even commit suicide. Since a person “may destroy the thing, that he has property in,” (see his theory on property) suicide would even be permissible on the premise that human beings are self owners. According to this, Locke would be signalling the true grounds of his natural law or natural right doctrine, self ownership.
  Now into the making fun of and belittling that you seem so fond of. Since you clearly can’t scratch the surface of critical thinking even when it’s in a book and directly in front of you, have you ever thought that maybe you’re just stupid? That maybe something like reason wasn’t bestowed upon that little brain you think is just leaps and bounds ahead of us unreasonable libertarians?

• 30 States Petition Federal Government to Secede After Election

  November 12, 2012 at 9:51pm

  In reply to castaways.

  I too live in Alaska and agree whole heartedly with succession. I live on a small little island in southeast AK tucked away from the rest of the world. Honestly the only thing that reminds the community that we are part of a country is when the government regulates our natural resources. During the Clinton admin we had a pulp mill that employed 8000 – 10000 people year round until he shut it down and everyone packed up their bags and moved off the rock. Then to top it all off he declared a state of emergency for the town giving the ship yard 25 million to pick up the unemployed and do some work for the military and the yard owner pocketed the money didn’t hire anyone and sent a report in saying it couldn’t be done due to our weather. That was that and now our main industry is tourism. We sell our natural beauty to the lower 48 every summer and they take a little with them every year leaving the shops boarded up during the winter and looking like a ghost town. That’s the benefit of being a part of the union???

• Analysts: All This Uncontrollable Debt Makes You Wonder About the Future of Democracy

  September 29, 2012 at 9:09pm

  In reply to 666Sucks.

  @GHOSTOFJEFFERSON
  I must agree that you are far off on you solution. Democracy only takes quantity and biological age into consideration, not quality. What you just stated is still democracy (I swear this is exactly why I have been leaning more and more monarchical as of late) with an emphasis on biological age and not quality of solutions. When we started off we had the one (monarch like president), the few (aristocratic senate based on intelligence not inheritance), and the many (democratically popularly elected house) to do our legislating. The senate was there to check unjust democratic demands from the house and vice versa. Clive James stated “There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into” and you can apply this to the entire nation LEFT and RIGHT. Mass reasoning to get us out of this mess is a leftist Utopian dream that this country is not capable of doing. Please read at the very least our founders in the inherent defects of democracy and its naturally totalitarian character no matter what the age is to vote or if they are employed or not. If you would like to delve further into this subject there are many brilliant scholarly writings on democracy such as: Lord Acton, Alexis de Tocqueville, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Plato, Aristotle and so many more. I truly believe the religion of democracy that so many hold dear is far more dangerous than Islam or any other and people must know this enemy to its very roots.

• Analysts: All This Uncontrollable Debt Makes You Wonder About the Future of Democracy

  September 29, 2012 at 3:57am

  In reply to mudbitedlite.

  @1TRUEONE55
  At our founding of the new constitutional republic we were far from representative. We had a form of mixed government with a new theory of separation of powers (not a pure theory but mixed) that had a bicameral legislature. Remember that our senate was not representative in the same was that the popular house was. Neither was the judicial branch. This has changed and in essence has made our bicameral legislature into a unicameral legislature based on popular rule. I don’t get where you think we can’t take away from our constitution???We as individuals reserved the right to over throw our government and instill a new form if need be making the people absolute sovereigns in the constitution. And this isn’t just a democrat thing. We have seen many on the right (in many instances to a far more tyrannical way) rule by one man instead of the rule of law (which was John Adams definition of a republic and I tend to agree with him more so than Thomas Jefferson who believed that republics were defined in their ability to be representatives of the people). And to call the states form of a democracy a failure can only be stated from a nationalistic P.O.V., I think many states would have disagreed with you in their failure.

• Analysts: All This Uncontrollable Debt Makes You Wonder About the Future of Democracy

  September 29, 2012 at 1:52am

  In reply to woodyee.

  @DRS1969
  I don’t know what article you read or how you turned this to more statism. We must remember that in a democracy that everyone has a voice. Things such as monetary policy and fiscal policy are often far to big or hard to understand that far more than a majority can’t even think about it let alone comprehend and vote rationally. Even your statement leaves out many aspects to the bubble and its creation that I don’t think you fully comprehend that situation let alone the article. The little carrots on the stick that lead everyone to the polls and vote are far more important to our great friend the “common man” which is what democracy is supposed to represent. To think that with the end of the federal reserve will come the America of our forefathers is very silly.

• Analysts: All This Uncontrollable Debt Makes You Wonder About the Future of Democracy

  September 29, 2012 at 1:00am

  In reply to Old_Warrior.

  We were a republic. You must educate yourself and realize that we are a democracy and understand the differences and when, how, and why this happened. And btw, we were a constitutional FEDERAL republic.

• Analysts: All This Uncontrollable Debt Makes You Wonder About the Future of Democracy

  September 29, 2012 at 12:57am

  Ahh yes the anti-intellectualists are out tonight. This has been the problem of the right for so long it’s almost embarassing to be a Republican. We are far closer to a fascist government than a socialist government ( which they are very similar in nature but there is a difference ). We have been warned by the most brilliant minds through history that democracy leads to instability and a government of the stupid, by the stupid, and for the stupid. Plato, Aristotle, Lord Acton, and De Tocqueville with many more warned about this exact thing and yet nobody sees that a democracy has always led to a totalitarian gov’t regime throughout history. We are all scared about socialism and imperialism and try to blame forms of gov’t that we just clearly are not without looking at the form of gov’t that we are? Which is far worse in my opinion. Democracy brings forth rivaling factions (class warfare is the most natural), gridlock (which leads to imperialism), instability (which leads to gov’t intervention), added with the stupidity of the masses and you have the recipe for a collectivist society. There are so many scholarly books on this subject, but you can just look at quotes from our founders to see that they fully understood democracy and its defects so they made us a FEDERAL ( i can’t stress that word enough ) republic. You can’t fight an enemy until you get to its very roots and in America’s case (maybe the worlds) it’s democracy.

• Ron Paul’s Lesson on the Benefits of Freedom Stuns ‘Morning Joe’ Panel

  June 20, 2012 at 8:09pm

  In reply to freeberty.

  Oh man you beat me to it Freeberty but thank you for pointing out the intelligence of the average Romney supporter.

• Tim Pawlenty: ‘The Last Person to Cut a Back Room Deal in American Politics Would Be Ron Paul’

  February 24, 2012 at 9:53pm

  In reply to TRONINTHEMORNING.

  Hey tron since you have a radio show would you take up a debate on said radio show with me on Ron Paul and you can pick the topics. And I will pick topics on the republican candidates that were the nomination in years past???

• Report: Santorum’s Fiscal Record Not in Line With Tea Party

  February 15, 2012 at 6:47pm

  In reply to cous1933.

  Haha Santorum has more in common with Reagan than anyone left. That is funny. Either you don’t know Reagan or you don’t know Santorum but my guess is that it’s both.