Is Ron Paul Todays Thomas Paine?

                 

   One  of the most influential and underrated figures in the history of this country is without a doubt Thomas Paine.  Paine who was an anti-Federalist, which is most likely the cause for his absence from our curriculum, had more to do with the formation of this country’s government than any other figure in our history.  I say this because Paine was single-handedly the most significant figure whose hand played a major role in the Revolutionary war and the Declaration of Independence than any of the Founding Fathers. In fact, it is my fact based assertion that Paine should have had shrines built of him as did all the Federalists.  Funny how the anti-Federalists, save for Patrick Henry, were barely mentioned. I have concluded that this is simply because the Federal  Government had no want, need, nor desire to allow people to know about them or their role for fear they might catch on to the fact that they had been duped out of true freedom from the biggest tyrant of all, the Federal Government itself!

   Though, throughout time, we have been cajoled into the premeditated mindset that the founding fathers could do no wrong, I assert otherwise. In fact, I can’t understand why anyone would think they were any less calculated than our politicians are today? Further, that they had actually hatched, (or  conspired) their own plan to take control of this portion of the American Continent.  In the vague history lessons I was presented with in school much was surely left out in order to paint a prettier picture. History is always written to depict the best of government as its media usually, as now, comes under the control of that governance, in one form or another. Never mind that George Washington was stealing his slaves’ teeth to utilize them for himself, and that he even had slaves, he was painted as a hero to package and sell to generation upon generation. This is indoctrination at its finest. This form of mind manipulation carried out via the school system history lessons reminds me of the Nazi Germany schoolrooms with the children saluting their leader, Adolf Hitler. The same techniques have been used on us for over two and a half centuries. We must stop the tyranny of our Federal Government through all of its equally out of control federal agencies like the IRS, CIA, FBI, DEA and the newly created Homeland Security to name a few which have done nothing but infringe upon us and force our [supposed] will upon other nations about the globe by economic sanctions and war.  While our governing body commits these heinous acts, our media sits idly by reporting nothing but government sound bites. It is my assertion that we are all as Daniel Webster put it, “the dupes of designing men.”  Those designing men come in the form of the unelected monetary masters whose money runs our leaders like puppets on strings and coerces the voting through media and monetary manipulations with a list of such that would take an entire encyclopedia set to divulge. Paine once stated:

“It has been thought a considerable advance toward establishing the principles of freedom, to say, that government is a compact between those who govern and those who are governed: but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as a man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government; and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.”

     That, to be sure, was Paine’s reassurance that he was against big government and thus an anti-Federalist.

        Thomas Paine was a pioneer and visionary way ahead of his time in many ways as he spoke out against big government , slavery, treatment of the Indians and for  the equal  rights of women today we have come to a point in our true history where we need a dozen Thomas Paine’s to set us on a far better course, but it appears all we have is one  man I liken to Paine and that is Ron Paul, who for his efforts of equal vision with his voice against the Federal Reserve, our massive federal government and the rights of man gets shunned by the mainstream media and his seemingly less educated and more timid government peers.  Nonetheless, Congressman Paul has awaken possibly enough of the populace to do what Paine before him has done, create a Revolution. Hopefully, not a bloody Revolution, but one of rationality and words,  and one which seems to be growing considerably in the form of Occupy Wall Street as I post this, that is clearly indicative that .

In 1786 Thomas Paine wrote about the effects of paper money and the monetary system in comparison to Gold and Silver Coin as Tender in Payment of debts.

 He wrote:

“ Man has no share in making gold or silver; all that his labors and ingenuity can accomplish is, to collect it from the mine, refine it for use and give it an impression, or stamp it into coin.

Its being stamped into coin adds considerably to its convenience but nothing to its value. It has then no more value than it had before. Its value is not in the impression but in itself. Take away the impression and still the same value remains. Alter it as you will, or expose it to any misfortune that can happen, still the value is not diminished. It has a capacity to resist the accidents that destroy other things. It has, therefore, all the requisite qualities that money can have, and is a fit material to make money of — and nothing which has not all those properties can be fit for the purpose of money.

Paper, considered as a material whereof to make money, has none of the requisite qualities in it. It is too plentiful, and too easily come at. It can be had anywhere, and for a trifle. . . .

But when an assembly undertakes to issue paper as money, the whole system of safety and certainty is overturned, and property set afloat. Paper notes given and taken between individuals as a promise of payment is one thing, but paper issued by an assembly as money is another thing. It is like putting an apparition in the place of a man; it vanishes with looking at it, and nothing remains but the air. . . .

By what power or authority an assembly undertakes to make paper money, is difficult to say. It derives none from the Constitution, for that is silent on the subject. It is one of those things which the people have not delegated, and which, were they at any time assembled together, they would not delegate. It is, therefore, an assumption of power which an assembly is not warranted in, and which may, one day or other, be the means of bringing some of them to punishment.

I shall enumerate some of the evils of paper money and conclude with offering means for preventing them.

One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

It was horrid to see, and hurtful to recollect, how loose the principles of justice were left, by means of the paper emissions during the war. The experience then had should be a warning to any assembly how they venture to open such a dangerous door again.

As to the romantic, if not hypocritical, tale that a virtuous people need no gold and silver, and that paper will do as well, it requires no other contradiction than the experience we have seen. Though some well-meaning people may be inclined to view it in this light, it is certain that the sharper always talks this language.

There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.”

How much detailed could Paine have put it? Now, astonishingly, 225 years later Ron Paul echoes Paine on monetary policy and likewise he suffers the same roadblocks for those efforts as did Paine. First off, Paul was the most prominent Republican Congressman to publicly announce in the Presidential debates that the Central Bank known as the  Federal Reserve was a corrupt, unconstitutional, privately run entity that should be shut down, and is solely responsible for our economic woes. Secondly, he is being shunned by his own party, as well as the Democrats for his outside the box, visionary views as was Paine before him. Thirdly, he is being snubbed and marginalized by the media, including the debate referees, despite his being a clear top contender for the Republican Party Nomination, which they pathetically seem to fear for what I believe to be obvious reasons. Not only had the repeatedly thrown him curve balls throughout, the 2008 election, they continue to do so 4 years later, in the 2012 election despite his obvious momentum which evinces itself despite the media blackout.  Certainly, if Paul had the media behind him, rather than stifling him, he would, in my opinion, most probably beat Obama handily in the 2012 election. For my money, with the mainstream so against him the way they are, that makes him all the more an attractive prospect for my vote!

      So, is Ron Paul an anti-Federalist like his predecessor Thomas Paine? Only Paul knows, but I myself see striking similarities between the two men which give pause and hope that the Ron Paul campaign is alive and well and may truly be the new Revolution of the new century!

                                                                                      

       

   

  

    

     

The Tainted Tea Party

   Yesterday afternoon September 9, 2011 at about 3 pm Central time if I remember correctly, I was channel surfing when I came upon a CNN broadcast about the Tea Party. The Tea Party is the new populist political movement that began during the 2008 presidential campaign of Ron Paul which touts freedom and liberty including taxation and government intrusions into our personal lives. I had watched this movement sprouting up myself but what I heard on CNN, (as well as what I didn't hear because it was not reported on), proved my point altogether about the control over the mainstream media, and the correspondent’s reporting of what they tout as the actual news.



  The young correspondent’s erroneous claims when he described the Tea Party and how it had come into existence in 2009 (rather than 2007 via the Ron Paul Revolution) lacked all credibility of fact, integrity, and truthfulness. Furthermore, when he went on to state that it was going to be interesting which “top tier” candidate was going to outperform who, Rick Perry or Mitt Romney, without reference or mention of the true icon of the movement, Congressman Ron Paul or what his impact would be at the debates  I sat in anger, bewilderment and disgust of the erroneous information that I, and everyone else was being fed by this either misinformed or flat lying correspondent and was miffed because I had failed to catch his name. Sadly and again our mainstream media fail on every honest front to bring us truthful and accurate information while also marginalizing and outright ignoring the most popular and charismatic candidate in the coming Tea Party debate, Ron Paul.  I cannot help but ask, who, or which media controller or entity has the word out on Ron Paul? Who has so much power in the mainstream media that virtually all the networks have a blackout and blackball on Doctor Paul?

This question should not be ignored and should have every American deeply concerned whether you like Ron Paul or not because it blatantly demonstrates just how infiltrated our media as well as the Tea Party, have become.



   I myself am and have been aware for decades of media manipulation by the media owners but how is it that virtually every network has the word to ignore Ron Paul from his, unwitting perhaps, creation of the Tea Party to his very formidable candidacy? Why is he such a threat to the establishment that they choose to do so? Could it be that he is a threat to all of the pilfering and plundering of our economy which has us in the tens of trillions in debt?  How about the downsizing of our current police state government? Is too much freedom and liberty from all those ever expanding government regulations and useless programs a possibility? Perhaps it could be the monied interests of the Military Industrial Complex who will lose their massive windfall profits from their munitions sales and rebuilding contracts from our tax base that causes so much fear of a Ron Paul presidency.   



   For those of you that believe that there are no conspiracies, you simply must be in denial because next to the conspiracy by “private” bankers to create the Federal Reserve Bank in their covert 1910 Jekyll Island meeting, which has been funneling money out of this country into the hands of the Rothschild Banking cartel for almost a hundred years, the media conspiracy stands out on its own devastating merits. In fact the media manipulated thought on that agenda as well, and protected the monied interests long ago to allow its acceptance as they constantly indoctrinate public thinking by their barrage of falsities and lies on a daily basis without informing us that the Federal Reserve was screwing us all. In fact it took Ron Paul to do their job for them!  The conspirators even used the title “Federal” in the title to assuage any thoughts that the newly created Central Bank was a private entity rather than a government agency.  I cannot understate the repercussions which society is burdened with more than that of a society that is fed worthless and dishonest information with which to assimilate as fact! As for the outright lies told by CNN before my very eyes when I know otherwise, I cannot express my utter contempt more!



     Please consider that though you may not like Ron Paul for whatever reason, the mainstream media's disregard for truthfulness may, or probably already has, altered your own thought processes by feeding you lies and deceiving you. This alone should have you as irate and unhappy as I have become about what has become of journalism in this country!



    Getting back to the topic at hand and to substantiate and further back my claims on where, when and why the Tea Party came into existence I went to Wikipedia and read the following quote from that website:



The Tea Party's most noted national figures include Republican politicians suchformat. as Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, Eric Cantor, and Michele Bachmann, with Paul described by some as the "intellectual godfather" of the movement.



   The statetment "Godfather of the movement" is highly indicative of Congressmans Paul’s role though substantively misses the mark as usual to give proper credit to the man. I would call Ron Paul the “father” of the movement instead!  Furthermore, all the aforementioned others that Wikipedia claims to be founders of the movement, including Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann are not only latecomers to the movement, but outright infiltrators of the movement which have commandeered and altered it in a very negative way from its original direction, and also away from Congressman Ron Paul's ideals of personal liberty and freedom as well. Doctor Paul is the only candidate with the courage to address those issues that no other candidate will touch for fear of political attacks and retribution which makes him by far, a cut above the rest! The Boston Tea Party was a protest of taxation to an overseas government by those that desired freedom from the oppression of King George in Great Britain which set the stage for freedom and liberty in this new land. Those ideals are endeared by Ron Paul, the Thomas Paine of our day who himself was never given credit for his actions which led to the Declaration of Independence. I urge everyone to do the research and try to break free of the media lies and try to understand the freedom that Ron Paul and Thomas Paine spoke of, not that which the government and media are trying to sell you by lies, propaganda, and obfuscation.