RON PAUL FIGHTS POWERFUL PLUTOCRACY

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PAUL FIGHTS POWERFUL PLUTOCRACY

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By Steven LaTulippe

Rep.

Ron Paul (R-Tex.) is gaining steam in his presidential campaign and the

establishment is preparing to stop him at any cost. His fundraising

statistics reveal a blossoming, Internet-based movement that is uniting

libertarians and other concerned citizens from across the political

spectrum.

 

His performance in the media has been sharp, and his

organization is honing its message. But if Paul remains a viable

candidate, he faces a set of obstacles unlike any other. When

evaluating his chances, it’s important to understand contemporary

America: This is not a democracy and not a constitutional republic.

 

America

is a carefully concealed oligarchy. A few thousand people, mostly in

government, finance, and the military-industrial complex, run this

country for their own purposes. By manipulating the two-party system,

influencing the mainstream media, and controlling the flow of campaign

finance money, this oligarchy works to secure the nomination of its

preferred candidates (Democratic and Republican alike), thus giving

voters a “choice” between Puppet A and Marionette B.

 

Unlike

the establishment’s candidates, Paul is a freelancer running on

specific ideas. The federal government must function within the strict

guidelines of the Constitution, should deconstruct its empire, withdraw

troops from around the world, reestablish a foreign policy based on

noninterventionism, abolish the Federal Reserve Bank, eliminate fiat

currency and return to hard money.

 

This is not a political

agenda or party platform. It is a revolution. The entire ruling

oligarchy would be swept away if these ideas were implemented. Every

sentence, every word, every jot and tittle of this agenda

is unacceptable, repellent and hateful to America’s ruling elite.

 

The

reasons for this are obvious. Through its control of the Federal

Reserve, the banking elite makes billions of dollars in unearned

profits and exerts enormous influence over the American economy.

Countless industries and special interest groups (both foreign and

domestic) have sprung up around our so-called defense and national

security budgets. The bureaucratic elites who dominate the federal

government despise the Constitution’s limitations on their power and

view the document as just an archaic “piece of paper.”

 

They will

not “walk away” if Paul is elected president. When its authority over

the Southern states was challenged in the 19th century, the oligarchy

suspended the Constitution and launched a bloody war that killed three

quarters of a million people. They arrested newspaper editors, deported

antiwar congressmen, and burned down American cities.

 

A century

later, the oligarchy nuked two Japanese cities, killing thousands of

civilians in the twinkling of an eye. When its marginal interests were

threatened in Southeast Asia, the oligarchy launched a devastating war

that killed over a million people and left the region marinating in

toxic defoliating chemicals.

 

To further its interests in the

Middle East, the oligarchy slapped horrific sanctions on Iraq that so

far have killed 250,000 children (and then trotted out Madeleine

Albright—one of Clinton’s blood-stained trolls—to smugly declare that

the deaths were “worth it”).

 

If the oligarchy would behave

this way to protect its often marginal interests, what would it do to

stop a devastating assault on its very existence?

 

The attack on

Paul will begin in earnest when it appears he has an even remote

possibility of winning. It will follow a fairly predictable path: The

first step is already in play. The establishment will start by simply

ignoring him, by using its power in the mainstream media and their

influence over campaign donors. It will try excluding him from debates.

This strategy is already failing. The Internet and talk radio are

outside the elite’s direct control and are being used effectively by

Paul to “get the message out.” The

establishment will generate ridicule and fear mongering.

 

Paul’s

ideas will be grotesquely distorted in establishment media “hit

pieces.” They’ll say he wants to permit heroin use in public schools,

or that he wants old people to die in the streets without their Social

Security checks, or that he wants to allow greedy industrialists to

dump toxic waste into your drinking water.

 

The next arrow in the

oligarchy’s quiver will be scandal—real or fabricated. Usually, this

takes the form of pictures, billing records, etc. involving financial

or sexual hi-jinks. For these folks, it would be child’s play to

implicate him in some sort of phony ethical, moral, or financial

skullduggery (doctored pictures, sordid media accounts from

“eyewitnesses,” etc.).

 

If Paul somehow survives this assault,

the oligarchy will move on to the criminal justice system. On some fine

day, a stretch limo will pull up to the Capitol Building and one of the

establishment’s hit men (Jim Baker or maybe Vernon Jordan) will ooze

into Paul’s office for a “chat.”

 

Maybe Paul forgot to fill out

Form X109/23W on his 1997 income tax return? Or drained a mud puddle

when he built his new house that could be classified as a “wetland”? Or

maybe a close relative is in hot water with OSHA/FDA/IRS/youname-it

(federal prosecutors love to go after relatives

in order to gain “leverage”). Paul’s sentence could be lessened if he

agreed to drop his candidacy as part of a “plea bargain.”

 

Ayn

Rand once stated that the hallmark of authoritarian systems is the

creation of innumerable, incomprehensible laws. Such systems make

everyone an un-indicted felon and allow for the exercise of arbitrary

government power via selective prosecution. If all this failed and if

Paul remained a threat to win the presidency, the establishment may

decide to let him take office and then use their considerable influence

to ensure his presidency ended in failure—mostly through their control

of Congress, the federal bureaucracy and the mainstream media.

 

The

oligarchy’s problem with this strategy is that it entails considerable

risk. As president, Paul could use the powers of the office to inflict

untold damage to the imperial structure (especially if he chose to

withdraw American troops stationed overseas). Worse, he could appoint

anti-tyranny “ideologues” to a variety of positions in the federal

government. The damage to the oligarchs could take decades to undo.

 

Steven LaTulippe is a physician practicing in Ohio. He was an

officer in the Air Force for 13 years.

(Issue #37, September 10, 2007)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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