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Originally Posted by Zhuge Liang
Oh dear. I'm going to have to burst a bubble here. I hate doing this.
Ron Paul is not for freedom, unless your definition of freedom is narrowly defined and has nothing to do with any definition of freedom anyone else uses. Or you are a corporation.
Here is an extensive list of Ron Paul's record in Congress http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/11...-congress.html
His ideological and personal links with the far right militia movement and Christian Reconstructionism can be found here http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06...rld-order.html
He's against abortion, against the right to take discrimination claims to court (presumably the free market fairy will do away with racism), wants to remove the minimum wage, wants to undermine labour unions to the point of ineffectiveness, wants to repeal antitrust laws, hates Iranian students (for some bizarre reason), hates the 14th Ammendment, wants to gut environmental protections even more than Bush did, promotes the pointless offshore drilling plan, wants to withdraw from the ABM treaty, wants a little imperial war to seize the Panama Canal again and wants to forbid Federal funding to any organization showing a level of tolerance towards homosexuality. |
Well, I don't agree with his positions on any of those things, but he IS a Libertarian, and Libertarians (the ones on the conservative end of the spectrum, like him) are all about not restricting freedoms, especially corporate freedom. They tend to believe less in personal freedom though. Although, he does talk about repealing drug laws and getting rid of the IRS. And I've heard him say we should get out of other countries and stop our imperialist tendencies around the world. I knew he was against abortion, but I didn't know he was against freedom for gays. I kinda thought he would be more about personal freedom as well, from the interviews I've seen with him. Like I said though, I don't know a lot about him. Thanks for the links. I will educate myself more.