The Last Nail - Floor Speech May 25 2011

The Last Nail The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions. The rule of law is constantly rejected and authoritarian answers are offered as panaceas for all our problems. Runaway welfarism is used to benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class. Who would have ever thought that the current generation and Congress would stand idly by and watch such a rapid disintegration of the American Republic? Characteristic of this epic event is the casual acceptance by the people and political leaders of the unitary presidency, which is equivalent to granting dictatorial powers to the President. Our Presidents can now, on their own:
1. Order assassinations, including American citizens,
2. Operate secret military tribunals,
3. Engage in torture,
4. Enforce indefinite imprisonment without due process,
5. Order searches and seizures without proper warrants, gutting the 4th Amendment,
6. Ignore the 60 day rule for reporting to the Congress the nature of any military operations as required by the War Power Resolution,
7. Continue the Patriot Act abuses without oversight,
8. Wage war at will,
9. Treat all Americans as suspected terrorists at airports with TSA groping and nude x-raying.
And the Federal Reserve accommodates by counterfeiting the funds needed and not paid for by taxation and borrowing, permitting runaway spending, endless debt, and special interest bail-outs.
And all of this is not enough. The abuses and usurpations of the war power are soon to be codified in the National Defense Authorization Act now rapidly moving its way through the Congress. Instead of repealing the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), as we should, now that bin Laden is dead and gone, Congress is planning to massively increase the war power of the President. Though an opportunity presents itself to end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Congress, with bipartisan support, obsesses on how to expand the unconstitutional war power the President already holds. The current proposal would allow a President to pursue war any time, any place, for any reason, without Congressional approval. Many believe this would even permit military activity against American suspects here at home. The proposed authority does not reference the 9/11 attacks. It would be expanded to include the Taliban and "associated" forces—a dangerously vague and expansive definition of our potential enemies. There is no denial that the changes in s.1034 totally eliminate the hard-fought-for restraint on Presidential authority to go to war without Congressional approval achieved at the Constitutional Convention. Congress' war authority has been severely undermined since World War II beginning with the advent of the Korean War which was fought solely under a UN Resolution. Even today, we're waging war in Libya without even consulting with the Congress, similar to how we went to war in Bosnia in the 1990s under President Clinton. The three major reasons for our Constitutional Convention were to:
1. Guarantee free trade and travel among the states.
2. Make gold and silver legal tender and abolish paper money.
3. Strictly limit the Executive Branch's authority to pursue war without Congressional approval.
But today:
1. Federal Reserve notes are legal tender, gold and silver are illegal.
2. The Interstate Commerce Clause is used to regulate all commerce at the expense of free trade among the states.
3. And now the final nail is placed in the coffin of Congressional responsibility for the war power, delivering this power completely to the President—a sharp and huge blow to the concept of our Republic.
In my view, it appears that the fate of the American Republic is now sealed—unless these recent trends are quickly reversed.
The saddest part of this tragedy is that all these horrible changes are being done in the name of patriotism and protecting freedom. They are justified by good intentions while believing the sacrifice of liberty is required for our safety. Nothing could be further from the truth.
More sadly is the conviction that our enemies are driven to attack us for our freedoms and prosperity, and not because of our deeply flawed foreign policy that has generated justifiable grievances and has inspired the radical violence against us. Without this understanding our endless, unnamed, and undeclared wars will continue and our wonderful experience with liberty will end.

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[spatz2269]

29 people enjoy being in a coffin

[skal203]

Seriously this guy is a real president. Not like we've had in forever.

[Rogotin]

Don't argue with the idiots that cover their ears and say LALALA I'M NOT LISTENING. It is about time someone stepped up - and spoke what they believe was the absolute truth. There is no bandaid, or instant fix, no one man can ever fix the amount of corruption and damage that has been asserted over the country.

But you all have a voice, and a right to start things going in the right direction. No one person is going to fix everything. But it takes one person to start the healing.

[charles43110]

@AListGamers134 nations & 900 bases, EVERY SINGLE national guard unit engaged overseas & every minute our INTEREST on our TRILLIONS & TRILLIONS of debt is more than our GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY can pay for. Idiots ignore history. My mom was a child in the GREAT DEPRESSION. 1929 happened. Study how many times US money failed & had to be replaced. WWI & WWII ened just 70 yrs ago. NEXT world war with NUKES globally will vaporize USA & at the 1st flash YOU WILL CURSE Ron Paul?

[LibertyNeedsRestorin]

@339194 Why? Because most people don't understand what he means? I feel like when he says that people actually think he wants to get rid of paper money and go back to gold coins, but for the people that are un-aware, we would have paper money, it would just actually be worth something, other than money that is put into existence with debt already attached to it by the flick of a "magic wand" it is literally a never-ending process of recession/inflation.

[LibertyNeedsRestorin]

@AListGamers Haha, "Alistgamers" do yourself a favor, and stick to videogames, leave the politics to the big boys...

[badausf]

@dreadreaver55 and owned! High five good sir!

[LibertarianAmerican2]

Vote Ron Paul. Let's at least go down swinging.

[colinwds17]

Democratic Peoples Republic of the United States of America

[dreadreaver55]

@AListGamers Crazy? Please do explain how it is "crazy" to stick to the very document that we're taught is the superior law of the land. Explain how it is "crazy" to stop attacking other nations. Explain how it is "crazy" to stop giving foreign aid to other countries when our own is in a crisis with the economy, the massive debt and all. Go ahead and explain the craziness of all this, I'm really interested.

[Libertytreeradio]

Wallet thieves don't like Ron Paul. The "I wants' have to use guns in thugs hands to steal from the rest of us. Big Brother love means threaten to kill us if we complain about the shiesters stealing from us to give to the gubermint tit suckers. OBUMMER the WAR Prez just like ALL Demicans before him and Republicrat Neo-crums. Watch "America in Peril" by Mark Koernke on Youtube. It's a BIG we told you so! 1993 GDW!