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This is a message from the "Godfather" of the Tea Party to Obama. Now that we have killed Osama Bin Laden it is time to end the wars and stop policing the world.

A little bit of history: the Tea Party movement started when Ron Paul raised a record $6 million in 24 hours on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in December 2007. Here is the USAToday article on that event: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-12-17-ronpaul-fundrai...

This talk is called "Imagine" and it was given by Ron Paul on March 11, 2009. The original text of the talk is below:

Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of "keeping us safe" or "promoting democracy" or "protecting their strategic interests."

Imagine that they operated outside of US law, and that the Constitution did not apply to them. Imagine that every now and then they made mistakes or acted on bad information and accidentally killed or terrorized innocent Americans, including women and children, most of the time with little to no repercussions or consequences. Imagine that they set up checkpoints on our soil and routinely searched and ransacked entire neighborhoods of homes. Imagine if Americans were fearful of these foreign troops, and overwhelmingly thought America would be better off without their presence.

Imagine if some Americans were so angry about them being in Texas that they actually joined together to fight them off, in defense of our soil and sovereignty, because leadership in government refused or were unable to do so. Imagine that those Americans were labeled terrorists or insurgents for their defensive actions, and routinely killed, or captured and tortured by the foreign troops on our land. Imagine that the occupiers' attitude was that if they just killed enough Americans, the resistance would stop, but instead, for every American killed, ten more would take up arms against them, resulting in perpetual bloodshed. Imagine if most of the citizens of the foreign land also wanted these troops to return home. Imagine if they elected a leader who promised to bring them home and put an end to this horror.

Imagine if that leader changed his mind once he took office.

The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here, but we have had a globe-straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hatred and resentment towards us.

According to our own CIA, our meddling in the Middle East was the prime motivation for the horrific attacks on 9/11. But instead of re-evaluating our foreign policy, we have simply escalated it. We had a right to go after those responsible for 9/11, to be sure, but why do so many Americans feel as if we have a right to a military presence in some 160 countries when we wouldn't stand for even one foreign base on our soil, for any reason? These are not embassies, mind you, these are military installations. The new administration is not materially changing anything about this. Shuffling troops around and playing with semantics does not accomplish the goals of the American people, who simply want our men and women to come home. 50,000 troops left behind in Iraq is not conducive to peace any more than 50,000 Russian soldiers would be in the United States.

Shutting down military bases and ceasing to deal with other nations with threats and violence is not isolationism. It is the opposite. Opening ourselves up to friendship, honest trade and diplomacy is the foreign policy of peace and prosperity. It is the only foreign policy that will not bankrupt us in short order, as our current actions most definitely will. I share the disappointment of the American people in the foreign policy rhetoric coming from the administration. The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

CREDITS:
Voice and Music was done by Jeremy Hoop
Video animation was done by Nicholas Bozman and MysteryBox. http://mysterybox.us"

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[RussianBabyExcercise]

Great video. Time to wake up, America.

[candyrain009]

@bahdahdoop I think you have a problem with comprehension. The question you have to ask yourself is how would you react if the shoe was on the other foot. If armed guards knocked down your front door threw your mother to the ground and questioned the males of the family. How would you feel if foreign forces "accidentally" dropped a bomb near your house killing your family members. How would you take that ? Point blank, we have earned the hatred directed at us.

[hbcsteve]

I don't want to hate people. I have been in other countries...they don't want to hate us. They just want to have their own American dream. We can see through the Mainstream propaganda.. we have seen through their lies and direction ...Now ...We are doing something about it! We count!

[williamgarman2]

@regger999 First I don't support girls wearing skimpy clothes second i'm not religious and third I know they think they are doing whats right and that i'm in the wrong but unlike them i'm not using brute force to get people to abide by my rule's and beliefs.

[regger999]

@williamgarman2 but to them, YOU are the immoral one, cheering on women, actually young girls, not even menstruating. in skimpy clothes to do gymnastics and spreading their legs: Cheerleaders.

Taliban means students. Of the Quaran. In other words, they're bible thumpers.

Just like your beloved evangelicals.

And yes, what they do to women is hateful and evil, but not that different from what evangelicals actually want from their own women: be subservient and docile

[regger999]

@candyrain009 WHAT!!! NOOOOOHOOOO we haven't earned the hatred!! We are the Angels, we only do good in the world. Ask Chili, who we gave such a nice dictator, Pinochet, he only killed 30.000 people, but hey, omelet-eggs. Ask Western Europe which we turn into Consumer testing ground No. 1, and we killed of their movie industry. They used to all speak German, but now they speak American, baby!

We are ANGELS! Ask Nelson Mandela, whose imprisonment we supported for 26yrs.

[williamgarman2]

one point I want to put forward. the Taliban are not nice people you can not say they are morally rite when they stone women to death for being raped, and you know what if there was a bunch of drug dealing war lords who's faith had turned to madness and belief to delusion charging across my country and the government could not stop them I would want foreign intervention simply because at the very least they have rules.

[TheSteelGeneraI]

Why you aint a christian: youtube com / watch?v=KAvDtPz33w0

if you’re a Christian who supports killing your enemies and torture, you have to come up with a new name for yourself.

If you rejoice in revenge, torture and war you cannot say you’re a follower of the guy who explicitly said, “love your enemies” and “do good to those who hate you.” The next line is NOT “and if that doesn’t work, send a titanium fanged dog to rip his nuts off.”

[BrianPratpick]

@bahdahdoop In other words, you're no Christians. You CAN NOT be Christians if you declare yourselves to be. You have to live it.

That's why Obama is a Christian, and you aint: you do NOT practice what you preach, he does.

At LEAST 5 times as much as all your politicians combined.

Any political party that takes hate-mongers Santorum, Palin & Bachman serious, even for ONE second is NOT Christian.

[BrianPratpick]

@bahdahdoop cos you HAVE no case... basically your position isn't only hypocritical, it's the VERY definition of hypocrisy. Just like the average RepuKKKes position on "family values" while supporting cheaters like Gringrich, Vitter and Foley/Craig.

Just like their position on Fiscal Responsibility while cheering a fraudulent unpaid war, which was borrowed from China

Just like their position on Christianity: Jesus preached "turn the other cheek", you preach hate and violence.

[bahdahdoop]

@BrianPratpick Wow. I rest my case.