Book Review: The Revolution, A Manifesto by Ron Paul

With the election around the corner, it's nice to get some good perspective on how far we have come to this point in this historical election and where we need to be going. To me, Ron Paul is the people's candidate. He gives us great historical context in this book and helps us realize that we need to do something fast to erase the arrogance and hypocritical reputation our country has developed over the past 20 years with our "nation building" and pre-emptive wars. It is sad to see a candidate get shunned away by the media and his own party as Congressman Paul has as he continually fights for our Freedom and Civil Liberties that Our Founding Fathers had intended us to have as part of the inception of our Country

an excerpt:

"The mainstream media had no idea what to make of it, since we were breaking all the rules and yet still attracting such a varied and passionate following. I began making this a central point of my speeches: the reason all theses different groups are rallying to the same banner, I said, is that freedom has a unique power to unite us.

In case this sounds like a cliche, it isn't. It's common sense. When we agree not to treat each other merely as means to our own selfish ends, but to respect one another as individuals with rights and goals of our own, cooperation and goodwill suddenly become possible for the first time.

My message is one of freedom and individual rights. I believe individuals have a right to life and liberty and that physical aggression should only be used defensively. We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion. That, and not a desire for 'economic efficiency,' is the primary moral reason for opposing government intrusions into our lives: government is force, not reason."

MAYER: There was such an atmosphere of intimidation. … They felt so endangered in some ways that, at one point, two of the top lawyers from the Justice Department developed this system of talking in codes to each other because they thought they might be being wiretapped…by their own government. They felt like they might be kind of weirdly in physical danger. They were actually scared to stand up to Vice President Cheney.

Blackwater and Israeli Commandos in New Orleans after Katrina

Dr. David Kilcullen, the senior counter-terrorism advisor to the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. A former Australian army Lt. Col. he has written most of the latest military doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was asked for comment and said the decision to invade Iraq "stupid" -- in fact, he said "fucking stupid" -- and suggested that if policy-makers apply the manual's lessons, similar wars can be avoided in the future.

"The biggest stupid idea," Kilcullen said, "was to invade Iraq in the first place."

"They say that in war, the truth be the first casualty..."

ACLU: Memos authorized CIA torture

Over 200,00 people to see Obama in Berlin...I think the rest of the World is trying to tell the United States something.

WTF?

This video is related to the fox news montage you can find eight posts down.

“One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept.” “A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare. It’s a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask. One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California.”“The name taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall in an unspecified section of Boyle Heights. It reads: ‘It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.’ This record is a stripped down attempt to realize this sentiment in sound.”

IF A REPUGNANTAN WAS PRESIDENT IN 2001 HE WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THE ATTACKS OF 9/11....WAIT...UH...NEVERMIND.

An interview from 2004 but recently unearthed

WAR CRIMES

THIS GUY HAS THE PERFECT ANSWER FOR THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MCCAIN AND BUSH'S ECONOMIC POLICIES.