Proclaiming Liberty 2016: The Best of Ron Paul & Friends
2016 was a great year for The Ron Paul Liberty Report! Thank you for watching on YouTube, listening on iTunes and reading on the website. We're looking forward to another year of work for the cause of Liberty. Please enjoy some of the highlights of 2016.
2016 was a great year for The Ron Paul Liberty Report! Thank you for watching on YouTube, listening on iTunes and reading on the website. We're looking forward to another year of work for the cause of Liberty. Please enjoy some of the highlights of 2016.
The thing that we have to face up to is: are we going to have liberty in this country?
And you cannot have liberty when you have a central bank that prints money and the government's spending money and think that you can get prosperity.
The whole government loves crises like the Zika crises because it's such a huge opportunity for financial boondoggles to get more control over people.
You know, we used to hang posters in the old office of all the latest scares.
It was the avian virus and this and that.
It was just a big joke.
We papered the wall with them.
No, of course, it's absolutely true.
And remember, LR, which did the LR scare.
Oh, LR on the apples is going to be very dangerous, maybe kill you, and so forth.
It was all a lie.
It did a lot of damage to the Apple industry.
And it was just another one of these government scams.
So you always have to be so careful.
I think it's a good rule of thumb: always assume the government is lying.
I mean, the Federal Reserve has created trillions of dollars out of thin air.
You know, its behaviors affect hundreds of millions of account holders, not just 2 million people like at Wells Fargo.
So Wells Fargo, as bad as it is, and as deserving as Wells Fargo is of punishment and certainly its employees who engage in this fraudulent behavior, the Federal Reserve is far more responsible and far more in need of punishment than Wells Fargo was.
Yes, and one thing that we shout out from the hilltops is that if people want protection and regulation, there is no tougher, harsher regulator out there than the free market.
It plays no favorites.
Humans play favorites.
This world that you've described, that the movie Snowden describes, is becoming, for people of a certain generation, normal.
And for many younger people, it is normal.
There is no other world they've grown up in.
They don't know anything different.
They don't have to be cowed into submission.
They don't have to be convinced that this surveillance is benign.
They have literally grown up with it.
But the assimilation has to be based not on force and conditions that are artificially created by the government.
It can't be, you know, in a welfare state where we promise benefits for people to come.
We can't contribute to bad philosophies and bad conditions by interjecting ourselves into foreign lands in the Middle East, creating wars that create these immigrants.
And we can defend our country, set examples for other people, much better than saying we are an exceptional nation.
We know what is best.
We are.
We have a moral responsibility because nobody else will take care of the bad guys, and therefore we have to be the boss.
I think that's wrong.
I think it's morally wrong.
I think it's constitutionally wrong.
And I think it's a total failure.
I was pleased to see a certain senator from Kentucky out front against some of Obama's, or I'm sorry, that's floating slip.
Some of President Trump's floating people like John Bolton and your old friend Rudy Giuliani as Secretary of State.
I'm glad to see that in the upcoming Lane Duck session, we have people like Thomas Massey who have been outspoken against, and this is something that's a priority for Campaign for Liberty in the next month, is fighting this attempt to tax our online commerce.
I feel comfortable that she was dishonest, though, and that she lied to me.
She said she knew nothing about it.
The Secretary of State after her, Kerry, when we had discussions with him, and I can't tell you what the discussions were, but he was very aware of everything the CIA was doing in Syria.
There's no way the Secretary of State was not briefed on what the CIA annex was doing.
She said she had no knowledge.
That has to be a lie, that she had no knowledge of what the CIA was doing in Libya.
Plus, she's got the ambassador over there.
She had to have directed him.
Why was he there?
What was he doing in this war-torn area?
Maybe that was her last lie that she'll ever tell.
Who knows?
I typically only get five to seven phone calls a day out of 750,000 constituents.
So on the Syrian issue in 2013, I started getting 100 phone calls a day for like seven or ten days in a row.
And this was, you remember President Obama said, oh, Assad's crossed the red line and we need to go to war.
We need to go to war now.
But the reality is the phone calls started coming in.
And when you get 700 phone calls against going to war and one for going to war, it's pretty clear you better start listening to your constituents.
Can you imagine how wonderful the world would be if most people took the oath and followed it and said, look, I will never initiate force to get what I want and I'll never use the government to do it.
Of course, that's idealistic, but it certainly is a better ideal than what the world is run by today and certainly what runs this country.
I think political correctness, I believe the American people are waking up to that because it is so, so atrocious on what they do.
And this cultural Marxism is just horrible that people are starting to wake up to that.
But of course, they're going to have to challenge the establishment in our universities because they're the promoters of that.
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It doesn't just pop up and the people say, well, what we need to do is have this great debate on who gets to go to which bathrooms.
You know, the people didn't care about that, and yet it was orchestrated through the media and through the professors, and people lose their jobs over it.
Well, I think one of the best choices the Institute made in its founding was to allow other websites and other organizations to reprint any of the original articles published on the Ron Paul Institute website.
And as a result of that, when we put up an article, often it'll be republished on two, three, five, ten different websites, some of which have a larger reach than the Institute itself.
So we're multiplying many times the ability of people to read the ideas coming out of the Institute.
And I'm glad that the Federal Reserve comes up because we have made that a point and people are realizing that the Federal Reserve is an important issue.
And we work very hard.
And Daniel works very hard on the Institute for Peace and Prosperity to make foreign policy an important issue.
And when it's looked at by the general public, believe me, we can win those votes because how can anybody vote against peace and prosperity?