Daily Paul's Greatest Asset is the Truth, Not Politics

To use a phrase quoted at Daily Paul recently, if your expectations are low, you will be amazed at what you discover at Daily Paul - information you won't find as concentrated, dynamic, or diverse anywhere else; the truth on a wide range of topics.

But the truth is often hard to accept. You can never tell someone the truth against what they have already been told and expect them to believe it right away, they must verify. The key is that there is constant free debate at Daily Paul. In the long run, the truth ends up standing out for those paying attention. Participation stimulates learning. Lies don't last long under the scrutiny of open debate.

So, what has made Daily Paul different than other politically oriented blogs, websites, and media? It is this uncensored open discussion of truth on all subjects. Most media is like a one-way discussion, where you are told or shown what to believe with no immediate way to question it. Open discussion is a rare commodity in an empire of lies.

I knew very little about Ron Paul when I came to Daily Paul, except that I had seen him as a strange old figure in the Republican debates. I even had an overall negative impression of Ron Paul, thinking of him as goofy and weak. I'm retired military, have served in combat, all around the world, including the Middle East, and I had been supporting the war mongering Neocon Romney. I even voted for Romney in my primary while I was just beginning my discovery of the truth at Daily Paul. I was pretty ignorant, relying on mainstream media for news, and I had never really been interested in politics. At that time, I didn't even know what a Neocon was. I used to listen to Sean Hannity while driving every day.

Now I don't watch TV anymore, and I certainly don't listen to Hannity. I despise him and most mainstream media for deceiving our nation. I now know that Ron Paul is the strongest representative that our nation has, and the only one that can be trusted to tell the truth.

But, it was not Ron Paul nor politics that got me to Daily Paul, it was using Google to search for news.

Daily Paul was the only website in the world that had all the details, contact information, and constant updates and discussion about the government's mass kidnapping of the FLDS children in Texas. The FLDS raid had nothing to do with Ron Paul, I don't even recall him commenting on it. It was detailed truth I was seeking, and I only found it so well covered at Daily Paul. There were a few blogs, but it became clear that blogs cannot compare to an open community at disseminating information.

After deciding to register at Daily Paul and participate for a while, I started an amazing discovery of who Ron Paul is. I got involved with voting, donating to candidates, attending Ron Paul events, even running for local county positions myself. All this in less than a year and I had never even noticed Ron Paul before watching the Republican debates at the Ronald Reagan library.

In the mean time, I had been ignoring the 9/11, fluoride, gold, vaccination, and health food threads on Daily Paul, as much as I still ignore the Chem-trail threads today. However, one day I had some time, and actually decided to read a well-written 9/11 thread on Daily Paul which pointed out some major problems with the official government story on 9/11. I started discussing it with others at Daily Paul.

This lead me to research 9/11, and I began reading the 9/11 Commission report, the NIST reports, watching the video evidence, and studying everything I could find. Eventually I ended up talking with the head of the NIST investigation myself, and submitting evidence. Contacting the various agencies involved, I could see there was a clear cover up of the evidence. 9/11 was not being investigated, it was being covered up by the government agencies tasked with investigating! This was a real wake-up call for me.

I spoke with the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce which the NIST is an agency of, contacted the DOJ, and filed a complaint in person with the FBI, asking them all to investigate public corruption with regard to the 9/11 investigations.

Once again, I had found the truth on Daily Paul, it was the posts from fellow members that were enough to get me to eventually participate in discussion, and then take a serious look and get involved.

And it doesn't stop there. At the Daily Paul, I've been inspired to learn the truth about other things too, like fluoride, vaccinations, false flags, the Iraq and Afghan wars, history, assassinations, oil, the Constitution, law, the court system, politics, gold, the media, corrupt politicians, the Federal Reserve Banks and much more.

So, I can say without a doubt, that the greatest asset Daily Paul has is discussion of the truth, not politics. In fact, truth leads to political action. There are many other sites devoted to political action, namely the CFL in the case of Ron Paul. But the CFL would have been completely uninteresting for me as someone not already involved in politics nor supporting Ron Paul.

I do understand the reasoning, but it is a shame to see truth and open discussion suppressed in favor of political expediency - especially after my experience of learning the truth on so many topics at Daily Paul, actually resulting in me becoming a strong supporter of Ron Paul when I had a negative impression of him before.

Is our nation best served in hiding the same truths from others that have not really been motivated to become involved in politics yet? Or is our nation better served in giving the uninvolved truthful reasons to become seriously involved?