The Ten Principles of a Free Society by Ron Paul
Submitted by Bobdok on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 07:47in
On the Daily Paul there are 6 topics which have been open to discussion on the legal side of so called 'bound' delegates and the legality of the affidavit sent to MA delegates. Ron Paul is running for the nomination and he has written about the principles of a free society. What delegates who support Ron Paul's nomination need to know are the political principles on which he stand.
The Ten Principles of a Free Society
by Ron Paul - From the the Appendix to his book, Liberty Defined
- Rights belong to individuals, not groups; they derive from our nature and can neither be granted nor taken away by government.
- All peaceful, voluntary economic and social associations are permitted; consent is the basis of the social and economic order.
- Justly acquired property is privately owned by individuals and voluntary groups, and this ownership cannot be arbitrarily voided by governments.
- Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.
- Individuals are responsible for their own actions; government cannot and should not protect us from ourselves.
- Government may not claim the monopoly over a people's money and governments must never engage in official counterfeiting, even in the name of macroeconomic stability.
- Aggressive wars, even when called preventative, and even when they pertain only to trade relations, are forbidden.
- Jury nullification, that is, the right of jurors to judge the law as well as the facts, is a right of the people and the courtroom norm.
- All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.
- Government must obey the law that it expects other people to obey and thereby must never use force to mold behavior, manipulate social outcomes, manage the economy, or tell other countries how to behave.
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Some comments below are comments of national socialism. National rights are group rights which are not part of free society. Free society are recognizing only individual rights. Every time in crisis we see rise of national socialists.
Since this thread has become a referendum on "immigration"
I might as well put my two cents in.
"Open border" libertarianism is the Achilles heel of this movement. It is THE deal breaker for a large number of that soon-to-be-minority-without-a-name, Americans of northern European descent.
We (yes, I confess to being one of THEM) feel more comfortable among people similar to ourselves. This is a prejudice which we share with roughly 99.99% of the world's population (protestations by the progressive/liberals and "open border" libertarians notwithstanding)and which is condoned in every other demographic but our own.
Maintaining a cultural or ethnic identity is not only tolerated, but actually encouraged by the high priests of political correctness; UNLESS, of course, your ancestors came from Scotland (or Ireland/England/Denmark/Germany/Poland/Finland/France/Ukraine/etc.). In THAT case, any attempt to maintain a national identity automatically makes you a neo-Nazi.
This is a form of "collectivism" that is part of human nature. It does NOT lead to the perversions of racial bigotry unless it is ignored (or worse) treated as psychological aberration.
Tribal conflicts have been endemic in many parts of the world for millenia, but only escalate to full scale genocide when one of the tribes seizes control of a tyrannical central government. Often that central government was formed by well-intentioned idealists or diplomats who created a nation state arbitrarily by treaty or edict.
Pretending that we can create nations along arbitrary geographical boundaries, rather than the natural desires of the people, has led to more conflict, bloodshed, hatred, and genocide than almost any other abuse of statism. The grotesque chimeras of "nations" like the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, and the current Iraq are a few recent examples.
Once we accept the principle that this part of human nature is inherently evil, we are doomed to perpetuate the cycle of hatred.
THAT is what leads to segregated drinking fountains and Auschwitz-style gas chambers.
Erasing all borders does not eliminate the problem, it only mandates that the resulting one world government will be the most tyrannical ever conceived.
THIS is how the Orwellian dystopia is created.
Dismissing people who recognize this as "racists" only hastens the day when "1984" becomes our reality.
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The Virtual Conspiracy
what the hell are you doing on the Daily Paul????
Every once in a while I read a comment so grossly absurd it requires that I log in and give you a stern reality check.
As your friend claim we libertarians blame the economy or the market... I can assure you that comment stands as evidence of blatant ignorance of freedom. We blame the initiation of force on others, we blame taxation without representation, we blame any and all actions that restrict the freedoms of the people that can not be demonstrated to have a REAL fucking damaging effect on something not warranting such.
You are free to do as you please so long as you do not hurt other people!!! That's only called extreme by somebody practicing an extreme ideology that hurts and controls others.
As for this comment on maintaining a cultural identity..... you do realize we have had and always will have people of varying cultural backgrounds and that mix IS our identity??? No matter the borders this is the state now... it is the state before and it will be. Your idea that the borders do anything to maintain an invented identity is a very real mental defense mechanism illustrating your social ineptitude. You guys who are unable to enjoy others not cut from the same cloth are realistically socially retarded and ill equipped to come out of your homes. Your entire comment is racially rooted social bigotry. That's like saying you're not racist, but we should shoot the damn niggers if they try to come near you.
You're uneducated and posting the rantings of somebody wreaking of "normalcy bias" (Google that).
The liberty movement lives... and you obviously do not understand it.
Warning my comments may anger a lot of highly educated people who have been taught a lie
How many Browns Live in Your House?
How many Blacks and Browns of "varying cultural backgrounds" live in your house?
Better yet, do you live in a Black neighborhood with Black people?
Did you go to Black schools?
Your "mental accusation mechanism" is called "fraud" in Oxford dictionary.
Fraud is when you don't practice what you preach to others.
You accuse him of "shooting niggers", when he never said a word like that. Yet, you are so dishonest, such a fraud, that you smeared him with lies. You used the vilest language, something all of us thought belonged to 19th century.
yet you injected your gutter language in discussion.
This tells me you yourself are a racist. You want to masquerade as racial color blind angel when it your heart that is full of hate and lies and darkness.
This is called projection. You projected your own personality and pathology on him. And then accused him of racism.
All he said was that just as Japan, Korea, China are Asian, India and Pakistan are brown, Nigeria and Kenya is Black, America should be allowed to remain Western. Western peoples should not be exterminated and displaced with millions of 3rd world.
Libertarianism rejects forced association, so why do you want to force millions from 3rd world on Western Peoples.
From 1924-1965 there was very little immigration. This was 40 yr timeout.
But federal reserve controlled TV doped people with immigration heroin. And we have mass immigration since 1965.
Would you like it if I dope you with heroin and then plant 10 Blacks, 10 Asians and 10 browns in your bedroom and living room and kitchen?
And when you wake up, those immigrants are already in your house and you must make them citizens of your house. Now?
Look at your own poisoned heart before you cast the first stone.
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Libertarians are from OuterSpace
Libertarians live in a dream world. But 99.9% of humans live in real world.
That is the problem. The 25% who voted for Paul in Hampshire were not all libertarians. They had some libertarian tendencies, which we all do to some degree. But pure libertarian society will immediately lead to strong centralized socialism.
Why?
The strongest, most cohesive ethnic groups will fight for power and take control of finance, media, government and terrorize the other ethnic groups.
Look at yugoslavia, former soviet union, China and now US. China has riots, Iraq has riots. Does Japan have riots? Korea have riots?
In US, the strongest ethnic group has taken control of finance, media, government. And all other ethnic groups are suffering.
Libertarians blame everything on economics. They do not live in reality.
Federal Reserve and media has brainwashed us into two extreme ideologies. Libertarianism and Socialism.
The reality is that ethnic cohesion is the true foundation of society.
When America's European core was intact it was rich and stable. Now libertarians have flooded us with 3rd world and it is poor and unstable.
Free trade also destroyed America. The libertarian wants to crush American worker and drive down his wages to the same level as Chinese and Indians.
LIbertarian will not be satisfied until all wages across the World are leveled and everyone lives equally poor.
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You do realize
We do not blame everything on economics. see my comment above.
Warning my comments may anger a lot of highly educated people who have been taught a lie
10th Principle, Mass Immigration = Forced Association
When mass immigration is unleashed on Americans without their full consent, it is forced association.
Most Americans do not want mass 3rd world immigration.
So why do libertarians break their own principles?
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If the Federal Reserve didn't steal from us
and give to other countries, our people would be spreading across the world as in the past. Now, it is the opposite.
It's not the government's job
It's not the government's job to protect your culture.
Govt's Job
Govt's job is to protect my liberty. I and millions of Americans have not given their consent to 3rd world mass immigration.
Without our consent and permission Federal Reserve/CNN/AIPAC controlled govt floods us with 3rd world. This has to stop.
I will protect my culture, not govt.
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We can't have brown people
We can't have brown people roaming the country can we?
Kumar is really an absurd person
.... really.... mass immigration is only a problem is we have socialist benefits like obamacare. otherwise they provide for themselves, benefit the country or... nature culls them from the herd. this cultural take over that Kumar rants about is loony tunes and not based in historical fact or reality. Kumar makes a lot of passionately idiotic and uneducated comments. He'll feel really stupid in a few years when if he keeps studying and after that he figures out he's wrong.
Warning my comments may anger a lot of highly educated people who have been taught a lie
How many Libertarians have won a non-White majority district?
Try injecting millions of immigrants in Japan, Korea, China.
They will throw you out in a nanosecond. They all have large welfare states.
Racism is when you despise a people, deny them rights and oppress them.
No one here proposed even remotely anything like that. Yet you slander us and demonize us like a plantation master, a dictator.
Please debate intellectually instead of venomous emotional tirades.
You cannot defend yourself intellectually so you resort to vitriolic accusations.
When your brain is saturated with federal reserve controlled TV channels you react with aggressive impulses.
Finally, How many Libertarians have won a non-White majority district?
Name one.
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If you get the 10 principles right
if you get the 10 principles right, the immigration problem wont exist.
Most of the draw from 3rd world countries is the welfare system.
Most of the animosity against illegal immigrants is the result of the economic woes. The 10 principles would create a booming economy that would be begging for labor.
What Nonsense?
Is America just a factory where people come to work?
You talk like a genocidal Stalinist.
You must get consent from ALL Americans before you dare to flood us with 3rd world.
We are a Republic, not a democracy or factory.
Even if we don't have a welfare system, you must first take permission from ALL Americans by direct ballot first before you flood us with 3rd world.
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Next time you have a thought, just let it go.
The people have as little right to control immigration as the Feds do and they certainly don't need your consent seeing as how you don't own the land adjacent to the border. This country was founded on immigration and we're all descended from immigrants, you act like we've always been here.
You're contradicting yourself so much it's not even funny. First you say we're a Republic not a democracy, and then you pose the ever insightful argument that we must take a direct ballot of the people before allowing immigration.
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People Have No Rights? Vow!!!!
"People have as little right to control immigration"
Glad you revealed your true colors. That's what I suspected.
You violated my rights by forced associating me with 3rd world.
You don't respect People's rights.
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LOL
You have no right to control free migration between borders. Where are you given that right in the Constitution? Just because you don't want people in this country doesn't mean you can stop them.
I respect everyone's individual rights, but you can't make up your own rights. Take all the downvotes as a hint.
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Where is Obamacare, TSA, Empire prohibited in Constitution
This is the same fraud socialists use. They use interstate commerce clause to impose dictatorship. You have no right to resist Obamacare, TSA, Empire. Where is that prohibited in the constitution?
So by that logic you should have no right to control immigration in your house.
Anyone should be allowed to immigrate to your bedroom, living room, back yard, basement, front porch.
You sound like a Stalinist dictator. You want to respect individual rights when it suits your agenda, but you do not want to respect those individuals who do not want to be flooded by your immigration.
This is a difference between democracy and republic.
In republic everything is by 100% consent of people. In a democracy, 51% thugs impose open borders and free migration.
United States is a collection of 300 million private property owners. There must be 100% consent before borders are opened.
You did not get that consent from the governed. You assumed that power based on libertarian ideology, just as Socialists assume Obamacare powers based on Socialist ideology.
Just as the socialists you want to impose that without consent.
This is called tyranny, not freedom.
You are neither consistent nor honest.
This is not libertarianism. This is genocidal Maoism. Like China did to Tibet. Libertarians are doing to US.
True libertarians never impose without 100% consent.
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You just don't get it
Just because you oppose immigration doesn't mean you have a right to stop it. The Republic is designed to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. People have the right to come to this country and become a citizen. Just because you are a xenophobe doesn't mean you have any constitutional right to somehow prevent immigration.
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Monstrous
Just because you promote immigration does not mean you have a right to impose it.
The republic is designed to protect the minority from tyranny of majority who want to impose immigration on the minority.
People have a right to come. But only if its with 100% consent.
If I am a xenophobe You are a racist who wants to flood us with 3rd world and exterminate us.
We must resist genocidal tyrants like you.
You must prove first whether you live with blacks or browns, go to school with them and are married to them before you dare to accuse me of xenophobia.
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So we need 100% of people to support immigration?
You're a moron.
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Republic or Democracy?
i dont really follow the hate mongering of this comment line, but let me point out that America IS a republic, we have turned democratic in a sense, but we are founded as a Republic.
"I pledge allegience to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands...."
I get what you mean about taking the majority vote thing, but i wanted to point something else out also, the end of the pledge.
"...With Liberty and Justice for all." It doesnt say, "Liberty and Justice for Americans"
Now i am all for boarder protection, people should come into this Country legally, and Americans having priority for jobs, but if people Americans are too stuck up to work in fast food, they deserve the jobs going to immigrants who come here.
I honestly believe thats what free market is about, i would jump at the chance for my small business to pay less for a worker if i had the chance, thats more money to get me off the ground. Right now, i have no workers because i cant afford to pay $8 an hour to anyone.
That's what I'm saying
I was debunking what he said, not saying it myself...
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Genocidal Stalinist?
Building walls and controlling boarders is what Genocidal Stalinist and you propose.
I propose free markets, free trade, and personal responsibility the complete opposite of both genocide and stalinism
Nice try with the name calling, but it did nothing more than expose your ignorance.
So you are NWO Tyrant
Thats what NWO elite want. Open borders. Abolish national sovereignty.
Mass invasion.
Glad you revealed your true colors.
If building walls is bad, why do you live in a house with walls?
Why don't you live in open air with your wife and children?
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If you can not see clear to
If you can not see clear to apply the ten principles, then try the "Golden Rule". (Doing unto others as you would have them do to you) I have traveled extensively and enjoyed easy passport entry throughout Europe, Canada, South America and Asia. I did not expect to have my medical and education expenses paid for or receive food stamps when I was visiting or I might have stayed permanently. The choice for individuals to travel is not the problem as long as it is done legally. Illegal entry is allowed Stateside to serve other purposes. No one builds fences to control immigration elsewhere in the world except communist countries or totalitarian dictatorships wanting to keep their serfs at home.
The Real Golden Rule
You are utterly contradicting yourself.
Europe, Canada, East Asia all have welfare States. Yet only the West is being invaded.
No Japan. Not Korea. Not China. Try this nonsense there, and they will kick you out in 60 sec.
Would I wish to impose mass immigration on Japan without the consent of all Japanese.
So why do you impose mass immigration on me without my consent.
In a democracy 51% left wing libertarians impose immigration on minority right libertarians like me.
But we are a republic so 100% consent to immigration is required.
Immigration without 100% consent is tyranny.
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Most Americans do not want mass 3rd world immigration.
How do you know this?
Although forced association is an interesting concept regarding this issue.
Most Americans are likely not to want forced association.
Free includes debt-free!
Paul,my friend
I have to tell you that I am concerned also. I have no more crumbs to share. Are we in this country to feel grateful that we own one pair of socks? I am never greedy but have to hope that we can do better than that. We are headed to this soon in the name of equality over country borders. I think I explained the Batteries in series theory once before?
"You go and carry off the enemy's land; the enemy comes and carries off your land"-Ancient Sumerian tablet