Ron Paul: What if ... the American People Learn the Truth?!
February 12, 2009 C-SPAN. Wow!
Text of this speech below:
What if we wake up one day and realize that the terrorist threat is a predictable consequence of our meddling in the affairs of others?
What if propping up repressive regimes in the Middle East endangers both the United States and Israel?
What if occupying countries like Iraq and Afghanistan – and bombing Pakistan – is directly related to the hatred directed toward us and has nothing to do with being free and prosperous?
What if someday it dawns on us that losing over 5,000 American military personnel in the Middle East since 9/11 is not a fair trade-off for the loss of nearly 3,000 American citizens, no matter how many Iraqi, Pakistani, and Afghan people are killed or displaced?
What if we finally decide that torture, even if called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” is self-destructive and produces no useful information – and that contracting it out to a third world nation is just as evil?
What if it is finally realized that war and military spending is always destructive to the economy?
What if all wartime spending is paid for through the deceitful and evil process of inflating and borrowing?
What if we finally see that wartime conditions always undermine personal liberty?
What if conservatives, who preach small government, wake up and realize that our interventionist foreign policy provides the greatest incentive to expand the government?
What if conservatives understood once again that their only logical position is to reject military intervention and managing an empire throughout the world?
What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?
What if we as a nation came to realize that the quest for empire eventually destroys all great nations?
What if Obama has no intention of leaving Iraq?
What if a military draft is being planned for the wars that will spread if our foreign policy is not changed?
What if the American people learn the truth: that our foreign policy has nothing to do with national security and that it never changes from one administration to the next?
What if war and preparation for war is a racket serving the special interests?
What if President Obama is completely wrong about Afghanistan and it turns out worse than Iraq and Vietnam put together?
What if Christianity actually teaches peace and not preventive wars of aggression?
What if diplomacy is found to be superior to bombs and bribes in protecting America?
What happens if my concerns are completely unfounded – nothing!
What happens if my concerns are justified and ignored – nothing good!
Heres one I did when he first made the speech...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWaewfqLubE
Let me know what you think...
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies"......
Youtube just pulled the account!
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I am a skeptic. America doesn't give a rat's bum about truth, only appearances.
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Seen this a dozen times over,
Seen this a dozen times over, but everytime is just as powerful. Amazing speech!
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the draft is his only prediction that has not yet materialized.
Based on his track record, it will be right around the corner. What a great speech. He knows what is going on. God bless him for not fearing anyone or anything!
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The vedio lives ...
Ron Paul: WHAT IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LEARN THE TRUTH?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSjtvAet1B0
Ron Paul: What If... Amazing Speech 2-12-09 With Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1pAAnPLXa4&feature=related
And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
For the real thing.
Bump
Still
a great read, even if the video is no longer there.
They played a Youtube on CC2009 with Ron Paul speaking this
very speech! I think it was during a recess of 2009--but this speech is legendary!
I think that was one
of his best speeches. I think Michael should put this speech on a poster I would buy one. It is very profound.
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This made a great email!
I copied it and forwarded to nearly everyone in my address book and then added a link back to the original.
What if... all of us did that?
I agree!
I just sent it to everyone on my list :)
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@ O @ -----> PEOPLE
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Ooooooooo.......
You tube video removed due to "terms of use violation."
You can only imagine my shock.
We should be able to find
the video in C-Span Archives!
bump for the 400 guests online!
we welcome all TRUTHseekers
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(Better) to be confused in the search for truth than fully confident and sound asleep in a dream of lies. ~ Michael Nystrom
“Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy" ... ~ Congressman Ron Paul
How can
the public not get this guy? How can he be on show after show after show and neither the media nor the public finally see how smart and how right his ideas are? It's frustrating to read people who still want to blame the Republicans for the mess we're in or blame the Democrats for this ridiculous "stimulus" bill. It's not about Rep or Dem. those arguments are destructive to America. That whole system is corrupt, broken, out of date and frankly a joke. We have to institute term limits ourselves. All we have to do is vote every incumbent out of office every time we vote. No matter who took their place, is there any conceivable way it would be worse than what we have now?
Congress, other than Paul, sucks
Although there are issues where I disagree with Dr. Paul he is the only honest man in Congress. So I had to support him in the presidential primaries. Too bad there's nobody like him I can vote for in my own district.
I am hearing urgency
I think it is time we stop the nonsense and get on with saving our country. We need major plans, we need organization. We cannot do it with violence because history tells us that is what they want. We need to approach the states that are asking for sovereignty and decide what the next step is. We need to push the others to get to this step. The best method to get something done, as far as I can see, is through the states. Hopefully there are enough people in the states that are not corrupt that we can still work with them. We need to move. We are the last country in the world to be taken under control and every day, with every breath our man at the top takes, we go deeper into communism. They think they have alread succeeded. Have they. What are we going to do about it. It is up to us. We are the ones who are awake. Who knows if any conservatives will join us or not, but the liberals are for communism. Some say our country is lost. Is it? It looks like it to me. If so, we might as well disband this site and make the best of whatever life brings our way.
Perhaps we need to elect a major spokesman and get behind him with people and money and get going. Maybe a board of spokesmen.
We need to totally cut the nonsense. Now.
In the immortal words of Spanky
"And how!"
the best speech since "i have a dream"
he gives me hope. so happy to have him on our side. dr. paul, i love you. i really really do.
peace, love, unity ...
B.
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B.
What if
This is the one of the best speeches for Constitutional Freedoms in the past 200 years.
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Thanks Oruval. I like the way you put that.
...and I have used it in a statement below. :)
Speech with music added
I thought this was well done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CmXz_QYvjs
Well Done!
that goes in the bookmarks.
Yes, It is well done
Thanks for posting.
I would like to have seen the people he was facing.
I heard no reaction whatsoever when he was done.
I am sitting here in awe of the man, yet I have a feeling none of the people he was speaking to were phased in the least.
I was going to say it's a pity, but I think I feel anger more than pity that no one seemed to care.
Also, the part about a draft jumped out at me both times, reading it above and listening to the video.
STANDING OVATION
that deserved a standing ovation. yet not one person even really acknowledged him. i wouldn't care if it was acceptable or not, i'd be clapping and cheering until they threw me out!
peace, love, unity ...
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I had the same feeling. As
I had the same feeling. As if they were all yawning and were just waiting for the "kook" to be done with his speech.
Corrupt, self-serving and stuck in their ivory towers. Sad indeed.
When will Dr. Paul gets tired of throwing pearls to the swine? He is a real hero to keep going despite of all of this.