Nice Jesse Ventura Interview from Al Jazeera

and i'm one of the biggest ron paul supporters out there. Ron Paul would want us to know this movement isn't about any individual.

I see a lot of comments that Jesse never mentions Ron Paul.

And to be truthful, he rarely mentions Ron Paul, and if he does it is because he is pressured or is asked a leading question.

I like what Jesse says, I have even created videos to get Jesse and Ron Paul on the ballot together, but what Jesse says and what Jesse does has proven to be different.

Jesse must soon make up his mind as to whether or not he wants to join the Revolution, for real, with the zeal, of all of the other Ron Paul patriots.

I am writing this is the hopes that Jesse will read it, and stand up.

Peace

I've never heard him say "Ron Paul"...or mention the Constitutional movement.

In his book "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me", he didn't mention RP or the RP Rev once...not once.

Well, Ventura will speak at the Ron Paul Rally for the Republic...that is something.

I don't want JV to kiss anyone's butt or anything, but God, acknowledge what is happening! We'd love for JV to be part of it! Heck, we'd love for JV to have a big role in it!

Ron Paul is the great uniter, the income tax fighter...the military-supported, defender of the border...the political apathy solution and the champion of the Constitution! Doctor Paul is on-call!

he is a good speaker I think he has Q cards off to his left

The body has got to lose the skullett before the rally.

At least he did not have the dred-lock fu-man-chu I guess.

I mostly agree with Jesse Ventura, including his views on open borders, but I didn’t like his body language. I’ve seen tweakers who could sit in a chair with less fidgeting. Nervous! Nervous! Nervous! Not a good sign.

Also, starting and ending the interview on a fishing pier and talking about golf clubs seemed to be overdoing the “I’m so chilled out, you could keep a side of beef in me” message. He’s probably in drug re-hab or something, and is just putting on a show for the interviewer.

Commentators in this thread have criticized the interviewer as “annoying” and "smug," but I didn’t see that. He’s a little young – I wouldn’t assign him to interview Putin – but, for interviewing a retired politician in shirt sleeves, he did okay. (FYI: Interviewers are supposed to challenge interviewees – that’s why its called an interview, not a speech.)

Incidentally, if the Venturas are living together, what’s the difference between his wife having internet service and him having internet service? The interviewer might have been young, but he wasn’t so young that he didn’t pick up on that inconsistency in a heartbeat.

Here’s a good question for Jesse: What the hell does being a former Navy SEAL have to do with commenting on the destruction of a skyscraper? I’m sure you know exactly where to place a mine on the hull of a Sovremennyy class destroyer, but that doesn’t make you an expert on skyscraper demolition. There are only a few dozen people in America who have any experience demolishing large (over five story) buildings, and none who have demolished a building as big as the WTC tower.

Maybe 9-11 was an inside job and maybe Venusians zapped the WTC with their invisible mind rays, but I want to see some proof. All I’ve seen so far is empty speculation from people whose entire knowledge of physics seems to consist in having looked up the melting point of steel in Wikipedia.

Personally, regarding 9-11, I agree with Aguilar’s comments in his Devil’s Dictionary. Go to www.axiomaticeconomics.co... and type “World Trade Center” (or just “wor”) into the search engine.

Also, Ventura mentioned that the U.S. was becoming fascist and, on that subject, you might look at Aguilar’s paper, Fascism: Socialism with Shareholders, www.axiomaticeconomics.co...

The more he speaks the more I like him. He says it like it is, with no apologies. To put in a nut shell, a man with a set of steel balls!

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I'm not sure the interview was being smug. He let Jesse answer all of the questions and gave Jesse the opportunity to respond to "would be" detractors.

On the immigration issue, I think one important point is getting lost in the shuffle. Just like a corporation needs to attract top talent, so does a country. Many great companies and inventions were brought into the U.S. by outsiders. We are no longer getting this talent. That is part of the reason that countries such as India are starting to rise. We are no longer attracting their talent to this country. Instead they are making contributions at home. That is the real loss

The story of Tsien Hsue-shen is a story should consider. China wouldn't have nearly its missle and space capacity without this guy. He wanted to contribute his knowledge to the U.S., but we deported him. His only skill was rocket science, so he worked on them in China.
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Jesse is a very smart man! his comparing pro wrestling to democrat vs. republican is right on.. why would Pelosi block impeachement? both dems and repugs are in the same bed.. The war could have been stopped long ago if the house had voted not to fund the war.. another good point! this is why I have such a problem with people welcoming kucinich and other socialists to be part of the revolution.. sorry folks but your either onboard with Ron Paul and his views 100% or you better get there! we in this movement are right! Jesse has my vote!

as for me and my home, we shall worship the LORD

...don't particularly think the reporter was "smug" here... I agree he seems to be quite capable of that disposition, but there was a lack of interruption here that usually accompanies a true state of pomp. It almost seemed like a real smile was cracking through, for hearing the things he was hearing.

It's not Jesse Ventura's responsibility or any other individual's to save our lives it is our own. When enough of us are ready to put our lives on the line for the greater promotion of liberty it will happen just as it has happened so many times throughout history. JV is devoting a ton of mental energy to the United States and the cause of Liberty, and God save him for that. Thought precedes action precedes results.

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Just stronger enforcement of the laws extant.
Getting off track, why would any sane illegal alien want to submit their child to the litany of poisons required to place them into the federal brainwashing machine?
I can visualize the free market solving most of this country's problems.
Unfortunately, as the housing bailout makes so blatantly clear, a free market
is considered a quaint notion, by our elected representatives.

But that is just my opinion : )

If anyone lives in the Phoenix AZ area (or wants to road trip), we just got conformation today that Jessie, along side with our home town hero, Senator Karen Johnson will be speaking here on September 11th. The venue location for this event has not been chosen yet.

If you want to be kept up to date with more information this event, send an email to me at bennichs@yahoo.com and I will update you as soon as we get more info. ***Your email address will not be put on any mailing lists.***

is a pencil neck geek. Jesse owned him. He tried to be all righteous... or maybe he's was just playing devil's advocate, but Jesse tore him to sheds either way.

My favorite part:

Interviewer: "So do you identify with the pacifists?"

JV: "Yes. I think war is the complete failure of politics. When politics fails... you have war. Well, clearly politics has failed... therefore you have war."

Duh.

Why can't most of our politicians make sense like this?

Another good part:

"Well, in earlier times I believe we were very much looked up to as the beacon of the free world. Today they're turning our country into East Berlin."

Overall, a very good interview. The only thing I don't agree with is his stance on the border. What is a country without a border?

Where is our media? Oh... I forgot, their covering Brett Farve...

Mike
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just about everything, except for the borders, I feel he is a little too liberal there.

Who was the CEO of Halliburton? Scared the crap outta the reporter! He didn't know what to say!

Oh, BTW, the interviewer is the exact reason I hate the media. He sits their smug like he's smarter and tries to challenge Jesse with conventional wisdom and it's disturbing.

Jesse should have figure four leg locked him right there in the grass!!! Maybe a suplex after for spite!!!

The interviewer challenged Jesse on his opinion about how the world looked at us before 2000 but I thoroughly disagree with his idea of it being romanticized.

Between 1995 and 1998 I traveled around Asia with a backpack, and everywhere I went strangers mentioned 2 names: Bill Clinton and Cindy Crawford and both names brought a smile to the person's face.

I'm not a Bill Clinton fan at all but at least Bill knew what diplomacy is....

Anyone here read Atlas Shrugged? Her original title was 'The Strike'

This is the impression I got after watching the interview and hearing him at the end talk about golfing. Yeah, so he's going golfing later, acting like he doesn't care. But of course you know he does.

When al-jazeera conducts better interviews than the MSM.

however, while I don't think I'd ever change my mind about illegal immigrants collecting welfare, food stamps, etc (they shouldn't be allowed to)...I'd probably be agreeable to anybody coming here.......if the jobs we lost from NAFTA, etc...were to come back to the USA...people seem to more generous when they are not in a bind themselves, ya know....