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Title: Ayatollah Santorum the Sanctimonious (ASS)
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URL Source: http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo226.html
Published: Jan 22, 2012
Author: Thomas DiLorenzo
Post Date: 2012-01-22 00:03:49 by christine
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Comments: 9
In a January 18 interview with Glenn Beck Rick Santorum decided to compare his view of the Constitution with that of Ron Paul. His statements can only be described as delusional and totalitarian. Santorum first claimed to have read an eighteenth-century dictionary that defined happiness as "to do the morally right thing." This is how the founding fathers defined happiness, he said. This is Santorum’s definition of "happiness," not the founding fathers. It’s a good bet he is lying when claiming to have read an eighteenth-century dictionary. (But I suppose anything is possible with a man who brought his deceased infant home who died two hours after birth and slept with it after showing it to his children, as Santorum admits to have done). The freedom to do whatever you want to do – as long as you do not harm anyone else or interfere in their equal freedom – would "lead to libertinism and lead to chaos" said Sanctimonious Santorum, who has also pledged to do what he can to put an end to contraception if elected president. Contraception changes "the way things ought to be," he says. Santorum is self assured that he, and he alone, understands "the way things ought to be" and pledges to use the powers of the state to forcefully impose his "understanding" on the entire country. But the founding fathers are known as champions of freedom, are they not? But what kind of freedom? According to Santorum, who apparently fancies himself as an historian, freedom in America means "the freedom to do what you ought to do – what you are properly ordered to do [by a politician like himself] – as someone living a good, decent, and ordered life" (emphasis added). "That’s the differentiation that I believe Ron Paul and I have with respect to what liberty is," said Santorum. To Rick Santorum, "freedom" means doing what government "properly" orders you to do, as long as government is controlled by good, proper, moral people like himself, the K-Street lobbyist for the Pennsylvania coal mining industry (and anyone else who will pay his huge fees for influence peddling). This is not the view of the American founding fathers, as Santorum claims. It is more likely to have been the mindset of the founders of the Soviet Union, not the American union. It is the mindset of the neoconservatives whose founding members were, after all, Trotskyite communists. This includes the self-described "godfather" of neoconservatism, the late Irving Kristol, who reveled in talking about his youthful Trotskyite roots. If Santorum really wanted to know how the founding fathers defined freedom he would not make up imaginary, two-century old dictionary entries but would read what the founders actually said. A good place to start would be Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address where he stated: "[A] wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government . . ." It is hard to imagine that Jefferson, the author of the 1786 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom that strongly opposed the governmental imposition of any religious views on anyone while defending religious liberty in general, would have admired an Uber-Catholic Theocrat like Santorum. For government to compel a man to support a religious cause with which he disbelieves, wrote Jefferson, is "sinful and tyrannical." When Ron Paul says that such victimless crimes as prostitution or smoking pot should be decriminalized, says Santorum, "that’s not the moral foundation of our country," once again pretending to be The Expert on the thinking of the founding fathers. There’s one problem with Santorum’s historical revisionism, however. Prostitution was in fact pervasive in Colonial America. Prostitutes traveled with George Washington’s army, serving as nurses and cooks as well as prostitutes. In fact, there were no laws in America banning prostitution until Massachusetts enacted the first one in 1917. (The 1910 "Mann Act," named after Congressman James Mann, prohibited "white slavery" for the purpose of prostitution). Federal laws against prostitution were first enacted after women got the right to vote and immediately outlawed prostitution in the vicinity of military bases when their husbands and boyfriends were off serving in the military. In other words the founding fathers agreed with Ron Paul, not Rick Santorum, on personal liberty issues. America is "not just a collection of freedoms," said the insufferably sanctimonious Santorum. It is, instead, a collection of orders from the state defining what "proper" behavior is. Stalin himself could not have said it better. Poster Comment: and S Carolinians voted for this nutjob in greater numbers than Ron Paul? really?
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#1. To: christine (#0)
I predict that Santorum will end his days in a padded room where "the devil can't force him to hurt himself". Unless God forbid Rick gets his hands on a suitcase nuke. He may be suffering from a Samson Complex and if he ever has the power he could try to "bring down the temple around the ears of his enemies and his Godless colleagues". I've got five bucks that says the man hears voices. "Send Lawyers, Guns & Money."__Warren Zevon
How did Santorum come in 3rd place in South Carolina? Ron Paul was ahead in the final polls. RealClearPolitics - Election 2012 - South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary RCP Poll Average South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary 1/20/12 32.8 Gingrich 30.2 Romney 13.2 Paul 11.4 Santorum
I've lost all faith in voting. The courts, the various state election bureaus and both parties have conspired to keep the people from ever using the polls to end the madness and the grim future that is looming on our horizon. Just as Gene Hackman noted in the film RUNAWAY JURY, "trials are too important to be left to juries", we can assume that the same cynical rule applies to elections. Every insider agrees either by word, deed or omission that it wouldn't be right for big players (Think: Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands and "Billy Jim" Rothschild) to spend years and countless fortunes to "remake America in their image" only to have it discarded by fickle voters with no regard for the elite's long term survival and well being. Just try to imagine BIG OIL being shuttered because voters no longer wish to fund their wars and price gouging of consumers. This can't happen ever. Not as long as there are congressmen for sale and mechanics for hire. The elite doesn't even try to hide the murders of those who keep trying to break through with hydrogen engines with the fuel produced from simple onboard electrolysis-separation of water molecules into its two components. "We're running low on fuel, Honey, I'm gonna stop and siphon up some ditch water here where's the very little traffic and lots of pretty leaves falling from the trees. Gosh, I love these free energy vacations, don't you? Imagine driving from Tierra Del Fuego to Churchill, Manitoba back when we were paying for gasoline!" "I know dear. But, when we get home we'll have to buy a new set of General tires and some new batteries. After all, we have to spend some of our vacation savings on something!" "Send Lawyers, Guns & Money."__Warren Zevon
I've lost all faith in voting. I know many Americans who feel the same way.
Little Ricky is channeling Michelle Bachmann as evidenced by his incessant tirades against Iran and calls for an undeclared/unconstitutional war, his political heritage is more than a little suspect, too. He offers nothing to America but a solid promise of more death and debt...
(But I suppose anything is possible with a man who brought his deceased infant home who died two hours after birth and slept with it after showing it to his children, as Santorum admits to have done).
#2. To: HOUNDDAWG, christine (#1)
#3. To: TwentyTwelve (#2)
How did Santorum come in 3rd place in South Carolina? Ron Paul was ahead in the final polls.
#4. To: HOUNDDAWG (#3)
How did Santorum come in 3rd place in South Carolina? Ron Paul was ahead in the final polls.
#5. To: christine (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: HOUNDDAWG (#4) (Edited)
I've lost all faith in voting. I know many Americans who feel the same way. My wife and I were at our local pub last night and we overheard some people talking about the 2012 election. We started educating them about the fake Federal Reserve and how the POTUS is just a puppet. The entire pub got involved in the conversation and started asking lots of of questions. Fortunately we happened to have several "Freedom to Fascism" CD's with us which we handed out to several people last night. They are very excited to watch them CD's to find out what is really happening. Several of they guys there last night have sons who are marines serving in Afghanistan and they agreed with everything we were saying. Bottom line, we educated a lot of people last night in a short period of time. We converted several of them over to Ron Paul! How did Santorum come in 3rd place in South Carolina? Ron Paul was ahead in the final polls.
#7. To: TwentyTwelve (#6)
That is why the establishment elite is so fearful of letting Ron Paul speak for any length of time at any of the debates. By keeping his vote count artificially low they can then say at the staged phony debates that Ron Paul is a "bottom tier" candidate and prevent him from speaking enough so that even the dullards start getting it. They are deathly afraid of Ron Paul's message knowing, as I'm sure that there polling shows, that were a majority to learn of the reality of what RP is proposing and stands for that there would be a groundswell of support which would sweep him into office as the only choice for those who really care about the nation. Bottom line, we educated a lot of people last night in a short period of time. We converted several of them over to Ron Paul!
#8. To: TwentyTwelve (#6)
Outstanding.
"Send Lawyers, Guns & Money."__Warren Zevon
#9. To: Original_Intent (#7)
They are deathly afraid of Ron Paul's message knowing, as I'm sure that there polling shows, that were a majority to learn of the reality of what RP is proposing and stands for that there would be a groundswell of support which would sweep him into office as the only choice for those who really care about the nation. The majority of the military support Ron Paul. The Elite/MSM/Zionists are not happy about this. That is why the establishment elite is so fearful of letting Ron Paul speak for any length of time at any of the debates. By keeping his vote count artificially low they can then say at the staged phony debates that Ron Paul is a "bottom tier" candidate and prevent him from speaking enough so that even the dullards start getting it.
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