Title: Joel Skousen - Ron Paul vs Corporate Media Source:
Youtube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbYxtA5PBXU Published:Dec 14, 2007 Author:RonPaulUtah Post Date:2008-01-12 12:26:47 by buckeye Keywords:skousen, paul Views:258 Comments:23
awakeandarise.org Joel Skousen is a political scientist, by training, specializing in the philosophy of law and Constitutional theory, and is also a designer of high security residences and retreats.
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This is a somewhat misnamed thread, although the rest of his lecture may have focused on corporate media more.
I thought about an Ezra Taft Benson quote when I posted this.
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers – normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.
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Stand up for Freedom: Ron Paul Vindicated by Ezra Taft Benson
Ron Paul is vindicated by other great Patriots in Government who were brutalized as the establishment sought to shut them up.
Here, Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture exposes traitors from within, this only an excerpt. See http://awakeandarise.org/Benson.htm for the full speech given in 1965.)
Benson gives 10 ways in which our Constitution is being attacked, even as far back as 1965. Today, we can see that many are completed, and are now accepted as normal. President Bush scoffs when his alliances with Canada, Mexico, and Europe are described as sacrifices of our sovereignty. And yet they are.
Diplomatic relations and trade with communists.
Disarmament of our military defenses.
Destruction of our security laws, and the promotion of atheism imposed by the Supreme Court.
Loss of sovereignty and solvency through membership in world organizations.
Undermining of local law-enforcement authorities and of congressional investigative committees.
Usurpations of power taken by executive and judicial branches of government.
Lawlessness in the name of civil rights.
Staggering national debt and inflation leading to the corruption of the currency.
Multiplicity of executive orders and federal programs weakening the power of local and state governments.
Young men sent to wars that our leaders have no intention to win.
I wish Ron Paul was a better communicator. He is good at expressing what's wrong in DC but his statements such as getting rid of the IRS requires a better solution than just getting rid of it.
He needs to explain more clearly how the people would benefit from removing federal authority and returning it to the states when he has interviews with media personel.
As one person describes him, "He bounces around like a ping pong ball when he is talking." That isn't going to get him the votes that he needs.
I wish Ron Paul was a better communicator. He is good at expressing what's wrong in DC but his statements such as getting rid of the IRS requires a better solution than just getting rid of it.
He needs to explain more clearly how the people would benefit from removing federal authority and returning it to the states when he has interviews with media personel.
As one person describes him, "He bounces around like a ping pong ball when he is talking." That isn't going to get him the votes that he needs.
oddly enough, I think Ron Paul is doing just fine I watched the debate two nights ago intently, the FOX debate in South Carolina and I woke up the next morning, yesterday, knowing the Ron Paul Presidency is inevitable Love, Palo
In my opinion he comes close to doing that. But he can't teach a course in economics each time he presents his solutions. Economics were at the heart of the first American revolution, and Ron Paul is trying to move us back toward the freedom that the first citizens had to use their wealth as they saw fit.
To the casual American, it's not easy to understand this. They think gasoline is really getting more expensive. They don't have time to have inflation explained to them. Gold may have gone up by the same amount as fuel, but that might as well be on another planet.
Fear is now the method by which politicians clinch their deals with voters. We should be very afraid so that our dear leaders can provide solutions for us. And we are the saviors of the planet, from the little animals to the oppressed human beings in all corners of the earth. So it's natural that we should have a military presence on every continent. Any suggestion otherwise requires a geography lesson, at least. That's too much to present in a few seconds.
Fear also drives the illegal immigration debate. We need ID cards and a militarized police force so that we can take care of this scourge. Cutting off welfare and amending the constitution to clarify that there is no such thing as anchor baby citizenship would put more of a dent in illegal immigration than most of what the others are describing, but a fence is much simpler to explain.
And so it becomes very difficult to show that Ron Paul presents solutions.