America's Last Chance
Why is Ron Paul America's last chance?
by Paul Craig Roberts

Editor's Note: This is a column from Dr. Roberts on Infowars, January 15, 2012. I have personally felt that whether Ron Paul wins or loses in 2012 is as critical a political result as has ever faced our country, if not our planet. I thank the good man for providing grist to my sentiment. Especially the latest on what the various incarnations of the federal police force are up to.

America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect Ron Paul President, or they can descend into tyranny. Why is Ron Paul America's last chance? Because he is the only candidate who is not owned lock, stock, and barrel by the military-security complex, Wall Street, and the Israel Lobby.

All of the others, including President Obama, are owned by exactly the same interest groups. There are no differences among them. Every candidate except Ron Paul stands for war and a police state, and all have demonstrated their complete and total subservience to Israel. The fact that there is no difference between them is made perfectly clear by the absence of substantive issues in the campaigns of the Republican candidates. Only Ron Paul deals with real issues, so he is excluded from "debates" in which the other Republican candidates throw mud at one another: "Gingrich voted $60 million to a UN program supporting abortion in China." "Romney loves to fire people." The mindlessness repels.

More important, only Ron Paul respects the US Constitution and its protection of civil liberty. Only Ron Paul understands that if the Constitution cannot be resurrected from its public murder by Congress and the executive branch, then Americans are lost to tyranny.

There isn't much time in which to revive the Constitution. One more presidential term with no habeas corpus and no due process for US citizens and with torture and assassination of US citizens by their own government, and it will be too late. Tyranny will have been firmly institutionalized, and too many Americans from the lowly to the high and mighty will have been implicated in the crimes of the state. Extensive guilt and complicity will make it impossible to restore the accountability of government to law. If Ron Paul is not elected president in this year's election, by 2016 American liberty will be in a forgotten grave in a forgotten grave yard.

Having said this, there is no way Ron Paul can be elected, for these reasons: Not enough Americans understand that the "war on terror" has been used to create a police state. The brainwashed citizenry believe that the police state is making them safe from terrorists. Liberals, progressives, and the left-wing oppose Ron Paul, claiming that "he would abolish the social safety net, privatize Social Security and Medicare, throw the widows and orphans into the street, abolish the Federal Reserve," etc...

Candidate Paul cannot take any steps to reassure Americans that he would not throw them to the mercy of the free market, because his libertarian base would turn on him as another unprincipled politician willing to sacrifice his principles for political expediency. If libertarians were not inflexible, candidate Paul could endorse Ron Unz's proposal to solve the illegal immigration problem by raising the minimum wage to $12 an hour, so that Americans could afford to work the jobs that are taken by illegals. Economist James K. Galbraith is probably correct that Unz's proposal would boost the economy by injecting purchasing power and that the unemployment would be largely confined to illegals who would return to their home country. However, if Ron Paul were to treat Unz's proposal as one worthy of study and consideration, libertarian ideologues would write him off. Whatever liberal/progressive support he gained would be offset by the loss of his libertarian base.

Why can't libertarians be as intelligent as Ron Unz and see that if the Constitution is lost all that remains is tyranny? In short, Americans cannot see beyond their ideologies to the real issue, which is the choice between the Constitution and tyranny. So we hear absurd accusations that Ron Paul, a libertarian "is a racist." "Ron Paul is an anti-semite." "Ron Paul would favor the rich and hurt the poor." We don't hear "Ron Paul would restore and protect the US Constitution."

What do Americans think life will be like in the absence of the Constitution? I will tell you what it will be like, but first let's consider the obstacles Ron Paul would face if he were to win the Republican nomination and if he were to be elected president. In my opinion, if Ron Paul were to win the Republican nomination, the Republican Party would conspire to refuse it to him. The party would simply nominate a different candidate. If despite everything, Ron Paul were to end up in the White House, he would not be able to form a government that would support his policies. Appointments to cabinet secretaries and assistant secretaries that would support his policies could not be confirmed by the US Senate. President Paul would have to appoint whomever the Senate would confirm in order to form a government. The Senate's appointees would undermine his policies.

What a President Ron Paul could do, assuming Congress, controlled by powerful private interest groups, did not impeach him on trumped up charges, would be to use whatever forums that might be permitted him to explain to the public, judges, and law schools that the danger from terrorists is miniscule compared to the danger from a government unaccountable to law and the Constitution.

The reason we should vote for Ron Paul is to signal to the powers that be that we understand what they are doing to us. If Paul were to receive a large vote, it could have two good effects. One could be to introduce some caution into the establishment that would slow the march into more war and tyranny. The other is it would signal to Washington's European and Japanese puppets that not all Americans are stupid sheep. Such an indication could make Washington's puppet states more cautious and less cooperative with Washington's drive for world hegemony. The rest:

• militarization of local police
• warrantless spying
• federalization of police power along the lines of Goering and Himmler among the Germans and their conquered territories in the 3d Reich
• TSA is now stopping people everywhere for their papers
• what will the NRA do?
• the recent illegal creation of the Bureau of Counterterrorism

The immensely scary and occasionally hope-inducing column is here.

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2012 February 06
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