I want to live free again (Ron Paul)
This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:35 AM and is filed under rants.
I was all for the "war on terror", when it first started , I like most everyone else was angry about being attacked and wanted someones head for it.
I was all for it when we went to Afghanistan, I was a little more leery when we went into Iraq, since I think that we have no business in the UN let alone being their enforcer, but I went along with it because " it is better to fight them "over there" than over here".
As it went on and I saw that the Democrats ( and Republicans ) were not going to let our guys fight to win. Their hands were tied at every turn, and when they did fight to win our own politicians and citizens would demonise them and try to have them court martialed or even worse. They basically became cannon fodder. ( rocks, home made bomb, and car bomb fodder to be more exact.
About two years ago, I started to want an end to it, because even though I still believed it is "better to fight them there" than here I started to see that if they wanted to come here nothing was stopping them, they could walk right across the border at any point and do what they will. Our border guards were put in prison for doing their job on the Mexican border, and the rest of them were sent over seas. So if all this was about defending America it was a piss-poor way to do it. And still our government wouldn't let our guys fight to win, and they got killed.
I don't believe the boon-doogle about it was for the oil, if that was true then why was oil $27.00 a barrel when we went in and pushing a hundred currently? I don't know what is was all about or what the heck happened to the President I elected in 2000. When the "surge" started it seems everyone forgot about our guys being there, pretty much because less guys were dieing.
But, I thought more and more why are we even there in the first place, how would we like it if Northern Mongolia came over here and told us we were not allowed to have our ( insert whatever ) that they had given to and helped is develop in the first place?
What if Northern Mongolia invaded us and took over our capital to " save us" from ourselves.
I don't like it when our own government tries to save us from our selves. We would be pissed, I doubt seriously many of us if any would strap some bottle rockets and a gallon of gas to ourselves and drive our trucks into the Mongolian military convoys but we sure as heck would be shooting, kicking, and stabbing to send them back across the ocean.
The longer we kept "fighting to protect democracy and freedom in the world" we lost more and more of our freedom. Our government is doing nothing to protect our own borders and is constantly giving away more and more of our sovereignty. Why? I don't want to believe in the New World Order, Illuminati, CFR hocus pocus, but seriously can our government be so inept or is this stuff for real?
We have the democrats wanting to give us all 40 acres and mule and a cloned chicken in every pot, and we have the republicans wanting to give us bankruptcy and the hatred of the world.
Wouldn't it be nice to just let the rest of the world screw themselves in whatever way they want, bring our guys home, protect our own country's borders, follow the Constitution, let our own people drill for oil here, and quit trying to run everyone else's business?
I have spent the last 20 years of my life fussing at the tv whenever their is a political debate on wanting "my guy" to say the right thing. I have finally found someone who does that. His name in Ron Paul.
Folks say that he is too simplistic in his ideas, they are good ideas but they wouldn't work. You know what?
Doing right is simple, it is trying to do something else and cover it up that is hard. American politicians have been doing it wrong for so long now, that we the people think that wrong is right.
They call him a nut and a crackpot because he wants to follow the law? Because he wants to limit the government, because he wants to be the president of the USA and not the world?
Well, in that case I'm nutty too. I'm so nutty that I want to have our dollar backed by something other than the "full faith and credit of the United States", guess what there ain't much faith and credit there to back it up.
The dang "Euro" is worth $1.50, the Euro didn't even exist 10 years ago and it is better than the dollar. It won't be long until we are going to Mexico to find landscaping jobs, because the peso will be worth more.
Let's stop policing the world, stop redistributing wealth through the entitlement system, stop protecting other nations borders instead of our own, stop taxing hard work, and elect Ron Paul, he won't be able to do it all, but starting something is better than finishing nothing.
