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After the Revolution


Criticism of the Ron Paul Revolution or more broadly the Freedom/Patriot/Truth Movement is usually lodged in the usual manner:

1. They’re treasonous traitors for not genuflecting before President Cheney & Vice-President Bush

2. They’re dead wrong about the War and the Terrorists

3. They want to let homosexuals snort lines of cocaine off the genitals of hookers, provided they pay for such a service in Gold Bullion.

4. They’re too extreme

5. They’ll never win

However, Strike-the-Rooter Jim Davies, is echoing the voice of Lysander Spooner. In his new column, he puts the Constitution and its champion Congressman Dr. Ron Paul under the microscope. As the late great guru Harry Browne once said: “I’ll never put my foot out to trip up someone that’s going in the same direction as me.” I feel that columnist such as Mr. Davies should adhere to the Browne doctrine. Columns such as his are best pontificated upon after the Revolution. Let the paradigm of debate after victory be between the Constitutional Republican faction and the Anarcho-Libertarian faction. Either way, we’ll all be better off.



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Zaphod Tralfamadore
Posted on:
November 28, 2007 at 5:07 pm

The word “radical” is overused, and its meaning has become diluted. Even so, the ideas expressed in this article are truly radical. If forced to choose, I believe I am an anarcho-capitalist at heart, but I am not yet convinced we are the majority within the Ron Paul movement.

However, as the author himself points out, we are living with a government unable to limit itself even to the liberal permissions of the Constitution. Faced with an enemy as out-of-control as this, we must cling to whatever common ground we can find, no matter how inadequate.

How far will the Congress allow President Paul to go? Who will the voters side with come 2010? There are many long battles still lurking between us and true liberty. Even so, why scare the troops so prematurely? Let them first know victory, and they will go on to do fantastic things- things that we could not begin to imagine within the current paradigms.

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LysanderSpooner
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November 28, 2007 at 6:13 pm

Mr. Davie & I did recently exchange E-mails. He corrected me on a grammatical/spelling error. Davie contends that the “Ron Paul Revolution” is not the same Revolution he is gunning for and so the “Harry Browne Truism” isn’t applicable. In other words, Paul & Co are not moving in the same direction as Mr. Davie & Co. I can’t honestly disagree.

Although, as I pointed out in my reply to Davie, I feel the Ron Paul Revolution is our stopover until we reach Anarcho-Capitalism. Much how Socialism was intended on being the stopover toward full blown Communism. The problem is that layover became permanent. The worker’s paradise was never realized.