Message from Ron Paul

Message from Ron Paul
Date:	Aug 22, 2007 12:29 PM

August 22, 2007
 
 Not all the media are biased.  A local newspaper in New Hampshire reported on an
 annual GOP bbq in the town of Hollis.  It could be called "the Ron Paul show,"
 they said, since the far bigger crowd that usual consisted mostly of our supporters. 
 One volunteer even rented an airplane and flew a wonderful sign around the sky. 
 What great, creative, self-starting people I'm meeting, at every stop, all of
 them united by a love of America and American freedom. 
 
 Politics is usually about division.  But this campaign is just the opposite.  Not
 only are our volunteers a bunch of happy warriors, but they also practice the virtues
 of tolerance and peace, just as they want the nation to do. 
 
 The other day, the state chairman of an opposing campaign (not in New Hampshire!),
 angrily tore a sign out of one of our supporter's hands and trashed it.  Different
 people with different beliefs might have responded differently.  But our people,
 though they'd been standing in the rain all day, applied the Golden Rule.  It's
 because of quiet heroes that I know we can change this country. 
 
 A reporter in New Hampshire told me this story about Florida:  she had seen the 
 same three supporters working every day passing out our literature, and so decided
 to interview them.  She was startled to discover that one was a Republican, one 
 was a Democrat, and one was an Independent.  But I wasn't. 
 
 Freedom brings us all together. We can all agree on leaving people alone to plan
 and live their own lives, rather than trying to force them to obey at the point 
 of a gun, as runaway government does.  Instead of clawing at each other via the 
 warfare-welfare state, people under liberty can cooperate in a unity of diversity.
 
 There is no need to use government to threaten others who have different standards,
 or to be threatened by them.  Looking to our Founders, our traditions, and the Constitution,
 we can build, in peaceful cooperation, a free and prosperous society. 
 
 At a talk show in Nashua, New Hampshire, the host asked me about the fair tax.  
 Well, I agree on getting rid of the IRS, I told her, but I want to replace it with
 nothing, not another tax.  But let's not forget the inflation tax, I said. 
 
 This was something she had never considered, but after I talked about the depreciation
 of our dollar by the Federal Reserve, its creation of artificial booms and busts,
 and its bailouts of the big banks and Wall Street firms, to the detriment of the
 average person, she loved it.  That is another tax, she agreed, a hidden and particularly
 vicious tax. 
 
 They try to tell us that the money issue is boring or irrelevant.  In fact, it is
 the very pith of our social lives, and morally, Constitutionally, and economically,
 the central bank is a disaster. Thanks to the work of this movement, Americans are
 starting to understand what has been hidden from them for so long:  that we have
 a right to sound and honest money, not to a dollar debauched for the special interests.
 
 Unconstitutional government has created a war crisis, a financial crisis, a dollar
 crisis, and a freedom crisis.  But we don't have to take it.  We don't have
 to passively accept more dead soldiers, a lower standard of living, rising prices,
 a national ID, eavesdropping on our emails and phone calls, and all the rest. 
 
 We can return to first principles, and build the brightest, most brilliant future
 any people on earth has ever aspired to.  Help me teach this lesson.  Help me campaign
 all over this country, in cooperation with our huge and growing volunteer army. 
 Help me show that change is not only possible, but also essential.  Please, make
 your most generous contribution (https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/) to this campaign
 for a Constitutional presidency worthy of our people. Invest in freedom:  for yourself,
 for your family, for your future. 
 
 Sincerely, 
 
 Ron

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