Ron Paul for President
Anthony Wile

Many in the free-market world are joyful over the (leaked) announcement that Ron Paul (R-TX) is going to run for president of the United States. Maybe politics does have a place in the free market after all? Possibly, so. Certainly, we will likely not live to see a purely free-market society. But we can certainly do better than what we have, and Ron Paul may be the man to get us there.

Ron Paul is known to many in the free market world, for his Constitutional rigor and principled stands in an unprincipled environment (the U.S. House of Representatives). He is a previous presidential candidate for the Libertarian party, and I am especially pleased he said of my book, "High Alert," that he wished he could send a copy to everyone in Congress.

Here's part of what the great, free-market movie maker Aaron Russo had to say recently about Ron Paul.

 

You may have heard that the Honorable Congressman Ron Paul is exploring running for the Republican nomination in 2008. Congressman Paul will be the only uncompromising defender of the Constitution in the race. I can't tell you how grateful I felt, how full of heartfelt joy, and how much enthusiasm I felt when I heard the news of his Candidacy. I am 1000% behind him! Ron Paul has stepped up to the plate because he knows what we all know: the noose is tightening, and there isn't much time if we hope to restore to Constitutional Government.

I called Ron yesterday to tell him I am on board to do ANYTHING it takes to support his campaign. NOW is the time for the ENTIRE Freedom Movement, all Third Parties, ALL GOOD AMERICANS EVERYWHERE, from all political stripes and persuasions, to unite to overtake the weakened Republican Party. Stand firmly behind Ron Paul, and work to restore our Constitutional Republic.

Aaron Russo adds, "Please be sure visit http://www.freedomtofascism.com and sign up as a volunteer to support this effort. Also, please share this video link concerning my comments about the 9/11 fraud - ie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okLrWV6ObwI. In the past 2 1/2 months we have had over 1 million views of American: Freedom To Fascism on Google Video. The movie has received the highest possible rating of 5 Stars from the viewing audience. This is an incredible testement to the American public's appetite to learn about freedom. Please keep spreading the word of freedom by sending this email around the world. Here's the link to the movie on Google Video: http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/home.htmlprivate/ftf.html

Clinton, Bush and Out

Why Ron, and why now? Let me try to explain why I think the time is so propitious. For over two years now, I've been pointing out that this phenomenon called the Internet only started to bite during Bill Clinton's tenure. The access and conversation on the 'Net took Bill Clinton apart. It wasn't the Republican Congress so much as websites like WorldNetDaily.com. and FreeRepublic.com. Came the Republicans turn and the Internet went to work again.

Of course people weren't sure of what to make of George Bush, but I have a little test. I ask Americans when I see them, when exactly did "W's" popularity nosedive. I have asked this question over and over and almost everyone tells me the same thing. They lost patience with him when he did a flyover of New Orleans after the flooding and then, later on - when it wasn't enough to illustrate his famous "compassionate conservatism," staged a one-night 'hit-and-run" down there where he promised TWO HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS for a recovery effort. Just like that!

People were disgusted, I think. His war was costing billions, his "No Child Left Behind" educational policy was a boondoggle, he'd never vetoed a single spending and the dollar was losing ground to just about every major currency in the world. And here comes ready to spend another TWO HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS because of a fizzled photo op. The connection was clear and George Bush was finished. Up 'til then voters, many Americans I think, had been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But after that flyover, and that attempted giveaway, he was cooked, "toast," done to a turn. American voters knew he was just as bad as his old man - in it for himself, not for any larger purpose.

So where does the American voter go from here? The power elite is in a real pickle now. They've used the Hegelian dialectic - thesis-antithesis - to move the goal posts so far from freedom in the West, and even America, that the most credible candidates as of this writing are two of the most profoundly anti-free-market politicians of this new century - "Hillary" (D-NY) and John McCain (R-AZ). Does this make sense? The average American voter who still believes that his or her country is the "land of the free and home of the brave" has a choice between a woman who espouses socialized health care and a man who helped pass a bill to ban free speech during elections.

What's the big deal? How's this - today, voters know about it! It's not like the 1960s or 1970s, even the '80s or '90s where a big politician could get up, make a speech and have Time Magazine or the Ladies Home Journal deliver condensed synopses of it without any undue criticism. No, no, in the 2000s, when one of these Congress-critters makes a speech, his or her words are pretty-damn-well scrutinized. First it was the Democrats - and it could be fairly said that the Internet - New Media - helped cost them power and the presidency in several national elections. People were so fed up with what they read and heard that they turned them out and elected the Republicans to do better.

Guess what. The Pubbies did what every party has always done in the past century. They helped themselves to the goodies. Only most of them (at least the leaders) were OWM - Old White Men - and they didn't' understand the New Media much more than the Dems, or Dan Rather for that matter. They didn't understand that people could actually hear and read and see what they were doing, probably for the first time ever. They could write their horrible bills, but now those same bills could be read over the Internet. There was no place to hide - and thus Pubbies self-destructed inside of six years.

Enter Paul?

Dems first. Pubbies second. And now where do American voters go?

Perhaps they will vote Libertarian! I have been writing about this and speaking about this for several years now. The Internet in coming of age has discredited both major parties and left Americans confused and uncertain. They're starting to catch on to the incredible unscrupulousness of the power elite and the minions that do its dirty work. They're sick of business as usual, and they have no hope that a Democratic president will prove any better than a Republican one.

They only need a catalyst to discover what those of us watching from Canada and elsewhere already know - that most Americans like most Canadians are mildly-to-fervantly Libertarian in their thought process and beliefs. They don't want the government in their bedrooms and they most certainly (most of them) don't want the government in their pocketbooks.

Congressman Ron Paul, the time is right. The electorate is primed. Your message could not come at a better political juncture. If you run, as has been leaked, as a libertarian republican, you will have a mainstream voice and attract, I believe, mainstream attention. They will try to discredit you, but your truths will speak to millions, and they will vote for you in the primaries, and then, heaven help us, on election day.

So run, Ron, run! Hire some security, buy some body armor and "give 'em hell." You may go farther than anyone expects, even you.