Guest Post by Ron Paul
The Department of Homeland Security issued on Wednesday a nationwide terror alert lasting until April 30. The alert warns of potential terrorist attacks from Americans who are “ideologically motivated” and have “objections to the exercise of government authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives.”
The language used in this alert suggests that millions of Americans are potential terrorists. Second Amendment supporting, antiwar, anti-tax, anti-politics, anti-militarization, pro-life, and anti-Federal Reserve activists certainly have “objections to the exercise of government authority.”
They are certainly viewed by the political class and its handmaidens in big tech and the mainstream media as ideological extremists. Anyone who gets his news from sources other than mainstream media or big tech, or who uses certain “unapproved” social media platforms, is considered to have had his grievances “fueled by false narratives.” For something to be considered a false narrative, it need only contradict the “official” narrative.
The “domestic terrorist” alert is the latest sign that activities on January 6 on Capitol Hill, like the attacks of September 11, 2001, are being used to advance a long-standing anti-liberty agenda. Legislation expanding the federal government’s authority to use its surveillance and other unconstitutional powers against “domestic terrorists” is likely to soon be considered by Congress. Just as the PATRIOT Act was written years before 2001, this legislation was written long before January 6. The bill’s proponents are simply taking advantage of the hysteria following the so-called insurrection to push the bill onto the congressional agenda.
Former CIA Director John Brennan recently singled out libertarians as among the people the government should go after. This is not the first time libertarians have been smeared. In 2009, a federally-funded fusion center identified people who supported my presidential campaign, my Campaign for Liberty, or certain Libertarian and Constitution parties candidates as potentially violent extremists.
The idea that libertarianism creates terrorists is absurd. Libertarians support the non-aggression principle, so they reject using force to advance their political goals. They rely instead on peaceful persuasion.
Libertarianism is being attacked because it does not support just reforming a few government policies. Instead, it presents a formidable intellectual challenge to the entire welfare-warfare state.
The ultimate goal of those pushing for a crackdown on “domestic terrorism” is to make people unwilling to even consider “radical” ideas — to make people so afraid of certain ideas that they refuse to even give those ideas a fair hearing.
Progressives who are tempted to support what is being promoted as a crackdown on right-wing violence should consider the history of government harassment of progressive movements and leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. What do they think a future right-wing authoritarian would do if given power to go after “ideological extremists”?
All Americans who cherish the Bill of Rights should come together to stop this latest crackdown on liberty. My Campaign for Liberty will be mobilizing Americans to stop passage of any domestic terrorism legislation, while my Institute for Peace and Prosperity and my Liberty Report will provide Americas with the most up-to-date information about the continuing attempts to smear those who speak the truth about government lies.
(You can watch the Ron Paul Liberty Report live on YouTube Monday-Friday at noon, eastern time.)
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If your ideas are good you can sway people by just talking about them. The message I get from the Biden regime is that I apparently am some kind of white terrorist and I and my family need a trip to a reeducation camp. Funny, The Democrat’s thinking makes me think of Nazis and Communists and other tyrants through history. They want to create enemies out of every day somewhat normal American citizens. They just might create the problems they are talking about that don’t exist now. Divide and conquer?
They are a bunch of nuts!
It wasn’t that long ago that we were bitter clingers, then we became part of the basket of deplorables and how we have morphed into domestic terrorists. The next logical step is Enemy of the State and recipient of a Hellfire enema.
Dissent cannot be allowed in their Utopia.
Thoughtcrime is now a punishable offense. I pity them because it simply displays how weak and ineffective their methods and ideas truly are.
Matthew 10:28
If there is nothing positive left to say about Ron Paul, then… you have completely fallen into the trap of ‘perfectism.’
And you are now part of the problem, not of the solution.
PCR is writing as someone who has given up that things can be changed for the better in an orderly fashion, while Dr. Paul is still speaking/writing as if that’s possible.
Otherwise I see no major difference between the two.
And from your romance with “collectivism” I take it you also fall more into PCR’s camp. That’s fine, just don’t turn Dr. Paul into your strawman.
Because there is no evidence from the current system or any similar point in all of history that says there can be change in an orderly fashion.
I believe the correct term would be “Nationalism”.
The next question would be: is Ideology a filter or is it a blinder?
I tire of those who claim that the haunts of liberalism are ivory towers.
Some of us are also Stoics, typically
taciturn and with more than a smattering of misanthropy.
Nitpick away, the facts remain that there is a war going on against White people, Christians and the middle class. Pay attention here and focus on what is happening vis a vis the application of the laws and who is pushing bills and agendas demonizing white people. Antifa runs free and BLM marxists are nominated for Nobel prizes while anti-terrorism bills are written with wording that specifically attacks white people and ‘Trump supporters.,’ labeling them terrorists and extremists who require the entire force of the Federal Government to put them down.
You didn’t stay dark for long.
No problem at all.
I love how you despise Ron Paul and libertarians, while loving Hitler and the Nazis. Tells me everything I need to know.
You can bloviate all you want about my comment. Libertarian ideas have absolutely no impact on what is happening or has happened over the last couple decades. There are 550 scumbags in Congress and not a fucking one is from the Libertarian Party. Republicans follow ZERO libertarian ideology as they vote for $3 trillion deficits and never ending wars. If Ron Paul’s views had been adopted in this country, we would still have a chance at a decent future.
So keep denigrating Ron Paul and libertarian ideas, as if that will support whatever flavor of the month you have latched onto now.
I tired of your stuff long ago.
I love how you have latched onto the “collectivism” of the reddit army going to war against the establishment. You are so naive believing they haven’t already been co-opted by the Wall Street guys to be used for their own purposes. Just as the Tea Party was co-opted, your new hope for a glorious future is DOA. They won’t change jack shit. Time to latch onto something else.
Selfless my fat ass. The dude running the Wall Street Bets page is a Wall Street trader. This farce is only about making a killing in the market. Nothing selfless about it. You’ve been conned.
Here’s the WS trader, this isn’t a kid.
I don’t have time to read that all tonight, but the first few paragraphs looked intriguing.
Those raised the alarm that I am not sure how we know Gamestop was 120% short the float, except for someone “leaked” it.
Sure there are fundamentals, but we doubt that was the reason for the accelerated accumulation of GME stock by Senvest. Something tells us there were other factors that prompted the urgent buying spree, especially since the original “short burn of the century” article on Reddit which sparked the retail interest in the name, appeared in early September right around the time Senvest started acquiring shares, according to the Journal. One almost wonder if the two aren’t linked.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/curious-timing-hedge-fund-made-700-million-gamestop
🙂
There would not be so many billionaires pushing Lolbertardianism if they didn’t perceive some benefit from it. Mostly it has been effective at distracting people from reality and convincing them not to push back against the billionaire class.
Yeah, the billionaire class is dominated by libertarians. That’s fucking hilarious. Do you have more?
You heard about Koch or maybe Prager, you genius? I didn’t say billionaires are dominated by libertarians, I said libertarians are dominated by billionaires.
Do you care to embarrass yourself more? Because I didn’t scratch the surface proving my point with that pithy response to your pithy response.
Oh Kenny. Pithy is my specialty. Koch – a libertarian – that’s fucking hysterical.
Anyone who refers to Hitler as a great man has serious mental problems.
I’m embarrassed that you are on this site. I know you think highly of your intellect. Most Joo haters do.
Kenny is mentally ill, that’s for sure.
Libertarians are being singled out, Dr. Paul, because they are nearly 100% high IQ Whites who must be intellectually corralled and demonized as the most capable and dangerous Whites to the system.
This is not an ideological battle we are in, Dr. Paul. This is an ethnic and racial battle against Whites, and any means to demonize them will be used – in this case, going after “Libertarians.”
That comment actually sums up the reality we currently face, all quibbling aside….instead of fighting amongst ourselves perhaps we should acknowledge the fact that ‘we’ share a common enemy who wants us dead and focus our attentions there?
Yep. You’ve convinced me. Hitler was a great guy. The Joos are responsible for all the ills in the world. All of them. Every single one, including the one in my wedding and the lady who worked for me for 10 years.
Now your army of Joo haters like good old Fleabags can down vote me, as if I give a flying fuck what your fans think.
As I said before, your schtick got old a long time ago.
You can say anything you like. This is the Burning Platform. Our little spat is a drop in the ocean compared to the early days. We disagree strongly on certain things and people in this world. So be it.
I appreciate the generous contributions you have made to TBP now and in the past.
THAT is what I appreciate about this site, free speech reigns.
I used to frequent another ‘conservative’ site but the censorship got crazy. My posts wouldn’t show, got ‘waiting for approval’ messages, limited to about 5 lines of text and even tho I pointed out it was ONLY happening at his site, and no other wordpress sites, it was my computer settings or it never happened and I was only whining.
So I’m glad to be able to frequent a real conservative site like TBP. Thank you admin will contribute when I can.
Brian – I have been reading Patriot Post for almost as long as it has been in existence. They recently removed the comments from their site, due to concern about being de-platformed. Slowly, but surely TLPTB are killing all avenues of dissent.
I get the deplatform threat TN, but still doesn’t cut muster for me, for a number of reasons.
Anyone hosting a platform such as TBP should have a contingency plan because the censorship and deplatforming of conservatives is going to ramp up further. There are a number of ways to mitigate this.
The large bulk of messages I posted were in support of the blog owner, even encouraging others to hang in there when the site was undergoing some troubles. Yet myself and a few others were singled out and effectively made non grata being called whiners and trouble makers. I guess when the admin was caught lying about us is when we started getting throttled.
Its going to take some courage to remain standing on the freedom of speech platform. When they fold, its caving into the communists and communists win when people cannot voice discontent, or ideas contrary to their ideologies.
Its a war… we need to learn to fight them on their turf using their tools against them. Folding isn’t an option. imo
Thanks for the offer, but my refrigerators and freezer are full. We’re good.
I don’t think anyone is saying “Hitler was a great guy” or that “Joos are responsible for all the ills in the world”. Not even us Joo haters. Reality is always much more nuanced than one liners.
Yeah, nuance is your specialty.
Touche. It is not. just ask my wife, but I am quite capable of it in thought and articulation, even if it is my “go to”.
Hitler was a great and terrible man. As was and is all history making leaders from the deeds required to build a nation, save it*, transform it, or even when attempting to conquer the entire bloody world.
*Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George were the British Prime Ministers who oversaw the slaughter of millions of the Flower of British manhood for nothing. Senseless brutal murder by industrial means because they were feckless, useless politicians. Nobody compares them or their military tool – Field Marshall Haig – to utterly evil monsters now do they?
Does this mean they weren’t completely demonic actors? Or outstanding patriotic leaders who saved the world?
Positionality (the viewer’s) beliefs and optics matter.
As it also happens that Da Joos rarely do themselves any favours with the other peoples they live apart from or with (much of the time both at the same time) for that matter irrespective of how fucking smart they are.
Bottom line: most people suck and are going to Hell.
So live it up a little and don’t worry*.
*Deliverance Joe has some neat shit in store for us all.
Once you accept the holohoax didn’t happen it is much easier to accept that Hitler got some things right and some things wrong same as any great man.
Most of WW2 history in peoples minds is a complete lie based on complete fabrications. I really think understanding there were no good guys in WW1 is the appropriate jumping off point for that reality.
If the Germans bombed California supply lines, there could have be a “holocaust” in the Japanese camps. Where are all of the memorials for all of my people who have died? Jews are not special, but in their own minds. Nobody asks for the same level of narcissisms that those people demand.
FFS, Yo…….quit groveling.
Huh! WHICH aspects? Please be specific.
Under Hitlers watch, MILLIONS of Germans died or suffered, millions upon millions of people from other nations suffered and died, Germany was utterly destroyed, and the world changed for the worse.
You ought to consider THE END RESULT of what Hitler accomplished …. not his idealistic, fairy tale, grandiose idea’s prior to his failures.
Probably true. Plenty of sites still discuss all of that in detail and answer all of those questions, for those interested.
Links please.
Occidental Observer, Russian Insider should be enough to get you started. A lot of have been deplatformed, but those two are unique in containing scholarship and not just screeds.
The first is pure scholarship. Meaning all the essays contain citations for their claims of fact. RI is an independent journalist outfit that has almost the same level of scholarship.
There are only a few lies we can uncover. Then we have to parse through how many lies were built upon those lies, as we re-learn history. Go over to Unz and you will find scholarly articles (some from actual academic journals) on how most of history is suspect.
What makes you think they are collectivists? Because a bunch of people are working together towards one goal? That’s quite a leap, isn’t it? I call it teamwork. There is a difference.
Interesting ideas about ideology.
Jesus was a great teacher …. until religion turned his teachings into an ideology called Christianity.
Allow me to correct this some. Religion turned his teachings to christianity, a form of Christianity. Real Christianity follows Christ, as the name implies, whereas christianity follows other doctrines shoehorned into Christs teachings contrary to Christs teachings.
“Jesus was a great teacher …”
IS a great teacher. The verb should be in present tense for two reasons.
One, He is risen.
Two, the moral teachings are still just as relevant today as they were in the first century AD. This is just an opinion from a literalist who abandoned organized religion because it became a profitable venture for corrupt people and sheep.
Here it comes. Jesus taught a religion called Judaism. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and early Acts are full of it. All are law abiding. Jesus was “alive” during His earthly ministry; thus His earthly ministry was of the old covenant, though He was preparing His Jewish followers for the new covenant to come as promised. Back up:
Hebrews 9:16-17 KJB… “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.”
The new can ONLY begin with the death of the testator. The books mentioned above are thus old covenant books. Jesus didn’t die in Matthew chapter one where the publisher sticks that page. The Hebrew epistles are new covenant books; and Jewish through and through.
Religion (that which man thinks he can DO to please God or assuage His anger) turned Jesus teachings into “Churchianity”. Actual true Christianity did not begin until Paul was given the knowledge of it on the road to Damascus in Acts 9. Back up:
1 Timothy 1:15-16 KJB… “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me FIRST Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a PATTERN to them which should HEREAFTER believe on him to life everlasting.”
Notice where the word “Christian” first shows up…
Acts 11:26 KJB… “And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians FIRST in Antioch.”
Not Jerusalem; Antioch, Paul’s home base. There be Jews in Jerusalem. This is critical. The key that unlocks the scriptures.
I don’t subscribe to that generalization.
To me Jesus taught Christianity,
and then there is institutionalized Christianity in several flavors.
What exactly you call religion, and how it relates to philosophy, is everyone’s interpretational choice…
(Stucky fighting in the Meme Wars again?)
Libertarians aren’t terrorists. They are just mentally handi-uncapable. Unlike communists who are both.
Wowsers… Ain’t that the truth. I lean libertarian so I joined the Libertarian Party here in British Communista about 4 years back. Went to a couple of AGM’s and was invited to participate in the leadership conferences and email exchanges.
Long story short I’ve never seen a bunch of unorganized wingnuts in my life. From being ultra conservative, locally, to outright bat guano crazy anacharistic and everything in between.
Where’s Bill Vander Zalm when he is needed?
If they are high IQ whites (I notice the leadership of the movement is populated by a lot of similarly hued people from a different tribe), then why does Libertarianism have all the hallmarks and failings of controlled opposition?
The only false narrative worth discussing here is the narrative that Comrade Joe was elected legitimately.
John Galt’s Speech from Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing—you who dread knowledge—I am the man who will now tell you.” The chief engineer was the only one able to move; he ran to a television set and struggled frantically with its dials. But the screen remained empty; the speaker had not chosen to be seen. Only his voice filled the airways of the country—of the world, thought the chief engineer—sounding as if he were speaking here, in this room, not to a group, but to one man; it was not the tone of addressing a meeting, but the tone of addressing a mind.
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