An Argument for the Ron Paul counterrevolution

A long essay: take the time to read it when you are able.

So much for my goal of short pieces, but this is important

An excerpt from They Though They Were Free, The Germans From 1933 to 1945, Milton Meyer:  

But Then It Was Too Late

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it... 

"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

"How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might.

"Your ‘little men,’ your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better....

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Principiis obsta — Resist the beginnings 

Finem respice — Consider the end. 

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I titled this entry with reference to Ron Paul and what I call the counterrevolution, as we have already lost the nation to a long-term subversive revolution.  


I am not a Paulist with respect to the election game. There is a marginal chance he will be the GOP candidate, thought the year is shaping up in an interesting way, and Paul knows that. The cry of "electability" is inane; it is a cry against theory in favor of mob rule. It is a dismissal of republic in favor of democracy - the end of our nation.  


It is better the power structures realize they better adapt to the people rather than assuming the people will choose sides in the election game. They realize this by losing their own voters. Only then, do the "leaders" deign to pay attention to the masses.


Paul would be amazed if he actually won - he is leading a philosophical movement. It is important we all understand why he is doing that.


I am a Paulist with respect to the strategic push in the campaign: a cry that we had better return to the Constitution and the decentralized government. The cry is finally being understood - no one knows if it is in time. Any GOP candidate who merely cuts the government around its edges is a useful idiot who will carry us all down. 


Analogies hardly work anymore. Let us try this: your entire house is on fire, your garage is on fire and there are explosive chemicals in there. You have a choice: vote for a neighbor who insists the right thing to do is cancel you insurance or a neighbor who thinks you should move your car. Voting to move the car is a fool's vote, a Hobson's choice that is silly.


The distress over Paul's "foreign policy" is a symptom of how we have been trained to react with fear - the ultimate tool of control.  Paul says the Congress must declare war and the President act upon that direction. This is our law, but to say that is somehow "kooky." There is no legal argument offered, just a reaction found in fear - kill the enemy before they kill us, whoever you say they are.  We ignore the fact that we cannot afford anything, let along wars all over the world, because we convinced we are in a survival scenario.


Paul is perfectly happy with signing alliances with foreign friends, the correct tradition, but we are trained that the President can do what he wants. Both parties claim the authority given to the president to act under the War Powers Act is unconstitutional - both parties use it. The process of law must precede the obtaining of a desired result. Merely justifying means to reach an end is tyranny.


Of note, Paul has said the current leader of the Mosad and his predecessor do not think Israel under an existential threat.  On the other hand, our media makes a clear understanding impossible. At the same time, we are told that we need to arm (or something) to defend an Israel by having them take our money to buy our arms, as we tell them, and leftists leaders in government dislike them as the evil doers of the world.  

The Story of Your Enslavement

As a people, we are being used by the Muslims, leftists, and oligarchs. Recall a blog entry of two or three years ago where I noted the jailed "Jackal" wrote in an article the left must align itself with the Muslim terrorists for the time being. Do you see the ongoing game?


Our enemies use our presence in their lands and our blundering actions as a way to increase their power, which, in turn, result in our being told we need to ratchet up our foreign interference, without that ever being identified.  It is a vague notion of hyper-vigilance. This point-counterpoint is the history of man and, I suppose, America was not vigilant in keeping our nation a republic, so we have entered the flow of warlord history. We have a minor chance of waking up.


We are serfs being told the Muslims threaten us, so we go off on righteous crusades. This, in turn, results, as in the past, in active animosity layered on cultural and religious jingoism. The traditional war of the crusades turned into centuries of anger because of the leaders of the crusades had little to do with God.  God was for the serf to believe in as they died on the battlefields. 


Follow the spiral of reactions: the "end" is a police state and never-ending war.  We went through this with the false crusade against Russia. My proof of this is Michael Moore's film Canadian Bacon. 


I just removed a section concerning Russia and the United States and the use of escalating fear on both sides to control people, history, business. Too long. As President Nixon pointed Russia's underlying goal for hundreds of hears was to create a buffer zone around itself. It did and we reacted by placing armored divisions in Europe. The Russian leaders were not communists, they were oligarchs protecting power by manipulating people's fear.


The U.S. is controlled by the "military industrial complex" as described by President Eisenhower. It is also under the control of oligarchs using leftists. (A democratic socialist Congressman recently said Obama was not a socialist, he was a neo-liberal oligarch, which is new term to me, but I understand it.) The complex fanned the fear as well. The two sides played a game of ping pong - serving fear to one another.  Of course, both sides actually took forceful and deadly actions, but those were tactics in a bigger game. 


Russia agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba, if we removed them from its border in Turkey. That was the desired result. They won and we fell into a self-congratulating prattle about staring them down. Few even know we pulled our missiles which were on the doorstep of Russia.  We assumed we were so cowboy that Russia backed down. I should mention the oligarchy relies on the media.


The use of fear continues. The Arabs use it as a cultural gesture, such as Iraq making believe they had weapons of mass destruction. This is a stupid gambit where the enemy is vastly larger and well-trained in reacting to fear.  Iraq did use gas, of course. You can't discount dictators - a major problem. 


You will notice, these days, we take seemingly insane actions against foreign nations and "terrorists" which now means anyone the government decides it does not like.  We have recently put a few troops in Australia now to defend.....?????


The founders completely understood how oligarchs take control: fear, monetary policy, and centralization. We have lost the simple understanding of the Constitution an how it protected us from all assaults. We accept imperial actions of a government that is aloof. A government that is intent on dumbing down the people and ignoring the Constitution.


I will curtail this thread, here, and merely plead that you listen to Paul and understand what he is saying. It is profound, logically consistent, and is likely our last hope. As for the election - focus on state and school board elections. This is where the counterrevolution must take place. If you motivate people to take back their school boards in an election, the other races will take care of themselves.


Over dramatic? Reread the excerpt about Nazi Germany.