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US wants “obedient servants of the state” – Ron Paul
Published: 14 January, 2010, 11:21
Edited: 15 May, 2010, 05:18
TAGS: Protest, Politics, Human rights, Terrorism, Information Technology
“The greatest threat to a government is people who think for themselves,” believes US Congressman Ron Paul.
“If you condition people to everyday, all day, depend on the government to do their thinking for them – they will become more obedient.”
Paul said the billions of dollars spent by the American government on intelligence could not prevent the recent terror attempt in US skies.
“I think the responsibility has fallen on the $75 billion bureaucracy that has 16 agencies that cannot co-ordinate their work,” he said. “Airlines should be responsible for who gets on their planes,” he added.
According to the congressman, all the efforts of the US government to introduce new technical systems for airport passenger control, such as body scanners, are “just to make us obedient servants of the state, to teach us that they are in charge of us and to tell us what to do, that we are robots and are supposed to obey them.”
“It’s not that individuals are perfect, it’s just that governments are always imperfect, they always make mistakes and when they do – they are very painful and they hurt each and every one of us.”
Paul said that America has made an amazing shift away from traditional values while even former communist regimes are moving in the direction of a free market.
“[The economy] should be micromanaged by the people, by the consumer. In the free market the consumer is king,” Paul said. “But in the US, as in most countries in the world today, it is being micromanaged by the central government and central banks.”
Speaking about the earthquake in Haiti, Paul said, “just handing out money to Haiti is not going to solve their problems.”
According to the outspoken politician, the best thing the US could do for Haiti in the long term would be to introduce the country to sound economic policies so that they would not suffer from poverty.
Commenting on the situation in Yemen, Paul said that the US is “looking for another war” and that it is a “disastrous continuation of the foreign policy of George Bush.”
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Ron Paul is right on the money on this point. Imagine if everyone could bring a hand gun on a plane, we wouldn't need security guards on the planes, there might be 20-30 people with a gun on a commercial flight. Good luck trying anything. You'll be dead. The problem now is that nobody is responsible when security fails. If the airline was responsible for it, they would have fixed the problem years ago.
I find the remarks of Ron Paul quite interesting. He is quite right when he says it is the airlines responsiblity as to who gets on their airplanes. It is also the responsibility of the American government to give adequate information to law agencies regarding persons deemed as possibly deranged and a danger to the airlines. Apparently the person who attempted to destroy an airline and its passengers was well known to American authorities, since his father had given them the information. Which begs a question, why was no notification given to international airports, where he could be strip searched? As for Haiti, well it was under the Clinton administration that their rice farmers were driven out of business by the extravagant export of American rice to Haiti. Destroy a countries economic produce and you create poverty for its people. As for Yemen, this is an internal conflict which has religious undertones. The government in power are Sunni, with a part of the population, the Houti's who are Shia. The Shia population feel their rights are being trodden underfoot. The Saudi's, an American puppet, are involving themselves in Yemen's internal affairs. The Saudi's are Sunni. I believe Bin Laden was a Saudi and a Sunni. There are reports of US involvement coming through. America's policy seems well in line with a continuation of the policies of George Bush jnr.
It's amazing, I have to turn to Russia Today to get any real news of my own country. Ron Paul, Paul Craig Roberts, Robert Bridges men that tell it like it is. Thank you RT. Our biggest fear is Google. The CEO, Schmidt is planning to "tailor" the news to the peoples thinking. Soon "when I blowa da whis, everybody snap to" will be what we're "taught". Will free press be available in America? Not once we have "the government" instead of our government, is the case now.