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- During election cycles, I've often found myself being
criticized for not participating in democracy. There is something intrinsically
disturbing about the whole process that stuck me as a mockery of what was
once a republic.
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- It may have been for the same reasons that led Westbrook
Pegler to write in the New York Journal in 1951: "Did I say 'republic?'
By God, yes, I said 'republic!' Long live the glorious republic of the
United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used
often by ignorant persons, but no less often by intellectual fakers, to
describe an infamous mixture of socialism, miscegenation, graft, confiscation
of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous
principles make them offensive."
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- Or Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler to write on the
decline and fall of the Athenian Republic while our thirteen original states
were still colonies of Great Britain: "A Democracy cannot exist as
a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover
they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that
moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most
benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always
collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship."
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- Or the person who said, "If God had intended us
to vote, he would have given us candidates." Or maybe the truism that
"presidents are selected, not elected." Then there's the idea
that Churchill put forward that "the best argument against democracy
is a five minute conversation with the average voter." But mostly,
I suppose, it was my resentment for the general acceptance by Americans
of our constitutional republic being seduced into democracy.
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- But now, our country has come full circle - democracy
has worked its magic and we find ourselves on the doorstep of being completely
returned to colonial status - we find ourselves facing the same contest
of ideologies that Americans faced in the 1700's.
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- In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin made the key
statement that is entirely reflective of the situation in which we currently
find ourselves: "The inability of Colonists to get power to issue
their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international
bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War."
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- Since the alliance of the robber barons and Money Trust
with the international banking cartel that ruled over Europe - and since
losing the ability to issue our own money in 1913 - we have been dragged
by a nose ring into a series of international wars, a Great Depression
and all manner of entangling alliances that have used our people and resources
in a quest for empire that is not our own.
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- It's very difficult to consider ideology and uphold principle
when every new war opens a floodgate of money - and it's been difficult
to look critically at the monetary system when the current Federal Reserve
chief says that he'll throw money out of helicopters if that's what it
takes to keep the economy strong. It's also difficult to organize a resistance
to what constitutes a Trojan horse within government, if not government
itself at this point, when studies show that half of the people in the
United States are now dependent on some aspect of what constitutes 'government'
in this country for their livelihood.
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- But we must try if we are to endure. A voice has emerged
as an idea whose time has come in the midst of the usual Manchurian candidates.
Despite the fact that the political party system equates to a two pronged
attack on America - with the democratic platform consistently selling us
into socialism and the republican platform consistently selling us into
war - I joined the republican party to support the platform of the Ron
Paul.
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- We are in desperate need of a second revolution in this
country and the platform of the Ron Paul revolution is the platform of
the republic. We ignore our foundational principles at our peril - if he
can't win, then we've lost.
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- Gary Jacobucci
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