Waking Jonah

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 2 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Receives Key Endorsement, Speaks to Supporters in Myrtle Beach, SC (1/15/2012)
Date: 1/15/12

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Partial transcript: The attack on personal liberties has continued; First, after 9/11 it was the Patriot Act; The Patriot Act was not invented because of 9/11… it had been invented several years before; An opportunity arises for those who like to put those kind of laws on us… saw that as an opportunity… so within a week or two, the Patriot Act was passed; If we could have renamed it, it wouldn’t have passed; If they had called that the “Repeal of the 4th Amendment Act”, maybe nobody would have voted for it then… because that’s essentially what it did; We have lost our privacy–they can invade our homes without legitimate search warrants; The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)–a very, very bad piece of legislation; The provisions in there essentially have repealed Posse Comitatus; The president now is allowed to use the military to arrest any American citizen as a probably cause; Not only can you be arrested by the military–that’s only half of it–you can be kept in secret confinement indefinitely and denied an attorney… and that is not part of what America should be; If we’re to restore the republic, we would be repealing the Patriot Act as well as this authority to arrest American citizens by the U.S. Army–that should not be permissible; There’s something much bigger than me going on in this country… it’s been going on for 4, 5, 6 years, and it’s growing by leaps and bounds… and that is the freedom movement–people really are understanding what’s going on; If we do nothing, though, the status quo will drive us down… the bankruptcy of the country will lead to chaos; We can’t continue this wild spending overseas and the wild entitlement spending here–it won’t work… the endpoint will be a monetary financial event

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 1 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Receives Key Endorsement, Speaks to Supporters in Myrtle Beach, SC (1/15/2012)
Date: 1/15/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: The easiest place to cut–for all Americans–should be this wild, runaway spending overseas–that’s where we need to cut; If you do that, and change the military budget, you don’t give up one penny of national defense, because you can have more defense with less money if we quit this nation building and the policemen of the world–we don’t need to be doing that; That means we’d be bringing a lot of troops back home; The military gives me the most amount of money… twice as much as all the other candidates; Maybe they’re tired of those wars as well; We’re supposedly over there to defend our Constitution… but how do you go to war that’s not declared under the rules of the Constitution? How can these be constitutional wars?; Just think how simple this problem could be solved… don’t go to war unless the Congress declares it

“Cowardice asks the question – is it safe?
Expediency asks the question – is it politic?
Vanity asks the question – is it popular?
But conscience asks the question – is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Partial transcript: MLK, Jr.: “A man of conscience can never be a consensus leader. He doesn’t take a stand in order to search for consensus… he’s ultimately a molder of consensus, and I’ve always said that the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and moments of controversy.”; Ron Paul: ”Maybe we oughta consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy… don’t do to other nations what we don’t want to have them do to us. We endlessly bomb these countries, and then we wonder why they get upset with us? And yet it continues on and on. It’s warmongering… they’re building up for another war against Iran and people can’t wait to get in another war. This country doesn’t need another war… we need to quit the ones we’re in… we need to save the money, and bring our troops home.”

Dr. Future and Will Grigg discuss libertarianism and the Golden Rule…

[Part 5 of a 5-part series]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: Show 295 1-6-2012 Future Quake – Seventh Annual Future Quake “Predictions” Show
Date: 1/6/12
Hosts: Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Will Grigg
Notes: Libertarian thinking starts with the understanding that all human beings are problematic and troublesome when entrusted with power, and that no human being is virtuous enough to exercise power over another; So no human being has the right to commit aggressive violence against another–that’s the Golden Rule; The fundamental tenant of libertarian thought is the Golden Rule–we’re all equal before the law; Really the only law is the non-aggression principle… and on that will hang the Constitution and all laws worthy of our respect–they’re all commentaries on or applications of the non-aggression axiom (or the Golden Rule); Virtue cannot be obtained through compulsion; It’s possible to use coercion defensively in order to protect yourself against the vicious, and there arguably is a role for coercion in terms of punishing conspicuous acts of viciousness, but you can’t make somebody righteous through coercion; The way that statism works is that it cocoons us in myriad laws and then leaves us completely at the mercy of the grace of the supposedly divine entity called the state; Libertarianism starts from the proposition that the state–being composed of flawed human beings–cannot make us virtuous through coercion

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Dr. Future and Will Grigg discuss the religious right and militarism…

[Part 4 of a 5-part series]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: Show 295 1-6-2012 Future Quake – Seventh Annual Future Quake “Predictions” Show
Date: 1/6/12
Hosts: Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Will Grigg
Notes: The Values Voter Summit for the religious right–to get the Christian vote in the straw poll; Ron Paul was the only candidate of any of them that opened up their Bible, and talked from the Bible; He talked about the Beatitudes and the Golden Rule; That element of the conservative Christian demographic in America that calls itself the Christian right is completely wedded to militarism (as indissolubly wedded to militarism as was the positivist Christian church–the so-called positive Christian German church of the 1920′s–that later on added Mein Kampf to the cannon, and put Mein Kampf in a place of honor that had once been reserved for the family Bible); The Bonhoeffer biography “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy“, by Eric Metaxas

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William Grigg

Will Grigg from Pro Libertate blog discusses Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the American evangelical church, Ron Paul, and the Golden Rule…

[Part 3 of a 5-part series]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: Show 295 1-6-2012 Future Quake – Seventh Annual Future Quake “Predictions” Show
Date: 1/6/12
Hosts: Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Will Grigg
Notes: Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Bonhoeffer’s letter to a friend: “If you are aboard a train that’s heading the wrong direction, simply switching seats isn’t going to do you any good”; He pointed out that they were unmistakably and irrecoverably on the hot rails to hell, in terms of what the German church was doing; The same thing is happening with the American evangelical church… which is more defined by what they’re taught to hate, than by what we are commanded to do, which is to love; That’s the one thing that betokens our discipleship–the one thing that He said would designate Christians as different from the world is our capacity to love–not merely to love each other, but to love whoever God happens to put in our path; The thing about Ron Paul’s movement that makes it so inexplicable and dangerous to the establishment is that he has the courage to insist that the Golden Rule applies in all spheres of life, especially with respect to what the government does

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Dr. Future and William Grigg discuss the religious right’s criticism of Ron Paul, its identification with the military, and its repudiation of the Golden Rule…

[Part 1 of a 5-part series]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: Show 295 1-6-2012 Future Quake – Seventh Annual Future Quake “Predictions” Show
Date: 1/6/12
Hosts: Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Will Grigg
Notes: The religious right’s pro-war associations… staunchly anti-Paul; Some of Ron Paul’s most vicious criticism has come from the religious right; Values Voter Summit; The Dreyfus affair in France; Are we in danger of the same thing happening with the evangelical conservative forces here?; There seems to have been a full-blown identification between the military on the one hand and the body of Christ on the other, and there’s a complete repudiation of the idea of the Golden Rule as it applies to people who are not part of our tribe (tribe in this instance being defined as the nation state, or being defined as a particular element of the nation state); A study of attitudes both domestically and internationally with respect to the question of torture… of all the social cohorts who were polled, the one that tested highest in support of torture was American evangelical Christians

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William Grigg

Len Osanic from Black Op Radio talks to former governor Jesse Ventura…

[Part 9 of a 9-part series]

Show: Black Op Radio
Full Podcast: Show #555 Part 1 – Gov. Jesse Ventura
Date: 12/1/11
Host: Len Osanic
Guest: Jesse Ventura
Notes: Not one group came forward to support Ventura in his lawsuit over the 4th Amendment; Those x-ray machines are dangerous–that would have come out in his court case, had he been allowed to go to court; Chertoff–the guy that was put in charge of the TSA and all that–he now works for the x-ray company… he was responsible for putting these machines in all the airports, and now he’s got a cushy job with them; Sounds like Newt Gingrich… where he took 1.8 million dollars from Freddie Mac to be a consultant; Those two (Chertoff and Gingrich) are the posterboys for what we don’t want–people paid off by corporations to do their bidding; Out of the pale and uninteresting selection of people to vote for, the only one person that really stands out is Ron Paul; There’s a groundswell out there for Dr. Paul; Out of the whole field–including President Obama–Ron Paul is the only one that would get Jesse’s vote

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Len Osanic from Black Op Radio talks to former governor Jesse Ventura…

[Part 8 of a 9-part series]

Show: Black Op Radio
Full Podcast: Show #555 Part 1 – Gov. Jesse Ventura
Date: 12/1/11
Host: Len Osanic
Guest: Jesse Ventura
Notes: Today we have a very secret government that feels that we the people aren’t entitled to know what they do; Government is working for corporate America; General Smedley Butler and the United Fruit Company; Our military people are not defending our country, they’re defending the interests of the multi-national corporations who own our country; Our elected officials are owned by corporations, and that by definition is fascism–fascism is when corporations run governments; This is like pre-war Germany… some of these documents should frighten people to the point of saying “we’ve seen this before, and you know where it leads”; We’ve been sticking fluoride in the water, allegedly to help our teeth, since the 1950′s; Who were the first people that put fluoride in the water?… the Nazis; Fluoride is the major ingredient of Prozac, so everybody out there that’s drinking fluoridated water, you’re essentially drinking liquid Prozac; Prozac dumbs you down, makes you non-emotional, fogs your brain up… you’ve got people that have been drinking Prozac now for over 50 years with fluoride in the water

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Len Osanic from Black Op Radio talks to former governor Jesse Ventura…

[Part 7 of a 9-part series]

Show: Black Op Radio
Full Podcast: Show #555 Part 1 – Gov. Jesse Ventura
Date: 12/1/11
Host: Len Osanic
Guest: Jesse Ventura
Notes: Jesse Ventura’s court case… they won’t even allow him to go to court to see if his 4th Amendment rights are being violated; Administrative law brought in by Woodrow Wilson–he’s the one that brought us the Federal Reserve; They skirt the Constitution; When you go to an airport today, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights; Jesse sued the TSA; Why is it the government’s job to provide security for the airlines when they’re a private sector business?; The way it is now, you have to go out there and prove you’re innocent; Jesse won’t go anywhere where he’s treated like a criminal, and at today’s airports he is treated like a criminal

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Len Osanic from Black Op Radio talks to former governor Jesse Ventura…

[Part 5 of a 9-part series]

Show: Black Op Radio
Full Podcast: Show #555 Part 1 – Gov. Jesse Ventura
Date: 12/1/11
Host: Len Osanic
Guest: Jesse Ventura
Notes: Ventura’s book: “63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read“; These are all documents from your government, these are documents produced by your tax paying dollars, and these are programs and things that your government was involved in… and they can’t rightly deny it when it’s their documents that tell the truth on it; Mainstream media; 9/11; Building 7; Most people simply accept what mainstream television and news tell them… and all mainstream television and news is doing is mouthing the government’s story–it’s that simple; People that survived 9/11 tell a far different story than the official story; Whom are you to believe? Someone that lived through it? Or some bureaucrat in Washington who watched it on television the same way you and I did, and knows nothing more than what you and I know, and is mouthing a standard story?; The government lied to us about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Iraq’s ties to Al-Qaeda, the murder of Pat Tillman, the rescue of Jessica Lynch, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and on and on and on…

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Jesse Ventura

Len Osanic from Black Op Radio talks to former governor Jesse Ventura…

[Part 4 of a 9-part series]

Show: Black Op Radio
Full Podcast: Show #521 Part 1 – Gov. Jesse Ventura
Date: 4/7/11
Host: Len Osanic
Guest: Jesse Ventura
Notes: Documents about JFK’s true plans for withdrawing from Vietnam; His plans were very much in line with Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty; Kennedy had told many people that after he was reelected we would be out of Vietnam completely; Obviously there were many people that were angry because he wouldn’t invade Cuba, and now all of a sudden he wasn’t going to invade Vietnam either; They got a president in then that would go to war, and did go to war, all based on false stuff… sounds a lot like Iraq; The first meeting Johnson had as president with the Kennedy cabinet was the Vietnam war… that speaks volumes of the priorities that were in place; You’d think the first meeting would have been over the killing of the president… but they already knew who they had set up for that one–they didn’t need to investigate anymore

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Len Osanic from Black Op Radio talks to former governor Jesse Ventura…

[Part 3 of a 9-part series]

Show: Black Op Radio
Full Podcast: Show #521 Part 1 – Gov. Jesse Ventura
Date: 4/7/11
Host: Len Osanic
Guest: Jesse Ventura
Notes: Operation Northwoods; The Gulf of Tonkin incident was the incident that got us into the Vietnam War; Our government and our media told us that the North Vietnamese had fired at two of our ships; Now it turns out that that wasn’t true–it never happened; That’s what put ground troops into Vietnam, where ultimately 58,000 of Ventura’s generation was killed–and probably a million Vietnamese or more killed–all over an event that never happened; 9/11; Operation Northwoods was put forward to President Kennedy by the Joint Chiefs, and their suggestion in a nutshell was that the CIA and our military were gonna attack certain cities, and probably shoot down a plane, and they were gonna blame it all on the Cubans, so that it would get the country in an uproar to support an invasion of Cuba; If that was on the table in 1961, do you think that it wasn’t on the table in 2001?; Kennedy wouldn’t do it, but maybe George Bush decided he would…

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Jesse Ventura

Len Osanic from Black Op Radio talks to former governor Jesse Ventura…

[Part 1 of a 9-part series]

Show: Black Op Radio
Full Podcast: Show #521 Part 1 – Gov. Jesse Ventura
Date: 4/7/11
Host: Len Osanic
Guest: Jesse Ventura
Notes: Ventura’s book: “63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read“; They could have probably put 163 documents in the book if they wanted to, but they chose 63 because that’s the year that President Kennedy was murdered, and for the most part that’s when the real deception of America truly–in our modern era–took place; Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone; E. Howard Hunt’s deathbed confession; One of the first documents they came across was one of the scariest… and that was the fact that in the early 50′s we went down to Guatemala and basically infected 300-400 people with syphilis, just to test out to see if penicillin worked; Many of these documents when you read them you will think that they were done by Nazis, and yet you’re gonna find out as you read them that, no, it was the United States of America–our government–that was behaving in this fashion–it was our government that murdered people, and did all sorts of stuff; The CIA’s secret assassination manual; Assassination is just a fancy word for 1st degree murder; 1st degree murder is against the law in every country in the world; Who decides when someone’s going to be murdered? And what gives us the right to do it?

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