Waking Jonah

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 9 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul at South Carolina Primary Concession Speech (1/21/2012)
Date: 1/21/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: How do we get away with paying for these bills, and endless spending occurs and government keeps growing?… it cannot occur if you have a sound monetary system; That is why I have emphasized the importance of having a sound dollar and why we need to reign in the Federal Reserve system; If we obeyed the law, we would have sound money… the Constitution still says that only gold and silver should be legal tender; You can understand why government grows… because politicians don’t have to be responsible; That’s why they invented in 1913 this financial system based on fiat money and printing money, because you can delay the pain and penalty; I used to say so often over the years that, “you know, we run up these debts… and we pass them on to the next generation… we shouldn’t do it…”, but you know what’s different today… we are the next generation and we’re suffering the consequences; If you just print money, the value of the money goes down, and the people’s standards go down; Already the people on fixed incomes… their standard of living is going down; The middle class is shrinking; Unemployment, if you look at those honestly, is closer to 20%, and the people are very, very concerned about this; The answers come with a very uncomplicated solution… we got into this mess by too many people in Washington either didn’t care or didn’t understand the Constitution… we need to restore the Constitution and we must restore liberty

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 8 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul at South Carolina Primary Concession Speech (1/21/2012)
Date: 1/21/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: There’s no doubt in my mind the momentum has been continuing, and will continue; There’s been now three elections and a total of 37 delegates have been chosen so far–less than 2%–like 1.5%; The message of liberty is being received by more people every single day; That is how you get peace and prosperity… by understanding and defending and promoting the cause of liberty; We will be going to the caucus states and we will be promoting the whole idea of getting more delegates… because that’s the name of the game, and we will pursue it; It looks like tonight we will get 4-5 times more votes than we did 4 years ago; There’s every reason to be encouraged… there’s every reason that we understand so clearly that the cause is so necessary; The evidence has become clear that the efforts by government is failing, and we can’t depend on the government to take care of us from cradle to grave; We can’t depend on the government on its efforts to promote and believe that we can police the world and go into nation building… cause we’re all gone broke

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 7 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Speaks to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (1/20/2012)
Date: 1/20/12

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Dr. Ron Paul

Partial transcript: Generally speaking my views are different in reality than the other candidates… although the rhetoric might not be extremely different, in reality it is different… because so often we have candidates that will talk about some changes but basically still support the status quo; The status quo today is too much ignoring the Constitution; We’ve gotten into this trouble because we’ve avoided following the Constitution… it shouldn’t be difficult to get out of trouble by just having only people in Washington who obey the Constitution–that’s what I think we oughta do; It also reflects an educational system that over many many decades have taught generations of Americans that the Constitution is not to be a rigid document; Since we got careless with this, the document doesn’t mean a whole lot; The Founders of this country… put it in there that only gold and silver could be legal tender, you couldn’t have a central bank, and you couldn’t print money… but look at where we are… and we didn’t change the Constitution; There is no authority for the federal government to be running education… therefore we don’t need the Department of Education; When you [the executive branch] write a regulation, you’re writing a law… and that’s the executive branch doing what only the legislative branch is supposed to be doing… we need to challenge this someday

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 6 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Charleston GOP Debate Highlights (1/19/2012)
Date: 1/19/12

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Partial transcript: I can remember the very early years studying obstetrics–and it was before the age of abortion–and I was told taking care of a woman that’s pregnant, you have two patients… and I think that solves a lot of the problem by when life begins and all; In the 1960′s when the culture was changing… abortion became prevalent even though it was illegal; So the morality of the country changed, but then the law followed up; When the morality changes, it will reflect on the laws; Law will not correct the basic problem, and that’s the morality of the people; You need the government out of that business [medicine] or you will always argue over who’s paying what bills; I follow what my understanding is of the Constitution, and it does allow for the states to deal with difficult problems… as a matter of fact, it allows the states to deal with almost all the problems, if you look at it; These powers aren’t given to the Congress… I see abortion as a violent act… all other violence is handled by the states–murder, burglary, violence… that’s a state issue; Don’t try to say that I’m less pro-life because I want to be particular about the way we do it and allow the states the prerogative; This is the solution… if we would allow the states to write their laws, take away the jurisdiction by a majority vote in the Congress, you repeal Roe v. Wade overnight, instead of waiting year after year to change the court system

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 5 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Speaks to Students at the College of Charleston (1/19/2012)
Date: 1/19/12

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Partial transcript: Yesterday that vote on raising the national debt limit by 1.2 was a real farce in many ways, because the debt is going to be increased; The debt is automatically going up $1.2 trillion… nobody seems to care… if they did, they would take my advice and cut the budget by $1 trillion dollars in one year… is what we need; The wealth in this country is basically debt… we’re running the world on debt; The dollar will be rejected, and it has been rejected in many ways already; I got involved in politics in 1971 when the last link to gold was undermined and removed… believing then that would mean the politicians could spend money endlessly and have no responsibility… and that’s exactly what has happened; If you take a look at the value of your dollar since 1971, it went down 85%; If someone put their money away 40 years ago and now they’re going to retire… the money they put away has been gradually eroded… the dollars they put away in 1971 would be worth 15 cents; This is criminal… this is immoral… it’s bad economics; This is why we have to look to the Constitution, realizing the Constitution still says only gold and silver can be used as legal tender; There’s no authority in the Constitution to print money, and there’s no authority for the Federal Reserve system at all

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 4 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Hosts Town Hall Meeting in Spartanburg, SC (1/17/2012)
Date: 1/17/12

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Partial transcript: A strong national defense isn’t provided when we become the policemen of the world… where we get involved in the internal affairs of other nations, or whether we go in and change government… have regime changes… that undermines our national defense; We get involved in wars that aren’t declared… we don’t know why we’re there… we don’t know when they’re over; What they like to do is describe what I’m talking about as isolationism; Isolationism is more of people who want trade barriers, walls around us, you can’t go and come, and put sanctions on other countries; The same individuals that complain about my foreign policy of being non-intervention… they’re the ones who are the very first to put on sanctions; Sanctions are an act of war… can you imagine if a country put sanctions on us, and wouldn’t allow oil to come in?… That would be an act of war; This is why I bring up the subject of the Golden Rule… if we don’t want people to ban oil imports to our country, why should we do that to another country? I don’t know why that is such a negative term for people to boo that; If you look at the 6 or 7 large religions of the history of the world, in one way or another they recognize this whole idea that you treat people the way you want to be treated

Ron Paul speaking in my home state of South Carolina…

[Part 3 of a 9-part series]

Podcast: Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
Full Episode: Ron Paul Myrtle Beach GOP Debate Highlights (1/16/2012)
Date: 1/16/12

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Partial transcript: I want to cut money–overseas money–that’s what I want to do; I want to cut military money, I don’t want to cut defense money; I want to bring the troops home… I’d probably have more bases here at home; We were closing them down in the 1990′s and building them overseas–that’s how we got into trouble; We would save a lot more money and have a stronger national defense, and that’s what we should do; But to say that we would be weaker is absolutely wrong; The military is behind me more than the others–I get twice as much money from the active military duties than all the other candidates put together… so they’re saying that I’m on the right track–they’re sick and tired of those wars… they’re sick and tired of the nation building and the policing activity; There’s a difference between military spending and defense spending; Just cause you spend a billion dollars on an embassy in Baghdad bigger than the Vatican–you consider that defense spending… I consider that waste; I’d cut some of this military spending… like Eisenhower advised us… “watch out for the military industrial complex”; Defend this country–we have to have a strong national defense, but we don’t get strength by diluting ourselves in 900 bases–130 countries–that is where the problem is; There is a difference between just military spending and defense spending; We’re supposed to be conservatives–spend less money

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 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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Jesse Ventura