Speaker 1: Some want to play you something real quick. Listen to this.
Speaker 1: Most of our history we didn't didn't have those institutions.
Speaker 1: The FBI came in during the First World War, and
Speaker 1: interestingly enough, one thing that Woodrow Wilson did he used
Speaker 1: the FBI to spy on American citizens and actually arrests
Speaker 1: them if they disagreed with his foreign policy about going
Speaker 1: to war in Europe. And isn't interesting how recent they
Speaker 1: used it. In the Vietnam era, Democrats used their Republicans
Speaker 1: used the FBI to spy on a hundred different groups
Speaker 1: in this country, including the churches who disagree with the
Speaker 1: policy in Central America. Almost looks like the FBI was
Speaker 1: designed to spy on Americans who might be disagreeing with policy,
Speaker 1: especially the foreign policy. It's almost as if the FBI
Speaker 1: was designed to spy on its own citizens. That's from
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight. That is a former Congressman Ron Paul
Speaker 1: predicting that in warning us in nine. So what is
Speaker 1: Ron Paul think about the FBI raid on Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: What does he think about the state of affairs today
Speaker 1: in the country, where is this cell heading? What does
Speaker 1: he think about the loss of liberty during COVID, can
Speaker 1: we get it back? So many questions for Congressman Ron Paul,
Speaker 1: and we're going to ask him because he's my guest
Speaker 1: on this episode of the Truth with Lisa Booth. That's right,
Speaker 1: We've got Ron Paul who has been warning us about
Speaker 1: the danger as a big government, warning us about things
Speaker 1: like the Patriot Act, warning us about the FBI, warning
Speaker 1: us about the Federal Reserve, warning us about centralized power.
Speaker 1: So we're going to get his take on everything that's
Speaker 1: going on in the country right now, and they're sure
Speaker 1: as a lot. It's also the host of the Ron
Speaker 1: Paul Liberty Report. A former member of Congress, he ran
Speaker 1: for president as the Libertarian Party Dominie in nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: also for the Republican Party and two thousand eight, two
Speaker 1: thousand twelve. He's been right about so many things. I
Speaker 1: wish my ears were more open before. I wish I
Speaker 1: had listened more before about some of his warnings. But
Speaker 1: we're going to get his take now, so stay tuned,
Speaker 1: Congressman Ron Paul. So, Congressman, I just wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for fighting for liberty for so long. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of us wish that we had listened to
Speaker 1: a lot of what you had to say earlier. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've really just seen this escalation and the loss of liberty,
Speaker 1: and you've been so right for so long. So thank you,
Speaker 1: very good. Good to be with you, Lisa. I wanted
Speaker 1: to play this clip. This is you in talking about
Speaker 1: the FBI. Let's play it and then we'll get you
Speaker 1: on the other side. Most of our history we didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't have those institutions. The FBI came in during
Speaker 1: the First World War, and interestingly enough, one thing that
Speaker 1: Woodrow Wilson did he used the FBI to spy on
Speaker 1: American citizens and actually arrest him if he disagreed with
Speaker 1: his foreign policy about going to war in Europe. Isn't
Speaker 1: interesting how recent they used it In the Vietnam era,
Speaker 1: Democrats used the Republicans used the FBI to spy on
Speaker 1: a hundred different groups in this country, including the churches
Speaker 1: who disagree with the policy in Central America. Almost looks
Speaker 1: like the FBI was designed to spy on Americans who
Speaker 1: might be disagreeing with policy, especially the foreign policy. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people listen to that clip and
Speaker 1: they see where we are now, and they're saying you
Speaker 1: know you were right about the FBI. What do you
Speaker 1: think about today's FBI. Well, it's no better, for sure,
Speaker 1: it's probably worse, but it was It was even pretty
Speaker 1: bad then. But it's inception was bad. That's where the
Speaker 1: real problem started because it was a spying agency and
Speaker 1: then they put a guy like Jay or Hoover you know,
Speaker 1: in charge of it, and he was an evil person
Speaker 1: that used it as a political way. So it start
Speaker 1: off very badly and there was nobody there to to
Speaker 1: monitor it, and uh for years it went on and
Speaker 1: he was like Jaker Hoover was like a saint, and
Speaker 1: he was theorsed by Republicans and Democrats. And even today,
Speaker 1: you know, it's very hard for conservative Republicans and to
Speaker 1: challenge it because most conservatives I will agree that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we have to have a strong police. So
Speaker 1: they identified that with the strong police. But then the
Speaker 1: thing gets out of control and we end up with, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the mess that we have today with the
Speaker 1: police forces that they that they they're supposed to protect people,
Speaker 1: then they end up defending the police. So it's a
Speaker 1: real mess. So that the inception was wrong, and it's
Speaker 1: continued to get worse. There's been no monitoring of it.
Speaker 1: There have been a few people over the years that
Speaker 1: have spoken out, but you know, the main street media
Speaker 1: and the universities and the professors and most of the
Speaker 1: politicians didn't look one step beyond what seemed to be well,
Speaker 1: we got to you know, control crime. You know, people say, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's one thing government has to do. But
Speaker 1: that's why, that's why it's so risky giving power to government.
Speaker 1: Even even if it sounds good, even if it's a
Speaker 1: little bit, uh, it doesn't mean it's going to stay
Speaker 1: a little bit. Then people should think anytime you start
Speaker 1: something like an FBI or c i A or anything
Speaker 1: like that, they got to remember nineteen thirteen, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have an income tax, but it's only going to be
Speaker 1: a percent on the rich. And then look at the
Speaker 1: monstrosity we have now. We have not only the income tax,
Speaker 1: but we have the inflation tax and everything and everything
Speaker 1: to feed in the big government. So unfortunately, the FBI
Speaker 1: is not part of a true republic. And uh, I
Speaker 1: don't think you'll find something very specific in the Constitution
Speaker 1: authorizing you know, the establishment of the FBI, and that
Speaker 1: in itself should have been on the reason it was
Speaker 1: never started. Well, and I think a lot of for
Speaker 1: you know, concerns for a lot of conservatives is just
Speaker 1: seeing that it's very political in nature. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we all witnessed this unprecedented raid on President Trump's home
Speaker 1: and Mara Lago. Well, why do you think the FBI
Speaker 1: and the d o J decided to uh to raid
Speaker 1: mar law though I think they really fear Trump, I
Speaker 1: mean as uh miscellaneous his thoughts are. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not a libertarian that had a couple of principles. He
Speaker 1: does have conservative instrcts and I think he's a very
Speaker 1: honest person, but he does challenge status quote you know,
Speaker 1: and I think the thing that really got people liking
Speaker 1: him is that people got sick and tired of political
Speaker 1: correctness where where you and then it's gotten worse since
Speaker 1: because if you don't say things and do things and
Speaker 1: participate in a political historic way, get into trouble and
Speaker 1: you're the prayer, you become the criminal and you can
Speaker 1: get canceled and punished for this. So this is uh,
Speaker 1: this has been been going on as it's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot worse. So uh right now, I think
Speaker 1: what happened was Uh, nobody expected Trump to win. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was absolutely independent challenge the status quo. I think
Speaker 1: it started off at out of pure jealousy. How could
Speaker 1: a guy like this win? And Uh? Then because he
Speaker 1: was independent minded. Uh and obviously he wasn't an absolutist
Speaker 1: on the constitution or as a libertarian. But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. Uh, he was doing some things and he
Speaker 1: was popular and the people liked them so uh and
Speaker 1: the the the enemy uh disliked them. But it turned
Speaker 1: into hate. Boy, they became obsessed with it. They would
Speaker 1: take any anybody anything. So just think of how the
Speaker 1: ridiculous this last last election was anything to destroy the
Speaker 1: imate of Donald Trump and uh and then they would
Speaker 1: take take anybody to run. So so they were able
Speaker 1: to pick somebody who would stay in the seller and
Speaker 1: get all their organized forces, you know in the media
Speaker 1: and social media where they could uh you know, and
Speaker 1: plus lying and cheating in the elections, they were able
Speaker 1: to achieve it. And uh and and when but I
Speaker 1: think it's uh, it's it's part of this part was
Speaker 1: the jealousy turned into hatred and that's what's driving And
Speaker 1: then the divi divisive noes is just horrendous because uh,
Speaker 1: I don't think uh anybody really believes that there's a
Speaker 1: justice system. The American justice system is is pretty remote.
Speaker 1: And to have the SBI with this authority in the
Speaker 1: c I A. Those those are anything things themselves. I
Speaker 1: see that with that much power and that much money
Speaker 1: and that much secrecy on their part and still you know,
Speaker 1: the uh ability of them to continue to do this
Speaker 1: and and do what they've done to Trump. I said
Speaker 1: that this is like there's been a cod coup you know, existed.
Speaker 1: I called it an invisible coup there didn't go in there,
Speaker 1: and then they turned it around and pretend O'donald Trump
Speaker 1: was really committing a crooked coup with all those guns
Speaker 1: and tanks that he was trying to take over the
Speaker 1: capital with. I mean, it becomes ridiculous. But the coup
Speaker 1: has been that of political power, the media and also
Speaker 1: the law enforcement agencies. That's bad news for us, and
Speaker 1: that's why, uh, you know, a change this yere is
Speaker 1: necessary if if the people who don't like what's going on,
Speaker 1: if they can't throw these people out of office. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you we have a big um. But there's
Speaker 1: some reasons to be optimistic. I think the parents right now,
Speaker 1: that's what I like, the parents waking up over COVID,
Speaker 1: that kind of that's the kind of stuff we need
Speaker 1: people waking up and saying, hey, where have we been,
Speaker 1: you know, and looking what's happening to our cities. So
Speaker 1: I reserve a bit of hope that this year will
Speaker 1: things will get to improve. I mean, I know I've
Speaker 1: woken up. You know, COVID really opened my eyes. And
Speaker 1: just seeing the government go in and closing you know,
Speaker 1: restaurants and and these businesses that people have worked so
Speaker 1: hard to create and just crushing them while letting you know,
Speaker 1: Walmart and you know, like letting all the big continue,
Speaker 1: but then you know, shutting down you know, working Americans
Speaker 1: and you know, and then just seeing the forced vaccinations
Speaker 1: and and all of it really just I know, it
Speaker 1: really woke me up and realizing that liberty is free
Speaker 1: fleeting in America and it's something that we have to
Speaker 1: fight for constantly, which is something you've known, but a
Speaker 1: lot of us have been waking up. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: the indoctrination is the real menace for us, and that's
Speaker 1: been going on. Yeah, we know what's going on now
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, parents are waking up and
Speaker 1: they're seeing what the kids are being taught and what's
Speaker 1: in the libraries and all this. But the indoctor nation
Speaker 1: has been going on for a long time. I think
Speaker 1: it all started in the progressive era. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's when our foreign policy change. That's why our
Speaker 1: monetary apologies changed, you know, way back uh in the
Speaker 1: teens and nineteen thirteen. Obviously we had major changes. But
Speaker 1: I think the real menace is the uh are there
Speaker 1: are the universities where they have the professors who are
Speaker 1: you know, dignified, and they're intelligent people, and they preached
Speaker 1: this uh uh, this scheme that's going on, so uh
Speaker 1: they got they got most of the people in the position.
Speaker 1: If you didn't agree with what they're saying, then you're unpatriotic.
Speaker 1: And then if you disagree with the professor, that means
Speaker 1: you're not scientific. If you didn't agree with these crazy
Speaker 1: people who locked us out, oh you're on your non scientific.
Speaker 1: But even today, you know, all of a sudden is
Speaker 1: becoming a parent that vaucies those vaucies on the defense. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that's that's good, but it is a tedious job
Speaker 1: and and the big thing, the big problem we have
Speaker 1: with it's monetary policy, economic policy, or all the social regulations. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's not going You can't wave a wand and it
Speaker 1: go away and everybody has an understanding. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: gonna have to be a lot of uh you know,
Speaker 1: serious relearning. But uh, and you can't depend on the
Speaker 1: government schools. They're they're in business that cling to it.
Speaker 1: You know, You're pharmaceuticals are there to maintain their financial power,
Speaker 1: the the military industrial complex their power through weaponry. Uh.
Speaker 1: To restore some common sense, I think it has to
Speaker 1: come from the parents, you know. I just I mean,
Speaker 1: everything is important. And when you get a couple of
Speaker 1: people in Congress speaking the truth, yes, as a big step.
Speaker 1: But we're not going to all of a sudden get uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a majority people in the US Congress. Uh,
Speaker 1: we can get a majority that will be a lot
Speaker 1: better off and what we have and and maybe see
Speaker 1: a shift. But to really change this, this whole idea
Speaker 1: about interventionism and the uh, the police state and the
Speaker 1: FBI and the CIA, people aren't ready to say let's
Speaker 1: just get rid of Are they really willing? I found
Speaker 1: out on the campaign that. Uh, you're not not a
Speaker 1: whole lot of people, but more than most people realize.
Speaker 1: Uh don't want us to bring our troops home. Uh.
Speaker 1: They sort of like this, and they like this and
Speaker 1: macho business and people like to be strong. Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: I think you should be strong in the defensive liberty
Speaker 1: US where we should design our our strength to go
Speaker 1: is to to protect. Didn't get people to understand, but
Speaker 1: to me, it's an educational thing. It's a moral problem
Speaker 1: and the ultimate responsibility falls on our parents. Quick commercial
Speaker 1: break back with Congressman Ron Paul on the other side.
Speaker 1: Do you think Americans care about liberty? I do, want
Speaker 1: it affects them. I don't think they understand the real
Speaker 1: notion of it. I think the Code taught them a
Speaker 1: little bit about it. Uh, but sometimes they it's a distortion.
Speaker 1: They know that. Uh. If you tell the world that
Speaker 1: means you can do what you want with your life. Oh,
Speaker 1: they like that. But then when you tell them when
Speaker 1: you have your responsibility, you know, to take care of yourself,
Speaker 1: that means you can't depend on the government for anything.
Speaker 1: So they all of a sudden back off from this.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they like the idea. I think it's very
Speaker 1: natural interestinct to uh, to be independent minded. I think
Speaker 1: children are like that. They like to be independent, but
Speaker 1: somebody has to guide them and how they use this independence.
Speaker 1: But uh, yes, and I think we're the positives are
Speaker 1: are on the uh you know, the few people that
Speaker 1: are in commerce that are good uh when they speak
Speaker 1: out that's and the importance is their educational effort. And
Speaker 1: also uh, you know, I have spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time promoting the Piecea's Institute because that's an economic forum.
Speaker 1: And when Leonard Reid, when he was in charge of
Speaker 1: the Foundation for Economic Education, uh, he did that. So
Speaker 1: I think that education and we're way ahead of it.
Speaker 1: When I first went to commerce in nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 1: some of the things are taught. I was talking about
Speaker 1: nobody ever, what are you doing that for? Well? Whyre
Speaker 1: you worried about the Federal Reserve? I think that has changed.
Speaker 1: You know, there's some people now you know, on Wall
Speaker 1: Street or trying to figure out what's the Federal Reserve
Speaker 1: doing so. But and some of this stuff you don't
Speaker 1: have to wait for a lot or to uh uh
Speaker 1: you know, change it and get rid of the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 1: Some of this stuff is gonna self destruct, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's why, in a way, the main principle we
Speaker 1: have to have is a freedom of choice. People can
Speaker 1: opt out. Education is one thing like that. And that's
Speaker 1: why I have a homeschooling program is that, uh, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people are are going to private
Speaker 1: and homeschooling. Unfortunately a lot of people can't afford it.
Speaker 1: But how can they afford uh to send people to
Speaker 1: government schools and say it's for free when it's not
Speaker 1: for free. They spend way too much money, and the
Speaker 1: more money they spend, the worst of public education gets.
Speaker 1: But uh, no, there are other options. And uh there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people who have learned about Austrian economics
Speaker 1: and about the Federal Reserve a lot more than they were. Uh.
Speaker 1: When I first went to commerce at seventy thought not
Speaker 1: that I was responsible, but I tapped into the people who, uh,
Speaker 1: who were doing it systematically and somebody like some group
Speaker 1: of like a Mesa's Institute. That's what they're designed for
Speaker 1: is to train teachers. And uh. And that's why I
Speaker 1: come down really on a you know, a more optimistic side.
Speaker 1: But I think you have to talk about what's happening
Speaker 1: and tell people how it happened and that there is
Speaker 1: an answer. Uh. Sometimes if you just tell them, well,
Speaker 1: you know inevitable there's gonna be a nuclear war next week,
Speaker 1: and you know there's gonna be depression, and you know
Speaker 1: it's bad, but there's an answer to and it's not complicated,
Speaker 1: doesn't cost a lot of money. Uh, it costs less money.
Speaker 1: Just let the people on. Uh why would it be
Speaker 1: such a job that they say, well, there'll be chaos.
Speaker 1: Why would there be chaos if you didn't have to
Speaker 1: pay any income tax and you've got to keep what
Speaker 1: you earned, and you wouldn't have the federal government how
Speaker 1: do you at all? And you wouldn't have the FBI
Speaker 1: concerned because if they can do what they did the term,
Speaker 1: they can do it to all of us. And they
Speaker 1: have been And what do we hear this last week
Speaker 1: when was the eighty seven thousand I R S agents.
Speaker 1: You know that's that's horrible and but but but hopefully
Speaker 1: more people woke up on realizing that the that the
Speaker 1: police force, not on the FBI, that the police force
Speaker 1: and the FBI U is the enemy of liberty here
Speaker 1: at home. Well, I mean the Department of Justice created
Speaker 1: a new domestic Terror unit after January six to to
Speaker 1: go after the individuals involved with that, and then you know,
Speaker 1: you can kind of see the trajectory of where that's
Speaker 1: going to continue. You know, it seems to all be
Speaker 1: going in the direction of people who don't share, uh,
Speaker 1: the same ideology as the Biden administration. So I I
Speaker 1: think a lot of Americans are concerned about that and
Speaker 1: what that means for them. Uh that's true, but it isn't.
Speaker 1: You know, people say say things that are half true.
Speaker 1: Biden is responsible, you know for the mess we're in
Speaker 1: and all the inflation. Uh he's made it much worse,
Speaker 1: you know, what he's done to energy and all that contributed.
Speaker 1: But no, it's a bipartisan answer that's ingrained in the
Speaker 1: system because, uh, Democrats and Republicans do all the budgets,
Speaker 1: and Republicans, you know, basically aren't good fiscal conservatives. There's some,
Speaker 1: if you want to find a few, there are in
Speaker 1: the Republican Party, but no, the spending just continues. So
Speaker 1: it's this philosophy of government, the government should be involved.
Speaker 1: I was in Washington, I think he was a seventy
Speaker 1: eight when they voted for the Department of Education, and
Speaker 1: of course tried to make some of those points, but
Speaker 1: uh no, I mean, if we're serious, the Republicans, the Libertarians,
Speaker 1: the Conservatives, and some some Democrats should wake up and
Speaker 1: say this this is we've had it. You know, this
Speaker 1: doesn't work. We needed to get a federal government out
Speaker 1: of education, but that doesn't really exist. That's how I
Speaker 1: had one uh uh congressman come up and he was
Speaker 1: sort of leaning in our directions, but he'd vote for
Speaker 1: an amendment to cut something in a bill, and then
Speaker 1: I would want to abolish the system. And uh, I
Speaker 1: asked him, how come you voted to cut a little
Speaker 1: bit but not a lot. He's run. You always just
Speaker 1: go too far. But I say, I give him an
Speaker 1: inch and they'll take a mile. And that's the that's
Speaker 1: the harder one thing to say is sell because they think, well,
Speaker 1: you don't care about the poor people. Well, maybe our
Speaker 1: libertarian cares more about the poor people because we know
Speaker 1: how how productivity, you know, produces a lot of wealth.
Speaker 1: And if you're worried about the poor people, why don't
Speaker 1: we analyze why people are living in tents in major cities?
Speaker 1: And uh that's what that's the message that that we
Speaker 1: don't do a good job. And I don't think libertarians
Speaker 1: and conservatives have done a real good job because our
Speaker 1: message is so powerful, it's not complicated, it doesn't cost money,
Speaker 1: it costs less money, but we don't do a good
Speaker 1: job and selling it to the people. But when they
Speaker 1: I found out what I campaigned across the country, once
Speaker 1: it was discovered, and the young people discovered it more
Speaker 1: easily than the older people. Once it's discovered, Once it's discovered,
Speaker 1: it's really exciting, you know. And that's why I I
Speaker 1: did talk to college kids in spite of the fact
Speaker 1: the college kids are so dependent and said, all the
Speaker 1: college kids a bunch of bumbs, you know, they owe
Speaker 1: all this money. But but the college kids didn't vote
Speaker 1: those student loan programs, and it was it was the
Speaker 1: politicians that did that, and the school teachers and and
Speaker 1: the people who wanted to build school buildings and all this.
Speaker 1: So but now the message and the message is there,
Speaker 1: and the shift is there. Still, it would be uh
Speaker 1: naive to say, oh boy, well we're shifted. We're gonna
Speaker 1: keep doing this. No, it's gonna be a real struggle,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be ups and down. But I claim
Speaker 1: that the message of liberty is not complicated, and if
Speaker 1: the people hear it, they will respond favorably. And a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't seem to see the correlation between
Speaker 1: you know, the more federal student loans you have, and
Speaker 1: the more loosely those are given, the more colleges or oh,
Speaker 1: we'll just raise the prices, you know, and then and
Speaker 1: then it goes down, you know, and then it goes
Speaker 1: down this vicious road of people, you know, taking out
Speaker 1: way too much debt. Uh, you know, because colleges keep
Speaker 1: raising the prices. Yeah. Well, you know the one thing
Speaker 1: that always bugs me because inflation, of course comes from
Speaker 1: the pressures the deficits, but the inflation comes from the
Speaker 1: Federal Reserve and the business of printing money and given
Speaker 1: my money out. But if you go in, if you
Speaker 1: talk to people at the grocery store, especially the ones
Speaker 1: whose inflation rate might be uh, you know, cost of
Speaker 1: living going up at because but they exclude uh energy
Speaker 1: and uh they exclude energy, energy and food. Oh, you
Speaker 1: are inflation rate in and so bad. But some people
Speaker 1: that's always spend their money on. So but then if
Speaker 1: you ask him, what do you think should be done
Speaker 1: about this, and they said, we need more money, Send
Speaker 1: us more money. And that's exactly what we've done on
Speaker 1: and it was bipartisans trillions of dollars, six trillion dollars
Speaker 1: since COVID started, and it was a bipartisan we sent
Speaker 1: more money. So it was obvious. It wasn't like predicting anything.
Speaker 1: It was like saying, and that's it. You printed the
Speaker 1: money and you sent it. All you have to do
Speaker 1: is pick up the pieces and we know exactly what
Speaker 1: we be the consequence. But so I want people to
Speaker 1: understand how it comes. But if they brush it off
Speaker 1: as a narrow political event and say, well, uh, they
Speaker 1: spent too much money on food stands, where well maybe
Speaker 1: they spent too much money on the military. You know. Uh,
Speaker 1: the people have to know exactly why that's happening. And uh,
Speaker 1: but when you get to talk to them right now,
Speaker 1: there were some statistics that showed that, uh, the support
Speaker 1: for um Ukraine, after all those trillions and billions of
Speaker 1: dollars we sent, Uh, the support is backing off. And
Speaker 1: and that's that's good, But there's so much suffering going on.
Speaker 1: But right now there's there's if there wasn't a majority
Speaker 1: of people saying, send me more money, there would be
Speaker 1: no deficits. But they want they want more money. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants more money, and yet more money. Too much money
Speaker 1: was what diluted the value of the money and it
Speaker 1: caused the crash, It caused the inflation, and this, uh,
Speaker 1: this recession that doesn't exist. They said, well, no, we
Speaker 1: don't have a recession. That's that's something else. Maybe later,
Speaker 1: h know, when when they finally admitted it will be
Speaker 1: a depression and they they will then have to deal
Speaker 1: with it eventually. But they need to have a better
Speaker 1: understanding of what true freedom is all about, why the
Speaker 1: individual is a much better source of solving these problems,
Speaker 1: and that we don't need an empire around the world.
Speaker 1: We don't need us a reserve, We certainly don't need
Speaker 1: an FBI spying on us, and we don't need a
Speaker 1: c I A participating in the coups around the world.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a coup in two thou fourteen
Speaker 1: in Ukraine that got us involved over there, and we're
Speaker 1: still there. Of course, quick break back with Ron Paul.
Speaker 1: Why do you think Congress is so intent on sending
Speaker 1: so much money to Ukraine? Well, the whether it's part
Speaker 1: of the empire. You know, it's a strategically important place
Speaker 1: if a battle ground between NATO, which is the West
Speaker 1: which shouldn't exist UH and the Russians. And so the
Speaker 1: Russians aren't the UH, they are not communists, they're they're
Speaker 1: not part of They're not like Stalin. And yet UH.
Speaker 1: The contest is is we've painted them much worse than
Speaker 1: they really are. So people are saying, well, we have
Speaker 1: to do we have to stop the Russians. Look at
Speaker 1: what they've done to Ukraine. Well, what we did was
Speaker 1: we threw out an elected leader out of Ukraine UH
Speaker 1: and installed the people that were in there. That has
Speaker 1: precipitated so much of this. So it's it's part of
Speaker 1: the empire, and it's and the people who've been looked
Speaker 1: to who financially benefits it's the military industrial complex that
Speaker 1: the biggest lobbyist group in Washington, and that if you
Speaker 1: don't support the military industrial complex, UH, very often that
Speaker 1: that group, that individual get targeted by them because they
Speaker 1: are so powerful. You know, one big problem I think
Speaker 1: we face is UH corporations have you know, essentially serving
Speaker 1: as an extension of the Biden administration. I mean we
Speaker 1: saw this recently. It was reported to the Biden administration
Speaker 1: pushed Twitter to suspend Alex Berenson, who had been, you know,
Speaker 1: going against the Biden administration's narrative on COVID. You know,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts and sort of you know, this
Speaker 1: unholy alliance between corporate America and the left right now,
Speaker 1: Well that is the Yeah, that is it is. It's corporatism,
Speaker 1: and it's been around for a long time and it
Speaker 1: inevitably always leads to fascism, not not the communism, uh
Speaker 1: of what Russia had where they own everything and control
Speaker 1: every single thing, and uh so, so the fascists are
Speaker 1: people where they sort of tolerate business people. But right
Speaker 1: now we have the corporations are partners in government. That's
Speaker 1: why the social media is just the norm of the government,
Speaker 1: and they're the one there. They were the enforcers of
Speaker 1: not following the government mandates and dictates because you don't
Speaker 1: have you don't have the uh you know, the armed
Speaker 1: guard and the army, uh you know, marching around making
Speaker 1: you follow all these orders. It was always the corporations
Speaker 1: will cancel, you will punish, you will do this, and
Speaker 1: they were so powerful that they got away with it.
Speaker 1: So know that combination that we have right now is uh,
Speaker 1: it's probably still on the stage of the corporatism, and
Speaker 1: that is just if influence. You know, they get the
Speaker 1: contracts and they get the benefits. And if you do this,
Speaker 1: you get a government contract and you can borrow more
Speaker 1: money than than anybody else. And so that exists, and that, uh,
Speaker 1: that will just keep building. And it's uh, it's almost
Speaker 1: like we have fascism American style, but corporatism and this
Speaker 1: combination that you've talked about, the combination of corporations and
Speaker 1: big government. It's leeful and uh, you know this whole
Speaker 1: idea and a lot of people were sympathetic that. You know,
Speaker 1: if you have a downturn which you could protect to
Speaker 1: predict the corporations, there might be a corporation that suffered
Speaker 1: and going bankrupt and a lot of people are gonna
Speaker 1: lose their jobs. So people get sympathetic and say, well,
Speaker 1: get some money from the government. So the government comes
Speaker 1: in and bails out the companies because they didn't run
Speaker 1: their companies right and they should have gone bankrupt. So
Speaker 1: they have to take the money from the companies that
Speaker 1: were productive. So they destroy good companies paying off to
Speaker 1: the people who will obey the government and all the
Speaker 1: the government rules. Uh, they send that money to them,
Speaker 1: and uh, it just makes the whole problem worse. He
Speaker 1: should you should have total separation of of economic policy,
Speaker 1: just like we should have separation of church and state.
Speaker 1: We should have separation of school and state. And uh,
Speaker 1: economic intervention ism to serve the interest of special groups,
Speaker 1: which is which they do. I mean, you know, the
Speaker 1: military industrial complex is a perfect example that I do
Speaker 1: think those are big concerns as well with you know,
Speaker 1: corporate America. Right now, I think a lot of people's
Speaker 1: eyes have been opened. And you know, so many friends.
Speaker 1: I know, President Trump opened my eyes to you know,
Speaker 1: even just the way we you know, deal with our military,
Speaker 1: right you know. He he sort of was able to
Speaker 1: flex a muscle without intervening, without this military intervention. So
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people have been awakened on
Speaker 1: a lot of different Uh. You know, friends, I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you, is it possible to reclaim liberty once
Speaker 1: it's gone? Oh? Yes, there has to be, so they
Speaker 1: can't kill ideas, you know, and and freedom is an
Speaker 1: idea and uh and and you know, when the time
Speaker 1: has come for one of these ideas and said that
Speaker 1: you can't stop it. You know, it isn't a military operation. Uh.
Speaker 1: An idea whose time has come will spread. And that's
Speaker 1: why I think the positive things we talked about a
Speaker 1: little while ago, that's there. And they can't stop that.
Speaker 1: Even the social media can't stop it, you know. And
Speaker 1: the messages will continue to spread, there will if we
Speaker 1: can't have uh, you know, good use of the internet. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's other ways of spreading it. But I think there's
Speaker 1: competition now starting to build on the internet, and and
Speaker 1: I think that that is good. So they can't they
Speaker 1: can't stop it. So it depends on the people, you know,
Speaker 1: and the desires and uh. And that's the biggest problem
Speaker 1: is is how to get how to get people interested
Speaker 1: in seeing seeing our problems as a moral issue. And
Speaker 1: the founders understood this perfectly, and they said, yes, this
Speaker 1: is what we're giving you. You're gonna have a probably,
Speaker 1: But it's up to the people, you know. It's not
Speaker 1: up to the piece of paper where the rules are in.
Speaker 1: It's not up to the FBI, you know, to make
Speaker 1: sure where we live in a free country and we
Speaker 1: punish bad people. Know, it's has to be with the
Speaker 1: morality of the people, and uh, whether or not you
Speaker 1: can do it right now, that's a major problem because
Speaker 1: nobody knows who to believe, but both sides in the power.
Speaker 1: The power is so drawn used to be that you
Speaker 1: could work with coalitions. It's getting more and more difficult.
Speaker 1: So I would say it's very difficult. But no, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be spending my time like I do if
Speaker 1: I didn't have an optimistic view that we can, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, move in the direction. And I think in
Speaker 1: a in a minor way, we are moving in that direction.
Speaker 1: But the people who have had who are in charge,
Speaker 1: and the philosophy that's been in charge for a hundred years,
Speaker 1: they're pretty powerful. But we have to refute them well.
Speaker 1: And I think the challenges to a lot of the
Speaker 1: times where you see this big growth in government, it's
Speaker 1: after a time of crisis, right. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: the Patriot Act after not eleven during COVID. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the powers that be really sort of used that crisis
Speaker 1: or even sort of manufacturing fear and manufacturing a crisis
Speaker 1: to you know, grow the size and scope of the
Speaker 1: federal government. So I think a lot of times, people
Speaker 1: you know, miss that because it's a time of fear
Speaker 1: and a time of crisis. Yeah, that's that's so difficult
Speaker 1: to figure out. And I think I think most of
Speaker 1: some people think of everything is in a collective. Everybody
Speaker 1: has to come down on the same thing. But everybody.
Speaker 1: What I've talked about is everybody has their job to
Speaker 1: do for some reason. You're you're you have a job
Speaker 1: right now that you're on the air, and you and
Speaker 1: you you trying to get a message out. And people would,
Speaker 1: you know, especially young people in college, they said they
Speaker 1: would be like a sold on the eye. Liberty is great.
Speaker 1: I want to do something that tell me what I
Speaker 1: have to do. Do whatever you want, whatever you're capable
Speaker 1: of doing. Everybody has something, and it's going to be different. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I never I never had a basic goal
Speaker 1: at one time. I'm going to congress. I'm going to congress.
Speaker 1: That's my goal in life. It was never that. My
Speaker 1: goal was always. I became fascinated with monetary policy and uh,
Speaker 1: the fiddle Reserve and I'm just gonna speak out on
Speaker 1: because I think it's so important. And it turns out
Speaker 1: is uh from that, I expanded it in a lot
Speaker 1: of other people, you know, picked up on that, but
Speaker 1: I think an individual has to side. And then uh
Speaker 1: and and I'm just really impressed with how many people
Speaker 1: that were campaign workers or helped me in in the election,
Speaker 1: the presidential elections that really have gone out. They have
Speaker 1: their own, their own little program and then the big
Speaker 1: the interesting is they have no idea. You probably don't
Speaker 1: have any idea if you're if you're you know, reaching out,
Speaker 1: you don't know exactly how many people listen to, how
Speaker 1: many people you know decide to, you know, follow up
Speaker 1: and and stay. So it's it's something you never know
Speaker 1: how many people are belonging to the remnant of people
Speaker 1: who are maintaining the forces of the truth about liberty
Speaker 1: and morality. Is there anything else you'd like to leave
Speaker 1: us with before we go, sir? I think it is
Speaker 1: so important. Everybody has a responsibility. And uh so instead
Speaker 1: of concentrating right now of many problems we have, and
Speaker 1: we have big ones. Foreign policy I think is a mess,
Speaker 1: and the economy is going to get worse before it
Speaker 1: gets better. But I think people should think that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there's every reason in the world. The positive
Speaker 1: things out there is more and more people are getting
Speaker 1: interested and we're making strides, so people just need to
Speaker 1: do it. And the other thing I tell people know
Speaker 1: it is serious business. And I go to a lot
Speaker 1: of conference. As I said, if you come to a conference,
Speaker 1: you should come and have a little bit of fun
Speaker 1: because you're going to be associating with other like minded people.
Speaker 1: And uh, that's from my view, boy, that's the best
Speaker 1: you can do. And I consider it an obligation on
Speaker 1: my part and everybody's part is to be as well
Speaker 1: education as educated as possible so that some of these things,
Speaker 1: even though they're not complex, sometimes the explanations get complex
Speaker 1: and people get confused. But really freedom is not a
Speaker 1: complex issue. And uh, I think people just have to
Speaker 1: decide whether or not gonna they're gonna be on the
Speaker 1: side of liberty or they're going to sit on their
Speaker 1: hands or join the opposition. And uh, of course my
Speaker 1: advice is joining all of us that are interested in
Speaker 1: preserving the cause of liberty. Well, and your Sign has
Speaker 1: really been leading the fight in the Senate throughout COVID
Speaker 1: and both sort of exposing a lot of the lies
Speaker 1: and really just trying to get to the truth as well.
Speaker 1: So we appreciate your son as well. He's doing a
Speaker 1: great job. Yeah, you must be prode. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that's really cool. You're the first representative in history to
Speaker 1: serve concurrently with a child in the Senate when he
Speaker 1: was first elected in two dozen tents, So that must
Speaker 1: have been pretty cool. That was different. It happened, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't a strategy, you know, it just happened that way.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Sorry, I appreciate your time. Take care. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Oh, very good. It's been nice to
Speaker 1: be on your program. That was Congressman Ron Paul. You know,
Speaker 1: he played that clip from UH talking about the FBI
Speaker 1: spying on American citizens and those abuses. He also had
Speaker 1: warned about things like the Patriot Act and a number
Speaker 1: of other things, just obviously raising concerns about the bigger
Speaker 1: the federal government gets, the more we lose liberty. So
Speaker 1: appreciate him joining the show. And I appreciate you guys
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