Ron Paul

11Oct07

After hearing so much about him I decided to do some investigation on the “issues”.

 

Now.. I’m not saying Ron Paul is bad, or even that another candidate is better.. I agree with many (most) of the things he stands for, but these things I absolutely cannot condone or support:

 

“Americans are justifiably concerned over the government’s escalating intervention into their freedom to choose what they eat and how they take care of their health.”

 

Right, we’re the fattest nation on earth, god forbid that our governmental infrastructure try to improve the health of it’s ailing citizens.

 

“I also opposed the Homeland Security Bill, H.R. 5005, which, in section 304, authorizes the forced vaccination of American citizens against small pox. The government should never have the power to require immunizations or vaccinations.”

 

You should have the right to deny immunization against plague-level afflictions, so that the rest of the civilized world can be in danger of an epidemic, amirite?

 

“I am also the prime sponsor of HR 300, which would negate the effect of Roe v Wade by removing the ability of federal courts to interfere with state legislation to protect life. This is a practical, direct approach to ending federal court tyranny which threatens our constitutional republic and has caused the deaths of 45 million of the unborn.”

 

Let’s concern ourselves with protecting sentient life, k?  Granted, partial-birth abortions are questionable, but in early trimesters a fetus is a fetus.  The fetus doesn’t have the cognitive presence to care whether it has a right to life, and if it’s parents or guardian(s) don’t either — then the GOVERNMENT which you so consistently claim to want to “limit” should have no right to interfere with that.

 

“I share our Founders’ belief that in a free society each citizen must have the right to keep and bear arms. They ratified the Second Amendment knowing that this right is the guardian of every other right, and they all would be horrified by the proliferation of unconstitutional legislation that prevents law-abiding Americans from exercising this right.”

 

We no longer live in the world they did.  Guns have become drastically more lethal and life has become drastically less dangerous.  Shooting someone requires far less mental willpower than stabbing them or clubbing them to death.  Putting this lethal weapons in the hands of everyone does not improve our personal security — it increases the likelihood that gun violence, whether offensive or defensive, will occur, period.

 

So, again, all this being said, I agree with probably 80% of what this guy stands for — but the things above I find deplorable.

 

He might still be the best candidate for president, but what a sorry state I feel the nation is in, when I have to pick a candidate who stands for things I find to be horrible because he’s the best choice available.

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