US in danger of becoming dictatorship

Presidential candidate tells interviewer that the US is in danger of soon becoming a dictatorship.

Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Texas) told interviewer Alex Jones that freedoms long cherished by Americans have been so neglected in recent years that the current presidential election is "is a contest between the people who care about their freedoms and those who are willing to succumb to the temptations of dictatorship." The Congressman warned that the elite in Washington are prepared to concoct events to scare the American people into giving up their freedom in the name of security. They have done so in the past. The Gulf of Tonkin incident is just one of many "incidents" which have been created by the Washington elite to further their own interests. In a speech in Congress earlier this year he warned of a new "Gulf of Tonkin-type incident." During the course of an hour long interview, the Congressman gave his opinions on many topics including the economy, the sell-out of US sovereignty to the North American Union, the talk in Congress about bringing back the draft and the situation with Iraq and Iran. The article linked here mentions the Congressman's "impeccable voting record." It also states that he is a "strong campaigner" for true Constitutional government. When asked what he thought the most important issue in this campaign was, he replied: "Probably it's the threat to individual liberty. because our government is growing endlessly by leaps and bounds and nobody seems to want to put a hold on it. every time government grows it is at the expense of personal liberty." In other words, the threat to liberty in America does not come from Iraq or Iran or from the terrorists, it comes from Washington, DC. Our own government has become our worst enemy. This erosion of freedom has wide ranging effects. Once we were the freest nation on earth, and the most prosperous. As our freedoms are being eroded, our prosperity is also dwindling. Just this week it was announced that China is now the biggest exporter in the world, a title held for many decades by the US. We are being overtaken economically while we try to build an empire. Soon, the nation will be bankrupt. The Congressman also added that with our Federal Reserve System creating money out of thin air our foreign trading partners, including China, have been building up stocks of US dollars. This allows us to buy cheap goods from overseas, but: "what it does is encourage us not to be productive, it encourages us not to have manufacturing any longer, we can let others do it cheaper, cheap labour, and then we buy it with cheap money. That is going to come to an end. That means later on there are going to be a lot of changes here. Domestically the interest rates are going to rise, the inflation rate, the price of all goods and services, that will rise, and the economy will weaken, so we have some very serious problems ahead." On the foreign policy front, the first thing President Ron Paul would do is to start bringing US troops home from all over the world. He would have talks with all of our allies and tell them that he was bringing the troops home so they could prepare to fill the void with their own troops. He warned of the dangers inherent in trying to be the world's policeman, stating that our policies have turned us into "diplomatic isolationists." Our policies have so alienated people in other countries that we now stand virtually alone, isolated from the rest of the world. Congressman Paul has a long record of supporting the original foreign policy of the US - "Peace, trade and friendly relations with all nations, alliances with none." His critics have responded by labeling him "isolationist," but as he correctly points out we've never been more isolated than we are today. It is the policy of interventionism that creates this diplomatic isolation. Paul's policy would be one of engagement. He has pointed out that since we stopped fighting Vietnam they have become one of our biggest trading partners. He has also pointed out that our two biggest enemies of the last 50 years have been Russia and China. We have not had wars with them, but have had ongoing discussions with them. The results of these discussions have been trade and arms limitations agreements. We may not like the way these people run their countries, but that's their business, not ours. Regarding the policies of the current administration he says: "We have turned our own country into isolationists, diplomatically we don't talk to anybody, we have more enemies than we've ever had before and fewer allies, and at the same time our ability to defend this country is being diminished on a daily basis. We worry about borders, all around he world, we worry about borders in Korea, about borders around Iraq, and what do we do with our own borders? Here we don't do anything."