The Revolution: Think of all those people

Here is information of increases of percentages of votes from Ron Paul's presidential bid 2008 compared to 2012 (this comes from http://www.dailypaul.com/210821/looking-at-the-numbers-2008-vs-2012&sss=1)

Iowa: 10% to 21.4%, an increase of x2.1
NH: 7.7% to 22.9%, an increase of almost x3
SC: 3.7% to 13%, an increase of x3.5
FL: 3.2% to 7%, an increase of x2.18

Those are all the actual stats they posted.

With such increases in those states, it seems like more people are getting fed up with more of the same (candidates, rhetoric, policies, debt, war, over-regulation). More people are getting educated. More people are caring about ideas.

The reason why I am a Ron Paul supporter, is because he's true to his oath concerning the Constitution. Here's the current oath (from http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/a/oaths_of_office_4.htm):

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

The original one went like this:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States."

Ron Paul keeps both oaths. Also, as part of his philosophy of government, he plans to end our unnecessary and costly wars, lessen our deficit, balance the budget, and give more liberty to the people.

To achieve more liberty, more people need to educated on the amazing (not perfect, but nonetheless amazing) system our Founding Fathers gave us.

CYOA

The great thing about life is that one can choose one's own adventure. As a person makes choices, he/she cannot choose the consequences of those choices, but the adventure is theirs. One reason why I like liberty and freedom so much, is because more good can come of it. Moral people can make more moral choices with more liberty in their lives. I guess the argument/downside is that immoral people can do more evil with more liberty. That is a risk. Right now, much of our lives are ultra-regulated. Because of this, moral people don't have as much money or latitude to do good but have to do what others think is moral. So, as a for-instance, a moral person may want to give more money to charities. With the taxes as they are, the government takes and gives to those who it thinks should have it. The moral person doesn't have enough money to give more. Thus is the problem of high taxes and high regulations. Right now we have a choice.

If you want to Mexico, go to page 37.
If you want to have others telling you what to do all the time, vote for a statist.
If you want to have more liberty to make your own moral choices, vote for liberty.
Choose Your Own Adventure.

I hope my posts make sense. I usually write them around 7 in the morning and don't proofread much.

It's official

It's confirmed, whether by foreign hackers and bots or not, my blog is now international! If I had some rysgrynsgröt right now, I'd celebrate. Here are the countries of this blog's pageviews:

United States   157

Russia   18

Germany   3

I hope that those international pageviews are real people and not bots just crawling the web. I guess we'll see. Liberty is a wonderful idea and a beautiful implementation. So much good comes from liberty, and I wish all peoples of the earth would decide to live in liberty. The policy I don't agree with is forcing our way of living on other people. We should persuade, but not force. That may be what we've been trying to do in the Middle East. Forcing other governments to democratic or "more free." I don't think that is a thing that can be forced. The people must be educated and ready for liberty.

Anyway, if any of you international viewers are real, shoot me a line in the comments (I'd appreciate you chiming in on this discussion).

Cool quote

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson 

 

From http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/constitution

Go educate your friends!

Constitutional interpretation

I've read the Constitution. I don't know how many of you have read it. I was thinking recently about the constitutional interpretation that the supreme court often does. I have read Article III and do not find any warrant for constitutional interpretation (and legislation/law creation) in there. Did they interpret the Constitution to allow the supreme court to interpret the document? Does anyone know about how this exists (besides Marshall's decision to be an interpreter)?

Presidents' Day

So, I planned to write this blog yesterday, but I played chess and passed out Ron Paul flyers instead. My father-in-law said that I was honoring the presidents by passing out information about liberty and the constitution. I'd say that was an accurate rendering of our activities. And don't forget the pizza that was provided afterward...

So, I was wondering about presidents and the views of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the office of the president. I've always been taught that I was supposed to honor the president and not speak evil words concerning him. The only quote or scripture that I remember reading concerning this is Article of Faith 12: "We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law."

So, If I disagree with a policy of President Obama, is it okay to voice this disagreement? I think so. Is it okay to incite anarchy? Not so much. What about one of my friends that is convinced that LBJ did in (i.e. planned the assassination of) JFK? Would my friend be wrong in the eyes of the Church or the Lord?

I'd love for y'all to weigh in on this one....

Hope

I just watched an episode of 19 Kids and Counting. The Duggars are a faith-ful family that give me hope for America's future. If we could all recapture greater morality and big-family mentality, America could have a new generation of reeducated, wise, and good people to take back our government (peacefully, of course).