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Time Magazine: 10 Questions with Ron Paul (9-17-2009)
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Time Magazine interviews Ron Paul on a variety of issues. In this interview, Ron Paul says "The Anti-War Left has just, well, left!".
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- Michael Scherer: Hi, this is Michael Scherer from TIME and I’m here with Congressman Ron Paul, Texas Republican, two-time Presidential candidate,
- who has a new book out this September called “End The Fed”. Thanks for joining us, Congressman Paul.
- Ron Paul: Nice to be here with you.
- Michael Scherer: Brad Thomas from Kalamazoo, Michigan asks: What role does the Federal Reserve have in our current economic downturn, and how would auditing the Fed improve our situation?
- Ron Paul: Well, the Federal Reserve is the key element in the formation of financial bubbles.
- The Federal Reserve is the culprit and if we can get an audit we could reveal exactly what they do.
- Because they deal in trillions of dollars of extending loads to special interests, special banks, special corporations
- and make deals with other central banks and other governments of the world.
- So they’re a government onto themselves and they print their own money.
- So if people have any concern whatsoever about the business cycle and serious financial problems that we have, that we are in the midst of…
- and now we’re facing a dollar crisis, they have to know about what the Federal Reserve is doing, how it operates.
- And then we can get to the bottom of all our financial troubles that we have.
- Michael Scherer: Jacob Schans from Silver Spring, MD asks: Do you think you were treated fairly by the mainstream media during your 2008 Presidential primaries?
- Ron Paul: Well, I know if you’d ask my supporters that question then you’d get a pretty strong answer.
- I guess it wasn’t too shocking to me because I expected it. I really don’t think I have gotten a fair shake over over 30 years.
- But in spite of it all I was very pleased, you know.
- Even though I didn’t get much time in the debates and not much attention during the campaign,
- we had a rally in Philadelphia, we had 5,000 people early in the campaign and got zero coverage. So no.
- But, all in all, a tremendous amount of people were able to hear the message. It got on the Internet and YouTube
- and right now if the three majors or the five majors don’t give you much coverage it’s not as relevant.
- All you have to do is have a message that touches on the issues that the people care about and evidently the people will listen and respond.
- Michael Scherer: Craig Thomas from Longview, Texas asks: Why do you support the decriminalization of marijuana?
- Ron Paul: Why support the criminalization of marijuana is the better question.
- I mean, this is a substance that grows in a natural way and some people use it for different reasons.
- In a free country you ought to have the right to do that.
- And another good reason is that the war on drugs is a total failure,
- and it has created a monster of a problem for us,
- and we spend hundreds of billions of dollars. Prohibition is absurd.
- Michael Scherer: Matthew Thacker from Bowling Green, OH asks: How do you feel about the way you were shown in the latest Sasha Baron Cohen film Bruno?
- Ron Paul: Well, I don’t feel good about it because I was a subject of a trick
- and nobody likes to be tricked, especially when fraud was involved.
- You know, lying to us and a few other things and making fun. So you feel badly that you weren’t on your toes.
- But then again, most of life is dependent on a fair amount of trust with people.
- You trust your employees, you trust your friends and almost anybody can trick you eventually.
- But if you refuse to accept any trust with anybody it’s a miserable society.
- Michael Scherer: Kevin Tuma from Pillsburgh Texas asks: Do you feel that fearmongering from conspiracy theorists helps or hurts the cause of liberty?
- Ron Paul: Oh, it depends. If there is true conspiracy, that’s a plan behind the scenes.
- You could call the Federal Reserve a conspiracy because they’re conspiring to run the whole economy secretly.
- So I would say that’s a pretty good conspiracy we ought to understand and we ought to look into.
- I think there is a conspiracy of bad ideas and I’d like to participate in a conspiracy of some good ideas.
- So I conspire all the time. I conspire with my friends on how we’re going to move the cause of liberty along.
- Michael Scherer: Why do you oppose the income tax?
- Ron Paul: Because I have a right to my life, I have the right to the fruits of my labor; and government does not.
- If you concede the principle of the income tax,
- you concede the principle that the government owns all your income and permits you to keep a certain percentage of it.
- And I believe in natural rights, God given rights to our life and our liberty, it doesn’t come from government.
- Equivalent to that idea is the idea of the government owning your life when you become 18.
- You have to sign up for the potential draft in case they need you to go over and die for some worthless cause.
- So it’s always there, it’s always there saying the government owns you.
- This, to me, is very clear in the income tax. I just think that some day we won’t have an income tax
- because when the dollar crashes, the system won’t function and
- there is going to be so much chaos that people probably just won’t bother sending anything in.
- Michael Scherer: What do you make of President Obama’s approach to Iraq and Afghanistan now that he’s in office?
- Ron Paul: Every bit as bad as the last administration, maybe even worse.
- Because he’s not getting out of Iraq, that’s a pretense.
- And he’s expanding rapidly what’s happening in Afghanistan.
- He’s continuing the bombing of Pakistan, he has not changed his attitude about Iran.
- They’re talking about denying any shipments of gasoline to the people of Iran just to further antagonize the situation.
- What he is doing is a little more dangerous because he has neutralized the anti-war left.
- The antiwar left has just left.
- At least Bush was honest, I mean he was upfront. He believed in pre-emptive preventive war
- but everybody was hopeful that Obama would do differently, but he hasn’t.
- So he has quieted down the left and there is a very weak anti-war movement in this country now.
- And that obviously is something I hope to participate in reviving
- and it has to be coming from the old right as well as true progressives
- who believe that all this warmongering and killing makes no sense whatsoever.


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