Radio Show Hour 1 – 10/18/2024

[00:00:13] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West.

[00:00:18] You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show.

[00:00:27] Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans, Sam Bushman live on your radio.

[00:00:32] Hard-hitting news the network refused to use, no doubt starts now.

[00:00:36] This, my fellow Americans, is the broadcast for, wow, it's already October the 18th in the year of our Lord 2024.

[00:00:44] This is Hour 1 of 2 with a goal always to protect life, liberty, and property,

[00:00:48] to promote God, family, and country, and to do so on your radio and the traditions of our founding fathers.

[00:00:53] Yes, indeed, we use the blueprint for liberty, the supreme law of the land,

[00:00:57] the Constitution for the United States of America that is our guide.

[00:01:00] We reject revolution, as you know, unless it's Jesus' revolution,

[00:01:04] then we're in because we follow the Prince of Peace.

[00:01:07] Dr. Scott Bradley not with us today because I'm out of town.

[00:01:11] I'm on a cruise ship and be back soon, Monday, live with Dr. Bradley, so count on that.

[00:01:18] In the meantime, though, I've been playing a couple of interviews, as you know,

[00:01:23] that I did from the Constitutional Sheriff's and Peace Officers Association conferences.

[00:01:26] I've also been doing some interesting introspection.

[00:01:31] You know, Ron Paul, back in 2008, as he was running for president,

[00:01:36] he ran in 2008 and 2012, both, and when he ran, he ran actually three times, I think,

[00:01:41] because he ran as a libertarian back in the early days in the, like, late 80s, I think 88 range.

[00:01:46] Anyway, I digress, except for Ron Paul has been one of my favorite people for a long, long time.

[00:01:53] He's a true, absolute prince of a man, a rock star patriot in every sense of the word.

[00:02:00] You know, he's made a couple of compromises in his life, like all of us have.

[00:02:06] But, man, the guy has just been steady, voting often alone for years and years and years and years in Congress.

[00:02:12] Then he started Campaign for Liberty, and, man, that group has been making a tremendous difference.

[00:02:16] The subchapter of Campaign for Liberty, Young Americans for Liberty across campuses all across the country.

[00:02:22] I mean, just tremendous work Ron Paul has done, and he continues to do.

[00:02:26] He churns out weekly columns and interviews and just does a tremendous job well into his 80s.

[00:02:31] The guy's just a great, great gentleman.

[00:02:34] Truly one of the modern patriots of America today, there's no doubt about it.

[00:02:38] Is he perfect? Far from? None of us are.

[00:02:40] But I think Ron Paul is really, truly a great, honorable man, to say the least.

[00:02:45] Well, anyway, the whole point is he gave a speech in 2008,

[00:02:49] and in that speech, the Republicans were having a convention right across the road.

[00:02:54] They kicked him out of the convention.

[00:02:56] As you know, back in those days, they broke all the rules, broke all the laws,

[00:02:59] did all these things, broke people's fingers and turned out the lights

[00:03:03] to make sure that Ron Paul couldn't get an edge in the election.

[00:03:06] But, man, freedom was popular then, and Ron Paul had some real support then.

[00:03:10] It was tremendous, the support he got.

[00:03:12] But as you know, the Republican Party is part of the deep state,

[00:03:15] and they dig deep when they have to to shut down anybody who would really change the game.

[00:03:19] And that's part of the biggest reason that I believe they shut Ron Paul down,

[00:03:23] because he would have absolutely changed the game and pointed us directly to liberty.

[00:03:28] He would have got us out of wars.

[00:03:30] He would have created a humble foreign policy.

[00:03:32] He would have economically brought us back to honest, hard money.

[00:03:35] I mean, the guy was really on target.

[00:03:38] Well, anyway, that's why I think that they don't mind Donald Trump,

[00:03:41] because Donald Trump is not really planning to bring us back to anything solid like Ron Paul would.

[00:03:46] I mean, look, Donald Trump had every opportunity to bring Ron Paul into his administration the first time around,

[00:03:51] and he didn't.

[00:03:52] In fact, he mocked Ron when Ron was running against, you know,

[00:03:56] others for president back in the day and all this kind of stuff.

[00:03:59] And so I don't really have a lot of confidence that Donald Trump will do, you know,

[00:04:04] near what a Ron Paul would do.

[00:04:06] However, a lot of the Ron Paul ideas and a lot of the Ross Perot ideas,

[00:04:12] a lot of these front-runner politicians and people have set the stage for Donald to do what he's done.

[00:04:16] There's no doubt about that, right?

[00:04:18] So let's be very clear about that, and it's just tremendous what has been able to be accomplished.

[00:04:23] Anyway, I'm digressing, except to say this speech that Ron Paul gave was tremendous.

[00:04:27] It was well over an hour long, and I've taken out most of the claps,

[00:04:32] because, man, you've got long, long stretches of claps.

[00:04:34] It was almost like a State of the Union address from Ron Paul across the street from their Republican convention,

[00:04:41] and it just showed what really power Ron had and what ideas he could put together.

[00:04:45] It's just tremendous.

[00:04:46] Anyway, so what I've done is I've edited out all the claps on this speech,

[00:04:49] and I want to play sections of it through the two hours today,

[00:04:52] and I'm going to break in the middle and talk about some of it as we go.

[00:04:56] I'll try not to interrupt too much.

[00:04:57] I mean, I could literally every sentence Ron Paul covers I could make some comments about.

[00:05:01] I'd love to do that, but it's just not feasible.

[00:05:02] So I'm going to play big pieces of this, and it's Ron Paul in the speech back in 2008,

[00:05:07] that I just echo it forward literally 16 years now, spot on,

[00:05:12] and how tremendous it really is in our day.

[00:05:15] I mean, it's more right now than it was when he gave it, and it was spot on then.

[00:05:19] So anyway, let's do it, and I will make some comments as the broadcast unfolds.

[00:05:25] Ladies and gentlemen, here is Ron Paul.

[00:05:28] It's amazing because, believe it or not,

[00:05:30] I still think of myself as a country doctor that has gone to Congress,

[00:05:35] and I'm a quiet little congressman from Texas.

[00:05:37] And of course, for 30 years, I was rather quiet,

[00:05:41] but for some reason, in the past 18 months,

[00:05:45] it was discovered that the ideas of liberty and the revolution was alive and well,

[00:05:51] and we're celebrating it here tonight.

[00:05:53] But I truly do want to thank you.

[00:05:55] The support that you have given to me personally, to my family, and to the campaign

[00:06:00] has been really, really helpful to all that I've done.

[00:06:05] But you know, Barry Goldwater gave me a wonderful introduction,

[00:06:11] and he talked about my family.

[00:06:13] But you know, and he mentioned, my wife Carol's been sick,

[00:06:17] and she's home and doing much better.

[00:06:20] But you know, I know she's doing a lot better,

[00:06:23] because before I left home, she gave me a lot of instructions.

[00:06:28] And she told me what I was supposed to say here tonight.

[00:06:31] And one thing that she wanted me to say was a thank you,

[00:06:35] it was personally from her for the support,

[00:06:37] the prayers, and the letters and comments that you have made.

[00:06:41] And we have really been blessed by all your friendship.

[00:06:45] And even in that event, I saw something very wonderful about it,

[00:06:50] because our Christian friends sent us good wishes and prayers,

[00:06:55] and our Jewish friends sent good wishes and prayers,

[00:06:58] and our Muslim friends sent us good wishes and prayers.

[00:07:02] And lo and behold, we received a lot of good wishes

[00:07:06] from some agnostics, some atheists,

[00:07:08] and we were delighted to get those as well.

[00:07:10] It confirms my conviction that freedom brings people together.

[00:07:25] You know, early on in the campaign,

[00:07:27] I thought I might have really messed up,

[00:07:29] because, you know, I answered a question rather truthfully

[00:07:32] about me becoming president.

[00:07:35] And I have truly been a reluctant candidate,

[00:07:38] and was not all that anxious to do it,

[00:07:41] not thinking that there would be a large number of people who cared.

[00:07:45] I was skeptical.

[00:07:47] Some said that you were apathetic, and we helped remove that.

[00:07:51] But I lost my skepticism.

[00:07:53] I hope you lost your apathy.

[00:07:55] But when they asked me about what I wanted to do as president,

[00:07:58] I said, you know, I really look at it differently.

[00:08:01] I want to be president because of the things I don't want to do.

[00:08:05] I explained that I did not want to run people's lives.

[00:08:08] I did not want to run the economy,

[00:08:10] and I did not want to run the world.

[00:08:12] I didn't have the authority to do it,

[00:08:15] and I didn't have the constitution behind me to do it.

[00:08:18] But they said that that sounds like a weak president.

[00:08:21] I said, well, I don't think so.

[00:08:22] I think resisting the temptation of power requires some strength,

[00:08:27] and we don't need more government power.

[00:08:31] You know, I hope you agree that this has been a fantastic rally today.

[00:08:36] What do you think?

[00:08:37] And guess what?

[00:08:39] Guess what?

[00:08:40] Not one single taxpayer cent was spent on this rally.

[00:08:47] Now, I understand there's another meeting in a nearby town going on.

[00:08:53] Let us be respectful.

[00:09:02] But I also understand that we do not have to respect the conditions

[00:09:05] that allowed both other conventions to get $16.8 million apiece to run their party.

[00:09:20] This was not inexpensive, and all of you contributed to it,

[00:09:24] and some a lot more than others, a lot of volunteers and a lot of money,

[00:09:27] and we paid every cent, and there is going to be no debt.

[00:09:33] You know, there should be an urgency about what we do.

[00:09:38] It would be nice to be relaxed and think that we're back in the 1950s

[00:09:43] when I first barely started thinking about politics,

[00:09:46] but it's not the 1950s anymore.

[00:09:48] It's a new century, and there's a lot more problems,

[00:09:54] and we have terrible threats around the world.

[00:09:57] We have a foreign policy that's gone amok.

[00:09:59] We have a monetary system that's in a mess, and we know all our problems.

[00:10:03] But there's an urgency in what we do because we are carrying the banner,

[00:10:08] and we must act because we as a group now have a greater moral responsibility to act

[00:10:18] than those who live in ignorance.

[00:10:20] Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.

[00:10:25] You know, it's almost been two years since the Exploratory Committee was announced,

[00:10:31] but a lot has happened, and so much of it has been so wonderful.

[00:10:34] And I have been so much encouraged by so many of you joining us.

[00:10:39] But there have been some things that, although I suspected were true,

[00:10:43] really came to light during this campaign.

[00:10:45] The one thing has been the response that has delighted me to no end,

[00:10:50] the response from the young people.

[00:10:52] Many times, the teenagers, less than voting age,

[00:11:00] will bring their parents to my office in Washington, bring their parents in.

[00:11:04] And I said, who got most excited?

[00:11:06] Who got excited earliest?

[00:11:08] And many times it's the 14 and the 15-year-old that brings their parents in

[00:11:12] and introduces them to our ideas.

[00:11:16] I said, well, how did you hear about it?

[00:11:18] I didn't know that you were reading the New York Times and watching the news.

[00:11:23] Oh, there's something called YouTube out there.

[00:11:25] That helped us tell us what's going on.

[00:11:27] But the young people responded well.

[00:11:30] But also those who were sitting and waiting and thinking about it,

[00:11:33] maybe young in spirit but older in age,

[00:11:36] those individuals I consider in the remnant,

[00:11:39] the true believers that have been around and trying to bring us back around,

[00:11:43] they were there.

[00:11:44] The numbers were larger.

[00:11:46] It is said that we don't know the number of the remnant.

[00:11:49] We don't know where the remnant is.

[00:11:51] But if a time comes, you will be surprised how big it is.

[00:11:56] And I have been surprised and I have been very pleased.

[00:12:00] Probably one of the most exciting things that happened during the campaign

[00:12:05] was the response that we got from a certain segment of society.

[00:12:10] In Washington, D.C., we frequently have resolutions being passed

[00:12:14] that rubber stamp the foreign policy of intervention.

[00:12:17] But they always get passed, usually nearly unanimously.

[00:12:22] Maybe there's a few.

[00:12:23] And sometimes there's only one opposing the resolution.

[00:12:26] But these resolutions will be designed to support the policies in Iraq

[00:12:32] and our so-called threat against Iran.

[00:12:35] And it is said that if you don't support it, you don't support the troops.

[00:12:38] Well, you know, the most exciting thing was, I think it was in our first quarter this year,

[00:12:45] when they added up the number of dollars that came from the troops,

[00:12:50] our campaign got more money from the troops than all the other candidates put together.

[00:12:56] It was interesting to see how the establishment responded.

[00:13:01] You saw it on TV.

[00:13:02] You saw it in the debates.

[00:13:03] And so often it was a treatment of exclusion or marginalization

[00:13:10] or just making fun of what we're doing.

[00:13:14] And I think that that didn't surprise me one bit.

[00:13:19] But, you know, one thing that, you know, when things like that happen,

[00:13:23] we need to turn them around.

[00:13:25] And there wasn't much effort needed to do that.

[00:13:27] Because the more they did that, it seemed the more it energized you in support for our cause.

[00:13:34] We have also noticed that those in the establishment aren't very anxious to welcome us in.

[00:13:42] Even though our numbers are growing, we respond and appeal to young people,

[00:13:47] you would think that they would welcome us.

[00:13:50] And yet, on occasion, a few of you may have been exposed that sometimes the rules get bent.

[00:13:57] Sometimes the rules are even ignored.

[00:14:04] But, you know, in another sense, government power really wants to protect itself.

[00:14:12] So they will use power and force not only in politics will they bend the rules,

[00:14:16] but really in society as well.

[00:14:18] They will break the rules and break the laws.

[00:14:21] And they're even known to illegally invade premises

[00:14:25] to find out what people are talking about in case they're talking about politics.

[00:14:30] That is not very good.

[00:14:32] You know, the one thing that I have said is that the revolution is a lot more than about me.

[00:14:45] There is no doubt about it.

[00:14:47] This revolution will continue.

[00:14:49] But I would like to think, I would like to think that the campaign and our efforts,

[00:14:55] our efforts together, have done a whole lot to speed up the revolution that was destined to come anyway.

[00:15:03] So often people ask me, how did we lose the republic?

[00:15:07] Have we lost it?

[00:15:08] Essentially, we have.

[00:15:10] It may be hanging by a thread.

[00:15:11] That's why I claim that we have a sense of urgency here.

[00:15:15] We don't have decades and decades.

[00:15:17] We have to do something rather quickly.

[00:15:20] But today, today we have to move rather quickly.

[00:15:26] But how did we lose it?

[00:15:27] And I think of some of the things that happened in Washington that symbolize this loss of the republic.

[00:15:32] And one thing that I've made comments many years ago that I noticed on the House floor, and this has to change,

[00:15:39] that the two weakest arguments on the House floor would be a moral argument and a constitutional argument.

[00:15:47] That we need to change.

[00:15:53] Another attitude that we must change, and you've heard this said many times,

[00:15:58] that if the government gives us a tax cut, they have to be cautious because that is written off as a cost to government.

[00:16:07] How could that be?

[00:16:08] That is the assumption that the government owns us and owns the fruits of our labor,

[00:16:14] and what we get to keep is done at the permission of the government,

[00:16:17] which proves the point that even a 1% income tax is morally wrong because it sows the seeds of destruction.

[00:16:27] All right.

[00:16:28] Back with you live.

[00:16:29] Ron Paul really doubles down on the sacred cause of liberty, talking about the imperative, the moral imperative.

[00:16:35] We've got to have a moral and a religious people,

[00:16:37] people who understand their liberty and want liberty, not socialism or any communism or anything like that.

[00:16:44] And he really doubled down and highlighted this point.

[00:16:47] He highlighted many great points, but I wanted to really mention that one.

[00:16:50] If we want to restore the republic, we've got to have a moral people,

[00:16:54] and we need to elect moral, good, honest, wise servants of the republic.

[00:16:59] All right.

[00:17:00] Here's Ron Paul again.

[00:17:01] I'm just telling you, he makes so many tremendous points in this speech.

[00:17:04] It is really in the archives forever.

[00:17:06] Here's Dr. Ron Paul.

[00:17:08] You know, the survival of the republic was discussed at the time of the foundings,

[00:17:14] and the founding fathers came to the conclusion that we would and could have a republic,

[00:17:18] but the republic depended on a moral people.

[00:17:21] So we complain a lot about the government and all that is going on,

[00:17:25] and we blame this person or other person.

[00:17:28] But in a way, it is a reflection of the morality of the people.

[00:17:33] So in doing this, we have to understand the morality of the law and the morality of what we do.

[00:17:39] So if we are not a moral people, a perfect constitution cannot save us.

[00:17:44] We don't have a perfect constitution, but we have a real good one.

[00:17:47] But the fact that if we have people who ignore it, it won't serve our purpose.

[00:17:53] So you have to have a moral people and a system of government and moral politicians who represent us.

[00:18:01] Another thing that has happened is that we lost track of the fact that the constitution was written to restrain the government.

[00:18:12] Now it's turned on its head.

[00:18:14] The constitution or the government is there.

[00:18:16] They use it to restrain us.

[00:18:19] That is upside down.

[00:18:20] Over the years, the government gets more and more powerful.

[00:18:27] It's not only the executive branch.

[00:18:29] It's the judicial branch.

[00:18:30] It's the legislative branch.

[00:18:32] It's the bureaucratic branch of government.

[00:18:34] And more and more power gravitates away from the individual, away from the states,

[00:18:39] into the hands of the bureaucrats and the politicians in Washington.

[00:18:43] Not only that, do we have to worry about all this power gravitating to the power to be in Washington.

[00:18:49] It's even going further.

[00:18:51] We have to worry about powers gravitating to international governments, to the new world order.

[00:18:56] Of course, we'd have to be reversed as well.

[00:19:07] But another thing that happened over these many years that have allowed us to slip away from the republic

[00:19:13] and the principles of liberty is we came as a nation to believe that a person needs are essentially rights.

[00:19:20] If you need something or want something or demand something, that does not give you a right to it.

[00:19:27] Rights are something that are very precious.

[00:19:29] They don't come from the government.

[00:19:30] They come in a natural way or a God-given way.

[00:19:33] They come as a right to your life and a right to your liberty.

[00:19:37] I believe the trends in the school system over the last many decades has been detrimental.

[00:19:44] And it hasn't been one party.

[00:19:46] Even in the 50s, it started with the federal government getting involved.

[00:19:50] There is nothing in the Constitution that says the federal government should be involved in education at all.

[00:19:57] So we've had a system of government that has been encouraged by our school system.

[00:20:05] The economics taught in the school system is never free market, Austrian hard money economics.

[00:20:11] It's always Keynesian soft money economics that are wrong.

[00:20:17] And not only that, we get taught history in our public schools.

[00:20:23] And who are the great presidents?

[00:20:25] The great presidents are always said to be the ones who run a war.

[00:20:29] Why don't we have the peace candidates be the great presidents?

[00:20:32] Something else has happened over the many decades,

[00:20:34] and that is our confusion on what patriotism is all about.

[00:20:40] Guess who the true early American patriots supported?

[00:20:46] They didn't support the current government that they had.

[00:20:51] And yet today, they want you to believe that patriotism means that you support everything the government wants.

[00:20:58] A true patriot defends liberty and the people.

[00:21:02] And just naming a bill the Patriot Act and voting for that doesn't make you a patriot.

[00:21:10] The true patriot will repeal the Patriot Act is what they will do.

[00:21:15] Another thing the American people have been enticed into believing is that if you support the free market system

[00:21:23] and you don't support the welfare state, that you can't be a humanitarian.

[00:21:29] That's total nonsense.

[00:21:31] If you really care about your fellow man, and you care about prosperity, and you care about peace,

[00:21:39] you have to care about liberty, not socialism and welfarism and corporatism.

[00:21:46] We as a group are often challenged by saying,

[00:21:49] Oh, you're the people that want to go back to the dark ages.

[00:21:53] You want to go back to the dark ages of sound money.

[00:21:55] You want to go back to the dark ages of minding our own business in international affairs.

[00:22:02] But the real truth is that the old-fashioned ideas is tyranny.

[00:22:12] And we want to get away from those old-fashioned ideas.

[00:22:15] Freedom is a new idea.

[00:22:17] And it's only been tried in a short period of time.

[00:22:19] And that's when the world has become more productive and poverty has been wiped out.

[00:22:26] But what do we see now?

[00:22:27] We're drifting back in that direction and people are moving into poverty, even in this country,

[00:22:33] because they do not understand and do not defend the principles of liberty.

[00:22:38] Approximately a hundred years ago or so, philosophically, this country accepted the notion that freedom was made up of two parts.

[00:22:48] Two parts.

[00:22:49] One, where your personal liberties mean one thing, and on the other hand, your economic liberties are separate.

[00:22:56] That is complete nonsense.

[00:22:58] Liberty is one unit.

[00:23:00] You have a right to your life.

[00:23:02] You have a right to live your life the way you want.

[00:23:04] You have a right to work hard.

[00:23:07] And you ought to have a right to keep the fruits of your labor.

[00:23:11] In one of the debates, we were asked as a group,

[00:23:14] what do you think is the greatest moral crisis that we're facing today in this country?

[00:23:19] And the thought that crossed my mind during that debate,

[00:23:22] and I still believe it's one of the most serious moral crises we face,

[00:23:27] and that is we as a nation have come to accept,

[00:23:31] at least the policies go in that direction,

[00:23:34] that we as a nation now accept the principle of preventive war,

[00:23:39] actually start a war.

[00:23:46] There is no moral justification from that,

[00:23:50] and there certainly is no constitutional justification to fight these many wars

[00:23:54] that we have been fighting without a declaration of war.

[00:23:57] Ron Paul's speeches are always stellar.

[00:24:00] This one, no different.

[00:24:00] Quick pause, back to it in seconds on Liberty Roundtable Live.

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[00:30:12] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West.

[00:30:18] You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show.

[00:30:21] All right.

[00:30:32] Back with you live, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:30:34] Ron Paul doing a phenomenal job giving a speech back in 2008 promoting the sacred cause of liberty.

[00:30:41] Talking about how and why we have lost our republic.

[00:30:44] Speaking at a presidential campaign event across from the GOP convention at the time because they wouldn't stand for Ron Paul.

[00:30:53] The problem is, you know what?

[00:30:55] They literally broke all kinds of rules and laws to prevent Ron Paul from doing well back in 2008.

[00:31:00] And the deep state of the Republicans and Democrats continues.

[00:31:04] That is for sure.

[00:31:06] Well, Ron, as he was speaking, he finished the last segment before the commercial break talking about war.

[00:31:13] He continues that discussion now and he talks about war.

[00:31:17] He highlights really what we've done wrong, what the problems are.

[00:31:21] He talks about money.

[00:31:23] He talks about 9-11.

[00:31:25] He talks about just so many topics.

[00:31:27] The crowd just loves it.

[00:31:28] It is just tremendous work by Ron Paul.

[00:31:32] And all I can tell you is he just does so well.

[00:31:35] I mean, it's a great, great speech full of the truth.

[00:31:38] The people love it.

[00:31:39] They're just so excited to be there and hear truth come out of a leader's mouth.

[00:31:44] To hear honesty and candor.

[00:31:47] Direct, clear, concise truths.

[00:31:50] Liberty spoken from the pulpit, if you will.

[00:31:52] It is just something to behold when you listen to Ron.

[00:31:56] And kind of feel of the message that he's sending and what he's trying to do.

[00:31:59] And it's just wow.

[00:32:00] Anyway, I'm going to have Ron Paul continue here on Liberty Roundtable Live.

[00:32:05] We take the oath of office to obey the Constitution when we're sworn into office.

[00:32:10] And we take that when we're sworn into the military.

[00:32:13] And we swear to uphold the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

[00:32:21] Guess what?

[00:32:22] We do a pretty good job defending against foreign threats.

[00:32:27] We overdo that because we have no foreign threats.

[00:32:31] We have no threat that somebody's going to invade this country.

[00:32:35] We have a threat of terrorism.

[00:32:37] But that is a consequence of a seriously flawed foreign policy.

[00:32:42] We overdo our concerns about our foreign threats.

[00:32:46] But we do forget about the threat from our domestic conditions that we have here.

[00:32:53] And since 9-11, our liberties have been threatened.

[00:32:56] They have been undermined.

[00:32:57] We are less free since 9-11.

[00:32:59] We're going in the wrong direction.

[00:33:01] We're going in the wrong direction.

[00:33:01] Both parties in these last several decades, and especially in the last decade, has accepted

[00:33:08] the notion of the unitary president, which is essentially a dictatorship, allowing the president

[00:33:14] to make decisions on his own.

[00:33:19] Just think of the inconsistency of turning this power over to the executive branch and then

[00:33:26] allowing the president to make these decisions, writing executive orders.

[00:33:30] There should be essentially no executive orders.

[00:33:33] There are very, very few executive orders.

[00:33:41] And we can't have a president that goes and takes a bill and arbitrarily writes a signing

[00:33:48] statement and says, oh, I only like part of this bill.

[00:33:50] I'm going to ignore the other part.

[00:33:52] No presidential signing statements to have line item vetoes.

[00:33:57] So what about the bureaucrats in Washington?

[00:34:00] Do you think they should have the power to write law?

[00:34:03] Where did they get this power?

[00:34:07] Only the Congress is supposed to write the laws, and yet bureaucrats are writing the laws

[00:34:12] all the time.

[00:34:13] Just think of the Federal Register.

[00:34:16] Volumes and volumes and volumes.

[00:34:18] And if you don't understand every single regulation, you can get into big trouble.

[00:34:23] And yet, isn't it wonderful?

[00:34:26] Isn't it wonderful that the Constitution is not complex?

[00:34:29] We can read it, and most school kids should be able to understand it.

[00:34:33] It might be one of the reasons the Constitution is not taught in our public schools, because

[00:34:44] if we raised up a new generation of individuals, they might realize that this whole system of

[00:34:50] government that we're inheriting and that we're working with and trying to change is unconstitutional.

[00:34:54] We shouldn't have it.

[00:34:55] Another reason why we have lost the republic, it didn't come all of a sudden, is it's come

[00:35:01] slowly and insidiously.

[00:35:03] The last hundred years has been tough on the republic.

[00:35:05] But it started immediately after the Constitution.

[00:35:07] I mean, the Jeffersonians argued with the Hamiltonians, and they talked about central banking

[00:35:12] and big government and sedition acts.

[00:35:15] And so the fights were going on very early to undermine these principles that the founders

[00:35:20] understood.

[00:35:21] But today, it's been more rapid, it's insidious and slowly.

[00:35:25] But I think what has lulled so many people to sleep has been that we have been pretty prosperous.

[00:35:30] We're still fairly prosperous.

[00:35:32] But there is a big difference today in why the people are awakening is they know that it's

[00:35:37] an illusion.

[00:35:38] They know that the prosperity is actually going down, and they're starting to realize that

[00:35:42] this prosperity comes from too much borrowing and too much spending and too much inflation.

[00:35:48] You know, it is sad that we are having this threat of terrorism because there's a clash

[00:35:54] of civilization.

[00:35:55] Another civilization wants to attack us because we are a certain civilization.

[00:35:59] I haven't bought into that.

[00:36:01] But there is some religious problems in the world that helps contribute to this, and there's

[00:36:05] a foreign policy problem that contributes to it.

[00:36:08] But I do believe that there is a real clash and an argument between radical Muslim fundamentalists

[00:36:15] in contrast to secular Muslims.

[00:36:18] It just happens that we as a nation have allied ourselves with secular Muslims, imposed our will

[00:36:24] by propping up these puppet governments in the Middle East, antagonizing and actually giving

[00:36:29] motivation to the radicalism that wants to come here to kill us.

[00:36:34] But why should that be so strange?

[00:36:45] What if somebody came over here that looked differently than us, had different religious and different

[00:36:50] values, and put an air base on our land and imposed their will?

[00:36:55] The one good thing that would come of that is this whole country would be totally unified

[00:37:00] because we would resent the enforcement and the occupation of any foreign power on our land.

[00:37:08] Civilization advances when you have less power in government.

[00:37:12] The more power you have in government, the more they resort to the ancient tradition of the warrior spirit.

[00:37:19] The warrior spirit where everything is gained by going out and robbing and killing and plundering.

[00:37:25] And today it's a little bit different.

[00:37:27] They plunder through inflating the currency and taxation, but it's still plundering.

[00:37:33] But it's power in the hands of government.

[00:37:35] We had an example, a beautiful example of minimal power in our government,

[00:37:41] and then we had maximum productivity and maximum wealth.

[00:37:45] But today we think too much of the wealth and believe that government provides this

[00:37:49] rather than understanding that wealth and prosperity comes from freedom and productivity

[00:37:55] and not from the government.

[00:37:57] One other thing that we have done to help contribute to the loss of our republic

[00:38:01] has been this notion that we should give up some of our liberties to be safe and secure.

[00:38:14] Absolutely never a reason to give up one ounce of freedom for the sake of security.

[00:38:20] It won't work.

[00:38:21] Besides our flawed foreign policy, there were a few other problems that contributed to 9-11.

[00:38:25] One was our lack of clear understanding of how the Second Amendment is supposed to work.

[00:38:35] And once again, even before 9-11, it was assumed the government would take care of us and be safe.

[00:38:40] They were in charge of airport security.

[00:38:43] And after some hijacking in the 70s, we were all taught,

[00:38:47] one thing you never do is resist anybody that wants to take over an airplane.

[00:38:51] And certainly the airlines wouldn't be allowed to have guns on the airplane.

[00:38:56] That would be terrible.

[00:38:59] But, you know, we have companies in this country still today.

[00:39:03] These companies are armored cars and they carry money around and they have guns

[00:39:08] and they do a pretty good job protecting their cargo.

[00:39:11] But we were handicapped in this country because we were dependent on the government

[00:39:15] and our cargo, us, our passengers, weren't protected as they should have been.

[00:39:20] You know, they said that, no, they're too dangerous.

[00:39:23] But can you imagine what four airplanes involved?

[00:39:26] Maybe four guns or just the knowledge that the guns were there might have prevented the whole thing.

[00:39:32] There have been some serious consequence of our lack of respect and our loss of liberty

[00:39:37] and lack of concern and defense of our republic.

[00:39:40] And we're suffering the consequences.

[00:39:42] This is what we're talking about.

[00:39:43] How can we reverse this trend?

[00:39:45] I think we have to understand how it happened, what the problems were,

[00:39:49] and what we have to aim for.

[00:39:51] But we've had a lot of problems because of this.

[00:39:54] Number one, economic problems,

[00:39:56] because they do not understand the Constitution and economics on monetaries.

[00:40:02] I mean, it is very clear what we should be doing.

[00:40:04] The founders knew and understood something about inflation.

[00:40:08] The runaway inflation of the continental dollar was devastating to the economy,

[00:40:12] so they were explicit.

[00:40:13] They said no emitting of bills of credit, no printing money, no paper money,

[00:40:18] and that only gold and silver should be legal tender.

[00:40:21] I can give you a signal yet.

[00:40:33] There is no authority in the Constitution authorizing a central bank,

[00:40:38] which means there should be no Federal Reserve System.

[00:40:43] Can you believe that 18 months ago, at the beginning of this campaign,

[00:40:47] that I didn't believe any of you existed and cared about or understood anything about the Federal Reserve?

[00:40:59] You know, as a consequence of our lack of concern for the protection of liberties,

[00:41:04] we have suffered tremendously from this.

[00:41:07] We don't have privacy anymore.

[00:41:09] We passed bills like the Patriot Act and the FISA legislation,

[00:41:12] and one, the military commissions act.

[00:41:17] No military commissions act.

[00:41:18] We need to defend habeas corpus.

[00:41:22] And the one thing that we don't need that they're doing in the name of catching all those potential terrorists

[00:41:29] is we do not need and should not accept a national ID card.

[00:41:49] Another war that's been going on for a good many years, but especially since the early 70s,

[00:41:54] we have spent hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars on this particular war,

[00:41:59] but it's been war on American citizens more than it's been a war to change these conditions.

[00:42:05] And that is the war on drugs, which has been a complete, total failure.

[00:42:10] The war on drugs has led us to a condition where the states pass laws that say that if you happen to be ill,

[00:42:18] you are sick, you're getting chemotherapy, you have AIDS,

[00:42:21] and you get benefit by smoking marijuana, and the law permits you to do it,

[00:42:26] which should be permissible in a republic.

[00:42:29] No, the federal government actually arrests sick people

[00:42:33] in the name of compassionate conservatism and putting people in prison.

[00:42:45] But some say, well, it's dangerous.

[00:42:47] You might do other things, and there's a danger to you on what you do with your own body.

[00:42:52] Yeah, you know, I made a comment once in a speech on the House floor.

[00:42:56] I said, yes, some of the strongest drug warriors in Washington, D.C.,

[00:43:01] rant and rave about the possibility of a sick person using marijuana for their illness at the same time.

[00:43:07] But guess what?

[00:43:08] They have no hesitation to imbibe in that drug called alcohol,

[00:43:14] a more dangerous drug.

[00:43:25] The war has caused us to do so many foolish things.

[00:43:28] Not only is it a violation of freedom of choice and taking your own risk,

[00:43:32] it violates the concept of states' rights and state legislation,

[00:43:36] but it also has done something rather weird in many ways.

[00:43:41] This whole idea, and it's only recent, it's in the lifetime of many of us here.

[00:43:46] It was the first federal law against the use of marijuana that occurred in 1937, I believe.

[00:43:52] 1937, before that, people did use that.

[00:43:54] States had the right to regulate, but it's a recent onset.

[00:43:59] But during the war, it was important that a related plant to marijuana called hemp was used.

[00:44:09] They were encouraged to grow it.

[00:44:11] It was useful in the war effort.

[00:44:13] You can make clothes and medical problems and food products out of hemp.

[00:44:19] But we are obsessed and confused, and what does the federal government do?

[00:44:24] If you go out and plant hemp plants, you're going to go to jail.

[00:44:28] What's going on?

[00:44:34] Oh, no.

[00:44:35] It's a drug.

[00:44:36] Somebody might smoke it.

[00:44:39] But you know what?

[00:44:40] To get high on a hemp cigarette, the cigarette has to be big as a telephone pole.

[00:44:45] This is a very, very serious issue.

[00:44:57] And the last thing I ever want to leave anybody with is that I think drugs are safe.

[00:45:04] I think drugs are very dangerous.

[00:45:06] I think illegal drugs, the ones that are currently illegal, are very, very dangerous, and we should be very cautious about it.

[00:45:11] But I also, as a physician, recognize the great danger of prescription drugs.

[00:45:18] What about the government mandating mental health testing for all our school kids?

[00:45:24] Run these pilot programs.

[00:45:30] They find that 10% of our students really need help with these psychotropic drugs.

[00:45:36] That's the kind of drug regulation that we need.

[00:45:38] We need to stop that.

[00:45:39] This whole issue of hemp is rather fascinating, not only in the idea of personal choices and states' rights,

[00:45:59] but also the stupid complications that come from it.

[00:46:03] So what do we do?

[00:46:05] We talk about our energy problems, and we do because the government's too much involved.

[00:46:08] They subsidize one form of energy, and they prohibit the other form of energy.

[00:46:13] They put roadblocks in front of nuclear energy, and then they go and subsidize raising corn to make ethanol,

[00:46:19] which doesn't make any economic sense.

[00:46:25] The Brazilians know how to make ethanol from sugar cane,

[00:46:30] and they can actually sell us ethanol made in Brazil cheaper than we can make it from corn in this country.

[00:46:38] But what happened?

[00:46:39] We put a tariff on it to punish you, so you have to pay more for it.

[00:46:43] But there is a better source of ethanol, and it happens to be hemp.

[00:46:52] The founders were great.

[00:46:54] They knew how important freedom of choice is and how valuable the marketplace is.

[00:47:00] Government bureaucrats and politicians are incapable of making correct economic decisions.

[00:47:06] They are capable of only making mistakes.

[00:47:08] This whole notion that the federal government has to tell us what we can eat and drink and smoke leads to some other silly things.

[00:47:23] Because today, can you believe this?

[00:47:28] Can you believe that the federal government has regulations on the delivery of raw milk?

[00:47:35] That is real dangerous, giving you that much freedom that you can make up your own mind about whether or not you can drink whole milk.

[00:47:48] But there are restrictions and restraints, and it just goes on and on.

[00:47:54] And it comes from the concession that we need a little bit of government or a little bit of welfare.

[00:48:00] I've heard so many times over the years that, yes, I'm opposed to this welfare system, and I'm opposed to this, unless you need it.

[00:48:08] But if you concede it and say, well, there's only a few people that need it, and there has to be a safety net.

[00:48:14] The problem with that argument is you assume it's going to be a small percentage of people that are going to get the help,

[00:48:20] but you've conceded 100% of the principle.

[00:48:29] And then what happens is if there's something that comes for free, you subsidize something, you get more of it,

[00:48:37] and it leads to the devastating complications of what a welfare society comes to.

[00:48:42] But not only that, is so often the good motivations, the moral high ground that the other sides so often have,

[00:48:50] is it doesn't work out.

[00:48:52] It doesn't really help those people, whether it's domestic welfare or national and foreign welfare.

[00:48:56] What it generally helps are the people who are in power and in control and the corporations.

[00:49:02] If you have a housing program, and we've just witnessed what happens when the government gets involved in directing housing money

[00:49:09] and the malinvestment through the Federal Reserve.

[00:49:13] So what they do is they end up doing the same thing over and over again.

[00:49:23] And what we need to do is break up the cycle and say that we have to stop this,

[00:49:29] because if not, it'll bankrupt and destroy our country and destroy our liberties.

[00:49:34] There is one issue that frequently I barely mention, and I'm going to talk about it a little bit more tonight.

[00:49:42] And that is the bum-wrap we get who believe in freedom that we don't care about the environment.

[00:49:49] You know, that is just not true.

[00:49:51] The environment, if you think about it, has been damaged very often by bad federal government regulations.

[00:50:00] The dependency on government to build our rivers and our dams and our levees and say that government will take care of us,

[00:50:09] and they build them in the wrong places, and we have these consequences.

[00:50:13] But the environment can be protected by the marketplace and strict adherence to property rights.

[00:50:19] People do not...

[00:50:20] None of us have a right to pollute our neighbor's property.

[00:50:29] We don't have a right to pollute their property, their air, or their water.

[00:50:33] A strict adherence to this would protect the environment.

[00:50:37] Just like in welfare, the corporations benefit.

[00:50:40] In some of the rules and regulations in the environment, certain corporations benefit by that as well.

[00:50:45] Somebody abuses the system.

[00:50:47] That's why governments should be very minimal, very minimal in protecting liberty.

[00:50:52] This does not give you license.

[00:50:54] Liberty is not license.

[00:50:56] It means that you have a right to your own life, but you don't have a right to do any harm to your neighbor's property or another person.

[00:51:03] That is the one limitation that we have.

[00:51:13] The one thing that I believe is coming out as a consequence of the campaign,

[00:51:19] the campaign in the primary has been transition to the campaign for liberty,

[00:51:24] and now we've had a grand three days, and we're climaxing that campaign right now.

[00:51:29] And there's every reason in the world for us to be energized.

[00:51:34] All I can say is a year, year and a half ago, I had no idea what it would lead to,

[00:51:42] and it's led to a lot more than I ever dreamed of.

[00:51:45] But I firmly believe now that our day is coming.

[00:51:51] Ladies and gentlemen, Ron Paul.

[00:51:53] Well, folks, we've got a little bit more in the second hour to cover from Ron Paul's incredible speech.

[00:51:59] I've been taking out all the clapping and all the details.

[00:52:02] The speech was quite long, but I'm reducing it my very best by taking out a lot of the clapping

[00:52:07] and a lot of that very long segments of clapping and chanting

[00:52:10] and having a great time at this convention back in 2008 from Ron Paul.

[00:52:14] Just doing a phenomenal job.

[00:52:16] But he ended this segment on this idea, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:52:19] Think about the idea for a minute.

[00:52:20] Wow, it's incredible.

[00:52:21] The idea is, you know what?

[00:52:23] Our day is coming.

[00:52:25] And Ron Paul really believed that back in 2008.

[00:52:27] Now, I realize that our day is slow in coming,

[00:52:29] but I do believe that one day there will be a contingent of American people

[00:52:34] who truly believe in God, family, and country,

[00:52:37] who truly believe in protecting life, liberty, and property,

[00:52:41] and who truly will make a big difference for the republic.

[00:52:45] Okay, we've lost our republic because of the immorality of the people.

[00:52:49] We can get it back.

[00:52:50] And the only way to get it back is to bring back morality in the people.

[00:52:54] We need people to turn to God Almighty and then to realize that it's about God.

[00:52:58] It's about repentance.

[00:52:59] He promises us he'll heal our land and protect us if we keep his commandments.

[00:53:04] That's what we need to do.

[00:53:05] And then it's about God, family, family, you know,

[00:53:08] the God-ordained traditional family, right?

[00:53:10] God, family, and then a constitutional republic, country.

[00:53:14] That is the key to the exercise, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:53:17] And Ron Paul is absolutely nailing it.

[00:53:20] 16 years later, I just wanted to celebrate his tremendous contribution

[00:53:24] to the sacred cause of liberty and add my testimony to his about the solutions

[00:53:29] and where we need to turn for guidance, for peace,

[00:53:32] and that is to Jesus Christ, the author of our liberty.

[00:53:36] I am Sam Bushman.

[00:53:37] Hour one in the can, hour two coming up.

[00:53:39] This is Liberty Roundtable Live, libertyroundtable.com, lovingliberty.net.

[00:53:44] Spread the word, share the love, will you please?

[00:53:45] And God save the republic of the United States of America.