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TexasTowelie

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Sun Feb 19, 2012, 12:26 PM Feb 2012

Ron Paul says US `slipping into a fascist system' [View all]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul warned the U.S. is "slipping into a fascist system" dominated by government and businesses as he held a fiery rally Saturday night upstaging established Republican Party banquets a short distance away.

The Texas congressman drew a couple thousand standing and chanting people to Kansas City's Union Station as the party's establishment dined on steak across the street at the Missouri GOP's annual conference. Kansas Republicans were holding a similar convention in a suburb across the state line.

Paul staged his rally near the nation's World War I museum, asserting that the U.S. got off track about 100 years ago during the era of President Woodrow Wilson, who led the nation through World War I and unsuccessfully advocated for the nation's involvement in a forerunner of the United Nations.

"We've slipped away from a true Republic," Paul said. "Now we're slipping into a fascist system where it's a combination of government and big business and authoritarian rule and the suppression of the individual rights of each and every American citizen."

http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2012-02-18/ron-paul-says-us-slipping-fascist-system

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Clueless, gutless, Libertarian fuck. Have the balls to run third party. nt onehandle Feb 2012 #1
He cant run third party. / correction.. actually I think he can. DCBob Feb 2012 #7
Guess that LIEbermans state was lacking a sore loser law, since he ran as independent against peacebird Feb 2012 #15
Corrrect, Connecticutt does not have one. DCBob Feb 2012 #17
Insane ravings treestar Feb 2012 #2
Except for big business buying and owning every politician in town. geckosfeet Feb 2012 #4
uhm.. kenfrequed Feb 2012 #18
Not falling in line with Paul. Just making an observation. geckosfeet Feb 2012 #32
Actually kenfrequed Feb 2012 #37
Corporatism? Capitolacracy? Industrialism? Or is it just plain cronyism? geckosfeet Feb 2012 #38
It does kenfrequed Feb 2012 #39
I have been saying this Lawlbringer Feb 2012 #42
Insane? former9thward Feb 2012 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author part man all 86 Feb 2012 #12
Because Paul would let corporations run rampant, NYC Liberal Feb 2012 #20
Well that's what I was thinking too. Along with......... socialist_n_TN Feb 2012 #22
He is half right "a combination of government and big business " bahrbearian Feb 2012 #3
And big religion Brettongarcia Feb 2012 #26
And nationalism/patriotism/miltarism; "support the troops" and war, as solution for everything Brettongarcia Feb 2012 #27
And it is HIS party that has driven this country towards a fascist system. madinmaryland Feb 2012 #6
To quote EarlG..... greatauntoftriplets Feb 2012 #8
The diagnosis may be correct, but his cure of leeches and blood-letting isn't. nt lumberjack_jeff Feb 2012 #9
amen to that!! n/t KarenS Feb 2012 #10
Lol! There you go. nt napoleon_in_rags Feb 2012 #13
hmm kenfrequed Feb 2012 #19
Ron Paul is a simpleton's concept of what a MarkCharles Feb 2012 #11
RE: your second paragraph/sentence......... socialist_n_TN Feb 2012 #23
Consider this: would a doctor and a lawmaker allow something... MarkCharles Feb 2012 #24
Of course not. He's a fascist himself.......... socialist_n_TN Feb 2012 #25
There should be a law against speech like this. The Patriot Act just doesn't go far enough.... think Feb 2012 #14
Thank you. woo me with science Feb 2012 #31
.....says Mr. Business-Before-All-Else himself........ kestrel91316 Feb 2012 #16
here is a message that truly captures the real Ron Paul Douglas Carpenter Feb 2012 #21
Ron Paul knows he has no chance, jonthebru Feb 2012 #28
Agreed Cosmocat Feb 2012 #29
and I take it that he's in favor of it? Fozzledick Feb 2012 #30
He's right on that Cherchez la Femme Feb 2012 #33
So says the biggest fascist leghumper of them all... fusilier0770 Feb 2012 #34
Where has Paul been Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2012 #35
Fuck Ron Paul. n/t JTFrog Feb 2012 #36
What a lightweight. Bruce Wayne Feb 2012 #40
He's kind of right about this. MrSlayer Feb 2012 #41
No, our masked friend is right. Arneoker Feb 2012 #45
FRP. nt DevonRex Feb 2012 #43
Heh, Ron Paul's corporate cuddling = unlimited corporate drone surveillance joshcryer Feb 2012 #44
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