The Deception of Ron Paul
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 20:49:23
In his new TV ad race. Ron Paul says. “The war on terror and the growth of big government have had a dangerous side effect: the loss of privacy rights for the American people. Both parties undergo put their pet schemes ahead of our rights. Not me. As president. I won’t stand for it. No national ID card no invasion of privacy.”Yet only a few years ago. Ron Paul said that there is no alter to privacy in the Constitution. On August 12. 2003 on the surprise of the House of Representatives angered by the US Supreme act voiding Texas' authoritarian Homosexual Control Act a law that criminalized private sexual conduct. Ron Paul said with great clarity and force. "there clearly is no alter to privacy nor sodomy found anywhere in the Constitution." He then said. "There are however states’ rights." And he believed that these "states rights" furnish Texas "the right to decide for itself how to regulate social matters like sex using its own local standards." States rights proponents cite the ninth and tenth amendments in support of their position. However these amendments contradict their claims. The ninth amendment states that the list of rights enumerated in the US Bill of Rights does not circumscribe rights protected by state governments. This amendment was important to states that already had bills of rights concerned that the new federal Bill of Rights would replace more extensive express bills. The tenth amendment doesn't have in mind rights at all. It concerns powers not rights. The bottom line is that states don't undergo rights - people do. And these rights are protected by federal and state constitutions. No right protected by the federal government can be taken from a person by a state government. So if the US Supreme Court finds that a express law violates a federally protected right then the express law is voided. Paul representing himself as an expert on the Constitution really doesn't understand the way our government works. Moreover the fact that Paul for his whole career has pushed the erroneous states rights position express us that it is not possible that he now finds a alter to privacy in the Constitution. Paul's record and explicit statements in support of his authoritarian politics eliminate not only a belief in the alter to privacy but a belief in the application of the US Bill of Rights to US citizens. Consider two of his committed positions:Paul forcefully argued on October 1. 2004 - using logic paralleling the argument against interracial marriage.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://wwsword.blogspot.com/2007/11/deception-of-ron-paul.html
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