Ron Paul: “They want dictatorship, they want to pass all the penalties and suffering on to the average person on Main Street,”
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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, September 26, 2008
Congressman Ron Paul says that the bailout bill is likely to pass,
heralding a 10-year plus economic depression for America and the
potential for martial law should civil unrest arise as the financial
meltdown worsens.
Speaking on The Alex Jones Show, Paul said of the bailout, “They want
dictatorship, they want to pass all the penalties and suffering on to
the average person on Main Street,” adding, “We will have a depression
or recession, it’s locked in place due to previous Federal Reserve
actions.”
“When they say that if we don’t do exactly as they say and turn over
more of our money and more of our liberties and exempt themselves from
any court in the whole nation, they’re trying to intimidate us and
lead us into doing the wrong thing,” said Paul.
The Congressman added that serious problems would arise if nothing was
done to address the problem, but that more serious consequences would
follow should the bailout be passed.
Paul warned that the only question was whether the meltdown would last
one year or ten years and how much liberty would be lost in that time
frame.
“It looks like from I see in Congress, that they’re opting for a
decade plus of depression rather than saying let’s correct our ways,
let’s balance the budget, let’s bring our troops home,” said Paul,
adding that the same course of printing money would continue -
prolonging the agony and preventing a necessary correction.
Asked if civil unrest was a possibility in the midst of an economic
depression, referencing a recent Army Times report concerning the use
of active duty military being brought back from Iraq for “Homeland
patrols” and “crowd control,” Paul questioned, “Are we going to have
martial law or are we going to have more freedoms? The more problems
that we have, the more likely it is that we’re going to have martial
law, so I do think they anticipate and they plan for these things.”
Asked if criminal investigations and prosecutions of individuals on
Wall Street should commence, Paul agreed but said that the main target
of criminal inquiry should be the Federal Reserve board itself
because, “That’s where the fraud is.”
“They want to be lawless, they don’t want to be held accountable,” he
added.
Paul said that grand juries should be convened to take on prosecutions
rather than the FBI becoming involved, stating, “We have proper
authority with that and experience with it and the Enron case is a
good example.”
The Congressman said that Greenspan and Bernanke should be criminally
charged but that such an effort would be largely symbolic. “Morally
speaking, they’re the culprits,” said Paul.
Asked what his solution to the crisis would be, Paul said, “I think
the most important thing to do is to send the message that we’re going
to quit living beyond our means and the president can set the standard
for that and he has the most control under the Constitution on foreign
policy - he can say no more wars, we’re done with the wars, we’re not
going to take on the Russians, we’re not going to take on people in
Venezuela, we’re going to start talking to the Cubans and bring our
troops home and save hundreds of billions of dollars - that would send
a powerful message that the dollar would respond to and oil prices
would come down.”
Paul said that Americans had to accept a new idea of government that
harked back to what the founders envisaged and that the welfare state
would have to unravel along with aspirations of building a
geopolitical empire.
“In the meantime the policy ought to be - shrink the size of
government, decrease regulation, work towards sound money, remove the
authority of the Fed to create money out of thin air and get tax
reduction,” stated the Congressman. Paul added that eliminating the
income tax would mean everybody becoming a lot richer and more money
would be ploughed into the economy.
“It will not solve the problem, it just delays the inevitable,” said
Paul of the bailout, adding that he expects the bill to pass in a move
that would, “Defy the American people.”
“I think they get to the point where they think they’re like God and
can control everything and they don’t realize that the market really
is more powerful than all the bankers and all the
politicians….Ultimately the underground economy is the real economy
and I think they could over step themselves and hopefully we could
come out with a better world afterwards,” concluded the Congressman.
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