Ron Paul Joins the UN Conspiracy

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Saturday February 09, 2013 · 2:41 PM PST

2013/02/09 · 14:41

I have to say, I got a good chuckle out this, considering how often the UN figures in right-wing conspiracy theories.

Ron Paul Calls on United Nations to Confiscate Domain Names of His Supporters
Earlier today, Ron Paul filed an international UDRP complaint against RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org with WIPO, a global governing body that is an agency of the United Nations. The complaint calls on the agency to expropriate the two domain names from his supporters without compensation and hand them over to Ron Paul...

Last month, after Ron Paul expressed regret on the Alex Jones show over not owning RonPaul.com (in an interview titled “Ron Paul: The Internet Is Our Last Chance to Awaken America“), dozens of supporters urged us to contact Ron Paul to work out a deal...

The value we put on the deal was $250k; we are getting our mailing list appraised right now but we are confident it is easily worth more than $250k all by itself. Claims that we tried to sell Ron Paul “his name” for $250k or even $800k are completely untrue, and there is little doubt that our mailing list would have enabled Ron Paul to raise several million dollars for the liberty movement this year. It would have been a win/win/win situation for everyone involved.

Instead of responding to our offer, making a counter offer, or even accepting our FREE gift of RonPaul.org, Ron Paul went to the United Nations and is trying to use its legal process related to domain name disputes to actively deport us from our domain names without compensation.

Later, they quote Paul himself talking about the UN...

The choice is very clear: we either follow the Constitution or submit to UN global governance. American national sovereignty cannot survive if we allow our domestic laws to be crafted by an international body. This needs to be stated publicly more often. If we continue down the UN path, America as we know it will cease to exist.

A lot of their commenters are siding with Paul on this. A typical comment along those lines...

Seriously guys? So……where does all the money go for the sales of the hoodies, shirts, caps, cups, necklaces, stickers and so on go to. I’m thinking Ron sees 0 profits from that. And you really wonder why he would not like the idea of paying you 250k for this site. Sure, go ahead and keep making money off of the mans reputation and name. Sounds legit.

Actually, I find it hard to disagree with that sentiment.

St. Aquinas, Paul Ryan and school lunches

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Thursday April 26, 2012 · 9:37 PM PDT

2012/04/26 · 21:37

Via this diary, I learned that Paul Ryan is now claiming that his philosophy is not inspired by Ayn Rand, but in fact by Thomas Aquinas.

The choice quote was:

I reject her philosophy [...] It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person’s view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas [...] Don’t give me Ayn Rand.

Given this statement, and Ryan's central role in the GOP's budgetary thinking, one is led to wonder just how much the Christian values of St. Aquinas are reflected in the priorities of House Republicans.

Here is an example of those priorities, as told by Think Progress:

House GOP Would Kick 280,000 Children Off School Lunch Program To Protect Tax Cut For Millionaires
House Republicans recently proposed cuts to nutrition assistance that will kick 280,000 low-income children off automatic enrollment in the Free School Lunch and Breakfast Program. Those same kids and 1.5 million other people will also lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly food stamp benefits) that help them afford food at home.

Ten years’ worth of these nutrition cuts could be prevented for the price of one year of tax cuts on 3,340 multimillion dollar estates that House Republicans are protecting in their budget.

Contrast that with this quote:

Now, according to the natural order instituted by divine providence, material goods are provided for the satisfaction of human needs. Therefore the division and appropriation of property, which proceeds from human law, must not hinder the satisfaction of man's necessity from such goods. Equally, whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Graziani "The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry; the clothing you shut away, to the naked; and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II-II, Q 66 A 7.

Do you think that St. Aquinas would approve of Ryan and his GOP colleagues?

Rand Paul: we don't need no Consumer Product Safety Commission

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Tuesday January 25, 2011 · 6:16 PM PST

2011/01/25 · 18:16

According to TPM, Senator Rand Paul is going to come out with a budget proposal that includes $500 billion in cuts. One of his brilliant ideas is to completely eliminate the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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Sunday January 09, 2011 · 11:05 PM PST

2011/01/09 · 23:05

This is my first diary. Pardon me for being brief, but after a ran across this, I just had to inform folks around here about yet another case of dkos being run through the mud for "balance".

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