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Ron Paul: Momentum Is Too Great For Growth Of Big Government
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Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute,

It was almost ten years ago when, before the House International Relations Committee, I objected to the US Government funding NGOs to meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine. At the time the Orange Revolution had forced a regime change in Ukraine with the help of millions of dollars from Washington.

At that time I told the Committee:

We do not know exactly how many millionsor tens of millionsof dollars the United States government spent on the presidential election in Ukraine. We do know that much of that money was targeted to assist one particular candidate, and that through a series of cut-out non-governmental organizations (NGOs)both American and Ukrainianmillions of dollars ended up in support of the presidential candidate...

I was worried about millions of dollars that the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its various related organizations spent to meddle in Ukraines internal affairs. But it turns out that was only the tip of the iceberg.

Last December, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland gave a speech in which she admitted that since 1991 the US government has:

[I]nvested more than 5 billion dollars to help Ukraine...in the development of democratic institutions and skills in promoting civil society and a good form of government.

This is the same State Department official who was caught on tape just recently planning in detail the overthrow of the Ukrainian government.

That five billion dollars appears to have bought a revolution in Ukraine. But what do the US taxpayers get, who were forced to pay for this interventionism? Nothing good. Ukraine is a bankrupt country that will need tens of billions of dollars to survive the year. Already the US-selected prime minister has made a trip to Washington to ask for more money.

And what will the Ukrainians get? Their democracy has been undermined by the US-backed coup in Kiev. In democracies, power is transferred peacefully through elections, not seized by rebels in the streets. At least it used to be.

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Ron Paul endorses Birman for Congress

Former U.S. congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul endorsed Republican congressional candidate Igor Birman in his race against U.S. Rep. Dr. Ami Bera (D-Elk Grove).

Paul, a Republican from Texas, said he endorsed Birman because of the candidates understanding of civil liberties and emphasis on liberty, which is what our government is supposed to be about.

He said he was also impressed with Birmans personal story. Birman was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States as a teenager along with his parents and younger brother.

Igor Birman has seen first-hand what happens when the government takes control of every aspect of your life, he said. That experience will make him a valuable member of the House of Representatives and a leader for smaller government and more personal liberties.

Paul added, He understands the Constitution as well as, if not better than, people who have lived here their entire lives.

Birman, chief of state for U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove), said he appreciated receiving the endorsement.

I am absolutely thrilled that the leader of the liberty movement has endorsed our campaign, he said. Dr. Paul has inspired millions to fight to restore our federal government to its proper constitutional role.

Paul said he doesnt expect to endorse more than 10 candidates in the 2014 elections.

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Election News: Ron Paul backs Birman for Congress

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Ron Paul will bring his libertarian message of smaller government, personal responsibility and minding our own business to Syracuse University Wednesday.

Paul is the former Texas Congressman who twice sought the Republican Party nomination to run for president. His son is Sen. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, a potential GOP candidate for president in 2016.

In a telephone interview Friday, Paul talked about his son, his views on U.S. involvement in Crimea, government spying and his popularity on college campuses.

The interview included some questions inspired by Syracuse.com readers, who are identified.

Q: Do you think your son will run for president? A: It sure sounds like it, but I'm sure he hasn't made a final decision yet.

Q: What advice would you give him if he decides to run? Is there anything you would have done differently from your own experience? A: The better he does, be prepared because the enemy will come down hard on you. ... He's doing very well, so if the establishment politicians get annoyed, they can get pretty nasty.

Q (from Parishmom): Given your differences from the Republican Party on social, economic and political issues, why have you chosen to remain in the party? A: I don't think of myself as being so much a member of the party and promoting the party. Even when I was in Congress, the job wasn't to promote the party as much as to use the party to promote the issues and see if I can get the party to be more oriented toward the Constitution and limited government and the things that I believe in. ...

The reason that people like myself end up in one of the two parties is that the system is very, very biased and it punishes those who want to be independent or in third parties because the laws make it prohibitive for getting often times on the ballot or getting in the debates.

Q (from Rustygun): How would the country be better served with the abolishment of the party system, where each candidate would run on their own platform rather than someone else's? A: I think it would be a lot better and the founders liked that idea. But it seems like it's inevitable. It's hard to prevent. So they advised that they not have a party structure and that everybody belong to one group of people who were running for office. That changed very quickly in our history.

Q (from Arthur Gilroy): The only way that anyone who is branded a "libertarian"...including your son...can win the presidency is by constructing a coalition among conservatives, liberals, younger voters and minority voters. The ongoing accusations of "racism" that have been heaped upon you in the mass media (and thus upon your son as well) are the most serious obstacle to that coalition.... How can you go about more effectively challenging that racist meme other than what you have already done? A: Well, you can't back off when people lie and have innuendos about your record, so you just ignore it. I won Congressional races here in the district 12 times, so the people who knew me best, my neighbors and friends, just never believed the stories that the enemy passes out. If you look carefully at the critics, they have their agenda. For the most part, the attackers have always been those who disagreed with me on foreign policy, who thought we should be the policeman of the world and they highly resent it.

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Ron Paul on free speech, government spying, Crimea and minding our own business

Former Congressman Ron Paul, whose views are interpreted by many as wholly representative of the libertarian movement, gets it wrong when he speaks of Crimeas right to secede, Students for Liberty President Alexander McCobin wrote in a press release Monday morning, marking a split between the student-based libertarian organization and one of the causes figureheads.

Paul has said that Putin had the law on his side when sending in troops, and likened the widely-denounced Crimean referendum to join Russia to the American Revolution. He went on to accuse the United States of helping instigate the coup that led to the overthrow of Putin-backed former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Students for Liberty called Pauls reasoning reductive, and chastised him for glossing over Russias authoritarianism:

Make no mistake about it, Crimea was annexed by Russian military force at gunpoint and its supposedly democratic referendum was a farce. Besides a suspiciously high voter turnout with legitimate international observers, the referendum gave Crimeans only two choices join Russia now or later.

Its much too simplistic to solely condemn the US for any kind of geopolitical instability in the world. Non-interventionists that sympathize with Russia by condoning Crimeas secession and blaming the West for Ukrainian crisis fail to see the larger picture. Putins government is one of the least free in the world and is clearly the aggressor in Crimea, as it was even beforehand with its support of the Yanukovych regime that shot and tortured its own citizens on the streets of Kyiv.

The recent spate of anti-war activists arrested in Russia is just one of many examples that illustrate that the Russian Federation is not a free country and everyone should be very careful with showing sympathies to an autocratic leader such as President Putin.

McCobin closed by praising Rons son, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who has strongly condemned Russias actions in the Crimea.

[McCobin authored a guest editorial for Mediaite in response to Glenn Beck calling himself a "libertarian." Read that here.]

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Ron Paul on Crimea: None of America #39;s business
In a new Washington Post op-ed, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) asks why it is that when Scotland, Catalonia, and Venice seek to secede from unresponsive gove...

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(CNN) -

Rand Paul isn't your run-of-the-mill Republican teasing 2016 ambitions.

It's early in the game, but Paul's crusade against government overreach and his willingness to buck the establishment GOP are turning heads. And his recent popularity has some arguing the Kentucky Republican might have some staying power.

"State of the Union" political panelists Newt Gingrich, Neera Tanden and Susan Page agree Paul is one of the most interesting among the potential 2016 presidential candidates.

"Here's a guy who's got Neera Tanden and Newt Gingrich in agreement that he's interesting and provocative -- and so I definitely think Rand Paul gets the 'most interesting Republican on the scene' prize for the past year," said Page, Washington bureau chief for USA Today.

Page said Paul is "clearly a factor" going into the 2016 elections.

"And if anyone thought he was just Ron Paul Two -- that's clearly not the case," she said, referring to his father, who ran for the GOP nomination in 2008 and also ran for president in 1988 as a libertarian candidate. "He's carving out his own identity, it's distinctive. Sometimes he takes on Republicans, sometimes he takes on Democrats," she said.

The libertarian-leaning senator is fresh off a speech at the historically liberal-leaning University of California at Berkeley, where he talked about the National Security Agency's surveillance program and the Republican Party's need for change.

"I think Rand Paul is actually raising profound questions that go right at the heart of the American establishment," said Gingrich, a co-host on CNN's "Crossfire" and former GOP House speaker. "Rand Paul is touching on a nerve here, which every conservative ought to take seriously."

Host Candy Crowley said Paul's interesting because he's "unpredictable on some issues."

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