In an age where information is easily accessible, I find it quite shocking that a man like Ron Paul can be silenced so easily by the media at large. When there was a time where journalist were motivated by getting the story out, by finding and researching the truth, be it corruption, exposing corporate and government lies, we now have sensationalism and propaganda.
Recently we survived an assault on our ability to gather information freely on the web, but for how long? How long before the corporations or government snuff out and then dominate the social conscience? We're slowly being condition to accept the status quo bias.
As an American, I like to think that we have a moral obligation to support and defend our constitution. But I'm also starting to think that that is an idea that we have or are taking for granted. Like the idea of "American Patriotism" is just some phase, a nostalgic sigh of some patriotic fervor that belongs in the past and has no place in our time.
Apathy it seems has doomed us to slavery and I think/feel that maybe that's what we want. After all, we're taught to worship comfort, crave entertainment, praise the "weekend" and loathe hard work and sweat. We live in a welfare state, that has gone beyond the concept of helping its people and now is just spoiling them.
But what does this have to do with Ron Paul?
Probably nothing. But part of the message that I think he's giving us is that we need to draw away our dependency on Government and start depending our ourselves. After all, dependency is like a chain around our necks. A chain around our necks makes us slaves.
So what does this have to do with Ron Paul? Well, he's being silenced. Because he's asking us to wake up. To forgo comfort for liberty. Forgo the guided cage for freedom. To reclaim our constitution before this grand experiment of personal liberty and freedom gets snuffed out like all other great ideas that frees the people to choose for themselves.
There is a reason Ron Paul is being silenced. They're scared, Not of him, but of us. If we wake up and see that the corporations and lobbyist have taken over OUR government, OUR GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, that we will rise against their tyranny.
There is a saying, " There is no greater evil then tyranny hidden behind the mask of virtue" Well I say this, there is nothing more conclusive to our willingness to become slaves then to be temped by the easy road of excess that is not brought on by the sweat of our brow.
Beware America, our desires to be "Comforted" comes with a price if not drawn from our toils. Take back our Constitution. Ron Paul 2012
