Well after another wave of attacks on Twitter by Ron Paul disciples who do not allow me my own opinion, as Liberals tend to do, I have to write yet another article that will be taken as an assault on Ron Paul. It is not an assault, just an obvious observation.
Ron Paul and his disciples love to flaunt the Constitution every chance they get and I agree with them that it is what defines us as a country, but please do not use it to destroy us either.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say to ignore nations that have spoken about the destruction of the United States. Nowhere does it state that the defense of the country stops at our borders. Nowhere in the constitution does it say not to give aid to help other countries in need of our assistance.
But if we were to listen to all the Ron Paul zealots you would think that if we help out another country, with financial or military aid we have just trashed the constitution.
What Ron Paul and the vast majority of his disciples fail to realize is that we are not alone on this tiny speck of a planet. We actually share it with other countries, some good some bad, some that like the United States some that dislike us and others that want us gone.
Our founders left their countries of origin to escape persecution or to venture out and make a better life in the "new world". None of them came to a decision that the rest of the world did not matter or did not exist anymore.
I love and respect the constitution but in the grand scheme of things it comes in third in importance to me, God and Family come before it.
Today a Ron Paul disciple actually told me we can fight off the foretold apocalypse in the book of Revelation by electing Ron Paul! We can actually change what scripture has foretold will happen! We can change the mind of God!
Now as I told him, and anyone that believes that we as a human can know God's mind, you are FOOL! That arrogance is even greater than that of President Barack Obama!
The bottom line is yes, we need to follow the Constitution of the United States, but we cannot ignore the rest of the world and put our head in the sand ignoring anything and everything outside of our borders.
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people
We as a people, elect Representatives to run the government. If you do not like what they do with the power we as a people gave them, vote them out! We put them there in the first place.
We also must remember that there are higher laws than the Constitution.
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Connor Tremallo says:
I support Ron Paul; perhaps disciples/zealots is a bit out of context.
I agree that we should defend ourselves against those who threaten us, in or out of our borders, but that doesn’t mean we should act like the big guy in high school who muscles up to others because they’ve said something. Adequate research and intel on other countries should determine whether or not we should be hostile to them, and by “research and intel”, I mean we should look into their economy, military, and other aspects of their government and country to determine whether or not they are an actual threat.
Foreign aid, on the other hand, should not be a priority. Unless there is an exchange of goods and/or services, none of our money should go to other countries. It’s one thing to give money for charity, but it’s another when that money doesn’t go to the people you think you’re helping; keep in mind that our government gives money to other governments, not people. Nation building and foreign aid are well-intentioned actions, but the other side of the world is too volatile and corrupt for the kind of help we’re offering.
Also, thank you for having this site up, it’s nice to reply to a well-formed opinion in more than 140 characters.