Cory Burnell
Shouting From the Mountaintop

If you’ve read my columns for any length of time, you know that I believe the problem with America to be the American people themselves. Collectively we are a humanist, materialist, socialist and fascist people, and this is the very reason for projects like Christian Exodus and the Free State Project which at their core aim to change the make up of a people: South Carolinians and Hampsters respectively. (That’s just a little joke; I’m not sure how to refer to the people of New Hampshire ) Well, Dr. Ron Paul’s experience in the GOP debate on Tuesday demonstrates just how far the American people have fallen from any respectability or honest analysis.

I believe Lew Rockwell quite accurately described the degradation of the American people in this portion of his recent column:

“Ron is such a wonderful person that I'm sorry that he had to be the one to tell the truth. One could sense in the debate that he was making an enormous sacrifice here. After Guiliani spoke, the red-state fascists in the audience all started whooping up the bloodlust that the politicians have been encouraging for the last six years – a mindless display of Nazi-like nationalism that would cause the founding fathers to shudder with fear of what we've become. These people are frantic about terrorism and extremism abroad, but they need to take a good hard look in the mirror.” (emphasis added; read the entire column here)

Let me be clear that I am NOT one who suggests that everything America does or has done is evil, but I’m also not one to suggest that all we do is with pure motive either. In fact, I know human nature, and Scripture is clear that money and power corrupt and rule the lives of men. Only a fool would believe that American leaders are somehow immune to these lusts. There are a great number of reasons why we station troops and meddle in the affairs of 134 different nations, and every one of them is driven by the selfishness of some particular special interest in Washington . It cannot be argued that individual Americans receive benefits from our policing the globe commensurate with the level of tax dollars spent on the policing. No, those profiting from these government expenditures are corporate and military interests with huge lobbies in Washington and a stranglehold on control of the GOP establishment.

Ron Paul is a man who will not bow to this long standing practice of government action at the behest of corporations, and for that he must be punished and silenced by the GOP establishment. He is a man of the people, not a man who’ll toe the corporate line. He is a man who’ll analyze facts and think independently rather than follow the mindless groupthink of fools, and as a result the chairman of the Michigan GOP, Saul Anuzis, is now seeking to have Dr. Paul barred from future debates. We must not let that happen as Ron Paul is a warrior for constitutionally limited government in Washington and the debates provide a national forum for the promotion of our paleo-conservative views. So please contact Mr. Anuzis at the following:

Michigan Republican Party
Secchia-Weiser Michigan Republican Center
520 Seymour St.
Lansing , MI 48933

Phone: 517-487-5413 or FAX at 517-487-0090.

OR email at http://www.migop.org/contact_us.asp

Now why is this important if Christian Exodus is not focused on national politics, but rather on South Carolina ? Let me be clear that even if Ron Paul was to become president, America would not be put on a road toward reform. He’d be relegated to 4 years of vetoes and then be put out of office, because again, the majority of the American people do NOT desire constitutionally limited government. They will not tolerate the elimination of their government subsidies and socialist programs. Therefore, Ron Paul’s candidacy is important to us for one reason alone: he promotes the philosophies of the American Founders and Christian constitutionalists. Ron Paul’s ability to get our message to millions of people will help thousands of folks find Christian Exodus and other paleo-conservative organizations. Simply put, his candidacy will increase the number of constitutionalists in America and some of them will find Christian Exodus – the only strategy that can lead to the reestablishment of constitutionally limited government anywhere in the union.

So please do your part to keep Congressman Paul in the debates by contacting the Michigan GOP. Instruct them to cease persecuting Ron Paul. He is a warrior for our beliefs with a national podium, and we need him there as long as possible.