Ron Paul draws thousands to the People’s Republic of Berkeley
April 7th, 2012
I had the good fortune to attend the Ron Paul rally at UC Berkeley on April 5th hosted by Students for Liberty. Originally the event was to be held at the Zellerbach Auditorium on campus and I had acquired an early seating voucher so I could go in before general admission, but there was such an overwhelming number of people who registered early that they moved the event to a larger location. Instead it was held at the Memorial Glade outside the Doe Library. There were easily thousands in attendance. I haven’t seen any official numbers yet.
This after the good doctor set a new campaign attendance record on April 3rd when 6,400 attended his rally in Chico. The media reported it as “hundreds of participants.” Then he broke his own record the next day when 8,500 attended his rally at UCLA. This the same day that the Fox news site lead with “Paul Increasingly Absent From Campaign.”
Here’s video of the complete speech. It was more or less a stump speech of stuff anyone who follows Paul’s career has heard before. End the Fed. End the war. Free the market. Free the world. He cracked a few more jokes than usual. But I was really impressed by this section about 19 minutes in.
“Right now we’re seeing the beginning of the end of the dollar, because the prices are starting to go up. You cannot keep printing money forever and think that the world will always take the dollar. Right now there are plans being laid for the replacement of the dollar. Other countries have suggested that this be done and they have met their fate. Because Saddam Hussein wanted to replace the dollar. And in Libya Gaddafi wanted to replace the dollar. Right now Iran would like to replace the dollar. And they get in trouble for this, but we’re the ones who will be in trouble because economic law will dictate to us that they will not always accept our dollars just by printing them. Right now there is way too much trust in the dollar. Therefore what we have to do is restore the understanding and restore the principle of sound money. That is the reason we don’t need a Federal Reserve and we need commodity money such as gold and silver.”
You don’t often hear anyone anywhere near the mainstream point out that US military adventurism has more to do with monetary policy than oil. Probably because if it was ever acknowledged the anti war movement and the anti Fed movement would have a common enemy. But as long they keep everyone thinking it’s about oil they can keep the peace crowd and the environmentalist crowd thinking bigger government running the alternative energy sector (read: Solyndra) is the answer to world peace.
I’ll tell you what I’d really like to see. After the campaign is over, and the good doctor has retired from politics, I want to read a tell-all book where Ron Paul says all the things he can’t as a politician, and tells us all the inside dirt he’s too much of a statesman to say while he’s in office.
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