Ron Paul Right, Thought Controllers Wrong, On Secession (elect, constitutional, official)
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Odds are, Ron Paul has been right at a 99% success rate.
And still... he ends his political career the same way he has always maintained it; Completely without any serious influence on American politics whatsoever.
I think it's inappropriate and highly disgusting and a slap in the face to the hundreds of thousands of men who died in the civil war to have idiots like Ron Paul talk about seccession. Those were serious, moral men who were willing to give their lives for what they believed in. Today the people talking seccession are used car salesmen.
And still... he ends his political career the same way he has always maintained it; Completely without any serious influence on American politics whatsoever.
If you think he had no influence you are either a fool or blind.
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Originally Posted by HistorianDude
Not according to the people whose opinion actually matters.
"If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede."
~ Justice Antonin Scalia
And he matters why? Because you say he does?
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Originally Posted by PullMyFinger
I think it's inappropriate and highly disgusting and a slap in the face to the hundreds of thousands of men who died in the civil war to have idiots like Ron Paul talk about seccession. Those were serious, moral men who were willing to give their lives for what they believed in. Today the people talking seccession are used car salesmen.
Yep hundreds of thousands of American's died fighting the British for the right to secede and hundreds of thousands of Confederates died doing the same thing.
If you think he had no influence you are either a fool or blind.
And he matters why? Because you say he does?
Yep hundreds of thousands of American's died fighting the British for the right to secede and hundreds of thousands of Confederates died doing the same thing.
I hope you aren't comparing the idiots talking seccession these days to those people. That would be like comparing a Ford Pinto to a Ferrari.
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