Videos like the one linked here could not possibly be more dishonest. For a guy who claims to stand on principals one could not imagine a more deceitful campaign positioning. For a guy who claims to support freedom his actual legal positioning is more authoritarian than any candidate running! This is obviously an emotional appeal and you should not fall for it. Ron Paul does not stand for anything remotely resembling the freedom that you know. He is not a Libertarian!

In an essay the man called the incorporation doctrine "phony" and "dreamed up by activist judges to pervert the plain meaning of the Constitution." Now I know that most of you don't understand what the incorporation doctrine is. Ron Paul knows that you don't understand, and he likes it that way.

The incorporation doctrine is the notion that things like the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and the Fourth Amendment right to be secure from search and seizure are individual rights that you personally possess and that no government, local, state, or federal, can take them away from you. It is a product of the Civil War, and the 14th Amendment, prior to which the Bill of Rights merely constrained the federal government, NOT THE STATES, and it was legal to own slaves and states like South Carolina refused Catholics the right to hold public office!

When Ron Paul calls the incorporation doctrine phony he stands opposed to 150 years of American jurisprudence, he stands opposed to the clear intent of the legal changes made in the wake of the Civil War, and he stands opposed to MY individual RIGHT to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom from unreasonable searches, as well as all of the other freedoms that have come to define what America means. He is not a defender of freedom. He is a defender of absolute power for state and local governments to violate the most fundamental tenets of our society. He is clearly an enemy of freedom. And so he is an enemy of mine, for this, and many other reasons. And worse he and his supporters are LIARS because they do not actually advocate the things that they claim they advocate. Do not fall into this man's twisted spell.

PLEASE do not give money to Ron Paul!