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Has Ron Paul lost his mind?
Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’
By Raw Story
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 -- 6:10 pm
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US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has in effect carried out a "coup" against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be "taken out."
Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said:
There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.
Paul's comments, made last weekend, were met with a loud round of applause, but they didn't gather attention until bloggers noticed a clip of the event at YouTube.
Paul appeared to be referring to news reports that the CIA is deeply involved in air strikes against Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A suicide bombing late last year against Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan took the lives of seven of CIA operatives, including two contracted from Blackwater. The event highlighted the CIA's deep involvement in the war effort.
Paul's reference to the CIA being "in the drug business" refers to long-running allegations that the CIA has funded some of its covert operations with proceeds from drug-running. That claim was most famously made in a 1996 investigative report from the San Jose Mercury-News, which alleged that cocaine from the Contra-Sandinista civil war in Nicaragua was making its way to the streets of L.A. via the CIA.
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01-22-2010, 20:16
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Ron Paul has a mind?
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01-22-2010, 20:47
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That explains the economy...oops...was that my outside voice?  
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01-23-2010, 09:43
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I am shocked and saddened to learn that the CIA is deeply involved in the GWOT. I don't know what I would have done if Paul had claimed that the OSS played an important role in fighting the Nazi's. The CIA could learn a thing or two from the reluctance of the OSS to get their hands dirty.
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01-23-2010, 10:19
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I can't be at odds with dear Mr Paul... The man has obviously been fitted with his own tin-foil hat and for that I bow to him!
Dont be shy Mr Paul, wear your hat with pride!
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01-23-2010, 10:21
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And so it goes... 
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01-23-2010, 11:07
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Originally Posted by AngelsSix
.......Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians ..............
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And that is their problem.
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01-23-2010, 11:35
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The man has obviously been fitted with his own tin-foil hat and for that I bow to him! Dont be shy Mr Paul, wear your hat with pride!
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After all, it's all about the hat...
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01-23-2010, 11:47
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The Ramones sum up Mr. Paul's state very succintly in the song Teenage Lobotomy:
...Guess I hafta break the news
That I got no mind to lose...
...Guess I'm gonna hafta tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum...
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01-23-2010, 12:10
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Sometimes Paul makes sense like Audit the Fed, but more and more he treads into the mystical world of AJ.
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01-23-2010, 12:43
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But when the choices are limited...
Paul is a crackpot about a lot of stuff, but on some issues he is dead on the money. I subscribe to his newsletter because he is my Representative, but I can rarely stand to read it. I voted for him, but as has been typical with every voting experience since I turned 18 it was a case of voting for the lesser of two evils. I will be happy in my lifetime to just one time vote for someone I believe truly represents my beliefs.
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01-23-2010, 14:24
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Paul is a crackpot about a lot of stuff, but on some issues he is dead on the money.
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A guy has a flat in front of an insane asylum. While he fixing that flat a "patient" of the asylum has been watching him. The guy removes the lug nuts and places them in his hubcap. He pulls the bad tire and replaces it with the spare. As he reaches for the lug nuts he spills them into the sewer drain. Now obviously distraught he bows his head wondering what to do. Just then the "patient" speaks up.....
"If you take one lug nut off each tire and use them to replace the lost ones you will be able to drive slowly to a repair station to purchase news one."
The guy replies, "That's brillant, why the hell are you in an insane asylum???"
The patient replies:
" I may be crazy but I ain't stupid".
Ron Paul may not be stupid, but he is a f***ing lunatic.
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Ron Paul is a looney-toon. He is a part of the ultra-right libertarians that are into conspiracy theories and wear tinfoil hats, for example, the kind that believe the Federal Reserve is a secret Jewish banking cartel that secretly rules the world and creates the wars in the world and is hellbent on creating a one-world government. And of course it is connected with the other groups that secretly rule the planet such as the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Illuminati, and so forth, all of them hellbent on creating the dreaded New World Order with one world government
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Don't forget the Pentagriten :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMS6tGOACo
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Left and Right
What would our country be like if we could take out all those on the far left and the far right?
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