WikiPaul
Love him or hate him, you ignore him at your own peril. This time around, tea party favorite Rep. Ron Paul is righteously once again gunning for the Fed, only this time while defending WikiLeaks frontman Paul Assange.
“In a free society, we’re supposed to know the truth,” Paul recently told FOX Business News. “In a society where truth becomes treason, then we’re in big trouble. And now people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.
“But this notion that Assange, who is an Australian, that we want to prosecute him for treason,” Paul continued, “I mean aren’t they jumping to a wild conclusion. This is media, isn’t it? I mean why don’t we prosecute the New York Times or anybody that releases it?”
The money quote from Paul: “What we need is some more WikiLeaks on the Federal Reserve.”
There’s no doubt the Fed needs more transparency and accountability – seeing, you know, how it currently has neither – but at what cost? Do you go as far as siding up with Wiki-style rouge journalism, or has Paul crossed the line on this one?
Paul continued on FOX Business News:
“I think Manly (sic), Bradley Manning, probably can say he’s committed civil disobedience. But do we think of Daniel Ellsberg as being an enemy of the people?
“He was a friend of truth,” Paul said. “I know there are still plenty of people who still don’t like him, but isn’t he the one who really gave us the concrete proof that Vietnam was based on a lie. A lot of people should know that Iraq and Afghanistan are based on a lie, too.”
Hmmmm.
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