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Quote by: The Decider  I ask for Ron Paul's plans following the elimination of intel agencies and you provide a lecture on principles. Is any Volconvo Paulista knowledgable enough about the candidate's public statements to answer a specific question with specifics? |
Interestingly, Mr. Paul bases his positions on principles. I know it's a creative concept, since most politicians have no principles whatsoever, but Ron Paul does. The principles that I've cited are the type of principles that Ron Paul appears to use in his decision making.
If you like things directly from Mr. Paul.
Nonintervention: The Original Foreign Policy by Ron Paul
In this link, Paul gives the same quote I gave first ...
The Original American Foreign Policy by Ron Paul
As well as here ...
The Original Foreign Policy by Ron Paul
I'm having difficulty finding specific mentions concerning one issue that has been brought up elsewhere from Mr. Pau, but this article from five years ago,
Oppose the New Homeland Security Bureaucracy! by Rep. Ron Paul, discusses the Dept. of Homeland Security. The FBI and the CIA aren't specifically there. However, since Mr. Paul is a principled man, and his principles are those which this country was founded upon, at the very least he would find no Constitutional justification for a federal police force, and he would likely also find that such an entity would be a great threat to our freedoms.
For an extensive list of specific words from Ron Paul, in dozens of articles and speeches dating back to 1994, you can go to
Congressman Ron Paul Archives
Somewhere I have his campaign book from 1988, signed by him. I'll have to dig that out. Unfortunately, even if he is elected, my copy has been damaged and won't be worth more than what's written in it. But that is of great value in itself.
Keith