Ron Paul: Why I Didn’t Run as an Independent

Darth Beaver

It is interesting to note at 0:29 he is asked what he would say the most damaging three special interest groups are. While Paul does qualify that he would not put them in any specific order at 0:51 at 0:46 his first response after a few seconds of deliberation is "The military industrial complex".

At 6:29 in his farewell address to the nation on 17Jan61 Eisenhower said;

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.

Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present

and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.

It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.

Here we are over 50 years after Ike warned the world and the one voice of truth that still cried out loud enough from capitol hill loud enough to be heard in the leftist controlled socialist media has retired. The entire world has been in a stranglehold from this military industrial complex since the turn of the 20th century. If you don't believe it look at companies like Krupp, Daimler Benz, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki, etc. Hell Krupp supplied steel to the German war effort twice in 25 years and they are still a world leader in quality ferrous metals. There are more Mitsubishi automobiles on American highways than there are Fords and Ford helped defeat the Mitsubishi made war machines in the South Pacific. Fuck Daimler Benz owned Chrysler for almost a decade recently and Chrysler power plants helped win the air war in Europe against Daimler Benz powered machines. The only winners of any war in the last 100+ years have been the international industrialist who supply the instruments of death and their international rat fuck banker buddies who lend the money to the world to kill itself.

The people of the industrialized world (all of it not just the U.S.) are so spoiled by the crumbs of research (technology) they permit the consumer market that we just keep sending the same lying fucks to government every time we vote because they promise us we will get something for nothing. When the truth is we are giving our freedom away one bit at time, one dollar/pound/euro at a time, in return for worse than nothing, enslavement.