Still, the biggest issue of them all is our enslavement to the federal reserve system. I’m glad to see Barr making a statement about that…

Read “The Creature from Jekyll Island” for more details about the Fed.

He has my vote.

The longest journey begins with the first step. One can recite the alphabet

A,Z instead of A throughZ. Too many people think the Libertarian Party is radical, because they know zero, zip, nada, about the history of this country or it’s form of government. Rather than trying to fix everything thats wrong in one shot is foolish. We need to evaluate how solving one problem will cure others. I suggest the FairTax as the first step. It’s passage will create a domino effect that will cure many other problems.

I would love for this election year to be crazy like in the movies… Obama’s rise in popularity and then a meteoric crash, McCain mostly ignored and debated even by his own party, and the whole nation catches a contageous Bob Barr fever – he’d rate high in the polls, shine in the debates, and then people across the country would say, “Heck, I’m voting for Barr!” and then… shockingly… (drum roll please)... he would WIN!!

I also had a problem with his extremist, unrealistic attitude on a lot of things from abolishing the Fed to eliminating the income tax seemingly immediately. He needed to have presented a timetable for everything except the Iraq withdrawal (I agree with Barr that you don’t telegraph to enemies exactly when you will do something like that).

The reason I want Ron Paul or Barr is because they (Paul and Tancredo at least) opposed new laws like VAWA and IMBRA, the former which allows women to falsely accuse men of violence to clean up financially or gain instant US residency documents…and the latter of which forces dating websites to background check Americans before they are allowed to say hello to foreigners.

So…if Barr can show that he is more realistic on the issues while otherwise being close to Ron Paul…I will vote for him and work for him in Europe.

May 22, 2008

Bob Barr: As President I would completely re-orient federal law enforcement priorities, that currently are skewed far too much against marijuana possession, and would consider all – and I do mean all – options.

Q: [I]f you are elected president of the United States, would you consider using U.S. military to intervene in Central and South America to stop drug traffickers?

Bob Barr: I would consider the use of US military in Central and S. America only if there were a clear and present threat to identifiable and appropriate US personnel, agencies, or security interests.

The Washington Times
Column by Bob Barr
June 9, 2007

As the world’s largest producer by far of cocaine, Colombia occupies a pivotal position in the U.S. effort to stem the tide of illicit drug trafficking in our country. While his predecessors offered lip-service and inconsistent support for American law enforcement’s efforts to seriously limit the cocaine coming to the U.S. from Colombia, President Uribe literally has placed his own life in danger by going after the drug production and financing networks that have taken hold in his country over the last four decades.

Recognizing Colombia’s essential role in our country’s campaign against illicit trafficking in cocaine, the Bush administration and prior Congresses have responded to Mr. Uribe’s efforts by funding “Plan Colombia” to the tune over its seven-year lifespan of more than $5.0 billion. . . . If Congress truly wants the plan work better, the solution would be not to dry up funding but to provide more flexibility for its implementation.

It all went down in 1913:
February 3 – Congress passes the 16th Amendment.
October 2 – Congress passe the Revenue Act.
December 23 – Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act.

Don’t you see? It was necessary for Congress to have a guarenteed source of revenue as collateral for borrowing money. Income taxes provide that collateral. So, while it’s true that revenue from taxes has nothing to do with federal spending, it has everything to do with federal debt.

The Fair tax would eliminate income taxes and effectively eliminating Congress’s gaurenteed collateral thereby cutting it off from it’s foreign and domestic lenders.

“Barf flip-flops to appease the gullible barfers… and the barfers fall for it.”

Yep, Barr left the Republican Party so he could ride the tremendous coattails of the LP to victory!

Bob Barr on Glen Beck, June 6, 2008

We need to be downsizing significantly. Does that mean pulling every U.S. armed forces personnel from everywhere in the world immediately? Absolutely not. We have to maintain a presence sufficient to defend our country and to defend our interests.

Iraq

Bob Barr on Night Talk Bloomberg Channel, June 9, 2008

Q: Would you get the troops out of there immediately, or close to it?

Barr: Close to it. I think it would be irresponsible to telegraph to our adversaries exactly when and how we would withdraw.