The Revolution: A Manifesto
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To.The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing.The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America. Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document is being ignored more and more in Washington. If we are to enjoy peace, freedom,… Product details and pricing info |
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723 Customer Reviews Posted
- Outstanding
- It's really refreshing to hear from a politician that is honest and puts americans first. Ron Paul is an intellectual human that soars. He gained my attention at the republican debate when he squared off against Rudy and spoke so boldly. Instead of speaking for applause points he spoke from research, facts, and heart . I hope that this books finds it's way into every home in America. A must read!
- 2008-12-02, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A Must Read!!!
- What a great book. The other members of Congress should be ashamed of themselves. This is a must-read for everyone. Not too long, easy to read. Give us our country back!
- 2008-12-01, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Best I've Ever Read
- I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said...this is a book for the ages, period.
- 2008-11-30, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Wake Up People!
- What a great book. Every year that goes by we are loosing more and more of our freedoms and nobody questions things anymore. But Ron Paul does.
Very well written and full of good information. - 2008-11-30, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Facile foreign policy
- I disagree with most of the foreign policy assertions in this book. Let me just start out by saying that the U.S. followed a "non-interventionist" policy in Asia in the 1930s, and Japan ran wild. America's foreign policy toward Europe was also "non-interventionist". Where did that get us ? U-boats off the coast of New Jersey in 1941. The notion that the world will not be hostile to the U.S., if the U.S. follows non-intervention is facile. Vacuums are filled, and power vacuums are filled by up-and-coming powers who are more than glad to fill them.
The Wahhabist terrorists who are the source of modern terrorism lived in the 1700s, long before America supported Israel. Ron Paul makes it seem like Islamic terrorism only began in 1948, when the U.S. supported Israel. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Anti-western hatred in the Muslim world is at least 200 years old. Qtub, the Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent group to all modern Sunni terror organizations) began preaching against not U.S. foreign policy, but against "moral laxity" (women not wearing the headcovering, etc. after he visited the United States). Indeed, if you read the book "The Looming Tower", the only goal of these terror groups is to destroy things that are not Sunni fundamentalist, and to enforce headcoverings for women. It has nothing to do with Israel. In fact, read Bin Ladin's writings. Israel does not come up, or only briefly. But "retaking" "Andalusia" (southern Spain) plays a big role in Al Quida ideology, and that has nothing to do with the U.S.
If you read about Islamic (Sunni) terror groups in the 1990s, one thing is clear: they were against the West, not just Israel or the U.S. I read a book about a man who attended a terror training camp in 1995 in Afghanistan. He said, his terrorist friends rejoiced when bombs went off in Paris that year (I was in Paris at that time, so I remember it well). He then said, a cry went up that "Islam would soon retake France". Does that have anything to do with "anger over U.S. foreign poicy" ? Or is is blank hatred toward the West ? The reason that Sunni terror groups preach hate is that they want to kill anyone who is not an extremist Sunni like themselves. Of course, they use the excuse of "we want the U.S. out of the Mideast, but let's not delude ourselves that it would be a love-fest between them and us if the U.S. abandoned the airfields it has in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
I also read an article in the German press about two Al Quida terrorists who planned to attack churches in southwestern Germany, and Christmas fairs. These young men were going to bomb churches in Germany. Why ? Because they hate Christianity and anything that is not Sunni extremist Islam. Period. Let's not delude ourselves.
Regarding Saddam Hussein, if he was not a threat, as Ron Paul claims, then why did the Europeans constantly tell Clinton in the 1990s that Saddam would have to be removed ? Didn't Saddam fire SCUDs not only at Israel, but into Saudi Arabia ? If he was not a threat, why did the United Nations issue 17 resolutions calling for him to prove he had no WMD programs ? Do you think that the UN would go to all that trouble, if Saddam were no threat ? And the idea that a country that can't shoot down F18s and F15s is no threat to me shows a shocking lack of military and strategic knowledge. I think Iran would also have a hard time shooting down U.S. fighter jets, but does that mean that Iran is no threat ? Ron Paul obviously does not understand "asymetric warfare". And not to mention Saddam handing off a briefcase containing "god knows what", developed in some weapons lab. If Saddam had no WMDs, why didn't he just invite Hans Blix in and get done with it ?
Ditto Iran. Iran is attempting to become the dominant regional power in the gulf, and the U.S. is just in the way of that.
As I mentioned, a "non-interventionist" U.S. would be welcomed by everyone from Hugo Chavez to China, to Al Quida and Hezbollah, to Iran and North Korea and Russia, who are all too willing and glad to fill in the power vacuum left by abandoned American military bases. - 2008-11-28, 2 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
