{"id":21621,"date":"2016-09-10T18:31:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T23:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21621"},"modified":"2016-09-10T18:31:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T23:31:06","slug":"ron-paul-vote-all-you-want-the-secret-government-wont-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21621","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Vote All You Want, the Secret Government Won\u2019t Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 class=\"post-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/ron-paul-vote-secret-government\/\">Ron Paul: Vote All You Want, the Secret Government Won\u2019t Change<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"main-content\">\n<div class=\"main-content-wrap clearfix\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"breadcrumbs\"><b>(<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a><b>)<\/b>\u00a0Former congressman Ron Paul is outspoken. When he retired from Congress, he called lawmakers psychopathic authoritarians\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/11\/15\/ron_paul_bids_farewell_to_psychopathic_authoritarians\/\" target=\"_blank\">to their faces<\/a>. He\u2019s also called Donald Trump an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/271285-ron-paul-sanders-just-a-variant-of-trump\" target=\"_blank\">authoritarian<\/a>\u00a0and asserted Hillary Clinton could have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Oh8jHsvVT_0\" target=\"_blank\">run as a Republican<\/a>. And just last week, Paul took aim at the foundational structure of American \u2018democracy.\u2019<\/div>\n<div id=\"left-area\">\n<article class=\"entry-content clearfix\">In a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vqWbVW-vhRk\" target=\"_blank\">episode<\/a>\u00a0of his web show, the Liberty Report, Ron Paul discussed the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s decision last month to take a more active role in U.S. elections. Secretary Jeh Johnson said he was \u201c<i>considering whether elections should be classified as \u2018critical infrastructure,\u2019 affording them the same kinds of enhanced protections that the banking system and the electrical grid receive<\/i>,\u201d\u00a0<i>POLITICO<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/election-cyber-security-georgia-227475\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The potential move came on the heels of the notorious DNC leak in July, which exposed intentions within the Democratic Party to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/wikileaks-dnc-bernie-sanders_us_579381fbe4b02d5d5ed1d157\" target=\"_blank\">manipulate the primary race<\/a>\u00a0against Senator Bernie Sanders. Politicians and the media quickly blamed the hack on Russia,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/jul\/25\/russia-blame-dnc-email-hack-premature\" target=\"_blank\">failing to cite conclusive proof<\/a>\u00a0of their allegations yet spawning the narrative that the Kremlin and other foreign threats could compromise U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p>On his show, Paul took issue with the notion that the Department of Homeland Security, an agency riddled with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/05\/07\/dhs-a-wasteful-growing-fear-mongering-beast\/?utm_term=.a13a9610525f\" target=\"_blank\">incompetence<\/a>\u00a0and failed objectives \u2014 case in point,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/11\/16\/tsa-failing-to-detect-weapons-bombs-at-ny-airports-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\">the TSA<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is capable of securing U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on DHS\u2019s decision to become more involved in the process following the DNC hack, Ron Paul offered a scathing indictment of the federal organization, arguing it will capitalize on troubling events to seize power:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>They may have false flags and they may do a lot of things, but no matter how an emergency comes up, they\u2019re going to make use of it. And the use of it isn\u2019t to say \u2018Hey, how are we going to protect the American people?\u2019\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Paul: Vote All You Want, the Secret Government Won\u2019t Change (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0Former congressman Ron Paul is outspoken. When he retired from Congress, he called lawmakers psychopathic authoritarians\u00a0to their faces. He\u2019s also called Donald Trump an\u00a0authoritarian\u00a0and asserted Hillary Clinton could have\u00a0run as a Republican. And just last week, Paul took aim at the foundational structure of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8803,12055,3965,199,253,692,858],"class_list":["post-21621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-antimedia","tag-carey-wedler","tag-civil-liberties","tag-deep-state","tag-elections","tag-ron-paul","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21622,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621\/revisions\/21622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}