Kansas City, MO – Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul warned the U.S. is “slipping into a fascist system” dominated by government and businesses as he held a fiery rally Saturday night upstaging established Republican Party banquets a short distance away.
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The Texas congressman drew a couple thousand standing and chanting people to Kansas City’s Union Station as the party’s establishment dined on steak across the street at the Missouri GOP’s annual conference. Kansas Republicans were holding a similar convention in a suburb across the state line.
Paul staged his rally near the nation’s World War I museum, asserting that the U.S. got off track about 100 years ago during the era of President Woodrow Wilson, who led the nation through World War I and unsuccessfully advocated for the nation’s involvement in a forerunner of the United Nations.
“We’ve slipped away from a true Republic,” Paul said. “Now we’re slipping into a fascist system where it’s a combination of government and big business and authoritarian rule and the suppression of the individual rights of each and every American citizen.”
Although campaign aides were aware, Paul told reporters after his speech that he did not know his rally was coinciding with long-established Missouri and Kansas Republican Party events, where Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell — a vice presidential prospect — was the keynote speaker.
Several Republicans slipped away from the banquets to join the Paul rally. Among them was Ralph Munyan, a Republican committeeman in Kansas City’s home county, who said he agreed with Paul’s warnings of a “fascist system” and his pledge to the end nation’s involvement in wars overseas and against drugs.
“His foreign policy is one of peace,” Munyan said.
Paul repeatedly denounced President Barack Obama’s recent enactment of a law requiring military custody of anyone suspected to be associated with al-Qaida and involved in planning an attack on the U.S. Obama said when he signed the legislation that his administration would not authorize the indefinite military detention of American citizens without a trial.
“the U.S. got off track about 100 years ago during the era of President Woodrow Wilson”
Well, I guess we have to take his word for it, he was probably there…
what an old idiot
“slipping into a fascist system”, says the head fascist himself. Olom hasheker.
Is this guy still running?
Well, Ron Paul isn’t always wrong I guess…
He’s certainly right that corporations control this country. From it’s politics, right down to how we all eat & survive!
He’s absolutely right, that it didn’t use to be this way.
Neo Fascism is a true reality and if you want to know the actuality of the situation, its from the politilcal Right today. The Radical Pluralist corner of the political right is actually a neo-fascist ideology and not traditional Conservative Values. They like to hide under the “conservative” banner.
What about the detention Of Jonathan Pollard who received a life sentence and his attorneys were denied access to the classified information that caused him to receive a life sentence? He did not have a right to a fair trial.
Ron Paul should know about fascism, since he has a large base of support from neo-nazis. Also, Ron Paul has been quoted as saying that “the U.S. made a mistake in fighting Hitler, and we should not have entered that war to save the Jews”. He is a very dangerous man, and I hope that he just fades away.