D'après Wiki (en français), notre homme est un libertarien qui prône la liberté comme principe absolu de philosophie politique, s'oppose à la multiplication des interventions militaires des États-Unis, a voté contre la guerre en Irak et le Patriot Act. Well, that's fine with me and as a non American, why should I care anyway? Other than that, il se prononce pour une réduction drastique de l'État fédéral, pour plus de libertés individuelles - he seems o.k with gay mariage in the name of individual freedom - et pour la liberté du port d'armes.
Too bad he stands few chances to get to the White House, it would have been interesting to observe how chaos emerges and civil war develops and expands...
Ironie mise à part, il est étonnant de considérer combien les media français couvrent la pré campagne électorale américaine. Depuis le début de l'année, les résultats de chaque élection dans chaque État sont scrupuleusement rapportés avec correspondance en direct avec le ou la journaliste sur place.
There were these two women the other day on the market place next to where I live and they were discussing the respective merits of Santorum, Gingricht and Romney. Boy, were they passionate in their opinion!
Ma foi, on ne saurait reprocher aux journalistes de faire leur boulot mais cela pose une fois encore la question de ce qui vaut d'être rapporté. En quoi les primaires du Parti Républicain dans le Delaware ou l'Arkansas (if ever Arkansas is involved) peuvent-ils intéresser le moins du monde plus de 0,0000001 % des Français, des Européen et même du reste du monde? Et à ce compte, pourquoi ne pas couvrir la préparation de chacune des primaires?
Évidemment, l'info ne doit pas être constituée de ce qui intéresse a priori les citoyens sinon c'est Jean-PIerre Pernaut à 13h sur TF1.
Mais tout de même, j'ai l'impression que les journalistes - ou plutôt leurs rédactions - se font plaisir en se livrant à cet exercice parfaitement vain qui consiste à rapporter le sifflement du vent qui passe et dont il ne reste plus rien dans la minute qui suit. Mais comme les confrères de BFM ou de Itélé le font, ils sont « au cœur de l'action », il ne faut pas se laisser distancer.
Résultat des courses de ce divertissement corporatiste des media français, nous sommes infiniment plus « informés » sur le système électoral et politique des États-Unis que nous ne le sommes de celui de notre voisin le plus proche, l'Allemagne, dont les élections régionales et nationales ne sont pratiquement couvertes que le jour où elles ont lieu.
Par ailleurs Berlin c'est moins exotique que Palm Beach et en plus il vaut mieux parler allemand... et là les journalistes français préfèrent couvrir ce qui n'intéresse personne. Ah, on a vraiment les meilleurs!
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Ron Paul? Conservative xian vehemently opposed to the right to abortion. Who thinks that the courts have gone too far in requiring separation of church and state. Who believes that Aids sufferers have brought it upon themselves and has even called them killers(because they might contaminate others). Who apparently believes in strict heterosexual monogamy and called Martin Luther King a pro-communist philanderer and even a pedophile(whatever relation those three things have in common?)and the day honoring him as "hate whitey day".
A wonderful candidate.
And thanks to Wiki.
Glad to see you're in an upbeat mood Ned... ;-))
I guess the irony in the post wasn't lost on you though...
I remember you once wrote you never thought you could be agreed with someone whose name I currently can't remember...
Here is what Ron Paul once said:
Clearly, language threatening to wipe a nation or a group of people off the map is to be condemned by all civilized people. And I do condemn any such language. But why does threatening Iran with a pre-emptive nuclear strike, as many here have done, not also deserve the same kind of condemnation? Does anyone believe that dropping nuclear weapons on Iran will not wipe a people off the map? When it is said that nothing, including a nuclear strike, is off the table on Iran, are those who say it not also threatening genocide? And we wonder why the rest of the world accuses us of behaving hypocritically, of telling the rest of the world “do as we say, not as we do.”
(Statement on H Con Res 21, June 20, 2007)
Hadn't I said beforehand that it was him who pronounced these words
you might have thought they were spoken by M. Luther. King or say... Joan Baez. I've never even heard any Pope being that outspoken.
Well, of course Ron Paul isn't exactly my cup of tea but the day Sarko will say anything similar I may begin to think there's an once of decency in him. But I don't hold my breath yet...
I have a longish text on the errors of libertarians and I keep adding to it. It was destined for somewhere els, but I forget where. Perhaps I will try to send it one day.
Many libertarians of course are not anti-abortion, but for fundamentalist xians, including libertarian ones, life begins at conception and ends at birth. This is especially clear with Paul who wants to end what's left of the welfare state.
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