US wants “obedient servants of the state” – Ron Paul

Russia Today
Thursday, January 14th, 2010

“The greatest threat to a government is people who think for themselves,” believes US Congressman Ron Paul.

“If you condition people to everyday, all day,
depend on the government to do their thinking for them – they
will become more obedient.”

Paul said the billions of dollars spent by the American government
on intelligence could not prevent the recent terror attempt in US skies.

“I think the responsibility has fallen on the $75 billion
bureaucracy that has 16 agencies that cannot co-ordinate their
work,” he said. “Airlines should be responsible for who
gets on their planes,” he added.

According to the congressman, all the efforts of the US government
to introduce new technical systems for airport passenger control, such
as body scanners, are “just to make us obedient servants of the
state, to teach us that they are in charge of us and to tell us what to
do, that we are robots and are supposed to obey them.”

“It’s not that individuals are perfect, it’s just
that governments are always imperfect, they always make mistakes and
when they do – they are very painful and they hurt each and every
one of us.”

Paul said that America has made an amazing shift away from
traditional values while even former communist regimes are moving in
the direction of a free market.

“[The economy] should be micromanaged by the people, by the
consumer. In the free market the consumer is king,” Paul said.
“But in the US, as in most countries in the world today, it is
being micromanaged by the central government and central banks.”

Speaking about the earthquake in Haiti, Paul said, “just
handing out money to Haiti is not going to solve their problems.”

According to the outspoken politician, the best thing the US could
do for Haiti in the long term would be to introduce the country to
sound economic policies so that they would not suffer from poverty.

Commenting on the situation in Yemen, Paul said that the US is
“looking for another war” and that it is a
“disastrous continuation of the foreign policy of George
Bush.”