Ron Paul: the Power Elite’s Worst Nightmare

Written by Steven Yates

Jan 09, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Writing for a weekly has its hazards—especially when events start to happen very rapidly, as they do with presidential primaries. Your article might be dated before it has time to appear. The Iowa caucus was last week; by the time this reaches print, we will (presumably) have New Hampshire’s results. In the former, Ron Paul’s 10 percent was better than any official pundit expected. He came in fifth, ahead of the one time elite-anointed Rudy Giuliani, and within statistical shouting distance of John McCain and Fred Thompson! He’s very much in the thick of things despite the corporate media blackout on his fourth-quarter fundraising successes and growing legion of supporters. Imagine how well he might be doing if his campaign received the coverage of, say, a Mike Huckabee or a Barack Obama. Ron Paul is the only candidate who is not a member of any elite organizations, or controlled by them. Huckabee’s foreign policy advisor is none other than Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. This does more to explain why he has suddenly become a media darling than his having the support of a lot of mainstream Christian evangelicals (generally hated by corporate media unless, as is the case here, they prove easily led by the nose). Ron Paul’s message of freedom is clearly resonating with a significant fraction of We the People. This is doubtless making those in power very nervous. Ron Paul has become the power elite’s worst nightmare. My impression is that what he said of Faux News is true generally: those in power are afraid of him, and afraid of his message. He is not Ross Perot all over again. Ross Perot came across as nut. Ron Paul does not. His message is consistent:  genuinely smaller government limited by the Constitution; a foreign policy suited for a republic, not an empire; national sovereignty, not creeping globalism; sound money backed by precious metals, not fiat money doomed to collapse; and the rule of law, not arbitrary, unaccountable rule by lawyers-turned-politicians and judges. He is thoroughly versed in economics, the political philosophy of Constitutional-republicanism, and the history of the rise of corporatist-statism which includes the hijacking of the Republican Party. He has detailed answers for his critics in every area. A doctor who has been married to the same woman for over 50 years, Ron Paul has no skeletons in his closet. The power elite has nothing on him! They have no means of stopping the spontaneous, grassroots movement that has arisen all over the country and, indeed, the world, on his behalf. The most the elite can do is what elite-controlled Faux News did: try to diminish his credibility by denying him a seat alongside the anointed “frontrunners.” The ploy failed laughably; at one point during the Faux News forum Ron Paul signs were clearly visible through a window! His supporters were rallying outside! Some of us have wondered if Dr. Paul has professional bodyguards, or wears a bulletproof vest at public appearances. Such queries smack of paranoia, but Dr. Paul himself has acknowledged the potential danger of what he is doing. Last month, reasons emerged for thinking the danger might be real. Daniel Estulin, an award-winning Canadian-born journalist who resides in Spain, has made a name for himself as the world’s foremost Bilderberg Group watcher. He penned a book recently translated into English as The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, which has become an underground international best-seller. The Bilderberg Group has been meeting annually in secret since 1954, and is clearly a major organization within the European-American power elite. The Bilderbergers are one of the groups promoting economic integration (via trade agreements) as a means to regional union and an eventual global oligarchy, what author Des Griffin once called a Fourth Reich of the Rich. The Bilderberg philosophy is one of economics uber alles—thus using both the greed of multinational corporate predators and politicians’ lust for power. This has served up progressive regional-ization, as nations’ sovereignty is slowly eroded, power flows to unaccountable international bodies such as the European Parliament, and corporate media shills describe the process as “inevitable.” The European Union came first; other regional entities are slowly emerging all over the world, including of course in North America. Estulin has been working for close to two decades to expose the Bilderberg Group’s role in this process. He clearly has a source on the inside—a “mole” who has been supplying him with information. In the past, that information has proven to be accurate. Consider Iran. Eighteen months ago, Estulin contended that a military strike on Iran had been delayed and was probably off the table. Recent events are consistent with this. The National Intelligence Estimate released in November reported that Iran has no nuclear weapons program and has not had one since 2003. Last month Estulin reported on high-level discussions of the threat posed by Ron Paul. Estulin suggested that a possible assassination attempt might have been floated. In Estulin’s words (to Alex Jones): “I am getting information from my sources that there are people involved from a higher level of the American establishment who are seriously considering—this has not been confirmed—but assassination is definitely on the agenda, and I pray to God that this is not the case.” Estulin suggests that the power elite is genuinely unsure how to handle the situation. Thus even high-level, behind-closed-doors discussions are on the order of, “What would happen if?” The problem is Ron Paul’s army of grassroots supporters. Obviously, if Ron Paul is “removed” (the elite’s euphemism, according to Estulin) and evidence points to a conspiracy, these people, many of whom have invested huge amounts of time, money and energy into this campaign, aren’t going to be happy campers. They aren’t going to go quietly into the night. Ron Paul is also drawing support from Iraq War veterans. Some have chronic illnesses and disabilities from exposure to depleted uranium. They have very good weapons skills and little love for this country’s dominant regime. Suggestion to readers: locate and read Alan Stang’s most recent contributions to NewsWithViews.com discussing what might happen if Dr. Paul is “removed.” What should be clear is that if anything bad were to happen to Ron Paul, there would be immediate and very serious unrest in this country. After all, in the last analysis this is about more than Ron Paul. This is about a body of ideas. And, as the character “V” put it succinctly in V For Vendetta, “ideas are bulletproof.” Small wonder Rupert Murdoch’s media leviathan denied him a Faux News platform on Jan. 6. The power elite is between a rock and a hard place. I don’t believe for a minute the elites want to do anything rash. They did not get to be elites by being stupid. Their limitation is that they cannot do anything that will awaken the sleeping sheeple. Too many Americans are awake already, aware of the throttling of Constitutional freedoms that has taken place in the name of the “war on terror” since 9/11, and aware of the activities of secretive groups like the CFR and the Bilderbergers. Attempting to silence Ron Paul through professional shills such as Chris Wallace and Brit Hume may be their only realistic option. We may see more and more efforts at guilt-by-association tactics; his supporters, the shills will say, are “crackpots,” “nutjobs,” “wackos,” etc. Dr. Paul will be attacked for having appeared on Alex Jones’s show, although to a logical mind an appearance on a particular talk radio or television show is not an endorsement of the host’s views (Ron Paul has also appeared on Meet the Press, MSNBC, and other mainstream outlets). In the last analysis, Ron Paul’s message cannot be silenced! The genie is out of the bottle. This, as I have stated in previous columns, is likely to make the next few months very interesting. If the results from the Iowa caucus are any indication, Ron Paul is close to being in third place in this race, trailing just Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. Both are vulnerable. The former has been unmasked as a tool of the CFR. Christian evangelicals should beware of this charlatan who is no more committed to their values than were Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. And who knows for sure what flip-flop Mitt Romney really believes? These remarks won’t impress those who get all their news from corporate media and dismiss talk about the CFR as “conspiracy theory.” They only need to impress a critical mass of We the People, and Ron Paul will be on his way to the Republican National Convention next summer, his supporters a major presence there. In the meantime, of course, there is a lot of work to do. My challenge, fellow South Carolinians, is this: January 19, the date of our state primary, is approaching like a freight train. On that day, if you care about freedom, the Constitution, and U.S. sovereignty, you have the opportunity to say so by going to the polls and voting for Ron Paul! Remember: if Ron Paul sinks at the primary ballot box, it’s over—and we will almost assuredly not get another chance! And although this calls for a separate column, be sure to record your vote in writing or with an online database to be sure that it is counted. It is probable that the various precincts will have watchers conducting exit polls. Paperless electronic voting machines have been proven vulnerable to being hacked. I would not put it past the elites to use electronic voting to steal votes in a last, desperate gambit. -------------------------------------------- Steven Yates teaches philosophy at the University of South Carolina Upstate and Greenville Technical College, and is on the board of the South Carolina chapter of Citizens Committee to Stop the FTAA. The views expressed in his columns are his own, and do not reflect official views of any of these institutions or organizations. His latest book World-views: Christian Theism versus Modern Materialism, was published last year by The Worldviews Project (for more information call 864-288-0043). He is at work on a new book tentatively entitled The Real Matrix. His email address is: