Comments on: Ron Paul’s other race

By: Will

Will — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:07:28 +0000

The reason for being against the current space program is that it does very little for your average person, while taking vast sums of tax money from all of us.

On the other hand Ron Paul does support civilian based, free market space programs.

What sounds better space in the hands of Omnipotent Government, or space in the hands of People.

I personally would prefer the latter, to really understand Congressmen Pauls position on NASA you must understand his entire position.

I am though in agreement that man is naturally explorative and thus space travel is potentially required for our very survival.

Any how,
Peace out

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:00:57 +0000

…what Tyler said

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:03:27 +0000

Geocentric stasis? What are you talking about? I see that you are quick to generalize, and then bias enough to spit and mix words around in an incoherent way. This won’t get you far in a debate. If anything is enthralled in negativity, it would be your claims and descriptions. Paul is a libertarian and you are claiming he has a static mind.
Ron Paul does not oppose the space program. He simply does not agree with the space ‘welfare’ program that the government is running, and ironically, it is they who are in a state of “geocentric stasis.”
“We must recognize the government led space program is dead and the corpse must be buried as soon as possible. Any defense functions should be put under the military, and the rest of NASA should be sold to private operators. The reciepts would be applied to the national debt. Then, all government roadblocks to commercial development of space must be removed. It is not the business of the defense department of a free society to veto business decisions of remote sensing or launch companies. There is really only one proper role for the military in space or on Earth: the protection of America. Otherwise, the new fronteir of Space should be opened to all. Space pioneers will generate knowledge and wealth that will improve the lot of all people on earth. We should not let government get in their way.”-RP
Therefore, get your facts straight, before you start running your mouth.
You compare Paul’s polotics to..”geocentric stasist, myopic technparasitic authoritarian, bureaucratic, hierarchical orgizationism, a bad combination of negatives if ever there was one”…really? Are you sure?
If Ron Paul were these things, then why, for example, would he vote against the national ID act, which is the most authoritarian agenda if there ever was one. Talk about privacy of the individual. Then there is the miserable patriot act, of which he is also against and for good reason.
The patriot act defined:
-Allowed nationwide search warrants non-specific to any given location, nor subject to any local judicial oversight;
-Made it far easier for the government to monitor private internet usage;
-Authorized â€œsneak and peekâ€ warrants enabling federal authorities to search a personâ€™s home, office, or personal property without that personâ€™s knowledge; and
Required libraries and bookstores to turn over records of books read by their patrons.
That sounds like fascism to me; if so, then fuck patriotism, fuck the government, and fuck you.

By: reader

reader — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:05:24 +0000

::but to say Iâ€™m voting against it because itâ€™s unconstitutional is just felonious

On the other hand, to draw parallels between Lewis and Clark and current NASA modus operandi is basically fraudulent.

By: Perry A. Noriega

Perry A. Noriega — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:15:23 +0000

Funny how Ron Paul comes across as a great defender of freedom, but he opposes the program and the movement that could do more to guarantee and insure human freedom in venues far beyond Earth, regardless of what politicians and politics on Earth progress or regress to. He strikes me as an amalgam of 18th Century idealist melded with 19th Century Know-Nothing, and 20th Century isolationist, all in all a negative combination in this era of the Great Change, where everything is up for revision, like it or not, and space settlement is one of the key areas for individual freedom to flourish.

Paul’s politics, like Hilary Clintons and Barak Obamas smack of geocentric stasist, myopic technparasitic authoritarian, bureaucratic, hierarchical orgizationism, a bad combination of negatives if ever there was one. Paul is a geocentric libertarian geek, Obama and Clinton closet neo-Marxists, and all of them geocentric staists of the worst kind. It makes me sad that this nation has such low characters and poor choices for political office. Too bad Theodore Roosevelt or Thomas Jefferson are dead, they would be a damnsight better than these three throwbacks to the past.

By: www.actionforspace.com

www.actionforspace.com — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:32:59 +0000

Go Peden!