Why Electing Ron Paul is Important

I was reading an article earlier by Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., called, "Don't Count on Washington to Protect Us From Looming Banking Crisis," when one paragraph jumped out as I considered the importance of electing Ron Paul as our next president.  It reads…

In any event, two things the Establishment—and the General Government, while it remains under the Establishment's thumb—will never do of their own free will: (i) return the United States to constitutional money of silver and gold, and (ii) eliminate or severely regulate the inherently fraudulent practices of fractional-reserve banking. But one thing the Establishment will always do: deploy the General Government to stab in the back any attempts at true monetary and banking reform—thus prolonging the present mess beyond any hope of rectification along the lines of sound money, honest banking, individual freedom, and national independence. Such, after all, is the pellucid lesson American history teaches: At every crucial point since the outbreak of the Civil War—1862-1864 and 1871 (emission of the first United States fiat currency and creation of the National Banks), 1913 (creation of the Federal Reserve System), 1933-1935 (destruction of the domestic "gold standard", and repudiation and prohibition of obligations payable in gold), 1964 and 1967-1968 (debasement of silver coinage and repudiation of paper currency redeemable in silver), and 1971 (destruction of the international "gold standard")—Congress, the President, and the Judiciary have wrapped this country more securely than before in the coils of unsound money and dishonest banking, both domestically and internationally—while at the same time enabling the Establishment to exert an ever greater, ever more pernicious influence over every American's economic and political life.

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None of the hand-picked corporate Establishment candidates with the exception of Ron Paul have suggested a "return the United States to constitutional money of silver and gold, and (ii) eliminate or severely regulate the inherently fraudulent practices of fractional-reserve banking" (the Federal Reserve).   Under present conditions, the General Government will not provide a proper solution to a monetary and banking crisis, because the denizens of the Capitol, the White House, and the Treasury are the primary perpetrators of the problem.

Additionally, the Establishment owned mainstream media has all but blacked out Ron Paul's message about restoring the Constitution and instead have fed the American public a continuing blather from socialist and fascist candidates.