Dear Patriot,

Back in 1916, the Irish chose Easter as a time to rise up against
British oppression and proclaimed themselves a republic - a
daring move inspired by a desire for liberty.

This Easter in the United States of America, rather than an
occupying one, we face a government that has grown more and more
oppressive daily - through extraordinary abuses of the legal
system, unprecedented assaults on the right to free speech, and
the cynical exploitation of the coronavirus crisis to push
ill-tested drugs upon the population, destroy the fabric of
family and community life, and further degrade our civil
liberties.

Thomas Jefferson famously said, "Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty." That does not only mean that we should be prepared
to defend against foreign invaders. Perhaps more importantly it
means that we must retain the lessons from the original American
and Irish revolts and guard against a government that views the
people as the enemy.

Just a few years ago, Americans were told they must not gather in
groups and should stay home on Sunday. Churches and businesses
were closed or faced capacity limitations because the government
deemed them "non-essential." Many were destroyed for good. Those
who spoke out were smeared in the media, those who perpetrated
these acts of tyranny were unpunished, and the legal machinery to
do it again is still intact and ready to be revved back up.

One hundred years ago, a young writer Randolph Bourne said, "war
is the health of the state," and he lamented governments' success
at taking authority and resources during conflict. But Bourne
further explained, "if the State's chief function is war, then
the State must suck out of the nation a large part of its energy
for its purely sterile purposes of defense and aggression. It
devotes to waste or to actual destruction as much as it can of
the vitality of the nation."

What we face today is not against foreign enemies, but rather
against our own government as they seek more and more power, and
as they suck out the vitality of our citizens.

The actions being taken benefit the special interests. They
benefit the statists whose "expertise" is leading to disaster.
They benefit the mainstream media. They benefit the wealthy.

The government is using every pretext - the pandemic, NATO's war
in Ukraine, the banking crises, and its own contrived "war on
domestic terrorism" - to fabricate to further gut our First,
Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, AND Tenth
Amendment rights. All under the guise of "keeping us safe" from
the threat du jour.

The state uses their power to take away our freedoms. If we wish
to survive as a free society, we must begin to exercise some of
that "eternal vigilance" Jefferson spoke of against an ever more
oppressive state - and that is exactly what we intend to do. If
the people demand change, the politicians will listen.

These are truly somber times.

But please don't forget this Easter and Passover holiday, like
this time of year, is about renewal and freedom.

I hope you have a peaceful weekend and are able to spend some
time with your loved ones.

For liberty,

Ron Paul






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