WARNING: Our civil liberties are under attack - with Ron Paul
The Tulsi Gabbard Show
Tulsi Media
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Tulsi Gabbard connects the dots between American wars and our loss of liberty. The 2020 presidential candidate shows how government weaponizes our own fears against us to pass anti-Constitutional bills like the Espionage Act and Patriot Act. Former Texas Congressman and Libertarian Presidential candidate Ron Paul joins to program to discuss the importance of civil liberties, how they've come under attack and what we must do to preserve them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, thanks so much for joining me for today's episode of The Tulsi Gabbard Show. |
| 0:07.0 | The mere fact that we can sit here together today is because we live in a country that |
| 0:14.5 | was founded on the principles of freedom. |
| 0:17.3 | Inalienable God-given rights enshrined in our constitution and inherent to each of us, |
| 0:23.2 | the right to free speech, freedom of religion, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. |
| 0:31.1 | Our civil liberties that are spelled out in the constitution act as a restraint on how |
| 0:36.7 | our government can treat us. |
| 0:41.4 | These rights are called negative rights because they dictate not what our government can provide |
| 0:46.1 | for us, but instead what they cannot take away. |
| 0:52.5 | The right to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to a free press, the right |
| 0:57.6 | to privacy and private property are just a few of these. |
| 1:03.9 | Our civil liberties ensure that we can live free from arbitrary government interference |
| 1:09.2 | in these pursuits. |
| 1:11.8 | While these things may sound very obvious to us today, like of course, this is important, |
| 1:17.0 | this is foundational to who we are as a country, this was a really revolutionary concept when |
| 1:22.9 | our founding fathers enshrined these rights and freedoms in our constitution, these rights |
| 1:29.8 | and freedoms that continue to serve as a foundation for our democracy. |
| 1:34.9 | The antithesis of liberty is tyranny and over time. |
| 1:39.1 | We have seen how some of our presidents have abused their power. |
| 1:45.1 | They've sought to create or take advantage of a crisis so that they can amass more power |
| 1:51.2 | in the executive branch. |
| 1:52.6 | Weakening Congress, the people's house, the people's representatives, the people's voice, |
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