Ron Paul Says We Need to "Take Out The CIA"; Supporters Agree

I took a good hard look at Ron Paul during the 2008 campaign. Prior to it, I was attracted to his small government, fiscal conservative politics, but his foreign policy I found disturbing. I also rejected his association with truther Alex Jones.

Now, he has called for the CIA to be “taken out”:

There is no excuse for this. If you don’t like the CIA, as a member of Congress you can introduce legislation to defund them. You don’t call for their deaths at a rally for liberty. You don’t cheer that call on.

Is there another way of looking at what he said? Weasel Zippers via Hot Air has the transcript:

There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They’re the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. … And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. … And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established after World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They’re in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators … We need to take out the CIA.

Recently, seven CIA agents were killed by a suicide bomber, damaging out war efforts in Afghanistan. Paul made these comments well after that happened.

I’m starting to think that “kook” is too kind a term to describe this man.

GRIM

Dear Ron: Did you ever stop to think about all the good they’ve done since they were created? Last I knew, the army can’t just go into countries that they want to, if we’re not ‘at war’ with them. So what if the enemy runs off into the other country where it’s bases are? That’s where the CIA comes in, like Vietnam (Laos, Cambodia)… Afghanistan (Pakistan). I suppose we should just not engage in war, period, eh Ron? let’s let Communism take over the world, Hitler can have the world if he wants… Heck, Islam can try, as well, let’s just sit on our thumbs.

Oh wait… Communism (socialism) and Islam (radical or not) are trying to take US over.
GRIM

Dear Ron: Did you ever stop to think about all the good they’ve done since they were created? Last I knew, the army can’t just go into countries that they want to, if we’re not ‘at war’ with them. So what if the enemy runs off into the other country where it’s bases are? That’s where the CIA comes in, like Vietnam (Laos, Cambodia)… Afghanistan (Pakistan). I suppose we should just not engage in war, period, eh Ron? let’s let Communism take over the world, Hitler can have the world if he wants… Heck, Islam can try, as well, let’s just sit on our thumbs.

Oh wait… Communism (socialism) and Islam (radical or not) are trying to take US over.
TJ

There’s nothing more transparant and truly represents what the Founding Fathers hoped for in America than an underground military force with a huge budget running around the world in the dark, overthrowing governments, killing people, toppling foreign economies, etc. I’m sure that’s exactly the America the founders intended. (rolling eyes)
TJ

There’s nothing more transparant and truly represents what the Founding Fathers hoped for in America than an underground military force with a huge budget running around the world in the dark, overthrowing governments, killing people, toppling foreign economies, etc. I’m sure that’s exactly the America the founders intended. (rolling eyes)
Rohrbaugh

Actually, TJ has a point to an extent. I dlisagree with the rolling eyes part, and what appears to be some of the “American Shame Syndrome”. Thomas Jefferson, however, did warn of foriegn entanglements. It was not the CIA that won the cold war, but free market capitalism out competing the bondage of communism. Yes, the regular military played a big part, but in the end it was economics. Food for thought. The CIA could be considered a foreign entanglement or at least an expencive beaurocracy that causes them.
Rohrbaugh

Actually, TJ has a point to an extent. I dlisagree with the rolling eyes part, and what appears to be some of the “American Shame Syndrome”. Thomas Jefferson, however, did warn of foriegn entanglements. It was not the CIA that won the cold war, but free market capitalism out competing the bondage of communism. Yes, the regular military played a big part, but in the end it was economics. Food for thought. The CIA could be considered a foreign entanglement or at least an expencive beaurocracy that causes them.
GRIM

Yeah, i remember specifically the first Congress saying “Hey Great Britain, would you like to join us in our revolutionary talks”…
GRIM

Yeah, i remember specifically the first Congress saying “Hey Great Britain, would you like to join us in our revolutionary talks”…