Ron Paul is Right

Invading Iran puts everything at risk.

Over the past sixty years we Americans have betrayed the founding fathers and their hopes for us. Maybe, we will take back the country, but it will require a lot of time.

Nothing good will come from those in power or the
people we elect to replace them. We may learn from our mistakes. In time our
creditors may insist on repayment. Certainly, our economy and the military are
doomed. As the unemployment roles swell and the hungry homeless roam the
countryside, some might decide to rock the boat.

One day we may discover our boat has departed for
distant shores. If we had ended our aggressions and had jailed our government
leaders, we might have qualified for membership in the British Commonwealth of
Nations. If we had behaved with a trace of humanity, the other nations might
have been kinder to the latest member of the Third World.

The First Truth of Liberty

Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1938]

"The first truth is that the liberty of democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way to sustain an acceptable standard of living."

The Fragility of Freedom

By Rabbi Berel Wein, Aish.com
In the measured cadence and soaring beauty of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (a speech that American students were once required to commit to memory) there appears a phrase at the end -- "a new birth of freedom." Lincoln hit upon a basic value in Jewish life and in the Torah.
Freedom, rather than being a permanent and expected state of being, is fragile and rather rare in human history. Therefore, because of its very fragility and scarcity, freedom has to be treasured, appreciated and constantly renewed. Every person and every society regularly requires a new birth of freedom to maintain its hard-won liberty.

Passover is a holiday of constant rebirth and renewal.

And this is one of the basic messages of Passover. The Haggada teaches us that "in each and every generation the Jew has to envision himself or herself as though he or she just left Egypt and its bondage." Passover is therefore not merely a commemorative holiday, though it is that as well, but more importantly it is a holiday of constant rebirth and renewal.
In our prayers, we refer to Passover as zman cheruteinu -- the time of our freedom. This implies not only past freedom but current freedom as well. Passover demands from us that we continue to struggle and appreciate our freedom. It is not without dangers and weaknesses. It must therefore be zealously guarded and always renewed.
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