Ron Paul to Bernake: U.S. Moving Towards Fascism

 Congressman says we’ve “given up on the Republic, freedom, the marketplace and sound money”

 Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, April 3, 2008

The Federal Reserve’s insistence on rewarding its own failures by granting itself new powers was harshly rebuked by Congressman Ron Paul during yesterday’s Joint Economic Committee meeting, as Paul all but accused Ben Bernanke of contributing economicallly to a broader move towards fascism in America.

“There’s a political philosophy that advocates merging together the interests of business and government at the same time with a loss of civil liberties of the people and I’m afraid we’re moving in that direction,” said the Congressman, citing warrantless searches, lack of medical, Internet and financial privacy as well as the loss of habeas corpus since 9/11.

“I see….the proposal by the Treasury as a massive move to a lot closer association of business and government,” said Paul, adding that a military-industrial complex, a medical-industrial complex and a media-industrial complex were already in place.

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