Posted by DrGNU on 10/14/09

To CNN SITUATION ROOM:

I'm a 36 year old new physician.  I wanted to write to CNN in support of the network's positive coverage of Dr. Ron Paul, Pittsburgh native and congressman from Texas.  For a long time I have been apathetic and disgusted by American politics including the news media's coverage of it.  Then I watched Dr. Paul during the 2008 election debates and began to follow his campaign.  What initially infuriated me was how his own party treated him and then ignored him and mistreated his supporters.  Being partly of Sicillian descent I tend to not forget disrespectful people.  I am very committed to doing everything that I can to remove these people from power. Recently, I took 4 days out of my hectic life to go to Dr. Paul's Campaign for Liberty Northeastern Conference in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.  I found excactly what I was looking for - young and old people brought together, perhaps as underdogs - but all the more determined to make meaningful changes to how our country is governed and committed to sound principles - individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy.  Rest assured this will inevitably become the Republican Party's new platform and no one needs Lindsey Graham or that Steele fella's approval to make it happen.  In short virtue, liberty and independence (the Keystone state's forgotten motto) is what Dr. Ron Paul and his supporters are all about.  The first Pennsylvanians had little need for government, taxes, and England's army to defend them from the terrorists of that day -the Native Americans - because the Quakers treated everyone as they rightly should - a neighbor and didn't trade beads for the land and murder them but bartered and interacted more fairly.  Perhaps such views and Ron Paul supporters are radical to some today with a twisted or uninformed view of history and anthropology.  I would challenge their definition of radical and instead note how those who misuse the term are the very ones who fell off the path outlined for us by intelligent patriots such as Thomas Jefferson.  To me Dr. Ron Paul and his Campaign for Liberty copatriots are individuals who speak Common Sense - loudly and proudly.  I must laugh as I hear old Republican dinosaurs such as Lindsey Graham and company go on their neoconservative tirades against good people becoming involved in every level of politics.  For me a new shibboleth for these people is when they say "they don't agree with everything that Dr. Paul believes" and fail to specifically state what they don't believe in.  I respect differences of opinion but I have a keen detector now for who I will be removing from power and informing my vast social networks about.  Perhaps these power players see the handwriting on the wall - that their time was gone long ago?  I for one am committed to help usher the likes of Lindsey Graham and friends out the door using every means within my power and I'm even willing to give up my own professional career to make it happen sooner rather than later.  The Campaign for Liberty is committed to helping educate ordinary citizens about individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and noninterventionist foreign policy to make anyone a lobbyist or to help them decide to run as a representative of their neighbors.  This should terrify Lindsey Graham and colleagues because the days they will sit in places of power are severly limited and the memory of the people is very good to remember who the friends and enemies of our libery and the people's power are.

I encourage CNN to continue to cover the ideas of Dr. Ron Paul and the Campaign for Libery.  The American people are starving to hear truth, information that they can read for themselves, and most importantly Common Sense.  I look forward to people such as Lindsey Graham and his friends becoming brief footnotes in the American history book. I suspect a whole chapter will be dedicated to the life and struggles of Dr. Ron Paul and even more chapters about the people he motivated to lose their apathy and become involved in the affairs of government.  I look forward to following CNN's docmentation of how America is moving towards being a great nation again where individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy is actually common sense among the people and the gold standard for other nations to mimic.

Sincerely yours,

Steven C. Morreale, M.D./M.P.H.
Pittsburgh, PA