EMPIRE OF LIES: The Ron Paul Documentary

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/empireoflies/empire-of-lies

This Kickstarter campaign marks the first public announcement of an important new project, EMPIRE OF LIES: The Ron Paul Documentary.

Although Ron Paul has been approached many times by many others to be the subject of a documentary, he has not agreed to participate.

Until now.

We are very pleased to have Ron Paul's help and cooperation in this production and are grateful for his personal support.

Now we are asking for your help as well. We are counting on the Kickstarter community, lovers of liberty, Ron Paul supporters and others so that we can keep this important project independent.

We are not willing to make a weak or watered-down documentary.

Even in conventional terms Ron Paul is a remarkably successful politician.

He won election to the House 12 times over a span of five decades. Paul's wins include the unmatched record of being elected three times to the House as a non-incumbent.

He was the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1988, and sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012.

Stunned by the university stadiums and civic arenas filled with young supporters, other candidates like Hillary Clinton marveled at the size and the passion of the Ron Paul crowds.

Others envied Ron Paul's astonishing ability to raise money. But the new digital-age, world-record fundraising was not the work of the campaign organization. Millions poured into the Ron Paul campaign spontaneously from the grassroots.

The conventional politicians just didn't understand that the enthusiasm that set millions marching in the Ron Paul Revolution would not have happened if Ron Paul were just another conventional politician.

He was something much more. 

Ron Paul is a family man, a father of five, with 18 grandchildren. A small town doctor who served as an Air Force flight surgeon, he is a retired ob/gyn who delivered more than 4,000 babies in his career.

He is a bestselling author and has written numerous books extolling free markets and sound money. His prescient description of the results of government economic meddling and the folly of the Federal Reserve attest that he is learned in economics.

No less has his farsightedness been on display with regard to the consequences of America's foreign interventionism such as the elective Iraq war.

In public office, Ron Paul has distinguished himself for the conviction of his principles. He has never sold out. Or stated differently, he has never bought in:

He never voted for a tax increase

He never voted for an unbalanced budget

He never voted for a congressional pay raise

He never took a taxpayer-paid junket

He never voted to increase the power of the executive branch

He voted against the Patriot Act

He voted against the Iraq war

He refused to participate in the lucrative congressional pension program

He returned a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year