Today Ron Paul visits Philadelphia, the origin of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. It is also the origin of the Marine Corps. On this day, November 10, 1775, Samuel Nicholas formed the first unit of Continental Marines at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia. These Marines would later fight in the just war against British tyranny.
The Philadelphia area is also the birthplace of one of the greatest Marines, Smedley Darlington Butler. Major General Butler, a two time recipient of the Medal of Honor, later became one of the greatest opponents of the military industrial complex as an Old Right Republican. Read his brilliant essay War is a Racket, where he condemns interventionist crusades and singles out the chickenhawks of his day:
WAR is a racket. It always has been.It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Ron Paul continues in the tradition of the Continental Marines and Smedley Butler, patriots always faithful, semper fidelis.
