Why YAF voted to expel Ron Paul from Young Americans for Freedom

There are many admirable groups, such as Young Americans for Liberty and Students for Liberty, who look fondly on Rep. Ron Paul for his admirable leadership on the issues of domestic spending and constitutionalism. However, a politician who can look out his office window at the smoke rising over D.C. and call 9/11 blowback against the American policy of defending Muslim states from dictators in Baghdad; who can stare across the desert holes full of beheaded Jews and gentiles and wonder if they are invaders; who can scan over the news of another 25 school children dead in Pakistan or another pizza parlor destroyed in Israel and dismiss it as someone else’s problem; who can hear word of another church burnt in Egypt or another stoning in Iran and demand America stay quiet, is undeserving of the respect of the conservative movement. How can a man who is as smart as Ron Paul, as well-informed as Ron Paul and supposedly as staunch a defender of liberty as Ron Paul see all this and still deny the threat posed to the world, our civilization and our freedoms by this ideology? How can he forget?

Young Americans for Freedom will not forget. We do not forget the dead and wounded Americans in Tehran. We do not forget our Marines in Beirut. We do not forget our sailors in Yemen. We do not forget the Americans in New York City, Washington, Pennsylvania, London and Mumbai. We do not forget Daniel Pearl. We do not forget the brave soldiers of Fort Hood. We do not forget our brave men and women in Iraq, Afghanistan and the world over. We do not forget our principles or the United States Constitution. And we do not forget these and many more.

For our country, our fallen, our freedom and more, Rep. Ron Paul has been expelled from Young Americans for Freedom.

Christopher Bedford is the national vice-chairman of Young Americans for Freedom and executive editor of their official magazine, The New Guard. He is a 2008 graduate of American University. He has also written for American Thinker, Voices, The American Observer, Homeland Security Today and The American University Eagle.