Ron Paul knows the Constitution and tells us in “Revolution” exactly how the current government is contradicting the founding document of America. Paul goes over numerous vital examples of how the federal government is overstepping its duty and in fact committing crimes against Americans by failing to stick to what the founders intended for the institution. The ideas described in this book must proliferate if we’re to hang on to the fraction of liberty we have left.

First up is the controversial war in Iraq, which has cost us thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars a day. Paul has rejected the war from the start and now wants to see an end to the imperialism that creates such wars. In “Revolution”, Paul consistently goes back to the founders to show that they never intended the federal government to be the world’s policemen.

Next is the welfare state. Paul shows convincingly the paradox of government programs that gets more money for failing to do what they were designed to do. Freedom from regulation and the nanny state has helped reduce poverty in India and China since the ’70s but the US poverty rate has stagnated since the ‘War on Poverty’ was declared in 1968 with a slew of government welfare programs, Paul reports.

Paul then goes over other ways the federal government harms its constituents as in the drug war, the Patriot Act, and much more important, the Fed’s tinkering with the economy through inflation and debt. Much of this information is already clearly elucidated in the popular media, but it seems most people have just thrown their hands up and accepted it as the way things are. Ron Paul intends to shake up the status quo and wake people up to the issues we confront with a leviathan that will continue to erode the rock of freedom on which it stands. Paul intends to make popular once again the idea of liberty before it’s too late. His message is clear: stop regulating us; stop spying on us; and stop taking our money!

Though the book isn’t expertly written or especially thorough, every American should read it and contemplate the core ideas. We could be on the brink of a monumental shift toward greater liberty—”The Revolution” can be considered the catalyst.