Ronald Reagan, the greatest manipulator of all time

Ronald Reagan was not the constitutional guy he made himself out to be.

He was an opportunist and the greatest manipulator in U.S. History. He did whatever benefited he and his constituents the most and left the mess for everyone else to clean up.

While he was Governor of CA, he laid the groundwork for the most Draconian Gun Control Laws in America. Everything related to those anti-2^nd Amendment laws original that are associated with California in today’s America stem from him.

The reason he passed those laws was to discredit the original Black Panther Party as a group of violent thugs bent out on spreading Communism. As he feared that if regular people in California were allowed the same kind of access to weapons as the military, California would become a Communist State.

The original Black Panthers may have been socialists, but they were also true champions of the Constitution. Every part of Constitution up to the 1960’s was enforced even when the authorities were out of control. What the original Black Panthers did for America benefited the country more than what Reagan did while he was in both Governor and later President.

Then when Reagan was a President in the 1980’s through the end of his days, he promoted gun control like no one’s business. He may have been a pro-gun traditionalist, but was not pro-2^nd Amendment. During Reagan’s presidency, he past the Firearms Home Protection Act. The Act may have been past with good intentions, but with the inclusion of the Hughes Amendment in the bill is what proves that Reagan was not as pro-2^nd Amendment as the GOP makes him out to be.

Even after he left the White House he promoted his anti-2^nd Amendment views. In the following video and NY Times op-ed, he openly brags about his anti-2^nd Amendment with no regard for the consequences:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/opinion/why-i-m-for-the-brady-bill.html

 

If that doesn’t convince you enough, here are some other people including Barrack Obama (when he was still President) who have looked into the matter about Reagan being as anti-2^nd Amendment not so long ago:

 

 

Reagan is also known as the guy who escalated U.S. Military spending without telling the public how America was going to pay for it through Reaganomics. Military spending was out of control under Reagan in his mad dash to collapse the Soviet Union. He may have succeeded in dissolving the Soviet State, but by doing so cost the U.S. a few trillion dollars when everyone adds up all the costs that are both on and off the books.

In addition, he is also the guy who escalated the War on Drugs. Instead of using medical solutions to solve the problem, he in place made it a criminal offense to possess any substance the DEA deemed “illegal”, so that the Prison Industry had a huge leg up against American Manufacturing.

In the link bellow is a written piece on the aftermath of such policies:

http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/nancy-reagans-role-disastrous-war-drugs

 If that is not enough, here is a video by Judge Jim Gray confirming the War on Drugs as a failure:

 

 

Ronald Reagan by escalating the War on Drugs and giving the kinds of benefits that he did for the Prison Industry in turn destroyed American Manufacturing.

As to what everyone could see, Ronald Reagan during his lifetime was more against the Constitution than he was for it. He was in favor of Gun Control as much as Barrack Obama was in the 21^st Century, he was a big government spender despite claiming he was not, and the one who escalated the War on Drugs which has created more problems in the Post-Cold War than what real Communists could have done in a lifetime.

It’s as what Dr. Ron Paul has said many times “you can’t be a Conservative if you are liberal on military spending.” From all the data examined from what I have been able to get my hands on is proof that Reagan was more of a manipulator than a true Conservative.