Former GOP Texas Rep. Ron Paul believes stay-at-home orders are unconstitutional and have violated the public’s trust in government.
Speaking on his podcast Liberty Report on Friday, Paul decried lockdown mandates that he said run afoul of fundamental American principles of liberty.
“It is a scandal,” Paul said. “I think the basic reason why people should be against the lockdown is it’s against their freedoms to make their own choices.”
Paul criticized lawmakers and government officials who have exerted unprecedented control over the population in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
“They have designed this as a reaction to their planning,” he said. “What is the motivation of the people who wanted the lockdown?”
Paul said people are beginning to question if their representatives are taking the right approach to combating the highly infectious disease.
“We’re at a point where, guess what, people are waking up,” he said. “And they’re saying, ‘Oh, this war against the virus. It might not be any more practical than the war against the Vietnamese.’ Maybe it’s no more practical than, I guess, the war against Saddam Hussein. And they’re looking at it, and isn’t it delightful to see people not being the bad people, they’re the good people, they’re standing up for what is right and responsibility?”
