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TRUTH RISING: The 9/11 Chronicles Part One Now Available

2008-07-04T14:20:00.000-07:00

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Has state GOP erred in excluding 'Paulites'?

2008-07-03T13:24:00.000-07:00

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Jana D. Bogs, Fort Collins
Thursday, June 12, 2008

Sometimes you lose even when you think you won. Such was the case with the recent Colorado Republican congressional district assemblies and state convention, which were clearly biased toward John McCain.

Mitt Romney was brought in to speak for half an hour on behalf of McCain. No one, however, was allowed to speak - for even 5 minutes - on behalf of Ron Paul. (Yes, he still is in the race for president!)

The assemblies and convention should support fair contests between all qualified candidates, but this was clearly not the case. There were slanderous papers placed on delegates' chairs blacklisting Paul supporters by name as individuals who are organizing "to stage an embarrassing public revolt against the party." And a so-called "unity slate" of prospective McCain national delegates was being passed out, against convention rules, on the floor of the convention and under the guise of being "endorsed by all major Republican presidential candidates."

It seems that the "powers that be" are attempting to quash any choice other than the candidate they have pre-selected. Is there no room for debate and hearing of alternative views? Where is our freedom of choice?

The old guard might think they won, but if they have alienated, through a lack of generosity and fairness, a significant contingent who are passionate supporters of Republican principles, they might find themselves with inadequate numbers come November . . . and in the losing position when it counts!

Originally posted *HERE*

WE HAVE A QUORUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVADA CHANGES THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY........

2008-06-28T18:55:00.000-07:00

Posted June 28th, 2008 by Jdayh

For those of you who REALLY WANT DESIRE AND NEED TO HAVE A FREE NATION....Nevada has set a landmark in the halls of history.....Today they have reconvened and remade the NEVADA GOP...and even as I am posting this they are electing delegates to the NATIONAL CONVENTION....(mostly, if not all, Ron Paul delegates) THIS WILL COUNT TOWARDS RON PAUL WINNING THE STATE OF NEVADA....with will allow them to NOMINATE HIM FROM THE FLOOR which is what this whole thing is really all about. Once he has a state that he legally wins(ie gets the majority of delegates for that state) He can then be nominated for President at the National Republican Convention. THIS MEANS THIS CAMPAIGN IS IN FULL GEAR!!!!!

Here is a bit of information on how they are doing this legally....

They did not have a quorum based on the old convention, but that convention has been invalidated due to rule breaking.(see below in bold) So now they have a new quorum with full attendance.Which means it is fully legal and shall withstand the scrutiny of legal challenges that may come!!!!

There is no "former" convention, the convention NEVER recessed. The convention has always been going on. Under RONR (10th. Ed.) sec. 20, p. 222, ln. 30,

"A recess is a short intermission in the assembly's proceedings, commonly only of a few minutes, which does not close the meeting and after which business will immediately be resumed at exactly the point where it was interrupted."

Thus, by definition, a recess can never be used to close a meeting. Under RONR, there are two types of recess: (1) a privileged motion to recess, requiring a majority vote, or (2) a unilateral recess being declared by the chair if it was provided for in the agenda or program. On April 26th, a RECESS was not provided for in the program or agenda (even though the agenda on April 26th. may have provided for ADJOURNMENT at a particular time, completely different from a recess).

Thus, the purported recess on April 26th. would have been valid ONLY if a motion to recess was made and seconded by the convention delegates, and the motion was voted on by a majority of delegates. Even then, however, the recess could not have been used to close the meeting.

For this reason shown above they now have a new quorum that is roughly 300 (a bit more) delegates. And now business is taking place with full legality and force of law behind them. WE THE PEOPLE SHALL AND WILL PREVAIL!!!!!

LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.....now GO spread the word to every man, women and creature that we can still win Ron Paul the PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!

American Indian Speaker at today's Liberty Rally + Russell Means on the Republic of Lakota

2008-04-15T22:25:00.000-07:00

This is how we WIN for Ron Paul!!!!! UPDATED / fixed LINKS

2008-03-13T14:14:00.000-07:00

via MySpace -

This is How We Will Win

"The fact is Dr. Paul is a genius in his strategy and we are further
ahead in delegates than you think and we can win the nomination."

I was an administrator for the Democratic party for over 6 years and I am well educated in the nomination process, I left the party to support Dr. Paul so I know what I am talking about.

If you doubt my post go and research it yourself PLEASE here:
http://www.gop.com/images/2008_Call_FINAL.pdf

PLEASE EVERYONE COPY AND SEND THIS TO THEIR EMAIL LIST AND MEETUP HEADS AND ANY OTHER RON PAUL FORUM THERE IS.

I know many of you are new to the election process but don't worry.

I am going to go into some depth of how this all works so read and then read again if you need to.

Did you know that the delegates can actually vote to unbind their delegates that are bound by state rules? Did you know that delegates can actually overturn any previous vote? Did you know the delegates have control of the entire process?

The MSM is not reporting how to become the nominee in a situation like this so I will tell you to stop getting your info from the MSM.

I know many of you are bummed about Dr. Paul not getting more votes in the states popular vote BUT THAT IS BECAUSE YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE ELECTION SYSTEM WORKS : Let me explain to you the reality of how to become the nominee.

First stop looking at who wins each states popular vote for most of these states the vote by the people is really nothing but a straw poll and have no real bearing on who will become the nominee. The only way this matters is if 1 person receives 1191 delegates that are bound by state rules to be commited to that candidate. So if a candiate like Mccain now has 906 delegates now but he doesn't reach 1191 WHICH HE WILL NOT most of the delegates the state awarded him mean nothing and keep in mind in most of the states most of the people that represent the 906 for Mccain are actually Ron Paul supporters. NOW there is no possible way that anyone in the race can achieve this goal now because of the major split in state wins by the candidates.

Normally Convention Delegates do not matter because the convention is not brokered and we have a clear winner because someone has 1191 delegates. BUT THIS YEAR IS DIFFERENT. This will be a brokered convention there is no way around it. Do you see how the Ron Paul campaign strategy will work.

When a candidate wins delegates by winning a primary that does not mean there are actual people that won acting as delegates- these are virtual delegates.

What do I mean by virtual delegates: A virtual delegate is just a number - there are no actual people YET that will go and vote for the candidate who won the particular state at the national convention. We call these people convention delegates

The actual delegates are voted on (in most states) at a statewide delegate caucus after the Primary (which is just a giant preference poll) Who can be delegates? Anyone. In closed Primary states they must be registered Republicans, in Open Primary states they can be Republicans, Democrats, Independents.

View the hard count of actual pledged delegates here:
http://www. thegreenpapers. com/P08/R. phtml

And we have lots of delegates.

Out of the 2,380 delegates sent to Minneapolis St. Paul in September:

• 463 delegates are bound all the way through the convention some of those 463 are Ron Paul's people.

• 565 delegates will be bound through one ballot. That is, they have to follow the results of the state election on the first ballot. After that, if no candidate has a majority of delegates, they are free to vote as they please and Mccain will not receive over 50% on the first ballot.

• 383 will be bound through two ballots then they are free to vote for whom they wish.

• 318 will be bound through three ballots then they are free to vote for whom they wish.

I am not going to list every state and what the break downs are, just do the math from these numbers or look for yourself here:
http://www.gop. com/Images/AllStateSummaries.pdf

Bottom line is less than 1/2 of the delegates are bound by state party rules. Now do you see how we can win this thing?

So what happens now you ask? You look at the number of delegates that Dr. Paul has that are uncommited to the other candidates and will support him. these delegates are not decided by the popular vote ie: straw poll of the people. Since no one will have enough delegates to skate them through to the nomination we now must look at how many delegates NOT VOTES but delegates Dr. Paul has that are 100% uncommited to the other candidates and will be 100% for Dr. Paul and are free to vote for whom they wish.

This race will go all the way to the convention for there is no other way for someone to receive the nomination until the convention.

The RNC will convene its annual Winter Meeting - and voters will continue to cast their ballots in the nation's primaries and caucuses. Candidates for delegate and alternate delegate to the convention will be elected - and thousands of convention participants and guests will begin planning their trips to Minneapolis-Saint Paul The first week in September 2008

SO WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN?

This means that all of the people that registered to become a delegate for Dr. Paul can go to the convention and cast their vote for Dr. Paul, now think about what I just said : Do you think for one second that all the people that voted for Dr. Paul and filed to become a delegate will not show up at the convention to vote for the good Doctor? Of course they will just like they battled the rain and the sleet and the 15 below zero winter weather to knock on doors and wave signs spreading our message.

Now I assure you that even though we didn't win the popular vote in many states WE DID PICK UP THE MAJORITY OF DELEGATES THAN ALL THE OTHER CANDIDATES IN MOST EVERY STATE EXCEPT A FEW. So yes they won the straw poll and we won what counts which is delegates.

Doesn't Dr. Paul need to WIN 5 states to be on the ballot at the convention for the nomination?

NO THIS IS NOT TRUE for people were just confused on how it actually works.

We only need the majority of delegates from 5 states to be put on the ballot NOT THE POPULAR VOTE OF 5 STATES and I assure you we have picked up the majority of uncommitted delegates for Dr. Paul in more than 5 states.

Do any of you remember seeing posts by myself and many others that said BECOME A DELEGATE? There is still time in most states to become a delegate for the convention and we are picking up more of them every day.

So please STOP! you worry too much because you do not understand how the election system works and you thought we lost didn't you? I assure you we have not!

The fact is Dr. Paul is a genius in his strategy and we are further ahead in delegates than you think and we can win the nomination.

I hope this gives a better understanding of how we have been winning even though most of you thought we were not.

NOW LET'S KEEP WORKING! FILE TODAY AND BECOME A DELEGATE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

Info on how to become a delegate here :
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&suggon=0&q=how+to+become+a+Republican+delegate

Dr. Steve Parent
http://www. dailypaul. com/node/36650

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Lincoln WON with only less than 10% of the delegates!

2008-03-08T19:29:00.000-08:00

via MySpace - (Lincoln is in the second half of this bulletin):

In the CNN interview from 3/10/08, Ron Paul uses the word, "nominal," twice. ("McCain has the nominal number." at 0:51 and "nominal sense" at 2:27.) When I first watched the video, I thought that Ron misspoke. Now that I've thought about his use of that word some more, I realize that Ron was telling everyone that McCain only has the nomination in name only because he has an insignificantly small number of delegates bound to him. We all need to try to be as smart as Ron Paul if we're going to win delegates for him. The MSM is allowing him to talk to everyone now. He obviously can't let McCain or the GOP establishment know that thousands of his supporters are working towards becoming delegates. The result of leaking that information would be an increase in the efforts of the establishment to prevent us from winning. Listen again to what Ron said after reading these definitions for "nominal":

nom·i·nal (nòm¹e-nel) adjective
1. a. Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names. b. Assigned to or bearing a person's name: nominal shares.
2. Existing in name only.
3. Philosophy. Of or relating to nominalism.
4. Insignificantly small; trifling: a nominal sum.
5. Business. a. Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value. b. Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
6. Grammar. Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
7. Aerospace & Engineering. According to plan or design: a nominal flight check.

[Middle English nominalle, of nouns, from Latin nominâlis, of names, from nomen, nomin-, name.]
— nom¹i·nal·ly adverb
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition is licensed from Houghton Mifflin Company. Copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Selected Illustrations from the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia. Copyright © 1991 by Columbia University Press.

Lincoln Won with Less than 10% of Delegates (DECODED)
----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Weapon Shop
Date: Mar 11, 2008 10:30 PM

I like to believe that when Ron Paul said "Though victory in the traditional political sense is not available,..." he was speaking in "code" about something like this. --Obadiah

From: Dane Petersen (Ron Paul - President 2008)

It is up to the delegates to decide who to vote for come the Republican convention from Sept. 1st thru Sept. 4th.

The only two Republican candidates left are John McCain & Ron Paul.

The Main Stream Media, once again, is jumping the gun. They fail to report how politics REALLY works.

Remember, Abraham Lincoln won the Republican nomination and the Presidency with only 22 delegates (out of 233 needed to win). Please READ the full-story below.

How Lincoln Won the 1860 Republican Nomination
by Gordon Leidner of Great American History

One of the most interesting American political stories involves the nomination of Abraham Lincoln to be the Republican party's candidate for President of the United States in 1860. This was the Republican party's second presidential convention, and the man everyone expected to receive the nomination was the powerful and well-known William H. Seward of New York.

Abraham Lincoln, although having recently been introduced to eastern audiences through a series of political speeches in New England, and prior to that having gained some fame due to his participation in "the Great Debates" with Stephen A. Douglas, was not considered a serious contender for the appointment. How he and his political team brought him from "dark horse" contender to the victor is the subject of the following article.

Lincoln Outfoxed Seward for the Nomination
by Gordon Leidner

In May 1860, the nation’s attention turned toward Chicago, where the Republicans were meeting to select their presidential candidate.

William H. Seward, the Republican front-runner from New York, sent his political team to Chicago to lock up his party’s nomination. In the mid-nineteenth century, it was not considered proper for the aspiring candidate to go to the convention himself, so Seward sent his political manager, Thurlow Weed, along with his states’ 70 delegates and 13 railroad cars of supporters.

The residents of Chicago were delighted to have their city of 100,000 chosen for the Republican party’s second presidential convention. At the cost of about $6,000, Republicans there built a new convention center for the occasion. Nicknamed "The Wigwam," it had excellent acoustics and could seat more than 10,000, which purportedly would be the largest audience yet assembled in the country under one roof.

The candidates

Seward and Weed--some would say the unscrupulous Weed--were confident. It would take 233 votes to win the nomination, and they had nearly a third of that in the New York delegation alone.

Who could possibly upset their plans? Not Pennsylvania’s candidate, Simon Cameron. Cameron was considered a crook by most of the country, and would have little support outside of the 54 delegates from Pennsylvania. Not Ohio’s Salmon P. Chase. Ohio’s 46 votes probably would be split between he and fellow Ohioans Sen. Ben Wade and Judge John McClean. Not Missouri’s Edwin Bates--although Bates had Missouri’s 18 delegates and the backing of the nation’s most powerful newspaper editor, Horace Greely of the New York Tribune.

Seward and Weed recognized that they were not on their own turf, and anticipated that Illinois’ "Favorite Son," Abraham Lincoln, probably would receive all of the states’ 22 votes. Since Illinois was considered a doubtful state for candidate Seward should he be the Republican candidate (where he would have a tough time defeating the anticipated Democratic nominee--Illinois’ other favorite son, Stephen A. Douglas), Weed was prepared to acquire Illinois votes on the second ballot by offering Lincoln the vice-presidential spot.

That should secure Seward’s nomination in the event of a tough floor fight, he and his supporters reckoned.

Lincoln's strategy

Lincoln had been busy preparing for the convention as well. Using all his political skill, he had persuaded the Illinois delegation to vote for him in a bloc. To lead the floor fight, he selected David Davis, a trusted friend, and Norman Judd, who was due most of the credit for bringing the Republican convention to Chicago. Finally, he provided them with some tactical guidance and limitations of engagement, which included an admonishment to "make no deals that bind me," and waited in Springfield for the results.

Confident that Seward would not have enough votes to lock up the nomination on the first ballot, Lincoln intended to get the second highest vote count on the first ballot and line up additional votes for the second ballot in order to show increasing strength. He hoped that this strategy--combined with the presence of an enthusiastic band of followers on the floor--would be sufficient to win the nomination on the third or subsequent ballot.

Lincoln’s men left no detail unattended in their pursuit of this strategy. They made certain that Seward’s New Yorkers were seated far from other critical delegations with whom they might collaborate. They printed hundreds of counterfeit tickets and distributed them to Lincoln supporters with instructions to show up early--in order to displace Seward’s supporters.

They also assigned two men with noted stentorian voices to lead the cheering. One of these men reportedly had a larynx powerful enough to allow his shout to be heard across Lake Michigan.

Stop Seward

The first two days of the convention were devoted to acceptance of delegates, administration, and the platform. The evenings were spent in the caucusing of delegates. Weed’s approach was to offer champagne for the present and "oceans of money" for the future.

In contrast, Davis and Judd spent their time lining up votes from delegates of other states that didn’t want to see Seward win. Indiana committed 26 first ballot votes to Lincoln. Several of the New England states, including New Hampshire and Maine, provided Lincoln with many first ballot votes that Seward was planning on.

Even more important were the second ballot votes. Several states, including Vermont, were glad to find that the "stop Seward" forces were finally uniting behind one man and committed most of their subsequent votes to Lincoln.

Pennsylvania was harder to crack. Davis chose to ignore Lincoln’s direction about making pledges in his absence, and got a commitment from Pennsylvania to support Lincoln on the second ballot by offering a cabinet position to Simon Cameron.

Beyond description

Finally, the third day arrived. One thousand Seward men marched behind a smartly uniformed brass band. They wound their way noisily through Chicago’s streets, playing the song "Oh, Isn’t He a Darling?" and finally arrived triumphantly in front of the Wigwam. To their horror, they found that they could not get in: the Lincoln men, admitted with their counterfeit tickets, had taken their seats.

Still, Seward had his share of support. When his name was offered in nomination, tremendous applause went up from the audience--followed by louder applause for Lincoln. The crowd quickly recognized them as the front-runners when the other candidates received less enthusiastic commendation.

When Seward’s name was seconded, the demonstration was so vociferous that "hundreds of persons stopped their ears in pain." But when Lincoln’s nomination was seconded, the uproar was "beyond description."

Leonard Swett, a friend of Lincoln’s, said that "Five thousand people leaped to their seats, women not wanting, and the wild yell made vesper breathings of all that had preceded. A thousand steam whistles, ten acres of hotel gongs, a tribe of Comanches might have mingled in the scene unnoticed."

Holding their breath

After the first ballot, Seward, as expected, led with 173 votes. Lincoln was next with 102. Cameron received 50; Chase got 49; Bates 48; and the rest received a handful each.

A second ballot was immediately called for, and the Lincoln camp knew that their man would gain strength. Vermont was the first state to make a major shift--all 10 votes went to Lincoln, a significant blow to Seward. As the roll call continued, Lincoln gained a few votes here and a few there, while Seward’s tally remained largely unchanged.

When Pennsylvania’s turn came, the Lincoln men held their breath. Whereas only four votes from Pennsylvania went to Lincoln on the first ballot, a whopping 48 went to him on the second. Seward supporters sank in their seats. Lincoln clearly had the momentum. The final tally on the second ballot was 184 for Seward and 181 for Lincoln.

A hush fell

Ballot three began. Lincoln continued to pick up votes--4 more from Kentucky, 15 from Ohio--while Seward lost votes. When the pencils stopped scratching, Lincoln had 231 and a half votes--one and a half short of those needed for the nomination.

A hush fell, and all eyes turned toward D. K. Cartter of Ohio, who stuttered out: "I-I arise, Mr. Chairman, to a-announce the ch-change of four votes, from Mr. Chase to Abraham Lincoln!" For a moment, the audience was silent--then it erupted. The sound was so deafening that the only way people could tell that cannons outside the Wigwam were being fired was by watching the smoke drift from the barrels.

Ironic footnote

So Lincoln was nominated and would be elected the nation’s 16th president. He appointed Seward secretary of state, Cameron secretary of war, Chase secretary of the Treasury, and Bates attorney general.

Lincoln proved to be a better leader than Seward. For example, when the South seceded, Seward proposed that Lincoln evoke the Monroe Doctrine to justify a declaration of war on France and Spain--which he believed would cause the South to come to the North’s aid and re-join the Union. Lincoln ignored this foolishness. "The President is the best of us!" Seward would admit later.

There is an ironic footnote to the convention story: A few blocks from the Wigwam, on the second night of the convention, the McVicker’s Theater was opening "Our American Cousin" --the play Lincoln would be watching at Ford’s Theater his last night on Earth.

Source: http://www.greatamericanhistory.net/nomination.htm

Ron Paul Wants To End Anti-Cuban Sanctions

2008-02-27T13:52:00.000-08:00

Posted by Lew Rockwell at February 20, 2008 03:30 PM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/019521.html

Ron Paul has always advocated free trade with Cuba: no barriers, no subsidies, and complete freedom for Americans to buy Cuban goods, and American farmers and businessmen to export to Cuba. Ron also knows that free trade means exporting capitalism to Cuba, just what that poor country needs. All the other candidates are for tightening the screws on Cubans (and would-be American traders and visitors). Ron Paul wants to export freedom and private property rights. And good for him for using the occasion of Castro's resignation to call for an end to immoral and protectionist anti-civilian sanctions.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/019522.html

Another Lie About Ron
Posted by Anthony Gregory at February 20, 2008 03:46 PM

Some of his detractors say he's a protectionist, but of course he's not. In the video Lew posts, Ron Paul again reiterates his free trade principles concerning the evil embargo on Cuba and US sanctions as weapons of war. It is true that Ron is opposed to bureaucratic managed trade agreements and international agencies like the WTO, but he is a champion of unilaterally lowering tariffs, like all classical liberals, as well as an opponent of the most vicious trade restrictions of all. He sees trade as a human right and the path to peace and prosperity. And he points out the hypocrisy of the "free trade" Republicans who helped cut trade off from the Iraqi people, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

The Trials of Henry Kissinger (must see FULL video!)

2008-02-19T21:30:00.000-08:00

FULL SCREEN:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2815881561030958784&hl=en

Prodigy of Mobb Deep speaks about Ron Paul

2008-02-12T19:35:00.000-08:00

One Nation Under Siege

2008-02-11T20:41:00.000-08:00

Cutting edge feature film documentary:

FULL SCREEN:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7455325731648062338&q=One+Nation+Under+Siege&total=77&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

Homeschoolers for Ron Paul

2008-02-05T11:21:00.001-08:00

Website includes endorsements from home-schooling pioneers, a Meetup.com group, a BLOG and networking...

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Undecided voter? Worth watching

2008-02-04T23:39:00.000-08:00

Remember to vote SUPER-TUESDAY!

Watch Ron Paul WIN MTV / MySpace': "Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super Dialogue"(!!!)

Lew Rockwell.com
Sunday February 3, 2008

Ron Paul did a great job in the MTV/Myspace forum. Of course, some of his answers may have been too scholarly for the audience, which appeared to be populated mostly by the kind of people you'd expect to get their ideas from MTV. Many of them sat there looking bored because they weren't getting the lame-brained platitudes and promises of free stuff an Obama offers. The girl who wants taxpayers to subsidize her undoubtedly prodigious sex life seemed especially disappointed.

But for that even-smaller-than-usual Remnant in MTV's audience, Ron Paul provided a wealth of ideas that they can Google later about sound money, free markets, and a non-interventionist foreign policy. His summary at the end about not wanting to run people's lives probably struck a cord in a great many young people already sick of power-hungry politicians -- you could see the smiles spread across the audience members' faces as he spoke. He needs to play that note for all it's worth.

Arlo Guthrie Endorses Ron Paul

2008-02-01T14:45:00.001-08:00

"Ron Paul nabs Arlo's endorsement! Move over, Obama and Ted Kennedy, Huckabee and Chuck Norris, McCain and Sylvester Stallone--Ron Paul snagged the endorsement of legendary singer-songwriter, Arlo Guthrie Tuesday. The creator of "Alice's Restaurant" opined, "Dr. Paul is the only candidate I know of who would have signed the Constitution..."

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Legendary skater, punk, & shoe-designer, Duane Peters' band - The U.S. Bombs - goes on tour for Ron Paul

2008-02-01T13:31:00.001-08:00

DIGG this VIDEO

U.S. Bombs Out to Boost Paul, Lead Revolution

By David Steinberg
Journal Staff Writer

Talk to Duane Peters and you get the feeling that the name of his punk rock band may also be a statement on how it feels about the United States of America. In other words, Peters said, the country needs a major political face-lift. And the man to get the job done, he declared, is Ron Paul, the Texas congressman who's a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. "We're not out touring to promote our last record. It's a year old. We're promoting Ron Paul," Peters said in a phone interview from Los Angeles.

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http://www.myspace.com/usbombsusbombs

Ron Paul Speaks Out Against Forced Vaccinations

2008-01-23T16:28:00.001-08:00

Presidential candidate Ron Paul has spoken out against forced vaccination and the federal government's eagerness to dictate what Americans may and may not put into their bodies.

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In Honor of Dr. King's Birthday (9 min.)

2008-01-12T22:09:00.000-08:00

DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A RACIST TO YOU?

2008-01-11T17:30:00.000-08:00

I can actually see and feel the love from this man (in the photo) in his eyes and smile. You'd have to be blind to miss it.

I dare the reader to check out every one of these VIDEOS and DOCUMENTS below and tell me if you've changed your mind...

NAACP President: Ron Paul Is Not A Racist
Linder says Paul being smeared because he is a threat to the establishment
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/011308_not_racist.htm

I am a Mexican-American, I worked for Ron Paul in the 1990’s, and I Know that Ron Paul is No Racist!
http://stewart-rhodes.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-am-mexican-american-i-worked-for-ron.html

BREAKING NEWS***CNN***RON PAUL says M.L.K. his HERO - LIVE
Pt 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6rxts0-f9w
Pt 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82CYNV0U_kg

WHY PEOPLE of COLOR should vote for Ron Paul:
#1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ji_Ft23BDw
#2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSh6kVT4UL0
#3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TJ9ZITd2rs

PRESIDENT of HIP HOP WARMS UP to Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKik8DVOsM

Ron Paul Would End the Govt.'s Most Racist Policy
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Ron_Paul_Would_End_the_Government_s_Most_Racist_Policy

Ron Paul: Smear Attempts Reflect "Frightened," "Insecure" Establishment
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Ron_Paul_Smear_Attempts_Reflect_Frightened_Insecure_Establishment

Vicious Ron Paul Hit Piece Scrapes The Barrel Of Yellow Journalism
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Vicious_Ron_Paul_Hit_Piece_Yellow_Journalism

Hispanics for Ron Paul has posted the following:
Government and Racism by Ron Paul
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=266311062&blogID=320790630

What Really Divides Us by Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul68.html

Ron Paul’s response:
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS233377+08-Jan-2008+BW20080108

ARLINGTON, Va.--(Business Wire)--In response to an article published by The New Republic, Ron Paul issued the following statement:

"The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do
not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never
uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.

"In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person's character, not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S. House on April 20, 1999: 'I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of
individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.'

"This story is old news and has been rehashed for over a decade. It's once again being resurrected for obvious political reasons on the day of the New Hampshire primary.

"When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publically taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name."

UPDATE -

Ron Paul on Martin Luther King:

The writing below was pulled from The Daily Dose blog on RonPaul2008.Com
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Ron Paul on Martin Luther King
January 21st, 2008 by Dan McCarthy

There’s considerable consonance between Dr. Paul’s views and Dr. King’s, in their stands against militarism and for civil liberties. Dr. Paul says it best himself:

“It is especially fitting that we take the time to reflect on one man’s struggles to defend our Constitutional freedoms during this primary election season. January 15 was the birthday of the great freedom fighter, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and on Monday, we honor him nationwide for his sacrifice and love of liberty for all people.

“To me, the timing is more than a coincidence. The American people, regardless of color or creed, have the opportunity to choose a candidate who will uplift the ideals for which Dr. King fought—and died.

“The fight for freedom—the preservation of our civil rights—is the fight of our lives. Sadly, after Dr. King’s passing we are faced with a violation of our civil rights in the same vein as Jim Crow: The Patriot Act. I have stood against this and all unconstitutional violations of American’s civil rights, and will continue Dr. King’s charge as President.

“Dr. King would be disappointed in our current administration for more than its continued disregard for civil rights, as he stated ‘a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.’ We need to change our interventionist foreign policy, and take care of our brothers and sisters at home. Our nation is in a crisis: we are spending billions on war overseas while those around us are suffering and losing jobs, homes, and hope. It is inexcusable; we must solve the economic crisis at home and bring hope to America.

“Dr. King’s heroic actions should resonate with us today, as we recognize that our votes strengthen the fight for our civil rights. Liberty is the true antidote to racism, and freedom– limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights—can uplift us all.”

Russell Means for Vice-President!!!

2008-01-01T17:58:00.000-08:00

I would love to see self-proclaimed "Constitutional Revolutionary," (1) Lakota, Libertarian, Russell Means, on the 2008 Presidential Ticket w/ Ron Paul!!!

While campaigning for the Libertarian Party's Presidential nomination in 1988, Means warned our nation:

"We will prove to every American that America is becoming one big Indian reservation," said Mr. Means, who contends that non-Indians face the same danger of losing their land and their rights that Indians have faced for centuries."

"I challenge every American to make a list of what they feel their individual rights are, and then, item by item, find out how much government is interfering with those rights," he said. "I have been trying to throw off the yoke of government interference in our lives since I joined the American Indian Movement…"

“…The 47-year-old candidate, dressed in a black shirt with fringed sleeves and wearing his hair in braids, said it was natural for an Indian to embrace Libertarian philosophy because it fitted the Indian belief in personal freedom.”(2)

(1) Elon University, February 21, 2002, http://org.elon.edu/pendulum/Issues/2002/022102/News/Speaker.html

(2) New York Times, May 31, 1987
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2D71F38F932A05756C0A961948260

~ Quote for the Day~

2007-12-03T21:30:00.000-08:00

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand

Ron Paul Slander

2007-12-01T13:10:00.000-08:00

EXPOSED! CLICK HERE

Check Out This Fascinating MySpace Page!

2007-12-01T00:16:00.000-08:00

{ I am sorry to say }

CLICK:
-- DEATH BY MODERN MEDICINE --

I may as well add a quote for the day: a quote from Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence:

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship… To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic… The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.

An interesting slice of history

2007-11-26T20:50:00.000-08:00

via MySpace:
Thanks to -
ॐ omote manji∞
Date: Nov 26, 2007 4:19 PM

CLICK on the PICTURE BELOW to ENLARGE:

Turning The Police State Apparatus Against Dissenters

2007-11-16T15:11:00.001-08:00

A sustained media propaganda campaign in support of the move to swing the apparatus of tyranny away from phantom Muslim terrorists and towards the American people is in full operation and may pave the way for further attacks on US soil to be blamed on dissenting Americans who speak out against the war and the rise of the domestic police state.

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Neocon Attack on Ron Paul: Greasing the Skids for Implementation of H.R. 1955?

2007-11-15T15:44:00.000-08:00

Please call your senators and protest S. 1959 - don't let Ron Paul supporters be criminalized! This is UN-American!

Click Here: SENATORS - Email & Phone

CLICK HERE for FULL ARTICLE: http://www.truthnews.us/?p=849

RON PAUL: Why People Of Color Should Vote For Him

2007-11-12T21:35:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul means just as much (if not more) to Black Americans and People of Color as well as any other American. Consider his views on The War on Drugs, the I.R.S. The war in Iraq, protecting our borders...to name a few issues. He is more than likely in favor of what MOST AMERICANS are in favor of than ANY OTHER CANDIDATE.

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RON PAUL BRINGS PEOPLE OF ALL COLOR/BACKGROUNDS TOGETHER!

Statement Regarding Impeachment of Vice President Cheney

2007-11-11T07:26:00.001-08:00

Now that's backbone. When you give up something you want so bad because you know the way you're going to get it is wrong. Is there ANYONE in American government with that much principle?

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Why did Ron Paul vote to table the Kucinich motion?

2007-11-11T07:19:00.001-08:00

Because it is improper for the House to consider something as important as impeachment without having had hearings and without a report from a committee or an independent counsel. It was appropriately done this way with Nixon and Clinton. If you look at the vote, you will notice the majority of war-mongering Republicans voted with Kuncinich as a vote to table the Kucinich motion

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LET IT NOT BE SAID WE DID NOTHING

2007-11-07T15:36:00.000-08:00

Have you called your representatives about the pending THOUGHT CRIME bill? It's NOT too late!

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1959

PHONE or EMAIL your SENATOR here:
http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_senators.htm

GOOD ANALYSIS of BILL (below):

http://www.lewrockwell.com/knaebel/knaebel11.html

What did CBS edit? Johnny Rotten on Craig Ferguson

2007-11-02T03:19:00.000-07:00

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: DRUMS of WAR
Date: Nov 2, 2007 2:10 AM

Does anyone have the east coast version of the Craig Ferguson show from November first (Thursday night)?

Craig was interviewing Johhny Rotten, and Rotten started talking about his appearance the night before on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Rotten began making hand-gestured Hitler impersonations saying (mocking NBC execs) "Don't talk about the war."

Rotten then began to talk about "Ron Paul, a Republican running for President who has the gall to enjoy "Anarchy in the U.K." Rotten then raised his fist in an apparent salute to Ron Paul and stated "You have an election coming up in 2008 ... it's going to get exciting."

Then, there is a big edit. What's missing?

It jumps from a jubilant Rotten appearing about to speak more about Ron Paul, to a clearly dejected Rotten sitting quietly for Craig's next question... which Rotten jokingly pretends not to hear.

Apparently they had time to kill at the end of the show, as they ran the enitre credits, full-screen at slow speed. I've never seen this on his show. Was it because they had to cut so much of what Rotten said?

And, Ferguson's closing comments indicated he "tried" to interview the Sex Pistols... as if something extraordinary had happened. Nothing extraordinary happened on the west coast fee.

What did Johnny say?

Don't forget to DONATE November 5th

Sex Pistols + Ron Paul = anarchy on Leno

2007-10-31T11:17:00.000-07:00

Libertarians Johhny Rotten and Ron Paul on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno 10/30/7

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http://myspace.com/punks4ronpaul

pt. 1 - Ron Paul

Johhny Rotten gives a shout out to Ron during Anarchy in the U.K....

...and according to Lew Rockwell hails Ron as “President Paul”!

pt. 2 - The Sex Pistols

The Ron Paul Rocker Report informs us that “(Lydon) professed his respect for the Dr. on [the] next night's Craig Ferguson [CBS’ Late Late] show” and Clint Barker via MySpace (myspace.com/bassickinstinct) added that Lydon, "made an honorable mention of Ron Paul!!"

photo / graphic from praxeology.net

Libertarian Johny Rotten & Ron Paul on the TONIGHT SHOW OCT. 30th

2007-10-29T22:46:00.001-07:00

"RON PAUL is PUNK ROCK"See two of the most famous libertarians of all time TUESDAY night October 30th!!!check out punks4ronpaul on MySpace

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HEALTH FREEDOM

2007-10-24T18:36:00.000-07:00

Discover what Ron Paul has done as a congressman. Imagine what he will do as president.

When health freedom advocates need a congressman to fight against attempts to restrict access to dietary supplements, they turn to Dr. Ron Paul. Dr. Paul is the leader in Washington who is not afraid to fight the powerful special interests that want to limit access to dietary supplements.

When Dr. Paul learned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was trying to censor truthful health claims by supplement manufacturers, he introduced the Health Freedom Protection Act (H.R. 2117).

"The Health Freedom Protection Act will force the FDA to at last comply with the commands of Congress, the First Amendment, and the American people by codifying the First Amendment standards adopted by the federal courts. Specifically, the Health Freedom Protection Act stops the FDA from censoring truthful claims about the curative, mitigate, or preventative effects of dietary supplements, and adopts the federal court's suggested use of disclaimers as an alternative to censorship. The Health Freedom Protection Act also stops the FDA from prohibiting the distribution of scientific articles and publications regarding the role of nutrients in protecting against disease," Dr. Paul explained.

Our health freedom is also threatened by attempts to "harmonize" American laws with those of other countries, thus forcing Americans to live under European-style restrictions of dietary supplements. Dr. Paul worked to add language to the 1997 FDA Modernization Act forbidding the FDA from harmonizing our rules with those of any other nation.

The primary instrument of "harmonization" is the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a group of international bureaucrats who are developing "health care standards" for the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. The FDA is an enthusiastic participant in the Codex process.

When Dr. Paul learned the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) contained language that might facilitate the imposition of Codex's restrictive standards on American consumers, he informed his congressional colleagues of this danger with a series of letters. In addition, Dr. Paul sponsored several briefings on the issue.

More recently, Dr. Paul has shown how the FDA is working with its counterparts in Canada and Mexico on a Trilateral Cooperation charter that could "harmonize" regulation of dietary supplements among the three countries. Dr. Paul led a congressional inquiry into the Trilateral Cooperation, forcing the FDA to go on record about its involvement in the Trilateral charter.

As a congressman for 10 terms, Dr. Ron Paul has fought to protect your health freedom. Imagine what he will do as president.

Donate today: https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/

ART vs. CORRUPT GOVT.

2007-10-23T14:07:00.001-07:00

The Snowball Effect - Remember, remember the 5th of November

2007-10-22T03:03:00.000-07:00

Don't Forget Hispanics for Ron Paul, Granny Warriors for Ron Paul, Bikers for Ron Paul, Surf Rock for Ron Paul Homeschoolers for Ron Paul and Punks for Ron Paul...

Hispanics for Ron Paul: Government and Racism

2007-10-20T21:12:00.000-07:00

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=266311062&blogID=320790630

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Hispanics for Ron Paul has posted the following:

Government and Racism
by Ron Paul

April 18, 2007
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.

The controversy surrounding remarks by talk show host Don Imus shows that the nation remains incredibly sensitive about matters of race, despite the outward progress of the last 40 years. A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.

The young women on the basketball team Mr. Imus insulted are over 18 and can speak for themselves. It's disconcerting to see third parties become involved and presume to speak collectively for minority groups. It is precisely this collectivist mindset that is at the heart of racism.

It's also disconcerting to hear the subtle or not-so-subtle threats against free speech. Since the FCC regulates airwaves and grants broadcast licenses, we're told it's proper for government to forbid certain kinds of insulting or offensive speech in the name of racial and social tolerance. Never mind the 1st Amendment, which states unequivocally that, "Congress shall make NO law."

Let's be perfectly clear: the federal government has no business regulating speech in any way. Furthermore, government as an institution is particularly ill-suited to combating bigotry in our society. Bigotry at its essence is a sin of the heart, and we can't change people's hearts by passing more laws and regulations.

In fact it is the federal government more than anything else that divides us along race, class, religion, and gender lines. Government, through its taxes, restrictive regulations, corporate subsidies, racial set-asides, and welfare programs, plays far too large a role in determining who succeeds and who fails in our society. This government "benevolence" crowds out genuine goodwill between men by institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government loot. This leads to resentment and hostility between us.

The political left argues that stringent federal laws are needed to combat racism, even as they advocate incredibly divisive collectivist policies.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct our sins, we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty.

(emphasis added)

The Punk Rock Prez

2007-10-19T18:48:00.001-07:00

Ron Paul's Fellow Guests on the Tonight Show:

When Ron is on Tuesday, October 30th with Jay Leno, his fellow guests will be Tom Cruise and the Sex Pistols.

UPDATE Thank to John Delano for reminding me that Johnny Rotten, former lead singer of the Sex Pistols, is a libertarian, and met Harry Browne at an LP convention. Many Scientologists like Ron too. Hmmm.

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The Mitt Romney Deception

2007-10-18T22:27:00.001-07:00

Despite recent statements across the country by Governor Mitt Romney claiming he's pro-life, pro-family and a committed conservative, a broad investigation of his actual statements, actions, and public positions over the years indicates that he has spent his entire career speaking and governing as a liberal - and that his new found conversion to conservatism very likely coincides with his candidacy for the presidency.

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RON PAUL "TOP TIER"! Read it and weep

2007-10-18T21:47:00.001-07:00

(for joy)!

Ron Paul has Mandate for Equal Time During Fox News Debate

Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has broken through to the top tier of Republican candidates running for president. He knows it, GOP voters know it, and as previously reported; media outlets are grudgingly admitting it.

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RON PAUL MUSIC AWARDS!

2007-10-16T17:12:00.001-07:00

Have you heard these SONGS / BANDS 4 Ron Paul?

DIGG & RE-POST
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Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who has this many bands writing songs for him!!! This is only a few of my favorite songs, but there's a lot more!

Here are my favorite HIP-HOP, REGGAE, SURF ROCK, INDY, PUNK, (and more) songs for Ron Paul:

NOW UPDATED w/ the RON PAUL PIZZA RAP:

http://www.myspace.com/knightsofliberty

http://www.myspace.com/solomonstemple

http://www.myspace.com/thethreeshoesposse

http://www.myspace.com/masonrodgersband

http://www.myspace.com/thepixels

http://www.myspace.com/midnightride2008

http://www.myspace.com/theviolets

http://www.myspace.com/hardrockforron

GET DOWNLOADING and sending these guys THANX!

HERE IS the BANDS 4 RON PAUL website: http://www.myspace.com/bands4ronpaul

Ron Paul Tzu

2007-10-16T12:05:00.001-07:00

Dr. Ron Paul of Texas is our American sage. He merits the honorific tzu, meaning "master," given to the great thinkers of Chinese antiquity: K'ung Fu Tzu (Confucius), Meng Tzu (Mencius), Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Sun Tzu and others. Ron Paul Tzu is both a Confucian gentleman and a Taoist sage.

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Human or ASTROTURF???

2007-10-16T00:21:00.000-07:00

*Today Ron Paul Made History*

Read it and weep Establishment stooges, sheep & whipping-boys: Ron Paul redefines grass roots activism as the Media Establishment charges his campaign success is a conspiracy.

Read proof here: In national "Straw Polls", Ron Paul has placed 1st place in 16 of 35 total Straw Polls + as of today, Ron is pushing towards dominating nearly 1/3 of the entire Meetup.com "Politics & Activism" spectrum, with nearly 4 times the amount of groups of all other candidates combined + more breaking news / stats!

Click here: HUMAN or ASTROTURF?

THE TREE OF LIBERTY...

2007-10-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Ray
Date: 15 Oct 2007, 10:50 PM

For those who were born in the late 1960's and early 1970's, here's a blast from the past....

Can you see a children's cartoon describing a father and their kid taking up their (privately owned) guns against the government today? Maybe Barney's up to it...but I doubt it. Man, we've changed alot in a short time.

Thanks: Punks 4 Ron Paul
Thanks: RE: No Subject

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -Thomas Jefferson

Alot has changed in a single generation. I remember when children's cartoons echoed the Founders' sentiment that it is sometimes one's civic duty to kill those tyrants who would rob us of our liberties:

Wow, they even taught us about the Constitution:

And the proper function of the 3 branches of government:

What's the current generation of kids getting up to? Hmm, let's look:

It's up to us, lads. If something doesn't turn around in this country RIGHT NOW, we are doomed within 20 years. The "soldier boys" with the pastel popped collars aren't going to be much of a match for THESE soldier boys:

Despite Showing Up in Person Mitt Romney loses NV Straw Poll to Ron Paul

2007-10-15T22:58:00.001-07:00

Ron Paul won the GOP presidential straw poll conducted by organizers at the Conservative Leadership Conference held at the Nugget Casino this weekend “by a large margin,” according to an organizer. Mitt Romney Shows Up In Person and Comes in 4th overall.

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Ron Paul is today's Thomas Jefferson

2007-10-15T22:57:00.001-07:00

Oregon Republicans got a wake-up call when their straw poll at the Portland World Trade Center was transformed into a Ron Paul rally, and his supporters crushed the opposition in the poll.

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PUNKS for RON PAUL

2007-10-15T21:12:00.001-07:00

Bikers for Ron Paul. Latinos for Ron Paul. Democrats for Ron Paul, Hip-hop for Ron Paul and and pizza for Ron Paul, yes that's right - PIZZA - All in ONE PAGE! So come on down and check it out!

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Please digg!! Ron Paul: Latter-day Prophet?

2007-10-11T16:01:00.001-07:00

http://www.ronpaul2008.comRON PAUL - PRESIDENT 2008Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation's capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his con...

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Ron Paul - Congressional Control of Health Care is Dangerous for Children

2007-10-08T20:38:00.001-07:00

This week Congress is again grasping for more control over the health of American children with the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Parents who think federally subsidized health care might be a good idea should be careful what they wish for. Opponents of a program called TeenScreen, claim it wrongly diagnoses.

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Ron Paul is America's Only REAL Choice for Presidency

2007-10-07T12:03:00.001-07:00

Ron Paul truly is a non-partisan politician. Republicans, Libertarians, Independents and many Democrats are supporting his presidential campaign. His small-government, anti-war, personal freedom and personal responsibility stance is what attracts this otherwise diverse following.

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Deadline to Save America has been moved to October 12th

2007-10-04T16:07:00.001-07:00

Ron Paul Girl - Register Now! - These bloopers are hilarious
Your favorite political activist walks you through the steps needed to avoid another disastrous election day.

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Police & Military Against the New World Order

2007-09-28T12:11:00.000-07:00

CLICK 4 FREE, LIVE RADIO BROADCAST & WEBSITE, also MYSPACE

Ron Paul Gives the Most Dangerous Speech of his Career

2007-09-28T11:33:00.001-07:00

"Resistance need not be violent, but the civil disobedience that might be required involves confrontation with the state, and possible imprisonment."--ron paul, May 22, 2007

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Ron Paul Calls for an End to the 'War on Drugs'

2007-09-28T10:59:00.001-07:00

Congressman Ron Paul called for an end to the Drug War and a repeal of "most" Federal drug laws last night. "Blacks make up 14% of those who use drugs, yet 36% of those arrested are blacks and it ends up that 63% of those who finally end up in prison are blacks. We have to repeal the whole 'War on Drugs'-- it isn't working," Paul said. VIDEO

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HOMESCHOOLERS 4 RON PAUL

2007-09-21T14:40:00.001-07:00

"If you haven’t at least Googled Ron Paul, do yourself a favor and do that now. I am a registered Democrat folks. I have never voted for a Republican in my life. A friend spoke to me about Ron Paul and I took her advice and Googled his name. I think it might have changed my life, and I am not kidding."

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Highway checkpoint asks drivers for blood, saliva

2007-09-20T21:06:00.001-07:00

Papers, bloood and spit please. A private organization asks for samples of blood and saliva at roadside checkpoints.

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ENDGAME - check it out!!!

2007-09-20T13:46:00.000-07:00

INFOWARS.COM

WEARECHANGE.ORG

ENDGAME: trailer

Democrats and Republicans are not liberals or conservatives, they are Council-on-Foreign-Relations-controlled globalists working for the same agenda!

Ludwig von Mises has Good Advice for Young Activists

2007-09-19T22:18:00.000-07:00

From: Brainsturbator Dot Com
Date: Sep 19, 2007 9:45 PM

“An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.”

The Mises Institute is an outstanding website, worth exploring. Some obscure but powerful content, and a lot of clear, honest economic explanations, too. I especially recommend "The Fed Bought What?," which appears to be the only detailed, non-bullshit article in existence on the topic of recent actions by the Federal Reserve.

Hit & Run > Iggy Pop to Punks: Don't DIY

2007-09-19T21:54:00.001-07:00

Iggy Pop, major label punk rock legend back on the road with The Stooges, slams the DIY ideology that has attached itself to punk since the Minor Threat days over at Pitchfork...

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Gay Ron Paul Supporters & Gay Libertarians

2007-09-14T15:19:00.000-07:00

Bryan interviews Star Child @ the Summer of Love Anniversary ~

Bryan interviews the OUTRIGHT LIBERTARIANS

Description: my interview with some progressive libertarians at this year's pride; unfortunately, they got it wrong about ron paul...he voted *against* the federal marriage amendment act (because the federal government should stay out of issues like this altogether). but voted for the federal defense of marriage act so that, again, the supreme court would not be able to enforce a national mandate on the individual states, whether it be for or against gay marriage...as for the rest, they are right on track.

OUTRIGHT LIBERTARIANS

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WHERE DOES HE STAND ON THE ISSUES? A Defense of Ron Paul's Voting Record

2007-09-14T15:00:00.001-07:00

The trouble with most criticism of Paul's voting record (especially on the popular leftist/liberal blogs like Daily Kos) is that it is very difficult to determine where Paul stands on the issues if one looks strictly in terms of the binary yes/no vote, without studying the underlying reasons for each particular vote, which may be completely contrary to first impressions.

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RON PAUL: THEN AND NOW (one of my favorites!)

2007-09-13T21:32:00.000-07:00

Dissolve "corporate personhood" - Libertarianism in Action!

2007-09-09T19:01:00.000-07:00

LIBERTARIANS vs. CORPORATIONS:

RE: A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF LIBERTARIANISM IN ACTION!
(repost!)

You've received this from the best source. David Korten is the co-chair of YES! magazine. I was able to see him speak at BIONEERS. He is the author of "When Corporations Rule the World," which I've always wanted to read (but I used to keep on hand a good article he's once written). Great post, I'll BLOG it.

BETHANY MAGDALENE

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Bon
Date: Sep 9, 2007 5:58 PM

as far as i have researched, most libertarians believe "corporate personhood" is another example of big government largesse, making the business practices of individuals in a company virtually unaccountable in the court of law, and i know that paul, for example, would work to "revisit" the fourteenth amendment that has been used to justify this madness.

regardless, this is an example of the kind of community autonomy i would like to see more of, and which would be the norm under a libertarian administration that gives more power and sovereignty (and money) back to the states and the communities.

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: The Man Common
Date: Sep 9, 2007 1:45 PM

Challenging Corporate Power: California Community Says Companies Are Not People; Bans Campaign Donations

By Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, YES! Magazine

Posted on September 5, 2007, Printed on September 9, 2007

http://www.alternet.org/story/61737/

In 2006, Humboldt County, California, became the latest, and largest, jurisdiction to abolish the legal doctrine known as "corporate personhood."

Measure T was successful because our all-volunteer campaign came together to pass a law that bans non-local corporations from participating in Humboldt elections. The referendum, which passed with 55 percent of the vote, also asserts that corporations cannot claim the First Amendment right to free speech.

By enacting Measure T, Humboldt County has committed an act of "municipal civil disobedience," intentionally challenging "settled law." But voters also recognize that Measure T is an act of common sense. We polled our community and found that 78 percent believe corruption is more likely if corporations participate in politics.

The Measure T campaign was led by women and young people, with critical support from elders and feminist men. This diverse leadership created a culture of cooperation and collaboration that permeated the campaign, and made it as much about community as about a win on election day. For example, the law itself was written using a consensus process, the advice of volunteers was valued just as highly as input from experts and consultants, and we organized numerous parties and social events to help spread the word.

The local Democratic and Green Parties formally endorsed the effort, and leaders of both worked arm-in-arm during the campaign. They were joined by organized labor and every peace, justice, and environmental protection group in the community. Humboldt County modeled a campaign carried out with respectful unity.

This effort did not spring up out of thin air. It was the result of years of old-fashioned community organizing by Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County that included workshops and educational programs explaining how corporations have acquired more rights under the law than people have.

We designed the campaign with "big picture" goals in mind from the beginning. We knew we wanted to claim for our campaign the best and most noble ideals of American history--especially self-governance and protecting people's rights against abusive power. We realize that the founding of this country is deeply flawed, but we used the national creation story to put Measure T on the side of truth and justice.

To that end, our PAC was named the Humboldt Coalition for Community Rights, and our website was VoteLocalControl.org. Our primary outreach tool was a tea bag that reminded voters of the proud history of the Boston Tea Party as an act of rebellion against the most powerful corporation of the day, and called for a modern-day T(ea) Party of our own.

Like the populists of the 19th-century agrarian movement, we believe that genuine change cannot be imposed from the top down. It must proceed from the ground up, and the battles must be waged in local communities.

Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap is director of Democracy Unlimited, a fellow for Liberty Tree: Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and a principal with the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. She was spokesperson and campaign co-manager for Measure T.

Radicals for Capitalism

2007-09-07T10:29:00.000-07:00

It's time to reclaim that "evil" C-word for the "little guy" and wrest it from monopoly-style corporate fascism!

(Like welfare moms who would rather sell cookies or create a cottage industry (a home-based business) so she can stay at home and raise her children herself - CLICK HERE for MORE on that

CLICK HERE to CHECK IT OUT

The author at Cody's Books in Berkeley

DEBATE: RON PAUL destroys the competition, ownz FOX

2007-09-06T17:11:00.001-07:00

Ron Paul / debate in 10 min.

5 min. after-party: Paul slams ninnying neo-cons!

Ron WINS debate / text message poll!

Ron Paul's Sacramento Meetup does Summer of Love 40th Anniversary!

2007-09-06T17:10:00.000-07:00

Ron Paul activism California style!

Included are interviews with members from the San Francisco and Sacramento meetup groups and information on topics ranging from abortion and the war on drugs to the federal reserve and community autonomy, including special guest appearances by the Ron Paul Liberty Van and libertarian activist StarChild.

Follow the Peace Train to the end of the video, deeper into the heart of the Summer of Love!

Ron Paul r-LOVE-ution van! FRONT 30 sec.

Ron Paul r-LOVE-ution van! BACK 1 min.

Punks for Ron Paul's (myspace.com/punks4ronpaul) Bethany Magdalene & friends, 1 min.

Great New Magazine!

2007-09-04T11:24:00.000-07:00

CLICK HERE for the LATEST issue in PDF

The Cat Is Out Of the Bag: Ron Paul Is a Top Tier Candidate

2007-08-31T17:21:00.000-07:00

THANX 2 http://www.myspace.com/hispanics4ronpaul

The Cat Is Out Of the Bag: Ron Paul Is a Top Tier Candidate

USA Daily Staff
Published 08/31/2007 - 4:25 p.m.
http://usadaily.com/Article.cfm?articleID=72775

The media monopolies seem to be only fooling themselves; the cat is out of the bag, Ron Paul is a top tier candidate. Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul is a force to be reckoned with within the GOP.

According to the last quarter filings he has more money in the bank than John McCain and sources tell USA Daily that Paul’s next quarter numbers will surpass expectations. Fund raising ability is as much an indicator of a campaign’s popularity as are poll numbers. Whether you agree with Paul or not on the issues, his campaign is serious and has national support despite media censorship.

Paul’s campaign is a coalition of Libertarians, Traditional Conservatives, Constitutionalists, Independents, Anti-war voters, and those opposed to establishing what they perceive as a global tyranny via an unelected world government or precursors like the North American Union. It is even attracting some traditional Liberals opposed to the Iraq war that like his support for the Constitution.

Whether this translates into a majority of voters or not remains to be seen but Paul has demonstrated fund raising ability, organization, and the ability to build a coalition. His volunteers go beyond just the internet. Home made signs and other forms of promotion are popping up all across America in support of Ron Paul. Often with a creativity that reflects the wide range of the type of supporters he attracts.

Paul has bold positions including opposition to income taxes, the Patriot Act, the Iraq war, and the Federal Reserve. His call to abolish the Federal Reserve may play well with voters as the mortgage crises deepens if he can frame the issue to point to the soft money policies of the Federal Reserve as the contributing factor to the crises.

While FCC laws exempt debates from the equal time requirement, the modern notion of fairness in a free society would suggest that broadcast networks provide candidates with equal time during the debates.

The 2008 campaign is different from previous elections. In the past third party candidates have been censored from debates but candidates involved in the actual major party debates were usually given a fairer distribution of time. Major media attempts at manipulating this election are more blatant than in the past

It remains to be seen whether the upcoming Fox News Republican debate will break that trend. With many states moving their primaries up there are likely to be many more debates in various states that are now more involved with the election process which may help media non preferred candidates get the message out.

Paul’s campaign will likely win his home state, delegate rich Texas, one of the many states up for grabs on February 5th. That prospect will likely keep his campaign viable until the Texas primary even if he doesn’t win any of the early primary elections.

Chances are the February 5th election will not have a decisive winner in all 23 states up for grabs.

Tancredo’s campaign is also likely to remain viable until February 5th when his home state of Colorado and other western states are up for grabs where his signature issue of immigration reform will play well as will Paul’s message.

Giuliani’s home state of New York and other states in the north east will also be decided that day. As will Fred Thompson’s home state of Tennessee and Mike Huckabee’s home state of Arkansas.

The unpredictability of having so many states that in the past voted in the primary only when the nominee was already a forgone conclusion, now having a real input and influence over the election, may make this presidential contest a free for all.

There are demographics and regional influences that never really had a chance to participate in the presidential primary election that may turn out to be the king makers.

A look at the primary calendar, competing ideologies, and regional factors, point to a slight chance that the GOP nominee will be decided at the convention.

Copyright USA Daily LLC.

LIBERTARIANS vs. COPRORATIONS

2007-08-30T00:27:00.000-07:00

3 min.

After Ron Paul Makes Meteoric Gains, Romney "Borrows" Philosophy

2007-08-24T18:22:00.001-07:00

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. On the other hand, it does not show much honesty, integrity, or conviction. The latest test of this principle is to watch “1st tier” presidential candidate Mitt Romney start to emulate the political philosophy of “2nd tier” candidate Ron Paul. Ron Paul has been in favor of small government since he became a Congressman. He has been in Congress for ten terms or twenty years. (Ron Paul is currently listed with 8 to 1 odds of becoming the next US President)

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New Message From Ron Paul

2007-08-23T00:14:00.000-07:00

August 22, 2007

Not all the media are biased. A local newspaper in New Hampshire reported on an annual GOP bbq in the town of Hollis. It could be called "the Ron Paul show," they said, since the far bigger crowd that usual consisted mostly of our supporters. One volunteer even rented an airplane and flew a wonderful sign around the sky. What great, creative, self-starting people I'm meeting, at every stop, all of them united by a love of America and American freedom.

Politics is usually about division. But this campaign is just the opposite. Not only are our volunteers a bunch of happy warriors, but they also practice the virtues of tolerance and peace, just as they want the nation to do.

The other day, the state chairman of an opposing campaign (not in New Hampshire!), angrily tore a sign out of one of our supporter's hands and trashed it. Different people with different beliefs might have responded differently. But our people, though they'd been standing in the rain all day, applied the Golden Rule. It's because of quiet heroes that I know we can change this country.

A reporter in New Hampshire told me this story about Florida: she had seen the same three supporters working every day passing out our literature, and so decided to interview them. She was startled to discover that one was a Republican, one was a Democrat, and one was an Independent. But I wasn't.

Freedom brings us all together. We can all agree on leaving people alone to plan and live their own lives, rather than trying to force them to obey at the point of a gun, as runaway government does. Instead of clawing at each other via the warfare-welfare state, people under liberty can cooperate in a unity of diversity.

There is no need to use government to threaten others who have different standards, or to be threatened by them. Looking to our Founders, our traditions, and the Constitution, we can build, in peaceful cooperation, a free and prosperous society.

At a talk show in Nashua, New Hampshire, the host asked me about the fair tax. Well, I agree on getting rid of the IRS, I told her, but I want to replace it with nothing, not another tax. But let's not forget the inflation tax, I said.

This was something she had never considered, but after I talked about the depreciation of our dollar by the Federal Reserve, its creation of artificial booms and busts, and its bailouts of the big banks and Wall Street firms, to the detriment of the average person, she loved it. That is another tax, she agreed, a hidden and particularly vicious tax.

They try to tell us that the money issue is boring or irrelevant. In fact, it is the very pith of our social lives, and morally, Constitutionally, and economically, the central bank is a disaster. Thanks to the work of this movement, Americans are starting to understand what has been hidden from them for so long: that we have a right to sound and honest money, not to a dollar debauched for the special interests.

Unconstitutional government has created a war crisis, a financial crisis, a dollar crisis, and a freedom crisis. But we don't have to take it. We don't have to passively accept more dead soldiers, a lower standard of living, rising prices, a national ID, eavesdropping on our emails and phone calls, and all the rest.

We can return to first principles, and build the brightest, most brilliant future any people on earth has ever aspired to. Help me teach this lesson. Help me campaign all over this country, in cooperation with our huge and growing volunteer army. Help me show that change is not only possible, but also essential. Please, make your most generous contribution (https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/) to this campaign for a Constitutional presidency worthy of our people. Invest in freedom: for yourself, for your family, for your future.

Sincerely,

Ron

Schwarzenegger SPAMMED by Sacramento Ron Paul Meetup Group

2007-08-20T22:23:00.001-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RON !

I didn't make it to this event, as I was on a satellite mission to LIBERTATIA
but check it out:

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Bon
Date: Aug 20, 2007 9:07 PM

covert operations in the heart of california's capital...thanks to everyone who made this day such a success...i'm sure the residents of our fair city were pleasantly surprised on the morn of our future president's birthday!

donate!

Sacramento Supporters for Ron Paul 2008 in the NEWS !

2007-08-20T20:15:00.000-07:00

All summer long members of the Meetup.com /
Sacramento Ron Paul Supporters have been gathering once a week at the state Capitol to campaign.

A couple of weeks ago, I stood on the sidelines (holding a sign on the street) while my husband and two of our new best friends were approached by state senator, Tom McClintock. He was very interested in what our group was up to and stayed to talk for at least 20-30 minutes! He mentioned his experience with our group when he interviewed Ron Paul on the radio [below]!

Punks 4 Ron Paul

2007-08-20T18:48:00.000-07:00

I was talking to Jack Blood, via MySpace myspace.com/punks4ronpaul.com, recently and he is an old-school West Coast punk from way back and he told me he was going to tell Ron Paul about my MySpace page, the next time he interviewed him.

I don't catch Jack's radio show everyday, but he must have said something, because the other day, when I was researching an article I'm writing entitled, The Spirituality & Cosmetikos of Punk Rock, I Googled the word PUNK and the 5th result down, punkrock.org, has an ad sponsored by the official Ron Paul campaign, with a pic of Ron that says: PUNK ROCK PRESIDENT (!)

Ron Paul Dominates Online Polls

2007-08-17T02:24:00.000-07:00

Ron Paul: When in the Course of Human Events - witness the spirit of 1776 !

2007-08-16T00:57:00.000-07:00

Double Feature: What is (& is NOT) FREE TRADE? What is MONEY?

2007-07-31T15:57:00.000-07:00

Question from a Punks 4 Ron Paul reader:

"While I appreciate your viewpoints and support of the only real candidate (as I see it ) on the right, I would like to see how you respond to this opinion that I have on Libertariansim.

Libertarians are so for freedom that they shy away from restricting the free market. Ironically, it is the free market that is the biggest source of our oppression.Unregulated capitalism creates an atmosphere where the rich are free to invest their capital to make even more capital (the poor do not have that option) and have the capability to create infinite wealth if they are wise in their investments. The poor only have the option of working hard and hoping to catch a break somewhere. This is the atmosphere that has created the huge multinational corporations that seem to rule the world and act in the interest of profit before people (and yes, even personal liberty). The free market is what allows military contractors to profit from war, and therefore use their wealth to create it for, in turn, more profit. I don't need to lecture you on all the injustices of the world, I am sure you are well aware of them, but I think libertarians too often place the blame on big government, rather than big money. The problem as I see it is that the government, yes, is too big, but that it represents the interests of the corporations and the wealthy who almost always work against the interests of the people. Our government was set up to represent the people, and if it truly did it would not matter how big the government was because it would always be acting in our interests. Instead, governments from both Republican and Democratic Presidents and congress have bent over backwards to appease their campaign supporters who are, naturally, rich. And we all know who the rich of this country is comprised of.

As a punk rocker and former Anarchist, I was forced to recognize at one point in my life that although the government is the source of our oppression, it was set up to represent us and therfore can be infiltrated by us. It is easier to pass a law, say, telling corporations that they can't put poison in our food, then it is to inform the mass public that there is poison in our food and that they should boycott the producer. Especially when the media also caters to the same money influence as our government. I feel like our best hope is for public financing of elections. Obviously, something that would have to come from taxes which you may or may not (don't want to assume your position) agree with. It is the only way to ensure that the government answers to the people and not the corporations who finance them (currently). We also have to de-privatize our electoral system, another area where I believe that the free market is acting against our interests.

Am I over-looking something?

Answer:
Have you ever encountered any of these articles? What do you think about the idea that the phrase "free trade" has been hijacked and is used as an Orwellian double-speak, cognitive dissonance sort-of-way?

Check out these links on the difference between what is called "free trade" but is actually "managed trade" and anything but free!

NAFTA, WTO, "FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS" VS. FREE TRADE:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul254.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul250.html
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=866
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=140

Let me tell you what I think of when I think of “free trade.” I think of my dream cottage industry. I have always wanted to be able to bake cookies from my home and sell them. I am not kidding. I am good at it and I’ve always wanted to be able to do it. I am a mother of one child and I wanted to have a cottage industry so I wouldn’t have to pay someone to care for him 5 days a week. I also wanted to homeschool him, so a cottage industry would be perfect.

When I did the research on what is required to proceed with my plan “legally” I found out that I would need to have access to a “certified kitchen” either my own or someone elses. It costs somewhere around $1000 to do this. There are all kinds of other permits and fees (and multiple agencies) to comply with all these regulations. The start-up cost for this is prohibitive. Going to a bank for a loan (of federal reserve notes, which brings up the question “what is money”) is just another form of indentured servitude. The banks are then in control of my life and the economy, not me or “the people.”

I posted a little about this on my BLOG recently:

http://thebestofronpaul.blogspot.com/2007/05/advocates-for-self-government-on-kpfa.html

http://thebestofronpaul.blogspot.com/2007/05/left-libertarians-and-workers-of-world.html

If you read the article on my BLOG and one or more of the articles on “free trade” that I’ve posted above, then get back to me if you have any other questions and concerns. I’d love to talk with you.

Thanx 4 the feedback!
P4RP

PS
One more thing:

You asked: "Am I over-looking something?"

Great question! I love people who can have a conversation!

The question I am starting to ask more and more people (as I have realized it more and more myself) is -

WHAT IS MONEY? I think we all need to be asking ourselves more and more.

I am totally open to all kinds of alternatives. The main point is that we Americans have got to start questioning our very monetary system itself!

I would urge you to watch one or both of these films. I really hope you will:

FIAT EMPIRE
fiatempire.com

This Telly Award-winning documentary, which features presidential candidate RON PAUL, was inspired by the book, "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by well-known author, G. EDWARD GRIFFIN.

One more:
The MONOPOLY MEN (from the Phenomena Archives - fun show)

P.P.S.
Sorry, I'm still processing your question. I'll stop answering after this, unless you want to continue:

"The free market is what allows military contractors to profit from war"

Is this the market/people or the "military [medical] industrial complex" that Eisenhower, himself, as he was leaving office, warned us about?

NPR Interviews Ron Paul

2007-07-31T12:06:00.001-07:00

Must-listen for Ron Paul supporters and anyone ready for change in American government.

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Hispanics 4 Ron Paul 2008

2007-07-30T16:56:00.000-07:00

Cut & Paste in your URL bar:

http://www.myspace.com/hispanics4ronpaul

The Subversive Lecture of Tin Foil Hat Lady....

2007-07-30T11:48:00.000-07:00

Humor heals, if I didn't laugh, I'd cry. This one's worth watching to the end:

CLICK to watch the rest HERE

YOU can help MAKE HISTORY ! Help now ! Watch this !

2007-07-29T23:11:00.000-07:00

Too often we complain about our choices in presidential elections yet do nothing to solve the problem. A vote in the Iowa straw poll has more power and influence than a vote in the main election. Liberty is not free - we have to take action to keep it. Now is the time to act.

Vote in the Iowa GOP straw poll. Join a Ron Paul meetup group at ronpaul.meetup.com Be a part of the revolution!

YOU can help Ron Paul WIN the IOWA straw poll !

2007-07-29T23:06:00.000-07:00

Let's Make Sure Ron Paul WINS the IOWA Straw Poll !!!

It’s time to convert our internet energy into real political power.

We need you to be there. We need you to bring your family and friends.

Thousands of Iowans need to vote in the Straw Poll for Dr. Paul. And thousands more need to come from around the country to participate and volunteer at the event.

The straw poll will be held at:

Hilton Coliseum

Lincoln Way & Elwood Drive
Ames IA 50011
Date & Time: August 11th, 2007 from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The Ron Paul tent will be at the corner of Lincoln and Beach

Our success in this event will catapult Congressman Paul into the national spotlight.

We need your help !!!

Thank you for demonstrating your commitment to freedom in this most practical way.

We look forward to seeing you at the Straw Poll on August 11th.

Thank you for your support of Congressman Ron Paul.

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Take Action! Defend HABEAS CORPUS

2007-07-29T22:45:00.001-07:00

Ron Paul - America's Hero!

2007-07-24T22:44:00.001-07:00

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Ron Paul teams up with Dennis Kucinich to end war

2007-07-24T22:36:00.001-07:00

The Texas Congressman has co-sponsored a bill with another presidential contender, Democrat Dennis Kucinich, that would repeal President Bush's authority to use force in Iraq within the next sixth months. Besides Kucinich, 18 other Democrats have signed on.

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Ron Paul SPAMmers Spam local Charity With a Wall of Food

2007-07-24T10:47:00.001-07:00

While Ron Paul visited Spartanburg South Carolina to deliver a one-hour plus speech to potential voters, his supporters were taking a little action of their own.

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Ron Paul Support is a Conspiracy, claims National Media

2007-07-24T10:30:00.000-07:00

CLICK HERE:
Major media outlets have denied fund raising reports, rally attendance, and record breaking internet support as the work of a small secretive group of Ron Paul supporters conspiring to defraud the public. Is it time for them to give up this conspiracy theory before they lose credibility?

Ron Paul emerges as GOP's unlikely Rock Star candidate

2007-07-22T17:04:00.001-07:00

LAS VEGAS -- The punk-band members, with spiked hair, tattooed arms and piercings, stood with a crowd of more than 300 and cheered at the rock star on stage, especially when he called for abolishing the Federal Reserve -- you know, the banking system that for nearly a century has helped stabilize the U.S. economy, give or take a Great Depression.

Presidential candidate Ron Paul didn't stop with the Fed. The devout and suddenly popular libertarian-running-as-a-Republican also wants to repeal the Patriot Act. (More cheering.) And the IRS and NAFTA-like trade deals. (Loud applause.) And bring home American troops, all of them, from Iraq and from every last spot on the globe. (Standing ovation.) And that national ID card, forget about it.

What the crowd heard was the testimony of a carved-in-granite libertarian who disdains the a la carte politics and deal-making of mainstream candidates, a physician whose political beliefs exist at that whiplash point on the political spectrum where the far right meets the far left.

Abolish the IRS, the Fed, the Patriot Act? Is that libertarian or a lefty anarchist?

The crowds he's drawing across the country are often an unusual mix of 20- and 30-something lefties and righties. Some are drawn to his beliefs. But many said that they admire him most for sticking to a clear set of principles, even if they disagree on some issues.

"He's consistent," said Jennifer Reilly, a 23-year-old student at the College of Southern Nevada who attended a recent rally here. "I actually believe everything he says."

Thus Paul has become the early surprise of the 2008 campaign.

Beyond the consistency, he is filling a void in a Republican field dominated by mainstream candidates who are reluctant to break ranks with President Bush. He's the only Republican who opposes the war in Iraq. ("We just marched in. We can just march out.")

Paul describes himself as a strict constitutionalist, but his views can be traced to the late Barry Goldwater, the 1964 GOP presidential nominee and father of the modern conservative movement.

As Paul puts it: "Freedom is popular."

"I agree with his message of freedom and limited government," said Jennifer Terhune, a 22-year-old dental-hygiene student in Reno. "People are dependent on the government for everything, and they need to start standing up for themselves. The country is getting so far away from that."

Paul raised $640,000 in the first quarter of the year, a paltry sum compared with his party's front-runners. But when the second quarter closed last month, Paul had $2.4 million cash on hand, besting Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Hope that something more consequential than a mere change of party will come out of the 2008 elections

2007-07-22T10:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/magazine/22Paul-t.html

July 22, 2007
The Antiwar, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Drug-Enforcement-
Administration, Anti-Medicare Candidacy of Dr. Ron Paul
By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

Whipping westward across Manhattan in a limousine sent by Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” Ron Paul, the 10-term Texas congressman and long-shot Republican presidential candidate, is being briefed. Paul has only the most tenuous familiarity with Comedy Central. He has never heard of “The Daily Show.” His press secretary, Jesse Benton, is trying to explain who its host, Jon Stewart, is. “He’s an affable gentleman,” Benton says, “and he’s very smart. What I’m getting from the pre-interview is, he’s sympathetic.”

Paul nods.

“GQ wants to profile you on Thursday,” Benton continues. “I think it’s worth doing.”

“GTU?” the candidate replies.

“GQ. It’s a men’s magazine.”

“Don’t know much about that,” Paul says.

Thin to the point of gauntness, polite to the point of daintiness, Ron Paul is a 71-year-old great-grandfather, a small-town doctor, a self-educated policy intellectual and a formidable stander on constitutional principle. In normal times, Paul might be — indeed, has been — the kind of person who is summoned onto cable television around April 15 to ventilate about whether the federal income tax violates the Constitution. But Paul has in recent weeks become a sensation in magazines he doesn’t read, on Web sites he has never visited and on television shows he has never watched.

Alone among Republican candidates for the presidency, Paul has always opposed the Iraq war. He blames “a dozen or two neocons who got control of our foreign policy,” chief among them Vice President Dick Cheney and the former Bush advisers Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, for the debacle. On the assumption that a bad situation could get worse if the war spreads into Iran, he has a simple plan. It is: “Just leave.” During a May debate in South Carolina, he suggested the 9/11 attacks could be attributed to United States policy. “Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us?” he asked, referring to one of Osama bin Laden’s communiqués. “They attack us because we’ve been over there. We’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years.” Rudolph Giuliani reacted by demanding a retraction, drawing gales of applause from the audience. But the incident helped Paul too. Overnight, he became the country’s most conspicuous antiwar Republican.

Paul’s opposition to the war in Iraq did not come out of nowhere. He was against the first gulf war, the war in Kosovo and the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, which he called a “declaration of virtual war.” Although he voted after Sept. 11 to approve the use of force in Afghanistan and spend $40 billion in emergency appropriations, he has sounded less thrilled with those votes as time has passed. “I voted for the authority and the money,” he now says. “I thought it was misused.”

There is something homespun about Paul, reminiscent of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” He communicates with his constituents through birthday cards, August barbecues and the cookbooks his wife puts together every election season, which mix photos of grandchildren, Gospel passages and neighbors’ recipes for Velveeta cheese fudge and Cherry Coke salad. He is listed in the phone book, and his constituents call him at home. But there is also something cosmopolitan and radical about him; his speeches can bring to mind the World Social Forum or the French international-affairs periodical Le Monde Diplomatique. Paul is surely the only congressman who would cite the assertion of the left-leaning Chennai-based daily The Hindu that “the world is being asked today, in reality, to side with the U.S. as it seeks to strengthen its economic hegemony.” The word “empire” crops up a lot in his speeches.

This side of Paul has made him the candidate of many people, on both the right and the left, who hope that something more consequential than a mere change of party will come out of the 2008 elections. He is particularly popular among the young and the wired. Except for Barack Obama, he is the most-viewed candidate on YouTube. He is the most “friended” Republican on MySpace.com. Paul understands that his chances of winning the presidency are infinitesimally slim. He is simultaneously planning his next Congressional race. But in Paul’s idea of politics, spreading a message has always been just as important as seizing office. “Politicians don’t amount to much,” he says, “but ideas do.” Although he is still in the low single digits in polls, he says he has raised $2.4 million in the second quarter, enough to broaden the four-state campaign he originally planned into a national one.

Paul represents a different Republican Party from the one that Iraq, deficits and corruption have soured the country on. In late June, despite a life of antitax agitation and churchgoing, he was excluded from a Republican forum sponsored by Iowa antitax and Christian groups. His school of Republicanism, which had its last serious national airing in the Goldwater campaign of 1964, stands for a certain idea of the Constitution — the idea that much of the power asserted by modern presidents has been usurped from Congress, and that much of the power asserted by Congress has been usurped from the states. Though Paul acknowledges flaws in both the Constitution (it included slavery) and the Bill of Rights (it doesn’t go far enough), he still thinks a comprehensive array of positions can be drawn from them: Against gun control. For the sovereignty of states. And against foreign-policy adventures. Paul was the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate in 1988. But his is a less exuberant libertarianism than you find, say, in the pages of Reason magazine.

Over the years, this vision has won most favor from those convinced the country is going to hell in a handbasket. The attention Paul has captured tells us a lot about the prevalence of such pessimism today, about the instability of partisan allegiances and about the seldom-avowed common ground between the hard right and the hard left. His message draws on the noblest traditions of American decency and patriotism; it also draws on what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the paranoid style in American politics.

Financial Armageddon

Paul grew up in the western Pennsylvania town of Green Tree. His father, the son of a German immigrant, ran a small dairy company. Sports were big around there — one of the customers on the milk route Paul worked as a teenager was the retired baseball Hall of Famer Honus Wagner — and Paul was a terrific athlete, winning a state track meet in the 220 and excelling at football and baseball. But knee injuries had ended his sports career by the time he went off to Gettysburg College in 1953. After medical school at Duke, Paul joined the Air Force, where he served as a flight surgeon, tending to the ear, nose and throat ailments of pilots, and traveling to Iran, Ethiopia and elsewhere. “I recall doing a lot of physicals on Army warrant officers who wanted to become helicopter pilots and go to Vietnam,” he told me. “They were gung-ho. I’ve often thought about how many of those people never came back.”

Paul is given to mulling things over morally. His family was pious and Lutheran; two of his brothers became ministers. Paul’s five children were baptized in the Episcopal church, but he now attends a Baptist one. He doesn’t travel alone with women and once dressed down an aide for using the expression “red-light district” in front of a female colleague. As a young man, though, he did not protest the Vietnam War, which he now calls “totally unnecessary” and “illegal.” Much later, after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, he began reading St. Augustine. “I was annoyed by the evangelicals’ being so supportive of pre-emptive war, which seems to contradict everything that I was taught as a Christian,” he recalls. “The religion is based on somebody who’s referred to as the Prince of Peace.”

In 1968, Paul settled in southern Texas, where he had been stationed. He recalls that he was for a while the only obstetrician — “a very delightful part of medicine,” he says — in Brazoria County. He was already immersed in reading the economics books that would change his life. Americans know the “Austrian school,” if at all, from the work of Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, two economists who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and whose free-market doctrines helped inspire the conservative movement in the 1950s. The laws of economics don’t admit exceptions, say the Austrians. You cannot fake out markets, no matter how surreptitiously you expand the money supply. Spend more than you earn, and you are on the road to inflation and tyranny.

Such views are not always Republican orthodoxy. Paul is a harsh critic of the Federal Reserve, both for its policies and its unaccountability. “We first bonded,” recalls Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat, “because we were both conspicuous nonworshipers at the Temple of the Fed and of the High Priest Greenspan.” In recent weeks, Paul’s airport reading has been a book called “Financial Armageddon.” He is obsessed with sound money, which he considers — along with the related phenomena of credit excess, bubbles and uncollateralized assets of all kinds — a “sleeper issue.” The United States ought to link its currency to gold or silver again, Paul says. He puts his money where his mouth is. According to Federal Election Commission documents, most of his investments are in gold and silver and are worth between $1.5 and $3.5 million. It’s a modest sum by the standards of major presidential candidates but impressive for someone who put five children through college on a doctor’s (and later a congressman’s) earnings.

For Paul, everything comes back to money, including Iraq. “No matter how much you love the empire,” he says, “it’s unaffordable.” Wars are expensive, and there has been a tendency throughout history to pay for them by borrowing. A day of reckoning always comes, says Paul, and one will come for us. Speaking this spring before the libertarian Future of Freedom Foundation in Reston, Va., he warned of a dollar crisis. “That’s usually the way empires end,” he said. “It wasn’t us forcing the Soviets to build missiles that brought them down. It was the fact that socialism doesn’t work. Our system doesn’t work much better.”

Under the banner of “Freedom, Honesty and Sound Money,” Paul ran for Congress in 1974. He lost — but took the seat in a special election in April 1976. He lost again in November of that year, then won in 1978. On two big issues, he stood on principle and was vindicated: He was one of very few Republicans in Congress to back Ronald Reagan against Gerald Ford for the 1976 Republican nomination. He was also one of the representatives who warned against the rewriting of banking rules that laid the groundwork for the savings-and-loan collapse of the 1980s. Paul served three terms before losing to Phil Gramm in the Republican primary for Senate in 1984. Tom DeLay took over his seat.

Paul would not come back to Washington for another dozen years. But in the time he could spare from delivering babies in Brazoria County, he remained a mighty presence in the out-of-the-limelight world of those old-line libertarians who had never made their peace with the steady growth of federal power in the 20th century. Paul got the Libertarian Party nomination for president in 1988, defeating the Indian activist Russell Means in a tough race. He finished third behind Bush and Dukakis, winning nearly half a million votes. He tended his own Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (FREE) and kept up his contacts with other market-oriented organizations. What resulted was a network of true believers who would be his political base in one of the stranger Congressional elections of modern times.

A Lone Wolf

In the first days of 1995, just weeks after the Republican landslide, Paul traveled to Washington and, through DeLay, made contact with the Texas Republican delegation. He told them he could beat the Democratic incumbent Greg Laughlin in the reconfigured Gulf Coast district that now included his home. Republicans had their own ideas. In June 1995, Laughlin announced he would run in the next election as a Republican. Laughlin says he had discussed switching parties with Newt Gingrich, the next speaker, before the Republicans even took power. Paul suspects to this day that the Republicans wooed Laughlin to head off his candidacy. Whatever happened, it didn’t work. Paul challenged Laughlin in the primary.

“At first, we kind of blew him off,” recalls the longtime Texas political consultant Royal Masset. “ ‘Oh, there’s Ron Paul!’ But very quickly, we realized he was getting far more money than anybody.” Much of it came from out of state, from the free-market network Paul built up while far from Congress. His candidacy was a problem not just for Laughlin. It also threatened to halt the stream of prominent Democrats then switching parties — for what sane incumbent would switch if he couldn’t be assured the Republican nomination? The result was a heavily funded effort by the National Republican Congressional Committee to defeat Paul in the primary. The National Rifle Association made an independent expenditure against him. Former President George H.W. Bush, Gov. George W. Bush and both Republican senators endorsed Laughlin. Paul had only two prominent backers: the tax activist Steve Forbes and the pitcher Nolan Ryan, Paul’s constituent and old friend, who cut a number of ads for him. They were enough. Paul edged Laughlin in a runoff and won an equally narrow general election.

Republican opposition may not have made Paul distrust the party, but beating its network with his own homemade one revealed that he didn’t necessarily need the party either. Paul looks back on that race and sees something in common with his quixotic bid for the presidency. “I always think that if I do things like that and get clobbered, I can excuse myself,” he says.

Anyone who is elected to Congress three times as a nonincumbent, as Paul has been, is a politician of prodigious gifts. Especially since Paul has real vulnerabilities in his district. For Eric Dondero, who plans to challenge him in the Republican Congressional primary next fall, foreign policy is Paul’s central failing. Dondero, who is 44, was Paul’s aide and sometime spokesman for more than a decade. According to Dondero, “When 9/11 happened, he just completely changed. One of the first things he said was not how awful the tragedy was . . . it was, ‘Now we’re gonna get big government.’ ”

Dondero claims that Paul’s vote to authorize force in Afghanistan was made only after warnings from a longtime staffer that voting otherwise would cost him Victoria, a pivotal city in his district. (“Completely false,” Paul says.) One day just after the Iraq invasion, when Dondero was driving Paul around the district, the two had words. “He said he did not want to have someone on staff who did not support him 100 percent on foreign policy,” Dondero recalls. Paul says Dondero’s outspoken enthusiasm for the military’s “shock and awe” strategy made him an awkward spokesman for an antiwar congressman. The two parted on bad terms.

A larger vulnerability may be that voters want more pork-barrel spending than Paul is willing to countenance. In a rice-growing, cattle-ranching district, Paul consistently votes against farm subsidies. In the very district where, on the night of Sept. 8, 1900, a storm destroyed the city of Galveston, leaving 6,000 dead, and where repairs from Hurricane Rita and refugees from Hurricane Katrina continue to exact a toll, he votes against FEMA and flood aid. In a district that is home to many employees of the Johnson Space Center, he votes against financing NASA.

The Victoria Advocate, an influential newspaper in the district, has generally opposed Paul for re-election, on the grounds that a “lone wolf” cannot get the highway and homeland-security financing the district needs. So how does he get re-elected? Tim Delaney, the paper’s editorial-page editor, says: “Ron Paul is a very charismatic person. He has charm. He does not alter his position ever. His ideals are high. If a little old man calls up from the farm and says, ‘I need a wheelchair,’ he’ll get the damn wheelchair for him.”

Paul may have refused on principle to accept Medicare when he practiced medicine. He may return a portion of his Congressional office budget every year. But his staff has the reputation of fighting doggedly to collect Social Security checks, passports, military decorations, immigrant-visa extensions and any emolument to which constituents are entitled by law. According to Jackie Gloor, who runs Paul’s Victoria office: “So many times, people say to us, ‘We don’t like his vote.’ But they trust his heart.”

In Congress, Paul is generally admired for his fidelity to principle and lack of ego. “He is one of the easiest people in Congress to work with, because he bases his positions on the merits of issues,” says Barney Frank, who has worked with Paul on efforts to ease the regulation of gambling and medical marijuana. “He is independent but not ornery.” Paul has made a habit of objecting to things that no one else objects to. In October 2001, he was one of three House Republicans to vote against the USA Patriot Act. He was the sole House member of either party to vote against the Financial Antiterrorism Act (final tally: 412-1). In 1999, he was the only naysayer in a 424-1 vote in favor of casting a medal to honor Rosa Parks. Nothing against Rosa Parks: Paul voted against similar medals for Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. He routinely opposes resolutions that presume to advise foreign governments how to run their affairs: He has refused to condemn Robert Mugabe’s violence against Zimbabwean citizens (421-1), to call on Vietnam to release political prisoners (425-1) or to ask the League of Arab States to help stop the killing in Darfur (425-1).

Every Thursday, Paul is the host of a luncheon for a circle of conservative Republicans that he calls the Liberty Caucus. It has become the epicenter of antiwar Republicanism in Washington. One stalwart member is Walter Jones, the North Carolina Republican who during the debate over Iraq suggested renaming French fries “freedom fries” in the House dining room, but who has passed the years since in vocal opposition to the war. Another is John (Jimmy) Duncan of Tennessee, the only Republican besides Paul who voted against the war and remains in the House. Other regulars include Virgil Goode of Virginia, Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland and Scott Garrett of New Jersey. Zach Wamp of Tennessee and Jeff Flake, the Arizonan scourge of pork-barrel spending, visit occasionally. Not all are antiwar, but many of the speakers Paul invites are: the former C.I.A. analyst Michael Scheuer, the intelligence-world journalist James Bamford and such disillusioned United States Army officers as William Odom, Gregory Newbold and Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell’s former chief of staff), among others.

In today’s Washington, Paul’s combination of radical libertarianism and conservatism is unusual. Sometimes the first impulse predominates. He was the only Texas Republican to vote against last year’s Federal Marriage Amendment, meant to stymie gay marriage. He detests the federal war on drugs; the LSD guru Timothy Leary held a fundraiser for him in 1988. Sometimes he is more conservative. He opposed the recent immigration bill on the grounds that it constituted amnesty. At a breakfast for conservative journalists in the offices of Americans for Tax Reform this May, he spoke resentfully of being required to treat penurious immigrants in emergency rooms — “patients who were more likely to sue you than anybody else,” having children “who became automatic citizens the next day.” (Paul champions a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship.) While he backs free trade in theory, he opposes many of the institutions and arrangements — from the World Trade Organization to Nafta — that promote it in practice.

Paul also opposes abortion, which he believes should be addressed at the state level, not the national one. He remembers seeing a late abortion performed during his residency, years before Roe v. Wade, and he maintains it left an impression on him. “It was pretty dramatic for me,” he says, “to see a two-and-a-half-pound baby taken out crying and breathing and put in a bucket.”

The Owl-God Moloch

Paul’s message is not new. You could have heard it in 1964 or 1975 or 1991 at the conclaves of those conservatives who were considered outside the mainstream of the Republican Party. Back then, most Republicans appeared reconciled to a strong federal government, if only to do the expensive job of defending the country against Communism. But when the Berlin Wall fell, the dormant institutions and ideologies of pre-cold-war conservatism began to stir. In his 1992 and 1996 campaigns, Pat Buchanan was the first politician to express and exploit this change, breathing life into the motto “America First” (if not the organization of that name, which opposed entry into World War II).

Like Buchanan, Paul draws on forgotten traditions. His top aides are unimpeachably Republican but stand at a distance from the party as it has evolved over the decades. His chief of staff, Tom Lizardo, worked for Pat Robertson and Bill Miller Jr. (the son of Barry Goldwater’s vice-presidential nominee). His national campaign organizer, Lew Moore, worked for the late congressman Jack Metcalf of Washington State, another Goldwaterite. At the grass roots, Paul’s New Hampshire primary campaign stresses gun rights and relies on anti-abortion and tax activists from the organizations of Buchanan and the state’s former maverick senator, Bob Smith.

Paul admires Robert Taft, the isolationist Ohio senator known during the Truman administration as Mr. Republican, who tried to rally Republicans against United States participation in NATO. Taft lost the Republican nomination in 1952 to Dwight Eisenhower and died the following year. “Now, of course,” Paul says, “I quote Eisenhower when he talks about the military-industrial complex. But I quote Taft when he suits my purposes too.” Particularly on NATO, from which Paul, too, would like to withdraw.

The question is whether the old ideologies being resurrected are neglected wisdom or discredited nonsense. In the 1996 general election, Paul’s Democratic opponent Lefty Morris held a press conference to air several shocking quotes from a newsletter that Paul published during his decade away from Washington. Passages described the black male population of Washington as “semi-criminal or entirely criminal” and stated that “by far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government.” Morris noted that a Canadian neo-Nazi Web site had listed Paul’s newsletter as a laudably “racialist” publication.

Paul survived these revelations. He later explained that he had not written the passages himself — quite believably, since the style diverges widely from his own. But his response to the accusations was not transparent. When Morris called on him to release the rest of his newsletters, he would not. He remains touchy about it. “Even the fact that you’re asking this question infers, ‘Oh, you’re an anti-Semite,’ ” he told me in June. Actually, it doesn’t. Paul was in Congress when Israel bombed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear plant in 1981 and — unlike the United Nations and the Reagan administration — defended its right to do so. He says Saudi Arabia has an influence on Washington equal to Israel’s. His votes against support for Israel follow quite naturally from his opposition to all foreign aid. There is no sign that they reflect any special animus against the Jewish state.

What is interesting is Paul’s idea that the identity of the person who did write those lines is “of no importance.” Paul never deals in disavowals or renunciations or distancings, as other politicians do. In his office one afternoon in June, I asked about his connections to the John Birch Society. “Oh, my goodness, the John Birch Society!” he said in mock horror. “Is that bad? I have a lot of friends in the John Birch Society. They’re generally well educated, and they understand the Constitution. I don’t know how many positions they would have that I don’t agree with. Because they’re real strict constitutionalists, they don’t like the war, they’re hard-money people. . . . ”

Paul’s ideological easygoingness is like a black hole that attracts the whole universe of individuals and groups who don’t recognize themselves in the politics they see on TV. To hang around with his impressively large crowd of supporters before and after the CNN debate in Manchester, N.H., in June, was to be showered with privately printed newsletters full of exclamation points and capital letters, scribbled-down U.R.L.’s for Web sites about the Free State Project, which aims to turn New Hampshire into a libertarian enclave, and copies of the cult DVD “America: Freedom to Fascism.”

Victor Carey, a 45-year-old, muscular, mustachioed self-described “patriot” who wears a black baseball cap with a skull and crossbones on it, drove up from Sykesville, Md., to show his support for Paul. He laid out some of his concerns. “The people who own the Federal Reserve own the oil companies, they own the mass media, they own the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, they’re part of the Bilderbergers, and unfortunately their spiritual practices are very wicked and diabolical as well,” Carey said. “They go to a place out in California known as the Bohemian Grove, and there’s been footage obtained by infiltration of what their practices are. And they do mock human sacrifices to an owl-god called Moloch. This is true. Go research it yourself.”

Two grandmothers from North Carolina who painted a Winnebago red, white and blue were traveling around the country, stumping for Ron Paul, defending the Constitution and warning about the new “North American Union.” Asked whether this is something that would arise out of Nafta, Betty Smith of Chapel Hill, N.C., replied: “It’s already arisen. They’re building the highway. Guess what! The Spanish company building the highway — they’re gonna get the tolls. Giuliani’s law firm represents that Spanish company. Giuliani’s been anointed a knight by the Queen. Guess what! Read the Constitution. That’s not allowed!”

Paul is not a conspiracy theorist, but he has a tendency to talk in that idiom. In a floor speech shortly after the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, he mentioned Unocal’s desire to tap the region’s energy and concluded, “We should not be surprised now that many contend that the plan for the U.N. to ‘nation-build’ in Afghanistan is a logical and important consequence of this desire.” But when push comes to shove, Paul is not among the “many” who “contend” this. “I think oil and gas is part of it,” he explains. “But it’s not the issue. If that were the only issue, it wouldn’t have happened. The main reason was to get the Taliban out.”

Last winter at a meet-the-candidate house party in New Hampshire, students representing a group called Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth asked Paul whether he believed the official investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks was credible. “I never automatically trust anything the government does when they do an investigation,” Paul replied, “because too often I think there’s an area that the government covered up, whether it’s the Kennedy assassination or whatever.” The exchange was videotaped and ricocheted around the Internet for a while. But Paul’s patience with the “Truthers,” as they call themselves, does not make him one himself. “Even at the time it happened, I believe the information was fairly clear that Al Qaeda was involved,” he told me.

“Every Wacko Fringe Group In the Country”

One evening in mid-June, 86 members of a newly formed Ron Paul Meetup group gathered in a room in the Pasadena convention center. It was a varied crowd, preoccupied by the war, including many disaffected Democrats. Via video link from Virginia, Paul’s campaign chairman, Kent Snyder, spoke to the group “of a coming-together of the old guard and the new.” Then Connie Ruffley, co-chairwoman of United Republicans of California (UROC), addressed the crowd. UROC was founded during the 1964 presidential campaign to fight off challenges to Goldwater from Rockefeller Republicanism. Since then it has lain dormant but not dead — waiting, like so many other old right-wing groups, for someone or something to kiss it back to life. UROC endorsed Paul at its spring convention.

That night, Ruffley spoke about her past with the John Birch Society and asked how many in the room were members (quite a few, as it turned out). She referred to the California senator Dianne Feinstein as “Fine-Swine,” and got quickly to Israel, raising the Israeli attack on the American Naval signals ship Liberty during the Six-Day War. Some people were pleased. Others walked out. Others sent angry e-mails that night. Several said they would not return. The head of the Pasadena Meetup group, Bill Dumas, sent a desperate letter to Paul headquarters asking for guidance:

“We’re in a difficult position of working on a campaign that draws supporters from laterally opposing points of view, and we have the added bonus of attracting every wacko fringe group in the country. And in a Ron Paul Meetup many people will consider each other ‘wackos’ for their beliefs whether that is simply because they’re liberal, conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis, evangelical Christian, etc. . . . We absolutely must focus on Ron’s message only and put aside all other agendas, which anyone can save for the next ‘Star Trek’ convention or whatever.”

But what is “Ron’s message”? Whatever the campaign purports to be about, the main thing it has done thus far is to serve as a clearinghouse for voters who feel unrepresented by mainstream Republicans and Democrats. The antigovernment activists of the right and the antiwar activists of the left have many differences, maybe irreconcilable ones. But they have a lot of common beliefs too, and their numbers — and anger — are of a considerable magnitude. Ron Paul will not be the next president of the United States. But his candidacy gives us a good hint about the country the next president is going to have to knit back together.

Christopher Caldwell, a contributing writer, last wrote for the magazine about Turkish immigrants in Germany.

The most important 5 minutes you will spend all day

2007-07-19T02:52:00.000-07:00

The Most Compassionate Person Running for President

2007-07-19T02:30:00.000-07:00

Click on the link below:
Ron's interview w/ the San Francisco Chronicle's Editorial Board - his best yet!

I dare you to listen to this entire interview and compile a list of every compassionate statement that comes out of this man's mouth. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the results!

This man is the best hope for the poor and oppressed in our world today.

More Amazing Google Coverage

2007-07-19T02:25:00.000-07:00

Candidates @ Google: Ron Paul

2008 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul in discusion with Google executive Elliot Schrage as part of the company's Candidates@Google series.

THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING I HAVE READ IN YEARS!

2007-07-18T01:57:00.000-07:00

The soveriegnty goddess - Lady Liberty

I WENT TO THIS RALLY WITH OUR MEETUP GROUP, this was amazing!!!

Check out Lady Liberty at the beginning and ending of this video! Cool music too!
THE FREEDOM REVOLUTION

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From: "Ron Paul 2008"
Subject: Message from Ron Paul
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:37:28 -0700

July 17, 2007

What a day and half in northern California! On Friday, my first
appointment was at 6:00 am, and my day ended at 11:00 pm. I did radio and tv
interviews in San Francisco, followed by a meeting with the editorial
board of the San Francisco Chronicle. The questions were tough but
fair: my favorite! Meanwhile, more and more interview requests pour into
the campaign. There is a real hunger for our ideas, even in the
mainstream media. The message of liberty is popular!

Then I headed for Google, one of America’s great businesses. Some of
the young stars who populate that company took me on a tour of a firm
that seemed like a university student union. I saw where everyone
works, eats, and exercises. Next I did a political YouTube interview with
questions submitted from the web. I was told that never had Google, in
the entire history of this series, received the sheer number of
questions that it had for my interview. People care about freedom.

Then I spent an hour answering questions from Google employees, crowded
into a large room with overflow rooms overflowing too. Next was
fascinating briefing from some of the technical heads of Google Earth,
Google Maps, Google Apps, and other extraordinary innovations. Then there
was a press conference for the media gathered in a company courtyard,
and then a fundraising reception that a group of Google employees had
organized off-site. In the evening there was another successful
fundraiser.

Saturday morning was the Silicon Valley Meetup in a park right next to
Google. A huge and enthusiastic crowd was there to hear about our
ideas, and the diversity was astounding. There were bikers in leather and
hippies, young parents and grandparents, high-tech workers and business
owners, and so many young Americans.

I talked about all our ideas: marching out of Iraq just as we marched
in; no more meddling in the Middle East; bringing the troops home, from
hundreds of expensive bases all over the world, so that we could have
the money we need for the transition to freedom in social programs, and
to abolish the personal income tax and the IRS. They are not
compatible with a free society.

In a Ron Paul administration, we would also repeal the Patriot Act and
the Military Commissions Act, restore habeas corpus and stop the spying
on Americans. No more eavesdropping on our emails and bank accounts,
our phone calls, home and businesses. No national ID -- just the
bracing freedom of the Constitution.

We must have sound money, and not a giant counterfeiting machine called
the Federal Reserve that causes recessions and inflation. We must
have private property rights, with no pollution or other attacks on
property. We should enforce the Second Amendment, and all the Bill of
Rights. We can have privacy for us, not secrecy for a corrupt bureaucracy.

It is all within our grasp, the restoration of the republic and our
sovereignty—no UN, no North American Union, no Nafta, no WTO, no World
Bank, no IMF. Just federalism, free enterprise, peace, prosperity, and
the kind of future we all want for our families, ourselves, and our
fellow Americans.

The dream can be a reality. You can help make it so. Please: make
your most generous donation to this effort for America’s future
(https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/). Instead of wars and inflation
and spying and poverty, we can have peace and freedom and the blessings
for our children and grandchildren of doing better than we have, of
secure retirements and childhoods. No more theft -- of our savings or our
liberty.

Please -- give to this campaign, for all our futures
(https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/).

Sincerely,

Ron

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2007-07-17T00:32:00.001-07:00

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Restore the Republic

2007-07-12T20:09:00.000-07:00

Dennis Kucinich AWOL when it comes to Health Freedom

2007-07-12T19:45:00.000-07:00

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Ron Paul Was one of Just 16 Congressmen Who Supported US by Voting No on HR 2900

HR 2900 was shoved down our throats yesterday by a vote of 403-16, illustrating the degree to which Pharma is controlling our Congress of Whores. The 40 minutes of "debate" that was allowed was a joke. The people pushing the bill dominated those 40 minutes with pompous self congratulatory speeches about how this legislation is supposedly the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it will make us less safe from dangerous pharmaceuticals, not more safe. Congressman Paul was not allowed to air our objections.See how your Congressman voted at http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll617.xml

WHAT THIS MEANS

Passage of this bill means that once the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA is up and running, which could take a few years, FDA will be able to use their so called "Critical Path Initiative" to fraudulently ban any dietary supplement on a whim based on how it impacts certain biomarkers (which they would fraudulently consider just as they did when they fraudulently approved the diabetes drug Avandia based on a biased assessment of how it impacted biomarkers (when they paid attention to biomarkers indicating how it affects blood sugar while ignoring other biomarkers indicating that it causes a hugely increased incidence of heart attacks.

The Reagan Udall Foundation turns the FDA into a pharmaceutical company which will get patents on and will license its own products. This will give the FDA the biggest incentive they've ever had to attack safe dietary supplements as unwanted competition.

Dennis Kucinich didn't think it was important enough to vote on.
He talks about health care but doesn't support Health Freedom..

Top Global Warming Advocate: Jupiter & Saturn Closer To Sun

2007-07-12T12:26:00.000-07:00

Live Earth kingpin dismantles his own credibility on national radio as propaganda bandwagon is massive flop

Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet | July 9, 2007

Live Earth's half empty stadiums and lackluster TV viewing figures were preceded by another embarrassment after one of the propaganda bandwagon's kingpins and a top global warming advocate responded to a question about solar-system wide climate change by claiming that Jupiter, Mars and Saturn were closer to the sun than Earth.

David Mayer de Rothschild is the youngest child (born 1978) of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, of the British wing of the Rothschild banking family.

Rothschild's recent book, 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Changes, calls for ordinary people to limit outward behavior and even work at home and was used as part of the PR blitz to accompany the Live Earth project.

Appearing on The Alex Jones Show this past Friday, Rothschild reacted to a point about massive climate change at every point of the solar system and its relation to natural sun cycles by claiming Mars, Saturn and Jupiter were closer to the sun than Earth!

Here's a brief transcript of the exchange.

ALEX JONES: "The polar icecaps of Mars are receding at several miles a year, much faster than ours and that the moons of Saturn and Jupiter are melting, in fact several of their moons were ice and are now liquid seas - how are SUV's causing that David Rothschild?

ROTHSCHILD: "Because those planets are closer to the sun, my friend."

ALEX JONES: "No, Jupiter and Saturn are not closer to the sun and neither is Mars."

Rothschild then quickly changes the subject and when the point is raised again later in the show, he makes no effort to correct himself.

Click here for the clip. Listen to the full MP3 of the interview by clicking here.

Last time we checked, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were all orbiting the sun at a greater distance than Earth.

Rothschild's hilarious screw-up is yet another example as to why the general public remain unconvinced by the error-strewn apocalyptic admonitions of the climate cult.

A Mori poll released last week found that a majority of the UK population were still skeptical about man-made global warming and believed the threats were being exaggerated for political purposes and to make money.

Throughout the radio appearance, Rothschild parrots empty sound bite platitudes about there only being "one earth," while failing to address recent scientific analysis which reveals that the oldest plant DNA ever discovered showed that "the planet was far warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago than is generally believed," again underscoring the fact that climate change is a routine and natural phenomenon that has occurred throughout earth's history.

Although Rothschild stresses the existence of just one earth on numerous occasions, it appears as though he thinks there is another one earth orbiting the sun - at a greater distance than Saturn or Jupiter!

He also glibly repeats the charge that the radio station he was appearing on, the Genesis Communications Network, was bankrolled by the oil industry and that was the reason for challenging the monopoly on truth that the man-made global warming crowd attribute themselves.

Deliciously ironic therefore it is that big oil men like the chairman of British Petroleum Peter Sutherland are fanning the flames of global warming hysteria in order to create artificial scarcity and drive up prices, while also getting fat off the peak oil scam, another charade manufactured by the oil companies and gleefully embraced by phony environmentalists.

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Villains of the New World Order - in THEIR OWN words!

2007-07-12T12:22:00.000-07:00

Worth 2 minutes:

America As We Know It Is Coming To An End

2007-07-12T11:18:00.000-07:00

In The Late Great USA, Corsi proves that the benignly-named "Security and Prosperity Partnership," created at a meeting between George W. Bush, Stephen Harper and Vincente Fox, is in fact the same kind of regional integration plan that led Europe to form the EU. According to Corsi, the elites in Europe who wanted to create a European nation knew that "it would be necessary to conceal from the peoples of Europe just what was being done in their name until the process was so far advanced that it had become irreversible." Could the same thing be happening here? Is American sovereignty doomed?

Using dozens of documents secured through the Freedom of Information Act and his trademark hard-hitting interviews, Jerome Corsi sets out a chilling view of America's possible "harmonized" future -- one being created covertly, without voter input or Congressional oversight. Could our government's unfathomable position on illegal immigration be tied to the prospect of an integrated North American Union?

From the Publisher:
Jerome Corsi received his Ph.D in political science from Harvard and is an expert on political violence and the U.S. anti-war movement. He's written many books, including co-authoring the #1 New York Times best-seller Unfit for Command. His most recent book is Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders.

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Ron Paul Moves Into the Top Tier, Suggesting All His Support is Real

2007-07-12T00:20:00.001-07:00

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Gambling911.com Special Contributor Jennifer Reynolds has a lot to say about 2008 Presidential candidate Ron Paul and the continued "disrespect" he is receiving in the media, a "disrespect" not shown by online oddsmakers who give Ron Paul a respectable 15 to 1 odds of winning the 2008 US Presidential Race.

Ron Paul continues to be among the most sought after subjects on the Gambling911.com website. His political web-based strategy has caught the attention of other politicians across the US from Hillary Clinton - who incorporated a brilliant online video taken from the Sopranos finale - right down to local political races including those in Gambling911.com's own stomping grounds of Miami Beach where preservationist mayoral candidate Matti Bower is planning a major YouTube-focused campaign while Commissioner Michael Gongora (running for re-election) already is.

"Paul at his age is the last person you would think to be Internet savvy," says Gambling911.com's political analyst, Carrie Stroup. "For all we know, he may not even be able to log onto a computer. But he's got great people behind him that are pushing the online initiative and it is working in a major way. The appeal is to a younger, more Internet experienced audience whereas the mainstream media tends to gather opinions from a much more mature segment of society who may not be quite as familiar with the Internet."

And this could explain the sometimes blatant disregard of Paul in the mainstream media as Ms. Reynolds discusses below.

In the second quarter, Ron Paul is reporting that he has 2.4 million cash on hand. That is more money than "front-runner" John McCain. Now, the mainstream media has never really offered up their methodology for deciding who gets to be called "top tier" but if Ron Paul now has more cash on hand than John McCain (a former top tier candidate) more Meetup groups than all the other candidates, is the number one searched term on Technorati, and number one in YouTube subscriptions, then he must have moved into the top tier by now.

For months now, most mainstream media reports of Ron Paul and his massive Internet popularity have claimed that his supporters are really spammers – just a few nuts pushing for Ron Paul with the computer savvy to “look” like thousands of individuals. The underlying implication is "what else could it be?" When Ron Paul won or came in second in the first three Republican national debates the mainstream media claimed that his support had been faked somehow and the numbers must be skewed. When Ron Paul got twice as many supporters to attend his rally as the forum to which he was the only candidate not invited, they called it a fluke or lied about the numbers.

When they have nothing else bad to say, they pull out the trump card and claim that Ron Paul is only polling at 1%. However, these official polls cited by the mainstream media only question several hundreds of respondents. In online polls with a much higher response rate Ron Paul is winning by a landslide. See CNN's debate poll of 25,000 responses after the third debate and MSNBC's poll with over 72,000 responses after the first debate.

On ABC recently, George Stephanopoulos was so disrespectful in his interview that he actually laughed at Dr. Paul when he suggested that he was in it to win it. Georgie boy was willing to bet everything he has in his pocket against Paul's chance of winning the presidency. (Watch the video and then Google the blogs of the interview. A lot of people were not too happy with GS's show of disrespect.) Mr. Stephanopoulos, in order for it to be a real bet we need to know how much money you had in your pocket. Please let us know. Ron Paul is still listed with 15 to 1 odds of winning the 2008 US Presidential Race as of press time July 12, 2007.

The American people are fed up with being fooled, fed up with being manipulated, fed up with being stripped of their liberties. The media has been telling us what to think for so long, and cannot fathom that We the People are now thinking for ourselves.

We are learning what is really going on as opposed to the nonsense they try to tell us. We are learning that the Federal Reserve is costing us a fortune, and we are learning what the Federal Reserve is. We are learning the difference between monetary and price inflation. (The former is caused by the government when they borrow dollars and ask the Fed to print more money; the latter is caused by the former.) We are learning that a non-interventionist foreign policy will keep us safer than attacking every country willy-nilly. Who is our teacher? Ron Paul. Who is the only person telling the truth? Ron Paul. Do you know what else we are learning? We are learning just how biased the mainstream media is to a small government message.

They try to fool us with a false dichotomy of conservative vs. liberal, but really both sides are for big government. The real division in this country is between statists and non-statists. The statist believes the Federal Government should take all your money and then tell you how to live. The non-statist wants to keep their own money, be left alone, and make their own decisions on how to live. That is what confused Stephen Colbert so much and why Ron Paul does not seem to fit into any one category. Ron Paul is a non-statist, pro-constitutionalist.

People are tired of seeing the wealth disparity between those who have the power and those who don't. The only way to stop the abuse of power is to take the power away. People are starting to doubt that all we need is a generous person in power. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. We must take the power away from politicians in order to stay free. Ron Paul has proven he will work to reduce the size, scope, expense, and predation of government.

He consistently votes against bills that give the government more power. He has voted against any bill that would give the government control of the Internet. For decades he has consistently voted against any bill that violates the constitution. He has never voted for a Congressional pay raise, he will not accept his Congressional pension, and he refused to let his kids take out school loans because he thought it was immoral. Why immoral? Because the government has no money and the only way it can give money to people is to take it from others. That is called stealing. We were taught that in 2nd grade. Ron Paul is teaching what it means to be moral.

If all the support for Ron Paul is real, and all those thousands of people in the Meetup groups are not bots, then the message is clear: the people are getting fed up and want their liberties back. The mainstream media loses credibility and readership (and viewership) as over and over they have exhibited shameful acts of blatant bias throughout this campaign. The good news is that the people are not being swayed by the biased reporting and are starting to voice their displeasure.

A fundamental shift is taking place in this country. People are learning how they have been manipulated and used. Thanks to the Internet, real news is leaking out. Thanks to sites like this we can stay truly informed and learn the things the bigwigs want to keep silent. We the People are tired of losing liberties. People are noticing what has been done to them and they don't like it. They are looking for someone to make a real shift in this country. They are looking for someone they can trust. Ron Paul is that person. He has remained consistent in his voting record and the way he lives his own life. How can you tell how a person will behave in the future: look at how they have behaved in the past.

Become one of the informed. Google Ron Paul. Learn about him. Go to www.LewRockwell.com and look in the lower left corner for writings from the Ron Paul file. Learn about his policies. I dare you.

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." John Quincy Adams

Jennifer Reynolds is a Special Contributor to Gambling911.com

Originally published July 12, 2007 12:43 am ET

A Message from Ron Paul

2007-07-10T16:06:00.000-07:00

July 3, 2007

After an airport rally in Arizona recently, a tall black man in an
Obama shirt came up to shake my hand. He said he had stopped to listen,
stayed to learn, and now wanted a Ron Paul shirt. And sure enough, when
I saw him again, he was wearing one.

Diversity is much talked about these days, for purposes of government
enhancement, but its reality is rare. However, I've seen it --
everyday, in our campaign.

Young people, middle-aged people, seniors, whites, blacks, Hispanics,
new citizens, old-line families, Republicans in suits and ties, hippies,
home-schoolers, high-schoolers, homemakers, small business people,
workers and capitalists, all united in their love for country and
Constitution.

As my great mentor Ludwig von Mises showed, government meddling in the
economy creates conflict, as special-interest groups seek to rip us off
through big government. The voluntarism of the free market, on the
other hand, brings social cooperation and peace. That's why this
campaign is a showcase for the real unity-in-diversity that is freedom.

Of course, the number of young people continues to thrill me. When I
ask them how they got interested, they usually mention the Constitution.
Old-style permissive parenting held that kids should do as they
wanted, but kids want and need rules, and they know that government needs
them too. Thus our Constitution -- the few, good rules for a society of
liberty, and for the social and international peace that we all want.

Two other notes: conservative talkshow host Michael Smerconish told me
he has changed his mind on the war, and now agrees with us. And a
Republican county chairman in South Carolina said I am unwelcome in his
county because of my position on the war. He will help all other
candidates, but not me.

But just as the Iowa exclusion didn't work -- we had more people, and
far more enthusiastic people, than the official event -- so this man
will not be successful.

You can help make sure of that, with your generous donation
(https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/) to this campaign. We run on a
comparative shoestring, and that has its advantages against the lumbering
dinosaur operations of our opponents. We can be nimble and quick. But
not without your help. I'd be so grateful for your contribution.

Warmest regards,

Ron Paul

I'm a Republican, not some long-haired hippy. If they could treat us this way, I shudder to think what minorities put up with."

2007-07-10T13:24:00.000-07:00

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