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“This is the most libertarian generation that’s ever existed”

Will public disgust with creeping government drive more people than ever toward limited government principles? A very good and interesting story from Illinois’ The Telegraphabout how the movement Ron Paul ignited now also correlates with public attitudes and national trends:
To begin: This is not a story about Ron Paul.

Not exactly, anyway. And yet to get where we want to go we will start at OPA!, a Greek restaurant on the edge of town where Clark County Republicans and tea party conservatives gathered on Nevada primary night for what looked undeniably like a Ron Paul rally.

In one corner was Cindy Lake, the acting chair of the Clark County Republican Party and a delegate to this summer’s Republican National Convention. A self-described “libertarian Republican constitutional conservative,” Lake became a Paul convert in 2007 after she heard him advocate for something she passionately supports: the freedom to buy raw milk.

Nearby stood Megan Heryet, celebrating her GOP primary victory in a state Assembly race. Heryet, a real estate agent, substitute teacher and mom, is hardly a Paul fanatic. But she did back him in Nevada’s caucuses earlier this year, primarily because she is a big proponent of being free to make decisions such as choosing to give birth to her second child at home instead of a hospital. “It’s about being left alone,” she said.

And there were the Bunce brothers, Richard and Carl, who marshaled a four-year “Paulist” takeover of the Nevada Republican Party. The tax system is their biggest irritation. “This is the land of the free,” said Carl.

“How free are we when we’ve got a government that can choose how much money we keep in our paycheck?”

But we promised this wouldn’t be about Ron Paul and, in fact, it really isn’t. Rather it’s about unpasteurized milk and home births and taxes and, yes, freedom.

Something’s going on in America this election year: a renaissance of an ideal as old as the nation itself – that live-and-let-live, get-out-of-my-business, individualism vs. paternalism dogma that is the hallmark of libertarianism.

Paul, the Texas congressman and GOP presidential hopeful who champions small government and individual liberty, is one manifestation of it. We saw that with his rising popularity during the Republican presidential primary season and, now, the recent “takeovers” of political conventions in Nevada, Minnesota, Maine, Louisiana and elsewhere that will result in a sizable faction of Paul delegates at the GOP convention come August…

But what looms are far larger questions about whether an America fed up with government bans and government bailouts – with government, period – is seeing a return to its libertarian roots. And, if so, what that might mean in a potentially close presidential race and long after election 2012 is a mere memory.

“There’s this kind of growing distrust of the institutions of government, and so it leads folks to step back and say, ‘Well if they’re not working, then we ought to have less of them in our lives,”‘ said Wayne Lesperance, director of the Center for Civic Engagement at New England College in the “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire.

Paul’s libertarian message joins people “who probably under any other circumstances would not see the world the same way and gets them politically involved,” Lesperance said. “It is a challenge for the Republicans to wrap their arms around this and harness this in a way that gets them an electoral victory.”

This will all be hotly debated this week as thousands converge on the Las Vegas Strip for a libertarian fete called FreedomFest. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul – Ron’s son and the future hope of many limited-government enthusiasts – will speak, along with a slew of libertarian-leaning politicians, scholars, economists and entrepreneurs, from Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and publisher Steve Forbes to Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president.

When the festival first began in 2002, some 850 people attended. Last year, there were 2,400. Festival founder and economist Mark Skousen will tell you this is a sign, albeit a small one, that libertarianism – or something an awful lot like it – is surging.

“It is a rebirth,” said Skousen, and a reaction to a feeling shared by many that America has moved too far afield from its founding principles. “This country was established for the very thing that we’re fighting right now: excessive government control of our lives. In today’s world everything is either prohibited or mandated. … You have to have medical insurance. You have to wear a seat belt. … They have to pat you down (at the airport).”

Skousen has a simple analogy for all of this: “If you restrict a teenager, they rebel. I think that’s what people are feeling…”
In its annual governance survey conducted last fall, Gallup found that a record-high 81 percent of Americans were dissatisfied with the way the country was being governed. There were increases, too, in the responses to questions that gauge a more libertarian-view of governance: A record 49 percent said they believed government posed “an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens”; 57 percent believed the federal government had too much power; and 56 percent said they would be willing to pay less in taxes and accept fewer services (a position advocated during the campaign by Paul)…

Many pondered why Ron Paul, at 76 years old, attracted throngs of 20-somethings to his rallies and, according to exit polls, consistently won the 18-29 age bracket early in primary season in states such as New Hampshire and Iowa.

Twenty-six-year-old (Students for Liberty President) Alexander McCobin has a response for that: “This is the most libertarian generation that’s ever existed, and it’s because libertarianism is just correct…”

To any remaining naysayers, they warn that this is neither a passing fad nor a “Ron Paul phenomenon” that will fade once he’s gone from the scene. They see hope in other up-and-coming libertarian-leaning Republicans: Justin Amash, a Michigan congressman seeking re-election whom Reason magazine christened “the next Ron Paul”; Kurt Bills, a Minnesota state representative who is running for U.S. Senate; and, of course, Rand Paul.

“Everything we’ve done up to this point is based on ideas. … It carries on well past Congressman Paul,” said Carl Bunce. “Hopefully we’ll start to bring more voters to bear into the Republican Party – all those apathetic voters that were like myself.”

When that happens, he said, “our ideas of liberty and freedom will persist.”

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Exclusive: Security heightened at GOP convention in anticipation of Ron Paul insurgency

By Deena Winter on July 6, 2012
http://nebraska.watchdog.org/files/2...66-300x300.jpg Security at the state Republican convention has been tightened this summer in case turmoil breaks out as it did in other states where Ron Paul and Mitt Romney supporters clashed over control.

Even though the state Republican chairman Mark Fahleson decided this week to stay in his position to prevent a Paul supporter from winning his seat, there’s still potential for fireworks at the state convention on July 14 in Grand Island.

The executive director of the state Republican Party, Jordan McGrain, told Nebraska Watchdog in addition to its usual sergeant at arms committee, the party hired additional security for the first time in convention history, to his knowledge. Party officials are preparing for potential for trouble caused by Paul supporters. The libertarian Texas Congressman quit campaigning for president in May, but his supporters have circumvented primaries and caucuses by winning delegates at conventions in Iowa, Nevada, Minnesota and Louisiana with an eye toward sending as many as possible to the national convention in Tampa.

In Louisiana, Paul garnered about half the state’s delegates and chaos broke out, with several delegates arrested and the convention chairman reportedly getting thrown to the ground by police.

McGrain said Nebraska Republicans are preparing for the potential for “some pretty rowdy guests” at the convention – noting that other states experienced “all-out anarchy” at their conventions because they weren’t ready for a ruckus.

“We’re just not going to tolerate any disruptions,” McGrain said. “This is not going to be a free-for-all.”

In Nebraska, about half the delegates went to Paul supporters in Douglas and Sarpy counties, with Paul supporters claiming rules were violated in Dodge County and retreating to a rump convention in Fremont. Then the Paul-Tea Party movement appeared poised to get their candidate elected chairman of the party – over the wishes of Gov. Dave Heineman – until chairman Fahleson pre-empted that fight this week by announcing plans to stay in his position until his term ends next year.

And so ends the battle for the chairmanship, but the battle for delegates continues. It would be an embarrassment for Heineman – the first governor to endorse Romney – to have his state’s delegates vote for Paul at the national convention. Heineman has been mentioned as a contender for a Romney cabinet post. http://nebraska.watchdog.org/files/2...um-150x150.jpg

McGrain said Romney and Paul supporters have been “burning up the phone lines” – making calls to delegates to ascertain who they’re committed to before the state convention. He accused Paul supporters of claiming to be from the state GOP or refusing to say who they are. A leader of the Paul movement said those calls are being made by the Paul campaign.

“They’re not interested in a straight-up fight,” McGrain said. “They need to float underneath the radar. It’s just kind of their M.O. (modus operandi).”

Nebraskans voted for Romney in the primary, and it is delegates’ responsibility to deliver those votes, McGrain said. He expects Paul supporters will “steal away a few delegates” at the state convention, but “nowhere near a majority.”

“We’re all cautiously optimistic that we’ll be able to deliver our delegates for Mitt Rommey,” he said.

McGrain said Paul’s supporters are trying to “take by party rules what they couldn’t on election day.”

He has been warned by Republican officials in Nevada and Louisiana to be prepared for “Paulistas” to try to seize control of the convention through endless votes, amendments, re-votes and parliamentary delays aimed at wearing out establishment Republicans.

That’s why McGrain intends to make sure the agenda is “tight” and ballots counted in an orderly and efficient way, with rented ballot-counting machines. He said the battle for delegates has become a “political sideshow that’s not helpful.”

“Frankly some of the people that got involved are supportive of Ron Paul and really don’t have any interest in doing what’s right by the Republican voters of Nebraska or by the Republican Party, who overwhelmingly said on election day that Mitt Romney was their choice,” he said. “Now is clearly the time to coalesce behind our candidate.”
http://nebraska.watchdog.org/files/2...s-150x150.jpegA leader of the Tea Party/Paul movement in Nebraska is Laura Ebke, a blogger and chairwoman of Republican Liberty Caucus, which promotes limited government and individual liberty. She has said her movement is about the heart and soul of the Republican Party, which she said will “sink into oblivion” if it doesn’t bring new people on board.

“It’s just a matter of trying to bring the party back our way a little bit,” she said today.

She said there’s dissatisfaction with the state party and her group would like to have more of a role in the GOP. She said many counties aren’t sending a delegate to the convention, which ought to worry state party officials.

Ebke was called in to a meeting with the governor recently, where Heineman “made it clear to us that he wasn’t very happy” about the group’s support for the candidate for chairman that he had not endorsed, John Orr. She said the governor said they shouldn’t challenge his authority to name a state chairman.

They were not dissuaded, however. Fahleson’s move this week solved that problem for Heineman – delaying that battle until next spring.

Ebke said she hopes the Nebraska state convention doesn’t get tumultuous, and as the “mom” of her group, she’s tried to keep people on an “even keel.” She said her group just wants to get as many Paul delegates as possible, to get his name put into nomination in Tampa in a symbolic victory.

“The last thing I want is to have a real rowdy convention,” she said. “By the same token, youthful enthusiasm could result in… ” she said, trailing off.

“I hope that the party plays fair,” she said. “We’re prepared to lose, as long as we lose fair.”

Reported by Deena Winter, deena@nebraskawatchdog.org.

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Ron Paul Liberty Movement Will Outlast the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street

July 7, 2012

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By Robert Taylor,

In the last few years, we have witnessed the rise of several protest groups and organizations that have made their voices heard in the public and in the media. On the left, there is the Occupy Movement, on the right, there is the Tea Party.

There is also a self-described “liberty movement,” with strong libertarian convictions and influenced by the presidential candidacy and ideas of Ron Paul. Although both the Occupy Movement and the Tea Party highlight legitimate grievances, both groups have obvious inconsistencies and shortcomings. The more principled and focused liberty movement will undoubtedly have the biggest effect on public debate and long-term political trends.

The Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party was officially started on November 5, 2007, when then presidential candidate Ron Paul held his first “money bomb,” raising of over $4 million (which, at the time, was the most money ever raised by a political candidate in one day). The Tea Party began as a grassroots group of frustrated libertarians and paleo-conservatives, angry at the Republicans for their spending, deficits, and debts, the loss of civil liberties, and military interventionism overseas. As it grew, however, the movement soon began to be co-opted by mainstream Republican politicians and pundits, and combined with the election of President Obama, took a much more partisan turn.

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Security Heightened at GOP Convention in Anticipation of Ron Paul Insurgency

July 7, 2012

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By Deena Winter,

Security at the state Republican convention has been tightened this summer in case turmoil breaks out as it did in other states where Ron Paul and Mitt Romney supporters clashed over control.

Even though the state Republican chairman Mark Fahleson decided this week to stay in his position to prevent a Paul supporter from winning his seat, there’s still potential for fireworks at the state convention on July 14 in Grand Island.

The executive director of the state Republican Party, Jordan McGrain, told Nebraska Watchdog in addition to its usual sergeant at arms committee, the party hired additional security for the first time in convention history, to his knowledge. Party officials are preparing for potential for trouble caused by Paul supporters. The libertarian Texas Congressman quit campaigning for president in May, but his supporters have circumvented primaries and caucuses by winning delegates at conventions in Iowa, Nevada, Minnesota and Louisiana with an eye toward sending as many as possible to the national convention in Tampa.

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Drone hijacked by hackers from Texas college with $1,000 spoofer

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin hacked and hijacked a drone in front of the dismayed Department of Homeland Security officials who had dared them $1,000 to do it.

According to exclusive coverage of the event from Fox News, the researchers flew the small surveillance drone over the Austin stadium last Monday.

The drone followed a series of GPS waypoints programmed into its flight computer in what initially looked like a routine flight.

At one point, the drone veered off course from its intended flight path.

It banked hard to the right, "streaking" toward the south, before it turned to hurtle at the ground in what looked like imminent drone suicide, according to Fox's description.

A safety pilot radioed the drone - which was owned by the university, according to Reuters - and forced it to pull up just a few feet before it would have crashed into the field.

The demonstration of the near-disaster, led by Professor Todd Humphreys and his team at the UTA's Radionavigation Laboratory, points to a "gaping hole" in the US's plan to open US airspace to thousands of drones, Fox noted: namely, drones can be turned into weapons, given the right equipment.

The researchers managed to hack the drone with a spoofer they put together with about $1,000 worth of parts.

The Department of Homeland Security traditionally has been concerned with GPS jammers - the method of interference that some believe Iran used to bring down a US spy drone in December.

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The Pauls' New Crusade: “Internet Freedom”

Defending the Internet — and the corporations that invest in it — from government regulation is the new “End the Fed,” Paul advisors tell BuzzFeed exclusively. A new Paul manifesto: “This is our revolution.”
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Posted Jul 5, 2012 10:51am EDT

Ron and Rand Paul are set today to shift the central focus of their family's long libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom.

Kentucky senator Rand and his father Ron Paul, who has not yet formally conceded the Republican presidential nomination, will throw their weight behind a new online manifesto set to be released today by the Paul-founded Campaign for Liberty. The new push, Paul aides say, will in some ways displace what has been their movement's long-running top priority, shutting down the Federal Reserve Bank. The move is an attempt to stake a libertarian claim to a central public issue of the next decade, and to move from the esoteric terrain of high finance to the everyday world of cable modems and Facebook.

The manifesto, obtained yesterday by BuzzFeed, is titled "The Technology Revolution" and lays out an argument — in doomsday tones —for keeping the government entirely out of regulating anything online, and for leaving the private sector to shape the new online space.

"The revolution is occurring around the world," it reads. "It is occurring in the private sector, not the public sector. It is occurring despite wrongheaded attempts by governments to micromanage markets through disastrous industrial policy. And it is driven by the Internet, the single greatest catalyst in history for individual liberty and free markets."

The manifesto quotes Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and attacks not just the federal government, but also progressive groups that have called for similar measures to keep the Internet largely unregulated: "Today, the road to tyranny is being paved by a collectivist-Industrial complex -- a dangerous brew of wealthy, international NGO's, progressive do-gooders, corporate cronies and sympathetic political elites."

The manifesto lays out five specific battles with government regulation and with liberals who state their goal of online liberty in similar terms, but who view corporate encroachment as a more immediate risk. The Paul manifesto seeks to rein in anti-trust actions against companies in new industries; to stop attempts to impose "Net Neutrality" rules on broadband providers; to prevent government control of online infrastructure; to broaden private control of the wireless spectrum, and shore up "private property rights on the Internet."

The Pauls also take a stand for the growing industry known (and widely criticized) as "big data."

They deride the notion that "private sector data collection practices must be scrutinized and tightly regulated inthe name of 'protecting consumers,' at the same time as government’s warrantless surveillance and collection of private citizens’ Internet data has dramatically increased."

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But, ironically, just as decentralization has unleashed the potential for free markets andindividual freedom on a global scale, collectivist special interests and governmentsworldwide are now tirelessly pushing for
more
centralized control of the Internet andtechnology.Here at home they are aided and abetted both by an Administration that wholeheartedlybelieves in the wisdom of government to manage markets and some in the technologyindustry that cynically use the cudgel of government control and regulation to hamstringcompetitors
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the Apple’s and Microsoft’s of tomorrow.
Internet collectivism takes many forms, all of them pernicious.Among the most insidious are government attempts to control and regulate competition,infrastructure, privacy and intellectual property. According to them;
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Successful companies in brand new frontier industries that didn’t even exist as recently
as five years ago should be penalized and intimidated with antitrust actions in the name
of “fairness” and “competition.”

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Privately owned broadband high-speed infrastructure must be subject to collective rule
via public ownership and government regulations that require “sharing” with other
competitors.
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Internet infrastructure must be treated as a commons subject to centralized
government control through a variety of foolish “public interest” and “fairness”
regulations.
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Wireless, the lifeblood of the mobile Internet revolution, must be micromanaged as agovernment-controlled commons, with limited exclusive property rights.
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Private property rights on the Internet should exist in limited fashion or not at all, andwhat is considered to be in the public domain should be greatly expanded.
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Private sector data collection practices must be scrutinized and tightly regulated in the
name of “protecting consumers”
, at the same time as
government’s warr
antlesssurveillance and collection of
private

citizens’ Internet data has dramatically increased.
Internet collectivists are clever.They are masters at hijacking the language of freedom and liberty to disingenuously pushfor more centralized control.
“Openness” means government control of privately owned infrastructure.

“Net neutrality” means government acting as
arbiter and enforcer of what it deems to be"neutral".


“Internet freedom” means the destruction of property rights.

“Competition” means
managed
competition, with the government acting as judge and juryon what constitutes competition and what does not.Our
“right to privacy” only applies
to the data collection activities of the private sector,rarely to government.The eminent economist Ludwig von Mises wrote that when government seeks to solve oneproblem, it creates two more.Nowhere is this more evident than in the realm of Internet collectivists and the centralizedcontrol of the Internet they seek.The body of incremental communications law and regulation that has emerged since thedays of Alexander Graham Bell are entirely unsuited to the dynamic and ever-changingInternet for one simple reason:
Technology is evolving faster than government’s ability to
regulate it.Ronald Reagan once said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away fromextinction." But in the Internet era, true Internet freedom can be lost in far less than onegeneration.Around the world, the real threat to Internet freedom comes not from bad people orinefficient markets -- we can and will always route around them -- but fromgovernments'

foolish attempts to manage and control innovation.And it is not just the tyrannies we must fear. The road
away
from freedom is paved withgood intentions.Today, the road to tyranny is being paved by a collectivist-Industrial complex -- a dangerousbrew of wealthy, international NGO's, progressive do-gooders, corporate cronies andsympathetic political elites.Their goals are clear: The collectivist-industrial complex seeks to undermine free marketsand property rights, replacing them with "benevolent" government control and a vision of "free" that quickly evolves from "free speech" to "free stuff."We know where this path leads. As Thomas Jefferson said, "The natural progress of things isfor liberty to yield and government to gain ground."A benevolent monopoly for "the public interest" is nothing more than a means for the oldguard to reassert their power. The role of the government on the Internet is to protect usfrom force and fraud, not to decide our interests.But while the Internet has produced a revolution, it has not, in fact, "changed everything".

We do not need to reinvent our principles for the web; we only need apply our coreprinciples to it. When faced with Internet regulation, we should ask these key questions:1.

Is this a core function of the federal government?2.

Does it execute Constitutionally defined duties?3.

Does it protect Constitutionally defined rights?4.

Does it protect property rights?5.

Does it protect individual rights?6.

If the federal government does not do this, will others?7.

Will this policy or regulation allow the market to decide outcomes or will it distort themarket for political ends?8.

Is this policy or regulation clear and specific, with defined metrics and limitations?Yes, there will always be problems and challenges that exist in the online universe. Thesechallenges are sometimes significant and important and other times not. Government,however, will never solve them. Markets will.As a matter of principle, we oppose any attempt by Government to tax, regulate, monitor orcontrol the Internet, and we oppose the Internet collectivists who collaborate with thegovernment against Internet freedom.
This is our revolution…. Government
needs to get out of the way

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Paul's so-called "Audit the Fed" bill will soon be put to a vote in the House of Representatives, and the new campaign will kick off shortly thereafter.

"We are going to bring to this project the same kind of intensity, resources and energy we brought to the Fed Audit," said one Paul adviser.

The document is intended to serve as a conservative counterpoint to a Declaration of Internet Freedom released this week and hosted by the group FreePress, though the two share some goals. The earlier document, which sets out broad principles but does not take sides on divisive issues like Net Neutrality, was signed by groups including the American Civil Liberties Union as well as Internet companies such as Mozilla.

The language of the document tries to reclaim the issue of Internet freedom from the strange bedfellows that have staked a claim to it: progressives and tech companies on one hand, and more traditional conservative politicians like California Rep. Darrell Issa.

"Internet collectivists are clever," the manifesto says, accusing their foes of series of Orwellian linguistic twists. "They are masters at hijacking the language of freedom and liberty to disingenuously pushfor more centralized control. 'Openness' means government control of privately owned infrastructure.'Net neutrality' means government acting as arbiter and enforcer of what it deems tobe 'neutral'."

"This is our revolution -- government needs to get out of the way," the manifesto concludes.

This is also a new stage for what supporters refer to as the Ron Paul Revolution, and a way to make sure that Ron Paul's followers stay on board with the movement after the congressman's retirement from the House of Representatives. Paul supporters are already Internet-savvy, frequently launching digital campaigns of their own, and skew young. And the new cause gives his son Rand an easier way to connect with them, given that his relationship with his father's supporters has often been fraught.

Internet freedom, Paul insiders say, is going to be Rand's end-the-Fed.

Making Rand Paul the standard-bearer of Internet freedom "is one of the goals," said a Republican strategist close to the campaign.

"As you may have noted he has been speaking out about Internet Freedom a fair amount including in his endorsement of Romney on Hannity," the strategist said in an email. "Freedom online and freedom and liberty offline are seamlessly linked and Senator Paul gets that."

A Paul adviser told BuzzFeed that the full Campaign for Liberty Internet project will start about two weeks after the Fed bill vote.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized the Declaration of Internet Freedom signed this week by several groups.

The Pauls' New Crusade: "Internet Freedom"

Does anyone think voting for Mitt Romney will bring real change to the USA?

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July 7, 2012

If you hate Obama – I agree with you.

He is a warmonger, a liar, a tool of the globalists and banksters he continued to bailout after following in Bush‘s footsteps.

He has brought in laws that destroy American citizens liberty like the NDAA, indefinite detention of US citizens without due process as well as normalising the killing of US citizens by Presidential decree.

He attacks supposed allied countries like Pakistan and kills hundreds by remote control through the expansion of the drone programme that has now been expanded to be used inside the USA itself. Feel threatened? You should do.

He has expanded the war on terror and the war on main street all whilst looking after his buddies in Wall Street.

His major “win”, Obamacare is nothing more than a sop to big business that forces people to buy insurance they may not want or cannot afford. Instead of doing what a true liberal would and bring in a public or taxpayer funded option he chose a halfhearted middle of the road option no-one really wanted apart from the health insurance companies.

The list of his misdeeds are long and he has carried out many actions that true Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals or just decent people with morals and a love of freedom and liberty shouldn’t be happy with.

However if you are a Republican voter, a GOP supporting Mitt Romney lover then I have to ask – what do you think is going to change if he gets elected?

Are jobs suddenly going to come rushing back to the US shores?

Mitt Romney worked for a company that spent it’s time sacking American workers and off-shoring US jobs to foreign countries so why would he change his spots now. If you think the highest rung of the career ladder is serving burgers at McDonalds, get used to it.

Are the wars going to stop in Afghanistan and Pakistan (a supposed ally), Yemen, Somalia and all the other places we probably don’t even know about?

No of course not – the GOP are “strong on defence” which really means that they love going to war against weaker countries and subsidising apartheid nations in the Middle East with expensive military hardware that is then reverse engineered and sold on to enemy nations at half price.

It also means that lots of US dollars are wasted by firing expensive missiles into Afghan and Somali mud huts as well as killing thousands of innocent civilians (“collateral damage”) in the hope of getting one jihadist/terrorists/freedom fighter/person pissed off that their family members were murdered in earlier drone strikes.

Inaccurate war by drone attack is the face of the future and the drones are already patrolling the skies of US cities.

At the same time as turning the US population into a country ready to rebel.

The one party system they call US governance is busy creating future enemies around the world. All so that the military industrial complex can continue sucking money out of US taxpayers pockets in future years.
Are the banksters who ruined the economy under Bush and previous administrations going to be punished and end up in jail?

No of course not – they haven’t done under Obama and Romney is probably more in the pocket of Wall St than his rival. I don’t hold up hope of seeing the heads of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan in a court anytime soon.

Are the lost liberties destroyed under the PATRIOT ACT, the NDAA, the Executive Orders, the Signing Letters, the death squads and all the other laws rushed through after 9.11 and then carried on by Obama going to be repealed by Romney?

I don’t think so.

If he was a true lover of the constitution he would rip up those laws, return the USA to a non emergency powers state and return habeas corpus even to Gitmo detainees – most of which the Obama administration know are innocent but for some reason won’t let free.

He would close Gitmo and try any terrorists they currently have that actually have evidence pointing their way.

He would stop targeted killings by drones and try to restore some form of moral standing in the world for the country that was once a beacon of liberty and freedom.

The sad embarrassing fact that Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so early in his administration makes the whole Nobel Prize system a joke and I hope Obama shudders in shame every-time he see’s any mention of the prize.

There is a reason Russia and China laugh when US UN officials accuse the Syrian government of targeted killings.

None of this evil doing by a Democrat will change under Romney 0r a Republican Presidency. Bush was a Republican and he started most of it off in the first place whereas Obama campaigned on changing it all and then did a 360 degree turn once in the White House.

In fact even more tax payers money will be wasted creating terrorists for future generations of middle and lower class Americans to fight on behalf of the rich puppet masters if the Koch brothers friend and puppet is installed at POTUS.

So the wars won’t stop, liberty will continue to be destroyed getting the USA ready for it’s next stage as a Chinese labour shop with no worker rights, health care and lengthy prison sentences on the say so of any official with a grudge against you.

So then I ask again what will actually change if Mitt Romney is elected President?

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Oregon Republican Convention Chaos: Damning Video From Oregon Convention

Submitted by MichaelStrick9 on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 19:00
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83lz9Lrn8IM&feature=player_embedded

The Oregon Republican Party held their Congressional District Conventions on June 23rd, 2012. This video is from the 3rd district. The only business to take place was electing the delegates to the Republican National Convention, their alternates, district chairs, and Presidential electors (should the Republican nominee win Oregon).

After the delegates had been elected across the state, party officials realized that a well organized band of Ron Paul supporters had been outvoting the preferred establishment choices. The only way they could defeat the Ron Paul supporters was to delay the rest of the voting until the conventions were scheduled to adjourn. At that point, citing an RNC rule, the state executive committee would then have the authority to appoint any unfilled spots in the delegation.

RNC Rule 17 C reads "Where neither the rules adopted by a state Republican Party nor state laws provide a method for filling vacancies in its national convention delegation, the state Republican Party should make every effort to elect those individuals filling the vacancies in the delegation in the same manner as the delegates were originally elected or selected, or by vote of the state Republican Party executive committee or if the state executive committee has not filled the vacancy by ten (10) days prior to the convention, by vote of the state delegation."

The key phrase is "The state Republican Party should make every effort to elect those individuals filling the vacancies in the delegation in the same manner as the delegates were originally elected or selected". They Oregon Republican Party obviously failed to abide by that rule, and did everything they could to circumvent it.

To pull the wool over everyone's eyes, they had to lie about the delays. In order for any Congressional District to continue voting, every one had to have completed the previous round of voting and counting. In CD3, we were told the hold up was ballot counting in CD5. CD5 was told CD4 was the source of the delay. CD2 was blaming CD4. CD4 was blaming CD5. CD1 was blaming CD3. When in reality, each of the CDs were moving along just fine, and supposedly waiting on a different one.

Despite nothing in the convention rules that binds the convention to the agenda laid out by ORP chairman, Allen Alley, the chair of CD3, Jim Parker, decided that the meeting would end at 5:00. Citing a lack of credentials report, a miscount of those against continuing the meeting, and failure to address Robert's Rules protocols, we concluded that the meeting was not adjourned properly or legally, and thus, the meeting was still going on after Mr. Parker and his accomplices had fled the scene.

We continued the meeting outside, where we recredentialed everyone and elected a temporary chair and secretary, since the officers were no longer present. Through a series of other motions in accordance of Robert's Rules of Orders, such as suspending certain rules by 2/3 majority, we were able to continue voting, and finished electing all of the alternate delegates.

Ironically, shortly before the illegal attempt at adjournment, the convention featured a video on voter integrity, via a group called True The Vote, which focused on exposing and defeating voter fraud.

Our voting records were discredited by the ORP when they met in their executive committee meeting, and big surprise, all of the establishment choices were appointed.

They even broke their own rules and bylaws by appointing someone as an alternate who had not filed to be one, as there were only 4 official alternate choices left for CD3, and by not breaking their own law, they would have had to appoint a Ron Paul supporter to one of the 3 available positions.

One would think that the Republican Party would strive to work with this highly motivated, organized, and knowledgable group of Ron Paul supporters, and find ways to incorporate that energy and organization into the party, rather than push them away.

To summarize, it appears as though Obama can thank ORP officials Allen Alley, Solomon Yue, and Greg Leo for doing everything they can to ostracize the Ron Paul supporters and discourage them from voting Romney, thus delivering the state to Obama.

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Major banks say they are ready to go under

Submitted by carpavel on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 21:34
Economy

Oh, I can hear it now ... I need a bail out so I can stay a float

Major banks say they are ready to go under

The US Federal Deposit Insurance and Federal Reserve released public summaries of plans for quick liquidation of nine of the world’s largest banks in the case of an emergency, without government bailouts.

Complex financial firms with more than $250 billion in nonbank assets including J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Barclays PLC, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and UBS were the first to prepare the worst case scenarios by July 1. In total, about 125 banks are expected to submit plans to the regulators by the end of 2013.

Public summaries reveal that Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs plan to sell assets or stand-alone businesses to other financial firms, private-equity investors or insurance companies in the event of a collapse. Citigroup said its banking business could be split off from the parent company and recapitalized as a smaller bank. Credit Suisse plans to sell its businesses to hedge funds, banks and securities firms.

Read more here ...
Major banks say they are ready to go under — RT

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Penn Jillette owns Hannity

Submitted by Emperor on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 19:58
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Penn Jillette on 'Hannity'

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Executive Order - Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions

Submitted by freespeech on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 18:47
Daily Paul Liberty Forum

Why would the POTUS need an executive order, signed July6,2012, like this...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...2/07/06/execut...

"Section 1. Policy. The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions. Survivable, resilient, enduring, and effective communications, both domestic and international, are essential to enable the executive branch to communicate within itself and with: the legislative and judicial branches; State, local, territorial, and tribal governments; private sector entities; and the public, allies, and other nations. Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience. The views of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities."

Still reading through this, but it seems like we will be absent communication of all forms soon if the President deems it necessary.

Could someone help me with this please???

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Watch out for Charlie Cheater at the Nebraska State Convention

Submitted by DeejayG on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 15:58

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Nebraska

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3l60B0TXpiU

More Info:
Relevant Data on Charlie Cheater

Cheating Charlie in Maine and Massachusetts

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All Nebraska Delegates Need to Follow the Maine Template + Call in the Sheriff

Submitted by LadyHawk on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 16:01
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DP Original
Nebraska

The meeting in Grand Island on July 14 is going to be a showdown. Below is a 3-step template, offered by jz4Maine (with an added suggestion from Tumbleweed Steve), as the following strategy proved to be successful in Maine under similar circumstances:

1. Meet the night before so everyone will be on the same page and will be able to vote for the endorsed delegate including convention chair.

2. Get there several hours before the convention. We had donuts and breakfast in the parking lot! there were people there up to 6 hours early!

the reason is you want to have Paul supporters in the door and registered before ANYONE else so you can avoid being caught in line. We had the first 200-300 people in line.

3. First thing, you have to VOTE FOR THE CONVENTION CHAIR They must elect one and you must put forward someone to run for that position. They tried to put forward their own convention chair in Maine without a vote but they were thwarted with a point of order! Stay sharp and show up in force!

PS: Don't let 'em use voting machines to count delegate votes. Get expert advice on how to motion for a hand count or a paper ballot count with objective supervision.

PPS: Where Nebraska GOP Executive Director, Jordan McGrain has already announced that he has hired security to quash any disruptions, Tumbleweed Steve suggests hiring the County Sheriff.

Tumbleweed Steve says:

"WE all know that the county sheriff holds all of the constitutional power. I think that if I were a Ron Paul supporter in Nebraska I would be going to have a talk with the county sheriff where this convention is being held, and take him a copy of some sheriff Mack literature so he understands his job according to the Constitution...then offer to hire some of his off-duty fellers as security to counter whatever the power mongers of the state GOP have decided to put in place."

Hall County Sheriff (General Offices)
111 Public Safety Drive
Grand Island, NE 68801
(308) 385-5200


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Paul Craig Roberts: The Collapsing US Economy and the End of the World

July 8, 2012| Categories: Articles & Columns| Tags: CPI, Misery Index, Price Index, shadow stats, Unemployment, Williams,

In a recent column, “Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine whether the US economy will collapse before Washington in its pursuit of world hegemony brings us into military confrontation with Russia and China. This is likely to be an ongoing subject on this site, so this column will not be the final word.
Washington has been at war since October, 2001, when President George W. Bush concocted an excuse to order the US invasion of Afghanistan. This war took a back seat when Bush concocted another excuse to order the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a war that went on without significant success for 8 years and has left Iraq in chaos with dozens more killed and wounded every day, a new strong man in place of the illegally executed former strongman, and the likelihood of the ongoing violence becoming civil war.
Upon his election, President Obama foolishly sent more troops to Afghanistan and renewed the intensity of that war, now in its eleventh year, to no successful effect.
These two wars have been expensive. According to estimates by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, when all costs are counted the Iraq invasion cost US taxpayers $3 trillion dollars. Ditto for the Afghan war. In other words, the two gratuitous wars doubled the US public debt. This is the reason there is no money for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, the environment, and the social safety net.
Americans got nothing out of the wars, but as the war debt will never be paid off, US citizens and their descendants will have to pay interest on $6,000 billion of war debt in perpetuity.
Not content with these wars, the Bush/Obama regime is conducting military operations in violation of international law in Pakistan, Yemen, and Africa, organized the overthrow by armed conflict of the government in Libya, is currently working to overthrow the Syrian government, and continues to marshall military forces against Iran.
Finding the Muslim adversaries Washington created insufficient for its energies and budget, Washington has encircled Russia with military bases and has begun the encirclement of China. Washington has announced that the bulk of its naval forces will be shifted to the Pacific over the next few years, and Washington is working to re-establish its naval base in the Philippines, construct a new one on a South Korean island, acquire a naval base in Viet Nam, and air and troop bases elsewhere in Asia.
In Thailand Washington is attempting to purchase with the usual bribes an air base used in the Vietnam war. There is opposition as the country does not wish to be drawn into Washington’s orchestrated conflict with China. Downplaying the real reason for the airbase, Washington, according to Thai newspapers, told the Thai government that the base was needed for “humanitarian missions.” This didn’t fly, so Washington had NASA ask for the air base in order to conduct “weather experiments.” Whether this ruse is sufficient cover remains to be seen.
US Marines have been sent to Australia and elsewhere in Asia.
To corral China and Russia (and Iran) is a massive undertaking for a country that is financially busted. With wars and bankster bailouts, Bush and Obama have doubled the US national debt while failing to address the disintegration of the US economy and rising hardships of US citizens.
The charts below are courtesy of www.shadowstats.com
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The annual US budget deficit is adding to the accumulated debt at about $1.5 trillion per
year with no prospect of declining. The financial system is broken and requires ongoing bailouts. The economy is busted and has been unable to create high-paying jobs, indeed any jobs. Despite years of population growth, payroll employment as of mid-2012 is the same as in 2005 and substantially below 2008. Yet, the government and financial presstitute media tell us that we have a recovery.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in 2011 was only 1 million more than in 2002. As it takes about 150,000 new jobs each month to stay even with population growth, that leaves a decade long job deficit of 15 million jobs.
The US unemployment and inflation rates are far higher than reported. In previous columns I have explained, based on statistician John Williams’ work (shadowstats.com), the reasons that the government’s headline numbers are serious understatements. The headline (U3) unemployment rate of 8.2% counts no discouraged workers who have given up on finding a job. The government has a second unemployment rate (U6), seldom reported, which includes short-term discouraged workers. That rate is 15%. When the long-term discouraged workers are added in, the current US unemployment rate is 22%, a number closer to the unemployment rate of the Great Depression than to the unemployment rates of postwar recessions.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-c...07/graph-2.jpg

Changes in the way inflation is measured have destroyed the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a measure of the cost of living. The new methodology is substitution based. If the price of an item in the index rises, a lower priced alternative takes its place. In addition, some price rises are labeled quality improvements whether they are or not and thus do not show up in the CPI. People still have to pay the higher price, but it is not counted as inflation.
Currently, the substitution-based rate of inflation is about 2%. However, when inflation is measured as the actual cost of living, the rate of inflation is 5%.
The Misery Index is the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates. The level of the current Misery Index depends on whether the new rigged measures are used, which understate the misery, or the former methodology that accurately measures it.
Prior to the November 1980 election, the Misery Index hit 22%, which was one reason for Reagan’s victory over President Carter. Today if we use previous methodology, the Misery Index stands at 27%. But if we use the new rigged methodology, the Misery Index is 10%.
The understatement of inflation serves to boost Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is calculated in current dollars. To be able to determine whether GDP rose because of price rises or because of increases in real output, GDP is deflated by the CPI. The higher the inflation rate, the less the growth in real output and vice versa. When the substitution based methodology is used to measure inflation, the US economy experienced real growth in the 21st century except for the sharp dip during 2008-2010. However, if the cost-of-living based methodology is used, except for a short period during 2004, the US economy has experienced no real growth since 2000.
In the chart above,the lower measure (blue) of real GDP is deflated with the inflation methodology that measured cost-of-living. The higher GDP measure (red) deflates GDP with the new substitution based methodology.
The lack of employment and real GDP growth go together with the decline in real household median income. The growth in consumer debt substituted for the lack of
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income growth and kept the economy going until consumers exhausted their ability to take on more debt. With the consumer dead in the water, the outlook for economic recovery is poor.
Politicians and the Federal Reserve are making the outlook even worse. At a time of high unemployment and debt-stressed households, politicians at local, state, and federal levels are cutting back on government provision of health care, pensions, food stamps, housing subsidies and every other element of the social safety net. These cutbacks, of course, further reduce aggregate demand and the ability of income-stressed Americans to survive.
The Federal Reserve has interest rates so low that retirees and others living on their savings can earn nothing on their money. The interest rates paid on bank CDs and government and corporate bonds are lower than the rate of inflation. To live on interest income, a person has to purchase Greek, Spanish, or Italian bonds and run the risk of capital loss. The Federal Reserve’s policy of negative interest rates forces retirees to spend down their capital in order to live. In other words, the Fed’s policy is destroying personal savings as people are forced to spend their capital in order to cover living expenses.
In June the Federal Reserve announced that it was going to continue its policy of driving nominal interest rates even lower, this time focusing on long-term Treasury bonds. The Fed said it would be purchasing $400 billion of the Treasury’s 30-year bonds.
Driving interest rates down means driving bond prices up. With 5-year Treasury bonds paying only seven-tenths of one percent and 10-year Treasuries paying only 1.6%, below even the official rate of inflation, Americans desperate for yield move into 30-year bonds currently paying 2.7%. However, the the high bond prices mean that the risk of capital loss is very high.
The Fed’s debt monetization, or a drop in the exchange value of the dollar as other countries move away from its use to settle their balance of payments, could set off inflation that would take interest rates out of the Fed’s control. As interest rates rise, bond prices fall.
In other words, bonds are now the bubble that real estate, stocks, and derivatives were. When this bubble pops, Americans will take another big hit to their remaining wealth.
It makes no sense to invest in long-term bonds at negative interest rates when the federal government is piling up debt that the Federal Reserve is monetizing and when other countries are moving away from the flood of dollars. The potential for a rising rate of inflation is high from debt monetization and from a drop in the dollar’s exchange value. Yet, bond fund portfolio managers have to follow the herd into longer term maturities or see their performance relative to their peers drop to the bottom of the rankings.
Some individual investors and foreign central banks, anticipating the dollar’s loss of value, are accumulating gold and silver bullion. Realizing the danger to the dollar and its policy from the rapid rise in the price of bullion during 2011, the Federal Reserve has arranged offsetting action. When the demand for physical bullion drives up the price, short sales of bullion in the paper market are used to drive the price back down.
Similarly, when investors begin to flee Treasuries, thus causing interest rates to rise, J.P. Morgan and other dependencies of the Federal Reserve sell interest-rate swaps, thus offsetting the effect on interest rates of the bond sales. (Keep in mind that interest rates rise when bond prices fall and vice versa.)
The point of all this information is to establish that except for the 1 percent, the incomes and wealth of Americans are being cut back across the board. From 2002 through 2011 the economy lost 3.5 million manufacturing jobs. These jobs were replaced with lower-paying waitress and bartender jobs (1,189,000), ambulatory health care service jobs (1,512,000) and social assistance jobs (578,000).
These replacement jobs in domestic services mean that on a net basis US consumer income was moved out of the country. Potential aggregate demand in the US dropped by the differences in pay in the job categories. Clearly and unambiguously, jobs offshoring lowered US disposable income and US GDP and, thereby, employment.
Despite the lack of an economic base, Washington’s hegemonic aspirations continue unabated. Other countries are amused at Washington’s unawareness. Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are forming an agreement to abandon the US dollar as the currency for international settlement between themselves.
On July 4 the China Daily reported: “Japanese politicians and prominent academics from China and Japan urged Tokyo on Tuesday to abandon its outdated foreign policy of leaning on the West and accept China as a key partner as important as the United States. The Tokyo Consensus, a joint statement issued at the end of the Beijing-Tokyo Forum, also called on both countries to expand trade and promote a free-trade agreement for China, Japan and South Korea.”
This means that Japan is in play.
The Chinese government, more intelligent than Washington, is responding to Washington’s military threats by enticing away Washington’s two key Asian allies. As the Chinese economy is now as large as the US and on far firmer footing, and as Japan now has more trade with China than with the US, the enticement is appealing. Moreover, China is next door, and Washington is distant and drowning in its hubris.
Washington, which flicked its middle finger to international law and to its own law and Constitution with its arrogance and gratuitous and illegal wars and with its assertion of the right to murder its own citizens and those of its allies, such as Pakistan, has made the United States a pariah state.
Washington still controls its bought-and-paid-for NATO puppets, but these puppet states are overwhelmed with derivative debt problems brought to them by Wall Street and by sovereign debt problems, some of which were covered up by Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs.
Europe is on the ropes and has no money with which to subsidize Washington’s wars of hegemony.
Washington is becoming an isolated and despised element of the world community. Washington has purchased Europe, Canada, Australia, the former Soviet state of Georgia (and almost Ukraine), and Columbia, and continues its effort to purchase the entire world, but sentiment is turning against the rising Gestapo state that has shown itself to be lawless, ruthless, and indifferent, even hostile, to human life and human rights.
A government, whose military was unable with the help of the UK to occupy Iraq after eight years and was forced to end the conflict by putting the “insurgents” on the US military payroll and to pay them to stop killing American troops, and a government whose military has been unable to subdue a few thousand lightly armed Taliban after 11 years, is over the top when it organizes war against Iran, Russia, and China.
The only prospect Washington has of prevailing in such an undertaking is first use of nuclear weapons, of catching its demonized opponents off guard by nuking them out of the blue. In other words, by the elimination of life on earth.
Is this Washington’s program revealed by the neoconservative warmonger, Bill Kristol, who had no shame to ask publicly: “What’s the good of nuclear weapons if you can’t use them?”

The Collapsing US Economy and the end of the world - PaulCraigRoberts.org

Romney Won't Have Delegates Like This At The Convention

Submitted by myajace on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 14:22
Ron Paul 2012

Dr. Paul's delegates WILL be heard (And they won't even need their microphones turned on).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OVgYCMjr8c&feature=player_embedded

Continued Below

Extended version: Voice of a Veteran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJmPC8J8nh8&feature=player_embedded

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Policymic: Ron Paul is the Best Option in Election 2012

Joseph BeckPolitics, 2012 Elections
6 hours ago

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Ron Paul is the Best Option in Election 2012


During the 2008 Presidential campaign, I (along with many others) tried to argue that there was no legitimate difference between the grumpiest old man John McCain and the constitutional law professor turned Hope and Change motivator Barack Obama. It was clear that neither candidate was going to rollback the war profiteering military industrial complex. McCain's hawkish attitude towards oil rich foreign lands, including his infamous "Bomb, Bomb, Iran" ditty, and Obama's foreign policy adviser of choice, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who founded Al-Qaeda (at that point as a foil against the Soviets in Afghanistan) and authored The Grand Chessboard were tell-tale signs that the imperialist foreign policy would continue unabridged. It was also clear that neither candidate intended on curtailing the runaway casino financial system that benefits the 0.1% at the expense of the taxpayer. Both McCain and Obama stressed the urgency of the bailouts that sent trillions to Wall Street — who just happened to be the main campaign contributors for both candidates.

Today, exposing the false Left-Right paradigm is much easier. Goldman Sachs (R) vs. Goldman Sachs (D). Romneycare or Obamacare? Neither candidate is offering peace. More wars. More big government. The same old song and dance.

Ron Paul's candidacy and the Liberty movement offers Americans a way out. Tired of the wars? Good! Bring the troops home, save billions, and put a halt on the extreme interventionist foreign policy that has brought us to the brink of global conflict.

Tired of financial apartheid? Great!

Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill is heading to the House floor later this month. Sound money and free markets — not rigged markets — are key to a free and prosperous society. And since CNBC admits that we're all slaves to central bankers, it might be a good idea to have a little more oversight of the Federal Reserve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efKchHKMb2k&feature=player_embedded

The Liberty movement and its unofficial champion Ron Paul are viable alternatives to the unviable system of government in America today. The trillions in unfunded entitlements, the devaluing dollar, and the ever-present waste and fraud in Washington, D.C., will inevitably lead to Americans getting smacked in the face by economic law. Fiat money has a zero percent success rate. More devaluation and collapse are guaranteed. Ludwig von Mises pointed out that despots and democratic majorities, while reluctantly accepting laws of nature, completely disregard economic law, and that "... economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics." Remember that next time there's a vote to raise the debt ceiling, spend billions on a stimulus package, etc.

The Liberty movement isn't offering an immediate utopia beginning with a Ron Paul presidency; there has to be a transition period away from the inevitable. Many oppose Paul for not endorsing the welfare state.

Indeed, there are many Americans that are dependent on the system in which Ron Paul aims to dismantle. But those that are dependent are going to be hurt the most once the financial day of reckoning comes.

Prosperity and equality cannot come from a printing press.

After the inevitable bust of the paper money system, Americans' civil liberties will be under even more of a threat. Drones, NDAA, the PATRIOT Act, and what Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald calls the surveillance state are diametrically opposed to the ideas of freedom and liberty. Under a Paul administration, the role of the government would be to protect your liberties — not violate them.

Although being reverent of individual liberty may mean you're a terrorist, according to the Department of Homeland Security; it is the understanding and pursuit of liberty that enabled our Founding Fathers to be successful in their revolution. It is that same understanding and relentless pursuit of liberty that has fueled the Ron Paul Revolution.

And, lucky for us, Ron Paul still has a chance to win.

Ron Paul is the Best Option in Election 2012

Romney CAUGHT CHEATING - Campaign Over - Paul vs. Obama - youtube vid

Posted By: Coeus
Date: Monday, 9-Jul-2012 01:33:25

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How Did America Come To A State of Collapse In The Economic And Social Order?

July 9, 2012 by Bob Livingston

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PHOTOS.COM

Many politicians are greedy psychopaths. They go to Washington for prestige, payola and privilege; and they retire rich.
National politicians need to be stripped of all special privilege and, most especially, reduced to one term. This would bring a new day to America.

U.S. Representatives and Senators represent the government — not the American people. Washington politicians and their elite handlers are working overtime to initiate action on legislation to give the government the legislative authority to shut down the Internet. The pretext is the threat of a cyberattack on the whole country. This is only an excuse to stop Americans from communicating and protesting when the financial system collapses and the government can no longer sell its bonds.

Because of the broad exposure of political corruption on the Internet, politicians and bureaucrats are feeling the heat. They want censorship and the power to shut it down. The Internet is the first good thing that has happened in the United States to shine the light on a corrupt system.

As long as the political system is viewed by the American people as having two parties, elections will be manipulated and the people will be deceived. This is an absurd front for what Americans believe to be a two-party political system. It covers fraud and helps charlatans and psychopaths cling to power. But the reality is that everybody is wearing the same hat with a different color.

The powers that be will hold and protect their fiat paper system until it collapses. They will never relinquish their power and lifestyle to a new gold standard and a drastically cut Federal government. The U.S. government has spent itself and the people into bankruptcy. Now the government is eyeing the $3 trillion in retirement funds held by Americans. The government will most likely force the retirement funds to invest in long-term government bonds. This will be the same as confiscation.

As paper money collapses, the quest for revenue by government as well as by the people intensifies. Even with printing presses wide open, government is in deficit and looking for money everywhere it can find it.

The world is crumbling, and the economy is being strangled by government.

Career politicians now have the identical interests of the elite. Our wealth is seen as their solution. It is easy for politicians to manipulate the food stamp crowd against the “rich.”

Since politicians have a parasite mentality, they are naturally attracted to creating class warfare. They manipulate the people against each other, causing political and social unrest as excuses for more suppression of the people.

Under a national craze and imagined threat of terrorists, we give up our liberties to the state, which is Nazism under a modern front. There is no situation in history when government reversed course prior to economic and social collapse. Instead, government uses its military to attack its own people in order to retain power. Why the sudden need to authorize the U.S. military to operate domestically to “weed out terrorists?”

We note that in recent months Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and Bill Gates have made public statements against gold. Do these elite billionaires perceive a threat to their fiat empires from a gold-awaking American people? Do they not know the fragile state of the economy and that the Fed is now “financing” government debt by “buying” its own bonds? Debtors are now simultaneous creditors. There is only make-believe value in this black magic. It reminds me of the old folk song “I’m My Own Grandpa.”

From now forward, there will be more of a direct attack on the wealth of U.S. citizens. Without an increase in production, vast new taxes will destroy the economy while the cost of government rises exponentially. All the while, the worldwide time bomb of unfunded entitlements will continue to tick away. In fact, the whole population has lost its work ethic in favor of a growing sense of entitlement. The food-stamp base is swelling like a plague.

What Can You Do Now As An American Citizen?

The first answer is to recognize and realize that the government with all of its propaganda and police power is at war with the American people.

The fact that most Americans are totally oblivious to all-out war against their savings and retirement assets doesn’t change a thing.

Governments always silently make war on their own citizens behind a propaganda front so as to alert as few people as possible. The less resistance there is the better.

One of the fastest ways to clear the mental fog is to realize that the two-party political system is a fallacy. Both parties are working toward a common goal. Anyone clinging to the illusion will be deceived to his grave.

America has become a fascist state, and the whole Congress supports the agenda of the state. Any dissent is frivolous and transparent.

We can turn the clock back toward human liberty by doing one simple thing: limiting the terms of Representatives and Senators to just one, with no pensions. Also, they should be subject to the same Social Security limitations and receive the same medical benefits as the American people! There should be no special privilege associated with elected office.

The powerful, the rich and well-connected politicians in America all use the dysfunctional political system and the money-printing central banks to their every advantage. The U.S. reckless system has created an enormous economic and political mess. The scene now reminds one of vultures flocking around a carcass.

Nothing can or will be corrected now. All that anyone in power can suggest now is more money printing. There are no financial answers and there are no political reforms on the table, so politicians will continue to postpone meaningful reforms, which will lead us to the final crisis. More than ever, the present system is doomed. It is only a matter of recognizing what is happening and preparing to survive.

I am still accumulating silver coins, as I believe that they will have high exchange and barter value in the near months to come. I sincerely hope that all of you will do the same.

I fear that investors and savers may no longer have access to their accounts and funds during the ultimate crash. Silver coins dated before 1964 will look awfully good in your possession.

Also, my friends, please don’t be surprised if the government implements measures of some form of increased financial repression or expropriation. Many people will wind up much poorer than they are now. I am sorry to give you this sad information, but my vast reading and study confirm it. And if you cover the amount of material that I do, you will come to the same conclusion.

There is a better day coming if the good people prevail and seize power after the crash. There are now millions of people who know the critical situation in America. As America goes, so goes the world this time. But next time, the leadership may well pass to China. America has been sold out and hollowed out. What is left is an impoverished people and economic depression.

The U.S. authorities know full well the shock potential of the social order in the United States. They are buying time with food stamps and all sorts of cash payments.

How Did America Come To A State of Collapse In The Economic And Social Order? : Personal Liberty Alerts=

Doomsdays Loom For Euro, Dollar

July 9, 2012 by Sam Rolley

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A euro collapse could lead to dollar devaluation.

The European Union is, and has been for some time, in the midst of economic calamity. Matters are only getting worse, and Americans should be worried.

British politician Nigel Farage pointed out last week while speaking to the European Parliament that through 19 economic crises summits, Eurozone leaders have yet to make progress in saving the sinking euro ship.

Farage likened the latest summit to The Rolling Stones’ famous tune “19^th Nervous Breakdown.”

The British lawmaker contends that the European Union has proven insoluble and suggests that its separate member nations leave the Eurozone, go back to original currencies and “get back their democracy and identity.”
But that isn’t likely to happen.

At the latest — “19^th Euro Breakdown” — summit last month, European leaders moved to halt the economic crises that have taken hold in Spain and Italy by agreeing to a radical bailout package. As a part of the package, Eurozone leaders have committed to European Central Bank-led oversight for banks, hence allowing a rescue fund — the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) — to recapitalize banks directly. Traditionally, the taxpayer-provided bailout funds would have been lent to governments.

The leaders of the 17 Eurozone countries are expected to meet today to clarify bailout details, but say it will be months before they finalize the plan.

Farage said in a recent interview that the plan essentially creates a European debt union controlled by the economically solvent Germany. He predicts that political disagreement about allowing one European country to gain too much control will hamper any European bailout efforts and posits European leaders’ efforts to “kick the can down the road” and prolong the European economic collapse will ultimately fail as financial markets force a collapse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYoh7XhYe1k&feature=player_embedded

As the United States is facing its own economic difficulties, a Eurozone collapse would have definite negative financial implications stateside. Longstanding economic cooperation between the European Union and the United States has led to a healthy trade relationship that would likely collapse along with the euro. The result will be higher consumer prices on some goods for Americans.

Actions that may be taken to aid the Eurozone by the International Monetary Fund should also raise concerns with Americans. Because of the United States’ involvement in the IMF — contributing about 18 percent of the IMF’s funding via American taxpayers — any attempt by the fund to rescue a collapsing euro would come in part from Americans’ pockets despite the fact that the IMF has no direct accountability to the American populace.

Another problem the U.S. economy faces in the event of a euro collapse is the Federal Reserve’s willingness to engage in the same tactics that have failed Europe to attempt to stimulate the economy both at home and globally. The Fed already moved last month to continue “Operation Twist” — a program designed to lower long-term interest rates in an effort to promote borrowing — until the end of the year, and is prepared to further intervene in markets if the euro fails.

“We are hoping for the best … but we are prepared in case things get worse to protect the U.S. economy and the U.S. financial system,” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters last month.

Bernanke’s preparations include the prospect of another round of quantitative easing (money printing), which could lead to massive dollar devaluation if Fed policy fails.

Doomsdays Loom For Euro, Dollar : Personal Liberty Alerts=

Massachusetts State Election Fraud Lawsuit Filed; Injunction Requested to Prevent Seating of Romney Appointed Delegates

Submitted by P.Au.L on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 16:45

Ron Paul 2012
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Massachusetts

by Matt Robinson | Volunteer MA State Director, Ron Paul 2012
July 7, 2012

If you haven't heard, the MA Republican party has recently decided to deny certification to around 17 delegates/alternates over some unprecedented technicalities. Many of these are liberty supporters that you may have helped elect at the MA district caucuses on April 28th.

You can find the full story and always get the latest update on the situation by going to this special site that has been set up to follow the liberty delegates from Massachusetts: www.MALibertyCaucus.com
Due to the results of the state primary, all the delegates were bound to Romney on the first ballot of the National Convention, but the Liberty delegates still wanted to go in order influence the party and spread the message of liberty. The party rules do state that after being elected at the caucuses, the delegates have to be certified by the candidate who they are bound to, but it also says that the candidate must have "just cause" to throw them out, and the decision must be upheld by the Allocation Committee.

The state party used this vague rule to setup arbitrary and unprecedented requirements of the delegates, including a poorly worded affidavit that everyone was required to sign.

The affidavit required the delegates to swear under penalty of perjury, that they would indeed vote for Mitt Romney on the first ballot of the convention.

However, at the caucuses the delegates had already publically agreed to uphold state law and vote for Mitt Romney on the first ballot at the national convention.

Yet the state party still took the unprecedented step of requiring the signed affidavits, and gave very little time for the delegates to review the document and return it by their arbitrary deadline.

In addition, the affidavit contained several material defects. Many delegates tried to still comply with the demand by returning a slightly edited version which tried to correct the the errors and make the affidavit clearer. However, even though the affidavit was an arbitrary hurdle, never used before, and not in the rules, the state party refused to accept anything but their poorly worded version, by their short deadline.

Even Michael Graham, who in the past I've heard strongly criticizing Ron Paul and his supporters, agrees that the MA GOP has been using some dirty tricks:

Boston Herald: Mass. GOP Deals Dirty

Ben Swann also does a great job exposing the corruption: Reality Check: Mass. Corruption as GOP Strip Delegates of Their Credentials

This seems to be a clear message from leadership within the Romney campaign and the Massachusetts Republican establishment that they do not want or care about your vote in November, or your presence in the party. So we need your help to send them a message.

How you can help:

The Republican establishment, and the Romney campaign need to hear from us. Here's 3 actions you can take.

1) Sign the petition to restore the duly elected delegates and count the provisional ballots:

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-u-s-senate-restore-the-d...

2) Contact leadership of State Party and Romney Campaign. Just go here where you can find email addresses to contact the following individuals:

The MA GOP Chairman - Bob Maginn
The National Committeeman from MA - Ron Kaufman
The Chair of the Allocation Committee - Ed McGrath
The head of the Romney Campaign in MA - Brad Jones

3) Contact you members of the MA GOP state committee. Go here where you can find their info.

Let them know that you disapprove of how the party has refused to certify so many duly elected delegates over minor technicalities that are not in the rules. As well as refusing to count the provisional ballots.

You can get more info here: How YOU can help! | Massachusetts Liberty Caucus

The ONLY way that these Republican Party leaders will realize that they need to move towards Liberty is if YOU let them know. Otherwise, they will pretend it is business as usual, and ignore the activists that are promoting Liberty principles.

This fight will continue, and the duly elected delegates that have been thrown out will go all the way to the convention in Tampa in order to formally appeal being de-certified.

In addition, a letter has been sent to the MassGOP telling them that there is a state lawsuit being filed for election fraud and asking for an injunction from seating the delegates.

Still, these liberty delegates could definitely use your help to apply pressure to the right people. Some in the leadership of the MassGOP already support us, so please remember that and be careful to not offend allies. For those that may oppose us, or are neutral, those are people we want to win over.

It is good to be direct and adamant about your position, and explain that their actions are alienating potential supporters and causing them to loose credibility, but name calling and rudeness will not help the cause.

In liberty,
Matt Robinson
Volunteer MA State Director
508-251-9289

Massachusetts State Election Fraud Lawsuit Filed; Injunction Requested to Prevent Seating of Romney Appointed Delegates | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution

Tom Woods educates Bill O'Reilly on The Preamble, and the "General Welfare Clause."

Submitted by AnCapMercenary on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 19:14
Health
Kansas

Bill O'Reilly, Constitutional Scholar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tcyyIkvXv_o

Published on Jul 6, 2012 by TomWoodsTV

O'Reilly tells a viewer that government health care is permitted thanks to the preamble to the Constitution. Bestselling author Tom Woods responds.

http://www.LibertyClassro....

http://www.TomWoods.com


Video: Tom Woods educates Bill O'Reilly on The Preamble, and the "General Welfare Clause." | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution

Romney CAUGHT CHEATING - Campaign Over - Paul vs. Obama - youtube vid

Posted By: Coeus
Date: Monday, 9-Jul-2012 01:33:25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n27YcbH_hSI

Liberty Live-Stream Team Show with Suriyah & Qadoshyah Fish Tonight 9PM EST

Submitted by Yowan on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 16:51
Events

'The Liberty LiveStream Team Show' with Qadoshyah and Suriyah Fish will air on RonPaulTribune TV TONIGHT starting at 9PM EST, They will be discussing Paul Festival and Delegate issues.

here is the direct link:
RPT TV

Liberty Live-Stream Team Show with Suriyah & Qadoshyah Fish Tonight 9PM EST | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution

Maddow: Paul could be nominated at the RNC; Romney has not won yet. All eyes on Nebraska!

Submitted by ron_paul_is_awesome on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 23:15
Ron Paul 2012
Nebraska

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIlYgIBS2nU&feature=player_embedded

Maddow: Paul could be nominated at the RNC; Romney has not won yet. All eyes on Nebraska! | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution

NEBRASKA Delegates: Get Together & Make A Formal Plan-Soon. And Keep Your Ideas To Eachother.

Submitted by jamespj07 on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 09:19
Ron Paul 2012
DP Original

There are many out there who are not of our fold in your midst that want the information about your plans (this is obvious). Know who you are talking to (other RP delegates) & what to do (within the confines of Roberts Rules Of Order) do what is necessary to disallow the establishment to cheat with their establishment chairman, their voting machines, & their security hirelings. If you are praying people, pray together for success and that the establishment cheating would not prevail.

And Thank You!!

NEBRASKA Delegates: Get Together & Make A Formal Plan-Soon. And Keep Your Ideas To Eachother. | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution

All Nebraska Delegates Need to Follow the Maine Template + Challenge the Voting Machines + Call in the Sheriff

Submitted by LadyHawk on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 16:01

DelegatesDP Original
Nebraska

The meeting in Grand Island on July 14 is going to be a showdown. Below is a 3-step template, offered by jz4Maine (with an added suggestion from Tumbleweed Steve), as the following strategy proved to be successful in Maine under similar circumstances:

1. Meet the night before so everyone will be on the same page and will be able to vote for the endorsed delegate including convention chair.

2. Get there several hours before the convention. We had donuts and breakfast in the parking lot! there were people there up to 6 hours early! the reason is you want to have Paul supporters in the door and registered before ANYONE else so you can avoid being caught in line. We had the first 200-300 people in line.

3. First thing, you have to VOTE FOR THE CONVENTION CHAIR They must elect one and you must put forward someone to run for that position. They tried to put forward their own convention chair in Maine without a vote but they were thwarted with a point of order! Stay sharp and show up in force!

PS: Don't let 'em use voting machines to count delegate votes. Get expert advice on how to motion for a hand count or a paper ballot count with objective supervision. Specific guidelines on this issue are being collected at: http://www.dailypaul.com/243768/need-to-address-the-rented-v...

PPS: Where Nebraska GOP Executive Director, Jordan McGrain has already announced that he has hired security to quash any disruptions, Tumbleweed Steve suggests hiring the County Sheriff.
Tumbleweed Steve says:

"WE all know that the county sheriff holds all of the constitutional power. I think that if I were a Ron Paul supporter in Nebraska I would be going to have a talk with the county sheriff where this convention is being held, and take him a copy of some sheriff Mack literature so he understands his job according to the Constitution...then offer to hire some of his off-duty fellers as security to counter whatever the power mongers of the state GOP have decided to put in place."

Hall County Sheriff (General Offices)
111 Public Safety Drive
Grand Island, NE 68801
(308) 385-5200

All Nebraska Delegates Need to Follow the Maine Template + Challenge the Voting Machines + Call in the Sheriff | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution

Hilarious Photos Of Protesters Crashing Mitt Romney's Fancy Hamptons Fundraisers

Elena Schneider | Jul. 9, 2012, 1:59 PM

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had some uninvited guests at his fundraisers in the Hamptons this weekend, as critics protesting the Republican candidate descended on the swanky seaside enclave. AP photographer Kathy Kmonicek got some memorable images of the gatecrashers — which included representatives from MoveOn.org, the Occupy Movement and the Long Island Progressive — as they lined up along Meadow Lane in Southampton, where controversial billionaire David Koch hosted a $50,000-per-head fundraiser for Romney on Sunday afternoon.

The protests prompting some hilarious confrontations with Romney's wealthy donors, some of whom had memorable things to say about the state of the everyday American.


Playing off of the pronunciation of Koch's name, protesters marched with a banner declaring "Mitt Romney has a Koch problem."

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A policeman directs a Rolls Royce around the protestors.

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Activists D.J. Friday and John Murdock donned President Obama and Mitt Romney masks respectively.

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A curious bicyclist checks out the protestors.

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The "Romney Mobile" cruises past activists, with a fake dog tied to the roof.

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Southampton Police and New York State Police stand guard.

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Activists also protested outside Koch's beachfront home.

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Police line the edge of the Koch property to keep protesters back from the event.

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But one Romney supporter came out to defend his candidate, setting up camp across the street from the protestors.

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Now get to know the rest of the Romneys...

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Read more: Protesters Crash Romney's Hamptons Fundraisers [PHOTOS] - Business Insider

Ron Paul stresses RNC rally importance

Submitted by GBAmerica on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 15:23
Current Events

Ron Paul stresses RNC rally importance

In an official campaign update Friday, Ron Paul stressed the importance that all his supporters do what they can to make it to Tampa in August for the pre-RNC rally and Republican National Convention.

All the years of hard work have come down to this. After 12 full terms in Congress, a third attempt at the highest office in the land, decades of vying for a chance to have a platform on a national political stage and a virtual lifetime of trying to get a specific message to the people of America is all coming down to one single weekend in late August.

http://www.examiner.com/article/ron-paul-stresses-rnc-rally-...

Everyone be there!!!!Here we come Tampa!!!

Ron Paul stresses RNC rally importance | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution

Ron Paul stresses RNC rally importance

Elections 2012
July 8, 2012
By: Jeffrey Phelps

In an official campaign update Friday, Ron Paul stressed the importance that all his supporters do what they can to make it to Tampa in August for the pre-RNC rally and Republican National Convention.

All the years of hard work have come down to this. After 12 full terms in Congress, a third attempt at the highest office in the land, decades of vying for a chance to have a platform on a national political stage and a virtual lifetime of trying to get a specific message to the people of America is all coming down to one single weekend in late August.

The media said he couldn't do it. The constant drumming of negative press and a sea of political talking heads all scoffed at the prospect he even considered running in the first place. Literally calling him crazy, too old, not strong enough, a radical, racist, out of touch with the establishment, and anything else they could think of to attempt demonizing him and his candidacy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC1X47qMmzE&feature=player_embedded

Ron Paul stresses the importance that all his supporters do what they can to make it to Tampa in August for the pre-RNC rally and Republican National Convention. Credit: Ron Pual 2012 / Youtube

Video: Ron Paul pre-RNC Tampa Rally Update

But the little-known South Texas Libertarian didn't know when to say when and never listened to his critics, even though many had some of the largest voices in politics and media.

Nonetheless, slowly but surely, decades of unwavering honesty and integrity, one of the most consistent voting records in Congressional history and years of steady grassroots support growth have finally broken through to a mainstream that has no choice now but to change their tune and take an honest look at what Dr. Ron Paul and his historically loyal supporters have to say.

But now that the Republican National Convention is just around the corner, Ron Paul needs his supporters more than ever.

In the update, Ron Paul stressed just how important it is that all the years of hard work and blood, sweat and tears don't all go to waste. In order to kick off the RNC right, he and several special guests plan to celebrate just how far he and his supporters' message and movement for liberty have come in a gigantic, pre-RNC rally on the Sunday prior to the RNC.

The event will start at 12:00 PM on August 26 at the University of South Florida Sun Dome and go until around 6:00 PM, on a day that Ron Paul is hoping his supporters show up in such force that it rocks the stadium and the very foundation the Republican party stands on.

“The whole reason we're in this is because of a very important message,” he stated in the update. “But this is where I worry the least because my supporters always seem to know what the message is,” he added. “The supporters are very determined and have always been very dedicated to the message.”

But with that said, if only “200” people show up to the rally and convention, he sarcastically stated, we are not going to be able to “validate” that message. “Governments are a reflection of what the people believe in, what they understand and why it's in their best interest. That's why the amount of people that show will largely determine how seriously the message is taken,” he added.

That is why this particular campaign update was made almost exclusively to make sure all supporters from across the union do whatever they can to make it to Tampa for the rally and convention and to make sure the RNC and supporters of the other candidates follow the rules. That way an entire political career, decades of hard work and the broken bones and unjust arrests of his supporters do not simply go in vain.

The campaign asks that all those planning on attending the pre-convention-rally in Tampa to please RSVP for the free event so the campaign has an idea on how many will be attending.

Additionally, all official national delegates are encouraged to register as a delegate with the campaign and contact the campaign via email for even more important information on attending the convention.

It is very important to Ron Paul that all his supporters receive this message and do what they can to find a way to make it to Tampa. Please share and forward this message to all known Ron Paul delegates and supporters.

Supporting Medium:
(Youtube): Official Campaign Update

RonPaul2012.com: RSVP for FREE pre-convention rally in Tampa, Florida for ALL Ron Paul supporters.

Eventbrite: National Ron Paul Delegate Registration and Campaign Contact Information


Ron Paul stresses RNC rally importance - Denver Libertarian | Examiner.com

Ron Paul’s A+ Grade @ Gun Owners of America versus the NeoCons !

Submitted by GBAmerica on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 20:13
2nd Amendment

Ron Paul’s A+ Grade @ Gun Owners of America versus the NeoCons!

Ron Paul GOA grade A+, Romney D- , Gingrich C , Santorum B-

Congressman Paul has long been on the side of the 2nd amendment.

Introducing legislation to repeal the “Brady Bill” and the “Assault Weapons” Ban.

Paul also authored legislation allowing pilots and specially trained law enforcement officers to carry weapons on airlines for protection of passengers.

Paul introduced H.R. 1096: Second Amendment Protection Act of 2007 to Congress.

http://teapartywpbfl.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/ron-pauls-a-gr...

Ron Paul

Video: Rachel Maddow on Nebraska Caucus & Massachusetts Delegate Scandal

Submitted by lizmadden on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 23:59
Delegates
Massachusetts

Part I: RNC & Importance of Nebraska Caucus

Part II: Massachusetts Delegate Scandal with Evan Kenney

Video: Rachel Maddow on Nebraska Caucus & Massachusetts Delegate Scandal | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution