Thread: Ron Paul on the Issues

Do you care about Ron Paul's legacy after he retires from congress?

Submitted by MRoCkEd on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 19:46
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As we continue our fight in the presidential election, we shouldn't forget that Ron Paul will no longer be in congress next year, and we desperately need other freedom fighters to keep his legacy strong. Fortunately, we have a huge Ron Paul supporter running for an open U.S. House Seat with a real chance of winning!

Thomas Massie is fighting in the primary for an open seat in a safely Republican district. That means if he wins the primary on May 22nd he will be the next U.S. congressman from Kentucky's 4th district!
Thomas is running against two big-government Republicans; he and one of them are neck-and-neck in fundraising.

If we provide Thomas with one last fundraising boost before next month's election, we will put a Ron Paul supporter in the U.S Congress!

The moneybomb starts TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT!

Thomas has the right principles. There is no question in my mind about that. He will stand up for Liberty in Congress.

Please join me in supporting him ------ Ron Paul

http://ThomasMassie.com
Who's in?

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Ron Paul Attracts 1,200-plus Voters to El Paso Town Hall Meeting

Posted on April 26, 2012

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul attracted an impressive 1,200-plus supporters and undecided voters tonight at his University of Texas at El Paso town hall meeting.

Ron Paul’s UTEP town hall meeting was held at 7:00 p.m. MT at the university’s Magoffin Auditorium, located on Hawthorne Street in El Paso, TX 79968. At the event, Dr. Paul discussed his platform of constitutionally-limited government, the restoration of economic and civil liberties, and provisions of his path-breaking ‘Plan to Restore America.’

Tomorrow Ron Paul will hold another large on-campus town hall meeting at the University of Texas at Austin and on Friday, he holds another at the University of Houston. Details of Dr. Paul’s ongoing campaign swing in the Lone Star State, including information on how to RSVP, can be found here.




Ron Paul Attracts 1,200-plus Voters to El Paso Town Hall Meeting

Stay tuned, it's just a matter of time.

Submitted by FF7Cid on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 21:38
Ron Paul 2012

"Stay tuned. It's just a matter of time before the world will see what becomes of the Ron Paul Revolution."

Great article from international business times.

"Ron Paul is the final Mitt Romney alternative in the GOP presidential race now that Newt Gingrich is bowing out of the race, a fact that has wide-ranging implications for the party's chances of winning the White House in 2012.

Though Ron Paul's 2012 campaign has been consistently underestimated, much as his 2008 campaign was, he has managed to continue to bring in millions of dollars in donations, and to pack his rallies with thousands of vociferous supporters.

As such, it is no surprise that he is the last man left in the race against Mitt Romney. From day one Ron Paul, a Texas congressman and medical doctor, has been couched by the mainstream media as an underdog, a sideshow candidate incapable of beating his establishment opponents and unworthy of much attention. "

read more here Ron Paul 2012: Can He Beat Mitt Romney Now That Newt Gingrich Is Bowing Out? - International Business Times


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RonPaul upset in the works!

Submitted by hroos on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 21:58
Delegates

After Last Night’s Election Night How is Ron Paul's Campaign Doing?

Rumors of the demise of the Ron Paul campaign have been vastly overestimated. The Ron Paul Paul r3OVLution continues!

While Mitt Romney did sweep the East Coast primaries last night, there is an interesting subplot happening within the Republican presidential nominating process that few, particularly those in the media, are aware of. Ron Paul’s “delegate strategy” seems to be working with clear delegate wins declared in at least 5 states with more expected (to mention a few North Dakota, Maine, Oklahoma). With the departure of Santorum and Gingrich (expected Tuesday), the organizational strength and fundraising prowess of the Paul campaign is the last serious challenge that Romney has going into the August nominating convention in Tampa.

This turn of events might not be a surprise to you if you are a Ron Paul supporter. Even last night's series of election outcomes might still be turned around by the grassroots fighting for delegate slots at the local district conventions...Is there a real upset in the making?

It has always been clear that Ron Paul had the best campaign and national grassroots support aside from Romney and was truly the only other serious campaign effort. This observation from last year has now become our current reality. Ron Paul could very well be nominated at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in late Summer.

Below are news references showing that Ron Paul has won or will win the majority of delegates in at least 5 states. According to RNC rules, a candidate needs the majority support of at least 5 state delegations to the national convention in order to make it on the ballot in the nomination process at the national convention. This means Ron Paul will definitely be on the GOP ballot in Tampa this August (see Fox News report: FOX News Admits Ron Paul Is Headed To Tampa Convention! - YouTube).



Remember, this is our party. We are the future of the party. While Ron Paul is our banner and ideological leader, we have made his candidacy happen. Together we can save our country from its many troubles and enjoy a life of peace and prosperity for ourselves and our families. The support Romney has is from members of the party that are generally over the age of 40 and even then Romney, with all the media and institutional support for him (i.e. presumptive nominee), cannot break 70% support for his candidacy.

Think about it this way: Nearly 1 in 3 Republicans dislike Romney so much that they still will not vote for him. Does anyone really think Romney can win if these Republicans refuse to vote for him come November? I didn’t think so…

Ron Paul’s delegate strategy is working! In fact, Romney supposedly won 5 states last night but in reality only one of those states, Delaware, was completely winner-take-all. Delegate Selection Breakdown: Connecticut (10 by winner-take-all, 15 by district conventions), Delaware (17 by winner-take-all), New York (34 by winner-take-all, 58 by district conventions, 3 unbound super-delegates), Pennsylvania (none bound, no winner-take-all, 15 by state committee selection, 3 super-delegates, 54 by district conventions), Rhode Island (strictly proportional, Paul won 4 delegates). So there’s another 127 delegates up for grabs that Ron Paul’s campaign has been so successful at getting. It’s still possible to see complete upsets in those 3 states (like we saw in Minnesota and Washington).

Also, add 15 states that still have yet to vote (816 delegates left, 360 of which are won at the district level which is mainly the RP strongholds of TX and CA). There is a lot more yet to happen!!!

[Thanks to Frontloading HQ for my go to resource to understanding the delegate allocation process.]

News Sources List of RP's Successful Delegate Hunt!

Colorado (SOURCE: http://www.9news.com/news/article/263040/339/Colo-GOP-conven...)

Iowa (SOURCE: http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/04/21/...)

Minnesota (SOURCE: http://wetheconservatives.com/ron-paul-wins-20-out-of-24-con...)

Missouri (SOURCE: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/23/ron-pauls-minnesota-delega...)

Nevada (SOURCE: Ron Paul supporters take over at GOP convention - YouTube)

Washington (SOURCE: http://www.policymic.com/articles/7460/ron-paul-wins-washing...)

Nothing is over yet! But Romney is starting to look real bad and so is the media. Let's keep up the pressure!!

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ONE FOR THE RECORD : A LOOK AT RON PAUL 2012

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Next US President Will Be....

....the Fortune 500. Why no matter who you vote for, nothing will ever change.

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor

President George Bush, President Barack Obama, and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney all work for the exact same handful of corporate-financier interests. While they vary in how they dress up their methods of carrying out what is essentially a singular agenda, there is glaring continuity from one administration to the next in a process analogous to a corporate spokesman presenting the agenda of the board of directors. Changing spokesmen doesn't change the agenda of the board of directors.

While the corporate media focuses on non-issues, and political pundits accentuate petty political rivalries between the "left" and the "right," a look deeper into presidential cabinets and the authors of domestic and foreign policy reveals just how accurate this analogy is and who sits on the "board of directors."

Image: Professional spokesmen and representatives of Fortune 500 multinational corporations and banks. Since the time of JP Morgan 100 years ago, the corporate-financier elite saw themselves as being above government, and national sovereignty as merely a regulatory obstacle they could lobby, bribe, and manipulate out of existence. In the past 100 years, the monied elite have gone from manipulating the presidency to now reducing the office to a public relations functionary of their collective interests.

George Bush's cabinet consisted of representatives from FedEx, Boeing, the Council on Foreign Relations, big-oil's Belfer Center at Harvard, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Circuit City, Verizon, Cerberus Capital Management, Goldman Sachs, and the RAND Corporation, among many others.

Image: The Henry Jackson Society is just one of many Neo-Conservative think-tanks, featuring many of the same people and of course, the same corporate sponsors. Each think-tank puts on a different public face and focuses on different areas of specialty despite harboring the same "experts" and corporate sponsors.


His foreign policy was overtly dictated by "Neo-Conservatives" including Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, Richard Armitage, Zalmay Khalilzad, Elliot Abrams, Frank Gaffney, Eliot Cohen, John Bolton, Robert Kagan, Francis Fukuyama, William Kristol, and Max Boot - all of whom hold memberships within a myriad of Fortune 500-funded think-tanks that to this day still direct US foreign policy - even under a "liberal" president. These include the Brookings Institution, the International Crisis Group, the Foreign Policy Initiative, the Henry Jackson Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, and many more.

Image: A visual representation of some of the Brookings Institution's corporate sponsors. Brookings is by no means an exception, but rather represents the incestuous relationship between US foreign and domestic policy making and the Fortune 500 found in every major "think-tank." Elected US representatives charged with legislative duties, merely rubber stamp the papers and policies drawn up in these think-tanks.

Obama's cabinet likewise features representatives from JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, the Council on Foreign Relations, Fortune 500 representatives Covington & Burling, Citigroup, Freddie Mac, and defense contractor Honeywell. Like Bush's cabinet, foreign policy is not penned by Obama sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, but rather by the very same think-tanks that directed Bush's presidency including the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the International Crisis Group, and the Chatham House. There are also a myriad of smaller groups consisting of many of the same members and corporate sponsors, but who specialize in certain areas of interest.

Image: A visual representation of current US President Barack Obama's cabinet's corporate-financier ties past and present. As can be plainly seen, many of the same corporate-financier interests represented in Obama's administration were also represented in Bush's administration.

And with Mitt Romney, the likely Republican candidate running for president against Obama in 2012, we see already his foreign policy advisers, Michael Chertoff, Eliot Cohen, Paula Dobrainsky, Eric Edelman, and Robert Kagan, represent the exact same people and corporate-funded think-tanks devising strategy under both President Bush and President Obama.

While Presidents Bush and Obama attempted to portray the West's global military expansion as a series of spontaneous crises, in reality, since at least as early as 1991, the nations of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and many others that previously fell under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, were slated either for political destabilization and overthrow, or overt military intervention. While the public was fed various narratives explaining why Bush conducted two wars within the greater global "War on Terror," and why Obama eagerly expanded these wars while starting new ones in Libya and now Syria, in reality we are seeing "continuity of agenda," dictated by corporate-financier elite, rubber stamped by our elected representatives, and peddled to us by our "leaders," who in reality are nothing more than spokesmen for the collective interests of the Fortune 500.

Image: The International Crisis Group's corporate sponsors reveal a pattern of mega-multinationals intertwined with not only creating and directing US, and even European foreign policy, but in carrying it out. ICG trustee Kofi Annan is in Syria now carrying out a ploy to buy time for NATO-backed terrorists so they can be rearmed, reorganized, and redeployed against the Syrian government for another Western-backed attempt at regime change - all done under the guise of promoting "peace."

No matter who you vote for in 2012 - until we change the balance of power currently tipped in favor of the Fortune 500, fed daily by our money, time, energy, and attention, nothing will change but the rhetoric with which this singular agenda is sold to the public. Romney would continue exactly where Obama left off, just as Obama continued exactly where Bush left off. And even during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Bush Sr., it was the same agenda meted out by the same corporate-financier interests that have been driving American, and increasingly Western destiny, since US Marine General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket" in 1935.

A clear pattern should be apparent. The influence of corporate-financiers transcends more than presidencies, but contaminates all aspects of modern society including what is often called "non-governmental organizations" or NGOs. Modern NGOs are entirely funded and centrally directed by Fortune 500 corporations to carry their neo-imperial agenda to the four corners of the globe under the guise of the very best of intentions. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), for instance, portends to be "supporting freedom around the world." A quick look at their board of directors reveals they are in fact drawn from big-oil, big-banking, and defense contracting boards of directors, Neo-Conservative warmongering think-tanks, corporate lobbyists, and US State Department functionaries, past and present.

Image: A visual representation of the National Endowment for Democracy's corporate-financier ties. It is not freedom they are interested in "supporting around the world," but rather the interests of the corporations and institutions their board of directors represents.

NED was central in funding, training, and directing mobs of protesters across the Arab World during the 2011 US-engineered "Arab Spring," only to see US proxies put into power where these mobs successfully toppled governments or led to violence and foreign military intervention that successfully implemented regime change. Tunisia and Libya both have overt, long-time associates of the West now in power, while similar proxies are fighting to take power in Egypt as well as battling for control over Syria. It then becomes obvious that it is not "freedom" NED is supporting worldwide, but rather the corporate-financier hegemony of the Fortune 500.

Image: NED, Freedom House, and the US State Department don't just reflect the interests of the Fortune 500, they actively carry them out, many times using the resources and reach of these very interests to implement global policy. The Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM) starting in 2008 began recruiting, networking, training, funding, and equipping armies of "activists" from around the world to prepare for the "spontaneous" Arab Spring in 2011.

And the very shell organizations created to train NED's mobs, including the US State Department's Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM), was likewise funded by a myriad of Fortune 500 corporate-financier interests and attended and directed by representatives of these corporate interests.

The various business councils within the US Chamber of Commerce are also directed by the very same corporate interests directing both the US Presidency and carrying out their agenda through US-funded organizations like NED. The US-Qatar Business Council is one such example, whose representatives sit on the Washington D.C. based Middle East Policy Council alongside the UN's Karen Koning AbuZayd. AbuZayd was charged with compiling human rights reports in regards to Syria. Clearly she is the subject of a gross conflict of interests exposing yet again how US and even Western policy is not directed by presidents, prime ministers, or legislative branches, but rather by cadres of corporate-financiers and their representatives who have infiltrated every institution in Western society and even contrived a few of their own to perpetuate their agenda.

While there are a number of reasons to vote - including to simply write in the names of candidates to show dissatisfaction with the predetermined choices presented before us - we must recognize that voting alone will not change anything. And as the Occupy Wall Street movement has taught us, while our leaders demand nations like Libya and Syria allow their people to roam the streets armed and terrorizing the population, they have no intention of allowing even peaceful protests to take place back at home.

The solution is to identify and undermine the very source of power driving these world-spanning corporate-financier interests. One needs not travel further in search of this source of power than their own bathroom mirror. It is we the people, who on a daily basis, feed this monolithic corporate-financier machine of domination, exploitation, and destruction. And we need not do more than simply withdraw the time, money, energy, and attention we pay into this machine on a daily basis. We can begin by eliminating from our lives entirely the unnecessary amenities we purchase from this machine. This includes junk-food like that peddled by Pepsi Co., Coca-Cola, and the mega-chain restaurants, cafes, and fast food outlets spanning the world.

We can then begin devising local alternatives to replace these amenities, and eventually the necessities. We need not live a life of austerity or of want in the wake of deciding to boycott entirely the Fortune 500. We can leverage education, technology, and ingenuity to devise alternatives that not only match, but exceed the quality and comfort provided to us by these mega-multinationals.

While the system wants you to vote in their elections, you would be better served to instead vote with your wallet, time, energy, and attention. Don't be drawn into the establishment's circular debates, distractions, and especially the charade of predetermined elections. Regardless of who wins, Obama or Romney, the Fortune 500 will have a professional spokesman to present their collective agenda to the public under the guise of "democracy." America, and the West in general, is run by the Fortune 500, they are were your last president or prime minister, they will be your next president or prime minister.

If this dissatisfies you - boycott them and put them out of business.

Tony Cartalucci's articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here.

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'Ron Paul Wins Washington, On Track to Be Nominated at 2012 GOP Convention'

Submitted by Tebowtime95 on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 08:58
Ron Paul 2012
Washington

I know this article is written pretty optimistically in favor of Dr. Paul, but still! I loved seeing the headline and reading an article in favor of him. It's very encouraging and makes me not want to lose hope!

by Chris Miles | PolicyMic

April 25, 2012

The Ron Paul “delegate strategy” seems to be working. And he could very well be nominated at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in late summer.
Wow. Twist.

The Texas libertarian has based his entire 2012 presidential campaign on the ability to win over state delegates — rather than winning the popular vote. To do this, Paul has utilized an extensive grassroots campaign network to influence local officials, who in turn would influence the higher-up officials. Until recently, this strategy had shown only limited results: the ground-level Paul delegates had not been able to immediately influence the wider state delegate situation. Now, though, caucus states like Washington, Minnesota, and Iowa — each with a complicated system of “bound” and “unbound” delegates — are nominating their delegates to the GOP national convention in Tampa. And the Paul ground game is starting to work, but with some institutional backlash.

Continue reading at: PolicyMic

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Hand Delivered Petition Demanding GOP Leader's Resignation

Submitted by mk3oarder on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 00:09
Ron Paul 2012

Petition: https://www.change.org/petitions/gop...da-must-resign

NY GOP Chairman of Rockland County Vincent Reda made auto-bot calls to registered Republican voters asking them to vote for Mitt Romney and falsely claimed everyone else "dropped out." Source: NY GOP Chairman Lies to Voters, Says Ron Paul is out of the Race

As a Rockland native and someone who documented my experience with Rockland's voter fraud in 2008 on YouTube, I started a petition that I will HAND DELIVER once I have a hearty number of signatures. Please consider signing and sharing with ANY voters. Corruption in any party in an election is a concern to us all. Please especially consider sharing with Gingrich and Santorum voters, after all they were snubbed too. An attempt by a party leader to sway the vote in any direction is egregious and should enrage us all. Thanks everyone!

Petition: https://www.change.org/petitions/gop...da-must-resign

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Reality Check: Infighting at More GOP Caucuses and What the MSM Won't Tell You About Iowa and Minnesota

Reality Check: Infighting at More GOP Caucuses and What the MSM - FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather & Sports

Romney = Obama. Finally, Americans Are Waking Up to Ron Paul!