Thread: Ron Paul on the Issues

Ben Swann Reality Check: Is Georgia GOP Against NDAA Indefinite Detention or Not?

Submitted by ping211 on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 04:41
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Georgia



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Rhode Island Elected A Ron Paul Delegate To The RNC Platform Committee!

Submitted by entropypressStAt on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 22:05
Delegates
Rhode Island

Tonight Rhode Island had our Delegate / Alternate meet and greet and officially seated our State Delegation's RNC PLATFORM COMMITTEE (man and woman). One of which is a RON PAUL delegate to the RNC!!!

We definitely need to hook him up directly to the Ron Paul campaign -any advice would be greatly appreciated.

But I thought I would share the news first here at the DP.



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Will Romney have undercover provocatuers in Tampa?

Submitted by ronpaul1fan on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 13:26
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He'll stop at nothing to prevent a Ron Paul nomination.

EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Lew Rockwell: What To Expect at the GOP Convention in Tampa


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Friday, May 25, 2012

Lew Rockwell: What To Expect at the GOP Convention in Tampa

Lew Rockwell was recently interviewed by Brian Wilson about the upcoming Republican convention. The interview is a must listen.

Lew talks about the potential dangers for hardcore Ron Paul supporters at the convention. Will there be agent provocateurs attempting to stir up trouble for Paulites?

Lew also discusses marriage and how the notion that the state should be involved in marriages is a bad and relatively new idea.

The recording is here.

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279. What To Expect at the GOP Convention in Tampa

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South Dakota For Liberty MONEYBOMB This Saturday, May 26th

Submitted by libertyhendrix on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 22:09
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South Dakota

Our website:
www.southdakotaforliberty.com

Our FB page:
www.facebook.com/pages/South-Dakota-for-Liberty/374626939256447

The MONEYBOMB event page on FB:
www.facebook.com/events/386345284750792

The Ron Paul campaign announced it will channel its financial resources and staff to delegate and convention operations instead of upcoming primary states. This includes South Dakota, which votes June 5th.
It's up to the grassroots to carry Dr. Paul’s message and deliver a strong showing on June 5th.

South Dakota sends 28 delegates to the National Convention. To secure delegates, we must get at least 20% in the primary. Ron Paul has polled in 1st place in South Dakota with 22% in a scientific poll conducted by Nielson Brothers Polling and has performed well in neighboring states -- including 27% in Minnesota and 28% in North Dakota!

We have a professional, organized operation independent of the official campaign with a team of passionate and experienced campaign volunteers working for free. We have a database of targeted voters as well as radio ads, fliers and direct-mail ready to go. This can all be done cheaper than the official campaign.

We've raised $6,500 in just six days. However, we must raise at LEAST $25,000 this weekend to put our plan in place.

Because Governor Romney has been anointed by the Establishment as the presumptive nominee, a concerted, organized effort will not be expected in South Dakota. We will draw a clear distinction between Dr. Ron Paul and Governor Romney and make a successful pitch to primary voters that there is one clear, true conservative candidate -- and only one pro-liberty choice.

But we NEED your help!

On Saturday, May 26th at 12midnight, we have a MONEYBOMB to cover operational costs. Please donate through our website: www.southdakotaforliberty... (Yes, we will have a ticker) As a separate PAC, we can take donations from supporters who have maxed out to the official campaign.

We are near the end of the primary season and no one knows what will transpire at the National Convention. Nevertheless, we should feel victorious when we think of how far we've come. We are determining the outcome of congressional primaries. We are attaining state party chairmanships.

There are no limits to what we can accomplish.

As Dr. Paul often points out, liberty releases creative energies. In 2008, our grassroots campaign for greater liberty began spontaneously. I am calling on ALL of you to stand with us -- just as this began -- as a grassroots phenomenon!

It ain’t over till it’s over -- let’s give this our best shot!

"Fear is the passion of slaves." - Patrick Henry

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Please Support My Candidacy for Montana House District 4

No one should deny the fundamental importance of a clean and healthy environment. I certainly do not. Among other rights, a healthy environment is essential to freedom and prosperity. As the sole Republican candidate for House District 4 (Whitefish area), I agree with my Democratic opponents that our State government should address the issues relative to a healthy Whitefish Lake. But that is an easy answer to an easy question........

Timothy N. Baldwin -- Please Support My Candidacy for Montana House District 4

by Attorney Timothy Baldwin

Rand Paul Wants FDA Disarmed

May 25, 2012 by Sam Rolley

UPI

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says it is time for the Federal government to stop arming bureaucrats.

When most Americans think of employees of the Food and Drug Administration, images of researchers, scientists and inspectors working to ensure that mass-produced food and medicines are fit for human consumption may come to mind. But for hundreds of American farmers who have been — often frighteningly literally — targeted by the FDA, the reality is very different: They see images of bureaucrats armed to the teeth violently invading their farms.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says it is time for the Federal government to stop arming these bureaucrats and allowing them to torment small American farmers.

“We have nearly 40 federal agencies that are armed. I’m not against having police, I’m not against the army, the military, the FBI, but I think bureaucrats don’t need to be carrying weapons and I think what we ought to do, is if there is a need for an armed policeman to be there, the FBI who are trained to do this should do it. But I don’t think it’s a good idea to be arming bureaucrats to go on the farm to, with arms, to stop people from selling milk from a cow,” Paul said Wednesday calling for an end to the FDA’s police powers.

Paul offered an amendment to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act that would quell FDA abuses and disarm bureaucratic Health and Human Services Agencies.

Among the other things the Senator wished to accomplish with the amendment are no longer restricting people who sell natural health products from advertising their benefits and ending the criminalization of mistakes.

He said the amendment would have required the FDA to prove mens rea, or criminal intent, when charging people with a crime.

Paul said:

This amendment would fix this problem by strengthening the mens rea component of each of the prohibited acts and the FDA acts by including the words “knowing” and “willful” before we address and accuse someone of a crime.

This I think would give protection to folks who are guilty of inadvertently guilty of breaking a regulation and would keep from overflowing our jails. We’ve got plenty of violent criminals without putting people in for honest breaches of regulations. If Congress is going to criminalize conduct at the federal level as it does with the FDA act, the least it can do have is have an adequate mens rea requirement. My amendment will attempt to do this.

It’s not that we won’t have rules at the federal level, but the rules ought to be reasonable. We ought to allow people to market vitamins. There’s no earthly reason why somebody who markets prune juice can’t advertise it helps with constipation.

Unfortunately for people who have endured armed FDA raids and will in the future, Paul’s initiative was voted down on the Senate floor Thursday by 78 Senators. Only 15 Senators, all Republicans, supported Paul’s amendment.

Rand Paul Wants FDA Disarmed : Personal Liberty Alerts=

Update On Groundbreaking Ron Paul Revolution Commercial

Submitted by Nuclear Kid on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 15:57
Videos

Happy Memorial Day Weekend Everyone,

Just wanted to share a video that summarizes where things are at with the Ron Paul commercial I've been working on. It has a few fun images that demonstrate the quality this piece will feature. Filming is now complete (outside of some minor detail/fill-in shots). All scenes were shot with either the RED Epic or RED One MX Camera, which are the same cameras that Peter Jackson is shooting the LOTR Prequels with. The commercial will be ready mid-June. It stars over 15 actors and was shot both at and nearby my studio in downtown Chicago. Will need everyone's help when the time comes to launch the spot to ensure it gets in front of a lot of eyeballs.

Will post a few more videos as we get closer to finishing up the piece. So far, everything has went tremendously well. Hope everyone enjoys this first glimpse:



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Founder of Jews for Ron Paul Walter Block, PhD - Why Obama/Romney is a Curse to America and Israel

Submitted by Zak Carter on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 18:31
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Recent interview with Josh Tolley -



"Block credits his "conversion" to Libertarianism to personal meetings with Ayn Rand while he was an undergraduate student."

"Block is also a Senior Faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics. His most famous work is Defending the Undefendable, of which John Stossel said, "Defending the Undefendable... opened my eyes to the beauties of libertarianism. It explains that so much of what is assumed to be evil--is not."[4] Lew Rockwell of the Mises Institute said this about Walter Block's active role in modern libertarianism:Murray Rothbard, in his life, was known as Mr. Libertarian. We can make a solid case that the title now belongs to Walter Block, a student of Rothbard's whose own vita is as thick as a big-city phonebook, and as diverse as Wikipedia. Whether he is writing on economic theory, ethics, political secession, drugs, roads, education, monetary policy, social theory, unions, political language, or anything else, his prose burns with a passion for this single idea: if human problems are to be solved, the solution is to be found by permitting greater liberty.[5]"

Walter Block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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ATTENTION - 446 delegates at stake in 1 week - This is OUR chance to show the whole country what the Ron Paul Revolution is all

Submitted by 2012R3V0LUT10N on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 19:15

June 2nd - Louisiana State convention - 46 delegates at stake
June 2nd - Washington State Convention - 43 delegates at stake
June 2nd - Missouri State Convention - 52 delegates at stake
June 3rd - North Carolina State Convention - 55 delegates delegates at stake
June 5th - California closed primary - 172 delegates awarded by slate ***
June 5th - South Dakota closed primary - 28 delegates awarded by slate ***
June 5th - New Jersey semi-closed primary - 50 delegates awarded by direct election ***

Total 446 delegates up for grabs. Lets shock and awe the establishment!

We can take the state conventions on June 2nd if we are organized. We have to start working and we have to start NOW. On June 5th we need the focus to be on delegates! We need poll volunteers to blanket the states. Dress nice and politely ask poll goers to please support the "whatever slate." Tell them we are for smaller government and less spending and would like their support. Ohh and please keep this post bumped for awareness and share your thoughts.

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