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Count The Votes! The MA Gop Provisional Ballot Controversy

Submitted by The Daily Paul on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 11:18in Delegates
Massachusetts

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Jeb Bush Praises Mitt Romney, Says He Has ‘Common Ground’ With Obama

Submitted by Barracuda_Trader on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 08:15
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At the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials or NALEO in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Bush began by giving Romney a nod.

“We heard an excellent speech, I thought, from Mitt Romney, who is a supporter of education reform and of school choice,” Bush said.

However, in his next breath he aligned himself with Romney’s rival and repeated what has gained him headlines over the last few weeks, but he deeply believes in: Working across party lines works as well as having a more open debate.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/jeb-bush-praise...



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Ron Paul’s Task: Build Up the Remnant

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Recently by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.: There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Preaching to the Choir’




Few people in public life ever stray from the three-by-five card of approved opinion. On those rare occasions when they do, a macabre ritual of clarifications, retractions, and apologies – a veritable liturgy of expiation – invariably follows. Forgive me, for I have contradicted the holy mainstream. Never again shall I stray from the Biden-to-Romney spectrum.

The world changed on May 15, 2007. Someone strayed from Establishment opinion, and then not only declined to do penance, but actually stood his ground and refused to be intimidated into silence.

That day, in a Republican presidential debate, Ron Paul said things Americans were not supposed to hear about their government’s foreign policy. When Rudy Giuliani demanded a retraction, Dr. Paul wouldn’t give him the satisfaction. He instead pressed his point even harder.

Jon Arden, a regular American who happened to be watching, was instantly converted to the Paul cause.

Ron Paul, without a friend in the world, nothing but hostility aimed at him from all directions, stood his ground and did not back down. Just reiterated his points even stronger. I was blown away. I felt at that moment that the world changed forever, that here had been this massive shift in reality and what could happen.

It wouldn’t be the last such moment. In a GOP debate in Florida of all places, Ron Paul said the U.S. government should normalize trade relations with Cuba. In a South Carolina debate he stuck by his guns on the drug war. At a meeting of an Arab-American association, he was asked if he had a special speech tailored to their group. No, he said. It would be the same speech he gives everywhere.

That’s who Ron Paul is.

Why did he do these things? Why didn’t he take the path of least resistance by speaking in slogans and taking no political risks?

One reason is obvious: he’s an honest man.

The other reason may not be so obvious: he was seeking out the Remnant.

Once in a while we hear Ron Paul speak of the Remnant – how he’s been trying to find it, speak to it, build it up. What does he mean by it?

He’s referring to "Isaiah’s Job," a famous essay by Albert Jay Nock. In that essay, Nock borrowed the example of the prophet Isaiah to describe the task of the honest man in public life. (I think the example of Elijah is a bit closer to what Nock had in mind, but that’s not the point.)

Listen as Nock adapts the Lord’s instructions to Isaiah into a modern vernacular:

"Tell them what is wrong, and why and what is going to happen unless they have a change of heart and straighten up. Don't mince matters. Make it clear that they are positively down to their last chance. Give it to them good and strong and keep on giving it to them. I suppose perhaps I ought to tell you," He added, "that it won't do any good. The official class and their intelligentsia will turn up their noses at you and the masses will not even listen. They will all keep on in their own ways until they carry everything down to destruction, and you will probably be lucky if you get out with your life."

Isaiah had not been reluctant to take on his divinely appointed task, but when it was put to him like that, it seemed like a fruitless task indeed. What was the point of embarking on a mission that was doomed to failure?

"Ah," the Lord said, "you do not get the point. There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can. They need to be encouraged and braced up because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones who will come back and build up a new society; and meanwhile, your preaching will reassure them and keep them hanging on. Your job is to take care of the Remnant, so be off now and set about it."

And that’s what Dr. Paul has been doing. He’s been looking for this heretofore invisible Remnant, giving them comfort, making them aware of themselves, providing them a rallying point. Selling out for the sake of mainstream respectability would defeat his purpose entirely. Those approaches repel the Remnant, Nock said. On the other hand, the truth teller who appeals to the Remnant will find them.

To be sure, Ron Paul has wanted to make his message as appealing to as many people as possible. He never gratuitously drives anyone away. But he has accomplished this task not by the usual method, which is to water down the message according to focus-group results. He has simply explained himself, boldly and without retreat.

And thus Nock:

[Isaiah] preached to the masses only in the sense that he preached publicly. Anyone who liked might listen; anyone who liked might pass by. He knew that the Remnant would listen; and knowing also that nothing was to be expected of the masses under any circumstances, he made no specific appeal to them, did not accommodate his message to their measure in any way, and did not care two straws whether they heeded it or not. As a modern publisher might put it, he was not worrying about circulation or about advertising. Hence, with all such obsessions quite out of the way, he was in a position to do his level best, without fear or favor, and answerable only to his august Boss.

A lot of people, possibly even the majority, don’t want their worldviews challenged. They want endless goodies. They want checks with their names on them. They want to be flattered. They want: "You are the awesomest of the awesome, and that’s why your government is hated around the world. Because of your awesomeness."

Someone at this level of moral and intellectual development is not going to understand Ron Paul, much less support him.

It is frustrating and fruitless to appeal to such people, says Nock.

They ask you to give them what they want, they insist upon it, and will take nothing else; and following their whims, their irrational changes of fancy, their hot and cold fits, is a tedious business, to say nothing of the fact that what they want at any time makes very little call on one’s resources of prophesy. The Remnant, on the other hand, want only the best you have, whatever that may be. Give them that, and they are satisfied; you have nothing more to worry about.

Ron Paul has had so much fundraising success because the Remnant had rarely if ever been sought out by a presidential candidate before. Here was a man of intelligence who defied all political convention, taught the public about things they didn’t even realize they should be interested in, and could boast a record of consistency that impressed even the most hardened cynic. That got their attention.

Nock had things mostly right, but I would amend his presentation just a bit. He appeared to speak as if the Remnant were a fixed number of people. They might be sought out, but that’s it. Dr. Paul has shown that the Remnant can be increased, not just found and inspired. Dr. Paul’s commitment to the truth, even when it seemed to yield him only grief, seized the attention of a great many apathetic Americans, and added them to the ranks of the Remnant.

Nock further described the task of finding the Remnant as a largely thankless one, a job for which one would search in vain for tangible results.

In any given society the Remnant are always so largely an unknown quantity.... You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are, nor what they are doing or will do. Two things you do know, and no more: First, that they exist; second, that they will find you. Except for these two certainties, working for the Remnant means working in impenetrable darkness.

Nock lived before the Internet. Ron Paul now knows who the Remnant are. He has a sense of their numbers. He knows some of the things they’re doing. He knows he has had an impact. Nock didn’t think this was possible. In his day, it wasn’t.

Today we live at a moment of opportunity none of us could have imagined a generation ago. A revolution in information transmission is under way. Anyone can express his ideas before the whole world. All of a sudden, ideas, books, and people shunned by the Biden-to-Romney spectrum can get a worldwide hearing. Next to this, Gutenberg looks like a lazy bum.

Ron Paul did his job. He found and built up the Remnant. And there, rather than in the fleeting passage of legislation, is where genuine, long-term change will emerge.

June 22, 2012

Thomas E. Woods, Jr. [send him mail; visit his website], a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is the creator of Tom Woods’s Liberty Classroom, a libertarian educational resource. He is the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestsellers Meltdown (on the financial crisis; read Ron Paul’s foreword) and The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, and most recently Nullification and Rollback.

Copyright © 2012 Thomas Woods



Ron Paul’s Task: Build Up the Remnant by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Chicken Or The Egg: So Which Came First.. Rigged Voting Machines Or Corrupt Election Officials Who Openly Steal Conventions

Submitted by AnAppealToHeavenWash on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 17:07
Ron Paul 2012

Just Say'n.
I mean I keep hearing this crap about Romney getting 70% of the vote from voting machines that are algorithmically designed to flip vote totals to his position on the ballot. Then this is used as the excuse to use corruption and openly cheating to hand Romney the win at the conventions.

In Arizona they even used the rigged machines at the convention to count convention ballots but someone accidentally switched the order of the names at the last minute and guess what.. Ron Paul Won because he was given Romney's original position on that ballot.

If this wasn't so serious it might actually be funny.

If these voting machines and the corrupt party officials that run them were actually playing by the rules there is no doubt that Ron Paul would have been declared the winner in a landslide following Super Tuesday.

How many more dozen examples nationwide do we need to know who our President is and should be?

How many more times are we going to allow these minority of warring lawless crooks to call us the minority and get away with it?

They are openly stealing our country from us and it is no different than if we were being invaded by the bogus terrorists or even the chinese or russian armies.

In fact we have foreign military in Tampa now!

Ron Paul 2012!

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A fierce opposition. They better be scared.

Submitted by qubit on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 01:32
Events
California

I think it was the 2nd or perhaps the 3rd time I had met my Fiance.

We were at a school outing before Summer Vacation. Many parents, teachers and children there. We grilled, the kids ran around and had fun.

After we all filled our stomachs, a handful of the children ran quite a ways off climbing rocks and playing tag and the likes close to the ocean waters.

We heard screaming, you know, the type that wakes you up as a parent and the thought of danger sharpens the senses.

Out of Oh, I dunno, perhaps twenty plus adults, a mix of teachers and parents, only two reacted to the possibility of danger upon hearing these screams. My Fiance and myself.

We took off fast as light, she ran faster than me at first, and I promise you I am FAST. What would YOU do? Water, rock climbing, screams?

When we got there, there was no danger, the children were just playing and after we wasted the last bit of adrenaline trying to be a bit strict with the children about screaming bloody murder, we walked back.

I don't think we talked about it then and there, but observing so many adults, chatting among themselves and calm after we alerted them of the danger and after they saw us running towards the children was truly a sad sight. No one even asks what the whole thing was about.

What leads people to do nothing when others or themselves are in danger? Are they missing something?

Techno1q was kind enough to give me his expert opinion.

Techno1q "Yes. qubit, It has to do with few factors. Some of which are hormones, adrenaline, blood pressure, dopamine prosecutors (And some other neurotransmitters) availability.. etc."

Though this is a very good answer (and it saved me 15 or so minutes of internet research needed to write this post) does it explain everything?

What about the movies we watch? I'm sure everyone can remember scenes in movies where just ONE person jumps in to save someone in life threatening situations, while all the others observe and do nothing.

Why is this?

The true question is, what sort of person falls under this category?

What type of a name can you give them? Is it some sort of condition?
Or, even more important, what sort of person ACTS, senses danger and allows the blood to boil and the adrenaline to strengthen the senses?

I believe many in the Revolution and the many who are fighting for freedom are of this sort of person. And we are a fierce opponent.

Just like in nature, birds as one example will alert all sorts of different types of animals of danger, and ultimately risk their lives to do so. This is a way of life, built into our genes and into our DNA.

Those who wish to enslave us, are very few. And their sheep do not act as they are conditioned (my opinion) not to. They have only fear and disinformation. Those who wish to enslave us and rule the world, run the banks, steal from the poor and give to the rich. They have no IDEA what they're up against.

We have a strong sense of danger, and we react to it. We call out, we alert and we will FIGHT for survival.

Those who wish to sheep the public, you are warned. Your time is up.
You can not stop this revolution for freedom.

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EU wants control of national budgets

Submitted by Hartmann83 on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 19:05
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BBC News - EU unveils its vision for the future of monetary union

Just wow, as a British person woken up by Ron Paul, this makes me very worried

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Exclusive: Cheating Charley ... in Maine and Massachussetts?

Submitted by Daily Rube on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 16:54
Ron Paul 2012
Massachusetts

There are reports that Cheating Charley, aka "Charley Najedly," has been spotted at two conventions. This post will help you decide for yourself.

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Back Story:
Charley Najedly was caught by Paul supporters handing out fake ballots at the Maine convention favoring Mitt Romney under Ron Paul's name.
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
A new video, surfacing from Massachusetts, regarding provisional voting ballots not being counted... seems to have a familiar face looming in the background. But is it Cheating Charley? You decide.
http://www.dailypaul.com/...

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If Romney Wins The GOP Nomination, Say Hello To Another 4 Years of Hell

Submitted by zooamerica on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 20:39
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Quite frankly, if Ron Paul does not win the nomination in Tampa Bay, I don't give a damn if the world ends on 12-21-12, my dear.

Let God click the giant universal refresh button and start all over again...and then the meek shall inherit the earth.

HOW IN THE WORLD can somebody SO SIMILAR to the president in his politics be considered as, "The One," to defeat Obama?

There is NO DIFFERENCE between Romney and Obama! They are one in the same evil coin. The two are like a leopard and its spots. What DON'T they agree upon? NDAA, check. Patriot Act II, check. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran...check. Illegal immigration, check. Federal Reserve, check. Abortion, check. Obamaromneycare, CHECK...

Will the national republican convention delegates PLEASE STAND UP and nominate a real republican in Ron Paul?

It's Do or Die time. God is watching us...

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WARNING Ousted Massachusetts Delegates: Beware Jesse Benton

Submitted by LadyHawk on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 17:59
Delegates
Massachusetts

Dear Massachusetts delegates, The situation is more convoluted than it may at first appear. Jesse Benton is working for Romney. That's right -- Dr Paul has been betrayed and may not even be aware of it. Moreover, in trying to convince ousted delegates to take NO LEGAL ACTION, Benton is attempting to sabotage any chance of Ron Paul's name being put in nomination.

Please watch the video below. Draw your own conclusions. Massachusetts was the 5th State required to implement a Rule 40 nomination. It is imperative that ousted Delegates file their grievances at electionfraudremedy.com. Do not let Mr. Benton convince you otherwise, or we may all have to live with the unfortunate consequence.



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