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Ron Paul Handily Wins Reelection Bid For Congress
Ron Paul has trounced his Neocon opponent in the Texas battle to retain his seat in congress!
Maybe now, this means that the tired doctor can finally focus all of his attention and energy upon the presidential race still at hand, and get onto some national media outlets to inform the country that he is NOT out of the race, and that there is still a whole lotta racing going on!
Maybe (my private wishful thinking???) Ron Paul can also have some breathing space, now, to rethink the eventual possibility of making a third—or dual—party run (in order to give all voters a real choice come November), at the universal urging of his dedicated supporters everywhere? I am all in favor of working to reform the Republican party, as well as going the full distance with the Republican party primaries, and even for making a big splashing statement at the convention. However, I am also in favor of making absolute sure that Ron Paul's name IS on the ballot for every single American voter, because only the tiniest fraction of Americans has really been given any choice, yet.
Please, Dr. Paul, keep letting our suggestion and alternate strategies grow in your mind! If you do end up changing your mind, and giving in to our urgings, then you can just blame us, your fervent, fun, funding followers, for your change of heart. All individuals—even politicians—have a right to change their minds.
Elections Home Page SOS Home Page
Posted by Paul Bear (www.RonPaulite.com)
Maybe now, this means that the tired doctor can finally focus all of his attention and energy upon the presidential race still at hand, and get onto some national media outlets to inform the country that he is NOT out of the race, and that there is still a whole lotta racing going on!
Maybe (my private wishful thinking???) Ron Paul can also have some breathing space, now, to rethink the eventual possibility of making a third—or dual—party run (in order to give all voters a real choice come November), at the universal urging of his dedicated supporters everywhere? I am all in favor of working to reform the Republican party, as well as going the full distance with the Republican party primaries, and even for making a big splashing statement at the convention. However, I am also in favor of making absolute sure that Ron Paul's name IS on the ballot for every single American voter, because only the tiniest fraction of Americans has really been given any choice, yet.
Please, Dr. Paul, keep letting our suggestion and alternate strategies grow in your mind! If you do end up changing your mind, and giving in to our urgings, then you can just blame us, your fervent, fun, funding followers, for your change of heart. All individuals—even politicians—have a right to change their minds.
Elections Home Page SOS Home Page
Posted by Paul Bear (www.RonPaulite.com)
If Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty...Tranquility...Than...Freedom...
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
-Samuel Adams
Thank you, David Hoyt, for sharing the above quote.
V!
Posted by Paul Bear (www.RonPaulite.com)
Ron Paul at Freedom Fest 2008
Got this from Ron Holland:
Breaking News: Today Ron Paul Just Confirmed To Speak at FreedomFest 2008
My name is Ron Holland & I’m Concerned About My Assets in This Scary Economy! -
New fears of stagflation, skyrocketing oil prices, the falling dollar, the American housing & credit meltdown and panicky financial markets are the key ingredients in a potential nightmare scenario that could end up being far more than just an ordinary recession. Add to this the future terrorism risks, the uncertainties of the 2008 election and the global instability in foreign affairs and you have 9 reasons why global diversification is so important today. Successful investors should protect and grow some of their wealth outside the narrow confines of American real estate, investment markets, our legal and regulatory system and the dollar before it is too late!
Who would have thought home prices would fall 8.9 % in the final quarter of 2007. Or that the Swiss Franc would almost reach parity with the US dollar as its status as the world’s reserve currency evaporates as quickly as your housing equity, reasonable gas prices or our civil liberties and financial freedoms since 9/11. I want to invite you to join us at two upcoming conferences on the coast of in
First Learn To Protect Your Wealth - Join Tami and I along with Mark Skousen, Peter Zipper, President of Caye International Bank and other speakers and experts at the Belize Financial Advantage Conference at the Princess Hotel & Casino on the March 26 – 30, 2008. This will be a small, private, intimate conference that combines finance, investments and economics with interesting excursions around
Here you will learn how to profit from the dollar weakness and benefit from global diversification to protect your wealth and reduce dependence on the dollar and American investment and real estate markets. For more details go to the following URL http://www.hollandworldseminars.com/cayebank/index.html and read the additional conference details but time is short so call or e-mail Tami today for more details.
Second, Defend & Expand Your
We hope to see many of you at the conferences. You can call Tami Holland toll-free at 866-266-5101 or e-mail her at tami@freedomfest.com if you have questions or to register for either conference.
Best regards,
Ron Holland
PS If you want to know my opinion on the dollar, the necessity for global diversification as well as political and foreign policy risks to our wealth, read “The Swiss Preserve Solution” online at http://www.swissconfederationinstitute.org/swisspreserve1.htm
PPS The credit crisis and housing meltdown offers serious risks but also some opportunities to Americans. I have a report on the crisis entitled “From Real Estate Bubble To Buyers Market” if you want my opinion and recommendations, just e-mail or call Tami for your copy of the free report.
Liberty Dollar Update #11
Here is the latest Liberty Dollar Update (for historical background use the search function):
Posted by Paul Bear (www.RonPaulite.com)
V!February 27, 2008
Dear Liberty Dollar Supporters:
FLASH: Without a doubt, the BIG News is the electronic Liberty Dollar is Back! I am thrilled to announce that the NEW eLibertyDollar (eLD) - Liberty Dollar in digital form - is now available. Very new. Very improved. Check out these key features:
- Low rates based on silver spot
- Available now on our shopping cart. Click HERE
- Instant funding of eLDs to your account
- Exchangeable back into USD
- Spendable via your debit card
- Storage in Switzerland
- Still 100% silver backed
- 100% redeemable in silver
I just posted a blockbuster STATEMENT that details the NEW eLD. Simply CLICK HERE and login with your old eLD username and password to find out how you can lockin silver before the Liberty Dollar Moves Up to the $50 Silver Base and DOUBLE+ your money.
The Liberty Dollar is already two weeks into the Move Up! Its 1/3 the way through the 45 days to the $50 Silver Base. Are you ready to 2.5XY$ on March 23?
As most of you know, when the government raided the warehouse in Idaho and confiscated the silver that backed the original eLD, now referred to as OLD eLDs, those eLDs cannot be redeemed until YOUR silver is rightfully returned to the warehouse. Please note your account is still active and you can still transfer eLD between accounts. You just can't redeem your eLD for your silver at this time.
But that has not stopped the silver market. It seems like the silver market just won't listen to the government, nor should our money! Nor should we be barred from the phenomenal potential that precious metals and the Liberty Dollar now presents. Who doesn't want to double their money? In fact, when the Liberty Dollar Moves Up to the $50 Silver Base, all your Liberty Dollars will increase TWO AND A HALF TMES! Want to 2.5XY$? Get some Liberty Dollars!
Thirty Day Moving average (30DMA) on Friday, February 22, 2008, was $16.76. A long way from the Move Up point of $16 and showing every sign that the Liberty Dollar will indeed arise to the $50 Silver Base on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008!
Wake up America and arise too a new future of sound money that will bring about limited government and the return of individual liberties! We are rushing head long into the future of private voluntary barter currency… regardless if the government likes it or not. If there is a god in economics… it is the marketplace. Please click HERE for all the info on the new eLD and what it can do for you and America.
In other news…
Merchant services are now available on the Shopping Cart. Now you can order and use your bank card for eLDs which are instantly put into your account, get 2008 Silver Liberty Dollars and everything else on the Shopping Cart. Unfortunately, while card service is now available… it is very expensive at 5%! Please understand that is a significant cost that Liberty Dollar must bear to provide you this service. As the vast majority of orders are place on line, that cost must be reflected in all our pricing. Just another way the power-to-be act against your interest to protect your purchasing power and support the Liberty Dollar.
I regret to inform you that the attorney I retained failed to make any progress toward the return of YOUR silver to the warehouse. In fact, Robert C. Huntley acted un-ethically and was terminated, unfortunately and unjustly he kept an unreasonably large part of the retainer. I have nothing good to say about the disgraceful attorney, Robert C. Huntley in Boise Idaho. If you know an honest attorney in Idaho, please let me know.
Regarding Ron Paul. I support Ron Paul's presidential campaign and enjoy him "popularizing"* the Liberty Dollar before Congress but his statement before the US House of Representatives on February 13, 2008 was incorrect. Congressman Paul said, "The second step to reestablishing competing currencies is to eliminate laws that prohibit the operation of private mints." There are approx. a dozen legal private mints in the United States. Osborne Mint of Cincinnati, America's oldest, dates back to 1835. Plus there is no need to legalize "private currencies". They are legal already! There is NO law against any of the private currencies including the Liberty Dollar… and we don't need any damn approval in a Republic form of government. We need a lot less government, please, Congressman Paul!
Here are two incredible videos about Hitler vs. Ron Paul:
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=029305&From=NewsAnnual National Tour: As we get close to "March"… it is not too early to organize an event in your area and invite me to stop by this summer. The event can be almost anything… legal. This year will be my "Tenth Annual Tour". It is sure to kick ass and be packed with lots of fun… if I am not in jail! Quite frankly, given how slow the government is… and how fast the market is running… I have already started planning the Tour. So if you would like me to stop by, please take the lead, organize an event and let me know your plans. My Tour, just in case FBI Agent Andy is reading this, usually starts in Florida, runs north to New England, Evansville, Midwest, LA, Vancouver, Idaho, Midwest, Texas, and back to Florida from Mid July to mid November, four months, driving 20,000 miles of fun, fun, fun in support of the Liberty Dollar. Please let me know if your are going to take action and participate with an event… because if I don't hear from you… you will probably not hear from me… as there is a lot happening…
If you are headed to IRS Tax Court… you may want to attend the legendary Robert Clarkson's upcoming Tax Court Preparation, March 15-16 in Columbia, South Carolina. The two day-long seminar will explain how to handle your case and conduct yourself in any court action. Visit www.PatriotNetwork.info for more info or contact Robert Clarkson at robert@patriotnetwork.info or 864.225.3061 in Anderson SC. Please mention the Liberty Dollar to Robert who was also raided by Agent Andy who raided the Liberty Dollar.
On a very positive note… There are many many Good Americans who had a great amount confiscated in the Raid and still see the benefit of the Liberty Dollar. Here are the unsolicited comments ofMatt Pitagora, just such an individual and fellow RCO who has made a stand with his own EVERGREEN Hallmarked Liberty Dollar:
A summary of my Liberty Dollar pilgrimage:
Thanks to a friend, I discovered REAL MONEY that is gold and silver, back 1998.
Upon completing G. Edward Griffin's chilling expose of the Federal Reserve, "Creature from Jekyll Island" in 2001, I sprung into action and immediately discovered the Liberty Dollar.
In 2004 I became an LD RCO.
In 2005 I wrote a short book entitled "The Liberty Dollar Story" which I published in January 2006, and still hand out freely to this very day (I can mail a few copies if you wish).
In February 2006 I quit my job in electronics and took over a water store (www.evh2o.com) so that I could better understand the Liberty Dollar from the perspective of my primary customer: the local, retail merchant.
My merchant list expanded until September 2006, when I (and all RCOs) received a letter from the United States Mint claiming that I was engaged in illegal activity per anonymous "prosecutors" within the justice department. Concurrently, the Mint published a damning public warning on their web site.
As Bernard has stated often, "merchants are chickens," which held true in that not only was it virtually impossible to add merchants, I also had merchants asking to be removed from my directory.
Thus began the interminable "wait and see" period.
I began focusing my efforts towards gaining Liberty Associates, and picked up a steady stream of discount customers, while at the same time I have encountered relative success in handing silver and copper Libertys as change to my regular retail customers.
In March 2007, the Liberty Dollar sued the U.S. Treasury and DOJ, and a glimmer of hope parted the oppressive darkness of "public servant" market intervention.
November 14th, 2007 changed it all. On that day, I personally lost, without arrest, indictment or any due process:
3203 ounces of silver
2000 ounces of copper
8 ounces of goldThis seizure of my personal assets essentially equates to the elimination of my retirement fund, although thankfully I still maintain sufficient inventory with which to keep my Liberty Dollar business functioning through these dark times.
Ironically, or appropriately, the raid has garnered more positive publicity than (arguably) the $1.2 FRNs worth of metal could have purchased, and the Ron Paul phenomenon has assisted us greatly in this regard.
Business IS good, and now that we have a new product, while continuing to maintain the moral high ground, the Liberty Dollar will ultimately prevail against the forces of "public service" who seek in vain to eliminate our Constitutionally compliant, and noble business endeavors.
Please peruse my web site in order to better understand my perspective on the Liberty Dollar. www.libertydollarofsanjose.org
Matthew Pitagora
hardcash4hire@yahoo.com
*Quote: "Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular - but one must take it simply because it is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.Thank you for your support of the Liberty Dollar - returning America to value - one dollar at a time.
Bernard von NotHaus
Monetary Architect / Editor
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Message From Ron Paul
This received today:
Posted by Paul Bear (www.RonPaulite.com)
February 26, 2008V!
What thrilling rallies we've just had in Texas. First there were the Students for Ron Paul at the University of Texas in Austin. The media said 4,000 came. Our people think there were more like 7,000. In any event, it was a very enthusiastic gathering of our revolutionaries, as even the media admitted.
You will not be surprised to know that the young people there cheered the pure message of liberty: no preemptive wars, no Federal Reserve, no income tax, no police state, no drug war. Just American liberty and the Constitution, in the tradition of the framers.
But the rally in Kileen, though much smaller, may have been just as significant. Kileen is near Fort Hood, and among the 300 people who attended were many active-duty soldiers (though not in uniform) and their families. Whether it was the young man going back to Iraq for his fourth tour, or the sister of a soldier just killed there, they all wanted change in our foreign policy. Most heartbreaking was the young mother who asked for a signed copy of the Constitution for her son, "who will never know his dad." He too was just killed in Iraq.
How can we ask one young American to die for a neocon empire? The soldiers and their families agree with us, which is why our campaign gets more financial support from active-duty and retired military than all the rest combined. They want to defend America, not be part of some globalist scheme to take away our country's independence. And by the way ,at both rallies, nobody was for the monstrous Trans-Texas Corridor or the North American Union.
Coming up soon are the Texas and Ohio primaries, with others like Pennsylvania not long afterwards. We are contesting every one, and we will be heard at the Republican national convention in Minneapolis and beyond. A substantial minority of Americans in all parties, not to speak of Independents, agree with you and me. Until November and beyond, I want to work to turn that minority into a majority, with your help. https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/
Sincerely,
Ron
Posted by Paul Bear (www.RonPaulite.com)
Dear Dr. Paul, PLEASE Consider All The Options!
Dear Dr. Paul,
The other day, a man I had introduced your campaign to, asked me this question:
"I am determined to remain independent," he said, "but I will vote for Ron Paul if he is on the ballot come election day. Do you think there is any chance that Ron Paul will be on the ballot next November?"
That is the 20, 30+ (?), million dollar question. I wished with all my heart that I could absolutely assure him, and so many like him, that YES, Ron Paul will for certain be on the ballot come election day, 2008! Especially do I wish this, given the amazing wildfire of ground support (and sky support, don't forget), record-breaking fundraising efforts, and all of the heartfelt sacrificial effort—strenuous unforgiving effort—which has attended your campaign. It attended your campaign, that is, up until the time when many got the hopefully erroneous idea, that your campaign is essentially winding down now, following the unofficial coronation of McCain by the GOP, as their nominee (even while Republicans in my own state, and in many others, have still had absolutely no say in the process).
While I urge you to keep running Republican, for the time being, in order to give EVERY state a say—at least in theory (because masses turn, when told that the contest is over)—I also plead with you to PLEASE reconsider all of your options for an eventual third party run. I ask you to do it for the sake of the principles, which ignited a rEVOLution, and in light of the enormous efforts and the unprecedented expense already put out by your supporters. Many of your supporters deep down never expected you to actually obtain the Republican nomination, given the great deal of corruption and suppression taking place in corporatized party politics. However, most of those same supporters knew exactly why you had to START with the Republican party, in order to be taken seriously at all; and in order to build a real support base—which you have, if you will only run with it beyond the Republican party confines.
We love you, Dr. Paul, because you gave multitudes of disillusioned voters, a hope for the preservation of America's core values, in a dark time, when we had lost nearly ALL hope that America could again return from its increasingly high-handed abandonment of its own fundamentals—its own DNA of real liberty (the kind, which means more than president Bush's speech-writer rhetoric). The other candidates still running for president leave the more principled of American voters cold—even icy—those voters who still believe in the revolutionary concept of personal liberty, ensured by an absolute Bill of Rights!
Many of us are now feeling an indescribable let down, after hearing your repeated refusals to even consider an eventual third party run (we knew that you HAD to say it, but we hoped you didn't HEARTILY mean it, when you said it), because that has been the secret hope we've been harboring all along, and basing our fervent continued support for you upon.
I sense this is true of the majority of your supporters, who in reality come from circles far wider than the Republican party can possibly encompass. Your appeal is much wider than this Republican primary run has given you credit for, too, and your ability to reach out to your total possible base has been stymied by your party's hostility toward your most foundational principles. Liberals, and all of those who like to label themselves "progressives", are as much secretly—sometimes openly—attracted to you as are real conservatives, but they have not been given the opportunity, yet, to even choose you, because of your Republican attachment.
Justin Gardner of Donklephant.com once pointed out that your demographics are vastly different from the demographics of past third party candidates—even from your own prior third party bid—and he was RIGHT! You have at your disposal—if you will take it, and run with it—the energies of a true rEVOLution in American politics. No past third party candidate, has ever experienced the populist fervor that you have tasted, but the first wave of, in the last year. If any person ever had a chance to do well in a third party bid, it is YOU, NOW! Your running third party in this election, could just possibly be the very thing to help America finally break itself out of the confining narrow mold of our two-party big government exclusionary gridlocked system!
Adding to other reasons for you to consider taking this unique opportunity, is the fact that there are leftist politicians now throwing their hats into the third party ring. The very presence of a widely known—and feared (why else would they work so hard to suppress you?)—conservative to balance the third party offering, might in itself open minds to a genuine consideration of the outside-of-the-box contest, to a greater extent than ever before. Millions are now longing for an "OTHER" option in this race, and if you deprive those voters of having your name at least on the ballot next November, as an official option, then you may have taken away their only possible incentive to even cast their ballots at all! The spirit in America is ripe for you, if you will only dare to open your sail and harness it!
Your campaign has needed more time, anyway, to inform more Americans about our message of liberty! They STILL don't know you, because you've been widely blacked out. This is your chance to GET the additional time you need, to make up for the media's refusal to fully inform their trusting viewers about all their options.
It is with the deepest sense of respect for YOUR intentions, Dr. Paul, that I remind you just how your campaign began, and how it has been driven by, the urgings of your supporters—in spite of your intentions—who saw in you a rare politician of principle, and possibly the last best hope to turn our country back from the dreadful brink we are now teetering upon. It was not your intention to run, then, but you still responded to the urgings of supporters, as to a voice of prophetic urging. So now we appeal to you, again—a great deal MORE supporters than knew you then—in much the same spirit, to PLEASE open yourself up to a third party—or even dual party—run!
I will still vote for you, come November, whether you are on my ballot or no, but so many millions MAY just vote for you—in an overwhelming surprise to the arrogant establishment—if you simply make sure that your name somehow GETS there! Please give Americans a REAL CHOICE! The Republican primary gives but a handful that real choice, and the most influential of the handful end up being media-washed neocons living in Iowa—hardly a representative sample of the entire rest of the country (which was told, following Iowa, that you had NO chance—a self-fulfilling prophecy).
Please think about it.
Cordially,
"Paul Bear" (www.RonPaulite.com)
The other day, a man I had introduced your campaign to, asked me this question:
"I am determined to remain independent," he said, "but I will vote for Ron Paul if he is on the ballot come election day. Do you think there is any chance that Ron Paul will be on the ballot next November?"
That is the 20, 30+ (?), million dollar question. I wished with all my heart that I could absolutely assure him, and so many like him, that YES, Ron Paul will for certain be on the ballot come election day, 2008! Especially do I wish this, given the amazing wildfire of ground support (and sky support, don't forget), record-breaking fundraising efforts, and all of the heartfelt sacrificial effort—strenuous unforgiving effort—which has attended your campaign. It attended your campaign, that is, up until the time when many got the hopefully erroneous idea, that your campaign is essentially winding down now, following the unofficial coronation of McCain by the GOP, as their nominee (even while Republicans in my own state, and in many others, have still had absolutely no say in the process).
While I urge you to keep running Republican, for the time being, in order to give EVERY state a say—at least in theory (because masses turn, when told that the contest is over)—I also plead with you to PLEASE reconsider all of your options for an eventual third party run. I ask you to do it for the sake of the principles, which ignited a rEVOLution, and in light of the enormous efforts and the unprecedented expense already put out by your supporters. Many of your supporters deep down never expected you to actually obtain the Republican nomination, given the great deal of corruption and suppression taking place in corporatized party politics. However, most of those same supporters knew exactly why you had to START with the Republican party, in order to be taken seriously at all; and in order to build a real support base—which you have, if you will only run with it beyond the Republican party confines.
We love you, Dr. Paul, because you gave multitudes of disillusioned voters, a hope for the preservation of America's core values, in a dark time, when we had lost nearly ALL hope that America could again return from its increasingly high-handed abandonment of its own fundamentals—its own DNA of real liberty (the kind, which means more than president Bush's speech-writer rhetoric). The other candidates still running for president leave the more principled of American voters cold—even icy—those voters who still believe in the revolutionary concept of personal liberty, ensured by an absolute Bill of Rights!
Many of us are now feeling an indescribable let down, after hearing your repeated refusals to even consider an eventual third party run (we knew that you HAD to say it, but we hoped you didn't HEARTILY mean it, when you said it), because that has been the secret hope we've been harboring all along, and basing our fervent continued support for you upon.
I sense this is true of the majority of your supporters, who in reality come from circles far wider than the Republican party can possibly encompass. Your appeal is much wider than this Republican primary run has given you credit for, too, and your ability to reach out to your total possible base has been stymied by your party's hostility toward your most foundational principles. Liberals, and all of those who like to label themselves "progressives", are as much secretly—sometimes openly—attracted to you as are real conservatives, but they have not been given the opportunity, yet, to even choose you, because of your Republican attachment.
Justin Gardner of Donklephant.com once pointed out that your demographics are vastly different from the demographics of past third party candidates—even from your own prior third party bid—and he was RIGHT! You have at your disposal—if you will take it, and run with it—the energies of a true rEVOLution in American politics. No past third party candidate, has ever experienced the populist fervor that you have tasted, but the first wave of, in the last year. If any person ever had a chance to do well in a third party bid, it is YOU, NOW! Your running third party in this election, could just possibly be the very thing to help America finally break itself out of the confining narrow mold of our two-party big government exclusionary gridlocked system!
Adding to other reasons for you to consider taking this unique opportunity, is the fact that there are leftist politicians now throwing their hats into the third party ring. The very presence of a widely known—and feared (why else would they work so hard to suppress you?)—conservative to balance the third party offering, might in itself open minds to a genuine consideration of the outside-of-the-box contest, to a greater extent than ever before. Millions are now longing for an "OTHER" option in this race, and if you deprive those voters of having your name at least on the ballot next November, as an official option, then you may have taken away their only possible incentive to even cast their ballots at all! The spirit in America is ripe for you, if you will only dare to open your sail and harness it!
Your campaign has needed more time, anyway, to inform more Americans about our message of liberty! They STILL don't know you, because you've been widely blacked out. This is your chance to GET the additional time you need, to make up for the media's refusal to fully inform their trusting viewers about all their options.
It is with the deepest sense of respect for YOUR intentions, Dr. Paul, that I remind you just how your campaign began, and how it has been driven by, the urgings of your supporters—in spite of your intentions—who saw in you a rare politician of principle, and possibly the last best hope to turn our country back from the dreadful brink we are now teetering upon. It was not your intention to run, then, but you still responded to the urgings of supporters, as to a voice of prophetic urging. So now we appeal to you, again—a great deal MORE supporters than knew you then—in much the same spirit, to PLEASE open yourself up to a third party—or even dual party—run!
I will still vote for you, come November, whether you are on my ballot or no, but so many millions MAY just vote for you—in an overwhelming surprise to the arrogant establishment—if you simply make sure that your name somehow GETS there! Please give Americans a REAL CHOICE! The Republican primary gives but a handful that real choice, and the most influential of the handful end up being media-washed neocons living in Iowa—hardly a representative sample of the entire rest of the country (which was told, following Iowa, that you had NO chance—a self-fulfilling prophecy).
Please think about it.
Cordially,
"Paul Bear" (www.RonPaulite.com)
Texas-sized Liar Smearing Ron Paul
What can YOU do about this (story below)? You can donate immediately to Ron Paul's congressional campaign! Donating to that campaign, IN NO WAY signals that you have given up on the presidential campaign. On the contrary, the congressional campaign has EVERYTHING to do with the continuing presidential bid, because a congressional defeat would be used to every wicked advantage by our less-than-principled opponents on the national stage, as well.
This from www.LewRockwell.com:
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Posted by Paul Bear (www.RonPaulite.com)
This from www.LewRockwell.com:
Read the article in its original context: http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods85.htmlThe Texas Attack on Ron Paul
On January 12, 2007, a Texas city councilman named Chris Peden told the Galveston Daily News, "I have an immense amount of respect for Ron Paul. Politics has a way of forcing people to go against their core principles for political gain. That has never been the case for Ron Paul."In case you don’t know, Chris Peden is now Ron Paul’s congressional challenger in the Republican primary in Texas’ 14th District.
What happened to make Peden go from an admirer to an opponent – and not just an opponent, but one who is running a vicious and (as he surely realizes) dishonest smear campaign against the very man he so recently praised?
I have no idea.
But here’s an indication of just what a classy guy he is: all throughout Peden’s campaign website, his professional head shot sits next to a silly photo of Dr. Paul – the kind of photo every human being on earth has taken a zillion times, but which in this case is presumably intended as a stark contrast to the sobriety and deep thinking of Chris Peden.
That’s one of the benefits of running for public office against a gentleman: you can do childish and dishonorable things all campaign long in the full knowledge that your opponent is too decent to reciprocate.
Thankfully, you don’t even need to visit Peden’s website. We’ve already heard every thought he’s ever had every fifteen seconds for years and years.
Thus we read: "I think Islamo-Fascist terrorists were responsible for the 9/11 attacks; the incumbent thinks America’s Middle East policies were responsible for the attacks." (Yes, he really is talking down to his potential constituents like this.) The terrorists "wish to destroy our way of life because they abhor freedom, democracy, and liberty." We should continue to encourage democracy around the world "even if it takes the remainder of the century."
You know what that means – lots and lots of war. And you know what it also means: the politician uttering these inanities has no intention of disclosing the tiniest hint as to where the money for these fantasies is going to come from, what with bankruptcy on our very doorstep.
Being a neoconservative means never having to explain, well, anything.
Assuming Peden has an IQ above 50, he knows he is misrepresenting Ron Paul’s position. Dr. Paul’s argument, which is shared by top terrorism experts, is that our government’s expensive and counterproductive foreign policy has stirred up more trouble than it has alleviated. He’s saying kind of what Russell Kirk – the founder of the modern conservative movement, and no "liberal" – said after the first Persian Gulf War. Good thing for Peden he’s never heard of Kirk.
When the Ayatollah Khomeini called for jihad on the United States in the early 1980s, it went nowhere. When bin Laden called for the same thing but on the specific grounds that the US refuses to leave the Muslim world alone, fighters flocked to his banner. Could it be that our government’s dumb foreign policy, in addition to wrecking our economy, is actually making us less secure?
I’ve explained all of this here.
We also learn that Ron Paul, who has been married to the same woman for 51 years and has five children, 18 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, doesn’t believe in "traditional family values." Peden draws this conclusion on the basis of Dr. Paul’s votes against unconstitutional legislation that would decide social policy at the federal level – you know, the kind of voting record you compile when you favor the "smaller government" that Peden himself falsely claims to support.
Ron Paul "weakens our economy," Peden says, because he doesn’t believe in supranational trade bureaucracies that can dictate tax and regulatory policy to member states – the very thing Republicans rightly opposed half a century ago when it took the form of the International Trade Organization. In those days, supporters of the free market knew a boondoggle when they saw one.
Peden says that opposing the World Trade Organization and NAFTA is "exactly the approach that led us to the Great Depression." Now much as I’d love to hear Peden’s entire collection of learned insights into the Great Depression – really, Peden has done us all a grave disservice over the course of his career by confining his remarks on the subject to this single sentence – I’m still inclined to stick with Ron Paul, who could write a treatise on the causes of the Great Depression off the top of his head.
Of course, as the Federal Reserve’s policies lead the country and the world to the brink of another depression, it is Ron Paul alone who stands tall as the one politician who told the truth all these years about what the geniuses who run our monetary policy have been up to. It is Ron Paul who spoke truth to power, and who understood what Austrian business cycle theory has to teach us about the inevitable devastation that results from expanding the money supply through credit markets.
I wonder, on the other hand, whether Chris Peden even knows what business cycle theory is, but if his bumper-sticker thoughts on the economy are any indication, I probably already know the answer.
As with so many other politicians, the message of "change" turns out to be more of the same. The Federal Reserve has wrecked the dollar and inflated the housing bubble? Then more of the same is just what we need. Or at least that’s what I assume Peden’s position is. Like every other politician in America, he is completely silent on the issue of money and the Federal Reserve, standing idly by while ordinary Americans are silently ripped off year after year. Chances are, he (again like most politicians) doesn’t know the first thing about it. How else can we explain his failure, in the midst of a Fed-induced downturn, to utter a single word about how we got here?
Over $50 trillion in unfunded entitlement liabilities is coming due in the next few decades. The national debt keeps skyrocketing, the dollar keeps plummeting, the prices of necessities are rising, and the housing bubble is bursting. Ron Paul understands these issues – in fact, he’s the only one in the presidential race who’s bothered to bring them up.
A Martian glancing at Chris Peden’s political positions, on the other hand, could be forgiven for assuming that these problems do not exist. It’s all business as usual, full steam ahead. A financial catastrophe is coming? Why, let’s carry on as before! Is this the Peden message that Republican Party hacks in Texas are so excited about?
The rest of Peden’s propaganda is the same old establishment boilerplate, along with a complaint that Ron Paul doesn’t vote for the pork and the corporate welfare that Peden himself promises to support.
This is the genius who is campaigning against Ron Paul. And not merely campaigning against him, but misrepresenting and smearing a man with a voting record unmatched in all of American history in its commitment to freedom, and whose knowledge of economics, foreign policy, and the Constitution makes him an intellectual giant among Washington’s pygmies.
Now instead of being honored and privileged to be represented by a statesman as accomplished and knowledgeable as Ron Paul, State Republican Executive Committee Chairwoman Kathy Haigler supports the city councilman. "For far too long," she says, "[Congressional District] 14 Republicans have been denied the opportunity to be represented by someone who actually believes in and practices the Republican Party Platform, and now they have the opportunity to vote for a solid conservative who will go to Washington D.C. and vote Republican."
Poor Kathy. She’s had to be represented by a constitutionalist for 12 consecutive years. There’s some serious withdrawal for you: twelve whole years without a business-as-usual, platitude-uttering hack as her congressman. She must be getting the shakes.
All that time, her congressman has been the only constitutionalist in the entire Congress, arguably the greatest congressman in all of American history, and a man who is loved and admired all over the world. Only a city councilman mouthing slogans and propaganda and promising pork and bankruptcy can rescue longsuffering Kathy Haigler from this unspeakable ordeal.
Now I don’t care how much you loved Mitt Romney, but no one, not even members of his own family, compared him to Thomas Jefferson. Yet Ron Paul has been compared to Jefferson and the Founders more times than anyone can count. Judge Andrew Napolitano calls him "the Thomas Jefferson of our day."
Running against him – and, it has to be said, running a vigorous campaign that cannot be taken lightly – is not another Thomas Jefferson, to put it kindly. It is a forgettable city councilman who, if his campaign website is any indication, has never had an interesting thought in his life, and for whom the history books will not have a single thing to say. Well, maybe one thing: how did the American people become so debased that the intellectual and moral mismatch between City Councilman Chris Peden and Congressman Ron Paul could actually have been a contest?
Pretty maddening, isn’t it?
Want to let off some steam? Then go here right now.
I’d say we already have just about enough mouthpieces of official propaganda serving in the US Congress. Is it so much to ask for one – just one – congressman who tells the truth?
February 19, 2008
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Copyright © 2008 LewRockwell.com
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The TWO MOST IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN ELEMENTS!
The two biggest priorities right now, is precinct leadership and gaining Ron Paul delegates to the conventions! If you have not yet signed up as a district leader, or if you CAN sign up as a delegate, and have NOT yet, then PLEASE DO SO NOW!
Many states, such as Nebraska (a May primary state) have deadlines for signing up as a delegate (Nebraska's deadline is March 3), which are rushing up on your calendar, so check your local possibilities before it is too late!
In ANY case, Ron Paul 2008 needs YOU to be a precinct leader (I would say, even if your state has already had its primary, because there are other options coming up, which I will report on shortly, and this campaign isn't over ANYWHERE by any stretch of the imagination!).
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Many states, such as Nebraska (a May primary state) have deadlines for signing up as a delegate (Nebraska's deadline is March 3), which are rushing up on your calendar, so check your local possibilities before it is too late!
In ANY case, Ron Paul 2008 needs YOU to be a precinct leader (I would say, even if your state has already had its primary, because there are other options coming up, which I will report on shortly, and this campaign isn't over ANYWHERE by any stretch of the imagination!).
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ALERT! Ron Paul Needs Your URGENT Help!
This from Ron Paul:
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The DC neocons think their old dream is about to come true. They think they can defeat me in the Republican congressional primary in Texas on March 4th. And you know what? They may be right.
My opponent, who describes himself as a traditional conservative, is a dedicated servitor of all the special interests who have given us the disaster of recent years, from unconstitutional wars to a looming recession, from huge deficits to massive new welfare programs.
A Republican operative allied with the worst forces in DC recently said: "Give what you can [to Ron Paul's opponent]. Ron Paul is running scared — using his Presidential campaign's donors' money to subsidize a desperate last-minute attempt to save his Congressional seat."
That is a lie, of course. It is illegal to use presidential campaign donations in my congressional race. The congressional campaign has to stand on its own. But so far, we have raised only about a third of what a well-funded effort would need.
In my 10 terms in Congress, I have not only been able to serve my constituents, and help them, for example, negotiate federal red-tape. I have also been able to defend our principles of less spending, lower taxes, no inflation, and strict adherence to the Constitution. Some people in DC laugh at the idea that I should obey my oath of office, and ask first of any proposed legislation, is it constitutional? But I know that you share my support for the vision of the framers.
My friend Congressmen Wayne Gilchrest (R-Maryland) was just defeated in his primary election by a neocon fraud similar to the one I face. My friend Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) is under heavy pressure as well. People like our hand-picked opponents will do anything to gain and keep power. They represent everything that is wrong with DC.
If I am defeated in the upcoming congressional primary, our ideas will be held to have been defeated as well. It will be proclaimed from the rooftops in DC that such "ridiculous and outmoded notions" as the free market, sound money, personal liberty, limited government, and a pro-American foreign policy are through.
I am determined not to let this happen. All that you and I believe in is far too important to the future of our country, and to everyone and everything we love, to let the neocons dance on its grave.
Please, help me stop the lies, the distortions, the pressure groups, the special interests that benefit from DC rip-offs. There is still time to run radio and tv ads, to set up phone banks, to get out the vote. But unless you help, my reelection to Congress may be in jeopardy. Please help me return to Congress to fight for the people of my district, and for the ideas that can save our country from the path to trouble we are now on.
I hesitated to ask you, since you have already done so much. But my wife Carol said, "When you need help, you ask your best friends." So I do ask you, to hold out your hand in support.
Please give today http://www.ronpaulforcongress.com, as generously and as quickly as you can.
Sincerely,
Ron
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Break The Matrix Update #1
This from Trevor Lyman:
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Posted: 18 Feb 2008 01:04 PM CST
Update No. 1: Taking Back The Media—Here’s How
Unless there’s a delegate revolt at the convention, Ron Paul will not be on the presidential ballot in November, 2008. The mainstream media has done its job, and Dr. Paul’s message has been effectively stifled, ridiculed, marginalized and ignored by the powers that be. The result? Those many millions of Americans who receive their news from mainstream media sources were shut out from the opportunity to hear the wonderful words of freedom, prosperity, peace and hope. We congratulate our adversaries. They appear to be closing in on an important victory. But in fact, they’re not winning at all. It’s only for the moment. Because we’re taking our country back.
To Our Subscribers and Supporters: We Say Thank You
In less than a week since our initial website posting of Breakthematrix.com we have received nearly 3,500 stock subscriptions and many hundreds of emails offering support, advice, talents and help. To our friends and colleagues in the grassroots, we say a heartfelt “thank you.” Your expressions of encouragement are inspiring indeed.
Please continue to write to us. It is not yet time to respond individually to your emails, but we’re reading and considering every one. We are creating a database with your ideas, suggestions and skills. Patience please. We’re moving forward one step at a time, and not everything can happen at once. The directions and goals are clear to us—but, of course, it’s implementation that presents the challenge. So these are our ideas.
This Is What We Plan To Do
We’re starting up a media company through the vehicle of an initial public offering of stock. Go to our website at Breakthematrix.com for an overview outline of our thinking. And here’s more.
Our plan is to develop and broadcast high quality radio and television shows on the Internet, and then distribute/market that content “off Internet” to the mainstream American audience in their households, cars, and daily lives. Our shows will be wide ranging: radio talk; comedy; satire; music; history; human interest—the list of potential show topics is endless. We plan to start out modestly, focusing first on the easier formats and then working our way up to the more challenging (and expensive) genres. Similarly with our distribution strategy, we will begin with those “off Internet” specialty audiences and specific test market locations that can be reached most easily and cost effectively, then build from there. Obviously, our content must be entertaining if it is to succeed in a highly competitive marketplace. We’ll need to develop media personalities, and stars, and talent, and artists. So we’re trying to build a community. Social networking will be an essential component of our business plan. Creative people are out there, all across our great country, and we’re convinced they are looking for opportunity to develop and share their talents. They will find us; and we will find them. Content creation and community building—our first and most important goal.
The development of a high quality technical platform for producing and distributing our shows is an essential step in the process. On this key point, the news is good. Existing technologies for production and distribution of radio and television content are already in place and available for use. All across the web we find systems, entities and individuals with creative ways and means of producing and transmitting content. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Our plan is to utilize the tools that are out there; to build a platform with existing technology; and to use mainstream media outlets that are presently available and are themselves seeking and searching for high quality content. There is no need to buy and own high overhead terrestrial radio stations, TV networks, large studios or the like. Not in the beginning, at least. Web based content creation and cost efficient distribution strategies are the way of the future, in our opinion, and this approach frees us to capitalize quickly on newly developing content delivery technologies as they emerge down the road.
Advertising and marketing will be at the core of our revenue model, just as they are for the old media entities. The logic of marketing is simple and straightforward. If our content captures an audience, the advertisers will follow. The reverse, of course, is equally true. If our content is dull and pedestrian, there will be no audience, and there will be no advertisers. So it all comes full circle. Our success will be dependent on the quality of our content. And we believe this is precisely the area where our competitive advantage exists. We have the freedom message—the old media doesn’t. Do people really want to listen to the aging, empty words of Limbaugh, Hannity, Couric, and the like? Do people actually want more tired productions from the old Hollywood culture of Britney Spears, Steven Spielberg and (sadly) Disney Studios ? Or are they looking for something new; something fresh; something that carries with it a message of optimism and hope for the future? We believe the answer is obvious.
A Few Words for the Naysayers
Some commenters about Breakthematrix.com have told us it can’t be done. They write that our plans are unworkable; that we’re going to fail; that we’ll be corrupted by the system; or that Rupert Murdoch and his ilk will buy us out. To these commenters we say: we recognize your concerns. Breakthematrix.com proposes to develop a startup entity that’s still in formation. Only the best startups succeed; the ones with strong leaders and great ideas. The rest go bankrupt and fail. So the pessimists have a point. There is no guaranteed or easy pathway to success for our new entity. And the world of the media is a challenging place.
But to our pessimistic commenters, we offer some additional thoughts. Some thoughts about the times we live in, and the power of optimism and positive message. We believe our adversaries are weak, not strong. Our message of freedom, prosperity, peace and hope is fresh and compelling—theirs is old and tired. Our grassroots subscribers and supporters are motivated and creative—theirs are from the aging past. They control the government and media today—but we are the future. If you want some evidence on this point, just look at their champions in government, their leaders. Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson in the finance sector. Laughingstocks; buffoons. John McCain and Mike Huckabee in the Republican Party. Warmongers; charlatans. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the Democratic Party. Ridiculous socialist fools. The very existence of such people creates endless opportunities for satire, amusement and delightful commentary. If this is the best our adversaries have to offer, we have every reason to be optimistic about our chances for success. They (and we) should be thinking of us buying out their media—not the other way around.
Join With Us—Here’s How
If you’re interested in what we have to say, go to Breakthematrix.com. Click on the “pledge” button and become a subscriber. Send us an email with your thoughts and your skills. This is the non–binding “solicitation of interest” stage of our stock offering, and we are still in the early process of shaping and forming our startup entity. Join with us, and become a part of it. Also, please note the applicable rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
- No money or other consideration is being solicited by this document , and if sent in response, will not be accepted;
- No sales of the securities will be made or commitment to purchase accepted until delivery of an offering circular that includes complete information about the issuer and the offering;
- An indication of interest made by a prospective investor involves no obligation or commitment of any kind.
We close with a few words that Ron Paul has spoken often on the campaign trail. Dr. Paul says: “Economic freedom IS freedom.” How right he is.
Basic Media, Inc. (in formation)
Rick WilliamsChairman and Chief Executive Officer
rdw2008@gmail.com
Trevor LymanVice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer
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Thank You Georgetown University News
Here is a fair and positive article published by Georgetown University News, following Paul's recent speech there:
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Read the article in its original context: http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=31291Ron Paul Says U.S. Weakening ConstitutionRepublican Presidential Candidate Calls For an End to Federal Income Tax and Less Concentration on Foreign MattersRepublican presidential candidate Ron Paul called for stricter adherence to the Constitution during an impassioned speech about his political ideologies on Feb. 13 at Georgetown.
The Texas congressman positioned himself as leader of a revolution that would tout a return to constitutional principles with a small federal government, no income tax and more concentration on domestic, rather than foreign, matters. He blamed many of the country's problems on a willingness to ignore the founding fathers' intent and a willingness to weaken the Constitution with amendments.
"We've made one serious mistake — we've ignored our Constitution," Paul said in a speech frequently punctuated by cheers and chants from the audience. "If you want to get back to the basics and restore the principles of this country and this republic, we have to obey the Constitution."
Though he is running on the Republican ticket, Paul identifies as a Libertarian, who advocate minimal government and social programs in favor of individual rights.
Freedoms are rapidly disappearing, Paul said, and Georgetown students should ask themselves one question: What should the role of the government be?
"The founders asked themselves that question and came up with a pretty good answer. They said the role of government should be one thing, to protect liberty," he said. "That should be the only purpose of government."
Freedom used to mean "freedom for you. You were in charge of your life and if you messed it up, it was your fault," he continued. "If there is one thing I hope to achieve in this campaign, it's to get people thinking what freedom is all about. The purpose of freedom is for us to lead our own lives, to promote our own virtue … Government interest destroys everything."
He pinpoints the start of trouble when the government declared rights to include access to education, jobs and medical care.
"What you have is a right to your life. That's what you have," Paul said. "If that were fully understood, you'd have a right to the fruits of your labor, and you would be able to keep everything you earn and not have to share it with the big government."
Paul came to Georgetown as part of the university's presidential candidate lecture series. He is the second candidate to speak after Democrat Bill Richardson, who has since dropped out the race.
Enthusiastic supporters greeted Paul in Gaston Hall by chanting his name. Much of Paul's base includes younger voters who have flocked to his Web site and set donation records — a $4.2 million take on Nov. 5, 2007 is most a GOP candidate has raised on a single day. The congressman said his message resonates strongly with Americans who want a different form of government that puts its citizens above foreign engagement.
Paul said military personnel are embracing that point in particular, and claimed he has received more donations from that group than all other candidates combined. However, research from the Houston Chronicle found this is only from donors who self-identified as military personnel, something that is not required, and many donors are civilian employees.
In a wide-ranging speech that touched everything from the war in Iraq to abortion to tax policies, Paul reiterated that the current generation of Georgetown students will pay the price for what he called mistakes of the government. He pointed to overspending, borrowing money from foreign governments and a financial strain on the middle class as unsustainable practices that will have significant fallouts.
While acknowledging he is not the front runner for the Republican nomination, Paul said his principles are stirring supporters' passion about what the United States could accomplish.
But the night was not without detractors. To a mix of applause and boos from the audience, one Georgetown student questioned the candidate about racist and homophobic slurs that appeared newsletters published by Paul in the 1990s. Though Paul has since said he did not write the articles in question, the student pushed to know why Paul did not denounce the writings years ago when first confronted.
The congressman said it was a mistake and blamed the comments getting published on time constraints during his time as publisher. Paul also called himself "probably the biggest champion of rights for everybody."
"A true Libertarian," he said, "is incapable of being a racist."
Source: Blue & Gray (February 15, 2008)
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