The president has opened a can of worms that will destroy his presidency and possibly destroy this country. Another multi-billion dollar war has begun.

The Obama administration promises us that this is to be a very limited operation, providing small arms only, with no plans for a no-fly zone or American boots on the ground. That sounds an awful lot like how Vietnam started. Just a few advisors. When these few small arms do not achieve the pre-determined US policy of regime change in Syria what is the administration going to do? Admit failure and pull the troops out, or escalate? History suggests the answer and it now appears to be repeating itself once again.

So Obama now plans to send even more weapons to the Syrian rebels even though his administration is aware that the main rebel factions have pledged their loyalty to al-Qaeda. Does anyone else see the irony? After 12 years of the “war on terror” and the struggle against al-Qaeda, the US decided to provide weapons to the allies of al-Qaeda. Does anyone really think this is a good idea?

We found out shortly after the Iraq war started that the facts and intelligence being fixed around the policy were nothing but lies put forth by the neo-con warmongers and the paid informants, like the infamous and admitted liar known as “Curveball.” But we seem to have learned nothing from being fooled before.

That is exactly what the Obama Administration is doing with Syria: fixing the intelligence and facts around the already determined policy. And Congress just goes along, just as they did the last time.

Here the head of British intelligence was reporting back to his government after a trip to Washington in the summer of 2002:

The process was identical to the massive deception campaign that led us into the Iraq war. Remember the famous quote from the leaked “Downing Street Memo,” where representatives of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s administration discussed Washington’s push for war on Iraq?

Further, this plan to transfer weapons to the Syrian rebels had become policy much earlier than that, as the Washington Post reported that the CIA had expanded over the past year its secret bases in Jordan to prepare for the transfer of weapons to the rebels in Syria.

Setting aside the question of why 100 killed by gas is somehow more important than 99,900 killed by other means, the fact is his above explanation is full of holes. The Washington Post reported this week that the decision to overtly arm the Syrian rebels was made “weeks ago” – in other words, it was made at a time when the intelligence community did not believe “with high confidence” that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons.

President Obama announced late last week that the US intelligence community had just determined that the Syrian government had used poison gas on a small scale, killing some 100 people in a civil conflict that has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives. Because of this use of gas, the president claimed, Syria had crossed his “red line” and the US must begin to arm the rebels fighting to overthrow the Syrian government.

Sadly, that is the story of our foreign policy. We have attacked at least five countries since 9/11. We have launched drones against many more. We have deposed several dictators and destroyed several foreign armies. But, looking around at what has been achieved, it is clear: it is all irrelevant .

US Army Col. Harry Summers told a story about a meeting he had with a North Vietnamese colonel named Tu while he visiting Hanoi in 1975. At the meeting, Col. Summers told Tu, "You know, you never defeated us on the battlefield." Tu paused for a moment, then replied, "That may be so. But it is also irrelevant ."

Instead of learning from these disasters brought about by the interventionists and their failed foreign policy, the president is now telling us that we have to go into Syria!

We are leaving Afghanistan after 12 years with nothing to show for it but trillions of dollars wasted and thousands of lives lost. Afghanistan is a devastated country with a weak, puppet government—and now we negotiate with those very people we fought for those 12 years, who are preparing to return to power! Still we learn nothing.

We left Iraq after a decade of fighting and the country is in far worse shape than when we attacked in 2003. After trillions of dollars wasted and tens of thousands of lives lost, Iraq is a devastated, desperate, and violent place with a presence of al Qaeda. No one in his right mind speaks of a US victory in Iraq these days. We learned nothing from it.

The long US war in Afghanistan never made any sense in the first place. The Taliban did not attack the US on 9/11. The Authorization for the use of force that we passed after the attacks of 9/11 said nothing about a decade-long occupation of Afghanistan. But unfortunately two US presidents have taken it to mean that they could make war anywhere at any time they please. Congress, as usual, did nothing to rein in the president, although several Members tried to repeal the authorization.

For years many of us had argued the need to get out of Afghanistan. To end the fighting, the dying, the destruction, the nation-building. To end the foolish fantasy that we were building a Western-style democracy there. We cannot leave, we were told for all those years. If we leave Afghanistan now, the Taliban will come back! Well guess what, after 12 years, trillions of dollars, more than 2,200 Americans killed, and perhaps more than 50,000 dead Afghan civilians and fighters, the Taliban is coming back anyway!

The US had meant for the Taliban office in Doha to be only a venue for a new round of talks on an end to the war in Afghanistan. The Taliban opening looked very much like a government in exile. The Karzai government was annoyed that the US and the Taliban had scheduled talks without even notifying Kabul. Karzai’s government felt as irrelevant to negotiations on post-war Afghanistan as they soon will be on the ground. It seemed strangely like Paris in 1968, where the US met with North Vietnamese representatives to negotiate a way out of that war, which claimed nearly 60,000 Americans and many times that number of Vietnamese lives.

Last week the Taliban opened an office in Doha, Qatar with the US government’s blessing. They raised the Taliban flag at the opening ceremony and referred to Afghanistan as the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan"—the name they used when they were in charge before the US attack in 2001.

16-Dec-2012





"it then dawned on me that all the improvements in the conditions

of the working classes were the result of capitalism.

Social laws brought about the very opposite of what the legislation was intended to achieve"

- Ludwig von Mises {29 September 1881 ~ 10 October 1973}

Liberty and Economics



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What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? As this unique film shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a man who never stopped fighting for freedom: not when the Nazis burned his books, not when the Left blackballed him at universities, not when it seemed as if statism had won. With courage and genius, he fought big government until the day he died ... in 25 books, hundreds of articles, and more than 60 years of teaching.



Mises's battles against Communists, Nazis, and other socialists, are featured in this film, as are his ideas of Liberty. There is also the old Vienna he loved, the Bolshevik prime minister he dissuaded from Communism, and a cast of villains from Lenin to Hitler, as well as such supporters and students as Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, Bettina Greaves, M. Stanton Evans, Mary Peterson, Joseph Sobran, and Yuri Maltsev.



Among his many accomplishments, Mises showed that socialism had to fail, that central banking causes recessions and depressions, that the gold standard is honest money, and that only laissez-faire capitalism is fully compatible with Western civilization.



Mises was the twentieth century's foremost economist, and one of its most important champions of Liberty. Here is a film that does justice to this extraordinary man, and to his equally extraordinary ideas.





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26-Nov-2012

Laissez Faire Interviews Ron Paul on Money and the Fed





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14-Oct-2012

Ron Paul Refuses to Endorse Romney -



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The former presidential candidate told CNBC he still won't back Republican candidate Mitt Romney.



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11-Sep-2012

[emphasis mine]



Stockman: "Ron Paul Is Right:

The Fed, And The Lunatics That Run It, Are The Heart Of The Problem"



by Tyler Durden



Former Reagan OMB Director David Stockman was 'allowed' on CNBC this morning - much to their chagrin now we suspect - and espoused his own brand of truthiness, starting with this epic tirade:

"Ron Paul is the only one who is right about the Fed, and the Fed is the heart of the problem. They have destroyed the capital markets and the money markets; interest rates mean nothing; everything is trading off the Fed and Wall Street isn't even home - as it's now a bunch of computers trading word-clouds emitted by this central banker and that"

In this environment, he goes on, everyone is being given the wrong signal - i.e. the Ryan/Romney campaign is abnout restoring vibrant capitalism; how can you do that when the financial markets are dead - the lifeblood of a capitalist system. And that is the problem today.



An excellent discussion ensues diving into the lack of fiscal discipline (that is enabled by a Fed ZIRP) as "[politicians] will never do it when you can keep borrowing free-money forever" and summed up nicely with this subtle sentence:



"The Fed (and the lunatics that run it) are telling the whole world untruths about the cost of money and the price of risk."







From the Comments:

helping_friendl...

Stockman oversaw the Reagan Revolution by increasing Defense Spending and cutting taxes. The FRBNY cannot raise interest rates because the Treasury will be unable to pay interest on the debt.



The only way out of this is to cut military spending 20% over four years, get rid of the cap on Social Security tax, place a Medicare tax on Capital Gains, let insurance companies operate across state lines and reform tort law. Can I please get my medical records digitized to lower my medical cost? Every Doctor I see wants to do the same test and it is costing my, self insured, employer a fortune. My doctor won't even send me test results. He says " I'll call you if we see anything unordinary."



It is time to default on our debt. Tell the NYFRB to go eat cake. Start acting like farmers and form cooperatives and get the Gov't out of our lives.



They should provide for the common defense and maintain Social Security and Medicare.



Why do we need cops when they shot more innocent bystanders than criminals?

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29-Aug-2012

RNC Sham 2012





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The Convention is where delegates are meant to cast votes for the nominee, yet the Tampa Bay Times Forum was already plastered with embedded Romney banners, and additional 'Mitt' signs for people to hold were also smuggled in to make it appear that many are behind him. All Ron Paul material was promptly confiscated.



Six states filed to put Ron Paul into nomination while the rules still said it only took five states. Realizing this, the RNC met early Tuesday morning to change the rules in order to make the minimum needed as eight states, which Ron also would have had if the RNC had not decided to take the Ron Paul delegates away from LA and ME. One bus of delegates on the way to the RNC was essentially kidnapped for two hours, and arrived too late to vote on the matter said the RNC.



Rather than taking proper vote counts or listening to objections, several votes were clearly not unanimous, but this didn't stop the RNC "leaders" from ignoring the dissent. Video surfaced just after this video published, but a link is in the video showing that the teleprompter already had pre-approved results before the public vote was taken. Ron Paul's name and delegate totals were not allowed to be mentioned officially on the stage, even when he won the specific state.



The Republican Party has lost all hope, and the disrespect Paul supporters received will eventually be replied with "I told you so."



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28-Aug-2012

In Defense Of Liberty Extremism by Tyler Durden

Submitted by James E. Miller of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada , It’s a safe statement to make that when Mitt Romney is finally crowned the GOP nominee for president during the Republican National Convention, any vestige of liberty will be firmly wiped away from the ballot box come this November. For those who have followed his campaign in the United States, Congressman Ron Paul has been swindled out of the nomination through various underhanded tricks at state conventions. The explanation is straightforward: Paul’s views are not comfortable within the Republican Party establishment. Today’s GOP is a party of banker interests, imperialism, and clandestine state empowerment while claiming to represent small, limited government. Romney embraces this platform while Paul’s decades-long voting record stands in opposition. For towing the party line, Romney has been anointed the “electable” candidate while Paul has been deemed an extremist. The GOP declares this while the media parrots the message as it does every election cycle. To the pundits and writers who cover political affairs, only moderation can win over a large electorate. The people don’t look kindly upon radicalism or so it’s alleged. Ron Paul’s campaign manager, Jesse Benton, has even gone as far as to discourage dedicated Paulians from voicing their discontentment with the status quo. In a recent New York Times article, Benton shares his disinterest with so-called “true believers”: Some true believers want to “dress in black, stand on a hill and say, ‘Smash the state,’” said Mr. Benton, who is married to one of Mr. Paul’s granddaughters. But “it’s not our desire to have floor demonstrations. That would cost us a lot more than it would get us.” The often referred to rule of American political campaigns is that candidates should appeal to the party’s base during primary season but once nominated, should strive to attract the “center.” This strategy is totally befitting for a whorish game like politics because it allows those seeking public office to change their rhetoric and tune in order to attract as many voters as possible. In politics, principle is placed on the back burner for the glory of supreme victory. The “center” electorate is just a term used for the majority looking to government for what they mistakenly believe to be a free lunch. To Benton, the political establishment, and the state-worshipping press, moderation is the rational choice of anyone looking to be taken seriously. But what Benton and like-minded thinkers don’t understand or refuse to acknowledge is that ideas don’t make a lasting impact unless they are logically consistent. Ron Paul was unique in that he stuck to his message for three decades and never wavered. He paid the price with being marginalized while his beliefs were portrayed as archaic. Paul is by no means a radical in that he recognizes a proper role for the state to guarantee the liberties of people are protected yet he was rejected just the same. For all the abuse and concessions Paulians have had to make, the Republican Party has awarded state delegations with large numbers of Paul supporters “nosebleed” seats at the National Convention; just behind the delegations from Northern Mariana. Benton’s advice of toning it down and playing nice did little to change the reception from a political party not the least interested in representing genuine liberty. This rejection, while predictable, should serve as an important lesson for advocates of individual freedom. Temperance in philosophy may be the less arduous road to take but it will not bring a lasting change. Because of the forces pitted against it, the incremental approach toward a free society has little chance of succeeding. For every step forward comes two or more back towards socialism or its ugly cousin of corporate fascism. The ratcheting effect of state power may not be readily apparent but it is in constant motion. The heart of the state lies not with the legislature that is still accountable to voters but within the multitude of bureaucracies that are needlessly large and unaccountable. It is the bureaucracies that are given the authority of law enforcement. They are usually staffed by people who enjoy wielding state power and are always on the search for an excuse to exercise more. The result has been various states grotesquely inserting themselves into all aspects of Western society.



From the Comments:



Bicycle Repairman

A couple of things. Romney does not appeal to two important factions of the GOP: true conservatives and Ron Paul supporters and never will.



Second, Ron Paul's principles do not need to be abandoned to win this election. I've seen polling that shows Ron beating an easily beatable Obama. However Romney will get crushed by Obama simply because NO ONE wants him. He'll only collect anti-Obama votes.



OutLookingIn

The corporatist elite and their political lackeys cannot allow the political/economic illusion to falter, even a little, to the bitter end. As the fraud begins to fade ever more, the elitist force intensifies, becoming almost rabid in its deflection.



Because the illusion has become the center of their being, a mythological justification for their existence. Their ideology has been a lie, they are not heroes and gods on earth, but monsters and criminals, and their life has been self-serving and meaningless, without significance and honor.



On Election Day;



Choice One - Stay home. Don't vote.



Choice two - If you must vote write in Ron Paul, or spoil your ballot.

Crash this rotten, corrupt system.

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27-Aug-2011

Ron Paul: We Are the Future!



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24-Aug-2012

RNC Pulling Out All Stops To Keep Ron Paul's Name Out Of Nomination



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18-Jul-2012

RNC confirms Ron Paul will be up for nomination By: Mason Buran | July 17, 2012



The Republican National Convention is quickly approaching (August 26th). For over the past year, avid Ron Paul supporters have won delegate spots in various state conventions across the country. Through this hard-work, Ron Paul will officially be allowed to be nominated for the nominee of the Republican Party . For the past three days, Ben Swann (Fox19 Cincinnati) has been in contact with a Republican Rules Committee member. In order for a candidate to be elected for the Republican Party nomination, the candidate must have a plurality in five or more states. If by rule, binding and non-binding policies are applied to delegates, it would still not affect the process of voting for placement of a candidate's name into the potential nominee ballot. Presidential hopeful Ron Paul does have a plurality in five or more states (Nevada, Maine, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Iowa). This means that Ron Paul will be eligible for nomination on August 26th in Tampa Bay. The Ron Paul Revolution is planning on amassing 100,000+ supporters to Tampa in order to celebrate Paul's 30+ year career in American politics. However, the Republican National Committee senses pressure from the Paul supporters. The RNC has attempted to block access in order to make the convention as exclusive as possible. read more here



25- Jun-2012

Government is Already Too Involved in Healthcare by Ron Paul

This week the Supreme Court is expected to issue its long-awaited decision regarding the constitutionality of the "Obamacare" law. I recently discussed absurd legal arguments by Obamacare advocates that Congress can compel the purchase of health insurance, and the dismal record of federal courts applying so-called "judicial review" in protecting liberty. It is obvious that Obamacare's legal apologists either are wholly ignorant of constitutional principles, or wholly lawless in their blatant disregard for those principles. Likewise, supporters of Obamacare are willfully ignorant of basic economics. The fundamental problem with health care costs in America is that the doctor-patient relationship has been profoundly altered by third party interference. Third parties, either government agencies themselves or nominally private insurance companies virtually forced upon us by government policies, have not only destroyed doctor-patient confidentiality. They also inescapably drive up costs because basic market disciplines-- supply and demand, price sensitivity, and profit signals-- are destroyed. Obamacare, via its insurance mandate, is more of the same misdiagnosis. Gabriel Vidal, Chief Operating Officer of a U.S. hospital system, sees this problem squarely in his daily work. As he explains , Obamacare will only make matters worse because it fails to recognize that "costs are out of control because they do not reflect prices created by the voluntary exchange between patients and providers... like every well-functioning industry." Instead, "health costs reflect the distortions that government regulators have introduced through reimbursement mechanisms created by command-and-control bureaucracies at federal and state levels," he continues. "But it is theoretically and practically impossible for a bureaucrat- no matter how accurate the cost data, how well-intentioned and how sophisticated his computer program- to come up with the correct and just price. The (doctor-patient) relationship... has been corrupted by the intrusion of government and its intermediaries (HMOs, for example) to such an extent that we can no longer speak of a relationship that can produce meaningful pricing information." Absent such pricing information, our system increasingly resembles socialist systems with centralized price setting, shortages, rationing, apathy, and declining quality of care. As the situation deteriorates, fewer bright young people want to practice medicine and fewer foreign doctors seek to immigrate. The problem is acute and worsening. Obamacare's third party insurance mandate is only the first step toward what the political left really wants: a single payer government healthcare system. Meanwhile, conservatives seem resigned to a third party insurance system and therefore fail to present a viable alternative to the American people. They continue to speak in terms of saving the healthcare "system," when in fact what America needs is a rejection of all government systems in favor of free market mechanisms. In a free market, most Americans would pay cash for basic services and maintain inexpensive high-deductible insurance for catastrophic injury or illnesses only. Health insurance would be decoupled from employment, which would unleash entrepreneurs who now fear quitting their jobs and losing their health insurance. Costs would plummet due to real competition among doctors, price sensitivity among patients, and elimination of enormous paperwork costs. Doctors would be happier, spending their time treating patients rather than managing their practices. Congress needs to let markets work by aggressively repealing healthcare laws, including: the HMO Act of 1973; the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit passed in 2003; and the Obamacare bill passed in 2010. Furthermore, we must begin scaling back Medicare coverage altogether for younger generations so they will not rely on a system that cannot remain solvent in future decades. Only by taking these steps now can we begin to undo the harm done by government to the once noble field of medicine. --- source FAIR USE NOTICE



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When Will We Attack Syria? Plans, rumors, and war propaganda for attacking Syria and deposing Assad have been around for many months. This past week however, it was reported that the Pentagon indeed has finalized plans to do just that. In my opinion, all the evidence to justify this attack is bogus. It is no more credible than the pretext given for the 2003 invasion of Iraq or the 2011 attack on Libya. The total waste of those wars should cause us to pause before this all-out effort at occupation and regime change is initiated against Syria.

There are no national security concerns that require such a foolish escalation of violence in the Middle East. There should be no doubt that our security interests are best served by completely staying out of the internal strife now raging in Syria. We are already too much involved in supporting the forces within Syria anxious to overthrow the current government. Without outside interference, the strife—now characterized as a civil war—would likely be non-existent. Whether or not we attack yet another country, occupying it and setting up a new regime that we hope we can control poses a serious Constitutional question:

From where does a president get such authority? Since World War II the proper authority to go to war has been ignored. It has been replaced by international entities like the United Nations and NATO, or the President himself, while ignoring the Congress. And sadly, the people don't object. Our recent presidents explicitly maintain that the authority to go to war is not the U.S. Congress. This has been the case since 1950 when we were taken into war in Korea under UN Resolution and without Congressional approval. And once again, we are about to engage in military action against Syria and at the same time irresponsibly reactivating the Cold War with Russia. We're now engaged in a game of "chicken" with Russia which presents a much greater threat to our security than does Syria.

How would we tolerate Russia in Mexico demanding a humanitarian solution to the violence on the U.S.-Mexican border? We would consider that a legitimate concern for us. But, for us to be engaged in Syria, where the Russian have a legal naval base, is equivalent to the Russians being in our backyard in Mexico. We are hypocritical when we condemn Russian for protecting their neighborhood interests for exactly what we have been doing ourselves, thousands of miles away from our shores. There's no benefit for us to be picking sides, secretly providing assistance and encouraging civil strife in an effort to effect regime change in Syria. Falsely charging the Russians with supplying military helicopters to Assad is an unnecessary provocation. Falsely blaming the Assad government for a so-called massacre perpetrated by a violent warring rebel faction is nothing more than war propaganda.

Most knowledgeable people now recognize that the planned war against Syria is merely the next step to take on the Iranian government, something the neo-cons openly admit. Controlling Iranian oil, just as we have done in Saudi Arabia and are attempting to do in Iraq, is the real goal of the neo-conservatives who have been in charge of our foreign policy for the past couple of decades. War is inevitable without a significant change in our foreign policy, and soon. Disagreements between our two political parties are minor. Both agree the sequestration of any war funds must be canceled. Neither side wants to abandon our aggressive and growing presence in the Middle East and South Asia. This crisis building can easily get out of control and become a much bigger war than just another routine occupation and regime change that the American people have grown to accept or ignore. It's time the United States tried a policy of diplomacy, seeking peace, trade, and friendship. We must abandon our military effort to promote and secure an American empire. Besides, we're broke, we can't afford it, and worst of all, we're fulfilling the strategy laid out by Osama bin Laden whose goal had always been to bog us down in the Middle East and bring on our bankruptcy here at home. It's time to bring our troops home and establish a non-interventionist foreign policy, which is the only road to peace and prosperity.

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17-Jun-2012

Rick Santorum Wants to Fight

by Jack Hunter JUN 15TH 2012



From The Washington Post this week:



“I like the platform that we have right now,” Santorum said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “I’m concerned that Ron Paul and some of his supporters out there are looking for a platform fight, and I want to make sure that we have strong, principled conservatives out there . . .to counterbalance the effect of the Paul folks.”



There will be “strong, principled conservatives” in Tampa. They’re called “Ron Paul delegates.”



There will also be a No Child Left Behind-supporting, Medicare Plan D-voting, big government Republican in Tampa who openly rejects the GOP’s Barry Goldwater, limited government heritage.



His name is Rick Santorum.



Said Sen. Rand Paul in an interview with radio host Peter Schiff earlier this week: “We are going to have a large impact on the platform of the Republican Party – no matter what Rick Santorum says.”



This schism over the GOP platform and what the Republican Party’s principles should be might seem like some petty squabble to outsiders, but in fact it is a longstanding dispute between those who still believe that conservatives’ primary goal is to eliminate and shrink government, and Republicans for whom “conservatism” means they can simply “fix” or “restructure” our existing government.



This is absurd. Managing big government better than the Democrats is not conservative. I explained the difference between the traditional conservatism of Goldwater and Ron and Rand Paul vs. Republicans like Rick Santorum in a video for The Daily Caller in April:

The Deal with Jack Hunter: Goodbye to Conservatism



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Conservatives don't "fix" big government. They end it.





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17-Jun-2012

ELECTION FRAUD – ARE YOU A VICTIM OF VOTING FRAUD? Help stop election fraud and voting fraud to restore integrity in America. ToolsForJustice is working in partnership with Lawyers for Ron Paul, WatchtheVote2012.com , RonPaulVoteCount.org , and WTPNetwork.com acting as a private, secure, centralized clearinghouse to support all concerned citizens to enforce our voting rights and restore integrity to the election process by gathering evidence of election fraud and voting fraud through our members in our private forum. We want to document voting rights violations and election fraud abuses committed during the Republican primaries in preparation for filing a 42 USC Section 1983 lawsuit for violations of our voting rights, 42 USC Sections 1971-1974. We invite all concerned organizations to join us. Be part of this effort. Click here to view and download the entire 84-page federal civil voting fraud complaint filed in the U.S. 9th Circuit with the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California on Monday, June 11, 2012 by Attorney Richard Gilbert. The case has been assigned to Federal Judge Hon. David O. Carter. Do you want remedy for election/voting fraud? Become a FREE member by clicking the Join Us button on this page. Then, follow the directions for submitting your testimony of your own experience(s) as a victim of election abuse and corruption on the forum according to the state or territory in which you live. Please submit any evidence, real or witnessed that can be verified, which can be used in testimony to stop election fraud and voting fraud corruption. NOTE: We are committed to providing legal and paralegal support free-of-charge for this matter exclusively. Ways to send evidence in video or document form, or if you don’t want to use the Internet to submit information: more here





15-Jun-2012



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Presidential Primary Voting Rights Violations – Our Legal Remedy The 2012 Republican presidential primary election process has been significantly corrupted by certain leaders and members of the Republican National Committee and State GOP organizations who oppose the Ron Paul campaign. The Ron Paul grassroots movement is sweeping the country while Ron Paul delegates are sweeping state conventions. The RNC’s hostile response to Ron Paul delegates, including dirty tricks amounting to felony criminal violations of the federal voting rights statutes, is defaming the Republican Party, but cannot stop the now inevitable brokered national convention in Tampa. Until recently, we felt helpless to enforce our civil rights. Ron Paul voters and delegates have been cheated, intimidated, threatened, and abused in every conceivable manner by the GOP in an effort to prevent Ron Paul from winning the Republican nomination in the presidential primary. Presidential Primary – Voting Rights Violations growing list of offenses! The growing list of offenses is staggering, built upon the foundation of the most obvious: The RNC’s refusal to recognize Ron Paul delegates

Blatant favoritism toward Romney as the “presumptive nominee”

The outright denial of Paul’s continued viable campaign

The demand for Ron Paul delegates to pledge their votes to Romney These and other actions are amassing into a mountain of violations of what is arguably one the most systematic, widespread egregious cases of deprivation of civil voting rights and election fraud committed in American history. more here

SHOCKING USA ELECTION FRAUD 2012







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Now everyone knows that there has been voter fraud against Ron Paul mainly because the Federal Reserve and the Mega Corporations want to maintain the power that they have over the United States Government. Ron Paul would give the power back to the people (Fed and Corporations obviously don't want that)



Its time for a Revolt by the people and its time to take control of your Country! Corporations and Wall Street control your Government if you dont think thats bad its time to WAKE UP NOW!!! ELITE ARE OPPRESSING THE 99%!!!



Take to the streets & protest TILL YOU GET YOUR RIGHTS BACK

ITS TIME FOR THE 99% TO TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR COUNTRY

ITS TIME FOR CORPORATE THUGS TO BE BROUGHT OT JUSTICE

ITS TIME FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2012 NOW TODAY





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15-Jun-2012

Lawyers For Ron Paul Civil Rights (Voting Rights) Lawsuit FAQ





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This video explains a basic overview of the Civil Rights (Voting Rights/Election Fraud) Lawsuit being filed in Federal Court by Lawyers For Ron Paul on behalf of American voters.





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04-Jun-2012

Police Assault Ron Paul Delegate at LAGOP Convention



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Published on Jun 2, 2012 by RonPaulHemp Alex Helwig, Ron Paul Rules Chairman, elected legitimately by the majority delegation, is thrown out and assaulted at LA GOP Convention by Shreveport Police. Here is the link to his response after being released from the hospital: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MST6gH9UTZg&feature=g-upl ---



18-May-2012

Ron Paul going full force to Republican National Convention



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Ron Paul is the candidate that continues to be ignored by the mainstream media, but he is still in the game. The Texas congressman and his supporters continue to push towards the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, but many doubt Paul's delegate strategy will give him the GOP nod. So what can we expect from Paul at the RNC? Brian Doherty, senior editor at Reason.com, joins us with more on Paul's new strategy heading to the RNC.



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16-May-2012

How Ron Paul is Winning by Jack Hunter MAY 16TH 2012



James Antle has a great column at The American Conservative today explaining how Ron Paul’s real and ultimate victory is coming to fruition:



There has been a great deal of confusion since the Paul campaign released a strategy document saying that while they are bowing out of the primaries, the fight for delegates goes on all the way to the Republican National Convention in Tampa.



“Unfortunately, barring something very unforeseen, our delegate total will not be strong enough to win the nomination,” campaign chairman Jesse Benton acknowledged publicly for the first time. “However, our delegates can still make a major impact at the National Convention and beyond.”



This kind of talk elicits sneers from those who think of politics purely in horse-race terms. The Christian Science Monitor claims Paul’s influence “may be more symbolic than practical.” Even the libertarian blogger Doug Mataconis concludes, “it’s unclear what Paul’s supporters think they are going to accomplish here.”



To answer that question, it is useful to ask another: What would have done more to advance the Christian right’s goals in 1988 — Pat Robertson somehow seizing the presidential nomination or his supporters winning party leadership positions all over the country? It is easy to forget now that the Robertson forces were viewed as disruptive at the time. They denied delegate slots to longtime party regulars, including sitting congressmen and Republican elected officials. To the extent that party leaders were willing to tolerate them at all, they wished these religious conservatives would simply vote Republican and then go home.



Sound at all familiar? By the mid-1990s Robertson’s supporters were integrated into the state and national party structure. The Christian Coalition played a key role in setting the Republican agenda. Ron Paul’s supporters are using similar tactics, though they hope that unlike the Christian right they will change the party more than they are changed by it.



To be sure, some of the influence Paulites hope to have on the party platform is symbolic. Yet in politics, symbolism and substance can sometimes be mutually reinforcing. The GOP adopted a strong pro-life platform plank partly because of an influx of antiabortion activists into the party. But the platform language itself played a meaningful role in defining Republicans as the pro-life party.



It is easy to imagine Paul having a similar influence over the party through its platform, perhaps by identifying the GOP with auditing the Federal Reserve or demanding more specific spending cuts than likely nominee Mitt Romney has dared to offer. But there is a lot of practical politics going on in the Paul movement too. Paul supporters are now state party chairs in Iowa, Alaska, and Nevada. They have made inroads from Maine to Louisiana. These gains do not evaporate the minute the presidential campaign ends.



Neither do Paul-inspired liberty candidates who win their elections in down-ballot races. The careers of Rand Paul and Justin Amash, the most successful of dozens of Ron Paul Republicans to have sought office since 2008, are ultimately more important to the party’s future — and perhaps the country’s — than any credentials fight in Tampa. Critics who insist that the movement is simply a cult of personality around one man focus on colorful eccentrics at rallies (admittedly not few in number) while ignoring the Paulites’ increasingly effective practical political involvement. Ron Paul supporters are starting to do the very things that are required to have a more lasting impact…



The name of the game is changing the Republican Party. Anything that takes Paul’s supporters out of the party or leads them to surrender to the GOP status quo is a defeat.



Even if Romney is the nominee rather than Paul, anything that keeps the momentum going in favor of the GOP’s constitutional transformation is a victory for the Texas congressman.



Antle’s entire column is well worth your time



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16-May-2012

Ron Paul Campaign May 15, 2012 Conference Call





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The complete May 15, 2012 Conference call between Ron Paul 2012 Campaign Manager Jesse Benton and Reporters on where the Paul 2012 Campaign is going from here. Sinclair News is committed to reporting the News factually, honestly and uncensored.



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