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This isn't about Ron Paul, this is about liberty and sanity. If Daniel keeps talking about that, nice and loud, I'll be happy!
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This isn't about Ron Paul, this is about liberty and sanity. If Daniel keeps talking about that, nice and loud, I'll be happy!
In an email tonight to supporters Dave hails
Dan Hannan’s brilliant response to Gordon Brown in the European Parliament. It was so effective and shows the growing power of the internet over TV.
Meanwhile Sir Michael White is getting a lashing from his own readers on the Guardian website for, well, just not getting it. Douglas Carswell is taking the opportunity on his blog to remind Sir Michael that he recently mocked Carswell for saying YouTube was going to be politically important. On the other hand Guido has to give full credit to John Prescott, who clearly does get it:
I must say I find the internet sensation caused by Dan Hannan’s speech to the European Parliament remarkable. Normally, an obscure Eurosceptic Tory MEP would not get any coverage for a rant against the Prime Minister in the mainstream media. And it proved to be the case. None of the networks or the newspapers originally covered it. But once he uploaded it onto YouTube it took off. Firstly it got up to 30,000 hits after being promoted by Guido Fawkes on his website. Then it exploded in the US once it was put on the Drudge Report site. The mainstream media were then forced to cover it and it has now been seen by more than a million people. I think this is a perfect example of the power shift away from the mainstream media to the internet. Instead of having to get past the editorial filter of journalists and editors, people are starting to set the news agenda and the hacks are having to catch up.
All the left-wing think-tanks and pressure groups have been having seminars and meetings on how to harness the internet “after Obama”. Maybe they should have looked to Ron Paul instead, he had a clear libertarian political message that he articulated via the internet. The internet insurgency shook up the Republican party during the U.S. primaries when Ron Paul, then a little known anti-War Republican running for President, shocked the U.S. political establishment by raising over $4 million online - in one day.
Not for nothing was his campaign song “Google Ron Paul”. Hannan’s first choice for U.S. president was the libertarian Republican, not surprising considering Hannan and Carswell are two of the most libertarian leaning Conservative politicians. If you read their book “The Plan“, you will see they both get the internet and the effect it will have on politics. Right now some 1 1/4 million people have “Googled Dan Hannan”…
Brent, can you let Mark know, in your next correspondence with him, that Daniel has inspired an International Liberty movement? And that we are in the planning stages of writing the mission statement and getting the web site up?
Sure will, he also reads this thread and often emails the response to such questions before I even get to ask.
So one way or another, he will know.
I'm anxious to see how this comes along.
Do you think this is similar to Freedom Force International?
Ok, recieved new email updates.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/23233/
and the last one:
Anyone got another contact for the good Judge, (Napolitano) here is what I have found so far...
http://www.judgenap.com/contact.php
Love it.
So how do we help keep Daniel Hannan in the public eye and advance his new popularity.
We need for our friends across the pond to know that we love what Mr. Hannan says and love that he stands for liberty.
What is our next move? Has his speech been dugg?
How do we counteract Mr. Michael White of the Guardian and show how wrong he is about Mr. Hannan?
This is great. I saw him last weekend being interviewed and i nearly gave myself whiplash by jerking my head up suddenly at the trumpeting of truth in such an uncompromising, no nonesense way. I had no idea who he supported and didn't even think to find out. I just thought to myself. "Prime minister material. Get thee to Whitehall and don't budge!"
Yaaay...so cool that you've been contacted Brent. This is what i would call a breakthrough in the movement. This man is young and a real head turner. He's got the 'x' factor!!!![]()
I think it will be different in that Ed's org. focuses on education whereas we, at least I think, will be inviting like minded politicians from around the world and their supporters to join us in applying pressure on our respective countries to withdraw and even dismantle the UN, for example. And setting up alternative currencies in the event of collapse; and organizing events around stuff like this.
At least I hope this is the direction we'll be going in. In my mind, if the world's currencies end up on the brink of collapse, we will end up with the UN, the BIS, and IMF taking us ALL over.