For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty

[angelatc]

I have a Ron Paul signed sealed DVD of this. I also have a loaner copy, and my personal one. I loved this movie. Watched it on my (now) wife's and my first date.... She stuck around and I knew she was a keeper

I have a story too:

I was doing captions for the movie, and I was using a voice-to-text program. It was trained to my voice, so I had to repeat the narration and dialogue as it was playing. I had to go back and edit out the words "Oh sh** that's funny!" from the auto-generated text when the movie cut to the shadow of the blimp and the music took a dark turn.

 

[amy31416]

how so?

If you were here in 2007-2008, you'd know. It was literally magical. We were so damned naive and excited!

Gotta dust off my DVD one of these days.

 

[JK/SEA]

hey look...Lady Liberty was in the ground, buried and presumed dead. The Ron Paul Revolution moved the dirt, propped up the limp corpse, got the heart beating, got the damn thing to open its eyes. Granted, its still on life support, but its ALIIIVE!

dammit, we are living in historical times. Its not over till its over.

 

[Jeremy]

I remember the banner being put up on the overpass here in Houston on 59. Re-watching this makes me kind of sad to see where we were then in terms of enthusiasm and where we are now after what all happened the last campaign. Thanks for posting it.

Speak for yourself.

 

[jllundqu]

Me too. In 2007, I knew 2007 was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. In 2011, I hoped I was wrong, but alas - the fire was gone.

Yeah I had the same feeling. It was like something out of the 1960s.... I was reminded of the awesomeness of Hunter S Thompson

. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

 

[belian78]

Me too. In 2007, I knew 2007 was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. In 2011, I hoped I was wrong, but alas - the fire was gone.

I don't know that the fire was gone, but I think those of us around in 07 were still a bit jaded knowing we worked/sweat/bled so much just to find out Ron never had serious intentions of winning. No matter how many times the campaign in 11 said they were in it to win it, I know for myself I still worked hard but I had reservations. Well founded ones, unfortunately.

 

[angelatc]

I don't know that the fire has gone out, but back then it was small but white-hot. Now its more like some coals, but spread out over a greater area.

I didn't live in Michigan in 2007, but the grassroots here produced legend. For example, the 2007 Mackinac debate made national news because Rudy had to hide in the room where the Captain steers the ferry from. (Sorry AF - I don't know the name of that!) That was so funny!

My moment of truth was when the 2011 Mackinac debate was scheduled. I didn't hear anything about organizing to go to the debate, so I posted a note in one of the Meet Ups. I was pretty excited.

Nobody else thought it was worth the trip.

 

[phill4paul]

Teh Collins assures me that grassroots activism such as this had no bearing on the rise in popularity of Ron Paul in '11. It all came from the media exposure he received after losing the primary in '07. And of course the most excellent work done by the professionals of RP, Inc.

 

[Carlybee]

Speak for yourself.

I was speaking for myself. I don't think (for me) I will ever be a part of anything again that will replicate the excitement or revolutionary spirit of those days. The sadness is because I miss Ron Paul being front and center and realize he won't be a candidate anymore.

 

[orenbus]

 

[Czolgosz]

The tree died a long long time ago.


Plant a new one.

 

[phill4paul]

But, I'd do it all again, twice as much, in a heartbeat.

Wow. Such a powerful documentary. And, yes. In a heartbeat.