our clout? lol
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What if Glenn gets fired, and they hire someone even more vile and ignorant?
Jesse Benton is on AJ talking about this now.
Yeh, I'm so distracted by it I can't function anymore. Don't click on the OP link, it will destroy the entire campaign.
Or you could take the minutes you waste posting on this forum, which is also a distraction, and voice your opinion if you so choose.
Why act like you are someone's guardian? You have no authority over another person's decisions. If people are compelled to write his sponsors, who are you to tell them not to? Who made you God?
Look folks, if you could convince me that fighting these smear attacks will gain us votes in the next 50 days, I would be standing on the front line, hammering away emails with the best of you.
But I want Dr. Paul elected before I want Glenn Beck fired. And I don't see how getting Beck fired, even in 2 weeks, is going to positively and meaningfully impact us at the ballot box.
This recent posting by Bradley in the News forum is exactly what I am talking about. The campaign cannot win if it stays small. And keeping us militant and distracted is a good way to prevent viral growth.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=37963
Yes, let's all just sit quietly while the smear aritists develop the theme that we're domestic terrorists, and that Ron Paul is a racist, and an anti-Semite. Let's all just be nice and polite so we don't offend anyone. Let's just IGNORE it all, maybe it will "go away".
Folks, I think we're missing the entire point here. And all I ask is that you guys hear me out before you attempt to lynch me for being a heretic.
This is not a Glenn Beck issue. This is a Ron Paul (the man himself) issue. We cannot fix "it," only Ron Paul can. Allow me to explain.
Glenn Beck was correct: the Ron Paul movement comprises a number of high profile white supremacists as well as high-profile white supremacist groups, all of which are active in one way or another on Paul's behalf.
Of course, freedom, for which it is that Paul ostensibly stands for, allows us all to think and believe the way in which we all individually desire -- regardless of belief. However, ask yourselves, would you accept a donation to your campaign from Osama bin Laden? Would you accept a donation from Adolf Hitler? Would Ron Paul? And as for that last question, we simply don't know because Paul stubbornly refuses address this issue -- an issue that is threatening to sink the entire movement.
The reason these questions are relevant is because the various Ku Klux Klan organisations are domestic terror organisations, plain and simple. This country was once heavily influenced by groups such as these, and the results were not pretty.
The sole purpose of these groups is to usher in a new society based on white supremacy, along with these particular groups' "values." These "values" that these groups hold dear are NOT freedom and liberty based At All. In fact, if you're queer, or if you're racially "inferior," or else interracially married, or else simply disagree with their brand of Christianity, etc., YOU will be a second, or else third class citizen -- if you're tolerated at all.
This is antithetical to what I have assumed Dr. Paul to stand for, which is why I donated $2300.00 to his campaign. However, as Glenn Beck correctly points out, these "fringe" groups ARE NOT representative of Freedom and Liberty -- they certainly don't subscribe to a Libertarian Live and Let Live philosophy.
And lastly, yes, the very letters "KKK" represents domestic terror. There was a time in this country's history where the KKK was allowed to run free. The result was wide-spread institutional intimidation of those who didn't fit their mold, and lynchings, i.e., rapes, murders, whippings, and kidnappings, etc: Domestic Terrorism.
So, Glenn Beck is right on. Unfortunately, not a single one of you here can repair the damage that is being done due to Dr. Paul's steadfast refusal to tackle this issue head-on. It is ultimately His issue, and he'll have to address it Himself -- no amount of bitching and complaining to Glenn beck's sponsors is going to fix what amounts to a self-inflicted wound by the campaign.
So, as all of you are free to blast off emails to everyone from God on down, it might be more productive to focus on Ground Zero: the campaign itself.
These "Nazi" stories aren't going away because there's enough there for a rational person to question. Only Ron Paul can make it go away....
Folks, I think we're missing the entire point here. And all I ask is that you guys hear me out before you attempt to lynch me for being a heretic.
This is not a Glenn Beck issue. This is a Ron Paul (the man himself) issue. We cannot fix "it," only Ron Paul can. Allow me to explain.
Glenn Beck was correct: the Ron Paul movement comprises a number of high profile white supremacists as well as high-profile white supremacist groups, all of which are active in one way or another on Paul's behalf.
Of course, freedom, for which it is that Paul ostensibly stands for, allows us all to think and believe the way in which we all individually desire -- regardless of belief. However, ask yourselves, would you accept a donation to your campaign from Osama bin Laden? Would you accept a donation from Adolf Hitler? Would Ron Paul? And as for that last question, we simply don't know because Paul stubbornly refuses address this issue -- an issue that is threatening to sink the entire movement.
The reason these questions are relevant is because the various Ku Klux Klan organisations are domestic terror organisations, plain and simple. This country was once heavily influenced by groups such as these, and the results were not pretty.
The sole purpose of these groups is to usher in a new society based on white supremacy, along with these particular groups' "values." These "values" that these groups hold dear are NOT freedom and liberty based At All. In fact, if you're queer, or if you're racially "inferior," or else interracially married, or else simply disagree with their brand of Christianity, etc., YOU will be a second, or else third class citizen -- if you're tolerated at all.
This is antithetical to what I have assumed Dr. Paul to stand for, which is why I donated $2300.00 to his campaign. However, as Glenn Beck correctly points out, these "fringe" groups ARE NOT representative of Freedom and Liberty -- they certainly don't subscribe to a Libertarian Live and Let Live philosophy.
And lastly, yes, the very letters "KKK" represents domestic terror. There was a time in this country's history where the KKK was allowed to run free. The result was wide-spread institutional intimidation of those who didn't fit their mold, and lynchings, i.e., rapes, murders, whippings, and kidnappings, etc: Domestic Terrorism.
So, Glenn Beck is right on. Unfortunately, not a single one of you here can repair the damage that is being done due to Dr. Paul's steadfast refusal to tackle this issue head-on. It is ultimately His issue, and he'll have to address it Himself -- no amount of bitching and complaining to Glenn beck's sponsors is going to fix what amounts to a self-inflicted wound by the campaign.
So, as all of you are free to blast off emails to everyone from God on down, it might be more productive to focus on Ground Zero: the campaign itself.
These "Nazi" stories aren't going away because there's enough there for a rational person to question. Only Ron Paul can make it go away....
This is more significant than simply a smear attack. The govt is creating laws, and setting up commities to investigate what they consider to be "potential home grown terrorirsts". Constitutionalists, gun right activists, and home schoolers are just a few of those that Fema considers to fit this criteria.
If the media is making a concerted effort to imply RP supporters, libertarians, federal reserve protesters, 911 official conspiracy doubters, or anti war activists, and other political dissenters are such than we are heading down a road to hell.
courtney, When asked, Ron Paul will address the issues we have been discussing. To reply to a second rate shill like Glenn Beck is is beneath Dr. Pauls dignity and only rewards gutter journalism... Unfortunately, too many of Mr. Becks brain dead listeners will accept him at his word, and it is our responsibility to ensure he is not rewarded for his smears of the good Doctor, but exposed and punished for being the charleton he is.