My impression of the rally.

[AFM]

You think thats mail they're putting in your mailboxes?
FREE YOUR MIND

 

[sidster]

I am constantly removing these from my mailbox. Since the mail is not delivered at night, there is no reason to have any kind of reflective stickers on the box.

I have never however connected this with anything nefarious. I will keep watching.

I'm curious about these stickers now reading all your comments.
NH4RonPaul, I'd be curious if your sticker comes back and if it
does, how long it took to be replaced. Can you make sure to post
an updated if this does happen?

Also, can those of you that have these post them on a thread in
the "Off Topic" section under a relevant title?

Thanks!

TheSkeptic, good post btw! 5 stars from me!

 

[RockEnds]

Okay, you made me check my mailbox. No stickers. I'm either safe, or I'm scheduled to meet my doom before doomsday. Hard to say.

Do any of you who have reflective tape on your mailboxes have your boxes on posts by the street or road? Is there any chance it's just there to prevent traffic from hitting your mailbox?

 

[Dr.3D]

Okay, you made me check my mailbox. No stickers. I'm either safe, or I'm scheduled to meet my doom before doomsday. Hard to say.

Do any of you who have reflective tape on your mailboxes have your boxes on posts by the street or road? Is there any chance it's just there to prevent traffic from hitting your mailbox?

LOL, the reflective tape never stopped the kiddie drivers from hitting it.
In fact, I saw one jump up on the embankment with is truck just to run over it.

 

[RockEnds]

LOL, the reflective tape never stopped the kiddie drivers from hitting it.
In fact, I saw one jump up on the embankment with is truck just to run over it.

Kids these days. You'd think with the price of gas and all... Well, it sounds like what you need to do is call your County Board of Supervisors and tell them the tape isn't working, and you would like a barricade. They had some left over stuff from Iraq that they brought to Iowa for the floods.

 

[Dr.3D]

Kids these days. You'd think with the price of gas and all... Well, it sounds like what you need to do is call your County Board of Supervisors and tell them the tape isn't working, and you would like a barricade. They had some left over stuff from Iraq that they brought to Iowa for the floods.

Heh, I asked if I could put in a 4" pipe filled with concrete, but they said that might kill some fool. So I just have to let the mail box look out for itself.

 

[johnnyv8]

Just got home to Jersey from the March, GREAT TIME. It was my first march, first time hearing Dr. Paul in person, first time doing anything w/ politics.


I def had a love/hate relationship between the speakers, I'm all about freedom of religion but at the same time religion needs to stay away from gov. I'm very open mind towards anything including that 911 was inside job however, I don't believe it is a inside job and neither does Dr. Paul.

I though the Gentlemen from the veterans against Iraq War was GREAT. I love the guy who write that book(cant remeber the name of it), he was great.

also, on the way home 2nite; i could not figure out why this car was trying to catch up to me in till they where side by side w/ me shoving a Ron Paul sigh out the window ( I guess they notice the giant Ron Paul for president sticker i had on the back windshield of my car)


BTW, RON PAUL granddaughters are HOT

 

[TheSkeptic]

BTW, RON PAUL granddaughters are HOT

Yeah...all of a sudden my interest in politics was heightened.

 

[SteveB-NY]

Just back to NY and wanted to add my two cents.

I was VERY pleasently suprised by Wolff. She was thoughtful, energetic, and made a point of being inclusive. We may not all agree on everything but if we agree on the essentials that should be enough.
The speaker from Vets against the war was magnificent. He has immediate credibility and was the most passionate speaker there in my opinion.
The initial speaker - the gentleman who wrote the letter to America [sorry I can't recall his name] was a wonderful choice as an opener. He introduced the themes, he mixed humor with his message, and he had the same gentle demeanor as RP.
Scheuer was, as expected, solid and thoughtful.
The gentleman who wrote about the Fed [again I'm sorry I can't recall his name exactly] did a very good job but from what I had heard about him I anticipated that. Same with the author of Freedom to Facism who by the way was very nice when I spoke with him briefly as we were leaving.
Howard Phillips sounded much like when I first heard him over twenty years ago. I must admit that when he was on I was getting woozy from the heat so I couldn't give him my full attention.
RP was RP. Need anything more be said. Sorry he had to leave right after.

Now for the bad. The guy from NC who went off on the "invasion" by illegals. Sorry but you lost me. The Arizaona police officer - while I respect your service there is a difference between healthy scepticism and the illness of paranoia.

I agree with an earlier poster who mentioned that the vendors/hawkers of websites/local candidates who were walking around constantly were a distraction but I could live with it. Perhaps they could have had a a dedicated area by the side for them.

The March itself, Since I missed the 6:02 train by ten minutes I missed the first half of the March but the half mile I was in was good. Loud crowd, interesting looks from spectators on the sidewalk.

Estimating the crowd size is difficult since so many people were bunched in the back and on the sides and lots of people seemed to leave early most likely due to the heat but I honestly cannot believe that even at the height we had 10K at the rally. I was impressed by the passion of the crowd but underwhelmed by the size.

Roundtrip Amtrak - $196
Parking in Newark - $18
water and snacks - $11.39

Standing for Freedom - Priceless

 

[QCB79]

mailbox stickers

I would guess they were put there by the Chinese food ninjas, the same ones who put the menu on your door or mailbox but yet you never see them do it. it's color coded, they spy on you from the bushes and figure out which day of the week you are never home and thats when they send the menu ninja to your place.



cant be any worse than that other guys theory

 

[Eureeka]

There's no way the attendance was only 1-3k. I was at the Philly rally, which was estimated to have 5,000 attendees, and there were at least double that at the revolution march.

 

[rajibo]

There's no way the attendance was only 1-3k. I was at the Philly rally, which was estimated to have 5,000 attendees, and there were at least double that at the revolution march.

I thought there were more people at the Philly rally. And I didn't think there was 5k there.

 

[TheSkeptic]

cant be any worse than that other guys theory

What's really bad is that when he said the line about people being taken to Halliburton's concentration camps, this guy in the crowd got really excited, waved his arm, and shouted, "I said that! I said that!"

 

[RadioDJforPaul]

Come on guys. Anyone that is saying there were only 1,500 there must have not went to the same rally I went too. I'm not gonna through a number out there, but there were way more than that.

 

[RadioDJforPaul]

ANYONE SEE THEIR HEAD?!

I had to. I doubt anyone was home!

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

I guess Christians aren't allowed freedom of speech .
I'm getting the feeling that the women are voting for Baldwin on looks.
I thought there were too many speakers when I saw the list.
No one mentioned the music..was it good?
I'm glad ya'll had a good time, thanks for marching for our Liberty!!!! Tones

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

psssssssssssssst....you were marching so those Christians could get up there and speak..shhhh , don't tell anyone...tones

 

[Peace&Freedom]

Naomi Wolfe blew everyone away. She has a lot of energy, and really knows how to captivate and involve an audience. She took a topic that the mainstream media would denigrate as "fringe" - 10 steps by which societies are closed and their people conditioned to accept tyranny - and made it real.

In my opinion, Adam Kokesh from Veterans Against the War gave the most passionate and powerful speech of the day, in terms of sheer power and intensity. I was very glad to see an anti-war veteran presence to help stabilize some of the lunatic ramblings that were slipped in from time to time from others. This guy is eloquent and captivating, and I hope we see more of him in the movement.

Thomas Woods was also phenomenal. In his very engaging speech, he called the administration "bastards". He is, in short, the man.

The problem with calling speakers one doesn't like 'fringe' or crazy is the above. Folks, average voters and the media will still designate any talk about fascism as radical, passionate anti-war rhetoric as extremist, and any description of the administration as 'bastards' as lunatic, whether or not truthers or theocrats speak at the event. Stop singling out liberty issues you disagree with marginalizing labels, while approving of other speakers who are ALSO saying things most voters don't think are mainstream. It's poisoning the Revolution.

Would we tag John Adams for 'extremism' for saying our Republic was created for a moral and religious people, and would not survive under any other kind of people? Many would say time has proven him right. So enough with the 'lunatic' watch stuff. Even debating whether 5 or 10,000 people showed up (for an event originally planned to be for over 100,000) is itself a mark of having a lack of perspective. This event didn't have a mainstream impact, period. It encouraged us, and that's it. We should get over the divisive, self-serving liberty thought-police attitudes, and simply respect all movement folks who speak truth to power, be they anti-war or truther, Christian or anti-Fed, etc. Onward to the St. Paul event.

 

[Anti Federalist]

The problem with calling speakers one doesn't like 'fringe' or crazy is the above. Folks, average voters and the media will still designate any talk about fascism as radical, passionate anti-war rhetoric as extremist, and any description of the administration as 'bastards' as lunatic, whether or not truthers or theocrats speak at the event. Stop singling out liberty issues you disagree with marginalizing labels, while approving of other speakers who are ALSO saying things most voters don't think are mainstream. It's poisoning the Revolution.

Would we tag John Adams for 'extremism' for saying our Republic was created for a moral and religious people, and would not survive under any other kind of people? Many would say time has proven him right. So enough with the 'lunatic' watch stuff. Even debating whether 5 or 10,000 people showed up (for an event originally planned to be for over 100,000) is itself a mark of having a lack of perspective. This event didn't have a mainstream impact, period. It encouraged us, and that's it. We should get over the divisive, self-serving liberty thought-police attitudes, and simply respect all movement folks who speak truth to power, be they anti-war or truther, Christian or anti-Fed, etc. Onward to the St. Paul event.

+1776 for the whole.

+1776 x (2) for the highlighted.

People, get it through your collective heads, to the "average" Joe Six Pack and Sally Soccer Mom we are ALL a bunch of nuts.

"Well, we have to be there, cuz the terrorists hate us for our freedoms".

"Without a federal reserve, who will print the money".

"Without social security, people will die in the streets".

"The Constitution is outdated and written for olden times, we can't use it now".

It's idiocy like this that has to overcome, one person at a time.

And we are running out of time, rapidly. We need every freaking freedom minded person out there, giving 110%, to turn this around in time.

I could care a frog's fat ass about what brought people to the freedom movement, atheist, religious, queer, straight, "truther", immigration, monetary issues, war, foreign policy, race, for fuck's sake, no one should care, as long as they have the core issues of freedom and the constitution at heart.

For crying out loud, if we don't get this right, we'll be having this same stupid argument around a FEMA detention center campfire, and that's no shit.

 

[amy31416]

People, get it through your collective heads, to the "average" Joe Six Pack and Sally Soccer Mom we are ALL a bunch of nuts.

Yeah. And in that train of thought, I've come to care less and less about appearances. It's still important, whether we like it or not, but is getting less so. I still hate the bullshit over when we sink to the levels of harrassing people and being reactionary, we need to be deliberate and confident.

All I care about anymore, as far as image goes, is that we remain civilized--especially towards each other.

Let's turn this around on them. Let's not let our petty differences be such a big deal--we have so much more in common than we do differences.

I was definitely one of the people who, early on, cranked out on the conspiracy theorists--and I still justify that because appearances were rather important at that time to try to win over the mainstream. That's no longer an option. I'll never be a person who believes that laser beams from outer space took out the towers, and the frustrating thing now is that those bizarre notions downplay the real questions about 9/11.

However, I still believe that nobody is going to get the real answers about any conspiracy until we have a completely different government, so this is still secondary.