Peace Blimp

[Knightskye]

Yeah, how's this going to attract media coverage? It's not during a campaign, and it's not about a candidate.

 

[WaltM]

Yeah, how's this going to attract media coverage? It's not during a campaign, and it's not about a candidate.

you don't say!

 

[reduen]

It is a blimp flying around in the sky with a radical message....

Yeah, how's this going to attract media coverage? It's not during a campaign, and it's not about a candidate.

 

[brandon]

Personally, I'm not a fan of protests in general. I have been involved with anti-war protests a lot longer than I have been involved in the Ron Paul movement. I had a close up picture of myself appear on the front page of Philadelphia's biggest newspaper for participating in a "die in" on the first day of the Iraq "shock and awe" campaign. I've probably been to 30 or 40 anti-war protests. Some of them had more than a million people show up.


They haven't been very successful, have they? I don't think a blimp will change that too much.

I tend to favor either direct political action, or tax resistance. These are much better ways to to achieve our goals.

 

[WaltM]

It is a blimp flying around in the sky with a radical message....

very radical! I've never seen it before!

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

Peace & Sound Money Blimp

This is a great idea and I think it can be successful if we put Ron Paul's face stencil on the front of the blimp and rename it the "Peace & Sound Money Blimp."

Peace & Sound Money blimps should be flown for this entire election season hovering and taunting the bloodthirsty war mongering Tea Party gatherings and all sorts of other "soft" targets. Candidates will be forced to acknowledge the Blimp and take a stand on the 2 important issues that Boobus Americanus doesn't want to think about.

If the project was generally referred to as "Ron Paul's" Peace & Sound Money Blimp, then it might help re-ignite the revolution! Maybe the blimp shouldn't have RP's name on it, but I think that famous RP face stencil should be part of the blimp design somewhere. Maybe up near the front of the blimp.

If the blimp just has Peace messages like "Stop the Wars", it won't be anywhere as good as if it has the "Sound Money" side of the freedom equation on it too. This might scare some of the lefties who would otherwise contribute, but the whole point is to educate the left about economic freedom, while at the same time trying to beat some sense into the heads of the war-mongering right.

 

[dr. hfn]

Fuck this idea! At least at this time when we have candidates to fund!

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

tkubic, You know if there were enough (or any) candidates who were featuring Peace and Sound Money as their main platform planks (as Ron Paul did), then maybe this wouldn't be necessary.

But all we're getting is Peter Schiff-style pandering to the republican welfare queens whose bloodthirst is driven by christian/satanic superstition and their economic dependency on the military industrial complex and the government mafia's printing press money.

So, the Peace and Sound Money Blimp is going to happen--hovering soon over right wing war monger and left wing state socialist candidate rallies near you...

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

I just saw this posted on an email discussion thread that goes out to 2 or 3 hundred members of the old Las Vegas Ron Paul meetup group. The Blimp issue came up during a discussion about "Mr. Muth." The foam rocket idea is brilliant:

I am a registered member of the Peace Blimp ground crew. Junior money bomber. Imagine that! Multi-tasker that I am, I can support Trevor and his Blimp and still have time to discuss Mr. Muth.

We need to think of some ways to capitalize on the Blimp. Maybe sell smaller versions to fly in indoor arenas? Out at outdoor events like soccer games? Maybe make up some small foam hearts that could be dropped from the Blimp on the heads of the Tea Party crowd with various sayings, like, Make Love, Not War. Or how 'bout lit'l foam rockets that said, If this was a bomb and our Blimp was a Mindless Drone, you'd be dead now or the child next to you would be and you'd probably want to kill whoever sent it.

How 'bout Lit'l Blimp Condoms that say, Make Love, Not War.

 

[reduen]

I will be donating some more very soon Trevor.

 

[SwordOfShannarah]

I just saw this posted on an email discussion thread that goes out to 2 or 3 hundred members of the old Las Vegas Ron Paul meetup group. The Blimp issue came up during a discussion about "Mr. Muth." The foam rocket idea is brilliant:

Ha- some of this is funny but I think there may be something to this...

We were looking at selling mini-blimps (about 20 ft in length I think) to local meetups around the country. Maybe we use the money bomb to buy these blimps and distribute them to local meetups who will use them at monthly or even weekly anti-war rallies. We can show a map on the site of how many cities have them, meetups can make videos of their rallies that we can post up on the website and youtube channel, stuff like that. This way we aren't constantly needing to spend new money to get the same effect. If we spend it on planes and big blimps the money is gone each month, but if we spend it on mini-blimps then we get to keep the blimps indefinitely.

Also during off peak times the meetups could try to move the blimps around the city they live in and fly them above local businesses who support the idea.

 

[Arklatex]

I wish it success, I think $10 towards a well placed sign in a high traffic area will get more views though.

 

[SwordOfShannarah]

I wish it success, I think $10 towards a well placed sign in a high traffic area will get more views though.

Thanks, and that's a good idea as well. But I think a main objection people may have is that the money is spent and gone. This shift in direction would mean we buy the materials and then own and keep them. Over time we could have tens, even hundreds of mini-blimps across the country.. if it all works out.

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

Ron Paul CPAC Victory

As of early morning 2/21, there are still only 501 pledges for the blimp on peaceblimp.com.

Please tell all of your friends and family to sign up.

Maybe if the number of signups increases rapidly after this CPAC victory, it will inspire a clamor for a Peace & Sound Money Blimp with RP's face on the blimp's nose.

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

Neo-cons infesting your teaparty?

Found a great slogan to promote the blimp:

Neo-cons infesting your teaparty?

Scare them away with a Peace Blimp!

Found here:

http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/peaceblimp-official-website/tweets/

 

[Juan McCain]

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I never thought blimps were a good allocation of resources, and I think Tom Woods agrees

and neither you or Tom Woods are in this picture . . .

 

[JP2010]

pass

 

[Elijah]

Well... it might be the Peace Blimp, or Peace Planes, or Peace Blimp (smaller than advertised)

Glad to see they're not doing this in winter, and they also have backup plans in case they don't raise oodles of cash.

I guess you learn something after doing the first one in winter!

 

[Elijah]

I pledged! What a great idea!

 

[Elijah]

PeaceBlimp.com on both sides would be interesting. I feel like reading the words end the wars on a blimp isn't going to do much for most people aside from make them laugh that we launched another blimp to get the point across. The eccentricity to this is what will make it effective, so I think it's pretty crucial that the side of it is interesting.

I also would like to see PeaceBlimp.com on both sides.