We can focus on doing both! There is no reason we can't contact the poker players and demand that Ron Paul be included in the Fox News forum!
However, if we don't get into this forum the media will use it as an excuse to never speak about Ron Paul again! Once we are excluded from ONE FORUM it will set a PRECEDENT!
1) We need to spread the word about this exclusion all across the internet. Everysingle Ron Paul supporter needs to be alerted immediately so they can join us in this effort! For example, we need to tell our friends on Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and Youtube! Also, we need to send a message to all of our Meet Up groups!
2) We need to fax, email, and call every single person at Faux News and other media organizations to tell them about our outrage! The messages should be non-violent and peaceful, but we need to make it clear that we are TICKED OFF and we are NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS!
3) We need to go on every radio show, every internet broadcast, and every call in TV program and let everyone know about this outrage!
Unlike what some suspicious people are say ing the time for action is NOW. The fact is that we don't have time to wait and see what happens, to get every tiny piece of information about why they decided Ron Paul was not worthy of being in the debate, and to find out what the "official" campaign is going to do. If we want Ron Paul in this debate we cannot wait one single day and not one single hour!
we need to get talking to these communities, also truckers for paul... they have to hate nafta
(Sorry for the X-post)
We've got a thread about RP over on our 2+2 forums that's over 2200 posts long. Mainly it's a video thread, but we discuss a whole lot of other stuff too.
Paul was the hero of the online poker community even before he was running, with his speech on the floor before the regulation of the internet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b7_h_OyTI0
After that, he showed up at the hearings and spoke out on our behalf when nobody else cared. Because of that, I watched a couple videos about his other positions when I found out he was running. He slowly converted me from an Obama supporter when I found out more. (Although Obama's waffling on the war turned me off too. I find Ron Paul's foreign policy to be MUCH MUCH more in line with my own.)
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Another poster in this thread mentioned that the poker forums (2+2) are the 88th largest forums in the world. We all know who looks out for us when it comes to politics. And we're all PISSED that the government tells us where we can and can't play.
We can focus on doing both! There is no reason we can't contact the poker players and demand that Ron Paul be included in the Fox News forum!
However, if we don't get into this forum the media will use it as an excuse to never speak about Ron Paul again! Once we are excluded from ONE FORUM it will set a PRECEDENT!
1) We need to spread the word about this exclusion all across the internet. Everysingle Ron Paul supporter needs to be alerted immediately so they can join us in this effort! For example, we need to tell our friends on Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and Youtube! Also, we need to send a message to all of our Meet Up groups!
2) We need to fax, email, and call every single person at Faux News and other media organizations to tell them about our outrage! The messages should be non-violent and peaceful, but we need to make it clear that we are TICKED OFF and we are NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS!
3) We need to go on every radio show, every internet broadcast, and every call in TV program and let everyone know about this outrage!
Unlike what some suspicious people are saying the time for action is NOW. The fact is that we don't have time to wait and see what happens, to get every tiny piece of information about why they decided Ron Paul was not worthy of being in the debate, and to find out what the "official" campaign is going to do. If we want Ron Paul in this debate we cannot wait one single day and not one single hour!
CAN YOU ASK FOR SOME OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENTS ?
I'm not sure what you mean. Poker players are just a group of people, just like here. There's no "leader" or anything who could officially endorse Ron Paul. Just a bunch of like minded individuals who can officially endorse him by voting
(Queue the picture of Ron Paul with famous poker players, anybody got it?)
I'm all for contacting poker players, but that should not be discussed on this forum. It is totally off-topic.
From now on all off-topic threads that do not involve getting Ron Paul into this forum will be flagged.
The fact is we need to get Ron Paul into this forum. I'm tired of the people on here who are trying to sabotage our efforts and convince others we should do nothing!
Isn´t there any organisations etc etc ?
There's one, the Poker Players Alliance. I'm not sure what their legal structure is, so I'm not sure if they can officially endorse anybody. I'll find out and if it's possible we can try to get them to send out an e-mail, although I wouldn't hold your breath. Poker players generally think that the PPA is a great idea but doesn't do much in practice. They may not want to "endorse" a candidate, even if he's the only one who's said so much as a peep about our right to play poker online.