Ron Paul supporters now working on two pre-RNC festivals

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And not surprisingly, they aren't telling us who's running it. They have a venue, a major band, Gary Johnson and David Boaz as speakers, etc., and yet they have not told us who the organizers for this festival is.

On their own website they just list the board as "Coming Soon". http://www.freedomfestival2012.com/board/

Freedom Festival 2012 Announced in time for GOP Convention

JUNE 11, 2012 · POSTED IN PRESS RELEASES

Ron Paul Supporters to put on World Class Event for Everyone

Tampa, Fla., June 8, 2012.


...FREEDOM FESTIVAL 2012 has confirmed that its World class festival, a celebration of freedom, liberty and dreams, will be hosted by Fantasy of Flight, an attraction and exhibition facility located between Orlando and Tampa Florida...

...Celebrated author and dynamic talk radio personality, Josh Tolley, one of the top 100 business trainers in the World, will be lending his support to Freedom Festival 2012...

...Also offering his services as a Board member and Speaker for FREEDOM FESTIVAL 2012 will be primetime anchor as well as writer, host and producer of Reality Check, Ben Swann....

...The Grassroots for Liberty SuperPAC is committed to supporting Freedom Festival 2012...

http://1787network.com/2012/06/freed...onvention/4788

From the press release:

"The event is expected to officially kick off the GOP nominating convention promoting a message of “INCLUSION”..."

 

[MrWalker]

It dosent surprise me one bit that they are bringing in fractionalist/splinter Gary Johnson to this festival - considering who is behind his campaign.......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1egV2Q2FE&list=UUhZRoC9bMegevAxFmee1oSA&index=1&feature=plcp

How was it the Romans used to put it? "To divide and conquer".Right?

P.S If that guy gets 5% of the votes in this election, and 15% in 2016, im gonna eat my socks that im wearing right now!

 

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It dosent surprise me one bit that they are bringing in fractionalist/splinter Gary Johnson to this festival - considering who is behind his campaign.......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1egV2Q2FE&list=UUhZRoC9bMegevAxFmee1oSA&index=1&feature=plcp

How was it the Romans used to put it? "To divide and conquer".Right?

You are attributing quite a lot of power to Gary Johnson.

I am thinking that TRYGVE OLSON packs more of a punch than ROGER STONE.

 

[steph3n]

A split and a split and a split. Why does this no surprise me, the ego's in the liberty market are too big for their own good.

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

Maybe Trygve Olson will be speaking!

...TRYGVE OLSON...

I was just thinking sort of the same thing: Maybe Trygve Olson will be speaking!

I propose that at the non-CIA-Fest we have a giant banner in back of the stage that says: "In 1964 Murray Rothbard Cheered for LBJ--War & Peace is the #1 Libertarian Issue!"

These CIA guys have been relentless in war-monger-izing the libertarian movement in the U.S. since they put Buckley on the project in 1920. They will never stop. I've always said that I suspected that they created Rand from the get-go and fixed the KY voting machines to build their fire-break.

And David Boaz is bad news--big time!

 

[PatriotOne]

..Also offering his services as a Board member and Speaker for FREEDOM FESTIVAL 2012 will be primetime anchor as well as writer, host and producer of Reality Check, Ben Swann....

And yet he isn't listed as a speaker or a board member at the so-called FreedomFest. You'd think this would be advertised pretty heavily on their website. Strange, no?

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

This Robert Wenzel post has a really good 1997 excerpt from the Rothbard/Rockwell report which covers how beginning in the 1920's the CIA created Buckley and National Review to try to war-monger-ize the non-interventionist libertarian movement in the U.S. and the old Freeman magazine:

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/06/rand-paul-backs-away-from-his-full.html

Can we stop them this time?

 

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This Robert Wenzel post has a really good 1997 excerpt from the Rothbard/Rockwell report which covers how beginning in the 1920's the CIA created Buckley and National Review to try to war-monger-ize the non-interventionist libertarian movement in the U.S. and the old Freeman magazine:

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/06/rand-paul-backs-away-from-his-full.html

Can we stop them this time?

They literally BANK ON either the "R" or the "D" holding court in the Oval=Corner Office.

REPUBLICAN "Liberty Lovers" won't admit it, but this COULD be the year that a critical mass of Americans vote third-party...NOT because they fall in WUV an unknown outlier candidate, but "simply" as a collective FUCK YOU to both halves of the two-party stranglehold.

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

They literally BANK ON either the "R" or the "D" holding court in the Oval=Corner Office.

REPUBLICAN "Liberty Lovers" won't admit it, but this COULD be the year that a critical mass of Americans vote third-party...NOT because they fall in WUV an unknown outlier candidate, but "simply" as a collective FUCK YOU to both halves of the two-party stranglehold.

Our best hope is that they nominate Rand for VP and Ron comes out like he did in 2008 and gets the Green, Libertarian, and Constitution Parties to unite on the 4 key issues (foreign policy, privacy & civil liberties, balanced budget, and the fed). I can't think of a better spark for freedom in the U.S. than Ron Paul refusing to endorse Romney/Rand on principle.

 

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...I can't think of a better spark for freedom in the U.S. than Ron Paul refusing to endorse Romney/Rand on principle.

He'd finally make a MEDIA SPLASH.

 

[Elwar]

They have a venue, a major band, Gary Johnson and David Boaz as speakers,

David Boaz? Of Cato?

Perhaps he will endorse Fred Thompson again.

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

He'd finally make a MEDIA SPLASH.

I wonder if there's any chance if at the non-CIA-Fest we could have the MARATHON ALL DAY or ALL WEEK or MORE Town Hall Meeting where Ron sits on a panel with the journalists and authors that Scott Horton interviews every day on anti-war radio and voters and other journalists are invited to line up at the microphone and ask Ron and the panel to explain their proposals IN DETAIL for de-militarizing the world police state?

And why not rent the venue for this purpose weeks ahead of time? It would all be ustreamed and archived for the ages. You want to talk about getting some attention and a media splash?

Here's the heroic Phil Giraldi posting in the comments on Justin's Rand article explaining how Jesse and the war-mongers thwarted anything like this from happening so far:

If you go over to the Campaign for Liberty's truly awful website you will see two articles posted dealing with foreign policy, one from April and one from February. Nada mas. Those of us who tried to work for the Paul campaign on foreign policy were marginalized by a group of insiders in the campaign who clearly believed that it was better to worry about light bulb and washing machine standards than it was to discuss Iran. Hasn't anyone noticed that folks like Anthony Gregory, Tom Woods and Judge Napolitano were pretty much absent from the campaign because they were made unwelcome and in some cases advised to go away? Jesse Benton was clearly the heart of the problem but he had plenty of support and now the chickens have come home to roost with the absurd Rand Paul endorsement. So let them continue to work on becoming viable in the GOP system. I predict that Ron Paul will be made invisible in Tampa and that the GOP will spend the next two years devising ways to eliminate his supporters at all levels in the party. Just watch it happen. And then we will see Jesse and Rand going for gold in 2016, but by that point none of us will care anymore and we won't have much of a country left to care about.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/06/17/rand-pauls-oedipal-drama/