Amazing how the liberty lovers are really just into pinning labels on everyone who isn't them.
Does anyone think a President Ron Paul would order the media to black out protests and otherwise ignore them, much less piss on the folks protesting because it might hurt his standing in some poll if he addressed the situation?
Wall Street is guilty of breaking every law in all 50 states regulating mortgage fraud and used the federal government to block all 50 states investigations into that fraud. The result was a meltdown of the entire globes economies. The perps lied to Congress. The Fed lied to Congress. Government officials lied to Congress. Trillions of taxpayer dollars were illegally funneled into these criminal's hands in the aftermath, which they divvied up as bonuses.
You think anyone who sees that for what it is and decides to protest should be a member of a religion you like before he/she has the right to protest?
This thing is not going away. As it grows, anyone who waits until they have no choice but to address it will be seen for what he/she is; a Johnny-come-lately who's just jumping on the bandwagon, regardless of which side he/she falls on.
I would love to see RP give a speech promising that the 1st thing he'd do as POTUS is instruct his Justice department to prosecute any and all financial fraud because without enforcing the rule of law we have no government at all and our system isn't capitalism, it's gangster's paradise.
I would remind the protesters that while folks like Michael Moore love to yell "Down with Capitalism!", they always seem to fail to mention that it was Capitalism that made them rich.
I would mention that the Federal reserve operates outside of Capitalism, outside of Congress, outside of the Supreme Court and with no oversight from anyone, anywhere, and that it was Alan Greenspan and the Fed that facilitated the housing bubble, phony bond ratings, complete lack of oversight of the derivatives markets and stifling of all pertinent oversight agencies. And, it was then the same Fed that facilitated the bailouts, multi-trillion dollar loans a 0% to "we aren't telling you to who" and multi-trillion dollar deficits by stealing middle class American's life savings through inflation.
Like danno suggested, folks who've joined this forum a week ago are acting as self-appointed campaign manager, living the wet dream that kissing the GOP arms dealers asses will somehow turn them to vote for Ron Paul by Super Tuesday while calling the participants in the first serious protest in America since Vietnam [insert derogatory label here]. F^^k me, is anyone really that stupid?
Americans of voting age are what we need. The deadline for R registration in NY is in 2 weeks and NY isn't a crossover state.
No politician will support the protesters' right to protest and publicly agree that they've had their futures stolen by WS greed with not a single Grand Jury, allegation, arrest, trial or prosecution amidst the ocean of criminal evidence because they're all scared to death of their Wall Street Lords.
At the SC debate, May 2007, when Ron said they hate us because we've been bombing them for 10 years and Giuliani demanded an apology and all the arms dealers burst into applause, we small group of RP supporters gasped. It seemed an instant disaster. It wasn't. RP met the problem head on against all political logic and it was like lighting a lift off rocket under his campaign.
I'm not going to say anything more on this subject. You experts have at it. But, once you perfect Republican wannabes have chased off the truthers, birthers, Marxists, neocons, liberals, Hispanics or what the fuck ever groups... who's left to vote for Ron Paul? You and Karl Rove?
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