To all the South Carolina Bashers

[Shink]

So true. The other day when it snowed. People were parking in the ditches.

I think it's completely idiotic not to vote for Ron Paul and I'm disappointed at my state. I thought we'd do a lot better, but being a RP supporter here, I have to be partially to blame. Let's not let it happen again!

There is no blame here, only motivation to push harder.

(BTW, the wrecks I mentioned didn't even require a piddly inch of snow. Perfect summer days. LOL@your insurance rates)

 

[Marc Scott Emery]

Democracy is irrational

Voting is irrational. It stems from an unworkable immoral system, so everything about democracy in the USA and Canada is unfathomable.

In a libertarian world there would be no democracy because everyone would simply co-operate with whomever they choose and make whatever mutual decisions for the benefit agreed.

There would be no voting on other people's lives anymore. You could join organizations or ad-hoc groups and derive benefit from voluntarily becoming part of a collective, but you could also leave those groups if they become coercive.

So people in the contemporary, horribly flawed world vote for these package deals, this idea that one man should have so much absolute power, and be responsible for so much control and spending power and military might. This one terribly flawed man or woman.

And what do people vote on? Are these seriously thought out votes? Or do people commit so much power to one person based their race? Their gender? Their "experience"?

Ron Paul is the greatest man offered for President in 50 years. I first heard of him in 1980 when I first ran for office myself, and he is only getting better with age. I'm amazed Ron Paul has been campaigning virtually daily for one year now, and shows no letting up. The Ron Paul for President campaign has been the most hopeful and exciting period for many of us who have always thought politics is the art of exploiting the irrational, stoking the fear.

I can't say much about Fred Thompson's character, I don't know anything wretched about him, I'm just so against the war and the empire and the war on drugs that I could never support Fred Thompson for President. Thompson voted to increase penalties and punishments for drug use and trade, and he has always supported the war against Islam and arming of the middle east. If Ron Paul was not a candidate for President, I'd advocate for Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party because she had an excellent voting record against the drug war and the Iraq war in Congress until 2006 as a Southern Democrat from Florida.

But the other Republicans are loathesome. Huckabee wanting to alter the Constitution to make America a theocracy (Paul was prescient in recalling Sinclair Lewis that fascism will come to America with a cross wrapped in the flag), the "women must submit to men" Old Testament stuff, the dog-torturing billious son, the recurring morbid remarks about 'frying squirrels in popcorn machines'. Even the idea that there will be duck hunting - the killing of innocents in heaven! - in the everafter is repellant. This man is gross, grotesque, vulgar and truly a rural redneck of serious ass backward proportions. He must never be President.

Rudy Giuliani has incarcerated more people for cannabis (282,000 people arrested in Ghoul's 8 year term as Lord of NYC) than any others save perhaps Clinton and Bush (and I hate them) . Giuliani's behavior in family matters, his authoritarian tendencies, his overt exploitative Muslim - baiting, his essential message is Bush Again with a more forceful attitude and 'Go on offense!'.

John McCain. This guy uses the same ridiculous senile uncle talking 'bout the old times speech every goddamn time I see him on CNN. Ron Paul and McCain are the same ages, Paul's even older, but Paul is always the lively hip guy willing to explore new universes, young people ought to be free! - but McCain is this decrepit psychically wounded guy who is like a Douglas MacArthur wannabe, this American Caesar in waiting, still owed his triumphal moment 40 years later. Blames US public opinion for losing in Vietnam he said on TV, 'never lost a battle in Vietnam' he says proudly as if he fought them all. You see, McCain thinks he was robbed of his truly great moment on the battlefield and it haunts him. McCain hasn't figured out the term 'unwinnable war' yet. McCain is a nasty old violator of the Constitution, always scoring zero from the ACLU. Was proud to say he'd like to be in Iraq one hundred more years. THIS GUY won in South Carolina. Ron Paul, whose brilliant and correct retort that night was ' How can you commit the lives of 5 generations to an immoral war? ' got 4% in South Carolina.

Romney's what you get if you take all of George Bush's policies and hand em to a better dressed, better looking, better mannered neo-con-sensus executive.

Tonights 14% in Nevada was a great highlight though, so we have seen the high (14% in Nevada) and the low (4% in SC) and 10% (Iowa), 7% (NH), 7% (MI) in between.

Ron Paul has opportunity in California, Colorado, Washington, and maybe others, to get delegates. Please give to the money bomb Monday at www.ronpaul2008.com

If its any motivation, you can save me from prison by making Ron Paul President!

 

[Am3RiCaN_microcosm]

Marc Emery! I can't tell you how glad I am to know that you are with the RP Revolution! You sir, are a true patriot and I commend you for all you have done. There are MANY people who also support you in your cause here in the states. I know you can't really vote being a Canadian citizen, but maybe you can help in other ways? For example...Why is NORML not endorsing Paul? What about some of the other organizations that have not yet got on board? I think if word spread among the usual circle of cannibus activists about RP's stance on the drug war we could get many more votes!. I'm sure you have some ties with people that many of us do not have here to further his message?

 

[snaFU]

SC was responsible for allowing Bush to win the nomination that sure as hell shows the intelligence in that state.

 

[Ara825]

And if anyone but Dr. Paul is elected, the draft is exactly what we'll get - especially if we're in Iraq a hundred more years as McCain suggests. Over my dead cold body will they take my kids to fight to fill someone elses pocket full of cash.

LEK

I have three grandchildren in high school who keep talking about the recruiters at the school. One recruiter told my oldest grandson that if he joins the recruiter guarantees he will not go to Iraq. I guess the recruiters are telling them this now because it's probably the truth. Sad part is that so many kids will fall for this crap and sign the dotted line. Next thing they know they will find themselves wiping the dust off their boots in Iran.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Agreed. Just because someone doesn't vote/think the way you do doesn't mean they are sheep, ignorant, or not intelligent. Maybe they don't base their votes on the same things you do. Maybe they don't think the same way you do and don't agree with you. That doesn't make them stupid. I thought this was supposed to be a campaign that brings people together and doesn't put people into groups. I guess not.

People in my home state who were anti-war that voted for 100 Year McQueeq because he would end the Iraq war are stupid.

People who vote for Mittens because he "looks presidential" are stupid.

People who vote for Hillary because she cried are stupid.

Their stupidity has life or death consequences for people all around the world, not to mention my two small children.

They are stupid and should not be allowed within 100 yards of a voting booth.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Marc Emery wrote:

Romney's what you get if you take all of George Bush's policies and hand em to a better dressed, better looking, better mannered neo-con-sensus executive.

That's the best one line description of Mittens I've seen yet.

 

[XelR8r]

SC deserves a king like McCain.

 

[raiha]

Voting is irrational. It stems from an unworkable immoral system, so everything about democracy in the USA and Canada is unfathomable.

In a libertarian world there would be no democracy because everyone would simply co-operate with whomever they choose and make whatever mutual decisions for the benefit agreed.

There would be no voting on other people's lives anymore. You could join organizations or ad-hoc groups and derive benefit from voluntarily becoming part of a collective, but you could also leave those groups if they become coercive.

So people in the contemporary, horribly flawed world vote for these package deals, this idea that one man should have so much absolute power, and be responsible for so much control and spending power and military might. This one terribly flawed man or woman.

And what do people vote on? Are these seriously thought out votes? Or do people commit so much power to one person based their race? Their gender? Their "experience"?

Ron Paul is the greatest man offered for President in 50 years. I first heard of him in 1980 when I first ran for office myself, and he is only getting better with age. I'm amazed Ron Paul has been campaigning virtually daily for one year now, and shows no letting up. The Ron Paul for President campaign has been the most hopeful and exciting period for many of us who have always thought politics is the art of exploiting the irrational, stoking the fear.

I can't say much about Fred Thompson's character, I don't know anything wretched about him, I'm just so against the war and the empire and the war on drugs that I could never support Fred Thompson for President. Thompson voted to increase penalties and punishments for drug use and trade, and he has always supported the war against Islam and arming of the middle east. If Ron Paul was not a candidate for President, I'd advocate for Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party because she had an excellent voting record against the drug war and the Iraq war in Congress until 2006 as a Southern Democrat from Florida.

But the other Republicans are loathesome. Huckabee wanting to alter the Constitution to make America a theocracy (Paul was prescient in recalling Sinclair Lewis that fascism will come to America with a cross wrapped in the flag), the "women must submit to men" Old Testament stuff, the dog-torturing billious son, the recurring morbid remarks about 'frying squirrels in popcorn machines'. Even the idea that there will be duck hunting - the killing of innocents in heaven! - in the everafter is repellant. This man is gross, grotesque, vulgar and truly a rural redneck of serious ass backward proportions. He must never be President.

Rudy Giuliani has incarcerated more people for cannabis (282,000 people arrested in Ghoul's 8 year term as Lord of NYC) than any others save perhaps Clinton and Bush (and I hate them) . Giuliani's behavior in family matters, his authoritarian tendencies, his overt exploitative Muslim - baiting, his essential message is Bush Again with a more forceful attitude and 'Go on offense!'.

John McCain. This guy uses the same ridiculous senile uncle talking 'bout the old times speech every goddamn time I see him on CNN. Ron Paul and McCain are the same ages, Paul's even older, but Paul is always the lively hip guy willing to explore new universes, young people ought to be free! - but McCain is this decrepit psychically wounded guy who is like a Douglas MacArthur wannabe, this American Caesar in waiting, still owed his triumphal moment 40 years later. Blames US public opinion for losing in Vietnam he said on TV, 'never lost a battle in Vietnam' he says proudly as if he fought them all. You see, McCain thinks he was robbed of his truly great moment on the battlefield and it haunts him. McCain hasn't figured out the term 'unwinnable war' yet. McCain is a nasty old violator of the Constitution, always scoring zero from the ACLU. Was proud to say he'd like to be in Iraq one hundred more years. THIS GUY won in South Carolina. Ron Paul, whose brilliant and correct retort that night was ' How can you commit the lives of 5 generations to an immoral war? ' got 4% in South Carolina.

Romney's what you get if you take all of George Bush's policies and hand em to a better dressed, better looking, better mannered neo-con-sensus executive.

Tonights 14% in Nevada was a great highlight though, so we have seen the high (14% in Nevada) and the low (4% in SC) and 10% (Iowa), 7% (NH), 7% (MI) in between.

Ron Paul has opportunity in California, Colorado, Washington, and maybe others, to get delegates. Please give to the money bomb Monday at www.ronpaul2008.com

If its any motivation, you can save me from prison by making Ron Paul President!

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Marc Scott Emery
Publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine

Such clarity and perspicacity...Not something i would generally expect in a cannabis reformer.

 

[RonPaulFTFW]

Nah, the stakes are too high.

if you vote with that much ignorance ..........well you deserve what you get.

more death, more poverty, and more terror.

 

[UNC08]

I live in North Carolina, quite near the southern border, and you can smell South Carolina from here. As soon as you cross the border IQs dip along with many of the citizens.

That's my tobacco joke, in honor of the first southern primary.

 

[jeffersonT]

I've been to South Carolina before. The people are very friendly. The folks down there are some of the most hospitable people on the planet. The fact that these folks are so nice but so mislead makes me very angry at our government.

They’re not that “nice.” That’s a stereotyped generalization. I live on the border of NC-SC, spend a lot of time there.

250,000+ votes for McCain, Huckabee, Thompson, and Romney.

At some point you have to stop allowing those in South Carolina—and everywhere else—to be cast as “the victim.” They are aggressively, actively stupid, and bigoted.

It’s not JUST the media.

Just because someone doesn't vote/think the way you do doesn't mean they are sheep, ignorant, or not intelligent.

You’re right. I respect but disagree with the economic-political thought of Karl Marx.

When you’re voting 100,000 strong for Huckabee

YOU AREN’T THINKING.