Obama Moves To Legalize Warrantless Wiretapping!

April 07, 2009 MSNBC Keith Olbermann . OH YEAH...CHANGE!!!

Tax day 'tea parties' stir passion in Dallas-Fort Worth, U.S.

"It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in economics to know we’ve been living beyond our means," said U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Surfside, who plans to attend a rally in Seabrook. "Most people are looking around and thinking who are they going to blame the most. I think there’s plenty of blame to go around."
Paul has been speaking out about fiscal discipline for more than 20 years. He focused his presidential bid last year on the issue and gained a small but passionate group of supporters around the country. In recent weeks, some have assumed that Paul and his supporters were behind the Tea Party movement, he said.
"What’s amazing about this is that it’s not from some central organizer," Paul said. "These things are popping up spontaneously around the country."
April 13, 2009 Permalink

The Day the Iraq War Ended

It would have ended in less than 2 weeks. If we had elected Ron Paul, the Iraq war would be an event described in past tense. Last month, Barack Obama asked for an increase by 20,000 troops into Afghanistan, followed by a request yesterday for another $84 Billion in funding for the Iraq/ Afghan wars. This is a signal to indicate the end? Ron Paul promised that upon his election on Jan. 20 -inauguration day- he would have signed an executive order citing all troops be withdrawn from both wars within 90 days, which would have been April 20, 2009- next monday. The war would indeed be over.
April 13, 2009 Permalink

Glenn Beck and Ron Paul - Fool Me Once ...?

Is Glenn's new RonPaulian attitude for real - or is he just trying to position the same old neocon crowd as the "answer" to Obama's scorched-freedom policies by associating them with his newfound views?
What Glenn is doing here looks too much like an effort in that direction for us to be able to trust him and take him seriously. The Bilderberger group is currently learning to talk "Ronpaulese", it seems, and they are testing and refining their skills. There is an old saying that goes, "Show me your friends and I tell you who you are." That's what should be on every patriot's mind when watching Glenn continue his "grand parade of lifeless packaging" neocon friends (to say it with the words of the Rock band Genesis from their "Lamb Lies Down" album.)
Glenn Beck is either misguided, under-educated, bought off, or a willing participant in this endeavor. Watch him on his show, if you must but watch him closely! The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. No "big man" will ever save you. When it comes to earthly pursuits, you have to do it yourself.
April 13, 2009 Permalink

Gov. Perry Backs Resolution Affirming Texas Sovereignty Under 10th Amendment

4/9/2009 - AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry today joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Ron Paul, Right About the Economy, Right About Freedom

Last year in the debates Ron Paul was right about the direction the economy was taking. He was right about the federal government disregarding freedoms. He remains right about establishing a new, sound monetary system based on something other than debt. He remains right about curtailing government abuses by adhering to the Constitution, the highest law of the land. Just following those two simple steps would do so much to begin to bring fiscal sanity back to our economy and peace of mind back to our society. If the government continues to ignore such sound advice, perhaps it is time that common men begin to ignore government dictates and implement their own free market institutions based upon these principles which most politicians no longer care to uphold.
April 13, 2009 Permalink

Unpatriotic Sean Hannity

It might be easy to dismiss Hannity as a mere hypocrite, but he's actually something much worse. Whereas Republicans like Ron Paul put America first, place the national interest above their party, and oppose wars conducted by both Clinton and Bush on the same principle, Hannity puts the Republican Party first and has no qualms about putting our troops in harm's way and policing the world so long as the sheriff's badge reads "GOP." I have no doubt that if our current war in Iraq was the work of President Al Gore, Hannity would oppose it as he did Clinton's war in 1999, simply because it was being waged by a Democrat.
April 13, 2009 Permalink

Oklahoma GOP members to consider caucus

Supporters of former presidential candidate Ron Paul mostly lead the caucus idea. The Paul group was unsuccessful during last year’s state convention in Tulsa to get their slate of delegates elected, and Paul’s two delegates were omitted when Oklahoma’s delegate count was reported to the national convention in Minneapolis. U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, mistakenly cast all 41 Oklahoma delegates to U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
April 13, 2009 Permalink

Oath Keepers Orders We Will NOT Obey

1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people. 2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people 3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal...

Obama and the Democrats deny an age-old economic lesson

In Zimbabwe, attempts to stimulate the economy by printing money — including a $100 trillion bill — have saddled the already poor African nation with debt and further financial meltdown.
Conservatives are in a tough spot right now, precisely because in these tough economic times, few people want to hear that "money doesn't grow on trees." Sanford, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, market observer Peter Schiff, and others predicted the current calamity, but they were ignored then and they are being ignored now, in favor of "experts" who never saw the crisis coming and now seek to solve it with more of the same. Any reasonable adult knows that money does not grow on trees.
Sanford, Paul, Schiff, and company are looking to cut the branches while Obama and his friends want to water the roots and further drown the dollar.
April 13, 2009 Permalink

B.J. Lawson on Fox Business Today on Local Currencies

B.J. Lawson, the former candidate for Congress in North Carolina, is going to be on Fox Business around 2:20pm EST this afternoon to discuss his work promoting a local currency. This should be an interesting interview to watch. We hope you tune in and let us know what you think about his ideas.
April 13, 2009 Permalink

TSA - bad to the bone

But the most frightening stunt pulled by TSA was the detention and interrogation on March 29th of Rep. Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty staffer, Steve Bierfeldt. The reason this man was detained and questioned for half an hour at the airport in St. Louis? — Weapons? No. Explosives? No. Illicit drugs? No. The only reason this law-abiding citizen was detained and interrogated (including by foul-mouthed TSA employees) was because he happened to have a box with more cash in it than the TSA folks thought was okay! I kid you not. According to TSA, the mere fact that a citizen of the United States of America is carrying “a large sum of cash” (the amount triggering detention and interrogation is, of course, undefined) through a TSA security checkpoint designed to prevent weapons or explosives from being brought on board commercial aircraft, is considered sufficient grounds to suspect the citizen of wrong doing and force them to answer questions to the satisfaction of TSA employees.
April 13, 2009 Permalink

Stop Spending Our Future - The Crisis

Our economy is in crisis, and our government says that bold action is required. So we're diving in head first to get things back on track. But... what are we diving into exactly? Take a closer look at the government response to our current economic crisis with narrator Nick Gillespie of ReasonTV

Ron Paul: Neoconservatives backing Obama’s foreign policy

In a little noticed editorial yesterday, Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul fired a shot across the bow of every progressive activist in the U.S., a great many of whom are supporters of President Barack Obama.
Oh, you didn’t hear about this? I couldn’t be any less surprised.
Published to the Campaign for Liberty Web site, the editorial takes up a favored issue for liberty-leaning Republicans: the Budget. Congressman Paul’s message on money is quite unlike any of his Republican colleagues and quite the opposite of the Obama administration’s. Naturally, he predicts unprecedented spending will trigger dire consequences.
But that’s nothing exactly new from Paul, per se. What caught my eye was paragraph three, which reads:
April 09, 2009 Permalink

U.S. Congressman Ron Paul visits Victoria

More than 20 hands shot high into the air Wednesday morning when U.S. Congressman Ron Paul began taking questions after his presentation. He spoke to a crowd of 50 fourth- and fifth-graders at Dudley Magnet School about the Constitution. For fifth-grader Seth Garrett, the opportunity to meet Paul was amazing.
April 09, 2009 Permalink

04/08/2009 Freedom Watch With Napolitano, Daniel Hannan & More

This week Judge Napolitano is joined by British MEP Daniel Hannan, Steve Bierfeldt (TSA detainee), Peter Schiff, Lew Rockwell, ACLU's Mark German, and Michell Muccio. The entire audio of the Bierfeldt's TSA detainment is played.

H.R. 1444: Congressional Commission on Involuntary Servitude

Involuntary servitude is no less involuntary, just because the state is the master. If you know anyone who escaped to the U.S. from the former USSR, ask them their opinion of a system in which the state is the master of its subjects. As for me - I will never submit to a draft, and I will never be a domestic slave.
April 08, 2009 Permalink

‘Fusion’ center gets new chief

The Missouri State Highway Patrol yesterday replaced the director of a “fusion” intelligence center that has been under fire since producing a report suggesting certain mainstream political parties and views are associated with militias.
The patrol’s superintendent, Col. James Keathley, announced the personnel change at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing after more than a month of angry complaints from conservatives. The change came less than a week after Keathley was questioned by the same panel of lawmakers about the information center and its modern-militia report.
April 08, 2009 Permalink

Get behind HR 1866

Recently I've noticed quite a few columns, blogs and comments concerning the failed "war on drugs" and the idea of decriminalizing at least some currently illegal drugs.
To me, the general consensus seems to be that at the very least, hemp and marijuana should be decriminalized, if not outright legalized. At least among those that bothered to comment on it.
April 08, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul: Statement Introducing HR 1866, Industrial Hemp Farming Act

The United States is the only industrialized nation that prohibits industrial hemp cultivation. The Congressional Research Service has noted that hemp is grown as an established agricultural commodity in over 30 nations in Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. The Industrial Hemp Farming Act will relieve this unique restriction on American farmers and allow them to grow industrial hemp in accord with state law.
April 08, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul Tops Jim DeMint, Wins March Madness Pool

The real drama, excitement, emotion and tension came in our first annual March Madness pool -- to determine (yeah right) the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.
And today, just hours after the NCAA tourney, we announce OUR winner, as voted by you. And it's Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.
Paul defeated Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina in the finals by 13 points, 56-43 percent, with 963,719 total votes cast.
April 07, 2009 Permalink

Budget Expands Government as Economy Contracts

Some may notice that the neo-conservatives who masterminded the policy of global interventions are not complaining about the level of military and foreign spending. This is because rather than drawing down our costly interventions, Obama is largely staying the course on these issues. In fact, this week a group of leading neoconservatives met to discuss how best to support the President on foreign policy! I am disappointed and concerned that, in spite of a change in leadership, we will remain the policeman of the world, placing ourselves at grave danger in many ways.
As our mountain of debt is projected to double with the new budget, many are wondering how long our country can keep this up before serious repercussions are felt. Obviously we can’t continue down this road indefinitely. Certainly, no country has ever prospered when their public sector spent half or all of the nation’s GDP. Yet we are saddled with leadership that seems unwaveringly convinced that the key to prosperity is public spending.
April 07, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul on Marijuana Radio April 6th, 2009

Ron Paul explaining why the Feds are overstepping their authority.

Turn Down the North Korea Volume, Argues Ron Paul

When rogue state North Korea on Sunday conducted its third test of a long-range missile, defying a test ban imposed by the U.N. Security Council, critics from around the world condemned its actions. President Barack Obama called it a “provocative act,” Japan’s prime minister called it an “extremely provocative act ” and South Korea’s president called it a “reckless action.”
But Rep. Ron Paul, the onetime Republican presidential candidate known for his strident libertarian policies, thinks everyone’s overreacting.
April 07, 2009 Permalink

The Big 3 Are Not the American Auto Industry, and Taking Them Over Will Not Save Detroit

How many American jobs in auto go to the American-owned companies? Well, here's a clue: According to Wikipedia, GM, Ford, and Chrysler produced 8 million vehicles in the United States out of 12 million total. So a good third of the auto industry's American workforce does not work for the Big Three. And of course, in sales and service jobs, foreign cars get sold and repaired in America just like American cars. When we bail out the failed automakers but leave the others to fend for themselves in the market, that provides an unfair disadvantage to all the Americans employed by the other automakers and their attendant dealerships and repair centers. Those people have families, too. Don't they matter at all?
April 07, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul on North Korea 4/5/09

Dr. Paul discusses the international reaction to North Korea's attempt to launch a rocket into space.

Gun Show Success

This is quite an easy thing to do in order to generate more awareness of this organization, and also to inevitably increase growth in membership. After getting permission from the gun show organizer we stood outside and as people left the gun show simply smiled, extended a brochure to them, and said "How are you doing sir/ma'am, please check out the Campaign For Liberty........Thank you". We didn't give them to people entering since it's easy for them to drop it as their hands get full purchasing guns and ammo. On their way out they have some time to flip through it (as we noticed) on the way back to the car, and less of a chance it will end in the trash right away.
About 95% took the brochure and all who stopped to ask more questions were very responsive. Reciting the mission statement was pretty much all it took to get them onboard. A few people flipped the brochure around and saw Ron Paul's picture on it and gave a smile and thumbs up as well.
April 06, 2009 Permalink

TSA detains official from Ron Paul group

The Transportation Security Administration is investigating the detention and harassment of a Ron Paul organization official by airport screeners, an incident that was caught on tape at a St. Louis airport.
Steve Bierfeldt, director of development for Campaign for Liberty, was selected for additional screening after officials spotted a metal box in his luggage that contained a large amount of cash and checks made out to the campaign.
"I don't believe I was legally required to tell them. Carrying cash is not a crime," Mr. Bierfeldt said. "It is a dangerous precedent if the government can order you to tell them where you get your money, and no law requires them to know where I work or where I spend my free time and where I go on vacation."
April 06, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul interviews Ivan Eland on Recarving Rushmore

Legislative Assistant Paul-Martin Foss specializes in economic and monetary issues. He sits down with Congressman Ron Paul to discuss the budget and the G20 meetings.

Analysis: Militia report unites ACLU, Republicans

Republicans say the Feb. 20 report by Missouri's law enforcement fusion center amounts to an attack on conservative ideologies and the politicians who espouse them.
The ACLU contends intelligence fusion centers, which were founded after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, are becoming more of a threat to citizens than a security devise.
"This is part of a national trend where intelligence reports are turning attention away from people who are actually doing bad things to people who are thinking thoughts that the government, for whatever reason, doesn't like," said Michael German, a Washington-based ACLU policy counselor on national security issues.
April 06, 2009 Permalink

Press Congress to be accountable

The Federal Reserve enjoys a monopoly over the flow of our money and credit but has never been completely transparent and accountable to Congress. Since its establishment in 1913 our dollar has lost more than 95 percent of its purchasing power.
In addition to more than $11 trillion national debt (over $36,000 per citizen), Congress, the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve have put us on the hook for almost $10 trillion in bailouts and loans. Yet, the Fed refuses to tell Congress which financial institutions have received these funds.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas introduced HR 1207, which would deliver answers to the American people about how our money is being used. HR 1207, which is currently in the House Financial Services Committee, received the support of almost 50 other representatives within a month of its introduction and will amend section 714 of Title 31 of the U.S. Code to remove the restrictions on how the Government Accountability Office can audit the Federal Reserve.
April 06, 2009 Permalink

Congressman Paul Discusses the budget with Legislative Aide

Legislative Assistant Paul-Martin Foss specializes in economic and monetary issues. He sits down with Congressman Ron Paul to discuss the budget and the G20 meetings.

March Madness: It's Ron Paul vs. Jim DeMint In The Finals

We're now down to the championship round of our March Madness pool to "determine" -- and we mean that lightly -- the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Round 4 is over, and of the 32 prospective GOP hopefuls who began this journey, voters have advanced Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina to the finals. Paul easily dispensed with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, 78-21 percent (302,000 votes cast), while DeMint edged Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, 51-48 percent (229,000 votes).
April 03, 2009 Permalink

Barney Frank and Ron Paul Introduce Hemp Farming Legislation - HR 1866

A federal bill was introduced yesterday that, if passed into law, would remove restrictions on the cultivation of non-psychoactive industrial hemp. The chief sponsors of HR 1866, "The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009," Representatives Barney Frank (D-MA) and Ron Paul (R-TX), were joined by nine other U.S. House members split between Republicans and Democrats.
"It is unfortunate that the federal government has stood in the way of American farmers, including many who are struggling to make ends meet, from competing in the global industrial hemp market," said Representative Ron Paul during his introduction of the bill yesterday before the U.S. House.
April 03, 2009 Permalink

We Should Listen to Ron Paul

In 2002, Ron Paul was the only Congressman who saw the housing bubble and recession coming. He has for years talked about how our monetary policy was sowing the seeds for what has happened to our economy. Remember during the campaign how McCain proudly said that he was talking about the housing bubble back in 2006? Hardly something to brag about since the bubble was about to burst by then. It was too late even in 2006 to avoid a harsh correction, the seeds having been sown in 2001-04. But do we listen to the one guy who got it right? Had we listened to Ron Paul back in 2002, we could have changed our ways and avoided this recession.
Now Ron Paul is predicting a depression, and yet people still aren't listening to him.
April 03, 2009 Permalink

Dr. Paul Is Enthusiastic About HR 1207

Now is the time to do more! When people found out that Congress had quietly appropriated millions for AIG bonuses, people were outraged. Imagine their reaction when they hear about the TRILLIONS the Fed has secretly been sending to Wall Street!

The Flat Tax Is Not Flat and the FairTax Is Not Fair

Conservatives are not generally opposed to taxes on principle either. They have no problem taxing the American people to fund bloated defense budgets, US military adventures around the world, the CIA, FBI, and anything related to law enforcement or homeland security, faith-based welfare programs, educational vouchers, abstinence-education programs, the war on drugs, and various conservative pork projects.
Shift taxes? Increase taxes? Tax the rich? Impose new taxes? Use the tax code to influence public policy? What kind of libertarian tax reform plan is this? How about reduce, cut, eliminate, and abolish taxes? Not deductions, not exemptions, not credits, not shelters, not loopholes — taxes.
April 03, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul Opposes Insane Budget on House Floor 4/1/09

A man was detained by TSA in St. Louis for carrying cash. The man was traveling home following a Campaign For Liberty (Ron Paul) event. I thought the MIAC document was retracted? Apparently these goons didn't get the word.

TSA thugs curse & illegally detain and threaten Ron Paul supporter

A man was detained by TSA in St. Louis for carrying cash. The man was traveling home following a Campaign For Liberty (Ron Paul) event. I thought the MIAC document was retracted? Apparently these goons didn't get the word.

Ron Paul on the Wrong Kind of Peace Treaty

What the resolution fails to mention, and the reason we should not endorse the treaty as a model, is that at the time the peace was being negotiated at Camp David the United States committed itself to an enormous financial aid package to both Egypt and Israel in exchange for their accession to the treaty. Over the past thirty years, the United States taxpayer has transferred to – some might say “bribed” – Israel and Egypt well over 100 billion dollars as a payoff for their leaders’ signature on the treaty. Particularly in this time of economic hardship, where so many Americans are out of work and facing great financial challenges, I hardly believe we should be celebrating that which increases the strain on taxpayers. I believe we should cease all foreign aid to all countries, as it is a counterproductive and unconstitutional transfer of wealth from US taxpayers to governments overseas.
April 01, 2009 Permalink

Campaign For Liberty Freedom Celebration, St. Louis

Judge Andrew Napolitano, Matt Hawes, and Congressman Ron Paul speak to the audience at the Freedom Celebration in Missouri on March 27~29

Kennedy's Serve America Act Passes Congress

By “serve their country,” Obama means “servitude to government.”
This bill is not about volunteerism, as Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) explained on the House floor March 18:

"Participation in the program is not voluntary for the taxpayers. Second, nothing in the bill prevents federal taxpayer dollars from being used to support state and local programs that force children to perform "community service" as a condition of graduating from high school. Because an increasing number of schools across the nation are forcing children to provide "service" as a condition of graduating, it is quite likely that the funds authorized by this bill will be used to support mandatory service. "

The text of the bill makes numerous references to “local education agencies” as the key to fascist-style public-private "partnerships" under the legislation.
April 01, 2009 Permalink

Political March Madness: Round Four

Politics Political March Madness: Round Four We've got the results of the third round of the 2012 Republican Primary Tournament. Ron Paul squeaked through to round 4, coming from behind on the morning of April 1. More notable, however, was Mark Sanford's trouncing of Charlie Crist with 90 percent of the votes in that race. Now you can vote in Round 4 and have your say over at Political Junkie. We'll announce the winners of this round April 3.

April 01, 2009 Permalink

Alameda County GOP Supports HR 1207

As you may recall, back last summer we did a few posts on the Alameda County, California GOP, as several Ron Paul supporters had won election to the Central Committee but were sued in an attempt to prevent them from taking their seats (under the claim that they hadn't been Republicans long enough.) Despite the challenges, they went on to defend themselves successfully and take their places on the Central Committee.
Now, the Alameda County GOP has passed a resolution in support of HR 1207, and they have been working hard to get other organizations to do the same. They also lobbied Democrat Representative Pete Stark, who is now a cosponsor.
April 01, 2009 Permalink