Laurie: How can CFL survive with so many groups in opposition to each other?

A strong showing there is more important than at any other event we attend.

That city should be inundated with Ron Paul supporters.

My five cents.

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Lisa C.

“Elections are short term efforts; revolutions are long term projects.”

--Ron Paul

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As usual, my beliefs as to the profound change for the worse of DP have been completely validated in the replies in this thread alone.

I used to visit DP as a primary source of many informative posts about various aspects of the world around us by highly intelligent people who were part of those functions through their jobs.

Now, based on many recent threads and posts, DP has devolved to a high school level of "MySpace" with flame threads dedicated to individuals and gang attacks by groups of people on the same individuals, and not just me.

In fact, the most recent posts come across as elementary school taunts/language-

Really a class act site, huh?

Are these really the people who will be influencing the future of our country? I certainly hope not!

It was interesting to note that the OK OK thread that triggered this thread of concern of mine has apparently been deleted.

So, I was not the only one concerned about the blatant divisions in that thread.

People brought up my opinions about SGP, when I specifically made no mention of him in my OP. Yet, SGP was one of the very first replies in the thread with the sole purpose of attacking me on one of his "driveby shootings".

Why does it feel like the younger generation has never seen the movie, "Bambi". Wasn't it there that the value was taught, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" was taught?

Did it ever cross a single person's mind to simply ignore the thread vs. posting "pot shots" throughout the day, what I refer to as "gang drive-by shootings"?

I wish to thank everyone 1) for keeping the thread on the Active List all day, 2) for truly validating my concerns in the OP about the extremely strong divisions within the RP supporters, and, most importantly, 3) for showing to all who read your posts, where you simply called me names and failed to address a single concern I expressed, a clear indication of what kind of people you are.

And if your posts are any indication of how you treat people in the "real world", you may very well be likely reasons that RP didn't get more votes.

D'ya think that the attitudes and lack of logical discussion expressed in this thread convinced a *single* person to vote for RP?

I see no indication that the posters in this thread have a clue as to what RP's value system is or the message he hopes to spread.

"Liberty" is not anarchy. I'd settle for the Golden Rule - have your posts treated me as you would wish to be treated?

Have your posts helped or harmed your ability to move up in the Campaign For Liberty organization?

To those of you who have others who know who you are behind the various screen names, would they ever risk giving you a business reference for a job based on the total lack of control that is so apparent in your posts?

And what any of you think about me or my beliefs couldn't be more irrelevant to me, because no one posted a single fact to dispute any of my concerns about the splintered RP supporter groups blatantly attacking each other in public posts that are captured by Google.

Personal attack posts with name-calling never convince anyone of anything, except that the poster is very childish and throwing the equivalent of a temper tantrum. Lots of "stamped feet" today-

The interesting thing is that, just as with Steve Parent, I don't have to convince anyone of anything.

Simply the passage of time will prove my concerns valid or not.

However, I sincerely hope that someone with the authority to address the critical issue of the obvious hostility among the splintered factions has read this thread and the other vicious threads on DP (and RPFs) today.

If so, maybe he or she can attempt to resolve that splintering before it destroys the hard work that so many have volunteered, as well as the large amounts of money that were donated to the Presidential campaign.

"I think that the strength of our movement is that we are barely even able to agree, even among ourselves. The glue that holds us together is the desire for freedom, and to not be herded and oppressed, even though each of our personal views may be widely divergent on many subjects. This utter lack of consensus on almost everything, acts as a "filter" which rejects anything out of our goals that even resembles special interest, and leaves only freedom as the remaining consensus. As such, it is a uniquely "self-cleaning" movement. It's very interesting, and I've never seen anything quite like it. It creates an incredible armor against infection, due to its very nature. However, there is alot of contentiousness that comes along with it, but we seem to be able to survive that because it's individual views and not oppression.
The only thing that can move us is something that will bring us further along on our path for more freedom. There is no "special interest issue" or any other thing which can even begin to move us.

There is only one thing that binds this movement, and that is a direction that allows each and every one of us as individuals, to live in the freedom and peace that we seek for our own lives, without(or with very minimal) government interference.
That's why no other group even understands us, or can co-opt us, and why we have to do it ourselves. There is no outside help, unless we convert it. It's us against oppression."
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/52391#comment-515651

................Exceptional comment don't you think?

After you made it your life's work to destroy SGP, you and your parrot sidekick justjenmi. You guys make me sick.

Go away - far a way you piece of SH*T!

being half full as compared to half empty mentality would go a long way with you.

Hey guess what we aren't asking you to take care of these thousands of extra tasks all by yourself. The people who are going to do it are willing to do it. So quit complaining and start doing something other than complain.

Less than two days after asking for 100,000 members in two months Ron Paul's got 50,000 members. There is no division unless you're making one.