"But you won't give up, right daddy?"
I met my wife and four homeschooled kids for lunch today at a local china buffet. I have been a little blue today at the ignorance of the voters across our country in not supporting a strict constitutionalist in Ron Paul.
My wife asked, "Do you think other people are depressed today too?"
I responded, "I think many are."
My 8 year old girl was listening and she looked at me with a dead serious someone-might-just-die look on her face and asked, "Do you think they will give up and not vote for Ron Paul."
I stared at her for a few seconds and replied, "I hope not."
To which she replied,"But you won't give up, right daddy?"
Fighting back tears I said, "No honey, we're not giving up"
Our children are counting on us. This is bigger than a presidential campaign. This is bigger than one man. This is a struggle for the truth. The truth about History, The truth about the Present, The truth about the Future, the Truth about War and Power and Goverment and Freedom.
And I'm in this fight for the rest of my life.
For Truth,
Billy Allred
Winfield, PA
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It's so nice to see
That that are like minded patriots remaining in my heavily democratic state.. Tell your daughter that none of us are giving up on her, or any other child for that matter.
win, lose, or draw - we march on!
GOD BLESS MAN WE WONT GIVE UP
MY WHOLE FAMILY IS STILL BEHIND HIM IF NOT THE COUNTRY WILL COLLASPE IN LESS THAN 5 YEARS.
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My 13 year old was besides himself on Tuesday. They are counting on us. Lets make it happen.
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My son...
8 years-old, and homeschooled as well, made a similar statement to me: "Ron Paul isn't going to give up, is he?" Holding back tears myself, I told him that true patriots DO NOT give up on LIBERTY.
He said, "Good." It actually made him feel better. It's amazing how this revolution is not only changing us, but also how our children perceive our country, and the world.
We'll go to the store, and my son will tell the cashier with a straight and honest face that the dollars aren't really dollars, they are notes or bills of credit made out of pieces a of paper. "They are really only worth 4 cents," he'll say to the cashier. Clueless cashier will smile ingorantly without any understanding of what he means.
If our children are so BOLD for honesty and LIBERTY in government, so we must be also. It's for their future that we fight on!!
There is a lot of hope left in this campaign
But there is even more in the revolution. Ron may be dead by the time my kids can vote but remember proverbs: train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
I feel the same way...
My kids ask me everyday how the election is going...infact, in school my daughter does this project called "TIME for kids" where they get a kid version of TIME magazine and report on current events. A few weeks ago they covered the election and had pictures of Mc, Rom, Huck, Ghoul, and Thomp...but not Paul. My daughter actually got made fun of for pointing out that Paul was missing.
I can't quit this, no matter what the outcome....this is a fight that actually never ends. We're really in this mess because we got lazy and stopped watching and caring about what was going on. I can never go back to that, and have to set the example for my kids.
PS...I'm a PA person myself....good to know that we have people in our state that will stick it through. =)
I am with you!
I am with you!
We have not yet begun to
We have not yet begun to fight.
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"The Race Movie", enjoy!!!...
I thought this video would be an Inspiration to this fourm
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"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."
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The best people in the world support Ron Paul.
I'm the Father of four children also. My wife and I will not give up the fight that they will live more free than we have.
In Liberty's Cause
There are no options
the monsters want us to give up! But we have are back up against the wall, and there are no alternatives! Ron Paul til the end!
Best thread of the day....
Thanks so much for sharing. I had to quit crying before I could type. I believe we're all heartbroken. Some show it through anger, some through sadness. Either way we have to capture the emotions and make them work to our advantage. Are you broken? Are you angry? Are you demoralized? Remember what it feels like and do all you can to not feel like that again!
thank you so much
I have shared all your thoughts with my daughter and it has encouraged us both. Thanks so much.
Here in Minneapolis/St.Paul...
...we're just warming up!
Giving up is not an option!
It's a long road until the September convention.
People still have time to wake up from hibernation!
We have 7 months to prepare a welcome party for all those delegates!
The democrats are going to try and screw things up during the GOP convention.
Let's give them a big surprise!
It's going to be a Ron Paul Convention! Outside & inside!
If you have the time, volunteer at convention : http://www.gopconvention....
Run Ron, Run!
Life's 2 short 4 mistakes
Nice
Very Nice. Thanks
Great subject....Our Children.....
My five year old Daughter has aked several times, Daddy are you done playing with Ron Paul today, I want to play with you to. And I have to tell her that if I dont play with Ron Paul right now, I may not be able to play with you later. Sad I feel that way, but I my Grandchildren will never be able to say Grandpa didnt try to keep us free.
My 8-year old is more informed than her third grade teacher
Thank you for your wonderful story! Made me cry, too. Not only are we fighting for freedom, but we need to take very seriously our job of raising the future generation of patriots!
My 8-year old daughter's third grade teacher did a section on the presidential election yesterday - Democrats, Republicans, sample ballots, etc. All well and good. Teach them to be responsible citizens. She talked about the Democrat & Republican cadidates (without a mention of Paul). My daughter proudly raised her hand to say that Ron Paul was also one of the Repubicans running. The teacher then said, "Oh ya, but I'd never vote for him." Needless to say, I was floored, but my daughter wasn't. "She's probably voting for that mean McCain guy. We know Ron Paul is the best," she said.
So teach your children well, for they are the future. And keep in mind they learn best by example. Fight on!
I'm not giving up
I have two boys I'm raising and there is no way I'm going to give them anything less than freedom. I've already started with no tv for them, they have to play all day with their toys :) My 4 year old has already built really cool space ships and airplanes with some of his building toys. I don't want to see his creativity lost, and I don't want him stifled. He already asks why Grandma, grandpa, and papa have to work so much. He wants to vote for Ron Paul too :) I'm not letting him or any other kid down by giving up this fight too soon. I'm in until we have our country back and the traitors sitting in jail,
wow
good stuff
Wow
that brought a tear to my eyes. out of the mouth of babes. this is a long term fight folks, we must never give up. the revolution must continue for our children and grandchildren. vote out the war mongers, support Ron Paul republicans, look them up and donate now.
I'll donate $100 for that ($25 for each of your kids!)
Wow... great story... my 4 year old twin girls walk around the screaming "Ron Paul to be the President!" all day... I've been trying to stay pumped up all day and your story just did it! THANKS!!!
Folks... he's right... this is a LIFELONG FIGHT!!! FOR OUR KIDS!!!!
"Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you're absolutely right!"
This Touches My Heart...
Our daughter is the one who first told us about Ron Paul. She told us to watch "Ron Pau:Stop Dreaming" and also "America: Freedom to Facism".
After we watched these videos, our eyes opened for the first time towards "politics". We have never been involved in "politics" before. We finally found someone we could believe in and believe in his message.
We still want Ron Paul to some how, some way become our next President, not just for us but for the future of our daughter (and for her children some day). We will not stop fighting for liberty either. Even if we are all "down" right now (emotionally), we all need to continue to tell others about Ron Paul and continue the "Revolution".
Ron Paul for President 2008 !!!
I second that motion!
What brilliantly enlightened child you have. Thank you for raising and educating your child to the best of your ability in the virtues of individual freedom and liberty that this nation is founded upon. Thank you. She and all other children like her remind us, truly what is at stake.
Thank you for sharing that important personal story, and a lesson for all of us to share and follow, and be inspired by it. Thanks again.
WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP on the Constitution and the founding principles of America.
The Doctor has fought, and been bruised, against the slings and arrows of outrageous collectivists from both socialist and fascist/corporatist realms for 30yrs without anyone backing him in Congress. How must he feel, once we decide to give up, only after one day, of one measly skirmish, without fully educating ourselves on the reality of delegates and brokered convention process? I believe his granddaughters in the latest radio interview, when they say that one very important lesson and impression he has made upon them, is to never give up. Never quit, without seeing it through. And his official campaign HQ's message is the same. Delegates, delegates, delegates. Brokered convention, brokered convention, brokered convention. We should be wise to listen and instead of drowning in ourselves in sorrow. We should strategize based on that plan, the end goal of making it to the convention. Remember, without a 51% majority and after first round of votes at the election without a majority, the delegates are free to elect WHOMEVER.
WE HAVE THE BEST CHANCE at restoring our long lost rights, freedoms, and liberties, more so than any other time in modern history, since the downward spiral that the nation's first recorded neoCON, Woodrow Wilson, put us on.
Dr. Ron Paul has stood alone for 30yrs. The least we can do is spend a bit of our lives fighting to ensure that the next generation of Americans have the tools and educated judgment to restore the Constitution, for the next 30yrs, and the next 231yrs, and more. After all that we have accomplished in the last year, it'd be foolish and utterly arrogant of us, without any respect for certain amount of due diligence required and derived patience from it, which clearly, history asserts that these things do take time.
Lest we forget how brilliant and prescient our Good Doctor has been throughout his life, I'd like to share with you the following. It's off of LewRockwell.com. I wish there's a long lost CSPAN broadcast of this speech. It is the most single handedly succinct treatise on the state of the world in one speech. Describing America in historical and Constitutional context, in ONE, single page. Okay, one hearty page. Probably one of the best speeches I've ever read that strikes at the heart of reality.
Ron Paul, on the House Floor, a farewell address: Sept 19, 1984.
" Some Observations on Four Terms in Congress"
http://www.lewrockwell.co...
Please share and spread those important words, far and wide.
We forge ahead. Become delegates wherever you can, wherever the state rules allow. WE WILL BE AT THE CONVENTION. We still have a very strong chance of winning GOP nomination. Let us focus on the end goal. The eye on the real Prize, is nothing less than the full restoration of our Constitutional Republic, back to her glory.
PRESIDENT RON PAUL: Jan 20, 2009 - Jan 20, 2017
B E L I E V E
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Never Giving up!!!
This is very nice story:) :)
That's nice!
Bill......we're in a similar situation. Yes, we were ALL feeling down today. But, as they say, the past is done and now we'll just work to get Ron Paul elected.
NEVER GIVE UP
I am a GOP Precinct chair in Texas. I have family members & friends running for office & it looks like its going to be a victory. I will be a delegate to the county convention & hopefully the state & then national. I am planning on running for office in two years. I am changing the party on a local level & I can see the difference just because of the Ron Paul Presidential race. People from all over are coming together for a common cause & will continue to do so long after this election. This movement has nothing to do with Ron Paul. It has to do with freedom & our constitution rights. I have two small children & I will continue to sacrifice & fight against any and all odds until God calls me home.
WE WILL WIN
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing that. I've been blue all day following the Super Tuesday results myself. I went to the library today, and checked out several magazines, including Time and Newsweek. None of them mentioned Ron Paul. One talked about Bloomberg, and his possible multi-million dollar bid for the presidency. Time had article spotlighting young people involved in the the Presidential race. I thought cool, they have to have something in it about Ron Paul. Nope, not a word. You would have thought Ron Paul and his many youthful supporters had just vanished from the face of the earth. Like they never had existed.
I'm fifty years old, and seeing this blatant media blackout on cable and in print scares me--it is so Orwellian and Fahrenheit 451 enabled. But your daughter was right--Out of the mouth of babes, thou has perfected wisdom-- We can't give up. Not unless we want to see our sons and daughters become chattel of the state, conscripted into National service or the military for the benefit of the political elite. We must become ongoing witnesses to our children and extended family of this time that we are going through. This is how it must have felt in Germany during the 1930's, when the Weimar Republic gave way to the brownshirts. I recommend everyone to keep printed articles, books and diaries of this time, and writings of Ron Paul, as well as and other notable libertarians. No doubt they will become outlawed contraband in the future. Our experience now will be the only testament of what is going on. Our experiences of this time must not be forgotten, lest our future descendants have no past frame of reference, because of retroactively edited history by the controlled media. This is what all conquerors do when they take over a nation--Forbid the expression of traditions, teachings and past history, in the effort to raise up a disenfranchised generation that will be ignorant of anything better. Thus stripped of their constitutional heritage, and knowledge of their inalienable rights, they will be easy to control as pawns of the state. We must carry out, lest our children reproach us for allowing chains be put upon them.
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"No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up!
---Lily Tomlin
I want the movie rights
This story has to be a scene in the Ron Paul movie that someone needs to start shooting (in Canada or wherever it would be legal according to McCain-Feingold).
We are shoring up and moving forward...
for your daughter and all children and future generations.
Thank you for sharing your family commitment to your ideals.
Gwen Kraft
"Personal Liberty & Personal Responsibility" -- Dr. Ron Paul
Giving up is not
in our Patriots dictionary, we are in a war for our civil liberties and for the TRUE greatness of our country, McCain, Romney & Huck will never get the nomination for the Republican party it will not only end our country but it will also end our Constitution and that will not happen under my watch.
We have a caucus in Kansas Saturday and I am hoping those people who I have talked too will be there and maybe we can show the country the real Conservative candidate for President, Ron Paul.
State School Boards and Initiative Measures
There are thousands of public schools in this country, yet not one teaches children the truth about the Federal Reserve. We need State Initiatives requiring that the truth about fiat money and central banking be taught in public schools. We also need brave and dedicated individuals to run for state school boards so they can start voting to institute conservative, Christian curriculum in local schools. In Kansas, there is a big push to down play the absurd and ridiculous idea of Darwinian evolution. We need to do the same on all fronts. And when the US Supreme Court tries to tell us we can't, we will do it anyway.
better: separate school and state
www.sepschool.org
Ron Paul is a signer. So am I (as of about 8 years ago).
Why should *I* have any say over what *your* child is taught?
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Get active NOW to put Ron in the general election. ronpaul.meetup.com
This is SOOOoo important.
This is SOOOoo important. When the Federal government regulates what our children are learning it is right out of the spirit of communism. States need to wake up. We must refuse indoctrination of our children. Oh, yeah--and they REALLY do need to all learn how to read..
AWWW
How precious! No, we CAN'T give up.
"But you won't give up,
"But you won't give up, right"
- Yes to helping the Republican Party save itself
- No to the principles of freedom
Please look at this daily thread below. It is in honor of ALL
our children.
The comment posted at 12:31 a.m was when the newest BABY ron paul supporter was brought into the world.....this is a SIGN.
It will all make you smile and push harder.
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
Thank You For These Reminders
....of why we will never quit. We won't let the little one's down. We will not let senseless wars harm a single hair on their heads. And welcome to the world, little baby liberty! (name? ...picture?)
Bless the Children...they deserve our best fight for their future.
That made me cry and yes, my husband and I are down
today too. It appears we have a lot of waking up our fellow man to do. Sadly, that surprises m more than anything else that has transpired. No we won't give up! The desire for Freedom is in the inherent makeup of mankind. We have an opportunity to fight for freedom and keep that flame alive and well. Those who understand, have an obligation to history. I will not shrink from that responsibility.
Lest anyone has forgotten our duties as citizens are in the Declaration of Independence:
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."
NO, we are not giving up nor we will allow the light of freedom that burns in the breast of every man, woman and child that graces this planet we call earth, to be extinguished in this, or any battle of will. We are fighting for the integrity of our country and its survival as the Land of the Free.
This is big job and we walk in the footsteps of giant men. We are up to this challenge of preserving what our forefathers fought and died to provide for us and the history of man. We will never give up.
I'm never giving up. In
I'm never giving up. In fact, I got to talk to a woman that works at the local gas station in town about Ron Paul. She said she would check him out. Said she hadn't heard of him. I explained why. Said she would go balistic if Hillary were to be president.
No, "We're not giving up!"
That one hit home. I've got a nine year old son at home who wants to go into the US Air Force and fly jets. I doubt very seriously that I'll ever have enough money to send him to college, so the military may be his only means to an education. I'll be damned if I'm going to let him be fodder for McCain's 100 year War!!!! I'm in this fight with you and hell no, we're not giving up!
He can afford college with out the airforce
I put myself through 8 years of college. I worked 20-30 hours a week and 40 + in the summer. I took out some loans and received some school assistance. Your son can stay at home, work hard, stay out of trouble and get through college with minimal debt with out having innocent blood on his hands.
Please read, " PEOPLE PLEASE READ THIS SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND....
THAT WE CAN WIN THE NOMINATION AND STOP LISTENING TO THE MSM FOR YOUR INFO! Great Post! Will cheer you up.
Never give up!
I wrote to Ron Paul to day and told him I would never give up and that he was my inspiration for diligence. I hope you will all agree...
-- Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. --