The Iconoclast
Submitted by Michael Nystrom on Thu, 07/05/2007 - 10:24
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Seattle, my hometown, is a very liberal place. The Stranger - which bills itself as Seattle's only newspaper, is a free, weekly tabloid paper that is very popular with young people. It contains the requisite weekly entertainment news, but it (along with the city's other free weekly paper, the Seattle Weekly) also features surprisingly strong news coverage that the two "mainstream" papers - the Seattle Times & Post Intelligencer - simply don't cover. This article about Ron Paul is an excellent example:
The Iconoclast
GOP Candidate Catches on in Washington
By Eli Sanders
It begins,
"How did a Republican Texas Congressman named Ron Paul become a darling of the Washington State Meetup scene?
Read the answer, and let me know what you think.
Also, you might want to drop them a quick note thanking them for covering Dr. Paul, and asking them for more coverage: editor@thestranger.com
God Bless Ron Paul!
GO RON PAUL! GO RON PAUL! GOD BLESS RON PAUL!
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008!
Ron Paul "Dream On" Video!!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IWfIhFhelm8
Ron Paul "Don't Tread On Me" Video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FG_HuFtP8w8
Ron Paul is a constitutionalist.
Ron has never voted to raise taxes.
Ron has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
Ron has never voted for the Iraq War.
Ron has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
Ron has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
Ron has never voted to raise congressional pay.
Ron has never taken a government-paid junket.
Ron voted against the Patriot Act.
Ron votes against regulating the Internet.
Ron voted against NAFTA and CAFTA.
Ron votes against the United Nations.
Ron votes against the welfare state.
Ron votes against reinstating a military draft.
Ron votes to preserve the constitution.
Ron votes to cut government spending.
Ron votes to lower healthcare costs.
Ron votes to end the war on drugs.
Ron votes to protect civil liberties.
Ron votes to secure our borders with real immigration reform
Listen To Ron Paul Speeches: http://www.ronpaulaudio.com
Review over 100 Articles Ron Paul Authored by Subject:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html
How can you not love this guy listen to him he is truly a man who
tells the truth "We The People" are taking our country back and
restoring the original Constitutional Republic and returning Amerika
back to America not the "United States of Surveillance"
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor
moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling
through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor---he speaks in the accents
familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and
he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He
rots the soul of a nation---he works secretly and unknown in the night
to undermine the pillars of a city---he infects the body politic so
that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
--- Cicero: orator, statesman, political theorist, lawyer and
philosopher of Ancient Rome.
"In the time of universal deceit, telling the truth
is a revolutionary act" GEORGE ORWELL
"None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
-- Goethe
Hempfest
Okay, so on the front...
We take that awesome picture that kyle webster did...
Toss a couple pot leafs around it...
Then a one liner issue to show paul's support for hempfest...
Slap a .com ron paul link below all that....
Then, on the back...
We do the standard 7-8 bullet point R.P. issues...
Keep it green/red/black on a white shirt... The green for the pot, the red for the web links, and black for the text..
I've never made a custom shirt before, but I guess we just need images for the front and back... so anyone good at that stuff?
This letter is getting published in Swans Release
Swans Release http://www.swans.com/main.shtml editors wrote a note about a "new constitutional era" and I responded, to which they sent me a notice saying they are going to publish this. Thought you might like it:
Indeed, there is a "new constitutional era" being conceived and I don't see anything ugly about the baby/fetus. What remains ugly is the old unconstitutional era, and it's vain enflamed pillars of lying crap and puke. The old unconstitutional era is evidenced by an education system that does not educate, the justice system that has no justice, the legal system that is not legal, the religious systems that are not religious or spiritual, and the broken medical system, all aflame by those stuck in the old unconstitutional era, busy fanning the flames of it's pillars on the right and left. The new constitutional era calls its self a rEVOLution. It is perfect Ron Paul is rising above the ashes of the Republican pillar, because America is a republic. If you go to YouTube and MySpace and type in the search engine for "Ron Paul", you will see an amazing growing list of web pages, over 18,000 today. On these pages are testimonials, original music, and videos about Ron Paul, the constitution, and truths about "conspiracies" (old era term) 9-11, the federal reserve, the New World Order, the North American Union, the IRS, the world wars, which made all generations slaves and victims. "Zeitgeist" comes to mind. Ron Paul supporters are saying, "I LOVE", not "I hate". The seeds of LOVE, "I LOVE YOU", "I LOVE RON PAUL", "I LOVE AMERICA", I LOVE LOVE LOVE Life, living, freedom, liberty are conceiving this baby. It's a very exciting time for the rEVOLutionaries in the throws of the new constitutional era LOVE orgy. Signed a New Constitutional Eraist
Your guy
has some interesting ideas, but he is 180 degrees from the party on the most important issue, the war in Iraq and the war on terror as a whole. That won't work...
here is how I analyzed him...
www.proprietornation.blogspot.com/2007/07/ron-paul-2008-hope...
You mean America's Guy...
You mean the party is 180 degrees from the people on the most important issue. The PEOPLE want the illegal and unconstitutional war in Iraq over. The war on terror is a misnomer. The unorganized, unskilled and inept criminals you call terrorists could be well handled by an open, free private market. You seem unrepelled by war, and collateral damage in the form of innocent Iraqi and American deaths, but you would be repelled at the thought of professional mercenaries doing it for a bounty with many thousands fewer dying, much less money spent and in less time?
Please do America a favor and stay home on election day.
Olympia, Washington Meetup group for Ron Paul in 2008!
'...truth is loved in such a way that those who love some other thing want it to be the truth, and precisely because they do not wish to be deceived, are unwilling to be convinced that they are deceived." --- St. Augustine, Confessions (10:23), 5th c.
Our Guy
It’s people like you who are the problem. You follow the same route as fox noise and undermine the accomplishments of Ron Paul to divert attention from the issues. To call showing support for a candidate as manipulation is absurd. Instead of spouting brainless commentary, taken straight from the fox noise arsenal, like “no one cares†or to frame the only people who do care as shut-in cult fanatics is the definition of fascism.
I’ll follow your example and make a generalization about Dr. Paul supporters. While others write off their principles to defeat the better of two evils, we will walk out of the voting booths free from the weight of the immorality others have committed. We will vote for principle and even if we stand alone we can cherish the sweetest reflection that our vote was not lost.
PS: We need to get some hempfest Ron Paul t-shirts. Someone get on it and put me down for a couple!
Can You "Get On It"?
This is what it takes, each of us getting out and DOing what WE can do to help spread the word, educate the sleeping masses (ignorant, and distracted by mass media and hype). Get a design, buy some t's, get them made up. Don't forget to let us know so we can sign up for a couple '-)
The Best Man
He's "my guy" because he is 180 degrees from "the party", and he's NOT a Democrat!!!!
Funny
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It is interesting when, people who actively support their candidate by participating in on-line polls, blogs, and so forth, they are often accused of spamming or somehow rigging the system.
Never seems to occur to the critics that it is Ron Paul's message of sanity in an insane world that inspires such activism.
If this kind of enthusiastic support is new to Mr. Volpe, it is probably because there have been few candidates in our lifetime who dare to say what Dr. Paul has said: abolish the IRS, the FED, fight against the North American Union, bring the troops home from everywhere and stick them on the southern border, and keep out of people's personal lives. Now that is quite inspirational to me. Nobody else is advocating these measures. So yes, I will blow the trumpet for Dr. Paul. At the end of the day, this is my government too, and I know what I want, and what I do not want.
U need hits?
Well, at least you'll generate hits on your blog this way.
That was what you had in mind all along, eh?
The Stranger
If this keeps up the major media will soon be losing a lot of business. Hope it keeps up! The media certainly is part of the problem.