Ron Paul Endorses Young Americans for Liberty
Jeff Frazee introduces Young Americans for Liberty, which today received a glowing endorsement from Dr. Paul:
Dear friend of Liberty,
This past presidential season I saw a renewed enthusiasm from our country’s youth. An excitement for liberty gripped the college campuses unlike I have ever seen before. Young people were energized for real change. Still to my amazement, our college rallies attracted thousands of young people. Students were hungry for the message of freedom, peace, and prosperity.
For this reason, a youth-based movement for liberty is essential to our cause. It is these young men and women who will become tomorrow’s champions of liberty.
That's why I am giving my enthusiastic endorsement to Young Americans for Liberty (YAL); an organization that is built directly on the success of Students for Ron Paul. My National Youth Coordinator, Jeff Frazee, is launching this organization with an ambitious goal of starting over 100 campus chapters in 2009. They have already started 47 chapters this semester.
Jeff worked with me exclusively to start the Campaign for Liberty (C4L) and host the Rally for the Republic in Minneapolis. Now, he is leaving to follow his real passion and lead Young Americans for Liberty.
Young Americans for Liberty is the continuation of Students for Ron Paul.
The Campaign for Liberty has supplied $25,000 in seed money to help start YAL. I hope you will join in support as well.
Students for Ron Paul established over 500 college chapters in all 50 states. Over 26,000 students joined our campaign. With this network and my support, Young Americans for Liberty is essential to building a genuine liberty movement in America.
You and I must remain serious about our ideas and goals. I am. I believe you are too.
Back in the 1960s, an influential youth movement formed around another anti-establishment presidential candidate. His name was Barry Goldwater. The organization was called Young Americans for Freedom; and without it, we may have never seen Ronald Reagan in the White House.
I have high hopes for Young Americans for Liberty, and wish them a similar fortune.
Please visit the Young Americans for Liberty website, sign up for their weekly E-Newsletter, and read about their plans for next semester.
There website is at http://www.YALiberty.org
The importance of YAL to the future of liberty cannot be overstated.
Young people have the passion, energy, and dedication that many of you can relate to from this past year and a half. But, young people do not have very much money. It is up to you and me to give them our support.
So please go to Young Americans for Liberty's website http://www.YALiberty.org , sign up for their free E-Newsletter, and read about the future of our youth.
In liberty,
Ron Paul
P.S. – Join me today to continue the Revolution on campus. Please visit the Young Americans for Liberty website http://www.YALiberty.org to read about their mission and join their effort.
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On the weekend I wrote an
On the weekend I wrote an article on Paul's endorsement of YAL, with some background on Jeff Frazee and his work with Students for Ron Paul, which may interest some of your readers.
Ron Paul helps launch Young Americans for Liberty
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I was going to start something similar to this but with out the annual fee and leave it open to donations only. Guess Jeff got to it before me... I would join but it does not seem like my cup of tea, my idea was more of a group of organized young people who planned on taking office seats who agreed with Ron Paul's platform, not some activist group.
Marilyn in Lake
Marilyn in Lake Jackson
rlcmcallen, we can all join the Campaign for Liberty, which most of us have already done, and get involved there and other places. I think this group for
young people is great. They love being with their peers, and inspire each other. Then they can go forward and influence and learn from Paul supporters of all ages. My congratulations to Jeff Frazee for the way this is already growing, and I'm sure it will spread like crazy. Very exciting.
Marilyn,
Some are joiners and some are doers.
In my view a person can only join so many organizations and effectively participate in them all. That is especially true when several are in the same area of endeavor.
Young people need the presence of older hands for the same reason that they do not teach each other while in college.
Multiplying organizations only adds to overhead both in money spent and in man-hours consumed.
Why?
Looking at the photo above, I couldn't help thinking of the lost children in Peter Pan.
Of course it is not news that Ron Paul would endorse an organization of his own creation.
My question is, why do we want to segregate liberty activists in groups by age?
After all, we're already a minority in the Republican Party, and we need to be united in action.
Also, the younger members can benefit greatly from the experience, connections and historical perspective of those of us who have been around for awhile.
My goodness! Ron Paul himself is not even eligible to belong to YAFL.
I really believe a model like the Republican Liberty Caucus is much to be preferred. Uniting people by affinity with the cause is much better than segregating them by the arbitrary metric of some cut-off age.
Our own Liberty Caucus chapter has members from 20 to 70 years of age. We each have our roles, and the combination is powerful.
Rethink your whole paradigm. The liberty movement is not age specific. It works better in the family paradigm.
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This is such an uplifting post...
...great news, great job...they are our future...
Big bump....
love it
"Students for Ron Paul established over 500 college chapters in all 50 states. Over 26,000 students joined our campaign."
Very impressed great start.
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This is very good cause and work
Jeff and friends need s a lot of support, apart from helping students, they should also educate them, coordinate all the different universities. A strong infrastructure needs to be set up. An outreach to students for Obama should be launched at some time, with strategy. The local groups could also organise invitations for Dr. Paul to speak at universities, with gov. Gary Johnson, Barry Goldwater Jr. and some others as well.
Why does Paul look to Reagan as a good President?
Was Ronald Reagan someone who models Paul's principles, because I always heard that he expanded the National Debt and created coups and wars in South and Central America, and I thought Reagan promoted social conservative ideals, something Libertarians like Goldwater were opposed to.
I thought it was lame too
Reagan was pro-liberty on some issues. But he was also a tyrant and control-freak on others.
For example:
-he favored conscription in times of war,
-he favored jailing peaceful drug users.
Do your homework
Reagan took over Goldwater's ideas for a great part. Paul is pro-life, as Goldwater has been in the 1970's and Reagan was also a pro-life. Sure Reagan was not perfect, but he was also restricted probably, by congress and also some advisers. There is nothing wrong with promoting social conservative causes, Paul himself is also, like enabling school prayer...just you cannot legislate all religious and social values, but you can promote them nonetheless.
Also, there is a difference between libertarian and libertine!
You have good points but...
Reagan said the following: "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."
This underlying belief of his is very similar to what Dr. Paul believes.
This kind of thinking in government is so rare that anyone who believes this is likely to be supported by Liberty-minded people.
No, Reagan wasn't perfect. Very few politicians are.
But he was at least correct in much of his thinking.
I guess that's why Dr. Paul supported him for the most part.
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Ask not "What did he say," but rather, "What did he do?"
Almost everything Reagan did that was in any sense "good" can be summed up by saying he made people feel good by the way he talked.
Hate to say it, but the new guy taking over in Jan. is similar in that respect.