{"id":607,"date":"2008-01-24T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=607"},"modified":"2008-01-24T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:29:00","slug":"not-just-a-campaign-its-a-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"Not just a campaign, it’s a movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NOT JUST A CAMPAIGN,
\nIT’S A MOVEMENT<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nby Alan Stang
\nJanuary 24, 2008
\nNewsWithViews.com<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Those of you
\nwho are not Ron Paul people don’t need to read this. If you are, here are some
\nthoughts that could be helpful. I write after the Nevada caucuses, where Dr. No
\nracked up a smashing second place and 14% of the vote, ahead of Giuliani,
\nHuckabee, Hunter, McCain and Thompson, doing so in the face of the orchestrated
\ncover-up of highly paid network barf bags. <\/span><\/p>\n

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So, Dr. No
\nutterly thrashed not only the erstwhile Republican candidates who have already
\ndeparted, not only Duncan Hunter, who has now dropped out, but he also soundly
\nwhipped Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson yet again, certainly proving he is a
\n“top tier” candidate, which will be underlined when Thompson and then Mike
\nHuckabee run out of money. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Remember, Rudy
\nwas supposed to be the “runaway front runner.” Nobody was supposed to be able
\nto touch him. Now he is Rudy Who. The only thing you need to know about Fred
\nThompson is that he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
\nMarxist group in New York that is the secret government of the United States
\nand has been conspiring assiduously for decades to destroy our national
\nindependence. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Was Fred
\nThompson inserted in the campaign so tardily as a “responsible conservative”
\nalternative to siphon votes from Dr. Paul? Of course that strategy has failed
\nmiserably, if that is what it was. Fred talks the conservative talk when he
\nfinds time and is awake but he reminds me of the time somebody told Dorothy Parker
\nthat President Silent Cal Coolidge was dead. She replied, “How do they know?”
\nIt was one of the few things she ever said you can repeat with ladies present. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Yet, notice
\nthat our Communist media still treat Fred and Rudy as major candidates while
\nthey do their best to ignore Dr. No. In a classic example, the New York Times,
\nwhich has assiduously promoted Communism since Walter Duranty, reported the
\nNevada results of all the candidates – even Rudy Who and CFR Fred – complete
\nwith pictures, except the man who took second with 14%. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The other day,
\nin a discussion about conservatism on the air, I heard a caller ask Rush
\nLimbaugh about Dr. No. How the caller got through the screener, I don’t know.
\nLimbag stuttered, said he “profoundly disagreed” that Dr. Paul expressed
\nconservative principles, hung up and went to break. That was it; there was not
\na syllable of argument that proved Dr. Paul wrong, just Limbag’s expression of
\nprofound disagreement. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Somebody else
\ncalled Republican front man Hugh Hewitt. The caller told the screener he was
\nfor far leftist John McCain, but on the air he shouted that he was for Dr.
\nPaul. Hewitt told the screener who blew it that his check would be docked $10
\nif that happens again. Of course, Hewitt was joking, about the $10, not about
\nhis desire to squelch Dr. No. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Maybe the
\neditors at the Times are too busy buggering each other to be aware of this, but
\nthey and right wing Communist talk radio scumbags like Hannatwit are destroying
\ntheir own credibility, a symptom of the fact that the Old Media are dying. Of
\ncourse in their death throes they are more dangerous than ever. I submit that
\nfor Dr. Paul to do as well as he has in the face of all this is something of a
\npolitical miracle. <\/span><\/p>\n

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In South
\nCarolina, technicians routinely test voting machines before an election to make
\nsure they are set at zero. But the state’s Election Commission now admits that
\nin Horry County this time the test was not done. The Commission blames the
\noversight on “human error.” By the way, last year the California Secretary of
\nState decertified the Election Systems & Software voting machines South
\nCarolina still uses; ES & S refused to provide information required by
\nCalifornia law. Of course, the Diebold and other machines are equally
\nsuspicious. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Word from the
\nNew Hampshire recount is that there is no way to establish for sure what the
\nvote really was. The ballots were brought to the recount site in such secrecy
\nthat it was even forbidden to photograph the delivery. Ballot security appears
\nto be defective. The same people who conducted the primary recounted the votes.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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The entire
\nprocedure was as suspicious as a one dollar bill. Despite all of which, they
\nwill probably announce that the recount shows no substantial difference. Had
\nDr. Paul demanded a recount, the dis-counters could have used that fact to
\ndiscredit him. Instead, voting machines have been discredited. <\/span><\/p>\n

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As the Florida
\nprimary approaches, the most important thing to understand about all this is
\nthe fact that the Ron Paul effort is not just another campaign like all the
\nothers. The people who are supporting a candidate for the very first time, who
\nquit their jobs and drive across the country to work for him, who live in their
\ncars and sleep on the floor, who leap to their feet in roaring ecstasy when Dr.
\nNo calls for the abolition of the Fed, are not doing all that because they hope
\nPresident Paul will name them Secretary of State or sign them up for corporate
\nsocialism. Yes, the campaign is working all out to win, but the campaign is
\nmore than a campaign. It is a movement. Again, many of its adherents are
\ninvolved for the first time. Without Dr. No they would not have come awake. Dr.
\nPaul “cured their apathy.” During the almost fifty years I have been in the
\npatriot trenches, we have spent much time talking to ourselves, “preaching to
\nthe choir,” trying to break through. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Ron Paul
\ncampaign has done it. Look at its constituents. Because the phony “War on
\nDrugs” has thrown many of them in jail, Dr. No’s stand against it has won him
\nmore support among black people than any other Republican. He is a hero on
\ncollege campuses and among computer nerds. The movement has enrolled people in
\nevery identifiable group, race, religion, financial condition, location,
\nculture, etc.<\/span>
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Many of these
\npeople have never lived in a free country. They have never known anything else
\nbut government by emergency that justifies perpetual war. Now, in the Ron Paul
\ncampaign that has launched a movement, they have had a whiff of what freedom
\nwould be like. Not a big one. Just a whiff. But enough to convince them they
\nlike it. Enough to convince them it’s possible. They want more. As Dr. No has
\nsaid, freedom is contagious. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Question:
\nwhether Dr. No. wins or not, what will these freedom-challenged people do after
\nthe election? Will they just forget all about it? Will they merely go on to the
\nnext fad? Yes, some will. Some weak sisters have already left us, sent running
\nby the preposterous piece about Dr. Paul’s “racism” in the New Republic<\/em>,
\na magazine so famous for lying that Hollywood made a movie of it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Others, summer
\nsoldiers and sunshine patriots, have left and will leave for other reasons.
\nWhen the dross is gone, the hard core will remain. What will they do? They are
\npresently getting a priceless education in politics. They will use it in
\nsubsequent elections to run themselves. As I write, thousands of them are
\nbecoming precinct chairmen. <\/span><\/p>\n

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There is also
\nthe priceless mailing list, comprising the 100,000 or so people who have
\ncontributed to Dr. No’s campaign. The mailing list is the heart of the movement
\nnow taking shape. The Dr. No candidacy has brought the true change the other
\ncandidates talk about. It will bring even more. For a long time, politics will
\nnot be the same. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Communist
\nmedia are too stupid to understand what is happening. Again, they are dying and
\ndon’t know it. Newspaper readership is falling as fast as the World Trade
\nCenter. Working at NBC and Channel 13 in New York years ago, I routinely read
\nseven daily newspapers. No more. The networks no longer enjoy their monopoly.
\nThey too are dying. The internet is where the action is. You Tube makes direct
\ncommunication possible, circumventing Communist media control. The Ron Paul
\nmovement knows how to use it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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So, the fact
\nthat these dying vestiges of totalitarian news and their front men are giving
\nthe Soviet-Fascist treatment to Dr. Paul is irrelevant. The movement is
\nspreading despite them. It will certainly cascade into other areas like home
\nschooling, which will rescue more and more kiddos from world government
\nbrainwashing. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Notice that the
\nother candidates sound more and more like Dr. Paul, which raises the question
\nof why voters should accept one or the other insincere imitation, when they
\ncould easily get the real thing. The Boosh Administration has been lusting to
\nattack Iran. So far, they have not. Could the reason be the heat Dr. No has
\napplied to the subject? Could that be the reason so many military men are
\nexpressing their distaste for Boosh’s Imperial policy?<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Because of the
\nPaul campaign, Americans who would never have known otherwise now understand
\nthat Fascism is the trouble with our system. The father of Fascism was Benito
\nMussolini, who explained, “Fascism should more appropriately be called
\nCorporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power.” He also
\ncalled Fascism the “corporate state,” a government in which the corporations
\nare the government. That is the perversion the conspiracy for world government
\nhas grafted on our limited republic.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Many Americans
\nwho until recently were in total darkness now understand that, and that
\nunderstanding is the first step in the constitutional restoration. So, there is
\nevery reason for Ronpaulers to be encouraged. The campaign is just the
\nbeginning. The work will continue after the elections no matter what happens.
\nWelcome to the movement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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