- "The American Republic is in remnant status. The
stage is set for our country to devolve into a military dictatorship, and
few seem to care." --Rep. Ron Paul
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- "First, we stop the killing, and then we restore
the Constitution. These are our two main priorities." And that's
why I'm voting for Ron Paul. He is the only candidate (with a chance to
win) who's promising to do either. And he'll keep his word. That makes
him the only truly American candidate running for president.
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- Paul is serious about withdrawing US troops from Iraq.
He knows that the war was a mistake and believes that the American occupation
must end. He has promised to stop the ongoing slaughter of Iraqi civilians.
That should be the primary moral consideration for anyone casting a ballot
on November 3.
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- Will you vote to stop the killing or not? It's as simple
as that.
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- Paul has also promised to restore the rule of law---to
repeal the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act; to reinstate Posse
Comitatus, due process, habeas corpus, and the "presumption of innocence".
He'll make sure that US prisoners-whether they are American citizens or
foreign nationals---are treated in way that complies with our treaty obligations,
the Geneva Conventions, the Bill of Rights, and the basic tenets of human
decency.
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- Under Paul, the torture will stop. Period.
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- What other candidate will stop the torture of US prisoners?
What other candidate will stop the government's spying on the American
people? What other candidate will challenge Bush's claim that the president
can arbitrarily cast an American citizen in prison and keep him there as
long as he chooses without charging him with a crime?
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- Bush has abolished the basic safeguards which protect
the citizen from the long-arm of the state. The legal system needs be purged
of his executive signing statements and presidential decrees. Only Paul
promises to restore the Constitution. There is no second choice.
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- Paul is the only candidate who grasps the economic problems
facing the nation from our massive deficit spending, the destruction of
our manufacturing base, and the falling dollar. He may not be able to pull
us back from the brink, but he will rebuild confidence in our currency,
our markets, and our trade policies. That's the best we can hope for given
the mess that Bush has created.
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- On November 5, Guy Fawkes Day, the Paul campaign raised
over $4.07 million in one day mostly from private citizens. He surpassed
all the other candidates except Hilary Clinton and has raised more than
$6.84 million in the first five weeks of this quarter alone. Paul's "purely"
grassroots movement is energized by working class Americans who see his
candidacy as a last-ditch effort to end the war in Iraq, reestablish fiscal
sanity, and restore civil liberties.
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- Despite the fact that Paul has a strong personal approval
ratings and polls well against his competitors; the media has deliberately---and
very successfully---kept him out of the public eye. That will be more difficult
to do now that his campaign war-chest is packed with contributions and
his base of support is expanding across the country.
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- We expect the media to ditch its failed strategy of simply
ignoring Paul and take the more aggressive approach of attacking him outright.
Now that Paul has established himself as a credible threat to the warmongering,
autocratic corporate elite; he will have to be discredited through a coordinated
media-blitz which will target his voting record, his character, and any
other trivial foible which may incite public scorn.
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- He's got a bull's-eye on his back.
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- We've seen it all before, haven't we? The politics of
personal destruction organized and directed from the penthouse suites of
the media's corporate offices?
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- Perhaps, it will be a repeat of the "Dean Scream",
where the voice of antiwar candidate Howard Dean was isolated from the
crowd noise-- and played on the mainstream media over 900 times in 48 hours---making
Dean look like a maniac and torpedoing whatever chance he may have had
of winning the Democratic nomination.
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- Or maybe it will be like John McCain's "rumored"
out-of-wedlock black baby in the North Carolina primary? Or the "Swift-boating"
of John Kerry in the 2004 election? Or the attacks on Dan Rather following
his report that the president was a slacker who vamoosed from the "Champagne
Unit" of the Texas National Guard during wartime?
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- Whatever the plan may be, we should know by now that
the media will continue to act as the chief adversary of the American people
and the cause of freedom. That won't change until the 5 corporate media-giants
are brought to account and busted up into a thousand little pieces.
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- But don't expect the Paul supporters to throw in the
towel like the weak-kneed Dean throng. These guys are stubborn and resolute.
And they won't budge on matters of principle. They're not taken in by the
media's cheesy smear-campaigns and they won't jump off the bandwagon at
the first sign of trouble.
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- The Paul crowd has some heavy artillery of their own,
too---and they're wheeling it into place right now. Their ranks are gradually
swelling, the money is pouring in, and they are not going to give up their
country without a fight.
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- This election is shaping up to be a clash of ideals between
the people who still believe in freedom and those who don't. It's going
hand-to-hand combat and it'll probably crack the country in two.
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- Good. Let the battle begin. As Thomas Jefferson said,
"Every generation needs a new revolution."
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