Ron Paul: personal beliefs versus political beliefs.

There seems to be some confusion about what Ron Paul's intentions might be in running
for President. He certainly wants to become president, but think about the reasons why:

• Reduce the size of the Federal government.
• Restore American constitutional values.
• Protect personal liberty.
• Create real value in the American economic system.
• Make the Federal government work for the people not the corporations.
• Create responsibility and accountability in government

He has the vision to do this and I think every American would like to see all of this come true.
I also believe that there is a tide of support beginning to swell for him. People are fed
up with big government providing whatever the big corporations need. And making
themselves rich in the process. (See Bush bail out the banks, total irresponsibility in
lending by both borrowers and lenders, etc.)

We are also becoming fed up with the manipulation of our monetary system for the good
of the banks and growing tax bills to feed an ever money hungry Federal spending machine
that seems to have a knack for wasting as much as possible. Imperialism seems to
be on the rise, especially in this administration and Americans grow tired of policing the
world at their cost in both lives and dollars.

We want to be free to decide for ourselves what we think is right. That is what our Republic
is all about. Free states that are SUPPORTED by the Federal government; not ruled by it.

And yes, Dr. Paul is against abortion, a devout Christian and many other things that we all
(including me) do not agree with all of the time. But his passion for personal freedom and
emancipation from Federal rule that we all live under give us protection from a President
that would try to force anything like this upon us. The society we live in now DOES NOT protect
us from this at all; it facilitates this kind of oppressive rule.

Ron Paul can begin the end of all that we would like to see go. Just give him a chance;
listen to what he says and believe that America is ready for this. We all want to be free
and we all can be!. We just need to start somewhere and Ron Paul has helped us find
that starting line.

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Why be afraid Ron Paul?

OK, IF there is a Ron Paul spam conspiracy, why have none of the other candidates learned from it?
Do they think the Internet does not matter in an election? (Maybe it doesn't..)
Do they somehow think that it is immoral to mobilize people to vote in these polls?

OR is it possible, just possible, that the Ron Paul spam conspiracy does not exist!!??
And that Dr. Paul really does have that much support??? His fans really are
that dedicated and numerous?

But in order to buy the "spam bot" theory, you must ignore the straw poll results.
Surely none of the Internet support translates to real people on the ground... ;)
See for yourself: http://www.redpills.org/?p=300

Are people afraid of this? Are the neo-cons and the Democrats afraid of this?
Do people really only hate what they fear?

Further 2007 Federal spending analysis

Since my last post caused such an outcry of comments on Digg, I think we should compare some
of the data and look at the priorities. It should be quite interesting and should prove out even
more of Dr. Paul's ideas for reduction in the Federal government.

Again, all of the number quoted from Wikipedia; I'm not making any of this up (although someone may
have, but the wiki is pretty well policed..)

Let's look at debt repayment:

This article by Mike Hewitt at Dollardaze shows we owe $3.85 trillion (45%) of all national debt to
the Federal Reserve. Wikipedia says we will be paying only $243.7 billion to interest on debt
and I assume that is spread across all of it; not just to the Fed.
Check out Mike's article; it is very enlightening: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article1571.html
All of his numbers are referenced for the convenience of the Digg naysayers.

Now let's compare that to the 2007 expenditures for some other things:

• $72.6 billion (+5.8%) - Veterans' benefits
• $89.9 billion (+1.3%) - Education and training (I assume this is education in general)
• $26.8 billion (+28.7%) - Community and regional development
• $1.1 billion (+47.6%) - Energy
• $33.1 billion (+5.7%) - Natural resources and environment
• $223.5 total
  

All of these combined are still less than what we pay on our debt and a little over half ($243 *.45 =$109) of
what we pay to the Federal Reserve alone! One other note; Japan owns around $600 billion
of our debt themselves...

Now where would we be if we had a gold standard and no Federal credit; no Federal Reserve.
I think Dr. Paul has the right idea. Money (credit) could not be conjured from thin air and the
Federal government would have to control spending.

Political yard sign (the Constitution suppressed!)

OK, so here we go; another reason Ron Paul must become president...

Seems a young man in Orlando, Florida (Clermont, actually) put a Ron Paul sign is his yard.
He was not asked to do so by the campaign; he did it of his own volition on his private property.
The city code enforcement officer seems to think he must either take it down or pay a $50 dollar fee.
TO POST THE SIGN IN HIS OWN YARD!!!!!!



City ordinance 102-18, section 3 says:
"The candidate or someone designated by the candidate, whose sign is erected or placed on any
premises, shall make that deposit..." Assuming the $50 deposit/fee.

Clearly, this man is neither the candidate nor someone designated by the candidate so this ordinance does
not apply to him.

This is obviously a misapplied ordinance in this case and section 4 of the Florida constitution does protect
free speech specifically! As does the Constitution of the United States.

So, what should he do:
(Disclaimer here; I am not a lawyer; do not have a law degree and have never attended law
school, BUT I do know what our Constitution says about free speech. This is merely my view.)

1. Put the sign back up! (what is the worst they can do? $50 dollar fine? Gotta pay it any way)
2. Search out legal help on the web. There are surely places (ACLU comes to mind) who would
LOVE to get some teeth in this one!!
3. Gather as much information as possible about this exact issue; see below:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1856.ZS.html
http://www.signlaw.com/US%20Supreme%20Ct.htm
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/personal/topic.aspx?topic=yard_signs

4. Take this information to city council and whatever court would hear this case and argue it to the death!
5. Be sure to let everyone in town know (by adding another sign, maybe) that your First Amendment
rights as well as your Florida Constitutional rights are being violated. DEMAND clarification of the
ordinance by the city council!!!
This is a total outrage and I actually expect something like this in my town soon. My signs will bother
someone but we have no such ordinance. I served on council and have a copy of the ordinance book to
reference.