A Revolution Beyond Ron Paul

The Road to Paulville

By Kellyn Brown, 5-14-08

While they may not be matched in numbers, the amount of passion Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s supporters enjoy is second to none. When it became clear weeks ago that Sen. John McCain had all but wrapped up the party’s nomination, Paul supporters nationwide were undeterred. Locally, when former Pres. Bill Clinton stumped in Kalispell this week for his wife on the Democratic side, Paul supporters were there making noise too. And now, for some backers of the Texas Congressman with a Libertarian bent, all roads lead to Paulville.

The goal, as outlined on Paulville.org, is “to establish gated communities containing 100 percent Ron Paul supporters and or people who live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.” The group has already bought 50 acres in West Texas. It plans to form a co-op, have people buys shares in the community and allow those living there to vote on such essentials as utilities. However, for those who don’t believe those are essential, they can live off the grid for free.

To actually homestead this property from scratch will take some work, and the group warns this community is “not for the faint of heart.” Still, I have no doubt that the organizers will sell out the 50 1-acre plots in short order. And, in due time, they will homestead other plots of land across the country. Expect a Montana Paulville. After all, Ron Paul garnered as much support here as he did anywhere else.

The concept of creating all these Paul-inspired neighborhoods has drawn mixed reviews and The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan pointed out that living next to people who agree with you all the time could get old. Even Ron Paul is cool to the idea, telling Politico he wouldn’t move there and “I don’t think that’s the solution.”

Maybe not, but that won’t stop the project. And that fact may just be further evidence that the Ron Paul revolution has increasingly less to do with Ron Paul. [End of article]

Comment By VOTE RON PAUL, 5-15-08

As a Ron Paul supporter, I would say you are semi-correct in stating that the Revolution has less and less to do with Ron Paul. To be honest, as Ron Paul him self had stated, it was never about him (the man) but more the message. The message of peace and prosperity, less govenment intervention at home and abroad. Ron Paul ignited a fire in the lives of the millions of Americans opposed to war, police states, and corporate controlled fascist type government. Ron Paul was able to unite the millions of Americans who see through the Republicrats, the democrats and republicans who preach the same thing to a different tune. Big government, big spending, wars, resource procurement, “spreading democracy”, etc etc. Ron Paul is the only candidate that is backed by brilliant economists from not only here but internationally. Economists such as Antal E. Fekete, and Petrov. Ron Paul is the only candidate that pointed out the gross overspending of our government, the weakening dollar and the 700 bases in over 130 countries that costs the US taxpayer 1 trillion dollars per year! That’s $1,000,000,000,000,000.00 PER YEAR! He pointed out the hippocracy of supporting military dictators such as Mushareff and at one time Saddam and then expending our dollars and troops to instill democracy in Iraq by borrowing the money (12 billion per month) from China! Ron Paul is the only candidate addressing real issues. McCain wants perpetual war. He wants us in Iraq for 100 years as he stated. McCain wants 100% amnesty for all illegals. Obama wants war in Pakistan and wants to tax americans even more by initiating an international poverty tax! Hillary voted for the war, and continues to support it as well as support a NUCLEAR STRIK ON IRAN and a full on war with said nation. The only candidate who opposes war, and the further threat to national security by making people hate us is ROn Paul. There is more, but I will end here. Read for yourself on the many sites out there. Get a copy of Ron Pauls new book today. RON PAUL 2008!!!!!

Comment By ***, 5-16-08

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Comment By Amen!, 5-16-08

Posted by Paul Craig Roberts on Antiwar.com:

On May 15, the White House Moron, in a war-planning visit to Israel, justified the naked aggression he and Olmert are planning against Iran as the only alternative to “the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

But the White House Moron has the roles reversed. It is not Iran that is threatening war. It is Bush. It is not Bush who is appeasing. It is Iran.

Iran has not responded in kind to any of Bush’s warlike moves and provocations. Iran has not sunk a single one of our sitting duck ships and has not given the Iraqi insurgents any weapons that would easily turn the tide of war against the US.

It is Bush, not Iran, who sounds like Adolf Hitler blustering and threatening. It is Bush’s American Brownshirts, the neocons, who express the view: “what’s the good of nuclear weapons if you can’t use them.”

It is the US that is funding assassination teams inside Iran and using taxpayer dollars to fund dissident and violent organizations opposed to the Iranian government. Iran is doing no such thing here.

It is members of the Bush Regime and US generals who continue to lie through their teeth about Iranian support for insurgents, for which they can supply no evidence, and about Iranian nuclear weapons programs, for which the IAEA inspectors can find no sign.

It is the US print and TV media that serves the Bush Regime as propaganda ministry for its lies of aggression.

All the war crimes that are being planned are being planned by Bush and Olmert.

What would George Orwell make of the Bush Regime’s position that anything less than a direct act of naked aggression is appeasement?

The Chicago City Council has passed a resolution “opposing any US attack on Iran and urging the Bush Administration to pursue diplomatic engagement with that nation.” But the White House Moron says diplomacy is appeasement. He learned this false equivalence from the neocon Brownshirts whose control over his administration has made America despised throughout the world, with the exception of Israel.

After broadcasting false claims for weeks from US generals and Bush Regime spokespersons that the US has “definite proof” in the form of captured Iranian weapons that Iranians were “responsible for killing American troops,” the great free American media went silent when LA Times correspondent Tina Susman reported from Baghdad: “A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was cancelled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran.”

A people devoid of a media are sitting ducks for tyrannical government, which is what the US has.

What is the difference between Hitler’s concocted excuses for his acts of naked aggression and the Bush Regime’s plan to use a briefing by General Petraeus, with “captured Iranian weapons” as props, as proof of Iranian complicity in US deaths in Iraq as a means to break down public and congressional resistance to an attack on Iran?

Why has the Bush Regime suffered no consequences for this blatant attempt to orchestrate an excuse for another war?

Why have there been no consequences to the Regime for the blatant lies it told in order to attack Iraq?

Why has the Bush Regime suffered no consequences for its violation of US statutory laws against spying without warrants and against torture?

In the US criminal justice system, three strikes and you are out.

For the Bush Regime is there any limit on its lawless behavior?

How many strikes? A dozen? Thirty? Three hundred?

Is there a limit?

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