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Help Ron Paul Win Iowa!

From Redheads 4 Ron Paul:

Departing on January 2nd and returning January 4th a group of Ron Paul supporters from Indianapolis, Indiana will be heading out to assist in the Iowa Caucus. We have a large and active group with much experience under our belts.

We are Ron Paul group #90 at www.meetup.com, please check out our meetup pages. There are lots of photos of our many successful events. Please help send as many of these experienced and capable volunteers to the Iowa Caucus.

This is mostly a self funded trip as we have always paid for everything our of our own pockets. However for this critical battle ground state we must provide as many quality volunteers as possible.

LDS Member Takes Romney, Beck to the Woodshed

A member of the Mormon Church, Joel Skousen, lays what amounts to the LDS smackdown on fellow Mormons Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck.

While Skousen has high praise for Ron Paul, he calls Beck (who has been extremely critical of Paul) a sellout

Ron Paul the One to Beat

If the Republican die-hards really want to beat Hillary in 2008, they should be looking at Ron Paul. From The Walk:

Zogby's Director of Communications and polling analyst Fritz Wenzel says that Congressman Ron Paul is the strongest of the Republican frontrunners to go up against Hillary Clinton, underlining the fact that the rest of the field are just ringers as the establishment prepares to install Clinton and prolong the Bush-Clinton power monopoly.

"Among Democrats, yes, he would be a much stronger candidate than any of the other three (Romney, Giuliani, Thompson)" Wenzel told the Alex Jones Show yesterday.

A new Zogby poll commissioned by Jones Productions found Ron Paul the GOP winner in a blind poll that included Democrats, Republicans and Independents nationwide. "He is anti-war and the majority of Democrats are anti-war, he has some other ideas and policies and stances on issues more attractive to Democrats, particularly conservative Democrats," said Wenzel.

  "Even among independents, he is far and away a more attractive candidate," he added.

While I've had it with voting for the lesser of two evils (hence my support of Ron Paul), I realize that many of the GOP faithful simply want to beat the Democrats. Maybe they should be rethinking their strategy and start giving the good doctor some support.

Bits & Pieces

The Huckster: Mike Huckabee supported licenses for illegals so legal immigrants wouldn't be "hassled."  Arkansas Journal has the rest.

Telegraph: British government loses unencrypted financial data of millions of subjects in the mail!

Searches were continuing for two CDs containing the names, addresses and bank details of 9.5million adults and the names, dates of birth and National Insurance numbers of all 15.5million children in the country which went missing after being put in the post by HM Revenue and Customs. 

Boston.com: Boston police are going door-to-door asking parents if they can search their kid's room for guns. (Hat tip Daily Paul)

Digital Journal: Violence down dramatically after withdrawal of British troops from Basra.

Salon.com does a thorough job of showing just how far Fox News is in the tank for Rudy. Like there was any doubt? (Hat tip C2NN)

Great Quote: "Yes, we should be afraid that the American way of life is in jeopardy. But contrary to what the government has convinced the sheep to believe, it's not the terrorists who are the most dangerous threat." Napolitano, J. A. (2007). A Nation of Sheep. Nashville: Thomas Nelson

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Vintage Ron Paul

Other than the death penalty, which he now opposes, the Ron Paul of 1988 sounds very much like the Ron Paul of 2007.

FBI Confiscates Ron Paul Dollars

I was looking forward to getting my commemorative Ron Paul copper coins sometime this week. Looks like hell might freeze over first.

FBI agents raided the offices of Bernard von NotHaus, owner of the business the Liberty Dollar (Evansville, IN) early yesterday morning.

For approximately six hours they took all the gold, all the silver, all the platinum and almost two tons of Ron Paul Dollars that where (sic) just delivered last Friday. They also took all the files, all the computers and froze our bank accounts.

Among a broad list of items to be seized:

• Contact information for individuals, businesses, or organizations that have purchased Liberty Dollars
• On-line purchasing records, including Pay Pal
• Marketing items: T-shirts, mousepads, bumper stickers, etc.

They haven't gotten around to shutting down the website...yet.

On the small chance that my "Ron Pauls" made it out the door before the raid took place, are they going to be visiting my house anytime soon to confiscate those also? More importantly, do they clean?

Veterans Day

Today is Veterans Day.

Reconnect America has suggestions for ways you can give back to our veterans. Some of my personal favorites are Wounded Warriors, AnySoldier, and the Fallen Patriot Fund.

Give a hug to troops, past and present, today.

A Response to John Podhoretz

Mr. Podhoretz recently did quit a bit of speculating on Ron Paul's candidacy and his recent haul on Nov. 5th.

Podhoretz wrote:

...it seems to surprise many that Paul’s undeniable grassroots effectiveness hasn’t translated to a showing either in national or state polls. That’s surely due to the fact that many if not most of those who are sending money to Paul are not, in fact, Republicans. They are more plausibly among the 3 million or so who voted for Ralph Nader on the Green Party line in 2000, or even among those who rained money down on Howard Dean in the summer of 2003.

Dr. Paul's campaign is in fact drawing supporters from a wide variety of places; young people who are just becoming eligible to vote in 2008, independents, Libertarians,  Democrats,  people who have never bothered to vote before, and REPUBLICANS. I am one of those former Republicans who has come back into the fold to support Ron Paul; I am not the only one.

When the outdated method of polling landlines is used, it's no wonder Dr. Paul isn't polling better. Young people (and many older people) don't have landlines. I do have a land line, but have NEVER once, in 52 years, been called on a presidential preference poll, even though I have cast many votes for Republican candidates. Who are these people who sit by their phone, eagerly awaiting calls from total strangers?

Perhaps what Mr. Podhoretz should be asking is why some of those other candidates (that he would, no doubt, deem so much more Republican than Ron Paul) are doing so miserably in their fund raising. Or why Ron Paul has won most of the straw polls.

Podhoretz concludes by asking "And despite Paul’s nominal standing as a Republican — and it is nominal — wouldn’t his candidacy draw more from disaffected Democrats, as liberal Republican John Anderson’s 1980 third-party candidacy pulled voters away from Jimmy Carter and not from Ronald Reagan?"

You'd better hope that's the case, Mr. Podhoretz. Since there seems to be little enthusiasm for the "front runners," it may be the only way the they (meaning the Republicans) could win.

50 States Sued To Block Computerized Vote Counting

We The People Foundation
For Constitutional Education, Inc.
2458 Ridge Road , Queensbury , NY 12804
Phone: (518) 656-3578 Fax: (518) 656-9724
www.GiveMeLiberty.org info@givemeliberty.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For information contact:
Doug Bersaw: 603-239-8827
Jim Condit, Jr.: 513-602-0627
Walter Reddy: 203-858-2677

50 States Sued To Block Computerized Vote Counting
Federal Court Will Be Asked to Delay Primaries

QUEENSBURY, NY-- Nov. 6, 2007. On November 1st chief election officials in all fifty states were named as Defendants in a federal voting rights lawsuit spearheaded by the We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education to ensure the integrity of the upcoming primary elections and next year's general elections.

Plaintiffs from every state brought the suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York and maintain that current election practices, including the widespread use of computerized voting machines, are unconstitutional because they are ripe for fraud and error and effectively hide the physical vote counting process from the public, effectively denying citizens their legally protected Right to cast an effective vote. The lawsuit seeks an Order from the Court prohibiting the use of all voting machines and which forces election officials to instead use utilize paper ballots and to count and total all votes by hand, always in full view of the public.

The lawsuit, called the NCEL, National Clean Elections Lawsuit, follows documented vote machine failures during August's Iowa Straw Poll, persisting claims questioning the integrity of the 2004 presidential election, and the official de-certification in August of virtually every major electronic voting system by the California Secretary of State based upon several comprehensive academic studies documenting the systems' significant vulnerabilities to software "hacking" and vote fraud.

This week, the Plaintiffs will file a motion for injunctive relief, asking the Court to preliminarily prohibit and enjoin the States from conducting their primaries and caucuses until the questions presented to the Court are finally determined. James Condit Jr., head of Citizens for a Fair Vote Count, and the lead plaintiff from Ohio, has asked all concerned citizens to support the case. Mr. Schulz has publicly said that he expects the case to go to the Supreme Court. The case number for the current case is 07-943. The We the People Foundation was formed in 1997 in order to defend the Constitution and the People's Right to hold the Government accountable to it.

An Appeal To My Fellow Pastors

by Chuck Baldwin
November 6, 2007

Recently, Iowa pastors gathered to hear my presentation in Des Moines on behalf of Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul. After listening to me, they then heard ten-term Republican Texas Congressman Ron Paul himself.

Consider how Congressman Paul's message impacted Pastor Jim Hartman of the Assembly of God church in Conrad, Iowa. "I've been supporting Mike Huckabee, but I would say I'm leaning real strong toward Ron Paul." Hartman supported President Bush four years ago and explained, "Up until the last six months I had not allowed myself to imagine that we'd been let down by Bush." As for Iraq, he said, "I don't think we were prepared to understand that culture and to work with that culture." He said he now feels "humble and I feel kind of bad that I haven't done a better job of being faithful to Ron Paul's kind of integrity." [Source: MSNBC, Oct. 30, 2007]

Integrity: that is the issue drawing millions to Ron Paul, including young people. The night before I spoke, nearly 700 students gathered at Iowa State University in Ames to hear Dr. Paul. One of those students wrote me recently. His name is Nathan Rockman. He wrote, "As a columnist for the Iowa State Daily here on campus, I have seen first hand what can be described as Ron Paul fever. Since Dr. Paul visited this past Friday, his message of freedom and liberty has been spreading through campus like wildfire . . ."