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02-10-2008, 05:10 PM
I liked this article from Nolan Chart. (http://www.nolanchart.com/article2636.html) We need a huge event to multiply our movement. Especially now that the campaign is facing defeat.
It is Time: A Call to Arms for the rEVOLution
I'm opposed to any form of defeatism or any sentiment that insists that the Ron Paul revolution cannot win swiftly. The holy grail in our passionate mission is most certainly the 2008 Presidential victory and obviously our secondary goal is to increase our concentration on Congress. However, more and more I am reading supporter's words and seeing our secondary goal replacing our primary goal.
What we need to be doing as a grassroots community is to be vigorously searching for ever more bold macro strategies to win this election. Oh sure there are obstacles... media blackout.. preconceived notions.. misbehaved supporters with good intentions... external labeling and name calling... lack of voters up to this point... flat polling numbers... etc..
What we need since the hour is late and the political reception to our revolution is stubborn is action that will directly counter our biggest obstacles and provide a new avenue for new supporters among the demographics that we have not reached.
We need true revolutionary action of the non-violent nature. We need to gather. We need to speak. We need not events, we need An Event. We need to show magnitude. Now.
With the campaign being in something of a suspension, the timing is perfect. We can retract somewhat from the local focus and shift in a big way to something national. Something that will reach the multitudes and legitimize Ron Paul and his platform as a fair water cooler topic. We need to play the game that the national audience is accustomed to i.e. we need a spectacle.
...and what's more spectacular or provoking than the Truth? We need to put the Truth on the national stage for one shimmering moment in time. It is unexpected.
So unexpected that it amounts to a revolutionary act.
Imagine, if you will, if every bit of grassroots money and sweat and expertise was put into one moment, one summit. The scale would be enormous. The impact would be un-ignorable. The revolution will be amplified. Ideally, the notion of resistance to our government's unfair practices should increase in saturation and acceptance and Truth would hold the day.
Why is this a revolutionary action? The successful revolutionaries of old gained momentum through the mighty pen and through the art of the speech. They would rally patriots and take action. They demanded more than just a vow of support.
Why not stand up and show that the revolution is more than a presidential campaign and at the same time show that there is a presidential candidate who also happens to bare the torches of Truth and Liberty?
Why NOT sound a call to arms for our rights and liberty? Why NOT assemble peacefully but forcibly with words? Why NOT take physical action?
With the collective Ron Paul grassroots fund raising capability and many states no longer focusing on primaries, we could create a Truth Bomb or a M.O.A.T.B. if we put our minds to it.
Think what a couple million dollars in fundraising cash would do if focused on one event and one or two areas. Take into consideration the need for a bold and maybe drastic new strategy at this late stage in the race.
We need to all assemble, my vision includes two simultaneous events on two coasts where all peaceful Revolutionaries assemble and where brilliant minds present the economic and political Truths to the entire nation.
The colonial Revolutionaries and the Sons of Liberty assembled, rallied, generated supporters with speeches, and created the spectacle of the Boston Tea Party that could not be ignored. Martin Luther King Junior marched on Washington and created a spectacle of people captivated by the art of the speech and the power of Truth. The Million Man March was unable to be ignored. Where is our revolution's spectacle? When will be our defining moment?
I say it is time. Let us assemble the largest Truth spectacle that our young millennium has yet seen. How could we be ignored if we all marched and assembled? If the media ignored us this time it would be at their own peril. If they called us crazy then they would be speaking to the faces of thousands of people. Other name calling this time should backfire and only fan the flames of popularity that we are so lacking. Our reputation for misbehaved supporters should be replaced with a reputation for being able to organize on a massive scale. The national poll numbers couldn't possibly stay flat immediately after an event of this magnitude.
Most of the primaries are over. Ron Paul himself has to reprioritize both in his home district and to plan for the future of the movement. Only now do we have the opportunity and ability to do something like this and solidify the revolution. The drums must be heard and the banners must be waved.
Or we can just stick to our usual guns and hope for the best, but I'm willing to show my staunch support for Liberty in person to anybody who would deny it to me whether they be the media, the neighbor, or the tyrant. What about you?
It is Time: A Call to Arms for the rEVOLution
I'm opposed to any form of defeatism or any sentiment that insists that the Ron Paul revolution cannot win swiftly. The holy grail in our passionate mission is most certainly the 2008 Presidential victory and obviously our secondary goal is to increase our concentration on Congress. However, more and more I am reading supporter's words and seeing our secondary goal replacing our primary goal.
What we need to be doing as a grassroots community is to be vigorously searching for ever more bold macro strategies to win this election. Oh sure there are obstacles... media blackout.. preconceived notions.. misbehaved supporters with good intentions... external labeling and name calling... lack of voters up to this point... flat polling numbers... etc..
What we need since the hour is late and the political reception to our revolution is stubborn is action that will directly counter our biggest obstacles and provide a new avenue for new supporters among the demographics that we have not reached.
We need true revolutionary action of the non-violent nature. We need to gather. We need to speak. We need not events, we need An Event. We need to show magnitude. Now.
With the campaign being in something of a suspension, the timing is perfect. We can retract somewhat from the local focus and shift in a big way to something national. Something that will reach the multitudes and legitimize Ron Paul and his platform as a fair water cooler topic. We need to play the game that the national audience is accustomed to i.e. we need a spectacle.
...and what's more spectacular or provoking than the Truth? We need to put the Truth on the national stage for one shimmering moment in time. It is unexpected.
So unexpected that it amounts to a revolutionary act.
Imagine, if you will, if every bit of grassroots money and sweat and expertise was put into one moment, one summit. The scale would be enormous. The impact would be un-ignorable. The revolution will be amplified. Ideally, the notion of resistance to our government's unfair practices should increase in saturation and acceptance and Truth would hold the day.
Why is this a revolutionary action? The successful revolutionaries of old gained momentum through the mighty pen and through the art of the speech. They would rally patriots and take action. They demanded more than just a vow of support.
Why not stand up and show that the revolution is more than a presidential campaign and at the same time show that there is a presidential candidate who also happens to bare the torches of Truth and Liberty?
Why NOT sound a call to arms for our rights and liberty? Why NOT assemble peacefully but forcibly with words? Why NOT take physical action?
With the collective Ron Paul grassroots fund raising capability and many states no longer focusing on primaries, we could create a Truth Bomb or a M.O.A.T.B. if we put our minds to it.
Think what a couple million dollars in fundraising cash would do if focused on one event and one or two areas. Take into consideration the need for a bold and maybe drastic new strategy at this late stage in the race.
We need to all assemble, my vision includes two simultaneous events on two coasts where all peaceful Revolutionaries assemble and where brilliant minds present the economic and political Truths to the entire nation.
The colonial Revolutionaries and the Sons of Liberty assembled, rallied, generated supporters with speeches, and created the spectacle of the Boston Tea Party that could not be ignored. Martin Luther King Junior marched on Washington and created a spectacle of people captivated by the art of the speech and the power of Truth. The Million Man March was unable to be ignored. Where is our revolution's spectacle? When will be our defining moment?
I say it is time. Let us assemble the largest Truth spectacle that our young millennium has yet seen. How could we be ignored if we all marched and assembled? If the media ignored us this time it would be at their own peril. If they called us crazy then they would be speaking to the faces of thousands of people. Other name calling this time should backfire and only fan the flames of popularity that we are so lacking. Our reputation for misbehaved supporters should be replaced with a reputation for being able to organize on a massive scale. The national poll numbers couldn't possibly stay flat immediately after an event of this magnitude.
Most of the primaries are over. Ron Paul himself has to reprioritize both in his home district and to plan for the future of the movement. Only now do we have the opportunity and ability to do something like this and solidify the revolution. The drums must be heard and the banners must be waved.
Or we can just stick to our usual guns and hope for the best, but I'm willing to show my staunch support for Liberty in person to anybody who would deny it to me whether they be the media, the neighbor, or the tyrant. What about you?