FrankRep
04-21-2008, 10:41 AM
Strong-arm Tactics Signal the End of Republican Principles in the GOP
The John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/)
April 21, 2008
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:
Elected delegates were excluded Saturday from a district convention in Kirkwood, Missouri, by party officials who claimed they weren't Republicans.
Follow this link to the original source: "GOP cracks down on Ron Paul activists (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/64CF6ED868C2A80286257431000BBF84?OpenDocument)"
COMMENTARY:
The ousted delegates from St. Charles County and west St. Louis County are mostly Ron Paul supporters who claim their purpose is "to return the Republican Party to its conservative roots."
Within minutes of the opening of the convention, Republican regulars disqualified almost half of the delegates and alternates — who they suspected were "supporters of the Texas congressman's presidential bid."
On the orders of the convention leaders, delegates were escorted out of the Kirkwood high school cafeteria where they met in the hall and drafted an appeal to the Republican National Committee.
In Missouri, where U.S. Senator John McCain got less than a third of the popular vote, delegates to the national Republican Party convention are obligated to vote for him at least on the first ballot.
While strong-arm tactics assured three pro-McCain delegates from the St. Louis area, in Kansas City, Missouri, three pro-Paul delegates were elected.
The Missouri state convention to be held at the end of May will likely see a similar heavy-handed approach. Other state Republican Party leaders have used similar approaches to silence Ron Paul activists.
Republican principles no longer exist in America, where party politics, backroom deals, and the elite media decide presidential candidates.
Similar tactics are used in one-party states like Russia and Mexico. They were also used to overthrow democratic institutions in early 20th century Germany and Russia as well as in ancient Rome.
Benjamin Franklin said: "There is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered…. This [government] is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
For more Franklin quotes, go to http://www.fisherhouse.com/books/franklin.html
SOURCE:
http://www.jbs.org/node/7832
The John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/)
April 21, 2008
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:
Elected delegates were excluded Saturday from a district convention in Kirkwood, Missouri, by party officials who claimed they weren't Republicans.
Follow this link to the original source: "GOP cracks down on Ron Paul activists (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/64CF6ED868C2A80286257431000BBF84?OpenDocument)"
COMMENTARY:
The ousted delegates from St. Charles County and west St. Louis County are mostly Ron Paul supporters who claim their purpose is "to return the Republican Party to its conservative roots."
Within minutes of the opening of the convention, Republican regulars disqualified almost half of the delegates and alternates — who they suspected were "supporters of the Texas congressman's presidential bid."
On the orders of the convention leaders, delegates were escorted out of the Kirkwood high school cafeteria where they met in the hall and drafted an appeal to the Republican National Committee.
In Missouri, where U.S. Senator John McCain got less than a third of the popular vote, delegates to the national Republican Party convention are obligated to vote for him at least on the first ballot.
While strong-arm tactics assured three pro-McCain delegates from the St. Louis area, in Kansas City, Missouri, three pro-Paul delegates were elected.
The Missouri state convention to be held at the end of May will likely see a similar heavy-handed approach. Other state Republican Party leaders have used similar approaches to silence Ron Paul activists.
Republican principles no longer exist in America, where party politics, backroom deals, and the elite media decide presidential candidates.
Similar tactics are used in one-party states like Russia and Mexico. They were also used to overthrow democratic institutions in early 20th century Germany and Russia as well as in ancient Rome.
Benjamin Franklin said: "There is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered…. This [government] is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
For more Franklin quotes, go to http://www.fisherhouse.com/books/franklin.html
SOURCE:
http://www.jbs.org/node/7832