France's grassroot support for Ron Paul made a website to promote him !

[benthilde]

In France, we are not all socialists. Our politicians are.
With some friends of mine, we created a facebook page to promote Ron Paul in France
http://www.facebook.com/FranceforRonPaul2012
We have more than 560 people there.

Now we want to take it to the next level. So we created a website
http://ronpaulfrance.fr/
Please check us out, and tell your friends about it : France support Ron Paul, and no other candidates
(on facebook, the France for Romney group has 8 members, LOL. And there is nothing about Gingrich or Santorum)


France will fight for liberty.

[enter`name`here]

the current acceptance of socialism in France is saddening, you guys have a proud tradition of pro liberty thinking. from Say to Bastiat to etienne de la boétie, France has had a posi5tive inpact on the liberty movement. keep up the good fight guys!

[benthilde]

Thank you.

I know we have such a great history for pro-liberty thinking. In the nineteenth century in particular, there were dozens of great intellectuals who believed and fought for freedom, free markets, and capitalism. We try to promote them, but it's really hard. I work for a non-profit organisation aimed at promoting the works of those great liberty-minded intellectuals (economists, but also philosophers) of what the french tradition/school. And we are working hard, but so far it never seem to change the course of things.

France is still overwhelmingly socialist. We are ruled by right-wing socialism, and suffer from crony capitalism, to a degree that you would not imagine.
In the presidential election coming up in May, we won't have a candidate to support the message of liberty. There is rules to avoid small candidates to be on the ballot (they want to avoid any challenger of the status-quo, and so far, they succeeded). So what we did is that we started a campaign anyway, without worrying about not being on the ballot : we choose to support Frederic Bastiat for president. And I'm not kidding. We don't have any politician who believe in free-markets, in personal liberties, in sound money, etc., like Ron Paul does. So we said : let's campaing for a Frederic Bastiat.

So we created a website for it : http://bastiat2012.fr/ and begun creating some ads for it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I3ug8cwbkSM
I know, it's kind of funny to do this for a dead person. But what can we do at this point

[klamath]

Thank you for this. It is interesting to hear people talk about the political problems in their home countries and the interest in RP. These forums can be so US centric even by members from foriegn countries. I know for a fact we aren't the only county messed up and to hear people like you applying solutions in your own countries is very refreshing.

[kill the banks]

v interesting stuff ... bravo for your efforts and welcome

[SneakyFrenchSpy]

The logical choice for libertarian-minded people in the French presidential election (Late Apr - Early May 2012) is Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. He's the gaulist/sovereignist candidate for the fast-approaching presidential elections. His only flaw is his emphasis on tariffs, but he's 100 times better than the rest on the important issues like the debt, anti-bailouts, getting out of the euro etc...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoyqne_dupont-aignan-celui-qui-a-dit-non_news

I (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoyqne_dupont-aignan-celui-qui-a-dit-non_news) wish Ron Paul looked like him and had his eloquence (in English of course).