Good catch. It's been apparent to frequent visitors that RPF ain't what it used to be.Originally Posted by wmmonk
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul
"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
^^This, for me anyway. As for the new account, I have no idea about my past login info, it was lost long ago. I was starting to get back into things when Rand suspended unfortunately.
Someone not believing that everyone outside the Paul family should be called vulgar names and degraded constantly does not make that someone a "troll."
Waiting to see who the Constitution party comes up with. Ron?
Actually. Can you run for President while in jail for defending the constitution against domestic enemies?Edward Snowden for prez.........
He would be the most qualified.
In New Zealand:
The Coastguard is a Charity
Air Traffic Control is a private company run on user fees
The DMV is a private non-profit
Rescue helicopters and ambulances are operated by charities and are plastered with corporate logos
The agriculture industry has zero subsidies
5% of the national vote, gets you 5 seats in Parliament
A tax return has 4 fields
Business licenses aren't a thing
Prostitution is legal
We have a constitutional right to refuse any type of medical care
I don't see why not ...
Eugene Debs ran for president while he was in jail. He was convicted under the 1918 Sedition Act for opposing the draft during World War One.
He was a socialist, but I guess you could say he was defending the Constitution (at least the part about free speech) against "domestic enemies" (such as Woodrow Wilson) ...
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- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)ˇ tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ˇ
stop paranoia ,self destroyer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRpAANsoG8I
2016 gop est business as usual, rules do not apply.
I would at least like to hope after seeing just how dirty Ted Cruz is they changed their mind. But I'm not holding my breath. Sadly most cannot admit when they're wrong, human nature I suppose.
I want to make the record straight that I was a 100% anti-Empire troll. I'm surprised I have a positive rep. I must have grown on you! If the liberty message is watered down to the point of Cruz being viable then what is the point? Why not just be a Dondero neolibertarian and join hands with the Neocons and Christian Zionist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-libertarianism
I don't see 50% of the people in here voting for Cruz in that recent RPF poll. Maybe 15% and some of them might have had Cruz as their second choice, hence minimal support on RPF.
So I don't believe the OP thread.
I don't support Cruz but at the same time he's not as bad as some of you make him out to believe.
I like that idea.
I suspect that some of the other newbies may be similar to myself. I was not (and still am not) a true libertarian and I didn't support Ron in 08 or 12, but I have been a Rand supporter this cycle. (Yes, Cruz has been my second choice all along, but it's always been a distant second and only because he'd pick good judges.) IOW, I'm new not because I secretly want to troll Ron Paul fans, but because there wasn't a reason to sign up until Rand came along.
And it makes sense to me that readership is down. If you're a Republican who had Rand at the top of your list, but not the only name on your list, then you might migrate to a Cruz or Trump or whatever forum now that Paul's out.
Come on, you're spoiling the OP hypothesis.
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"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
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I'm here because I hold Ron Paul and what he did in 2008 and 2012 dear to my heart. Rand was good, couldn't get as excited for him as I could his dad tho.
With Rand out, IDGAF about elections. Won't waste my time going to the polls. If I do it will be so I can write Ron Paul in (again.)
Yeah, that's right.
Ron is the man who brought many of us here. Most of us, I would think. I can't speak for anyone else, but I merely tolerated Rand...he was much better than anyone else running, but he was no Ron.
I remember you accused me of being a cruz supporter. I guess I can understand that there were some undercover cruz people, but all I ever did was trash cruz. I will keep doing that too.
I actually preferred Rand slightly to Ron. I am not a doctrinaire libertarian, but rather, I see an opportunity for a pragmatic libertarianism which uses federalism and a privatized focus on morality to sort of bridge all the gaps of our stratified political system. But in order to get there, we are going to need a more polished candidate to hit that tipping point. Rand was not personable. My wife actually had dinner with Rand and Ron and a couple other surprising figures last year at a political function (not campaign related)....said she really likes the Pauls, but the wives are the ones who have the gift of gab. Is Rand a leader? Yes, intellectually he is brilliant. He is a great man. But I have to say, I kinda know how he feels, seeing an opportunity, but being unable to muster the words to make other people see it the same way.
ah yes I remember that day, It was a bot attack with a group cycling thru IP addresses off a proxy (I was a mod at the time and could see this) and only viewing the forum index, always wondered what that was about, guess we know now
No thats not it at all, when a campaign is going people want to know all that is going on, when it ends, they come back every so often. I'm no Cruz supporter, but when Rand was running I was here every 30 min, now I'm here a couple times a day.
Have people really gotten banned from saying they like Cruz the best out of the remaining candidates? Ironic how the liberty movement is about free speech, but on these forums we sometimes suppress anyone who disagrees with what the majority spam constantly. Banning someone for having Cruz as a #2 choice is no different than Fox News suppressing Rand Paul by refusing to have any Libertarians on their panels.
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