vrijdag 13 juni 2008
de Ron Paul campagne is dood, lang leve de Campaign for Liberty!
Ron Paul heeft gisteren aangekondigd dat hij zijn campagne stopzet, maar ook meteen begint met een nieuwe, permanente Campaign for Liberty
maandag 26 mei 2008
Ron Paul March in Brussels?
Anyone interested in a Ron Paul march in Brussels? They're doing one in Washington DC on July 12.
dinsdag 6 mei 2008
zondag 10 februari 2008
Hoe Ron Paul stiekem aan het winnen is
Het Amerikaanse verkiezingssysteem is - zelfs vergeleken met het Belgische - bijzonder complex. De voorverkiezingen zijn zo mogelijk nog complexer. Hoe veel kritiek daar ook op kan gegeven worden, tijdens verkiezingen moet je roeien met de riemen die je hebt, en die riemen blijken soms voordeliger te zijn voor Dr. Paul dan eerst gedacht. Waar het 'basically' op neer komt is dat, door de enorme complexiteit, zeer toegewijde kiezers van een bepaalde kandidaat een voordeel hebben, en dat geldt natuurlijk voor Ron Paul. Op de DailyPaul kan je zo al verschillende verhalen lezen, en nu ook van op de officiële website.
woensdag 6 februari 2008
Tu ne cede malis
Proceed Ever More Boldly
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
As my friend and colleague Jonathan Bydlak has pointed out before, the American Revolution—the very thing whose legacy Ron Paul is fighting to keep alive—had darker days in 1776 than anything we have yet faced. George Washington and the Continental Army, as well as the American irregulars who fought for their own homes and families even apart from the organized army, lost battle after battle that fall and the following winter, ceding New York and New Jersey to the British and retreating into Pennsylvania.
Our country was on the brink of being reabsorbed into the empire from which it had struggled to break free, and our revolution was close to being extinguished in spirit as well as in the flesh—and that crushing of the American spirit would have been the one defeat from which there could be no recovery. Think of George Orwell’s 1984, where the ultimate horror was not the endless wars between Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia or the state’s unlimited powers of surveillance and control, but the crushing of one man’s spirit at the end of the novel.
The American revolutionaries, unlike Winston Smith in 1984, did not break. They rallied. George Washington put his troops through grueling training at Valley Forge. Tom Paine wrote The Crisis, whose words I’ve quoted above, to rekindle the spark of liberty in our hearts. Americans of all backgrounds and walks of life did whatever was in their power to keep the revolution going. Our revolutionary forefathers heeded the words that many of them had read in the Latin epic The Aeneid: tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito. “Do not give in to evils, but proceed ever more boldly against them.” Those words would later become the motto of the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, whose work has contributed so much to inspire Ron Paul and his revolutionary fight for a return to limited government.
The sacrifices that are now asked of us in our fight against the Leviathan state are minuscule compared to those of our revolutionary forefathers or those of Professor Mises, who fled Austria as the Nazis consolidated their state power. But we fight for the same spirit that animated Washington, Jefferson, and Mises. And because the burdens upon us are so much lighter by comparison, we have that much less reason to give in to evils or give up on our efforts. If ours is a long, long struggle, so be it: “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.”
Already the Ron Paul revolution has achieved more than even its own founding father dared dream. Nobody anticipated that in a field of eleven Republican candidates, Ron Paul would be among the last four standing, outdistancing one-time “frontrunners” Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. There is still much more good work to be done, if we are willing to do it—if we do not give in to evils. And there are two obvious places to start or continue in that good work: by contributing to Ron Paul’s campaign and by organizing the revolution for peace and liberty in your neighborhood by becoming a Precinct Leader. These times may try our souls, but the example of those who have gone before us still lead us ever more boldly onward.
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
As my friend and colleague Jonathan Bydlak has pointed out before, the American Revolution—the very thing whose legacy Ron Paul is fighting to keep alive—had darker days in 1776 than anything we have yet faced. George Washington and the Continental Army, as well as the American irregulars who fought for their own homes and families even apart from the organized army, lost battle after battle that fall and the following winter, ceding New York and New Jersey to the British and retreating into Pennsylvania.
Our country was on the brink of being reabsorbed into the empire from which it had struggled to break free, and our revolution was close to being extinguished in spirit as well as in the flesh—and that crushing of the American spirit would have been the one defeat from which there could be no recovery. Think of George Orwell’s 1984, where the ultimate horror was not the endless wars between Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia or the state’s unlimited powers of surveillance and control, but the crushing of one man’s spirit at the end of the novel.
The American revolutionaries, unlike Winston Smith in 1984, did not break. They rallied. George Washington put his troops through grueling training at Valley Forge. Tom Paine wrote The Crisis, whose words I’ve quoted above, to rekindle the spark of liberty in our hearts. Americans of all backgrounds and walks of life did whatever was in their power to keep the revolution going. Our revolutionary forefathers heeded the words that many of them had read in the Latin epic The Aeneid: tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito. “Do not give in to evils, but proceed ever more boldly against them.” Those words would later become the motto of the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, whose work has contributed so much to inspire Ron Paul and his revolutionary fight for a return to limited government.
The sacrifices that are now asked of us in our fight against the Leviathan state are minuscule compared to those of our revolutionary forefathers or those of Professor Mises, who fled Austria as the Nazis consolidated their state power. But we fight for the same spirit that animated Washington, Jefferson, and Mises. And because the burdens upon us are so much lighter by comparison, we have that much less reason to give in to evils or give up on our efforts. If ours is a long, long struggle, so be it: “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.”
Already the Ron Paul revolution has achieved more than even its own founding father dared dream. Nobody anticipated that in a field of eleven Republican candidates, Ron Paul would be among the last four standing, outdistancing one-time “frontrunners” Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. There is still much more good work to be done, if we are willing to do it—if we do not give in to evils. And there are two obvious places to start or continue in that good work: by contributing to Ron Paul’s campaign and by organizing the revolution for peace and liberty in your neighborhood by becoming a Precinct Leader. These times may try our souls, but the example of those who have gone before us still lead us ever more boldly onward.
dinsdag 5 februari 2008
Obama en Clinton zijn 'progressief'?
Om een of andere onverklaarbare reden denken de meeste journalisten (en dus de meeste mensen) hier in Europa dat de democraten een redelijker buitenlands beleid zullen voeren. Zeker nu de twee kandidaten van de Democratische partij een vrouw en een zwarte zijn wordt het vooroordeel van de 'moderne, progressieve Democratische partij' tegenover de 'rechtse, conservatieve Republikeinse partij' van (oude) blanke mannen bevestigd. Maar in politiek gaat het uiteindelijk natuurlijk over ideeën, niet over geslacht of huidskleur;
En trouwens, de nieuwe Bob Dylan?
zondag 3 februari 2008
Eerste plaats in Louisiana gestolen
De Republikeinse partij in Louisiana heeft opzettelijk verouderde en foutieve inschrijvingslijsten gebruikt tijdens de Caucus, met als gevolg dat duizenden stemmen verloren gingen. Achteraf blijken deze toevallig Ron Paul stemmen te zijn. Verder werden sommige kiezers verplicht een "tijdelijk stembiljet" te gebruiken, met alle gevolgen vandien. De eerste plaats werd Ron Paul aldus ontnomen. Een klacht werd ingediend, hoewel deze wordt behandeld door dezelfde mensen die in eerste instantie de verkiezingen hebben georganiseerd.
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