A first-hand account of Republican aggression at the Texas State Convention

Via LRC’s blog.

“Anyone sympathetic to the Paul delegates or even those for fair and open discussion were threatened with arrest.”

The Republican Party doesn’t mind being pro-gun, because it’s fascist military can quickly vaporize anyone who tries to use one. But ideas, truly they are dangerous things to the Oligarchy. Heaven forfend that truth and common sense would be allowed a hearing.

Will someone please arrange a Paul/Barr/Baldwin ticket? They could amass 20% of the vote and drill the GOP into the ground for all eternity. Maranatha!

Is John McCain lying about his heroism?

Yes, according to information that is getting to LRC.

Should this be relevant?  Only if McCain has tried to make political hay out of his time as a POW.  Did he speak about that at all last night?  Hmmmm…….I can’t remember………

SS confiscates Ron Paul materials at the RNC

The following was sent to me via one of the Ron Paul meetup group mailing lists. It is a complete outrage.

People, your rights are gone; they’re just treating us like frogs in a pot so that we don’t know it. Before I saw this, I was kind of disinterestedly watching this election. Now I hope that Jack Sss McCain loses all 50 states and that “conservatism” is dumped on the ash heap of history.

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CALL TO ACTION! PLEASE FORWARD THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE TO THE MEDIA. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. CALL TO ACTION.

Press Release.

SECRET SERVICE CONFISCATES RON PAUL DELEGATES MATERIALS.

St Paul, MN

Boris in Miami
Sept, 04 2008
18:07 EST

Delegate Dennis Rothacker from FL opened this story when he sent the following urgent text message:

“We just had a group shot of all the RP delegates and alternates, the secret service came and started searching everyone and took anything RP related. We got it on video though…”

Today at the Republican Nationa Convention, as the Ron Paul Delegates were taking a picture in front of the model White House inside the Convention Center, they were surrounded by Secret Service which proceeded to search the bags of all the delegates. They took any and everything related to Ron Paul including signs, buttons, videos, slim jims, cards, even books. “this is an obvious and outrageous violation of our first amendment rights” said Nathan Hanson, attorney and Delegate from MN.

Alternate Delegate Dennis Rothacker from Florida said “We were done taking the picture when Secret Service started walking into the room and surrounded us. There were about 30 of them. When they searched my bags they took my Ron Paul sign and turned a deaf ear to my complains, they just walked away.”

Delegate Ron Warner from Fairbanks Alaska added that as he was walking into the convention center today with about 15 Revolution Manifesto books, 20 DVD’s for Delegates, 20 Ron Paul buttons and a handful of other things, we was stopped by security which called on an obviously important higher up, who directed all the materials to be confiscated. She told him, and I quote “You can’t bring that in here, this is Mc Cain territory”

Dennis, Ron and the other delegates report being openly followed by secret service. He says that they had been monitored from the beginning of the convention, but that now they are being shadowed constantly.

There are also reports of delegates being approached by security and told that they will be summarily thrown out if they leave their assigned chair.

19:07 PM St. Paul, MN

Delegate Corey Sax From MN’s district five was on the floor and he witnessed six oral votes for Ron Paul out of a forty something total delegation. These votes were not counted or read aloud by the RNC.

Corey says that Ron Carey and Tim (last name missing) witnessed the RNC tell them that they had technical difficulties and that was the reason for not reading the votes for Ron Paul. He says that the same happened to the Texas delegation and other states. He clearly stated that illegal under counting of delegates votes was going across many states delegations.

Adam Weigold, Delegate from MN, reported that today he has been approached at least five times by other delegates at large who ask him to borrow his pass to go the bathroom. From his conversation with other delegates, it seems that this is an orchestrated effort as many of them have been approached. Without their pass credentials, they would not be able to claim their seat or remain at the convention.

Other delegates who gave interviews were Austin, from NC, and Nathan Hanson, a delegate and attorney from MN.

The delegates remain at the convention center till 10:30 or 11:00PM. They are gathering together and plan to approach the media in mass and demand that this obvious disregard for the first amendment and for their votes be reported by the national media.

19:06 PM
St Paul MN

Boris in Miami

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I will be following this story closely. Wake, and sleep no longer. The country that your great-grandfathers built is history.

Cindy McCain trips over the big, white elephant (pun intended) in the room

Cindy McCain is gushingly introducing her husband at the RNC, and along the way, she said that she was taught that there are two different ways to look at America: the way other countries see us, or what the Founding Fathers would make of us.

Oooops.

The Founding Fathers? At the Republican Convention???? Is this a bad joke, or a purposeful lie?

What, exactly, would the Founding Fathers think of the GOP’s globe-trotting? George Washington: “Be ware of foreign entanglements.” And was it James Madison that said that if tyranny were ever to come to America, it would be through foreign conquest?

Alas, the Pope Urban II wing of the Republican Party won’t mind the contradiction.

Serge sums up my thoughts…

…and saves me the hazardous job of wading through tonight’s GOP propaganda.  Pay him a visit.

Cops marching in military formation in St. Paul, causing more trouble

The thugs in Minneapolis are continuing their martial law.

My State is Bigger than yer’ State

The governor of Hawaii is speaking right now at the RNC, arguing with the Democratic charge that Alaska is a small State.

I’m so glad they’ve got their priorities straight and that they devote time to such substantive issues as this.

Fred Thompson’s Gratuitous Violence

Last night I sat in stupefied wonder at the grotesquely detailed account which actor Fred Thompson gave of John McCain’s war service.  “Is Fred Thompson going to say anything relevant?” I asked a neocon.  I was ignored, of course.

After telling us all about all of McCain’s tortures and injuries, down to every last scar, Thompson finally admitted that being a POW doesn’t qualify someone to be president.  Thank you.  So why did you ramble on like this?   Thompson said that it illustrates a desirable character in a candidate for office.

Allow me to venture to disagree.  I think the real purpose of this rhetoric is to make Statism look heroic, and it’s aim is to make war-fighting appear to be the highest good that one can perform for his society.  Nevermind providing medical care, or a much needed product on the free market.  No.  Join the Navy,  become a sycophant, and you, too, will become a great American.  It’s also worth pointing out that it would seem as though a POW background is only relevant for a politician who plans to ask today’s healthy young men to eschew happy, productive lives in order to become a shill for the State.

Contrast all this with Dr. Ron Paul, who hosted the Rally for the Republic yesterday in Minneapolis, the event which kicked off the ongoing Campaign for Liberty.  Toward the end of his speech, he lamented the “universal soldier,” those masses of men who allowed themselves to be dragged into foreign lands to fight unnecessary wars.  Paul admits that he too was the universal solider, almost in a way that it sounds as though he wishes he could go back to that time and take a stand against the collectivism known as the draft.

Ron Paul said that what we need in contrast to the universal soldier is the universal champion of liberty.  Count me in.

I’m only thirty years old; I do not think it is beyond the pale for the government to try to conscript me into military service.  In such a case, I will gladly be hauled off to jail instead.

Unless I’ve already moved to Europe or New Zealand.

George Mush via satellite to the Gray Old Party Convention

Dubya just started his speech via satellite to the convention.  He just commended the governors of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas for their cooperation with Federal officials viz. Hurricane Gustav.  What if a local state said, “No thanks, Feds, we’ll be okay on our own”?  Would Washington bomb the local state?

Giuliani gets the hook

Four years ago, when Rudy Giuliani spoke at the Republican Convention, it was a static series of one boring anecdote after another. Radio talk show host Michael Savage called it a “New York deli shtick,” or something like that.

Ghouliani was to be the keynote speaker tonight, but now that Hurricane Gustav has turned out to be a tremendous disappointment for the Statists who so desperately wanted to show us how much they care about our fellow citizens, the Republican Convention is back to normal. Some of last night’s speakers, however, are being moved to tonight, and that means that Ghouliani is getting bumped.

“9/11 this. 9/11 that.”

Good riddance.