HEADING TOWARDS ELECTION DAY

We are about a month away from Election Day. And what a sad event it will be.
Ron Paul was not nominated by the GOP, and they are regretting their candidate
more and more. Romney cannot open his mouth without putting in foot. Last night he
did not do so badly against Obama, but O has his weak points, such as the economy, OK,
not really his fault, except for the fact that he, the good Democrat, once again drove the
getaway car as the GOP robbed the American banks.
But that's another story. We've, uh, 'moved on.' To a park bench because that is the only
place that some Americans call home. And if Romney gets in, we may run out of those
as he might call them a false sense of entitlement. Coming from the mouth of a man who did
no service (as Dr Paul did -  in wartime) this is rubbish.
I met Romney once; shook his hand, the whole bit. He held a fund raiser here in NYC
at the Sheraton Centre midtown, I got on the list with actor Mike Stranger, and he had his
cell phone out for the moment I got to shake Romney's hand. Which almost did not happen, as I am
not one of his rich kid groupies. After mentioning that I was an ex serviceman, one of about
all of three in the crowd of 500, he reluctantly allowed me to shake hand - and I told him
to his face that he was a weak, selfish and foolish person who would destroy America, then
asked him to step down.
SECURITY! All around me his acolyutes and paid thugs pushed me back, and grabbed Mike's
cell phone. DAMAGE CONTROL! OK, the party was winding down and I agreed to leave -
but NO, they wanted to arrest me - for embarrassing a candidate. That did it. These thugs were
not cops or even decent strongarms. I told them if they even tried I would get them arrested
and proceeded to embarrass his hapless attendees - who had paid $2,500 to get in - and Romney
did not even provide any drinks, as he boasted. Suckers!
I heard the BBC gave an account of it and talked about how in the US dissenters are dealt with. At
least I did not get tasered like some who go against the GOP.
So in a way, I guess I stand to gain from his getting in. I will have confronted and embarrassed
a president of the US. Not enough to die happy, but a modest gain for me; but not for the US,
and I hope he does not win.
And Paul may not either. OK, barring a miracle, he is off to write his memoirs, but solid and honest
memoirs they will be of decades of public and medical service.
Romney, ironically, came close to getting in - had he chosen the Latin candidate, Marc Rubio, as his
running mate, he could have scored big time - but no, he chose some Ayn Rand reading bozo
he would be more comfortable with instead.
The Latin community is perhaps better off not having this association.  I hear many of them
are voting for O - but as the lesser of two evils. They are not fooled. Romney is already a
footnote to them, and they have as much as written his obituary: Humberto Caspa,
in El Diario/La Prensa, 25 Septeber, has this to say:
'A Romney solo le importa Romney.'
Translation - 'The only thing that matters to Romney is Romney.'
Enough said. If only everyone understood this months ago, the GOP might have nominated Paul.
But geschehen ist geschehen. So I accept that he will not be president, my support made probably no
difference, and all I can do at this point is wish him a happy retirement.

Ron Paul talks about hemp in Dakota

Few candidates talk about such real issues as hemp, of which the first American flag was made, and which could bring jobs to the US. Some candidates may be nothing more than foreign agents hoping to obfiscate for years and keep Americans from getting jobs. Ron Paul is for Americans getting industry. This causes foreing American hating agents positioned in the press, including the Murdoch press, to take aim at him so Murdoch loving America haters can get in the candidate of their choice. Below is an article about Ron Paul talking to real Americans in North Dakota:

TOM STROMME/Tribune Presidential candidate Ron Paul brought his campaign to Bismarck on Feb. 20, where he addressed a crowd of 1,200 at a Republican district convention at Shiloh Christian School. The district convention was for districts 7, 30, 32, 35 and 47. Paul also visited Jamestown, Dickinson and Williston is his search for delegates in North Dakota.

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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul addressed a crowd of about 1,200 people in Bismarck on Monday evening with a speech on liberty and the role of government, prior to the Bismarck Republicans' district nominating conventions.
"It sounds like there's a lot of friends of liberty in North Dakota," Paul said as he took the stage, greeted by a standing ovation from the crowd inside the Shiloh Christian School gymnasium.
Paul's message was of reducing the size of government and spending, saying he believes the country needs to return to its roots and defend the liberties as they're laid out in the Constitution.
"When government grows, liberty diminishes," he said.
Paul said the country needs to cut spending across the board, including military spending, to rein in a ballooning national debt that he said is the fault of leadership of both political parties. He drew a thunderous round of applause by promising a reduction in spending of $1 trillion in the first year of a Paul administration.
"We need to change the philosophy of government to change the spending of government," Paul said.
He said entitlement programs need to be re-evaluated as well.
Paul said enforcement of private property rights would be sufficient to protect citizens against pollution, rather than relying on the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
"The more socialized a system is, the worse the property is, and the worse the environment is," Paul said. "We should never be bashful about saying we believe in property rights ... and we don't have to give one inch and say that we're careless with the environment, because you don't have a right to pollute your neighbor's property."
Following his speech, Paul spent time making his way from the gymnasium to the exit, passing through an enthusiastic crowd of supporters.
"I'm always amazed, but pleased, to see the enthusiasm," Paul said.
He said his grassroots campaign and message of reducing spending, size of government and promoting liberty is resonating with North Dakotans. Paul said he feels earning the support of voters and delegates in caucus states such as North Dakota is a key to victory during the Republican nomination process and in November. The North Dakota Republican Party caucus is on March 6.
"I doubt that you'll see all the candidates spending the amount of time time here as I have," Paul said.
Paul was in Jamestown on Monday afternoon before traveling to Bismarck. He also made stops in Williston and Dickinson on Sunday.
In Jamestown, Paul was critical of the federal government's ban on the cultivation of industrial hemp, a crop that is related to marijuana but does not have its mind-affecting properties.
Industrial hemp is grown in neighboring Canada and other countries, where it is used to make paper, lotions, clothing and biofuels.
North Dakota's Legislature and Agriculture Department have pushed allowing hemp to be grown in the state. A state lawmaker who wanted to cultivate the crop filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Administration, seeking a declaration that doing so would be legal.
"There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn't be allowed to raise hemp," Paul said during a Jamestown appearance that drew about 300 people. "Hemp is a good product."
Duane Sattler, of Richardton, was one of the sign-carrying Paul supporters who attended his Bismarck speech. His son, 13-year-old Shawn Sattler, sat nearby, waving an American flag.
"He's been standing alone a lot of times," Sattler said of Paul. "He votes for our personal freedoms, for sound money and for less government and less taxes."
He became a Paul supporter during Paul's presidential run in 2008, Sattler said. "I really went and did some research, and the deeper I dug, the more I liked the man," he said. "With the other candidates, the deeper I dug, the less I liked them."
In North Dakota's Republican presidential caucuses in 2008, Paul finished third behind Mitt Romney and John McCain, getting 21 percent of the almost 9,800 votes case.
Bismarck Republicans also heard from candidates running for governor, U.S. House, Senate and for several state departments prior to Paul's speech. Republicans from districts 7, 30, 32, 35 and 47 held their district nominating conventions Monday evening following the speeches.
Diane Larson was nominated for the District 30 House seat held by Rep. Dave Weiler, R-Bismarck, who chose not to run for re-election. Incumbent District 30 Rep. Mike Nathe, R-Bismarck, and Sen. Ron Carlisle, R-Bismarck, were also nominated.
In the new District 7, Nicole Poolman defeated District 8 Rep. Dwight Wrangham, R-Bismarck, for the District 7 Senate nomination. Jason Dockter and Dr. Rick Becker were nominated for the two District 7 House seats, beating out Marty Presler.
In District 32, all three incumbent Republicans were nominated: Sen. Dick Dever, Rep. Mark Dosch and Rep. Lisa Meier.

The Associated Press contributed to this story. Reach Nick Smith at 250-8255 or 223-8482 or at nick.smith@bismarcktribune.com.

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Latin radio on the GOP hustings

In the last four years, the Latin community has added 2 million voters; 500,000 Latins a year turn 18. And they are not usually inclined to vote GOP. Such facts were pointed on by Fernando Escuelas, and his guest, Congressman Luis Guitierrez earlier this week on Radio Wado, 1280AM in New York.
In yesterday's New York Daily News a reader's letter was full of thanks to Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich - for sealing the election for Obama this year.
But it does not have to be that way. Dr Ron Paul, who has a district full of Hispanics, many of whom are prosperous and contribute to his constant reelection success, is the one candidate who can get the Latin vote and beat Obama.
It seems that Romney and Gingrich go out of their way to lose the Latin vote; even when trying to pander to the Hispanic voter, the alienate him. Earlier posts on this blog by Carlos Reyes go into great detail on this, and Guitierrez pointed out that Romney and Gingrich tell Latins there are jobs in the military - which only highlights their deferments in the war. Rich kids who are ducking duty only to leave it to poor kids whom they hope will vote for them is how it pans out.
Maybe they do not think how this makes Ron Paul look good. By doing nothing, but letting these clowns speak, he looks good. Fact is he did not duck out. He was a doctor in the US Air Force, and continued in medical practice after his term.
There has not been much about him on the Latin radio, but let's see what happens with the Nevada primary, where he and his team will be talking to the largest growing bloc of voters. In general, he has been getting more press, including an entire article in the New York Times which is the post just before this one.

NYT article on Ron Paul campaign in Nevada

Yesterday the New York Times (p. A18) had an article about Ron Paul and his campaign in Nevada. It reminded me of the vibe in the room at the Sheraton 10 days ago when Mitt Romney's people were whispering their fears of Ron Paul and the possibility that he would go third party. Richard A Oppel Jr. here writes about inside the GOP and how they are sometimes against Paul, but are having to accept him.

If they gave two minutes attention to the largest growing voter bloc in the US, the Latin vote, they would nominate him tomorrow; but there are too many Romneys in the party, who blatantly admit they do not care about the poor. Ron Paul does. And time the GOP cares about Ron Paul. See below for some an inside look at this:

HENDERSON, Nev. — Four years ago, an angry and dispirited educational database expert named Carl Bunce walked out of Nevada’s state Republican convention after party leaders shut down the proceedings rather than let Representative Ron Paul’s supporters nominate delegates for the national convention in St. Paul.

 

Max Whittaker for The New York Times

{Robert Terhune, seated at the computer, signs up Paul campaign volunteers in Reno, Nev.}

Mr. Bunce and a handful of other Paul backers made the trip to Minnesota, but he said that once there they were harassed by other Republicans who threatened to tear off their Paul buttons and even trailed them into bathrooms.

Today, Mr. Bunce, 35, is running Mr. Paul’s Nevada campaign from a strip mall in this Las Vegas suburb. But this time, he and other Paul supporters are in the vanguard of the Nevada Republican Party: After the ugly scene at the state convention, they decided to work with the party that they felt had treated them as pariahs. It took time, and some rivalries remain intense, but now Mr. Paul’s Nevada backers are part of the state Republican machinery.

“Why commit suicide, and why protest like crazy people?” Mr. Bunce remembers thinking after being slighted at the convention in St. Paul. “We decided to choose our battles, and we moved into the party. To get involved in an organization, you have to be part of it.”

A quarter of the Republican Party membership in Clark County — which includes Las Vegas — are now Paul backers, estimates Tim Williams, the county party’s political director. Four of Nevada’s 17 county Republican chairmen are also supporters, according to Mr. Bunce. And Robert List, the state’s Republican national committeeman and a former governor, says four or five members of the state party’s 12-member executive board are backing Mr. Paul.

The turnabout showcases Mr. Paul’s long-term goal of changing the party from within, and highlights how, whether he wins or loses in Saturday’s caucuses, Mr. Paul is likely to be a force to be reckoned with should there be a fractured nominating fight that drags on throughout the spring. Efforts to work within the party leadership have also been eagerly embraced by his son Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, whom many Paul supporters see as the eventual heir to his legacy.

The Nevada caucuses now loom as a key test for Mr. Paul’s movement: After forgoing an expensive winner-take-all primary in Florida where they had no chance of success, his campaign is wagering all it has on Nevada and other coming votes in smaller-market caucus states like Colorado and Maine, part of a strategy to skim delegates in contests where they are awarded proportionally, based on the number of votes.

At stake for Mr. Paul in these caucuses and primaries is not the Republican nomination but whether his support structure will finally grow from what some establishment Republicans deem no more than a fringe effort driven by a handful of issues to a movement with the leverage to dictate policy and platform changes to the national Republican Party and its nominee.

“If nothing else, they are going to have to find a way to bring the Ron Paul people in, or risk losing to Barack Obama,” said James Smack, 44, a bank branch manager in rural Churchill County, Nev., who was elected vice chairman of the Nevada Republican Party last year with support from Paul backers and Tea Party supporters.

“The nominee marginalizes the Ron Paul people at his own peril,” said Mr. Smack, a Paul activist at the fateful state convention four years ago. “Placating them with some talking points isn’t going to work.”

Indeed, supporters’ hopes that Mr. Paul will be able to influence the wider Republican organization are a major reason that despite fourth-place finishes in the past two primaries, in South Carolina and Florida, his backers — and his fund-raising — remain robust.

Yet to some extent how much real leverage he can attain with the national party remains an open question and depends on how he performs in a series of contests to come, starting with Nevada, where he won 14 percent of the vote four years ago.

Expectations are even higher this year, but Mr. Paul faces a major hurdle: Mitt Romney’s strong base of support and organization here. In 2008, Mr. Romney won 51 percent of the vote, the same as in his home state, Massachusetts. Surveys of voters at the time showed that 9 out of 10 Mormons — about a quarter of Nevada caucusgoers — voted for Mr. Romney. While Mr. Romney seems to have had a ceiling of support in some other states, Republican officials here say the religious dynamic suggests he has a floor at about 25 percent.

Paul organizers hope to dent that through a heavy regimen of training for local organizers as well as relentless phone-banking. Some people who have indicated a preference for Mr. Paul say they have been called three times in recent days by campaign workers reminding them of the time and place of their local caucus.

“They are still seen as very strident and committed to their candidate,” said Mr. List, the former governor, who is now a lawyer in Las Vegas and has not endorsed any presidential candidate. But the relationships between Paul supporters and more establishment Republicans in the state are now “relatively harmonious,” he said, adding that is partly a reflection of Mr. Paul’s relaxed style. “They have increasingly been integrated within the party structure, and they are very active at the local levels and county levels and in our state organization.”

Mr. List doubts Mr. Paul can carry the state on Saturday but says he will walk away with delegates. “He’ll find friends wherever he goes,” Mr. List said. “He’s a bit of a phenomenon in this state.”

Albor Ruiz and the Hispanic press in NY on Ron Paul and Mitt Romney

The New York Daily News, which has not so far been partial to Dr Paul, gave him a good word on Wednesday (25 Jan.), when Albor Ruiz, in his article titled "GOP candidates play Cuba card to 'please' " - noted that the candidates were willing to say anything to "please" - exept for Ron Paul, of course...
The Latin GOP vote seems to be exclusively his - note that his district contains many Spanish speaking voters and they return him to office year after year.
In Saturday's (28 Jan.) El Diario/La Prensa, V. Morales Pagan writes an article titled "Romney so es amigo de PR" - pointing out that Romney was responsible for hundreds of job losses in the '90s in Puerto Rico; one victim of the unemployment was driven to consider suicide.
Romney has never been a friend of the Hispanic community. Utah, Michigan and Massachusetts are not states with a large percentage of Latin Americans.
In contrast, and as noted above, Congressman Paul has a good amount of them for supporters in Texas, and they will be reaching out to their brethren in the US to vote for Paul. No other GOP candidate has this base of support - that is why a recent article in El Diario/La Prensa was titled "Republicanos con problema ante latinos." It focused, however, on Romney and Gingrich and certainly did not include Paul as an example of GOP attitude against the Latin community.
Florida will be interesting, but even if, as Romney is hoping, he gets the Cuban vote in that state, he has no chance of getting the Latin vote in the rest of the nation. After Florida expect Romney to fall by the wayside.
Watch closely the Latin vote in these hustings, it has not yet been heard, but it will be.

Ron Paul is the only candidate who can get the Latin vote

Mitt Romney has struck out with the fastest growing sector of the US voting public: the Latin vote.
That said, he has allies among them in Florida - but that, as the rest of the Hispanic population is pointing out, is as far as it goes. No less a columnist that Maribel Hastings has trashed him in the largest Spanish language paper in the US, El Diario/La Prensa. Carlos Reyes sent over the entire article and provided a simple summary in English as follows, with the article posted below:

Romney is two-faced, and the Latin population in the US has rejected his attempts to woo their vote. True, he has allies in Florida, and may pick one for his running mate, but the Cuban vote is not typical of the Latin vote over all, and in the other 49 states, he will lose it. The Latin community smells a rat with this man and will avoid him, with many leaders already calling for this to happen.

Below is the full article in Spanish:

Maribel Hastings

Allana el terreno enarbolando posturas migratorias extremistas contraproducentes

Con la primaria republicana de Florida en puerta, la primera que manifiesta ampliamente el cortejo del voto hispano del estado del Sol, no deja de sorprender que republicanos como Mitt Romney sigan pensando que la estrategia que aplican para apelar al voto cubanoamericano del Sur floridano es la estrategia ganadora para atraer al voto latino del resto del país en una elección general.

En el caso de Romney, el aparente casi seguro nominado presidencial republicano, resulta no sólo sorprendente sino indignante que mientras busca el apoyo del voto hispano de Florida, o más bien del voto cubanoamericano del Sur de la Florida con anuncios en español y cafecitos, su retórica antiinmigrante siga subiendo de tono, deseche cada vez más la reforma migratoria integral, amenace con vetar incluso el proyecto de ley DREAM Act –ambas cosas promovidas por los políticos cubanoamericanos que lo apoyan–, y para colmo, se jacte del apoyo recibido del arquitecto de las leyes antiinmigrantes de Arizona, Alabama y Carolina del Sur, Kris Kobach, una de las figuras más extremistas y divisivas del país en el tema migratorio.

Como la moneda, Romney tiene dos caras.

Romney ya tiene en su esquina a los hermanos Díaz-Balart, Lincoln y Mario, ex congresista y congresista republicanos de Florida, respectivamente, a la congresista Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, y a una lista de ex funcionarios de la administración de George W. Bush, entre esos, el ex senador, ex Secretario de Vivienda y ex presidente del Comité Nacional Republicano (RNC), Mel Martínez, y al ex Secretario de Comercio, Carlos Gutiérrez, todos defensores de la reforma migratoria integral y del DREAM Act para legalizar a jóvenes indocumentados que quieren proseguir estudios universitarios o ingresar a las Fuerzas Armadas.

Todas estas figuras argumentan ahora que la elección general será determinada por la economía y que Romney tiene las ideas para ayudarla a repuntar. Es decir, nada importa que su postura en inmigración sea diametralmente opuesta a lo que han defendido por años.

Es de esperarse que los anuncios en español, los cafecitos y el apoyo de estas figuras que hace cuatro años prefirieron al senador John McCain como candidato presidencial republicano sobre Romney, impulsen al ex gobernador de Massachusetts en la preferencia de los electores cubanoamericanos de Florida.

Aunque Romney emerja triunfante de la primaria floridana y con una mayoría del voto cubanoamericano en su columna, la verdadera prueba de fuego para cualquier republicano sigue siendo atraer ese 40% del voto hispano en la elección general de noviembre.

Ni siquiera en Florida, donde se concentra el voto cubanoamericano más conservador del Sur del estado, eso está garantizado porque en otras partes del estado, particularmente en el corredor I-4, ese voto se diluye con el sufragio de electores puertorriqueños que tienden a apoyar más a los demócratas.

Romney, como otras figuras republicanas, está apostando al descontento de un sector del sufragio hispano con las promesas incumplidas del presidente Barack Obama de impulsar y promulgar una reforma migratoria integral y en su lugar deportar una cifra récord de inmigrantes.

Pero lo que olvidan republicanos como Romney es que el voto cubanoamericano no es la norma en el resto del país y que sus posturas migratorias extremas, particularmente contra los jóvenes que se beneficiarían del DREAM Act, son rechazadas por una mayoría de esos votantes hispanos que ya sea por lazos familiares, de amistad o por empatía, apoyan en grandes cifras una reforma amplia de las leyes migratorias, el DREAM Act y se ofenden ante las expresiones de los candidatos en contra de los inmigrantes, o de las cuestionables alianzas como la de Romney con Kobach.

Incluso en el voto cubanoamericano hay sectores que defienden el DREAM Act y que durante el intento fallido de aprobar la medida de manera independiente a fines del 2010 expresaron su rechazo a quienes se opusieron al proyecto por tratarse de jóvenes que no decidieron por cuenta propia ingresar a Estados Unidos sin documentos.

También persiste el rumor de que Romney estaría considerando sumar al senador cubanoamericano de Florida, Marco Rubio, como su compañero de fórmula, para atraer al voto hispano. Quizá lo ayude en Florida, pero no con el voto hispano del resto del país tener a otra figura opuesta a la reforma amplia y al DREAM Act, o al menos con posturas ambivalentes.

Como digo una cosa digo la otra. El presidente Barack Obama y los demócratas, aunque tienen el apoyo de la mayoría del voto hispano, tienen ante sí el gran reto de movilizarlo en cifras suficientes que garanticen su reelección en estados clave y por ende, a la presidencia.

Pero figuras como Romney le están allanando el terreno enarbolando posturas migratorias extremistas que serán contraproducentes en atraer ese sufragio en la elección general.

Eliseo Medina, secretario-tesorero del Sindicato Internacional de Empleados de Servicios (SEIU), dijo que Romney necesitará más de un cafecito para conseguir el voto hispano en una elección general.

Y el congresista demócrata de Illinois, Luis Gutiérrez, lo resumió así: “Los votantes latinos pueden oler a un farsante y pueden oler que eso es lo que Mitt Romney es. Y si Mitt Romney cree que puede sacudirse la hediondez (de sus posturas antiinmigrantes) seleccionando a Marco Rubio como su compañero de fórmula, debería pensarlo mejor”.

Coast to Coast, Ron Paul and the NDAA

George Noory  and Linda Mouton Howe on Coast to Coast had their hands full this morning, with Jonathan Eamord, David Simmon, Tyrell Ventura, Gerald Solante and Alex Jones weighing in about the National Defense Authorisation Act and the Enemy Expatriation Act - the latter poised to strip US citzens of their citizenship and their rights - without due process.
The acts are heinous and unconstitutional; no surprise that Obama signed the NDAA on New Years' Eve, when everyone was out celebrating and he could sneak it in. This NDAA allows the Department of Defense to arrest citizens and indefinitely detain them without charge or evidence.
Scarier still, it was voted on by the legislators almost without resistance.
Almost, but not quite; three guesses whose name came up constantly in the discussions. Yesterday, for instance, Ron Paul put forward a bill to amend this. Not that he got a lot of support.
I am sitting here in NYC in Carolyn Maloney's district, and she has been avoiding me when I call about the hemp bill, and she will now have to work extra hard because I will be calling now about the NDAA.
But let's get back to Ron Paul. Tuesday his name came up at the Mitt Romney fund raiser at the Sheraton - where I was famously almost arrested for the 'crime' of embarrassing a candidate by
some of his fly-by-night security guards - because his supporters were anxiously whispering that he might take a third party route; and they were afraid of it. There was visible tension over the issue.
And if he does, Terell Ventura informs us, he just may get the best VP in US history - Tyrell's dad, Jesse.
So we live in interesting times, and if half of what Alex Jones tells us, we are about to be
bombarded with Level 4 germs and shot by the Army on orders of POTUS. I take Alex Jones with a grain of salt, but unfortunately, much of what he says comes true. So I do not arrogantly dismiss it.
But even without the dire predictions of this Texan broadcaster, this act is simply stupid. And Ron Paul is sensible; he opposes it, and so do I.
But the rest of the GOP candidates and Obama are do not oppose this, and that is why Ron Paul gets more contributions from military personnel than all the other GOP candidates and Obama put together - 74%.

One recurring question on the show was "why are they doing this?" It seems that it was manipulated past the press rather skillfully, though it is not hard to get stuf past the press, so maybe it is just laziness on their part - but still, why this bill and why the secret meetings with the Department of Defense? Gerald Solante gave us a bleak outlook of the economy, as well he might, having been burnt in the Jon Corzine affair - for those of you not quite familiar with that, perhaps because the press is a bit too lazy to make you familiar with it, Corzine is a former governor of New Jersey, and was involved in a fund where $1.6billion disappeared just as fast as the $2.3trillion from the Pentagon did just before 9/11. Google around if this is news to you. If not, you will know that there is serious theft going on and that the same people benefitting from it are making laws to put American citizens behind bars stripped of their rights. And maybe the American citizens they decide to arrest will be the ones asking hard questions. Jones opined that maybe this was all to hide their crimes, giving them power to protect themselves from investigation and angry, ripped off taxpayers, and said: "that's why they're scared that Ron Paul is introducing legislation to repeal the provision."

He noted that Sen Joe Lieberman may have subconsciously admitted what they were after when he said "I want you to be scared."

And I want most of you out of office and under investigation. Lock them up till they 'find' the millions, uh, billions, uh, make that trillions, they 'lost.' And let's not hear any more about this NDAA and the EEA.

What next, forced microchipping on our hands and foreheads?