It is a great thing that Mr Brown's fascist party received such a thorough kicking in yesterday's polls. Of course this is something to celebrate. But it also poses a nasty question. Why did they get such few votes?

Was it a reaction to their contempt of basic rights? I'd like to think so. Unfortunately Mr Cameron has modelled the New Conservative Fascist Party on the New Labour Fascist Party. We just don't call it fascism today. We call it Centerist. So just when we might think we will be removing the most evil government this country has ever known we are quite likely to elect a new government that will go even further into totalitarian country but will take a very slightly different route.

We just don't have much in the way of a mechanism to roll back the evils of government. I'm very happy that Mr Brown has had a taste of the contempt with which he and his ilk have regarded us. I would have been far happier had the electorate crossed out the candidates names and had written in "None of the above".

It occurred this evening as I was making a cup of tea. A Hungarian guest in the house asked if I were making green tea. To which I replied, with some feeling I might add, that I was not and that I was in fact making proper tea. As I thought about this later I realised this was a major value in my life. Subsequently I also realised that my chief values at this time were life, liberty and proper tea. Hence the change in the title of this blog. I do hope this doesn't offend anyone.

From a newsletter I got today from Frontsight. Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another:   reason and force. If you want me to do something for you,   you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or   force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every   human interaction falls into one of those two categories,   without exception. Reason or force, that's it.   In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively...

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About a year ago Ron Paul agreed to stand as a candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the USA. He was reluctant to stand as he doubted there would be wide support for the idea of restoring America as the "land of the free and the home of the brave". But he was persuaded to stand. In the last year many diverse and loose groupings of people from all walks of life and all across the political spectrum and, indeed, all across the world have come together in support of...

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..... but Willie Nelson sounds like an interesting guy.

Listen to the interview here.

It wasn't that many years ago that I believed the b/s about the integrity of the BBC and how it is respected around the world.

Here are a couple of facts. The presidential nomination candidates released their campaign funding figures a couple of days ago. Ron  Paul raised more money than any other Republican candidate in the last quarter of 2007 to which the report relates with $19.5 million. The figure is more than twice that raised by any other Republican candidate from their own grass roots support. Does that tell you he is lacking support?

The BBC reports this here.

Ron Paul is under a media blackout and it even reaches that bastion of integrity our beloved BBC.

Let's pretend the BBC isn't aware of the media blackout. Don't you think that someone there would see there is a story in this? How come Ron Paul has so much popular support and yet this isn't being translated into votes?

But then they give it away right at the end of the piece. The text of the article ends with "Whether he can make more of an impact at the polls remains to be seen." This is followed by a diagram that graphically allows us to compare the remaining candidates and guess what? Ron Paul isn't included.

 

Ron Paul has a new book with the above title. There is a great review of it here that says it better than I can. There is also a campaign to make the book get to the top of bestseller lists. I wholly support that and have already ordered it. It won't be available till April but I think it a great idea to make it a bestseller before it is even released.

Does this book have any relevance to the UK? Absolutely. We have identical politics here; One ruling class masquerading as two quite different parties - one representing "the right" the other "the left". Where the differences between them require a set of calipers to detect.

We have the same political history as America; A great degree of freedom now declined into Social Fascism.

We are apparently heading into the same abyss; we both have fiat money (we know it is money because it says so on the note) inflated so much that we are right now going into a depression likely to eclipse that of the 1930s. As part of the EU state I expect to be hearing calls for the Euro to merge with the Amero in the not too distant future.

Yes this concerns us too.

Have you been wondering what happened to Nick Hogan? This story gives a good account of his treatment. I agree with Pete Robinson's view. I must also admit to being wrong about how it would go. Looking back it is easy to see how I made such a mistake. I didn't take into account my personal lack of experience as a freedom fighter nor the great deal of experience of imposing their will of the state and it's machinery. If they had gone to court within a week or two of my previous post it might have been a different story. But the council was in no hurry right then. I/We missed what seems an obvious tactic to me now; we should have campaigned with many other pubs to get the landlords to do the same. If we could have raised some kind of war chest we might have made a dent. But then again maybe not.

But through watching the Ron Paul campaign, and getting involved in it to the degree that I can living in England, I hope I'm learning a few things. One is that to gain real active support you have to have a cause that has much wider support than fighting the tobacco control fascists.

America has a different history and different traditions but much of the dumbing down of their people has also been happening here too. Yet still the Ron Paul Revolution is a happening thing there. I believe the same could happen here. I'd love to have some comments on this idea.

 

Another YouTube item. This is audio only. Mitt "discusses" a 1% flat tax alternative to the income tax, takes another jibe at Ron Paul, and loses a potential voter, all in about 3 minutes.

There is what I think is a really good project that I want to support going on right now to get a 4 page newspaper featuring nothing but RP on to hundreds of thousands of doorsteps on or before Super Tuesday. As this is not a part of the official campaign it is something that we as Brits can contribute to. Here is some info http://www.theamericanideal.net/11thHourCampaign.html

I have emailed...... and just this moment got a reply that appears below....

Let's support this.

Bernie

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	Re: Ron Paul Newspaper
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:44:28 -0600
From:	Crystal Broyles

Bernie,

Your email warmed my heart and gave me chills. It gives me
such courage to know the world is watching us as we work to
elect Ron Paul as President of the United States.

Please do tell all your people about this project. We desperately
need funds to make this happen. And yes you are right, you can
give funds to support this cause, as we are not officially part of
the campaign.

Our site will be up and running in the next few hours. But if you
want to give now, please send a PayPal donation to: crystal dot broyles at gmail dot com

Thanks so much!!

Make it a Patriotic day,
Crystal
www.RonPaulNewspaper.com
www.Myspace.com/crystalbroyles

The Chinese big chief has promised a "smoke free olympics". The event starts in a few months. With the eyes of the WHO and ASH types on one side and various human rights groups also watching them this is a story to watch.

This is an excellent piece explaining the Gold Standard and the current state of the US and UK economies. Published in the Telegraph. It doesn't mention Ron Paul but it does state his arguments very well.

Wow I had a great time meeting about 30 other Ron Paul supporters yesterday. We talked a lot and waved banners. Took lots of pictures and made a video for YouTube. I'll post about the video when I have the details. Here is a link to some of the pictures.

It is really worthwhile to meet up with like minded folk.

The internet has some fascinating aspects. We live in the country that has the most surveilance cameras in the world. America is way behind on this but they do have the "Patriot" Act and other similar measures indicating they would like to catch up. What has this to do with the internet? Well surveilance can go both ways. Check out Mitt Romney dealing with a reporter who asked an interesting question....

YouTube Video

Kind of like "We're not dating, we just kiss a little."

Apologies for linking rather than embedding. I have yet to figure out how to do that.

The First American Revolution was a wonderful thing. The odds against it were high but nowhere near as high as the odds against the Second one.   9 times out of 10 when I mention Ron Paul to someone who knows who he is the immediate response I get is "It's a shame he'll never make it". It is a kind of automatic response like "Fine. How are you?". I've even said it myself. It is another "everyone knows" but like so many things that "everyone knows"...

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This article over at the Libertarian Alliance says it so well I just had to plug it.

If you can make it this Saturday afternoon I'd love to meet you.

Details here.

I just read an excellent piece by Ron Paul on the use of the words "freedom" and "democracy" written in 2005. It is very well written. You can find it here.

Here is a link that will take you to the Ron Paul Toolbar page. You can download the toolbar and use it in IE or Firefox. With every search you make a contribution is made to further the work of Ron Paul activists. Best of all it costs you nothing. Please download and use on all your machines.

There is a permanent link to the toolbar on the right of this post at the top of the blogroll.

So what is the understatement? Well on the left of the toolbar is the statement "Hope for America". I don't live in America and am not an American. To my mind a Ron Paul presidency is possibly the greatest hope for the entire world right now.

There have been many news items in the last couple of months I could have blogged about. Just one of them would be how the UK news media presented the news of the latest EU treaty, the one that puts most of the EU constitution into law, without mentioning a single piece of what the new treaty represented. Instead they told us that Gordon Brown was going to sign the treaty several hours later than the other heads of state!

But I'm more interested in what is being done to further the cause of true freedom in the world. Many of us feel helpless and even apathetic when we look at what is happening. So I think this and this are more worthy items.