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Do You Support Ron Paul's 'Internet Freedom' Crusade?

Heisenberg 2012/07/06 21:00:00
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Ron Paul and his son Rand Paul are set to shift the central focus of their family's long libertarian crusade to a new cause: internet freedom. Kentucky senator Rand and his father Ron Paul, who has not yet formally conceded the Republican presidential nomination, will throw their weight behind a new online manifesto set to be released soon by the Paul-founded Campaign for Liberty.

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The new push, Paul aides say, will in some ways displace what has been their movement's long-running top priority: shutting down the Federal Reserve Bank. The move is an attempt to stake a libertarian claim to a central public issue of the next decade, and to move from the esoteric terrain of high finance to the everyday world of cable modems and Facebook.



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  • Heisenberg 2012/07/06 20:17:28
    Yes
    Heisenberg
    +16
    I do no always support Ron Paul, but when I do, I support his efforts to limit the size and scope of government.

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  • YOUR EARTH ANGEL'S REDEMPTION 2012/07/13 04:46:08
    Yes
    YOUR EARTH ANGEL'S REDEMPTION
    freedoms a good thing
  • KeithL 2012/07/12 17:08:20
  • The One 2012/07/11 04:16:42
    Yes
    The One
    But it is not Ron Paul's it is the Peoples!!!!!1
  • Constitution Believer 2012/07/10 01:30:07
    No
    Constitution Believer
    Not just no but HELL NO.
    I am still trying to figure out how in the hell his supporters feel he is going to make it to the Whitehouse.
    He has the lowest votes in the history of Primary elections and his DELEGATES are almost nothing.
    Now unless he has some secret potion that will make him a winner over Romney then he should do exactly what he started out to do two months ago...STEP DOWN BECAUSE WITH HIM THE FAT LADY HAS SUNG.
  • squire 2012/07/09 21:49:48
    No
    squire
    no
  • Josh Robinson 2012/07/09 18:14:11
    Yes
    Josh Robinson
    I support it through and through...
  • Diddley Squat 2012/07/09 15:43:16
    Yes
    Diddley Squat
    Left, right, middle, or just above the fray, internet freedom is a vital part of all our lives!

    The answer is Yes, yes, yes.
  • Magnus ☮ RP ☮ 2012 ☮ 2012/07/09 15:26:48
    Yes
    Magnus ☮ RP ☮ 2012 ☮
    +1
    I'm sorry, but when exactly did either of them ever STOP campaigning for Liberty, anywhere? This article makes no sense. They both have been staunchly against SOPA/PIPA and now CISPA... so I'm really just not seeing how this is anything 'new'.
  • Fenris 2012/07/09 15:12:22
    Yes
    Fenris
    I support that!
  • ZenerSix 2012/07/09 14:45:10
    Yes
    ZenerSix
    It's as good a cause as any.
  • Franklin 2012/07/09 14:23:14
    No
    Franklin
    +1
    RP is a sideshow freak , its sad when he talks about real issues as he has the touch of death ! fact is he is paid by the DNC to make good ideas look bad so they don't have to talk about them - Ron Paul is the very best THING the Democrats ever invented and he alone brings them 5% of their cross over votes every election -
  • jmc07806-PWCM-JLA 2012/07/09 14:06:44
    Yes
    jmc07806-PWCM-JLA
    +1
    I support limited Government and our individual rights and private property.
  • wgossett99 2012/07/09 13:55:06
    Yes
    wgossett99
    +1
    Yes! 100% behind this cause!
  • OneLastWord 2012/07/09 13:28:11 (edited)
    Yes
    OneLastWord
    Hell yes, and yes, and yes.

    This socialistic pink-O government we have now and may keep 4 more years with people like Eric Holder in the justice department is serious.



    Possible Scenario:

    1) Get control of the internet, it’s already come up twice in congress, went nowhere so far.

    2) Pass the International Small Arms Treaty.

    3) Create something big and deadly to justify stopping sales of small arms.

    4) Tighten laws for the internet year by year. Licenses and tax it.

    5) Pass a tax on personal small arms that's very expensive, and then raised it year after year, don't pay the tax or lie about your weapon, get fined big time, or go to jail.



    Not just the liberals that have wanted this for many years, (Small Arms) but international intellectuals and international government elitists want it very bad. They are running scared, and want more control.



    The internet is a real problem for them, intertwined too much now into just about all world societies. Can’t take it down because it would crash the day to day business. Can’t monitor it and squeeze the free flow because there are smarter IT people out there than the government rats that would try this, and they may get exposed.

    Just a brain fart, don't want to get real serious for you pink-O's. lmao.
  • Risk 2012/07/09 12:55:25
    Yes
    Risk
    +2
    ABSOLUTELY ... 100 % !
  • Syl 2012/07/09 12:34:50 (edited)
    Yes
    Syl
  • Thomas 2012/07/09 09:15:51
    Yes
    Thomas
    +1
    Liberty to the max. Love it.
  • Curious George 2012/07/09 06:56:02
    Yes
    Curious George
    +3
    anyone who votes no is either a moron or likes living in a police state.
  • KeithL Curious... 2012/07/12 17:10:03
  • Lucy 2012/07/09 06:49:20
    No
    Lucy
    +1
    I think certain destructive things on TV or the internet should be banned.
  • brunyon Lucy 2012/07/09 13:28:42
    brunyon
    I think the beatles should be banned and purged from history. Doesn't mean we should piss all over freedom and make it happen.
  • Lucy brunyon 2012/07/09 23:54:46
    Lucy
    Why do you say the Beatles? I am talking about filth and violence.
  • brunyon Lucy 2012/07/10 01:27:49
    brunyon
    +1
    I am taking of crappy music and drug use. What is wrong with filth and violence.
  • ScatterJoy! 2012/07/09 05:35:30
    Yes
    ScatterJoy!
    +4
    Can't he be the President already!? WTF is wrong with America that we picked Romney over Ron Paul?!
  • Curious... Scatter... 2012/07/09 06:59:27
    Curious George
    +2
    to many americans are easily brainwashed by the media. they hear something enough times on the tv or radio and they eventually believe it to be true, rather then actually investigating and researching it on there own before making a decision...... lazy really.
  • Windy Scatter... 2012/07/09 07:03:33
    Windy
    +4
    WE didn't, the GOP party bosses and the media picked him and expect us to accept their choice for us. I do not accept their choice, their choices have led us down a very destructive path. It is time for We, the People, to turn the tables on those who would keep us going down that wrongful path, we far outnumber them and we CAN take our government back and chain it down again, as Thomas Jefferson admonished, with the Constitution.
  • Scatter... Windy 2012/07/10 22:24:35 (edited)
    ScatterJoy!
    I agree completely - the only issue is The Government controls the armed forces and can readily and will willingly subdue (violently) a public uprising. No matter how many guns the US citizens have, we are slowly being coerced into a new age of reality - one in which we're fed fast food to keep is fat, false information to keep us stupid, and bogus reality tv to keep us lazy. Far easier to control the ignorant masses than enraged and motivated masses.
    But I DEFINITELY love your response and opinion.
  • Windy Scatter... 2012/07/11 07:15:28
    Windy
    I hope more police and military will join the Oath Keepers and refuse to turn on the American people, regardless from whence came the order.
  • Scatter... Windy 2012/07/11 13:45:22
    ScatterJoy!
    ....that's not really the military credo - whatever they're told to do they MUST do it. They're trained from the beginning to NOT think, their opinions/wants/desires do not factor in to any decisions - that's what boot camps and countless hours of training are for - to make them immediately follow commands so that in the advent of war they do exactly as they're told. Unfortunately, that credo is so ingrained that it holds true during peacetime....
  • Windy Scatter... 2012/07/13 05:51:01
    Windy
    I do believe they are supposed to judge the legality of the orders they are given. And "just following orders" did not get any of the German soldiers off from the charges of war crimes. If our soldiers are so trained to obey an illegal order their trainers are setting them up for similar war crimes trials should their commanders give them an illegal order.
  • Scatter... Windy 2012/07/13 19:09:16
    ScatterJoy!
    Are you sure about the soldier (army, navy, marines, airforce) being in charge of their own minds? I'm not meaning this in a negative way, nor am I trying to start a fight, I'm just curious - I'm not a member of the armed forces but I grew up near an Air Force base and dated a guy in the Navy for a little over a year - and from what I've gleaned, at least at the lower rank level, if you "think" you're punished - you're Forced to obey EVERY command --that makes it easier in War Time for the armed forces to operate b/c then ALL given commands are IMMEDIATELY obeyed, no matter the potential for being charged with War Crimes at a later date.
    What do you think? (again, totally not trying to start anything - )
  • Windy Scatter... 2012/07/14 18:16:31
    Windy
    +1
    Fair question. Let's just say I'm hoping that is the case, especially when the illegal targets are American citizens.
  • realist 2012/07/09 05:35:17
    No
    realist
    +1
    I would have said yes a year ago but getting closer to having kids now and seeing what some of the kids in my extended family can get access to (and its bloody easy to get around internet filters even for a 13 year old mind now) im all for a restriction on what can be presented.
  • JERSEYDUDE realist 2012/07/09 06:05:42 (edited)
    JERSEYDUDE
    +3
    maybe you should move to some fascist country oh wait America is already on the road to fascism nevermind
  • realist JERSEYDUDE 2012/07/09 06:13:22
    realist
    +1
    What a stupid reply. Do you abide by the law? If you do then you are already accepting authority. Being mature is knowing that based on a diverse society of all ages where control is needed. And no one can deny that a place where you can easily find porn, death videos, violence and forums to meet other crazy people in any country at any time of day or night screams out for control. It cannot be argued. There is no other media in existence that provides these capabilities to every person of every age and the only controls available are not sufficient while there are easy ways around them.

    Go preach freedom somewhere it makes more sense.
  • Curious... realist 2012/07/09 07:05:02
    Curious George
    +2
    install controls and CHECK what your kids are looking at. its not that hard to do. if there looking at something they should not be then be a good parent and punish them. THE POINT IS TO NOT HAVE A NANNY GOVERNMENT DOING FOR US. Since offensive material is in the eye of the beholder and subjective; its should be up to freedom loving private citizens to decide what is acceptable and unacceptable for themselves
  • realist Curious... 2012/07/09 08:11:51
    realist
    +1
    The ability to discipline has been taken away from parents...otherwise yes I would entirely agree. Site blockers only work for stupid children who don't have the small amount of brain capacity required to google how to get around them. Moderating their usage just alerts you to what they are doing. If you censor the ability to discipline you must also censor the activity that requires disciplining.

    That said if you think death videos are not offensive or even subjective I'd prefer you locked up in a cell right now then out there around the rest of us. That is not a topic up for debate.
  • Windy realist 2012/07/09 07:13:14
    Windy
    +1
    Virtually all reasonable laws are obeyed, not because they are the law, but because reasonable people would do that anyway. If you obey a law simply because it is the law, that's a pretty likely sign that it shouldn't be a law.

    "Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them." — Demonax - (Roman philosopher, circa 150 A.D.)

    "The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws." — Cornelius Tacitus, 55-117 AD, Roman historian
  • realist Windy 2012/07/09 08:20:15
    realist
    So you are saying you only obey laws based on your definition of reason? And what defined that pray tell? Parent's, teacher's, police officer's? Or were you born with an inherent knowledge of explicitly whats right and wrong despite the society around you? Granted some laws can be contested, but that doesn't mean you live entirely independent of them through a rejection of authority. What you are insinuating (heightened by that quote) is we could throw law in the bin and let society operate independent of any control and it would be the same or better....that is insanity.
  • Windy realist 2012/07/09 09:06:23 (edited)
    Windy
    +1
    The only real crimes are those that violate someone else's unalienable rights to life, liberty and property. Those are reasonable laws because the vast majority of people would not willingly or willfully violate the rights of any other(s). Traffic laws (which side of the road to drive on, maintaining a safe speed, etc.) are generally reasonable and most people would obey them.

    Laws about what kinds of toilets or light bulbs one is allowed to buy and use, laws prohibiting the possession or ingestion of certain items/substances, are not reasonable because ingesting a substance or using a certain kind of light bulb, does not violate the rights of others. Laws criminalizing the acts of consenting adults are not reasonable and are not real crimes. I can think of many more and you probably can, too. You see my point now?
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