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Title: A Huge Texas Thank You: Medina Concedes. What Next?
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Official Debra Medina Campaign Site
URL Source: http://www.medinafortexas.com/getPost?p=302
Published: Mar 3, 2010
Author: Debra Medina
Post Date: 2010-03-04 17:56:32 by Deasy
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Keywords: paul, alamo, mises, paleoconservative
Views: 495
Comments: 38
A huge Texas thank you to all who worked so hard to get the freedom candidate elected as governor of this great state! I cannot tell you how humbled I am to have been able to carry your banner forth. Even though we didn't win this battle, we will not give up fighting for the people and we will remain ever vigilant to hold our elected officials accountable. What We Texans have accomplished has not only caught the attention of the nation and the world but it has inspired as only truth can inspire. We have not lost hope. We have energized and will strengthen our resolve to fight another day. While I must concede the loss of this battle, I will not make concessions that reduce this fight to the level of mere sport. Our freedom is being stripped away and I will continue to press our cause. Our message was nothing less than what the original Founders were fighting for...our Life, our Liberty and our property. To whomever wins the Texas governorship in November, the eyes of Texas will be upon you. God Bless Texas, Poster Comment: It's time to reassess the entire liberty movement. Post your thoughts. Are we going to do this again and again? For what? How many donated money that should have been spent on their own futures? What value did this campaign add to the future of politics in Texas? In the entire United States? More remarks to follow. Please add yours.
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#3. To: All, Pinguinite, Cynicom, Prefrontal Vortex, X-15, christine (#0)
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My suggestion here, in all these remarks is simple: I think we need a new, nation-wide political party. It's time to make history! I don't think "politics as usual" is going to do it for us anymore. We need to stop wasting time trying to recoup the lost cause of being more like Barry Goldwater than Ronald Reagan. Attempting to retain our position on the artificial left-right political spectrum has been a restraint on our movement. My brief remarks cover these topics: How did you react to this statement? Did it remind you of the "global warming swindle?" Did you think that Medina's intent to push the EPA out of Texas would make a positive difference? This simply fractured away people with legitimate concerns about the environmental excesses of agribusiness and industry. Zero government is no solution to pollution and overconsumption of natural resources. The schism between environmentalism and patriotism is artificial, even if the EPA is staffed by globalist socialists. Those are two separate issues. Global weather and our impact on it is also a different problem. Opponents of globalism shouldn't stop at opposing cap and trade and self-imposed restraints on pollution. We should be using alternative fuels. A free market might push us in that direction, but so might sound policy. Medina's policy was no policy, by the sound of this audio snippet. The Fed issue should be clearly identified as a symptom in this movement, not the cause of our problems. The Fed is an enabler for behavior that was already sought by America's elite before the first world war. The wars continue. We have to change people before we'll stop the wars. Really what's at stake here is that we don't control our government. The zero government Republicans like Paul and Medina ignore the elephant in the room, which is who does control it. We could have it back if we put America first politically. We have to do that anyway. They talk about the banks, but not who runs the banks. They know they can't talk about it, so they don't. If we privatized everything today, the same forces would take over those privatized assets if we don't inspire the American people to see things our way first. That's our challenge. So far Ron Paul and Debra Medina haven't succeeded. I would welcome them into our new movement if they could abandon the GOP altogether and champion a new party. The new party should have seven major planks: All this money going into GOP candidates, only for them to concede is wasting our time. Let's do something else for a change.
1.Ending NAFTA/CAFTA and all "free trade" agreements. 8. Abolish set asides based on skin color. Affirmative action programs would be defunded and closed immediately . State sanctioned racism is racism by any other name.
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#10)
Hear hear.
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Sound byte on environmentalism: One Minute 40 Seconds
Environmentalism and the Liberty Movement
A rough paraphrase of the sound byte: "get the EPA out of Texas, out of energy, and out of our culture in Texas." But aren't conserving natural resources and protecting the air, water, and mineral wealth part of patriotism? Of course they are. Only the fat cats running the GOP would like us to think otherwise. Medina just played right into their hands with this position. The Federal Reserve Problem
The Curious Capitalist (Time Blogger) posts these criticisms of Ron Paul's attacks on the federal reserve: Visiting Ron Paul's Fed-Free Utopia. It's worth reading all the way through. The message is clear: without the Fed, we would still find someway to spend money we don't have anyway. 9/11 "Truth" and Liberty
Medina was sidetracked by this problem, but why? She should have stuck to her original answer on Glenn Becks' show: people have a right to question their government. But her poll losses after the interview raises another question: what should the liberty movement do with 9/11 truth? It's been almost 10 years now since 9/11. No wars have been stopped by our votes. No 9/11 truth candidates have succeeded in changing the country. Obama is not resisting the call for more war. We need a new message: 9/11 shouldn't have made us react the way we did. That's simple, logical, and honest. Anyone can say more, or less. We need to get at the root of the problem that surfaced on 9/11: fear, and how it motivates Americans. Alex Jones and Liberty
Alex Jones has discarded whatever value he had brought to the movement. His biggest motivator is fear. Fear of the murderous government. Fear of technology. Fear of an unseen idol worshiping, human sacrificing elite. Fear is not an easy way to pursue political change. Jones's religions overtones are unwelcome to a large number of people, and so he tends to exclude freedom-loving Americans who would otherwise be interested in helping the cause. The Republican party
The Republican party is a dead vehicle for liberty. Until we can create our own party, we'll never go anywhere. The GOP will always be controlled by the fat cats. The sooner we agree on the agendas for a third party, the sooner we can move forward. Forcing a Trotskyite party back to some kind of retrospective, traditional paleoconservatism is not the vehicle for true change. Conclusion
You'll have a different list, and feel free to post it. The important thing is to concentrate on what matters most.
#10. To: Deasy (#3)
The new party should have seven major planks:
2.Ending open immigration and deporting illegal aliens humanely.
3.Abolishing all foreign debt and sacking anyone who helped incur it.
4.Pulling back from most of our foreign military operations and bases.
5.Nationalizing the Fed and mandating balanced budgets.
6.Legislating away old legislation and overriding bad court cases.
7.A party policy: no more "liberal" versus "conservative" language. All are welcome if they put America first.
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