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Title: STEWART RHODES, FORMER RON PAUL STAFFER, ON RAND PAUL'S ENDORSEMENT OF ROMNEY
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Published: Jun 17, 2012
Author: Stewart Rhodes
Post Date: 2012-06-17 19:29:02 by christine
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Views: 924
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By endorsing Romney, Rand Paul has sold out. He has done serious damage to the Freedom Movement. Or at least to the Ron Paul movement. The freedom movement needs to be bigger than any one man or one family anyway, so perhaps in the long run this is a good thing. But no doubt, Rand Paul sold out and in my book, by endorsing a demonstrated oath breaker, Rand has also violated his oath. And yes, Romney is a demonstrated oath breaker. He violated his oath when, as governor or Massachusetts, he signed the state version of the so-called "assault weapons" ban, which was a clear violation of the Second Amendment, and Romney also violated it when he signed Romney Care, which was an early version of what has become Obama care, And worst of all, Romney violated his oath when he supported section 1021 of the NDAA and said he would have signed it, declaring that if you are accused of treason you don't "deserve" normal due process, but should be treated as an enemy combatant under the laws of war - all in direct violation of Article III, and in violation of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments. Romney is either clueless and doesn't know the Constitution well enough to be fit for public office, or he is willfully violating it. Either way, he is an oath breaker. And Rand's endorsement of Romney is a violation of his own oath. A pox on all their houses. This Republic is on the verge of destruction precisely because Republicans have chosen the lesser of two evils (the lesser of two oath breakers) in each election, swallowing principle and pulling the lever for a demonstrated oath breaker each and every time just to try and keep a Democrat from winning. When you take a slightly reduced dose of poison, say 80% poison instead of 100%, you are still poisoning yourself, and you will still die. This Republic has been subjected to a reduced dose of poison over and over, for decades, and is now about to die. And yet, the GOP bigwigs offer us yet another dose of slightly reduced poison and the great majority of the Republican rank and file are all too happy to open wide and swallow it down. And now Rand Paul joins in. You vote for an oath breaker, you become one. Either stand for all of the Constitution, all of the time, against anyone of any party, or stop pretending, and burn your damn Oath Keepers card. And then just join the ranks of the oath breakers. The NDAA is a deal breaker. It is intolerable. It is the death knell of this Republic if it is not stopped. Anyone who would strip you of your right to jury trial, for which your forefathers bled and died, is a traitor and an enemy of this Republic. Anyone who would subject you and your children to arbitrary imprisonment, to military trial, to rendition to ANY foreign nation or ANY foreign entity, or who thinks the President has a legitimate power to just order you killed by a Predator drone if HE thinks you are a terrorist, anyone who supports that view, is a traitor and a modern Tory. He is your enemy. And Romney and Obama both hold that view. I don't give a flying *&@#% if Romney is supposedly "not as bad as Obama." He supports the destruction of the Bill of Rights in the name of fighting terrorism. Both of them are my enemy. Both are enemies of the American Revolution and all that came from it. It's like being given a false choice between Stalin and Hitler, with so-called conservatives urging you to vote for the fascist to keep the communist out of office. "Vote for Hitler or Stalin will win!" I won't do it. No sir. I will fight them both, or either one. Political parties are like a cancer that is now killing the host. Republicans, with all too few exceptions, are loyal to party first, not country first, and certainly not the Constitution first. I challenge anyone to explain why a vote for Romney is not a violation of your oath, now that it is clear he supports the application of the laws of war on Americans, and supports military detention and military trial rather than trial by jury. Go for it. Anyone. Lesser of two evils? Is that what your oath was? Your oath was not "I will support and defend the Republican Party." Nor was it "I will support and defend the Constitution by voting for the lesser of two evil oath breakers." It is now very clear that the small window we had for a political solution at the national level has been slammed shut by the GOP leadership by forcing on us yet another oath breaker. Last time it was JOhn McCain - who went on to author Section 1021 of the NDAA which is a declaration of war on the American people. Now it is Romney, who also supports it. As did Allan West, Rubio, and a bunch of other "Tea Party" freshmen. The GOP has utterly failed to field true constitutionalists. It has turned its back on the Constitution and thrown away a chance to stop the destruction of our Republic. Now, all we have left is nullification and civil disobedience. And that includes nullification at the individual, town, Sheriff, County,and state levels and within the military, as individual service members, units, and branches. in the time we have left before the crap hits the fan, we should focus on direct outreach to the current serving with base tours and billboards, and on outreach to veterans in our local communities to get as many of them woken up and ready as possible. And focus on nullification from the individual cop, to the Sheriff, to the state governor and legislature. And get prepared yourself, with mutual aid in your community. And as for elections, the only ones worth the energy are local, local, local. Sheriff races are worth your time, to get in a good constitutional sheriff, like the good ones in Sheriff Mack's organization (CSPOA.org). County Commissioner races matter. To a lesser extent, state legislature and governor matter (I say lesser because your odds of getting a constitutionalist majority in the stat legislature are slim, and the odds of a constitutionalist governor even slimmer). All else is a waste of time, in my book. We are running out of time, and I now am convinced that we will have to have another Revolution to secure liberty for our children. We are now in the lead up to it, and all we can do is wake more people up so they join the side of the patriots rather than the modern Tories, and then get as ready as we can within our local communities, while outreaching to the guys with the guns so as many of them will be on our side as possible when it kicks off. The GOP has failed to fix it politically, and are placing us on the short track to having to fight a revolution. They had a chance to do the right thing, but blew it. Stewart Rhodes Poster Comment: I couldn't agree more.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Why do you think the PTB are putting 30,000 surveillance drones up? They hate us cuz' we're free. Or used to be anyway. Nonsense. Rand Paul HAD NOTHING TO SELL, ZILCH, NADA. Ron Paul had a great deal to sell and HE DID.
Why must you always bust our balloon, Cyni? I swear, I'm gonna cry myself to sleep tonite. This is where I am on fedgov and national politics. Not being a jewberger nor a billionaire, I realize that I cannot make one iota of difference in that arena. Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson Well, I know it is not comforting for one to realize their hero has clay feet. I spent decades in state and county politics, met a lot of people, Senators, Congressmen, VP candidate, down to the local Sheriff. Met just one honest man during that time. One.
This is an excellent article and I agree with him.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's Handmaiden
The FED Banks/WALL STREET have bought the government. They own it (govt) and those that participate in any of their frauds or legal fictions. Stewart is likely a card carrying Socialist - like so many of us, and doesn't even realize that he volunteered to be a slave and probably signed his kids up for the same Socialist shit the day they were born. The PTB want an event to occur that allows them to place the country under an emergency martial law condition. Stewart Rhodes is a lawyer and a Yale (CIA incubator) graduate. [ Stewart is the founder and Director of Oath Keepers. He served as a U.S. Army paratrooper until disabled in a rough terrain parachuting accident during a night jump. He is a former firearms instructor and former member of Rep. Ron Paul's DC staff. Stewart graduated from Yale Law School in 2004, where his paper "Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status" won Yale’s Miller prize for best paper on the Bill of Rights. He assisted teaching U.S. military history at Yale, was a Yale Research Scholar, and is writing a book on the dangers of applying the laws of war to the American people. He is a staff attorney with Jefferson Legal Foundation and has assisted in constitutional litigation in state and federal courts. ] Rhodes is right that more people need to be awakened and brought current on the actual condition of the U.S. A national tax revolt would go a long way towards the goal of solidifying the people and frustrating the FEDS. The people would probably win an armed conflict with the FED but the damage could be terrific. Frankly, I have lost the ability to trust anyone that arrives on the scene from Yale especially someone that has been on the Yale payroll. The extent that the FEDS have usurped so-called constitutional retraints on government is clear to anyone with a basic understanding of the document's framework, yet those with the best understanding are the most blatant violators of it. "The few who understand the [FEDERAL RESERVE] system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests." The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.
Do you have a different link to the source, the one you put up there doesn't work for me even though I am on facebook.
God is always good!
I sure am glad you posted this article, it has already come in handy! I received an email this morning from someone named Andrea Saul who is the National Press Secretary, Romney for President. And of course she was asking for contributions. I used much of this article to reply to her and, fwiw, here is the email I just sent. Hi Andrea. I understand that you would like for me to give money and whatever support I could to Governor Romney. But you are asking me to vote for someone who, like Obama, has repeatedly violated the oath he has had to take to serve--as Governor in Mr. Romney's case (I am assuming that all who win a political office take an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic). I don't say it with any animosity or ill will but I cannot, in good conscience, support anyone for any position in government who is a "repeated oath breaker." How has Governor Romney violated his oath? Did he not, as Governor, sign the state version of the so-called "assault weapons" ban which is a clear violation of the second amendment? And what about Romney Care, an early version of what has become Obama Care? He supported section 1021 of the NDAA and said he would have signed it, declaring that if you are accused of treason you don't "deserve" normal due process, but should be treated as an enemy combatant under the laws of war - all in direct violation of Article III, and in violation of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments. Romney is either clueless and doesn't know the Constitution well enough to be fit for public office, or he is willfully violating it. Either way, he is an oath breaker. The NDAA is a deal breaker. It is intolerable. It is the death knell of this Republic if it is not stopped. Anyone who would strip you of your right to jury trial, for which your forefathers bled and died, is a traitor and an enemy of this Republic. Anyone who would subject you and your children to arbitrary imprisonment, to military trial, to rendition to ANY foreign nation or ANY foreign entity, or who thinks the President has a legitimate power to just order you killed by a Predator drone if HE thinks you are a terrorist, anyone who supports that view, is a traitor and a modern Tory. He is your enemy. And Romney and Obama both hold that view. I don't give a flying *&@#% if Romney is supposedly "not as bad as Obama." He supports the destruction of the Bill of Rights in the name of fighting terrorism. Both of them are my enemy. Both are enemies of the American Revolution and all that came from it. It's like being given a false choice between Stalin and Hitler, with so-called conservatives urging you to vote for the fascist to keep the communist out of office. "Vote for Hitler or Stalin will win!" I won't do it. No sir. I will fight them both, or either one. Political parties are like a cancer that is now killing the host. Republicans, with all too few exceptions, are loyal to party first, not country first, and certainly not the Constitution first. If Governor Romney actually believes that his support for the things I have mentioned is not violative of his oath then his understanding of the Constitution is much different than mine. For whatever it's worth, and I think I have made it clear enough, I don't support Obama either and for the same reasons plus one more--I don't think he is even qualified to serve as President and at any rate has proven to be a disaster. Sincerely, Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
You could have asked Andrea why you should choose a mexican over a kenyan...
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson LOL! I could have if I had thought of it.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Political parties are like a cancer that is now killing the host. Republicans, with all too few exceptions, are loyal to party first, not country first, and certainly not the Constitution first. James... Excellent thrust and formation. A+++
Thank you kindly. I want the bought-and-paid-for establishment clowns and goons to know that some of us are onto their game and have been for some time. I will do whatever I can to defeat any of them who pretend to know and respect the Constitution and then use it to wipe their feet on. Or, as another old friend said about FDR one time, "He tore the Constitution to pieces and cast it out the windows of the White House." And what few scraps of it were left have since been cast to the winds by people who seemed to believe he was some kind of hero.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
I post this often... Back in the 1930s, FDR kept repeating the refrain that, "I will never draft American boys to fight in any foreign war". To which my Father would yell, "you lying SOB". He also was a minority as most thought FDR was our savior. Some of us were indeed awake.
It's a good thing that at least some people aren't tv addicted ninnies who actually believe the promises of politicians. Not that I don't Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Our history. In times of dire national peril, start a war. Works every time. Wipes out unemployment and floods the country with borrowed money. Happy times are here again........ I hate professional politicians.
And of course the wars are for the benefit of the bankers and the MIC.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
yep
It's amusing that willard, rand, and the rest of the pubbie crime family continue to piss away jack sending me crap in the mail. Great stuff for the recycling dumpster. Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson In times of dire national peril, start a war. Works every time. Wipes out unemployment and floods the country with borrowed money. Happy times are here again........ I hate professional politicians. That's the theory. What they and those who support the idea of war as a remedy don't take into account is that it only works if the country isn't ALREADY at war. It cannot work now anymore than war could save the Romans during the last days of their empire. Democrats don't mind war as long as they can have big government. Republicans don't mind big government as long as they can have war. Great stuff for the recycling dumpster. I have never donated to or had any connection to Rand Paul. Yet I receive phone calls and mail solicitations looking for money. One would almost believe that Ron has given Rand his list of Barnums to solicit. That would not be ethical in my book, but who the hell am I to question a "professional politician"? Once a person crosses that line, "citizen activist" to "professional politician", they automatically go on my BS artist list.
This government, in our entire history has never given up on war. For instance their current assessment is that if a series of small, endless wars, is acceptable to the masses, then just maybe, they could sneak in another world wide war while the sheep are asleep. As long as the grass is green, (money) the sheep graze on, oblivious to the fact that the herder and dogs have been replaced by very hungry wolves.
Since more than a few people have accused Romney of treason, as well as a lot of his buddies, perhaps he and his friends should be anally raped in Uzbekistan by a hot iron? Mitt laughs after John McCain calls USS Liberty heckler a 'jerk' Main index page about the incident: http://america- hijacked.com/2012/05/30/john-mccain-calls-american-patriot-a-jerk-for- questioning-him-about-uss-liberty-cover-up/ "Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
What really burns my cookies is these sob's like Obama and Romney who would execute you based on an ACCUSATION, not after you have had a trial and been found guilty. So if they, as President, decide they don't like someone they can just blow him or her away with a Predator drone and think that there is nothing wrong in what they have done. And people actually vote for people who think like that!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Well of course he does, he is a political whore just like Romney and Obama. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
I'd roll the dice and say that MOST voters have no clue about the NDAA or have any idea that it even exists. What's sad is that they are effectively voting for Gestapo style raids on themselves and their families in the not so distant future, since anyone ACCUSED of being a "terrorist" is subject to indefinite detention without charge or trial, and execution is allowed if deemed necessary for the "good of the state". The "jerks" are the retards and idiots who would rather kiss the ass of this faux "war hero" than honor those who were killed and wounded by "our friends" on that fateful day, June 8, 1967. The GOP has failed to fix it politically, and are placing us on the short track to having to fight a revolution. They had a chance to do the right thing, but blew it.
#2. To: christine (#0)
By endorsing Romney, Rand Paul has sold out
#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
#4. To: christine, 4 (#0)
A pox on all their houses.
#5. To: randge (#3)
Why must you always bust our balloon, Cyni?
#6. To: christine (#0)
#7. To: christine (#0)
#8. To: christine (#0)
#9. To: christine (#0)
#10. To: christine (#0)
#11. To: James Deffenbach (#10)
#12. To: Lod (#11)
#13. To: James Deffenbach (#10)
"Vote for Hitler or Stalin will win!" I won't do it. No sir. I will fight them both, or either one.
#14. To: Cynicom (#13)
#15. To: James Deffenbach (#14)
I want the bought-and-paid-for establishment clowns and goons to know that some of us are onto their game
#16. To: Cynicom (#15)
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want watch tv, I do watch it some. But if the thing tore up or for whatever reason I couldn't watch it anymore I don't think I would have very severe withdrawal pains.
#17. To: James Deffenbach (#16)
#18. To: Cynicom (#17)
#19. To: Lod (#4)
Not being a jewberger nor a billionaire, I realize that I cannot make one iota of difference in that arena.
#20. To: christine, 4 (#19)
(Edited)
#21. To: Cynicom (#17)
Our history.
There is a fine line between "The enemy of my enemy..." and "With friends like this, who needs enemies?".
'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century
#22. To: Lod, Christine, Phant2000, Jethro Tull (#20)
It's amusing that willard, rand, and the rest of the pubbie crime family continues to piss away jack sending me crap in the mail.
#23. To: PnbC (#21)
. It cannot work now anymore than war could save the Romans during the last days of their empire.
#24. To: christine (#0)
And worst of all, Romney violated his oath when he supported section 1021 of the NDAA and said he would have signed it, declaring that if you are accused of treason you don't "deserve" normal due process, but should be treated as an enemy combatant under the laws of war
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#25. To: FormerLurker, christine (#24)
#26. To: FormerLurker (#24)
#27. To: Artisan (#25)
News reader: "But now McCain supports the presumptive GOP nominee."
#28. To: James Deffenbach (#26)
So if they, as President, decide they don't like someone they can just blow him or her away with a Predator drone and think that there is nothing wrong in what they have done. And people actually vote for people who think like that!
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#29. To: Artisan (#25)
Mitt laughs after John McCain calls USS Liberty heckler a 'jerk'
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
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