Ron Paul's shadow convention is growing

[they call me MR. GRUMPY god damn it!]

What do you guys think of this? Would this be effective at all? How would this not violate the sovereignty of other nations?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul#Letters_of_marque_and_reprisal

Paul, calling the September 11, 2001, attacks an act of "air piracy", introduced the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001. Letters of marque and reprisal, authorized by article I, section 8 of the Constitution, would have targeted specific terrorist suspects, instead of invoking war against a foreign state.[18] Paul reproposed this legislation as the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007.[57] He voted with the majority for the original Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists in Afghanistan.[58]

Historically, the United States issued Letters of Marque against the Barbary pirates, and commissioned privateers to attack the shipping of countries with whom the United States was at war. These letters of Marque were typically issued on a per-voyage basis, and some 1700 of them were granted by the congress during the American Revolution.

both ridiculous and cowardly.  christ the dems and libs cry re black water now.

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

If carried out with utter ruthlessness it is neither cowardly nor ridiculous. On the other hand, you are correct in pointing out that too many in this country will undermine any such effort.

[SDML]

You hire people from the country where they are hiding. Or you simply tell the country in question that they are with you or against you (hahaha!!!).

I kind of like the idea but the sovereignty question is a hard one to get passed.

Not when their only other option is "we invade your country".

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

You hire people from the country where they are hiding. Or you simply tell the country in question that they are with you or against you (hahaha!!!).

I kind of like the idea but the sovereignty question is a hard one to get passed.

Not when their only other option is "we invade your country".

ah touche, sir.

[OswaldTheOsprey]

paul is not a conservative.  end of story.

No it is not the end of story. On what evidence to you base your comment upon?

OswaldTheOsprey

[OswaldTheOsprey]

They had to move the Rally for the Republic from the 15,000-seat Williams Arena in St Paul to the 18,000-seat Target Center in Minneapolis.

www.campaignforliberty.com

In less than 24 hours, the Ticket Bomb for the Rally for the Republic will begin and tickets will go on sale. Will you purchase a ticket and join us in Minneapolis on September 2?

Tickets will cost a very patriotic $17.76, so we hope you will bring the whole family. Can you image the reaction from the political establishment and media if we are able to sell out the Target Center?

Already the media is calling our office interested in the potential of our event. Over 1,500 news stories were written about Ron Paul alone when we announced our rally in Minneapolis two days ago.

Let’s send a loud and clear message to the media again this Friday @ 10AM CST when tickets go on sale! Tell them that we will not go unnoticed. Liberty will prevail, and our republic will be restored.

Please make every effort you can to be in Minneapolis. This will be the greatest event Dr. Paul has ever attempted.

this is a direct result of de-institutionalization in the 70s.

It appears that you are saying that being an Americanist is a sign of mental disorder. An old Soviet tactic I believe.

OswaldTheOsprey

sell it to the motherland jackass

Well, one certainly can't sell intelligent and rational thought to a dipshit like you.

OswaldTheOsprey

[Scaybeeez]

They had to move the Rally for the Republic from the 15,000-seat Williams Arena in St Paul to the 18,000-seat Target Center in Minneapolis.

It's going to be a pretty wild week for the Twin Cities between this, the RNC, and the anti-RNC protests.  Can't wait.

[conley]

i look forward to it!

[SDML]

paul is not a conservative.  end of story.

No it is not the end of story. On what evidence to you base your comment upon?

OswaldTheOsprey

He is correct. Paul is only a fiscal conservative, not a social conservative. He is fiscally more conservative than ANY of the buffoons in the republican party, but also more socially liberal than ANY of the buffoons in the democrat party.

[OswaldTheOsprey]

paul is not a conservative.  end of story.

No it is not the end of story. On what evidence to you base your comment upon?

OswaldTheOsprey

He is correct. Paul is only a fiscal conservative, not a social conservative. He is fiscally more conservative than ANY of the buffoons in the republican party, but also more socially liberal than ANY of the buffoons in the democrat party.

Please explain.

OswaldTheOsprey

[SDML]

Republicans are not necessarily conservative, but that's how it used to be. Paul is extremely fiscally conservative (check his economic policies: radical cuts in gov spending, wants to shrink the size of federal gov, etc.) but he is not socially conservative at all (he wants to end the war on drugs, for example). So conservative republicans like Grumpy tend to dislike him. A lot.

My statements in the above post are because Paul's economic ideas are FAR more conservative than any of the guys who were running for the republican nomination. Even Romney, who is something of a financial wiz, wasn't prepared to cut government spending to the degree that Paul wants (not even close) and thought the idea of doing away with personal income taxes was foolish. On the other side of the fence, only Kucinich & Gravel called for an end to the drug war, but only with qualifications and regulations. Paul wants to do away with not only the war on drugs, but the regulatory system that jacks up the price of health-care - a step Dennis & Mike are not willing to take.

Just a couple of examples.

[Hibbidy Ha]

Ron Paul would be the best candidate for president of them all.

Fuck your cowards and pussies remarks, Grump.  To you, everybody is a pussy unless they are punching themselves in the face while taking a shot of jet fuel and walking on molten steel barefoot and being attacked by a rabid animal, and exactly in that order.

[SDML]

I don't know if that is a fair account of Grumpy's standards, but you are certainly correct when it comes to Ron Paul.

[they call me MR. GRUMPY god damn it!]

paul is not a conservative.  however, spunk is a puss every day of the week, every minute of his life and it doesn't matter what he says or does.  a pathetic, nanny state puss.

[conley]

i think in a spunk v. grump fight spunk would win. spunk is fast enough and strong enough to catch and kill skunks before they spray him.

all we know of grump is that he is obese, and likes bloody marys.

my money is on the spunk.