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“I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball. ... Just be the ball, be the ball, be the ball. You're not being the ball Danny.”
Ty Webb, Caddyshack
There is a lot of complaining about the lame stream news media...and there are a lot of people trying to fill that void. People like Brian Rothenburg of Progress Ohio have taken the ball that the media has dropped and are running with it, and for those who are on the internet --they are having an effect. Yet there is still at least 30% of our population that we will never reach using the internet, as they do not use this vital tool. That is, nearly a third of our citizens may never learn the truth unless we reach them another way. This statistic could be quite conservative as many of those who do access the internet will never venture outside of main stream sites like MSN, Yahoo, and AOL.
Here in Columbus, Ohio we do not have a public access channel and are a one-newspaper town. When I had my own political transformation in late 2006, I was determined to teach others in my community what I learned about the state of our Republic. Yet with the stranglehold that the media had on this town, I knew it was going to be very difficult to reach my fellow citizens. I created a peace organization, and a friend I met at another peace group launched our website. We blogged, networked with other peace groups and had a presence on all the networking sites like Meet-up, Facebook and Google-groups. Throughout 2007 we brought in national speakers. We marched in parades, tabled at festivals, held a Truth Film Festival and held regular vigils. Over the course of that year, we passed out 10,000 DVD's and tens of thousands of fliers. In all that flurry of effort, we probably converted 1000 people to the reality we face, though few actually got involved in our efforts. Though I would do it all again, I realized that we wouldn't win our city to truth at that rate.
In a discussion of our progress at one of our meetings, one of our members said, “We are feeding them porterhouse steak, and they can only handle milk toast.” I thought this was an excellent way to assess our efforts. We understood the mentality of our community because we were once like them. Like them, we too believed that our government might buy the occasional $350 hammer, but we never suspected that they would ever pick one up and whack us over the head with it. Unfortunately, those in our group knew better.
We knew we had to “build a better mousetrap.”
About 6 months ago, I started to dream about another way to reach my community...start a newspaper. I was inspired by Matt and Elaine Sullivan of the Rock Creek Free Press. I knew their format wouldn't work here in Columbus, but I decided to contact them and ask them for their advise. I told them I had absolutely no qualifications or experience, but I wanted to start a newspaper. They admitted that they too had never done anything like it before, but said they would do what they could to help.
After receiving a $500 donation from a friend of our group, I thought this is our opportunity. Together with two friends I had gained through our group, we went to work. We found a printer, used an open-source (free) program, gathered our articles and finally thought we had a product we could promote. Our first issue came out this past Veteran's Day, and the power of our new tool was immediate and obvious.
After passing out DVD's and fliers for a year, I knew what rejection felt like. People no longer recoiled in fear or disgust at my ovations to give them our paper. Rather, they said things like, “This is your paper? Wow!" I heard many simple expressions of gratitude like, "Thank-you!”
It felt really good.
We received another generous donation and this time we put it to use by purchasing 20 used newspaper boxes. We worked on them in my driveway and set them up along High Street in Columbus, Ohio. Before we knew it, it was time to work on our second issue and it was received as well as the first.
The co-operation and generous support of writers across the country has made our effort quite productive. As an activist, I have never found a better way to reach my community. As a mother of two young children who is concerned about the future of our country, I want to share this outreach tool with anyone interested in finding a better way to engage your community in our struggle for liberty. If you are an activist, I will do whatever I can to give you as many copies of The Liberty Voice as you need. Contact me through this website and let me share it with you.
To learn more about our newspaper, go to www.TheLibertyVoice.com. There, you can read all three of our issues, and if you like it, you can subscribe on-line. In trying to reach our goal of having subscribers in every state, if you are the first one in your state to subscribe, I will refund your money just for giving us the opportunity to bring you the news! That is, 45 people can get The Liberty Voice free --just for asking!
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People should consider that Ron Paul voted for Tom DeLay to be House Majority Leader. Tom DeLay disregarded the Constitution, abused power and looted the federal treasury like nobody's business. He also said that voting for candidates that don't support the Iraq War will get us all killed (to paraphrase). Wonder why Ron Paul didn't leave the Party or more vigorously oppose the Bush/Rove/DeLay machine?
There are other candidates for President that will restore the Constitution and have promised to get all troops out of Iraq----Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards. Edwards is more electable in my book.
Candidates must defend the Constitution, and I will cover their actions when they do. The Liberty Voice won't cover their words.
After all, dogs are cute when they bark, but it means nothing ...so I wouldn't quote them on it.
The Liberty Voice is strongly biased toward Constitutional revitalization.
It is difficult to find the silver lining in the storm clouds raining over the Constitution's reign as the Law of the Land. When the President and Congress do not follow the law, it creates a state of lawlessness...anarchy.
Perhaps you missed the George Washington article on the evils of the two-party system...and the dangers of eroding the Constitution.
I will reprint those excerpts next...and dedicate it to you.
You accuse Ron Paul of guilt... by association.
That is a fascist thing to do. Can't you find anything wrong with HIM? Well... neither can Ron Paul supporters.
Hmmm...does associating with Delay/Bush/Rove make him a terrorist too?
Readers are very much welcome to contribute articles and letters to The Liberty Voice.
Our next edition could feature a collection of essays written on the topic, "How my favorite candidate defends the Constitution." Maybe it could be a fundraiser for the paper.
Ron Paul would have more crediblity in my book if he had left the Republican Party and re-joined the Libertarian Party (or started another Party) after Bush/Rove/DeLay took power. I favor multiple political Parties. We'll need instant run-off elections and popular political mavericks that are willing to buck the Dems and Repubs to make that work though.
And, I don't think Ron Paul would be defending the General Welfare clause of the Constitution as President as he would sell off the National Parks to transnational corporations.
Ron Paul wants to go back to the way things were before the Civil War with his call for "states' rights." But that would enable abuse by the majorities and a system that is less egalitarian than we now have. Kids would be punished by the accident of what state they were born in.
And, thanks for giving credit to Kucinich for his work to hold Impeachment Hearings.
State's rights are essential to the preservation of the constitution as the forefathers designed it...
I'm not going to take the time and debate you here on all your notions...you're entitled to your opinion.
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Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."
"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal," Paul said.
Paul also wrote that although "we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers."
Stating that lobbying groups who seek special favors and handouts are evil, Paul wrote, "By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government" and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism.
AS Washington warns in his farewell address of 1779:
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Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; ... just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. ... The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim.
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So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. ... It gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
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As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils. Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. ... Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests."
What Paul said about black men was just plain stupid.