Ron Paul uses Guy Fawkes to fire up campaign and raise $4.3m in a day

The Times ^ | November 7, 2007 | Tom Baldwin

[lgwdnbdgr]

Not an overly positive article about yesterday... actually it’s the worst I’ve seen.. geez.

Of course not. The good folks at the UK Times want the government to chew their food for them. A candidate espousing limited government is TERRIFYING to them. If the idea of liberty catches on, the government might not wipe their bottoms! How will they survive?

[Unam Sanctam]

So holding up a terrorist as an example is perfectly fine with you? Sick...

[Unam Sanctam]

So encouraging violent action against our constitutionally elected government is not terrorism, but perfectly acceptable “revolution” and “war”? Shame on you, Ron Paul and his supporters. This is disgusting.

[ichabod1]

YEah, it would all be great if Paul wasn’t a total flake.

[mgstarr]

Conservatives used to applaud people who preached the Founder’s cause.

But that was before the Neocons and Socons redefined the term.

[jmeagan]

****While Fawkes remains mostly hated in England, he’s also come to be seen by many as a symbol of revolt against tyrannical authority — “the only man to ever enter parliament with honourable intentions”. Who among us would not at times like to (at least figuratively) do something similar?***

I love that line. I think Ron Paul has entered congress with honorable intentions.

Love him or hate him, you have to admit that he is one of the most honest politicians of our time.

[yhwhsman]

it would all be great if Paul wasn’t a total flake

Knew very little about Ron Paul except for a few things he has voted on in the past. But when I saw the YouTube clip from when he was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno he just really struck me all wrong--came off as a smug jerk I thought.

[traviskicks]

Here is the best I’ve seen today, Ron Paul on Tucker Carlson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LYp7_fCyZo

[mgstarr]

Oh he is honest.

Most voters prefer to be pandered to nowadays.

[traviskicks]

see post 28

[dpwiener]

So encouraging violent action against our constitutionally elected government is not terrorism, but perfectly acceptable “revolution” and “war”? Shame on you, Ron Paul and his supporters. This is disgusting.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Nov. 13, 1787 letter to Col. William S. Smith:

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. ... What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

The federal government does many unconstitutional things, and it's high time we scaled it back to it's limited Constitutional functions. Ron Paul wants to do that peacefully, by running for President. But one way or another, as Thomas Jefferson pointed out, we need to preserve our liberties.

[mgstarr]

Yup Von Mises is such an outcast...

Too many these days still prefer Keynes and the safety of Big Brother.

[joshhiggins]

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...

[Wallace T.]

Since the Catholic libertarians over at LewRockwell.com, which has become more or less an “amen corner” for the Paul campaign, promoted the “Remember the Fifth of November” drive, it is hard to think of this fund raising effort as anti-Catholic. The reference to Guy Fawkes derives from the movie, “V for Vendetta”, a leftist movie where no reference is made to Fawkes’ Catholicism, but rather to his fight against tyranny.

[Revolting cat!]

President Paul! Get used to it!

[Redcloak]

While I support your right to use recreational marijuana, I urge that you abstain before posting.

[Duke Nukum]

You know, I never even hear of the Guy Fawks guy, I don’t think, until I am chatting with a friend in England telling me it’s Guy Fawks Days over there. Then that movie came out V for Vendetta.

I think Ron Paul should wear the Guy Fawks mask to the next debate.

[Conservative til I die]

I’m not a Paul supporter or opposer, but this thread is about what was expected...FreeRepublic Groupthink. Which candidate is the flavor of the month, per the mandate from FR management and owners? Fred?

[Conservative til I die]

Ya know, this reaks to high heaven. Why can’t ya just be glad that people in this country have taken an interest in the whole voting process? It’s just because it’s Ron Paul.

If you want to keep your account on FR, you support who you're told. Ron Paul is not the chosen candidate.

[editor-surveyor]

You are either drunk, or demented.