{"id":2055,"date":"2008-07-12T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2008-12-19T20:59:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T01:59:03","slug":"the-ron-paul-revolution-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2055","title":{"rendered":"The Ron Paul Revolution in full swing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ron Paulians filled Constitution Avenue this morning to bring the “Second Revolutionary War” to Washington. I’ll admit that it was a pretty big crowd, the website had over 15,000 people pledged to come, but it looked like less than half that many showed up, but it was fairly impressive nonetheless. Well, compared to their gathering in April<\/a> and the gatherings of other moonbats I’ve witnessed lately.<\/p>\n

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The crowd was fairly young, another point that distinguishes it from recent events,<\/p>\n

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but the elderly lunatics were still there;<\/p>\n

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I love how they think signs in Latin make them seem smart;<\/p>\n

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Added 7-14-08: John emails from a college in South Carolina;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ron Paul photos in your report of the Washington demonstration show a sign written in Latin, to wit, Expellus Tyrannus.\u00a0 Actually, the first word, a verb, would be placed in the imperative plural and the second, a noun, in the accusative singular.\u00a0 The proper spelling in this situation would probably have been Expellite tyrannum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m no student of dead languages, so I’m going to take John’s word for it just because it makes the picture funnier.<\/p>\n

And since I know how much the lizards at Little Green Footballs like the bimp, this one’s for you;<\/p>\n

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UPDATED:<\/strong> It looks like the blimp doesn’t support Ron Paul anymore. It’s been confiscated by the evil Bush government<\/a>. Probably another conspiracy.<\/p>\n

They began near the Washington Monument and, like so many other events, they pumped up the crowd. But, since these were mostly anti-war people, they had chants like “Obama and McCain, one and the same” and “No war in Iran”.<\/p>\n

They were much more prompt than the usual anti-war protests – they actually started the march from the Mall to the Capitol at 10:30 like they promised.<\/p>\n

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They picked up stragglers along the way and some joined late, but by the time they reached the Capitol, there were probably 5-7000 of them.<\/p>\n

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Most of the US flags I saw were right side up, but that’s in keeping with the strictly American traditions of the Ron Paulians. Of course, whenever you see an upside down flag, you have to figure that IVAW can’t be too far away.<\/p>\n

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Raoul will recognize Bill Perry from VFP in the picture, and I’m sure he’ll have something to say about him.<\/p>\n

Of course, I went over and introduced myself to Adam Kokesh, so he couldn’t make the mistake he made here <\/a>a few weeks ago when he said we’d never met. Kokesh called me his stalker. He declined to have his picture taken with me, but I did run this little video for future reference;<\/p>\n

[youtube KIJNRe_uR28 nolink]<\/p>\n

Sorry the video wasn’t centered but he was a little reticent about me filming him, so I don’t think he knew the camera was running. He also declined to shake my hand when we parted. So much for the whole Band of Brothers thing. Besides he more important things on his mind like this meeting of the brain trust;<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/strong> According to Army Sergeant, they did a bad, bad thing and they’ve jeopardized their tax-exempt status. You read it here and saw the proof here first. <\/em><\/p>\n

This fellow just stood on stage while some dopey Ron Paul song<\/a> played in the background (you can hear it on the video – it was fairly nauseating.)<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile the crowd poured in from the march;<\/p>\n

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After everyone arrived, I took this picture of the entire crowd;<\/p>\n

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I think it supports my 5-7000 estimate.<\/p>\n

But, again, there were more than just Ron Paul supporters there. The truthers were out in force as well as the regular anti-war crowd. I didn’t see any Code Pink, but then Ron Paul is a Republican, why would those partisan Democrats want to be seen there.<\/p>\n

Kokesh put out a call on his blog a few days ago for IVAW members to show their support at the rally, but their participation was anemic. For the actual march, they only had enough to carry a flag and two to hold their banner;<\/p>\n

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Overall, the rally was probably as successful as they could make it. But of course, this is no “Second Revolutionary War” as they called it. It certainly won’t make Americans stand up and take notice and demand Ron Paul be the President. But like so much from that side of the political spectrum, the only reason this rally happened was to feed a bunch of egos, and Ron Paul to replenish his coffers for another Congressional run.<\/p>\n

For a bunch of people who claim they don’t trust politicians, they sure are gullible when it comes to Ron Paul.<\/p>\n

But here’s my video of the event (it’s still processing at YouTube, so it might not be available for a few minutes);<\/p>\n

[youtube 80QfcbzaPnE nolink]<\/p>\n

ADDED: <\/strong>Rurik, bless his combat engineer heart, in an email reminded me of something that’s been in the back of my mind all day – a line from MacBeth;<\/p>\n

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…a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That pretty much summarizes the day’s events.<\/p>\n

Welcome readers from Blackfive<\/a>, Little Green Footballs<\/a>, Jammie Wearing Fool<\/a>, Gateway Pundit<\/a>, Pirate’s Cove<\/a> , My Two Cents Worth<\/a>, C.H.U.D. Busters<\/a>, Political Byline<\/a>, Noblese Oblige<\/a>, Real Clear Politics’ Best of the Blogs<\/a>, and The Raw Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And special thanks to those Paulians who didn’t leave their basements today for hitting my YouTube video 211 times in the first hour it was posted. Take the time to read the comments on my video at YouTube – everything is a conspiracy including YouTube not updating the viewer total in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 7-13-08;<\/strong> Wonkette<\/a> has the view from the other side of the spectrum and I guess I left before the real whackos showed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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