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Guest Post: The Triumph Of "Ron Paul"-ism

Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog,

The American people are coming to the realization that everything Ron Paul has stood for in the last 40 years is true. He has been proven right regarding the Federal Reserve, the Military Industrial Complex, and the Warfare/Welfare Surveillance State. The American people have grown weary of inflation, wars of choice and being spied upon. Ron Paul’s consistently right message is finally making headway. He is a true American patriot.

 

America's Place In The World…

 

We Are All Non-Interventionists Now!

Written by Daniel McAdams

Thursday December 5, 2013
 

We are witnessing the triumph of Ron Paulism in the United States. The corporate media will avoid reporting it. They try their best to ignore Ron Paul’s 30 plus year intellectual march through our institutions.

But the facts in Pew Research’s 50 year survey of US views of “America’s place in the world” do not lie: This year the highest percentage of Americans ever — 53 percent — agree with the statement that “the US should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.” (See illustration below)

Intervention

 

This means that despite the Mephistophelian temptations of the neoconservatives, offering war, interventionism, “responsibility to protect,” and humanitarian bombs, Americans are behind Ron Paul and the peacemakers — more than ever.

There is no major political figure in the United States who has more clearly identified himself with the cause of non-interventionism both at home and abroad.

When the Georgia/Russia war broke out in 2008, arch-neocon Senator John McCain incomprehensibly said that “we are all Georgians now.” He meant that we should go to war with Russia to back up a Georgian provocation. His slogan is laughable now, particularly as the facts have come out about the war.

But we can say this with all the facts to back us up: “We are (mostly) non-interventionists now!” We are in the growing majority, but still we have to fight the powers-that-be to get our message heard. The censorship and propaganda against our message is strong. The war machine does not give up easily.

Please continue to support the Ron Paul Institute’s efforts to advance Ron Paul’s important work. Read our website, share the articles, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and if you can please financially support our efforts. Ron Paul is winning. Let’s help him!


    



via Zero Hedge http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zerohedge/feed/~3/5dqGM4TlpZ0/story01.htm Tyler Durden

Guest Post: The Triumph Of “Ron Paul”-ism

Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog,

The American people are coming to the realization that everything Ron Paul has stood for in the last 40 years is true. He has been proven right regarding the Federal Reserve, the Military Industrial Complex, and the Warfare/Welfare Surveillance State. The American people have grown weary of inflation, wars of choice and being spied upon. Ron Paul’s consistently right message is finally making headway. He is a true American patriot.

 

America's Place In The World…

 

We Are All Non-Interventionists Now!

Written by Daniel McAdams

Thursday December 5, 2013
 

We are witnessing the triumph of Ron Paulism in the United States. The corporate media will avoid reporting it. They try their best to ignore Ron Paul’s 30 plus year intellectual march through our institutions.

But the facts in Pew Research’s 50 year survey of US views of “America’s place in the world” do not lie: This year the highest percentage of Americans ever — 53 percent — agree with the statement that “the US should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.” (See illustration below)

Intervention

 

This means that despite the Mephistophelian temptations of the neoconservatives, offering war, interventionism, “responsibility to protect,” and humanitarian bombs, Americans are behind Ron Paul and the peacemakers — more than ever.

There is no major political figure in the United States who has more clearly identified himself with the cause of non-interventionism both at home and abroad.

When the Georgia/Russia war broke out in 2008, arch-neocon Senator John McCain incomprehensibly said that “we are all Georgians now.” He meant that we should go to war with Russia to back up a Georgian provocation. His slogan is laughable now, particularly as the facts have come out about the war.

But we can say this with all the facts to back us up: “We are (mostly) non-interventionists now!” We are in the growing majority, but still we have to fight the powers-that-be to get our message heard. The censorship and propaganda against our message is strong. The war machine does not give up easily.

Please continue to support the Ron Paul Institute’s efforts to advance Ron Paul’s important work. Read our website, share the articles, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and if you can please financially support our efforts. Ron Paul is winning. Let’s help him!


    



via Zero Hedge http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zerohedge/feed/~3/5dqGM4TlpZ0/story01.htm Tyler Durden

Replay: Fullerton Cops Go on Trial for Killing Schizophrenic Homeless Man Kelly Thomas

On
December 3, Reason’s Paul Detrick filed a report from Southern
California, where Fullerton cops are on trial for the killing of
Kelly Thomas, a homeless shizophrenic they apprehended at a bus
depot.

Detrick’s earlier reports on the story not only exposed police
actions that were at best misguided and at worst criminal; he also
underscored the ways in which new media brought the case to public
attention.


Here’s the original writeup of his dispatch from the start of
the trial:

The trial of former Fullerton, California, police officers,
Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli began December 2, 2013, in the
beating death of Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old drifter with
schizophrenia. Thomas died after a July, 2011, altercation with six
police officers in which he was tasered, beaten with batons, and
hit repeatedly in the face with the end of a Taser. Ramos is
charged with involuntary manslaughter and second-degree murder and
Cicinelli is charged with excessive force and involuntary
manslaughter.

Opening statements from District
Attorney Tony Rackauckas detailed Thomas begging the
officers to stop.

“He posed no threat at all, to the police or to anyone else,”
said Rackauckas to jurors. The District Attorney dramatically
demonstrated the events of the encounter using a wooden police
baton.

Statements from the defense maintained that Ramos
and Cicinelli committed no crimes and were dealing with an
uncontrollable and violent person. Michael Schwartz, defense
attorney for Cicinelli told jurors in his statements that Thomas’s
behavior “was consistent with someone with a methamphetamine
background” and that his death was brought on by drug-induced heart
disease.

The toxicology report
at the time of the incident found no drugs in Thomas’
system.

The trial, taking place at the Orange County Courthouse in Santa
Ana, California, is the first time a uniformed police officer has
been charged with murder in the history of the county. The
trial may never have happened without a slowly built citizen
movement sparked by footage of the beating caught by mobile phone
and a
horrific hospital photo taken by Kelly Thomas’ father, Ron
Thomas.

“Nothing was going on, I tried contacting everybody, nobody
cared to do anything,” said
Ron Thomas to Reason TV in 2011. “So, I released the
picture of my son [in his hospital bed] and that got everybody’s
attention. When the cell phone video came out, I released that. The
audio had their attention again. You put together the picture with
the sound of what’s happening [and] it’s very, very
compelling.”

The Fullerton community reacted in outrage at the video and
photo at city council meetings and at protests outside the
Fullerton police department. Then when city surveillance footage
was released of the beating, residents pushed for a recall of city
officials.

Video produced by Paul Detrick.

For more Reason TV coverage of the Kelly Thomas story, watch
below:

Cops vs. Cameras: The
Killing of Kelly Thomas and the Power of New Media

How a Local Blog
Broke the Kelly Thomas Story: A conversation with Friends for
Fullerton’s Future

Outraged Fullerton
citizens react to Kelly Thomas beating tape

from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/08/replay-fullerton-cops-go-on-trial-for-ki
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Sheriff: Florida thieves may be connected to local entering auto cases

Two Florida men arrested recently in Alabama on entering auto charges are believed to be connected to other vehicle break-ins in Peachtree City.

Thirty-seven-year-old Oscar Moses Badger, of Dania Beach, Fla., and Bobby Hanna, 24, of Plantation, Fla., were arrested recently in Pelham, Alabama on entering auto charges, according to media reports.

read more

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-06-2013/sheriff-florida-thieves-may-be-connected-local-entering-auto-cases

Developer to pay Senoia back for city-funded path

An updated development agreement approved Monday by the Senoia City Council will have the city reimbursed for the cost of installing a multi-use path along Rockaway Road from Heritage Pointe subdivision to the Eddie Couch bridge.

Developer Scarbrough and Rolader Development LLC will pay $1,500 for each residential lot sold in Phase 2 until the project cost of more than $400,000 is met.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-06-2013/developer-pay-senoia-back-city-funded-path

Senoia teen arrested for kidnapping, child molestation

An 18-year-old Senoia man was arrested Dec. 3 on charges of child molestation, kidnapping and false imprisonment after he forced a juvenile into his home. Police were alerted by the man’s father when he arrived home from work and intervened.

Terry Lee Sherman was charged with kidnapping, child molestation and false imprisonment, according to Senoia Det. Jason Ercole.

Ercole said Senoia officers responded to Sherman’s residence on Dec. 3 at approximately 3:09 p.m. after receiving a call about a possible sexual assault involving a juvenile. 

read more

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-08-2013/senoia-teen-arrested-kidnapping-child-molestation

Leaders explain community visioning to PTC Council

Representatives of the Fayette County Visioning Initiative made a presentation to the Peachtree City Council Thursday night to explain how they are working to create a countywide community development plan.

Co-chair Trey Ragsdale noted that such a procedure isn’t a new concept for Fayette, which underwent a similar review back in 1987 to create “Fayette ‘93.” One of the biggest results of that plan was to plant the seeds for what would later become Piedmont Fayette Hospital.

read more

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-08-2013/leaders-explain-community-visioning-ptc-council

Local man is proof: seatbelts save lives

The simple act of wearing a seatbelt saved a Peachtree City man’s life earlier this year when he fell unconscious while driving on Peachtree Parkway.

Thana M. Alusi was presented the “Saved By the Belt” award from the police department and city council at Thursday’s council meeting.

Earlier this year and just after 4 p.m., Alusi was driving south on the parkway near North Cove when he suffered a medical problem, causing his car to strike a large tree on the opposite side of the road.

read more

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-08-2013/local-man-proof-seatbelts-save-lives

Welch kids visit 'Little White House'

Welch Elementary School students from Daphne Stephens’ third grade class visited the Little White House during the Thanksgiving break to complete their study of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Students were joined by their parents and grandparents during the Warm Springs visit. Pictured are: first row, from left – Braden Ray, Jason Argueta, Cameron Clay and teacher assistant Amanda Fuller; and second row – Madalyn Daniels, teacher Daphne Stephens, and Shelby Brown. Photo/Special

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-08-2013/welch-kids-visit-little-white-house

Welch kids visit ‘Little White House’

Welch Elementary School students from Daphne Stephens’ third grade class visited the Little White House during the Thanksgiving break to complete their study of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Students were joined by their parents and grandparents during the Warm Springs visit. Pictured are: first row, from left – Braden Ray, Jason Argueta, Cameron Clay and teacher assistant Amanda Fuller; and second row – Madalyn Daniels, teacher Daphne Stephens, and Shelby Brown. Photo/Special

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-08-2013/welch-kids-visit-little-white-house