Thank you, I haven’t read any of these, and will definitely try them!

One of the most wonderful things about Occupy has been their acceptance of EVERYONE who shows up. They model the Beloved Community through tolerance and nonviolence–psychological and verbal nonviolence as well as physical nonviolence. Instead of attacking or shunning people with whom we don’t agree, we could discuss what they say on a rational, fact-filled [...]

You’re absolutely right, Paul’s domestic policies (except for ending the War on Drugs, which is a war on poor minorities, ending the police state, and restoring the Bill of Rights) are horrible. But it looks to me as if Obama/Romney are horrible on domestic policies without exception. So I don’t see the advantage of Obama/Romney [...]

So wonderful to read of something so hopeful! Thank you for posting it!

Ray Charles, singing “Hit the Road, Jack”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoX8_xeybEI

I didn’t hear Maher say he was terrified of “terrorists,” just that he admires Ron Paul for saying, in every Repub debate, that we have an empire, and we should bring all the troops home. Maher said he supports Ron Paul’s foreign policy, not Obama’s. Colbert said only that Ron Paul is a good man, [...]

I’m not sure what is wrong with praising people (in this case, websites) who join a protest to help a good cause. It is possible to appreciate someone’s efforts without at the same time intending to slam someone else who made a different choice. We probably all agree that we want peace and justice, but [...]

Agree, completely. Which makes me sad, since when my kids were growing up, we loved NPR. But then I started to notice that NPR “reporters” like Linda Gradstein, “reporting” from Israel, were nothing but Israeli propagandists, boosting U.S. complacency during Israel’s vicious human rights abuses against the Palestinians. Haven’t been able to listen to NPR [...]

Great diary, Imka; recommended! Like everyone else, I want the endless wars stopped, the War on Drugs (which replaced the Jim Crow laws as an even more effective tool of racial discrimination) stopped, the growing police state stopped, and I want single-payer health care for everybody through a vastly-expanded Medicare system. Not to mention the [...]

ironymeter, to be honest, Ron Paul’s idea of “make all Americans eligible for Health Savings Accounts” is not a selling point for his candidacy. Most Americans want a single-payer, government-funded system for healthcare that includes everyone, employed or not. That’s why Medicare should be expanded. I have been a registered nurse in hospitals for many [...]

I think stopping the wars is the absolutely most important issue, and with Ron Paul, that includes stopping the War on Drugs, which replaced the Jim Crow laws as our way of continuing racist discrimination in the U.S. David Duke is a sort of straw man, isn’t he? People who claim that Ron Paul is [...]

Thanks, jbade. I don’t know if Dr. King would have supported all of Ron Paul’s foreign policy ideas (I imagine he might have supported the UN, though not what the UN has now turned out to be–just another tool for US war making), but I’m sure that he would have opposed all of Obama/Romney’s war-mongering, [...]

I looked at your link about letters of marque and attainder, and what Ron Paul said there was that in early U.S. history, private contractors were given permission to attack pirates. Paul said that this was a way to get rid of the piracy without committing the U.S. to a war. I don’t know how [...]

Paying people to collect names for a candidate who doesn’t even have 80 supporters in Wisconsin totally fired up to get her on the ballot does not sound to me like “building a movement.”

Thank you, Athena, great diary! Lots of interesting comments, too. I think that voting for Ron Paul is like a jiu-jitsu move–using your opponent’s strength against him. The corporations and the elites who control the Dem/Repub two-headed machine are united in wanting the wars and police state to continue, and they have already decided that [...]

Recommended. Thanks for linking to the Glenn Greenwald article, which is all about why people who claim to be “progressives” are fooling themselves when they refuse to consider voting for Ron Paul. Here’s one great excerpt: “It’s perfectly rational and reasonable for progressives to decide that the evils of their candidate are outweighed by the [...]

Thank you, working class, for taking the time to find some actual information to share. It would have been nice if jest had bothered to do some research before posting his diary; thanks for doing it for him.

I don’t know, Wendy. I just read your comment on the “Graphic Video…” diary, where you said that you’re glad Ron Paul is getting the antiwar issue out there in front of everyone, but, of course, you could never vote for him. Ron Paul says that Bradley Manning is a “hero.” But chances are this [...]