Thursday, July 5, 2012

The Pauls Ditching End the Fed for New Internet Program

Ron and Rand Paul are set today to shift the central focus of their family's long libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom, reports Buzzfeed.

Buzzfeed continues:
Kentucky senator Rand and his father Ron Paul, who has not yet formally conceded the Republican presidential nomination, will throw their weight behind a new online manifesto set to be released today by the Paul-founded Campaign for Liberty. The new push, Paul aides say, will in some ways displace what has been their movement's long-running top priority, shutting down the Federal Reserve Bank. The move is an attempt to stake a libertarian claim to a central public issue of the next decade, and to move from the esoteric terrain of high finance to the everyday world of cable modems and Facebook...

This is also a new stage for what supporters refer to as the Ron Paul Revolution, and a way to make sure that Ron Paul's followers stay on board with the movement after the congressman's retirement from the House of Representatives. Paul supporters are already Internet-savvy, frequently launching digital campaigns of their own, and skew young. And the new cause gives his son Rand an easier way to connect with them, given that his relationship with his father's supporters has often been fraught.
Internet freedom, Paul insiders say, is going to be Rand's end-the-Fed.
Making Rand Paul the standard-bearer of Internet freedom "is one of the goals," said a Republican strategist close to the campaign.

"As you may have noted he has been speaking out about Internet Freedom a fair amount including in his endorsement of Romney on Hannity," the strategist said in an email. "Freedom online and freedom and liberty offline are seamlessly linked and Senator Paul gets that."

A Paul adviser told BuzzFeed that the full Campaign for Liberty Internet project will start about two weeks after the Fed bill vote.
(ht Chris Rossini)

5 comments:

  1. We might've seen this coming.

    "End the Fed" morphed into "Audit the Fed."

    I wonder what "Internet Freedom's" slow death will look like?

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    1. Stop whining.

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    2. The fact remains that NOTHING will change until the entire system goes to hell. Ron Paul gets an "A" for effort and in changing many people's minds but this is simply not nearly enough. Most people are still to stupid and simple minded to think for themselves.

      Normally I could care less what happens to morons but they're dragging us down with the ship! Too bad we have OT pay the price for their useless lives.

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    3. This is the difference between the ultimate goal and a transition measure as described by Rothbard at http://lprc.org/strategies.html . To think that a legislator must only propose abolition is absurd, he or she should propose whatever will awaken more people and maybe even pass! Then he or she should use that victory as a stepping stone to abolition, proposing and hoping to pass ever more libertarian measures by building coalitions (not by log-rolling!) while never losing sight of the ultimate goal.

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