Filed under: civil liberties, civil rights, FBI, human rights, Minneapolis, Oppression, police brutality, Police State | Tags: Derryl Jenkins, jesse garcia, minneapolis police department, officer Richard Walker, Paul Edlund, Richard Walker, sgt. jesse garcia
Minneapolis Officers Brutalize Man For Speeding
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, China, Conditioning, copyright, Dictatorship, EFF, Empire, FCC, internet, internet blackout, Internet Filtering, internet police, intimidation, IP, ISP, Minneapolis, nanny state, Oppression, orwell, Police State, privacy rights, RIAA, Spy, Surveillance
Chinese youth beaten to death at net addiction bootcamp
Joe Fay
The Register
August 4, 2009
China’s anti-internet addiction industry has claimed another victim, after supervisors at a rehabilitation camp allegedly beat a 16 year old inmate to death.
Deng Senshan had been sent to Guangxi Qihuang Survival Training Camp to “cure” him of his internet addiction, the AFP reports. His parents were paying $1000 for the treatment.
However, the youth ended up in solitary confinement shortly after arriving at the establishment, and was subsequently beaten to death by supervisors for “running too slowly”, according to the news agency.
Local police confirmed they were investigating the death of a high school student, allegedly at the hands of his supervisors.
China is in the grip of acute paranoia over the threat of internet addiction to its youth. Efforts to cure the young of their affliction range from the bizarre to the brutal, by way of out and out quackery.
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, copyright, Dictatorship, EFF, Empire, FCC, internet, internet police, IP, ISP, Minneapolis, myspace, nanny state, orwell, Police State, privacy rights, RIAA, Spy, Surveillance | Tags: Joel Tenenbaum
Student Must Pay $675,000 in Downloading Case
AP
July 31, 2009
A federal jury on Friday ordered a Boston University graduate student who admitted illegally downloading and sharing music online to pay $675,000 to four record labels.
Joel Tenenbaum, of Providence, R.I., admitted in court that he downloaded and distributed 30 songs. The only issue for the jury to decide was how much in damages to award the record labels.
Under federal law, the recording companies were entitled to $750 to $30,000 per infringement. But the law allows as much as $150,000 per track if the jury finds the infringements were willful. The maximum jurors could have awarded in Tenenbaum’s case was $4.5 million.
Jurors ordered Tenenbaum to pay $22,500 for each incident of copyright infringement, effectively finding that his actions were willful. The attorney for the 25-year-old student had asked the jury earlier Friday to “send a message” to the music industry by awarding only minimal damages.
Tenenbaum said he was thankful that the case wasn’t in the millions and contrasted the significance of his fine with the maximum.
“That to me sends a message of ‘We considered your side with some legitimacy,'” he said. “$4.5 million would have been, ‘We don’t buy it at all.'”
He added he will file for bankruptcy if the verdict stands.
Tenenbaum’s lawyer, Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, said the jury’s verdict was not fair. He said he plans to appeal the decision because he was not allowed to argue a case based on fair use.
The case is only the nation’s second music downloading case against an individual to go to trial.
Last month, a federal jury in Minneapolis ruled that Jammie Thomas-Rasset, 32, must pay $1.92 million, or $80,000 on each of 24 songs, after concluding she willfully violated the copyrights on those tunes.
The jury began deliberating the case Friday afternoon.
After Tenenbaum admitted Thursday he is liable for damages for 30 songs at issue in the case, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner ruled that the jury must consider only whether his copyright infringement was willful and how much in damages to award four recording labels that sued him over the illegal file-sharing.
In his closing statement Friday, Nesson repeatedly referred to Tenenbaum as a “kid” and asked the jury to award only a small amount to the recording companies. At one point, Nesson suggested the damages should be as little as 99 cents per song, roughly the same amount Tenenbaum would have to pay if he legally purchased the music online.
But Tim Reynolds, a lawyer for the recording labels, recounted Tenenbaum’s history of file-sharing from 1999 to 2007, describing him as “a hardcore, habitual, long-term infringer who knew what he was doing was wrong.” Tenenbaum admitted on the witness stand that he had downloaded and shared more than 800 songs.
Tenenbaum said he downloaded and shared hundreds of songs by Nirvana, Green Day, The Smashing Pumpkins and other artists. The recording industry focused on only 30 songs in the case.
The music industry has typically offered to settle such cases for about $5,000, though it has said that it stopped filing such lawsuits last August and is instead working with Internet service providers to fight the worst offenders. Cases already filed, however, are proceeding to trial.
Tenenbaum testified that he had lied in pretrial depositions when he said his two sisters, friends and others may have been responsible for downloading the songs to his computer.
Under questioning from his own lawyer, Tenenbaum said he now takes responsibility for the illegal swapping.
“I used the computer. I uploaded, I downloaded music … I did it,” Tenenbaum said.
Filed under: 1st amendment, 2008 Election, Abu Ghraib, Anti-War, brazil, Britain, civil liberties, civil rights, demonstration, Detainee, Dictatorship, Dissent, Empire, Europe, european union, Extraordinary Rendition, Fascism, free press, free speech, Guantanamo, human rights, london, Minneapolis, Nazi, Oppression, pain compliance, police brutality, rendition, RNC, Taser Guns, Toll Roads, Torture, United Kingdom, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: Delaware, Elliot Hughes, minneapolis police department, peter willimae, queensland, queensland police department, Ramsey County, ramsey county jail, Rio de Janeiro, st. paul police, st. paul police department
RNC police brutality and torture victims speak out
Queensland Police Brutality
Aiken County Sheriff stops group for saggy pants
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080916/twl-rio-cops-kill-three-people-a-day-3fd0ae9.html
Cop who arrested TV cameraman has been fired
http://kob.com/article/stories/S578979.shtml?cat=500
Delaware Bridge cops want toll cheats’ money, or their cars
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/186/story/260008.html
Filed under: 1st amendment, 2008 Election, 9/11, code pink, Daily Show, Dissent, Fred Thompson, free speech, George Bush, Iran, IVAW, John McCain, jon stewart, Keith Olbermann, Media, Minneapolis, minnesota, MSNBC, neocons, Police State, Propaganda, Protest, RNC, tear gas, US Constitution, veterans, White House
Jon Stewart: McCain 2008 = Bush 2000
Olbermann Smacks down the RNC over 9/11 Tribute
Iraq Veterans Against the War protester at RNC
Filed under: 2008 Election, 9/11 Truth, Big Brother, bin laden, Censorship, civil liberties, civil rights, CNN, glenn beck, GOP, Iraq, jesse ventura, John McCain, Media, Minneapolis, mtv, nation building, neil cavuto, occupation, RNC, Ron Paul, Ron Paul Banned, Ron Paul Exclusions, sarah palin, secret service, steven colbert, US Constitution | Tags: john king, rally for the republic, Ramsey County, republican platform committee, st. paul
Ron Paul Rally For The Republic MN
Ron Paul: RNC slot would have cost ‘everything I believe in’
Ron Paul on Glenn Beck – (9/4/2008)
McCain Campaign Tries to Block Ron Paul From Convention Floor
September 2, 2008
The Washington Times reported today that the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee have been “negotiating with Rep. Ron Paul to win his support and acquire the names of his sympathizers among the 4,607 delegates and alternates at the Republican National Convention.”
However, when CNN’s John King asked Paul this morning whether such reports were true, Paul laughed. “I wouldn’t put it in those words,” he said. In fact, he said the RNC seemed to be trying to keep him off the convention floor, even though as a congressman, he should be able to get floor passes without a problem. Watch it:
Paul was barred from speaking at the convention “because the congressman would not change his position on the war in Iraq, which he opposes.” The Washington Times also reports that Paul “was denied permission to address the Republican Platform Committee last week” after “the McCain forces who controlled the platform proceedings, as well as the Rules Committee and the Credentials Committee, objected.”
The McCain campaign’s stonewalling of Ron Paul may not have the support of his vice presidential pick, Gov. Sarah Palin. In an interview with MTV earlier this year, Palin expressed support for Paul, saying that he was “cool“:
He’s cool. He’s a good guy. He’s a good guy. He’s so independent. He’s independent of like the party machine, I’m like, right on, so am I. The party machinery, on both sides of the party, ya know, Americans are tiring of the incessant partisanship that gets in the way of just doing the right thing for this country.
Paul will at least be welcome at a “counter convention” held in Minneapolis for his supporters, where he is speaking today. Paul said he expected around 18,000 people to attend today’s rally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuFeWXSx3W8
Ron Paul to Make Major Announcement Next Week
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=456
Secret Service confiscates books & buttons from Ron Paul delegates
http://www.dailynewscaster.co..books-button-from-ron-paul-delegates/
Black hats’ keep lookout for troublemakers
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/60366
Ron Paul supporters’ magical disappearing act
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/ron-paul-suppor.html
Filed under: 1984, 1st amendment, 4th amendment, Anti-War, Big Brother, CIA, civil liberties, civil rights, Control Grid, demonstration, DHS, Dictatorship, Dissent, DNC, Empire, Fascism, FBI, free speech, Homeland Security, Minneapolis, nanny state, Nazi, Oppression, orwell, Police State, Protest, RNC, secret service, stasi, stasi tactics, Surveillance, telecoms, US Constitution, verison, War On Terror | Tags: excell, fusion center, minneapolis police department, quest, Ramsey County, st. paul police, st. paul police department
Secret Service & FBI Intel Center Oversees RNC Protests
Colorado ’fusion center’ to step up intelligence gathering during DNC
http://www.coloradoindependent.com/4424/colo..elligence-gathering-during-dnc/
ACLU Weighs In On Attempt to Expand Law Enforcement Intelligence Systems
http://www.aclu.org/natsec/spying/36598prs20080829.html?s_src=RSS
ACLU Slams Classified FBI Memorandum Directing Law Enforcement to Engage in Protest Suppression Tactics
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/16960prs20031123.html
Filed under: 1984, 1st amendment, 2008 Election, Abu Ghraib, Anti-War, civil liberties, civil rights, demonstration, Detainee, DHS, Dictatorship, Dissent, Empire, Extraordinary Rendition, Fascism, free speech, Guantanamo, Homeland Security, human rights, Minneapolis, Nazi, Oppression, pain compliance, police brutality, Police State, Protest, rendition, RNC, stasi, stasi tactics, Taser Guns, Torture, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: Elliot Hughes, minneapolis police department, Ramsey County, ramsey county jail, st. paul police, st. paul police department
RNC Protester Tortured in Ramsey County Jail
Elliot Hughes recounts allegations of torture while being detained in Ramsey County Jail. Hughes was detained during an RNC08 protest after reportedly colliding with a police bicycle on accident. …
Filed under: 1984, 1st amendment, 2008 Election, 4th amendment, Amy Goodman, Anti-War, Big Brother, Bloggers, civil liberties, civil rights, Control Grid, demonstration, DHS, Dictatorship, Dissent, Empire, Fascism, FBI, free press, free speech, Homeland Security, journalists, Minneapolis, nanny state, Nazi, Oppression, orwell, Police State, Protest, Raid, RNC, stasi, stasi tactics, Surveillance, tear gas, thought crime, US Constitution, War On Terror, warrantless search | Tags: democracy now, fusion center, glassbead collective, i-witness video, laptops, minneapolis police department, Ramsey County, RNC welcoming committee, seized, st. paul police, st. paul police department
Police Terrorize Children, Reporters and Other Dangerous Criminals
George Washington’s Blog
September 3, 2008
Federal and local law enforcement officers are literally terrorizing people in Minneapolis for their thought crimes.
Police have essentially been waging preemptive war by infiltrating, tracking and disrupting every-day Americans who disagree with the current administration’s policies.
As former constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald wrote on August 31st:
“We have a massive assault led by Federal Government law enforcement agencies on left-wing dissidents and protesters who have committed no acts of violence or illegality whatsoever, preceded by months-long espionage efforts to track what they do.”
As Greenwald and others note, those targeted were little old ladies and grandfathers, vegetarians, and other people who are not a threat to anyone.
And as law school professor and President of the well-respected legal group National Lawyers Guild, Marjorie Cohn, writes:
“Local police and sheriffs, working with the FBI, conducted preemptive searches, seizures and arrests. Glenn Greenwald described the targeting of protestors by ‘teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets.’ Journalists were detained at gunpoint and lawyers representing detainees were handcuffed at the scene.’I was personally present and saw officers with riot gear and assault rifles, pump action shotguns,’ said Bruce Nestor, the President of the Minnesota chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, who is representing several of the protestors. ‘The neighbor of one of the houses had a gun pointed in her face when she walked out on her back porch to see what was going on. There were children in all of these houses, and children were held at gunpoint.’”
Cohn notes that “preventive detention violates the Fourth Amendment” (you’re supposed to have a justification for imprisonment, not just thought crimes).
“The brigades of police officers would periodically chant military terms and march around in formation (’Double Time!’), while helicopters hovered overhead and Humvees drove by frequently.
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Clearly, and particularly in the wake of this weekend’s thuggish raids, the intent was to create a highly intimidating, militarized and high-tension climate.”
Once the protests started, the police fired rubber bullets, teargas, pepper spray and concussion grenades at protesters, then arrested them en masse.
They also specifically targeted established journalists (and see this) simply for trying to cover the protests. What’s next . . . assassinating reporters like the U.S. did in Iraq?
Police Seize Journalists Notes About RNC Protest Plans
RNC cops cuff, terrorize five-year-old
Five-year-old child handcuffed and terrorized; activists allege program of intimidation
Coldsnap Legal Collective
August 30, 2008
In an outrageous series of state-sanctioned actions, police raided an activist “Convergence Space” and several homes in the past 24 hours, detaining multiple people on extraordinarily flimsy pretences, arresting several, confiscating computers and laptops, and even handcuffing a small child.
Beginning at 9:17 p.m. last night, with the raid on the St. Paul Convergence Space, and continuing throughout the day today, police harassment and brutality towards the local community has proceeded at an alarming pace. At least five separate raids have been reported throughout the Twin Cities, with the primary focus appearing to be the confiscation of computers and personal affects.
“These actions are clearly intended to have a chilling effect on dissent prior to the launch of the Republican National Convention,” said Natalia, a local activist and mother of two, who asked that her surname be withheld. “The message being conveyed is: ‘If need be, we will terrorize your children to dissuade you from voicing your opinion.’”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim..-paul-authorities-get-t_b_124293.html
78-Year-Old Nun Arrested At RNC Protest
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/31/national/main4401941.shtml
Amy Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/377611_amyonline04.html
Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested at RNC
http://www.infowars.com/?p=4273
Guns Drawn, Cops Bust in on Citizens Who Plan to Protest RNC
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/97093
Video Coverage of RNC Protest Police Raids
http://www.infowars.com/?p=4250
Filed under: 1984, 1st amendment, 2008 Election, 9/11 Truth, ACLU, Anti-War, Big Brother, boston, civil liberties, civil rights, codepink, Concentration Camp, Control Grid, denver colorado, Detainee, Dictatorship, DNC, Empire, Fascism, free speech, free speech zone, George Bush, Guantanamo, human rights, Martial Law, Minneapolis, Nazi, neocons, New York, Oppression, orwell, police brutality, Police State, prison camp, Protest, RNC, secret service, Taser Guns, US Constitution, War On Terror, We Are Change | Tags: Detention Camps, gitmo, Gitmo On The Platte, Hudson Pier Depot, little gitmo, little guantanamo, protest pens, rick sallinger, warehouse
Concentration Camp Set Up For DNC Protesters
Cells topped with barbed wire to be used to hold protesters rounded up in mass arrests
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
August 15, 2008
A CBS news crew has uncovered a huge warehouse holding facility in Denver, consisting of steel cages topped with barbed wire, ready to receive thousands of protesters at this year’s Democratic National Convention.
“This is a building filled with metal holding cells,” described CBS reporter Rick Sallinger. “We showed up at the facility unannounced today, the doors were wide open, and we managed to shoot for several minutes until a Denver sheriff’s captain asked us to leave.”
The warehouse is located on the north-east side of Denver and is owned by the city. It appears that officials wanted to keep it a secret until the convention began. The police captain captured on film warned that if made public, the facility could be compromised “by people who are potentially trying to be disruptive.”
The CBS footage shows a huge area of metal chain-link cells that measure 5 yards by 5 yards, topped with rolls of barbed wire. Each pen is adorned with an identifying letter.
Signs on the walls of the warehouse read “Warning! Electric stun devices used in this facility.”
On seeing the footage one local political organizer told the crew it resembled a “concentration camp”, while another described it as a “meat processing plant”. The facility has already been dubbed “Gitmo On The Platte”.
Watch the video:
Such “prison camps” were also used in 2004 during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The areas close to the DNC in Boston consisted of concrete walls, barriers and metal cages with barbed wire.
The areas were invisible to the Fleet Center where the convention was held and were referred to as “Boston’s Camp X-Ray”.
At the 2004 RNC in New York holding pens were also employed as protestors and innocent people were swept up in mass arrests and transferred to then-recently closed Hudson Pier Depot at Pier 57 on the Hudson River in Manhattan.
The facility was quickly dubbed “Little Gitmo” as thousands were bound and paraded into a large warehouse area behind steel caging.
This was taken from inside a portable bathroom at Pier 57. You can see people being lined up to get inside the huge pen. Throughout this 30 second clip, a chant of “Let Us Go!” starts in one part of the complex and quickly spreads to every corner. Learn more about the photographer’s experience here:
More recntly, such holding areas have been employed in conjunction with the Orwellian concept of “free speech zones”.
The Secret Service has been granted the power to declare “first amendment areas”. They scout locations where the president is scheduled to speak, or pass through, target those who carry anti-Bush signs and escort them to the protest pens prior to and during the event.
Inevitably the pens are far away from the event location and well away from any media spotlight.
Holding pens will also be employed at the RNC later this year with local law enforcement working with the secret service to designate the areas in Minneapolis.
We Are Change Colorado Check Out DNC Detention Camps and Break Exclusive Footage
http://www.thememoryhole.com/policestate/pier57/
Bush protesters get $50,000 settlement for unlawful strip-search at RNC 2004
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ia-bushprotesters,0,2510112.story
City Defends ‘Secret Jail’ Built For DNC
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=97741&catid=188
Huge protests expected at political conventions
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1250765520080815
DNC Protesters Outraged Over Makeshift Razor-Wire Jail in Denver Warehouse
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=154223
News Crew Crashes DNC Concentration Camp
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/News_..s_DNC_massdetention_0815.html
Filed under: 4th amendment, Child Abuse, civil liberties, civil rights, human rights, Minneapolis, New York, NYPD, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Raid, swat, Taser Guns, US Constitution, war on drugs | Tags: Officer Maurice Harrington, police assault, police attack, Rachel Hoffman, rodney king, Vang Khang
NYPD Cops Beat Already Restrained Man With Batons
NY Post
July 31, 2008
The day after a video emerged of a cop knocking a cyclist to the ground, a second video alleging police brutality surfaced today in which an NYPD officer is seen whaling away at a man’s legs with a baton.
The footage – shot on July 4 on the Lower East Side – shows Officer Maurice Harrington repeatedly hitting Michael Cephus, 46, on his legs with a collapsible metal baton as he struggles with officers trying to cuff him.
Harrington – a four-year veteran working out of the 52nd Precinct in The Bronx – had his badge and gun taken away and was placed on modified duty when the tape was turned over to the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau.
Star Tribune
July 30, 2008
First, the city apologized. Then it gave awards.
Eight Minneapolis officers received medals in City Hall Monday for their valor in a botched raid that the city apologized for last year. That isn’t sitting well with the family shot at multiple times by the officers.
“I’m shocked that they’re receiving awards for that night,” said Yee Moua. “My family is a mess right now. My [9-year-old] son, who saw the shooting, still has nightmares and has needed therapy. They’ve ruined a life, and I don’t understand why they would get rewarded for that.”
The awards stemmed from a high-risk search in December. The eight officers — who had SWAT training — entered the house expecting to find a violent gang member. Instead, they found Vang Khang, a 35-year-old homeowner who thought he was being robbed. Khang shot through his bedroom door at the officers until he understood who they were.
In the midst of the shootout were Moua, who is Khang’s wife, and their six children, who range in age from 3 to 15. Moua said her family has since abandoned the house and can no longer afford to keep it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_U9IUQ4m0
Experts say woman was on knees when officer fired
http://www.limaohio.com/news/foy_26243___article.html/chavalia_wilson.html
School To Put Students In ’Prison’ Jumpsuits As Punishment
http://www.local6.com/education/17035594/detail.html
Injured, tasered teen: ‘At least I’m alive.’
http://www.prisonplanet.com/injured-tasered-teen-at-least-im-alive.html
Filed under: 2008 Election, Censorship, George Bush, GOP, Impeach, John McCain, Minneapolis, nevada, Reno, republican forum, RNC, Ron Paul, Ron Paul Banned, ron paul delegates, Ron Paul Exclusions
Nevada GOP cancels convention so Ron Paul can’t win
RGJ
July 18, 2008
The Nevada Republican Party decided Thursday not to reconvene its scuttled state convention this month, claiming it couldn’t generate enough interest to reach a legal quorum to elect delegates to the national convention in St. Paul, Minn.
Instead, the party’s executive board, in a private conference call July 25, would decide who from Nevada will attend the Republican National Convention to formally nominate U.S. Sen. John McCain.
The state party abruptly ended its state convention in April to head off a delegation of Ron Paul supporters who had captured control of the proceedings and appeared on track to elect a majority slate to the Sept. 1-4 national convention.
Ron Paul supporters SUE Nevada GOP panel for picking McCain
RGJ
July 22, 2008
A group of disaffected Republicans trying to get to the national convention are asking a Reno judge to halt the party’s efforts to appoint a national delegation in a private conference call scheduled for Friday.
Dr. Wayne Terhune, a Sparks dentist leading a contingent of Ron Paul supporters, said the state party broke the law when it canceled the reconvening of the state convention planned for Saturday.
“They are illegally appointing delegates behind closed doors in private phone calls,” Terhune said Monday. “State law says you have to have a convention.”
Ron Paul Votes for Bush Impeachment
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/7503
Ron Paul: The political elite are in for a surprise [Minneapolis events]
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=213
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/ron-paul-gets-b.html
Filed under: 2008 Election, Ahmadinejad, AIPAC, airstrikes, Barack Obama, Coup, False Flag, GOP, House, Iran, Israel, John McCain, military strike, Minneapolis, Nancy Pelosi, Neolibs, Nuke, obama, RNC, Ron Paul, Shock and Awe, Tehran, WW3, ww4, Zionism | Tags: future of freedom foundation
Ron Paul Plans Own Convention in Minneapolis
Nick Juliano
Raw Story
June 10, 2008
After being denied a speaking slot at the Republican convention this summer, former candidate Rep. Ron Paul, who is not supporting GOP nominee John McCain, has decided to stage his own parallel convention in Minneapolis.
“There is a growing surge of people out there just craving” for a return “to traditional American government, limited government that places personal liberty first and places an emphasis on personal responsibility and essentially gets out of the way after that,” Paul spokesman Jesse Benton told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. “The buzz we get from supporters is that they are very eager to come to St. Paul and very eager to send a strong message.”
After being initially viewed as little more than a gadfly’s revolt, Paul’s campaign picked up substantial steam during the GOP primaries, when the libertarian leaning Texan raised about $35 million almost entirely online and garnered more than a million votes. Paul’s secured at least 35 convention delegates, but Republican party big-wigs are denying him a speaking slot.
The Tribune-Review has the details on Paul’s parallel convention:
Maverick GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has booked an arena in Minneapolis for a “mini-convention” that could steal some of John McCain’s thunder just days before he accepts the Republican nomination.
A Paul campaign aide said the Texas congressman hopes to pack about 11,000 supporters into the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 2, which coincides with the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in neighboring St. Paul.
Benton tells MSNBC that Paul’s decision to hold his own convention is about more than just not getting a speaking slot at the GOP’s main shindig.
Paul’s supporters are really “looking to build a national organization that is going to run at a grassroots level, be organized at a precinct level, and to identify candidates to support,” Benton said, “real constitutionalist candidates.”
Paul camp expects to have about 50 delegates to the national convention. They will attend the Paul convention and the campaign is encouraging them to go to the official GOP convention as “active and positive.” But, Benton added, Paul’s supporters are independent-minded and aren’t going to be told what to do.
There’s some evidence that Paul’s influence is beginning to stretch beyond the presidential race already. Libertarian magazine Reason recently profiled several “Ron Paul Republicans” who are seeking congressional seats in House races across the country this year.
Ron Paul: Pelosi pulled Iran bill on orders of Israel
In a speech given on 06 june 2008, in reston, virginia, at the hyatt regency, reston, to the future of freedom foundation, ’restoring the republic 2008: foreign policy and civil liberties’ conference, congressman ron paul, tells how speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, ’deliberately’ pulled a supplemental bill requiring congressional approval for attacking iran on orders of israel and aipac.
Ron Paul’s Message to Obama!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-..PSMflOozkqwOn6I3JDA
Ron Paul Republican Harassed
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/479667.html
Filed under: 2008 Election, colorado, Denver, Economy, GOP, John McCain, Maine, maine caucus, Minneapolis, minnesota, Mitt Romney, money bomb, moneybomb, republican caucus, republican primaries, RNC, Ron Paul, ron paul delegates, Seattle, super tuesday, US Economy, washington
Ron Paul Beats McCain in Maine Caucus, Primed to Win Over 1/3 of State Delegates
In the race for delegates, Ron Paul appears to closely trail Romney for first place
Ron Paul 2008
February 4, 2008
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – While most reports about this past weekend’s Maine Caucus focused on the purely symbolic presidential preference poll, in the meaningful race to secure delegates to the state convention Ron Paul is primed to finish second with likely 35 percent of the total delegates.
Delegates to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis are elected by the state delegates. Internal results from 10 of 16 counties, including the largest cities of Portland, South Portland, Lewiston, Auburn, Augusta, Waterville, Bangor, and Brewer, show Ron Paul picking up 215 of 608 State Convention delegates so far reported, or 35%.
“Ron Paul’s strong second place finish in Maine, in which he beat John McCain, is proof that this race is far from over,” said Ron Paul campaign manager Lew Moore. “We’ll continue to battle for every delegate in this wide-open race for the Republican nomination.”
In the presidential preference poll, with 70 percent reporting, Ron Paul is in third place just two percentage points behind John McCain. However, the Maine preference poll is purely a beauty contest, and in the actual election of state delegates the so-called “frontrunner” McCain is far behind Ron Paul.
Ron Paul Second in Maine State Delegates with 35%
Romney has 52% of the vote while Paul has secured 35% of the state delegates who will allocate Maine’s 18 national delegates in May.
Gary Wood
Nolan Chart
February 4, 2008
The final State Caucus before Super Tuesday is projected to be won by Governor Mitt Romney based on 74% of the presidential preference poll votes in Mitt Romney has 52%. There’s a battle for second place, in popular votes, going on between Ron Paul and John McCain. As of 4:34est the Maine Republican Party website showed there were just 154 votes separating the two with over 25% of the caucus locations still to report in.
According to a press release by Jesse Benton, of the Ron Paul campaign, the Texas Congressman, with his message of liberty and freedom, has already picked up 215 of the total 608 Maine state delegates. This number could increase as results come in from the final 6 counties. 35% of the state delegates place him second behind Mitt Romney even though McCain has a slight lead in the popular vote. There is no way for John McCain to catch Ron Paul in state delegate count even if he holds on to his slim lead in polling simply based on cities and caucus locations already won by Ron Paul
Although many major newspapers are giving all 18 Maine National Delegates to Mitt Romney that is not the case. State delegates in Maine are non-binding. The actual allocation of the 18 national delegates will not be determined until May 2 when the Maine Republican Party State Convention is going to be held and the state delegates will then decide.
“Ron Paul’s strong second place finish in Maine, in which he beat John McCain, is proof that this race is far from over,” said Ron Paul campaign manager Lew Moore. “We’ll continue to battle for every delegate in this wide-open race for the Republican nomination.”
Paul Draws Big Denver Crowd
Denver Post
February 3, 2008
Longer Version: Click Here
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HlhjRReedkk
The alarm in the Colorado Convention Center employee’s voice was verging on panic.
“That room is packed so tight it’s not even funny,” he shouted into a radio Friday night as the Segway he was riding hummed and swerved down a wide carpeted hallway.
The crowd for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul was so large it surprised his own organizers. They were forced to hurriedly open partitions to double the size of the ballroom space minutes before Paul’s scheduled appearance in the Four Seasons Ballroom. When that wasn’t enough hundreds of people stood rimming the hall that sits 1,536.
“I’m just totally dumbfounded,” Paul said as he began his speech before a raucous sign-waving crowd. “The enthusiasm seems to be growing. Freedom is popular.”
Many of his supporters boldly predicted he would win more delegates in the state then front runners Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney even though Paul has yet to win a majority in any state primary.
“He’s real strong in Colorado,” said Vince Holcomb, 45, a massage therapist from Centennial. “Ron Paul is a lot higher in the polls than the mainstream media publicize.”
http://www.gambling911.com/Ron-Paul-Washington-State-020408.html
http://online.wsj.com/article_emai..4MDAyNDAwODQ0Wj.html</a
Ron Paul Rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota Draws 4,000
http://www.centredaily.com/business/story/379859.html
http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=4716
Ron’s Speech about Economics in Seattle
http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=4711
Tech workers’ money is on Paul
http://www.eetimes.com/n..ml?articleID=206102068
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