[Peace-discuss] Fw: [ronpaul-305] Fw: Mainstream Media Hijacking Tea Party Movement

Thu Aug 12 11:58:58 CDT 2010

This is forwarded from the RonPaul meetup group
Page down to read the commentary about the TeaParty and the Schiff campaign, etc.
I think it's interesting at least to read the what the Original Libertarian TeaPartiers have
to say about the co-opting of the Tea Party.

It's pretty hard for those of us who were there for Sarah Palin's speech at the RNC to support her and I think that she would be crushed flat in a national election despite her many rabid fans and a few good points about the system that she has made.  I dont see any solution there.

Those who dont like the teaparties or the paleoconservative - libertarian ideology can get some schadenfreude from knowing that the Oklahoma anti-war GOP slate all went down in flames (RJ Harris, et al), Kokesh lost in NM, and Schiff is down in Connecticut.  Rand Paul is more of a paleocon than his jurassicon libertarian ideologue philosopher father but Rand would certainly be an anti-war vote in the Senate if he is able to survive his gaffes and the strong resistance he will encounter.

The most disturbing news (not found in the commentary below) is that the Federal Reserve is buying up the US debt, in effect monetizing it by printing money to cover it.  It's not a pretty picture and it's nothing new.  Fred Thompson (who was casting himself as an Ayn Rand Libertarian the last we heard from him) pointed out the entitlement chickens returning to the Ponzi house to roost.

Given that the tiny fraction of the populace that holds the wealth is not about to step up and pay the bills and discharge the debts in a Year of Jubilee fashion, the only possible way out would seem to be starting up the money machine and printing like mad.  The Chinese wont be buying much more American Debt any time soon (as I see it) so it seems that the American Economy will feast on its own self-referential tail for awhile.

Chalmers Johnson said that the endless war would eventually break the American Economy and MLK alluded to the same thing but the trend seems to be to put the blame elsewhere.

Rehoboam's advisors prodded him to state that the government would scourge the people with scorpions and the immediate result was that the Union of the tribes was dissolved.
Bill Kauffman is calling for a similar result, a dividing of the United States into several smaller fractions.  In a report I gave to the USGC in 1998 I predicted that the US would be dissolved into pieces like a phrenologic map of the brain, some of which would fall under control by what we would consider to be foreign powers.  Canada would take a chunk and a part of the west coast would be ceded to the Chinese in that fantasy.  Kauffman provides a remarkably similar map in his view but he doesnt figure in the Goths.  Many fantasies are possible.

Maybe someone else sees it differently?

anyway see below.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: martin johnson 
To: ronpaul-305 at meetup.com 
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:58 AM
Subject: [ronpaul-305] Fw: Mainstream Media Hijacking Tea Party Movement

Nancy,
Nothing new here except the statistics regarding Peter Schiff's loss in CT,
  but it is a nice summary of RP related events.
I think you'll find it interesting.
Marty

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2006/Kleinorder.html 

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Subject: Mainstream Media Hijacking Tea Party Movement

Mainstream Media Hijacking Tea Party Movement

Today is a sad day for America. Last night, Peter Schiff lost the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in the State of Connecticut. Linda McMahon was the winner of the primary with 49% of the vote compared to Rob Simmons at 28% and Peter Schiff at 23%. Peter Schiff received 53% more votes than what the latest Quinnipiac poll had indicated, which showed his support at only 15%.

NIA believes that Peter Schiff understands the upcoming hyperinflationary crisis better than any other candidate who was running for office this year nationwide. He was perhaps our nation's last and only hope to prevent U.S. hyperinflation. It won't take long for the true nature of our country's dollar bubble to become apparent to all and when this time comes, Americans will sadly regret not electing Peter Schiff to the U.S. Senate.

America's tea party movement started out as a libertarian movement but it has recently been hijacked by FOX News and others in the mainstream media. On June 21st, thousands of NIA members wrote to FOX News asking for Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly to feature Peter Schiff on their respective shows. All three of them decided to completely ignore Peter Schiff's senate campaign, despite the fact that Peter Schiff's credentials are stronger than any of the tea party candidates they are supporting.

Glenn Beck previously had Peter Schiff as a guest on his show on several occasions and obviously knew he was running for senate. It appears as though Glenn Beck wants to have Peter Schiff on only when it is supporting his agenda. Glenn Beck doesn't care about helping the public become educated about a true libertarian candidate who would actually make a difference in Washington.

Glenn Beck is not our friend. This is not the first time he has showed his true colors. Back when Ron Paul was running for President, Ron Paul raised a record $4.3 million in a single day "money bomb" all from grassroots supporters. Rather than praising Ron Paul and his supporters for their tremendous accomplishment, Glenn Beck questioned the use of the word "bomb" in "money bomb" and said that Americans who were supporting the "Ron Paul Revolution" were taking the word "revolution" way too seriously. Glenn Beck even said that he feared the U.S. military would one day need to be used domestically against Ron Paul donors.

On one occasion, Glenn Beck had Ron Paul on as a guest during his Presidential campaign. Instead of highlighting how Ron Paul was the only candidate running for President who has a perfect voting record for protecting the U.S. constitution and reducing government spending, Glenn Beck did everything he possibly could to sabotage Ron Paul's campaign. Glenn Beck asked Ron Paul bizarre questions on the air including "No plane hit the Pentagon on September 11th instead it was a missile fired by elements from inside the American state apparatus, yes or no?" and "Were the planes that hit the World Trade Towers remotely controlled, yes or no?". Glenn Beck unfairly smeared Ron Paul and his supporters as terrorist sympathizers.

NIA believes that both Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible for the debt crisis the U.S. has today. In the last Presidential election, Americans had a choice between two candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, both who supported our country's destructive bailouts of Wall Street. At the same time that Ron Paul raised a record $4.3 million in his money bomb, John McCain's campaign was completely broke. The only reason John McCain came back to win the Republican nomination was because the mainstream media did everything possible to marginalize Ron Paul and support a candidate who was exactly the same as Obama on every important issue.

Glenn Beck is working tirelessly to set Sarah Palin up as the leader of the tea party movement. FOX News clearly wants Sarah Palin to take on Obama in the 2012 Presidential election. NIA considers Sarah Palin to be a neocon who doesn't support libertarian principles. If tea partiers embrace Sarah Palin as the leader of the tea party movement, NIA will have no choice but to officially write the tea party movement off as being useless.

The U.S. is in such bad financial shape that we currently have a budget deficit from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid alone. If Americans were taxed 100% of their income it still wouldn't be enough to balance the budget. With the phony economic recovery beginning to lose steam and the Federal Reserve getting ready to unleash the mother of all quantitative easing, Americans will soon experience a major decline in the purchasing power of their savings and income.

When Linda McMahon was asked on the campaign trail about entitlement spending, her response was, "I can certainly tell you I'm not adverse to talking in the right time or forum about what we need to do relative to our entitlements. I mean, Social Security is going to go bankrupt. Clearly, we have to strengthen that." Linda McMahon chose to avoid the topic of entitlement spending completely, saying she would only talk about it in the right "forum". The right forum would obviously be a debate, yet she outright refused to attend all of the Republican primary debates leading up to yesterday's vote and the mainstream media did nothing to call her out on this.

By saying that we clearly have to "strengthen" Social Security, Linda McMahon is outright deceiving and misleading the American public. There is no way to strengthen a program that has $14.5 trillion in unfunded liabilities. The only choice the U.S. has is to either default on its Social Security obligations or print the money to pay for them and create hyperinflation. Either way, millions of babyboomers who are getting ready to retire and planning to live off of their Social Security benefits will soon find out that they don't have the financial means to support themselves.

NIA's movies 'Meltup', 'The Dollar Bubble', 'Hyperinflation Nation', 'Japan: America's Lost Decade', 'Empty Store Shelves Coming to America', and 'Debt Slave' have now received a total of over 2.4 million views. This represents only a small percentage of the U.S. that NIA has been able to reach with the facts and truth about the U.S. economy. The mainstream media has chosen to completely ignore our documentaries. The only time the mainstream media covered our work extensively is when we wrote an article about the effects inflation will have on Lebron James' new contract.

NIA has proven through a countless number of facts and statistics how hyperinflation in the U.S. is inevitable. It's a shame that the majority of America is too distracted by 'American Idol' and the 'Jersey Shore' to take an interest in the U.S. economy and politics. Education is the most important key to America's survival. The only way our country will have the resources to rebuild after hyperinflation is if enough Americans become educated to the truth by watching documentaries like ours.

It is important for NIA members not to be discouraged by Peter Schiff's failed senate run. In NIA's latest documentary 'Meltup', Gerald Celente spoke about the "20% solution". According to Gerald Celente, if we can get just 20% of America to understand the truth and think for themselves, and if this 20% of the population moves in a focused direction, we can one day have an America far greater than we ever imagined. With 23% of the Republican primary voters in Connecticut voting for Peter Schiff, we at least have some reason to believe that our message is getting out there and resonating with people.

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