[Peace-discuss] Tea Party Non-negotiable core beliefs

[E.Wayne Johnson]

I think the Lew Rockwell blog is more intellectually rewarding.  I get the 
current topics feed from that and Democracy Now! and Michael Nystrom's Daily 
Paul on  my google page.  I also generally read Max Keiser's blog.  Max and 
Stacy can be very interesting and off-the-wall entertaining as well as 
insightful.  They in some sense represent why I would consider to be the 
rather progressive branch of those who support Ron Paul's ideas.

I dont often Ron Paul Forums.  I know some people who do.

I think that reading Lew Rockwell one gets a better idea about what the Ron 
Paulers are thinking.  Lew Rockwell has original articles and interviews. 
Those who write there don't always agree with each other.

The Daily Paul http://www.dailypaul.com is pretty good to read at times and 
is a full-spectrum mix.  Some of those who post there are 
anti-fluoridationist/anti-vaccinationist/anti-GMO/anti-pharma/Mercola-Mike 
Adams types who post frequently and often. There are conspiracy theorists 
But people do find interesting things and post them there.  It's sort of 
like a listserv in blog format.  Anyone can set up an account there and post 
something.   The blog is moderated for spam but other than that it is very 
lightly moderated. You can find more anti war stuff there.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Levy" <slevy at ncsa.illinois.edu>
To: "Karen Medina" <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Tea Party Non-negotiable core beliefs


> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 04:13:18PM -0600, Karen Medina wrote:
>> The thing that gets me is that I cannot find a single Tea Party group
>> that says they are anti-war.
>> They all mention anti-immigrant.
>>
>> Ron Paul is one person. Not a group.
>
> He does have followers who agree with him on anti-interventionist
> anti-imperial issues.   But it's a great question as to how influential
> they are among mobilized Tea Party people.
>
> I didn't have a chance to attend either of the local Tea Party
> candidates' forum sessions, which included state and Federal candidates.
> Did anyone else here?   They only allowed 3 questions per candidate, so
> it was much briefer than the LWV/NAACP forum.   But I'd love to know
> what sorts of questions they asked.
>
> Looking through threads on the Ron Paul forum, I saw this one,
> though no one followed up on it:
>
>    http://www.ronpaulforum.com/showthread.php?t=311347
>
>    Every year since 1949, the US has given approximately 1-3 billion 
> dollars
>    in "aid" to the state of Israel. (Two sources for this figure are 
> below.)
>
>    What benefit do you believe the US taxpayer recieve from this effort?
>
> A good question, but scanning quickly, it seems to be the only one of its
> kind from this year -- foreign policy and war don't seem to be high 
> priorities
> of the people posting there.
>
> Ron Paul himself, in a piece just this week,
>   http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1191
>       Reject the Welfare/Warfare State
> writes
>   The annual budget soon will be $5 trillion unless Congress takes
>   serious steps to reduce spending for entitlements, military, and
>   debt service.   Yet how many Tea Party candidates who campaigned on
>   a platform of spending cuts talked about Social Security, Medicare,
>   foreign wars, or bond debt?
>
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