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Paul-Haters Caught Planning To Dress Up As KKK, Pose As Paul Supporters

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Coming on the heels of last week’s dirty deception by the Huntsman campaign, several rabidly anti-Ron Paul political activists have been caught planning another vicious “false flag”-style dirty trick against the presidential candidate and his supporters, this time in South Carolina, where the next GOP primary will take place.

The plot, which was being hatched over Facebook, involved dressing up in hooded Ku Klux Klan (KKK) robes, posing as Ron Paul supporters (complete with Ron Paul signs), and “follow[ing] Paul around South Carolina”, making “sure to get photographed by the media.”

The thread proposing the idea was started earlier this week by Jere Brower of neighboring Georgia on the wall of the “Stop Ron Paul 2012″ Facebook group. On Wednesday, January 11th, Brower wrote:

“If you live in South Carolina and want to have some real fun with these Paulbots here is what we do- go online and buy or make your very own KKK robe, complete with hood (hood is important). Then get some Ron Paul signs off the internet or make your own. Follow Paul around South Carolina and be sure to get photographed by the media. Again, hoods are important. All can be Klansmen for Paul. Black, white, Jewish, Asian- those Paulbots will shit a brick!”

He quickly got a second from one Chris Collins of Gainesville, GA (only about an hour’s drive from the South Carolina border), who said: “That is seriously a great idea! Anyone wanna volunteer???”

Minutes later, Brower replied: “Chris, if we can get ten of us to do it, I am down, but where does one get KKK robes????”

When another member opined that the plan was not worth carrying out, Collins objected: “Well, actually, I disagree. Why not show the world the truth about the type on ilk that supporters Ron Paul? Let me think on this, Jere.”

The next post came from a Rex Foster, who recommended that the Paul haters infiltrate the Paul campaign by volunteering to make phone calls for the candidate. They could tell South Carolina voters that they were calling on “behalf of Ron Paul’s campaign”, and then spout non-sense about “lizard people” in an attempt to turn the voters off to Paul.

The thread was flagged by lacrossewatchdog.org earlier today, who credited Patrick McEwen of the Capital Free Press for the tip. News of the plot spread to a number of Ron Paul grassroots websites, whose members quickly sounded the alarm and took the story somewhat viral on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. The negative attention prompted the “Stop Ron Paul 2012″ group to remove the thread late Friday evening, but not before many activists captured screen shots.

Around the time that the thread was removed, and after getting bombarded with negative Tweets and Facebook messages, Brower posted a message to Facebook saying, “Someone has hacked my shit.” When questioned by another user about whether the supposed “hacking” pertained to his financial information, Brower replied: “Nah, messed with my facebook, fucked with my email, messed around with work files.”

This claim, which is apparently meant to explain away the offending thread, does not pass the smell test. The thread was posted three days ago, with several follow-up posts by Brower. Furthermore, The End Run has examined his publicly-available Twitter and Facebook posts and found many examples of him calling “Paulbots” “clinically insane”, falsely accusing Ron Paul of wanting to “legalize child prostitution” and being “against children going to school”, attempting to conflate him and his supporters with the KKK and racism, using vulgar language to disparage them, and so forth. These posts go back months. When Kelly Clarkson tweeted that she supports Ron Paul, he repeatedly trolled her Facebook page, accusing her of wanting to burn crosses. Here is a screen shot of some samples. (Warning: Vulgar language.)

According to his publicly-viewable LinkedIn page (archived here), Brower works for Google as a “Field Operations Specialist”. He lists his “Specialties” as “Crisis management, social media, media relations, brand specialist, event planning, event management”. At this point I have seen no evidence that he was acting on behalf of Google or any other entity other than himself, but this connection may at least be worth looking into, especially in light of the ties between Google and the recent uprising in Egypt.

http://www.theendrun.com/paul-haters-caught-planning-to-dress-up-as-kkk-pose-as-...
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92 comments // Paul-Haters Caught Planning To Dress Up As KKK, Pose As Paul Supporters

  • unimatrix0
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • 0
      Itsbatman_Durr  
    • haters gonna hate.. not that i like ron paul, as he is just another cog in the corporate machine that enslaves us all , but is this really news? who cares? i mean the entire process is fucked, lets just tear it down and stop worrying about minutiae

    • 4 months ago
  • warman1138
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      warman1138  
    • Some people are just plain weird when they are scheming to do bad things. Bed sheets are for sleeping on, not for cutting peep holes and wearing.

    • 4 months ago
  • grammabet
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      grammabet  
    • Every time I see a comment,and they're too frequent for me,about another repuglican debate,I just visualize them all recruiting for the KKK.

    • 4 months ago
  • faye59
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      faye59  
    • With all the states rights talk he would probably welcome the klan with open arms. he's just another huckster. Just like that idiot that keeps getting caught breaking the law in his get-ups and costumes.

    • 4 months ago
  • Naumadd
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      Naumadd  
    • It's an old trick - when your intellectual arguments fail, turn to deception. Of course, when not intelligent enough for deception, you turn to violence.

      Deception or violence, the weakness is the same. Deceivers have just enough information, just enough ability to be the more dangerous of the two. One notices a mad dog before one notices the wolf in sheep's clothing.

    • 4 months ago
  • nanac
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      nanac  
    • No one has to set Ron Paul up as being a racist, he does a good enough job on his own. There is overwhelming evidence to support Paul's racist ties through his news-letters, and associations. "Birds of a feather flocks together". Paul's history of proudly grandstanding with well established racist leaders, makes him appear to identify with their ideology, otherwise he would denounce them and cut all ties.

    • 4 months ago
  • BusterPoindexter
  • JohnA
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
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      PetEr_Alan_ColE  
    • timelord999:

      Pretty funny just read Buster's post below calling Paul supporters white supremacist, bigots, racist, and Nazi's. No hate there! And he is not the only one, just look at that Unimatrix who on every post calls Paul suppporters some kind of name. Nope not Hate! Heck, I've been here a short time and have been called every name in the book. Hateful? And then look at your post calling them vengeful and hateful people. Why do you guys hate Paul supporters?

    • 4 months ago
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • BusterPoindexter
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
    • -5
      PetEr_Alan_ColE  
    • BusterPoindexter:

      When your comments get 6 up votes in a few minutes it is a bit suspicious. I'm just saying be a bit smarter about it. If you have to create multiple account to vote your post up to feel good about yourself then I've got no problem with it.

    • 4 months ago
  • IsraelKamakawiiwo0le
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • JohnA
  • jeffissleeping
  • BusterPoindexter
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • artemis6
    • +4
      artemis6  
    • Interesting place where this came from ... check it out . It seemed to me to be a libertarian martyr complex website . I did not know they had those ! I guess , i am not shocked .

    • 4 months ago
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  
    • Let's see these guys most certainly support Obama....

      Obama who supports the death penalty, a penalty that does disproportionately murder minorities, often over a racist jury/community, with a weak case backing it up.... (Paul doesn't support the death penalty, for just that reason.)

      Obama who obviously must picture Bradley Manning as an "enemy combatant", while Paul sees him as a "Hero & Patriot" (which views he is certainly entitled to considering he's actually served in the military)..... Maybe not a race issue there but it certainly denotes a little apathy on Obama's part towards the moral high road...

      ....... I really don't want to go down the list, but their is a stronger case that Obama is racist than their is that Paul is..... And what is racism but elitism, that's supposedly bound by color.... Bullshit racism is ELITISM, racists when it comes right down to it try to find ways to make themselves feel or appear superior to everyone they possibly can.....

      And we've seen Obama swayed by money, if not directly indirectly.... And you couldn't find a campaign photo of him from four years ago where "Fiji Water" wasn't also in if there was a beverage of his in the photo.......

      No.... Racism is in fact Elitism (albeit a certain variety of elitism that tries to disguise itself), and Obama is the one who reeks of elitism...

    • 4 months ago
  • Joeydee44
  • rerushg
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • Anonmaly:

      Who supports Obama exactly ? Not the bloggers , not me , The idiot facebook person ? And really , racism is just to tool to keep economic INequality going . It is ALL about elitist , the wealthy aristocracy lost their titles long ago , but they kept their power . In spite of all the inbreeding , which is always a mistake ....

    • 4 months ago
  • JohnA
  • JohnA
  • rerushg
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      rerushg  
    • Read carefully, folks. The original article clearly shows Brower (the instigator) to be a Herman Cain supporter. This is a battle among the idiots; more circular firing squad action. Save your ammo.

      (great post, misfit20)

    • 4 months ago
  • misfit20
  • rerushg
  • misfit20
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • ZiggyStrange
    • +1
      ZiggyStrange  
    • Much ado about nothing. BFD. A couple of idiots on FB said blah blah blah...Next thing you know.

      "At this point I have seen no evidence that he was acting on behalf of Google or any other entity other than himself, but this connection may at least be worth looking into, especially in light of the ties between Google and the recent uprising in Egypt."

      A bit of a stretch. Ya think?

    • 4 months ago
  • misfit20
  • ZiggyStrange
    • +11
      ZiggyStrange  
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    • misfit20:

      It would be a BFD if it were not true.

      Top 10 Racist Ron Paul Friends, Supporters

      Written by Casey Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger on December 27, 2011 5:30 pm

      Ron Paul (pictured) has a lot of racist supporters, including white supremacist website Stormfront, conspiracy theorist group the John Birch Society and neo-Confederates who believe that the South was right during the civil war. And the support is mutual. While Paul would like you to believe that his connection to racism ended with his newsletters, he has continued to address this group well into the 21st century. Take a look at Ron Paul’s top 10 most-racist supporters.

      See Also: Black History Book Showcases Detailed Past

      10. Willis Carto

      Willis Carto is a holocaust denier, Hitler admirer and a white supremacist. A former campaigner for segregationist candidate George Wallace, Carto founded the National Alliance with William Pierce, the author of the “Turner Diaries,” which is credited for inspiring Timothy McVeigh. Carto founded the Populist Party in 1984 and ran David Duke as a presidential candidate. Carto also founded the American Free Press, which is labeled as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), where Paul’s column runs. Paul has not sued Carto for running his column or explained how it wound up in a white supremacist publication. The New York Times writes that Paul used the subscription list to a white supremacist publication of Carto’s to solicit donations.

      9. Chuck Baldwin

      Chuck Baldwin is a neo-Confederate New World Order conspiracy theorist who praises the confederacy and its leaders, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and calls the Civil War the “War of Northern Aggression.” Baldwin writes a weekly column on the white supremacist site Vdare and is a proud supporter of American militia movements. Baldwin is also an Islamaphobe and homophobe.

      Not only did Baldwin endorse Paul for president in 2007, but Paul returned the favor, endorsing Baldwin, who he calls his “friend,” for president in 2008. While Paul was quick to criticize Michele Bachmann for her Islamaphobia, he has said nothing about Baldwin’s, the man he endorsed for president. Here are some choice quotes from Baldwin:

      I believe homosexuality is moral perversion and deserves no special consideration under the law.
      I believe the South was right in the War Between the States, and I am not a racist.
      I believe there is a conspiracy by elitists within government and big business to steal America’s independence.
      The Muslim religion has been a bloody, murderous religion since its inception.

      8. Don Black

      Don Black is a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a current member of the American Nazi Party, and the owner and operator of the white supremacist site Stormfront. Black regularly organizes “money bombs” for Ron and Rand Paul and has even taken a picture with Ron Paul, who refused to return donations from Black and Stormfront even with the political tradition of not accepting donations from people who seem unfit. Black, who was sentenced to three years in jail for trying to overthrow the Caribbean country of Dominica in 1981, supports Paul through his Twitter account and on message boards for Stormfront.=

      Black told the New York Times that it was Paul’s newsletters that inspired him to be a supporter:

      That was a big part of his constituency, the paleoconservatives who think there are race problems in this country.

      The rest are at the source link: http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/top-10-racist-ron-paul-friends-supp...

    • 4 months ago
  • kennymotown
  • misfit20
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      misfit20  
    • ZiggyStrange:

      There were also a lot of Gang members who supported Obama, does Obama support violent gangs?

      I personally know 2 gang members who supported Obama, one of them went to prison for 8 years for armed robbery. Since they support Obama, I guess Obama must support them too right?

    • 4 months ago
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
    • -10
      PetEr_Alan_ColE  
    • ZiggyStrange:

      Are you just as concerned with all of Obama's racist supporters and his questionable friends.
      Since Obama hung out with Tony Rezko, does that make Obama a criminal. Since Obama hung out with Rev. Wright, does that mean he hates america. Since obama hung out with Bill Ayers, does that make Obama a terrorist? Since Farrakhan supported Obama, does that mean, Obama is an anti-semite?

      Now what would Obama have to say about this?

      I have been very clear in my denunciation” of Farrakhan’s history of anti-Semitic remarks, Obama said at the Democratic debate in Cleveland, “I did not solicit his support.” Obama said he “can not censor” individual endorsements but said there is no affiliation with his campaign and Farrakhan.
      http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/02/26/obama-denounces-farrakhan-endorsement/

      Also, don't you find it funny that you posted an article about racism from a website that at the top says, NEWSONE for Black America. What if it said NEWSONE for white america. Would you consider that to be a racist website?

    • 4 months ago
  • ZiggyStrange
    • +5
      ZiggyStrange  
    • misfit20:

      You can assume whatever you want. It's actually entertaining to watch you attempt to make an equivalence of 2 gang members "you" know to 10 leaders/High ranking members of national hate groups, not to mention that Paul in many cases has shown support for these white supremacists.

      I think you will be hard pressed to find a picture of President Obama hanging with the Crips and attending their functions.

      But hey keep going dude I hope they do run RP in 2012.

    • 4 months ago
  • misfit20
    • -6
      misfit20  
    • ZiggyStrange:

      My example of the gang members is no less valid than your argument that RP supports racists, just because they support him. You are right, the argument has no validity, which is why I posted it, to expose your non-sensical accusation.

    • 4 months ago
  • ZiggyStrange
  • ZiggyStrange
  • ZiggyStrange
    • +3
      ZiggyStrange  
    • misfit20:

      I don't feel exposed. But again assume as you wish. Your argument is confused. The point "is" reciprocity. A man can't pick his supporters but he sure as hell can pick who he supports back. This whole thing is a moot point. RP is a racist.

    • 4 months ago
  • ThirdSection
    • +3
      ThirdSection  
    • misfit20:

      Probably not. You and I could dress as kluxers and pretend to support anyone, and it probably wouldn't amount to much, especially if our target candidate had enough of a brain (read miniscule) to disavow us.

    • 4 months ago
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
    • -7
      PetEr_Alan_ColE  
    • ZiggyStrange:

      So why did you post the link if you believe that a person can't choose his supporters. Did you just figure this out because I posted a link to what Obama said? Many think Joe Biden's comment about 7/11 and people from India was racist. Does Obama know that guy?

    • 4 months ago
  • JudahBenGurion
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • InTheNameOfLove
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • ZiggyStrange
    • +3
      ZiggyStrange  
    • PetEr_Alan_ColE:

      Because arguing with a person that negates his own argument a little later is a lot more fun.

      PetEr_Alan_ColE
      BusterPoindexter:
      "Can you tell me a Politician that doesn't have some racist, bigoted, or deviant supporters?"

    • 4 months ago
  • ZiggyStrange
    • +4
      ZiggyStrange  
    • PetEr_Alan_ColE:

      You seem confused. The point is not what nutjob supports you, the point is about what you support. Next question would be:

      Why?

      Why do these racists, deviants, zealots, and hate groups support RP? Could be he courts it if his rhetoric appeals to their ideologies?

      I know he's not stupid. How stupid do you have to be to accept the invitation as keynote speaker for the John Birch Society if you are not a racist or are not pandering to hate groups?

      Give it up, your argument never had any substance. Stop repeating yourself.

    • 4 months ago
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
    • -4
      PetEr_Alan_ColE  
    • ZiggyStrange:

      I've never said he doesn't have any supporters that are not racist, bigoted, or deviant. My argument was that all groups have these people. Do you think there are any racist, deviants, or bigots in the democrat party?

    • 4 months ago
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • ZiggyStrange
  • ZiggyStrange
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • ZiggyStrange
  • maasanova
    • -2
      maasanova  
    • ZiggyStrange:

      Lead blogger Casey Gane-McCalla, of NewsOne wrote a and performed a racist rap song about preferring White women over Black women and implied in the song about having sex with an under-aged Britany Spears.

      In the grand scheme of things, he isn't very credible to use as a source to paint someone else as a racist. Just sayin'...

    • 4 months ago
  • unimatrix0
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • Paulian
    • -8
      Paulian [removed]  
    • unimatrix0:

      So once some guy decides that because his skin is pink his shit don't stink he can't donate money to a candidate anymore? If that were the case every baby boomer in the nation would have to stop sending money to campaigns for fear of tainting them with thier bigotry.

      There are stupid people in the world. I say they and their money should meet me sometime tommorow afternoon so I can separte them from it. Then I can donate it to Ron so he can compete with the real bigoted asshats in the race like Romney and Obama.

    • 4 months ago
  • misfit20
  • misfit20
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • ZiggyStrange
  • Paulian
    • -6
      Paulian [removed]  
    • ThatCrazyLibertarian:

      Very true. If someone wants to be left alone politicaly, which most white supremicists do, they have damn few candidates that want to leave folks alone to chose from. The rest of the feild is a bunch of nanny state nazi wannabees and the democrats keep feilding people who make the Republcians look like hands off minarchists. So what's a white is might kinda guy supposed to do politicaly?

      Lets face facts, the Democrats have their shady charachters who toss barrels full of money after them too. Weren't the Chinese caught funneling a crapload of money that way? And what about AIPAC funding campaigns, isn't hate of Palestinians a kind of racism too? If we had to get rid of all the dirty money in politics no one could afford to run a campaign.

      So I say lay off the accusations. If you want to win elections you have to hold your nose and take some money from some folks you may not really like. That's all that is going on here. Politics. It's a dirty game. If you want lily white hands then don't play.

    • 4 months ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • misfit20
  • ZiggyStrange
  • ZiggyStrange
  • artemis6
  • Paulian
    • 0
      Paulian [removed]  
    • ThatCrazyLibertarian:

      The problem with your interpretation of the 14th amendment is it makes states nothing more than administrative agencies of the federal government. If that's the case then why bother with having state legislatures in the first place? If every action of those legislatures has to be reviewed and approved by the federal government why not simply have the president appoint governors and abolish the state legisatures and constitutions?

      It seems to me the 14th Amendment has a lofty goal behind it but it's a bad piece of legislation that turns the rest of the constituion on it's head and makes the whole state-federal system irrelevent. We have seen what unbridled federal power has brought us over the last 100 years and it's not a good thing. Maybe we need to try going old school and passing the power back to the states and try that out for a while.

      Will that mean some states, like Arizona for instance, will do dipshit stuff that discriminates against certain groups. Yes it will. But it also will allow other states to be the opposite and welcome those groups with open arms. Now we both know what the result of that will be, Arizona becoming a third world shithole and the states that are open to divirsity becoming far better places. But unless we allow the experiment to run its course we will never see the proof of concept.

      We are passing into a new economic situatuion. We don't have the assets to do everything that we could in the past. No more huge military, no more globo-cop, no more cradle to grave government programs. We simply cannot afford it. No matter how you crunch the numbers the credit cards we used to pay for those things in the past are maxed out and no one is issuing us more credit. The only candidate who seems to get that fact is Ron Paul. If you put anyone but him in the white house we will get more of the same until the system colapses in on itself and we have utter economic and social chaos. Things will be REAL hard for folks then.

      If we put Paul in office and he can ramp us down slowly maybe we can avoid the coming catastrophy and things will suck a bit less for everyone. Then we can look into rebuilding things in a fair and equal way again. But for now we need to deal with the bigger problems that only Ron Paul is willing to point out. Quibbling over who opresses who is not going to solve the big problems we face. All it does is distract us from the real crisis.

    • 4 months ago
  • Paulian
  • ZiggyStrange
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • Paulian
  • Paulian
    • 0
      Paulian [removed]  
    • ThatCrazyLibertarian:

      While I agree that some state governments can do some beastly things, Arizona comes to mind here, we need to let these bad ideas play out sometimes. Also who are we to say that an idea is bad? Lots of folks seem to think that legalizing marijuana would be a horrible idea. How will we know what works or doesn't work if we don't let a few states experiment with ideas that we personaly may think are bad? Will some people get hurt? Yes. But people get hurt by bad federal law too. The system isn't perfect. No system that includes humans can ever be perfect.

    • 4 months ago
  • ZiggyStrange
    • +3
      ZiggyStrange  
    • Paulian:

      The US Constitution...
      By Tony Wilsdon and Carlos Petroni

      The subversion of the will of the people when they vote for President through the Electoral College system poses the question: why was it set up this way? What does it say about the aims of our "founding fathers" in writing our Constitution? In this article, Tony Wilsdon reviews the key discussions around the writing of the Constitution, and the struggles that have been needed to carve out the limited democracy we have today.

      The Electoral College was created by our "founding fathers" to protect the ruling class from direct popular vote, and to give more power to smaller states, and thus to protect the system from the anger of the urban masses. Under this system each state is allocated the same number of seats provided for in their vote for the House of Representatives plus an additional two votes which represent their two Senators. Electors meet after the election to choose the President.

      Electors are considered to be upstanding figures of the main parties, and can be relied upon to prevent a radical challenge to the system. Only in 24 states are members of the Electoral College bound to vote according to how the people voted in their state. In other states they can vote as they wish. As a result of this Electoral system, in a close race if a candidate of the working class and poor won a plurality of the popular vote for President, with say 40% of the vote, the delegates of the other two parties, with 60% of the Electoral College seats, would have a majority to decide who would become President.

      Following the issuance of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the political leaders of the country, all people of great substance whether slave owners or rich merchants, sat down at the Constitutional Convention to write the Constitution.

      One of the most quoted statements at this Convention was that by Thomas Jefferson: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing ... it is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The trees of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural measure." However, he was in a tiny minority.

      One of the key figures was James Madison. Writing in the Federalist Papers he expressed the concern of most of the new aristocracy when he wrote that the new Union should be able to "repress domestic faction and insurrection." He argued that the government needed to protect itself from "the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society." Madison explained what kind of rebellion he was concerned with: "a rage for paper money, for abolition of debts, for an equal division of property..."

      His solution was to organize a powerful propertied faction against the other faction. Here we see explicitly, at the heart of the Constitution, protection of class interests rather than the democracy of the people. The institutions that came out of this Convention denied the vote to the vast majority of the American people: blacks, native Americans, white males who owned no property and all women.

      Alexander Hamilton explained that: "All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share of government...Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good? Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy..." He supported a President and Senate chosen for life!

      To prevent a strong social movement from capturing power through the popular vote to a bi-annual House of Representatives, it was decided to create checks and balances in the system. This included the Supreme Court to be appointed by the President, a Senate elected not by the people but by state representatives, and a President elected by an Electoral College. Specifically, James Madison argued for a "well constructed Senate" as "sometimes necessary as a defense to the people against their own temporary errors or delusions," because "there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be most readily to lament or condemn." Such contempt for the people's judgment could not have been better expressed.

      The Constitution they developed was designed to protect the 3% who had really large holdings of wealth, and who created the Constitution, and also the one-third of the population, like city merchants, medium size farmers etc., who benefited enough economically to have an interest in preserving the system. This was the political base around which the "founding fathers" were willing to restrict democratic rights. This was a buffer against the blacks, native Americans and the very poor white population who they feared would rebel. As Howard Zinn described in his book A People's History of the United States, this enabled "the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law - all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity."

      To make the Constitution more palatable, the "Bill of Rights" was passed. This document seemed to guarantee that the government would be a protector of people's liberties: to speak, to publish, to petition, to worship, to assemble, to have a fair trial etc. However, what was missing from this was the fact that the government they created would never be a guarantor of such rights. Subsequent events have shown, time and again, in the brutal treatment of African American protesters, in the attacks on the labor movement, with the Palmer raid arrests of socialists before World War I, and in the recent trampling of the democratic right to protest against the WTO in Seattle, that when threatened, the government reverts to its central role as guarantor of the economic interests of the elite, and tramples on the democratic rights of all who protest against it.

      Continued at source: http://socialistalternative.org/oldjustice/justice22/2.html

    • 4 months ago
  • kennymotown
  • Paulian
    • 0
      Paulian [removed]  
    • ZiggyStrange:

      So what does your cut and paste job mean in referance to the 14th Amendment giving the Constitution a "core integrety". If the whole deal is set up to preserve the power of the aristocricy then what good does it do to give that body of aristocrats the power to tell the states how they can treat their lower clases?

    • 4 months ago
  • ZiggyStrange
    • 0
      ZiggyStrange  
    • Paulian:

      The reason that a central government is needed to keep states in check is evident by the track record of states denying rights to citizens based on bigoted criteria. You want 50 feudal states, I want one nation, and a constitution with no loopholes for the wealthy or otherwise privileged.

    • 4 months ago
  • Paulian
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      Paulian [removed]  
    • ZiggyStrange:

      But the federal government has a spotty record at best of keeping the states in check. It seems to me that when you as the feds to guard your rights you are putting all your eggs in one basket. If you leave it up to the states a few might go all Arizona on you but most will be fairly decent on the subject. If the feds aren't taxing you to death then maybe people who felt opressed in one state may more freely move to a state that wouldn't opress them. Then the backward hick states would suffer the brain drain and get passed up by the open minded states. But counting on the feds is playing craps with your liberties. The feds are the ones who want us to treat all arabs like terrorists.

    • 4 months ago
  • ZiggyStrange
    • +1
      ZiggyStrange  
    • Paulian:

      I get that your intentions are positive but don't you see how what you describe is only going to result in feudal states most likely defined by bigotry, and whatever crazy laws a state deems "constitutional" ? We have been there and it did not work,

    • 4 months ago
  • trut
  • bailey78
  • maasanova
    • +2
      maasanova  
    • Typical of the far left to try and drag everyone back to the pre-civil rights era with KKK nonsense.

      **edit**

      I see this wasn't a far left plot as one of the conspirators was a Cain supporter.

      Ron Paul isn't the perfect candidate of couse so to oppose his views or him personally is one thing, but to use a false-flag like this is beyond low.

    • 4 months ago
  • misfit20
  • Wyley_Wombat
    • +3
      Wyley_Wombat  
    • misfit20:

      The fact that they planned it on Facebook tells me that this was just a stunt to "keep the pot boiling". It was as if they wanted the whole thing to be discovered and never had any plans to actually pull it off. Mostly BS, in all probability.

    • 4 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
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