No other Republican Presidential candidate has ever received the enthusiastic popular support in the Republican Stronghold of Orange County that Ron Paul received in his visit to Cal State University, Fullerton, on May 3rd, 2012. 6000 enthusiastic fans crowded into the Titan Stadium, which was not designed to hold 6000. The line stretched around the stadium. Seats ran out, but supporters continued to pile in, standing to see their candidate. Mitt Romney has never received that kind of support in Republican Orange County.

Once in office, Paul will repeal the NDAA, the PATRIOT Act and the Federal Reserve Act. The audience, by its standing ovations and chants showed its agreement with the plan.

Paul spoke to the paranoid fears he would cut social programs by expressing his understanding that people have come to need these programs. In cutting spending, he will start with the wars and foreign spending. He pointed out that, in recent years, the war spending has topped four trillion dollars. He noted that, in foreign spending, the United States government takes from the poor at home to give to rich oppressors in foreign lands. Studies done by a variety of informed organizations agree, showing that simply cutting the war budget will save the U.S. economy.

Paul noted that 75% of Americans want America out of Afghanistan. He pointed out that we are less respected and less liked in the world because of war policies. He said that a lot of innocent children and people are dying from our drone attacks. People are asking, “Why are we being terrorized by bombs falling out of the sky when we haven’t done anything to America?”

Much of the problem with the economy is that the world has stopped trusting the dollar. He said, “The dollar used to be as good as gold.” After we were pulled off the gold standard, the world continued to trust our dollar for a while but that time of trust has run out.

As noted above, Paul got a standing ovation on ending the Federal Reserve. The audience broke into chants of “End the Fed.” Paul reacted by saying, “It sounds like a wonderful idea.” He noted that you wouldn’t hear that on TV. He called for the repeal of the Federal Reserve Act on its hundredth anniversary.

Paul attacked the economic policies of the current government, saying the government gives crumbs to the poor and bailouts to the rich.

Paul stated, “I’d like to suggest that you never have to give up any of your liberties for safety and security.” He pointed out that he has no Secret Service protection. He told the crowd that holding up a sign in protest of someone with Secret Service protection could now get you ten years in prison. [This is a result of the protester bill Obama signed into law.] Paul also spoke of a Homeland Security facility in Utah that is large enough to hold the records of everyone in America. He noted that the role of government is to protect our privacy and liberty. It is not to destroy our civil liberties.

On the issue of Cuba, he suggested talking to the Cubans and ending sanctions. He pointed out that those who are accusing him of being an isolationist are the real isolationists.

It isn’t an easy road for honest politicians like Ron Paul. He pointed out that”" those people in Washington in charge will not give up their power easily.”

The crowd was ready for action. Paul got numerous standing ovations. People were reregistering as Republicans just so they could vote for him. People were also signing up to work on his campaign.

Paul is the only anti-war candidate running in a major party for President. This gives him an advantage with anti-war Democrats and independents. Even people who don’t agree with him, see him as a candidate who is incorruptible and beaming with integrity. He is considered a fresh, honest alternative to the status quo.

For those who want to vote for Paul in the California primary, they will have to reregister as Republicans. I know, it’s a pretty disgusting thought to most people. California has an open primary in every race except the Presidency, where the RNC is preventing non-Republicans from voting for Ron Paul. The Democratic Primary is more open, allowing independents to vote a Democratic ballot.

Noah Johnson is an example of a former Democrat who re-registered to vote for Ron Paul. Now he is running for the Republican Central Committee for the 41st District as part of his efforts to support Paul’s agenda. People were speaking of how they were going to change the Republican Party. This writer is reserving judgment on whether that is possible.

People had a number of ideas to publicize Paul’s candidacy. A couple of representatives were there from an organization called Skytypers, offering a “low cost” way to skywrite messages over events. Philip Stinis of Skytypers said the company used patented eco-friendly vapors. He also said this could also be used for independent candidates who wanted to get out their messages. This writer did not see a list of the chemicals, but it is an indication that people, distrusting the media, are coming up with solutions to get out the word about Paul.

The event was put together on short notice in a large venue with standing room only. Robert Scheer has encouraged people to reregister to vote for Ron Paul. If the votes are counted, and there is always a question about that, Ron Paul could conceivably win California.

 BOLD emphasis is ours…

by Stephen Lendman

Last October, Obama told ABC News:

“The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded.”

“And that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded.”

His key words were: “we are on their side.”

At the same time, FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Secret Service agents were working cooperatively with local authorities to infiltrate, disrupt, subvert, and destroy the movement in cities nationwide.

Celebratory hope accompanied Obama’s election. After campaigning on a promise of hope and change, betrayal followed. He expanded the worst Bush policies. He usurped unbridled powers.

In June 2010, ACLU executive director Anthony Romero said Obama “disgusted” him. Civil liberty infringements got worse. Rule of law principles faded.

Last year, Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin said “(w)e are witnessing the bipartisan normalization and legitimization of a national security state.”

His administration created a “parallel track of preventative law enforcement that bypasses traditional protections in the Bill of Rights.”

In December 2008, before he took office, James Petras called him “the greatest con man in recent history.” He compared him to Melville’s Confidence Man. “He catches your eye while he picks your pocket.” He promises one thing and delivers another consistently on issues mattering most.

A November 2008 Robert Fitch speech to the Harlem Tenants Association revealed much about lay ahead. He said Chicago urban planners yearned to make the city’s south side developed like northern areas.

Demolitions for gentrification were wanted. Poor folks had to be driven out. Most were Black. As an Illinois state senator, Obama represented a targeted community. His “core financial supporters” and “inmost circle of advisors” stood to profit.

“Obama’s political base comes primarily from Chicago FIRE – finance, insurance and real estate industry” officials. Other key supporters included liberal foundations, elite universities, NGO community developers, and “real estate reverends who (preach and) produce market rate housing” at the expense of poor people kicked out for beneficiaries.

Together Fitch called them “Friendly FIRE….disguised by the camouflage of community uplift, augmented by the authority of academia, greased by billions in foundation grants, and wired” to provisions of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1995.</blockquote>

Obama was their guy, a front man. As president, Chicago style hope and change repeated across America. Before taking office in January 2009, Fitch saw what lay ahead. He wasn’t alone.

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) is a public service legal organization. It’s “dedicated to the defense of human and civil rights secured by law, the protection of free speech and dissent, and the elimination of prejudice and discrimination. Among the PCJF cases are constitutional law, civil rights, women’s rights, economic justice matters and Freedom of Information Act cases.”

Its work includes “landmark constitutional rights litigation, often concentrated in the areas of free speech, assembly or other protected political organizing activity.”

According to PCJF’s executive director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard:

“The major defining feature of the Obama administration on (core constitutional issues) is the eagerness with which it embraced the stunning evisceration of civil rights and liberties that was a hallmark of the Bush administration, and then deepened those outrageous programs. He has successfully counted on the acquiescent silence of the liberals.”

In March, PCJF obtained heavily redacted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requested documents. They showed federal agencies began “coordinated intelligence gathering and operations on” OWS last September.

On September 17, 2011, protests began in New York’s Zuccotti Park. Secret Service agents were there covertly. DHS was also involved.

Documents show its top officials “were preoccupied with the Occupy movement and have gone out of their way to project the appearance of an absence of federal involvement in the monitoring of and crackdown on Occupy.”

“On the street it would be called “Three Card Monte,” a swindler’s game to hide the ball — a game of misdirection. The House always wins.”

Before Zuccotti Park’s first demonstration, the DHS Office Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) prepared National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration (NCCIC) alerts about planned OWS demonstrations.

At issue is ongoing spying since 9/11. America became a total surveillance society. Millions are covertly watched. Their communications are monitored, including phone calls, emails, and other online activity. Doing so alerted authorities about coming plans. They were ready well in advance.

In response to FOIA, press, and public inquiries of its involvement, one DHS official wrote:

“I understand we have already received some FOIA requests regarding our possible reporting of the ‘Occupy’….protests.”

“I think should the FOIA experts find it appropriate to release information about the manner in which this issue was managed with DHS, it could only be perceived as a positive by those in the public who closely (observe) the Department.”

DHS tried to evade and obstruct a complete FOIA search to conceal its disruptive and coordinated activities with other federal agencies and local authorities.

On April 30, PCJF “updated and made public the largest and most comprehensive” ever FOIA obtained DC police documents. Years of hard fought litigation got them. Washington police operate under a “cloak of secrecy.” Sunshine revealed some of what it conceals.

Society’s most disadvantaged are harmed. It’s true across America. DC is a microcosm of authoritarian police serving powerful interests at the expense of ordinary people. Willful legal violations occur. No one’s held accountable. Anyone challenging the system is targeted.

In part, PCJF cracked the District of Columbia government’s wall of secrecy. A trove of materials were gotten and made public. PCJF called obtaining them “historic.”

On May 3, PCJF headlined, “DHS Releases More Documents on Occupy to PCJF.” They reveal “massive (federal) nationwide” OWS monitoring and information sharing between DHS and local authorities.

According to Verheyden-Hilliard:

“These documents show not only intense government monitoring and coordination in response to the Occupy Movement, but reveal a glimpse into the interior of a vast, tentacled, national intelligence and domestic spying network that the US government operates against its own people.”

“These heavily redacted documents don’t tell the full story. They are likely only a subset of responsive materials and the PCJF continues to fight for a complete release. They scratch the surface of a mass intelligence network” apparatus operating against the interests of ordinary Americans.

Documents gotten reveal “intense” federal monitoring of OWS activities. Those involved are identified to include names, addresses, and other relevant information. NORTHCOM’s kept informed ahead of planned demonstrations.

DHS stays in direct communication with the White House regarding ongoing operations and approved “public statements denying DHS’s involvement in Occupy actions.”

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano runs its anti-OWS operations along with FBI and other federal agency officials. Obama appointed her.

The man who told ABC News “we are on their side,” in fact, oversees a plan to disrupt, subvert, and destroy what they’re working for. Imagine what’s ahead in a second term if he’s reelected. 

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. 

His new book is titled “How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War”

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Ron Paul said Tuesday he doesn’t want any Secret Service protection because it’s “a form a welfare.”

“It’s a form of welfare,” the presidential candidate told comedian Jay Leno Tuesday. “You know, you’re having the taxpayers pay to take care of somebody and I’m an ordinary citizen and I would think I should pay for my own protection and it costs, I think, more than $50,000 a day to protect those individuals. It’s a lot of money.”

But while he might be opposed to having some extra protection, that doesn’t mean Paul doesn’t have a Secret Service code name picked out for himself.

“Bulldog,” the Texas congressman promptly answered when Leno asked what top-secret moniker he would want.

“I go after the Fed and all that big spending,” a smiling Paul explained, doing his best to look tough by waving a clenched fist.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have chosen the code names “Javelin” and “Petrus” for themselves, respectively, according to a report this week.

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