Ron Paul’s simple, cogent, weekly writing has wowed me for the last 18 years of my life. Halfway through Bush’s reign over DC, my younger brother at Christmastime in the US invited me to read a piece of writing on gold written by “the Honorable Ron Paul.” I thought “What a weird sounding name ‘the Honorable Ron Paul.’ — Who is this guy?” I read a second, then a third, and then came back the next day for more.
Not long thereafter, a friend in Bratislava, Slovakia (where I was then living) and I began a weekly reading and discussion around the weekly syndicated columns put out by Ron Paul. Before long, the habit (shockingly) was spread to a number of other countries in Europe. Could anyone have imagined such a thing possible — a relatively obscure Texas Congressman developing a rabid following in the cafes of Europe — on the message of individual liberty of all things? It happened almost effortlessly. The message of liberty was in demand.
This gave birth to a group called “Americans in Europe for Ron Paul,” which united these numerous groups. Probably fewer than half of us were Americans, but one of several co-founders, Ben Novak proposed the name and it stuck. This type of gathering around Ron Paul’s pro-liberty, pro-free market, pro-peace writing was happening in perhaps a dozen countries in Europe at that point. We decided to get together for a gathering of these groups in one place — the revolving seat of the European Parliament, on the border of Germany and France.
On December 16, 2007 hundreds of “Tea Party” gatherings were held across America in a show of support for Ron Paul’s 2008 Presidential candidacy and ideas. We chose that day to have one as well. Though some consider the Tea Party to have been started a year or more later, I saw firsthand how that day’s many events gave birth to the contemporary Tea Party movement, a movement which eventually diverged from the purist roots of that day.
While others later called for a “tea party,” including Rick Santelli on February 19, 2009 on CNBC, in response to President Obama’s policy moves, Santelli was merely tapping into a movement that was already established and preceded party wrangling. Obama was awful, but Bush was no less deserving a Tea Party revolt. Ron Paul and his followers started the contemporary Tea Party movement in 2007.
Chronologically speaking, our group in Europe, hosted the first Tea Party event of the contemporary Tea Party movement in Strasbourg, France that day, outside the European Parliament. We gathered together and had a rally. Below is me reading the St. Crispin’s Day speech that morning to the group there assembled.
Allan Stevo reading Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day Speech at the Strasbourg Tea Party outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France on December 16, 2007.
From this unpredictable series of events came my involvement with the Paul presidential campaigns, my writing on LewRockwell.com and Mises.org, my own congressional campaign, my involvement with the Bitcoin industry as an early co-founder, and my writing and activism on Covid-19 health mandates.
This list is much longer. My brother inviting me to sit down to read an op-ed that day has had a phenomenal impact on my life, as has the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul in 2007 and 2008, as has Ron Paul’s weekly column.
Below is the finest 3-minute summary you will find anywhere of the Trump indictment. It is written by Ron Paul and was published earlier today by his excellent Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
***UNDERSTANDING THE TRUMP INDICTMENT IN THREE MINUTES OR LESS***
TITLE: The Democrats Versus Trump: A Bad Horror Movie?
By Ron Paul
The Democrats and Donald Trump reminds me of a bad horror movie, where the hapless protagonists only make the monster stronger with each attempt to eliminate it. So goes the Democrats’ endless attempts to finally rid America of the “scourge” of Donald Trump.
Thanks to the Durham Report we now know they started even before Trump was elected president. Hillary Clinton’s campaign – with the full knowledge of the candidate and the sitting president, Barack Obama – cooked up a “dirty trick” to portray Trump as an agent of Russia in their effort to deny Trump the White House.
When that didn’t work they weaponized the FBI, CIA and the rest of the “deep state” to undermine and hobble his presidency. They spied on Trump and his campaign staff using false information manufactured by the FBI.
When that didn’t work they impeached him under the false charge that he sought foreign assistance for his 2020 re-election bid. This time a spy, in the person of NSC staffer Alexander Vindman, was sent to listen in on Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian president Zelensky and then make all manner of false charges against Trump based on it.
Democrats were furious that Trump was less than enthusiastic about their plans to use Ukraine as a proxy to go to war with Russia. Vindman, though an active-duty US military officer, was of Ukrainian background and was loyal to the country of his origin rather than the country of his citizenship. He also openly defied the military chain-of-command and his commander-in-chief. Trump’s lack of enthusiasm for their “Project Ukraine” infuriated Vindman and he sought his revenge against the US President.
When that didn’t work they impeached Trump again over the false charge that he led an “insurrection” against the US government on January 6, 2021. The more surveillance video we see of this “insurrection,” the more it looks like a false-flag operation cooked up perhaps by Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Washington swamp to finally be rid of Trump. Hundreds of political prisoners have been held in solitary confinement on false accusations that they tried to overthrow the US government.
When that didn’t work and Trump’s re-election numbers looked more and more favorable while Biden’s approval rating continued to linger in the political basement, the Democrats have now indicted him over some classified documents apparently discovered in his residence in Florida.
The boxes and boxes of classified documents discovered at multiple Biden locations have disappeared into the memory hole with the help of the media. Nothing to see here.
Suddenly Donald Trump, who polling suggests would obliterate Joe Biden in a fair US election, faces 100 years in prison! Where else would you see the head of one political party arrest his main political opponent on cooked up charges? A banana republic!
For those of us who love this country, it is truly shocking to see this abuse of power. But there’s one thing these dirty tricksters never seem to understand: the more false evidence and false charges they cook up against Trump, the stronger Trump becomes. With these outrageous and continuous attacks on Trump, the Democratic Party (and plenty of Republicans) has lost all credibility. When this plan fails, and it will, I am afraid to think what they might try next.
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Hmmm, 🤷 pretty sure that the Amerikan Empire has controlled the last 50 years of elections in my country, Australia. So boo fkn hoo, welcome to the Deepshit State... Democrazy (suks) has been successfully subverted by making the VOTERS stupid... gigo baby, GIGO 😎
Ahahahaha, you mean, the bleeding obvious which our State Media somehow never talks about! Examples off the cuff : 08-09 Prime Minister Malcolm Turmbull, right wing Liberal Party, prior to P.M. this joker was Pacific CEO of GOLDMAN SACHS (🔔 ¿Hellooo?). Example on the Left, the Labor Party - P.M. Kevin Rudd, fluent Mandarin speaker and rice muncher, we woke up and Bill Shorten, ex Union leader, was P.M. NO VOTE! A coup that our MSM then poo pooed, nothing to see here... and Australians said 🐑🐑🐑 "baaaaaa". Pine Gap! And to demonstrate the absurdity of Left vs Right, Julia Gilard, barren witch in the Jacunta Adern mode, Lefty P.M. Famously addressed Parliament re mysogynist patriarchal Opposition leader... on the very SAME DAY she removed Single Mothers from benefits, to FORCE THEM BACK TO WORK... what depop crisis, ay? 🤗
There's a saying in Oz "when America gets the sniffkes, Oz gets pneumonia". We are Amerika's grafted on left nut.