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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (21679)	9/3/2008 11:45:13 AM
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Paul Tops Off Rally For Republic With Fiery Speech by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos Wednesday, September 3, 2008 elections.foxnews.com MINNEAPOLIS — Ron Paul’s “Rally for the Republic” culminated Tuesday night with a speech from the man himself, who urged his supporters to advance their cause of limited government with “peaceful civil disobedience” and to beware of “counterfeit” ideas of change coming from the two major political parties. The unsuccessful Republican candidate for president told the estimated crowd of 12,000 boisterous supporters that while he would not take credit for the growth of their movement over the last year, “I would hope that our efforts did a lot to speed up the revolution, which was coming anyway.” He and earlier speakers throughout the day directed much of their criticism at the other event across the way in St. Paul — the Republican National Convention — where they said Republicans, and specifically conservatives, who had lost their way continued to stifle alternative views within the party. In fact, they have endured “treatment of exclusion, of marginalizing and just making fun of what we are doing,” said the 10-term congressman from Texas. “It didn’t surprise me much. But the more they did that the more it seemed to energize you more.” Paul had earlier lamented that not only had he been denied a speaking role at the GOP convention, but he has been given limited access to the floor of the Xcel Energy Center – something he didn’t have to contend with as a simple congressman at conventions past. His candidacy has been less than welcomed by the GOP establishment, and despite getting 1.2 million votes in the state primaries, efforts by his delegates at the convention will likely lose out on attempts to have him officially recognized. Barry Goldwater Jr., son of the late conservative icon Barry Goldwater, introduced Paul and said he believed that the movement behind Paul could steer conservatives back to their roots. “In 1994, the American people elected the Contract for America,” and a GOP majority in Congress, Goldwater said. But Republicans eventually “became what they had campaigned against.” The evening’s backdrop at the Target Center in Minneapolis albeit smaller wasn’t that different from the forum decked out for the GOP in the twin city of St. Paul. But the big screens in back of the candidate, above the crowd, the lights, confetti and waving banners all conveyed a sense of a convention in its own right. “And guess what? Not one single taxpayer cent was spent on this rally,” Paul said with reference to the Democratic and Republican events, which were funded with about $20 million each in public money to pay for security costs. The rest of Paul’s speech included a laundry list of issues revolving around scaling back the federal bureaucracy, preserving civil liberties and ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He lashed out at what he called a preventative war policy that has made the country less safe and has inflamed America’s enemies abroad. He got the biggest applause when suggesting the Federal Reserve system was unconstitutional, as are the federal income tax and the war on drugs. He closed out his remarks by calling for more urgency, more action, a “peaceful civil disobedience” against big government and what he called unconstitutional behavior in Washington. “An idea that has come can’t be stopped by any army, any government,” he said. “Even if they try they can’t stop us.” Supporters were effusive. “I think it was the best speech I’ve heard Ron Paul make yet — and I’ve been to four or five of them,” said Deanna, a supporter from Iowa who had her three-year-old daughter along for the day. “He was more confident. He’s always authentic, but tonight he was more relaxed and more confident and I’d like to think we helped him as much as he helped us.”