Sure revolutions take time. The American Revolution lasted eight and a half years, while the French Revolution went on for ten years.

Unfortunately, America doesn’t have that much time and if we want to make a difference in her future, NOW is the time to act. Like any great revolution, you need a great leader, and we have one in Ron Paul.

But I don’t believe that even Ron Paul understands how he can best take this movement forward. According to the latest message to his supporters, he said that “elections are short term efforts and revolutions are long term projects.” He then goes on to say he wants to “plan for the next phase” and that this phase would be “grassroots, not top down.”

His solution seems to be twofold at present (I’m not including an analysis of his book as it hasn’t been released yet and will address the “march” later in this article).

First, he wants to get people elected who share the “Liberty” vision as outlined in the Liberty Political Action Committee whose mission is “to help fund and elect conservative, pro-Constitution, pro-liberty, pro-American sovereignty candidates who share Congressman Ron Paul’s commitment to the values and principles our nation was founded upon.”

That’s fine, and of course needed for the revolution to succeed.

Secondly, he directs us to the F.R.E.E. Foundation which according to their website; “is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational foundation dedicated to public education on the principles of free-market economics, sound money and limited government.”

Again, sounds like it fits right in with the revolution.

But when you look further at this site, you see that it’s not well organized. For example, the National Endowment for Liberty (NEFL), a separate project of FREE, “was established in 1989 to develop programs that take advantage of the enormous potential of electronic media to pursue the mission of FREE. We believe that through mass communication we can attract public interest and significantly strengthen awareness of the moral, cultural and institutional foundations of the American political system.”

When you go to the page describing this project here, you find that NEFL “developed and produced the “At Issue” television series that was seen on the Discovery Network and CNBC national cable television networks. “At Issue” examines American public policy and how political, economic and social institutions interact with the principles of American constitutional government, and does so in an entertaining and fast-paced, commercial-television format, while remaining commercial-free and entirely educational.” These videos are great titles! The problem is that you can’t find any of the videos available on the site.

This group has been around since 1989 and there is no access to their work on their own site?

This leads me to the conclusion that Ron Paul isn’t ready for the revolution to continue via his “next phase” quite yet and also leads me to the conclusion that he needs to continue the first phase and that is continue his run for the presidency!

Before I address that, I’d like to discuss the proposed “march” on Washington D.C. tentatively planned for June 21st.

Many of you may not know, but there was already a rally across America by the truckers as they were opposed to the “NAU (North American Union) and NAFTA’s demand for us to allow tens of thousands of Mexican truckers and their trucking companies into America.” I monitored the media after their first event in April of last year and didn’t see or hear anything about it. Evidently there was another rally in June of last year that I didn’t even hear about anywhere.

If we are to use the time of the weekend of June 21^st to march on Washington D.C., what guarantee will there be of media coverage? Hasn’t the media already proven to us that they won’t give Ron Paul or his supporters any press time (unless it is negative of course).

What happens if a whacked out Ron Paul supporter (or neocon infiltrator disguised as a neo-nazi Ron Paul supporter) did something unthinkable during the march and opened fire on the Whitehouse? What would this do for the revolution and the message?

Wouldn’t the time spent traveling to, the day of the march, and traveling home after the march be better spent talking to 1000 people in our own backyard? Imagine if all of us would just go talk to more people what an impact that would have where media would be a non-factor! Isn’t word of mouth how many of us first heard about Ron Paul to begin with? We need to turn ignorance into enlightenment!

Even with all of our current efforts in getting the message out, the results were about a 5% nationwide vote for Ron Paul. This clearly shows that the revolution will take time, but to expect it to continue based on this “new phase,” is hopeful at best. Ron Paul needs to run as a 3^rd party candidate and garner eight more months of attention from the grassroots efforts of all the Paulites going door to door or calling the lists provided by the campaign.

Phase one is still alive and we must market the message of “Individual Liberty, Free Markets, Private Property, Sound Money, and A Non-interventionist Foreign Policy, ” all the way to November!

Ron Paul can run as the candidate for the Libertarian Party or Constitution Party, it matters not. The way the system is set up with delegates, he more than likely won’t stand a chance of being elected, but he could very well win the popular vote if enough of us go out and do our job! This would result in having to bring about a change in our electoral college farce of a system where only a few really decide who gets elected. And we still do have some hidden delegates that can show support….AND eight more months….so you never know!

Call me a dreamer, but the marketing of the rEVOLution couldn’t have a better time frame in which to get “the message” out to the masses. Americans are “Fed Up” and only “You Can Make A Difference!”

Time is of the essence! Don’t give up the ship!

JMHO and open to support, ridicule, praise or abuse by all as we still live in a Free America! Tomorrow we might not be able to speak our minds!

Doug Eberhardt

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Ron Paul is sly as a fox. When he decided to run for President in March of 2007, he knew his chances were slim that he would be elected. For Ron, it was more about “The Message.”

It is “The Message” that over the last year has gathered momentum and has spawned a rEVOLution which has a different meaning for every American. For some “the message” and the rEVOLution is about not following the Constitution by fighting undeclared wars. For others it’s about securing our borders and taking away the free incentives for illegal’s to come here. “The message” could be about being pro-life or eliminating the income tax. There is no one issue that applies to all, but rather an array of issues that appeal to each of us individually.

So why is Ron Paul leading a rEVOLution? The answer is simple. The Left and the Right have taken this nation to the brink of bankruptcy. The reason? Our elected representatives cannot live within their means, they spend like there’s no tomorrow, and police the world like they’ve been appointed by God to do so. But, more importantly, is “how” they get away with their actions. They do it through the hidden tax called inflation and they get away with it because Americans can’t see the immediate effect.

Allow me to explain. When one receives their paycheck each week, they feel the immediate effect of taxes being levied as they get to spend what’s left. They don’t feel the effect of inflation till they fill up their cars with gas or go to the grocery store and buy the necessities to live a comfortable life and realize that something has happened. The paycheck that used to buy all they need to live comfortably has come up short in purchasing basic necessities and there are still bills to be paid that a few years ago their paycheck covered. How can this be? The answer is “inflation.”

Inflation is simply, the increase in money supply. When the money supply is increased, you have to pay more for things. Why? Because a company has to raise their prices to maintain its wealth and overall profitability. There are also supply and demand issues as to why prices go higher, but we’ll leave that part of the equation out of this analysis for simplicity except for a few examples below.

The reason you are paying more for anything is because the Federal Reserve creates too much money allowing our government to live beyond its means. It’s easy to do when all the government has to do in receiving more money is borrow from the Federal Reserve who creates it out of thin air.

Here’s how it works, from the Federal Reserve Pamphlet, “Putting it simply…. The Federal Reserve – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston:

“The authority to print money is an important power for any government to possess, and congress has delegated that power to the Federal Reserve. Of course, along with the Federal Reserves authority to create money comes the responsibility to ensure that the money retains its value. In setting monetary policy, the Fed seeks to provide enough money to accommodate steady economic growth without upsetting the economy’s equilibrium. At the same time the Federal Reserve has a clear responsibility not to provide too much money, since a sharp jump in the money supply could upset the economy’s balance.”

How has the money supply affected inflation historically? Has their actions caused a “sharp jump in the money supply upsetting the economy’s balance?” Lets look at this chart and see. As you can see from the chart, inflation is much higher than the government’s version of it via the CPI. This chart shows you the reason why the government will no longer be publishing the M3 money supply data. They don’t want you to know about the 15% increase in M3 in the last year as John Williams from Shadow Government Statistics has calculated.

To understand this further, we must define how money works. According to the “Putting it Simply” pamphlet, the Fed says that; “For money to work in its three principal roles — as a medium of exchange, as a store of value, and as a measure of value — it must have two characteristics; 1. it must be relatively scarce, and 2. it must be widely accepted.”

So how has The Fed done? This can be answered in how weak the dollar is versus other major currencies. The U.S. dollar index, established in 1973, was trading at 122 in 2001 and today has fallen to near its all time low at just over 76. The U.S. Dollar has lost on average, over 37% versus the other major currencies in the last 7 years and even lost to historically weaker currencies like the Philippine Peso which has gained 28% on the dollar in the last 28 months alone. This is what happens when you’re the world’s largest debtor nation..

But the U.S. dollar is only part of the inflationary problem. Oil was under $30 a barrel in 2003, before the Iraq war started, and recently hit $100. Gasoline prices have doubled since 2003. Food prices have been rising in double digits and there is currently a long period of rising food prices forecast.

Inflation is a hidden tax and it is compounded by an interventionist foreign policy.

The major way we are paying for the wars we wage and our policing of the world is through inflation. Instead of paying down our debt, which now stands at over 9 trillion dollars, our armed forces are stationed in 130 different nations and currently waging two wars with a realistic threat of more. All the while, our own borders are left unprotected.

So to recap, when U.S. dollars are increased (money supply) the dollar’s purchasing power has decreased (inflation). Imagine for a moment your paycheck having 37% less over the last few years. If you felt the immediate visual effect of this inflation being subtracted from your paycheck, you’d be mad as hell and probably also shout, “I’m not going to take this anymore!” Well guess what? This HAS happened to you and you should be “mad as hell!” If this describes you, then welcome to Ron Paul’s rEVOLution and know that he not only wants to cure inflation by installing sound money principles, but he also wants to give you more of your paycheck by eliminating the income tax. Imagine the effect this would have on our economy if you were taking home MORE money and NOT feeling the effects of inflation?

But one can’t get rid of inflation and wars until they get rid of the root cause of these, the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve has not lived up to their promise for money to be a “store of value.” Also, money is not anymore “relatively scarce” and more and more people and countries are not “widely accepting” U.S. dollars. China, for example, removed the U.S. dollar peg in 2005 and is now pegging the Yuan to a basket of international currencies (although the dollar is still a part of the basket). . Today, the Yuan has appreciated about 14% versus the U.S. dollar since losing its 100% dollar peg.

The Federal Reserve is the cancer that has grown stemming from flawed decisions in the year 1913 under the Wilson administration when it was created. The Federal Reserve truly is the evil spoken about in the Bible, Romans 12:9 “Abhor that which is evil.” Without eradicating the Federal Reserve cancer, you can’t get rid of the inflation and wars. Ron Paul wants to eliminate the evil power held by the Federal Reserve.

How many other candidates currently running on the Left or the Right have any clue to all of this? What they will do is continue with the same garbage in, garbage out routine that will do nothing but drive our nation further into the black hole of never ending debt.

So what is “The Message?” The Message is different for each and every one of us. For many, it is a combination of issues. For some, it is only one issue that’s most important to them. All of these issues are centered on one cause which they have in common; Liberty, and one solution; the Constitution. This is what Ron Paul stands for.

By eliminating one of these Left and Right tools of destruction, The Federal Reserve, and thus inflation and the ability to fund undeclared wars, our government will have to live within its means and thus we all will have the Freedom to live a more prosperous life, maintaining our wealth and we’ll also be able to pass that prosperity on to our heirs. Isn’t this the way our forefathers envisioned America to be?

So come February 5th, we’ll have some answers about how America currently thinks. So far, by the voting that has been occurring in some states, America isn’t thinking too well. Will we continue the destructive course with continued inflation and the Federal Reserve that has our great nation on the verge of bankruptcy or will we be choosing Prosperity and Liberty by casting our vote for Ron Paul? Either way, “the message” will continue to spread and Ron Paul will be leading the rEVOLution to November and beyond.

All are invited to join!

Doug Eberhardt

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