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Monday, February 11, 2013

Political Suicide Ron Paul Asks the One-World Government for Help with Seizing His Fan Websites

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:01 AM

So. Here you have Ron Paul, a guy who has constructed a huge, devoted fanbase of grassroots activists. Those activists would do anything for Ron Paul. They create websites promoting him. They also hate the idea of government, especially the United Nations. Politix explains the clusterfuck that happened when these facts collided in a battle

Former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, wants fans who created web sites using his name to hand them over to him at no charge. The sites, RonPaul.org and RonPaul.com, were set up to organize supporters and spread the word about the three-time presidential candidate.

In a blog post Friday, the site's operators said they were going to give him RonPaul.org for free and charge him $250,000 for RonPaul.com because it came with a 170,000-person mailing list.

But they claim he did not accept that offer and has filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization, an agency of the United Nations, asking for control of the domain names.

Naturally, you'd think that Ron Paul fans would be outraged at this. But you've forgetten that Ron Paul fans don't really care about libertarianism. They only care about Ron Paul. If Ron Paul called for socialism tomorrow, the majority of Ron Paul fans would immediately swear they supported socialism all along. Over the weekend, the RonPaul.com post announcing all this business became loaded down with comments like this one:

You guys should be paying Ron Paul, not the other way around. You have used his name to generate millions. I would be curious to see how much of the money generated on this site actually went to the cause and how much of it went into your pockets. You were never true supporters. You were planning all along to try to make a mint off Mr. Paul either through merchandise or trying to sell him his own name. And now you try to act like you’re the wronged party. Take the money you’ve made and give him the websites. And try not to embarrass yourselves any further.

What a brave band of thinkers they are. So eager to think for themselves!

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What would Ayn Rand do?

Posted by SPG on February 11, 2013 at 11:12 AM

...forgot to add "hahahahahahahahahahahaha!" to my comment above.

Posted by SPG on February 11, 2013 at 11:15 AM

The problem with Ron Paul supporters is the same as the problem with the faux crat supporters who can't recognize a 100% neocon administration (like Obama's and Clinton's).

Paul is a faux populist, locking on to the Federal Reserve (which should indeed be abolished, since it is nothing more than the front office for the banksters) as his populist item, while introducing anti-worker and anti-union legislation in the House from time to time.

Paul is a scoundrel, and his financial backers are well aware of this.

The greatest populist politician to come out of Texas was Wright Patman, perhaps Constant can retract his head from his butt and do a compare and contrast between the two sometime.

Posted by sgt_doom on February 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM

I'm sure his brosephs in the Birch Society will be just DEVASTATED.

http://www.jbs.org/tags/united-nations

Posted by undead ayn rand on February 11, 2013 at 11:42 AM

You can always spot a Ron Paul pseudo-supporter. If the commenter were a True Believer, he would have referred to him as "Dr Paul" instead.

Posted by Knat on February 11, 2013 at 11:45 AM

Oh, well, there's always Scientology if you need something off-the-wall to blindly follow.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on February 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM

Paul, for once, is right. These guys are domain squatters.

Posted by ryanmm on February 11, 2013 at 12:21 PM

@7 Sure, but according to Ron Paul isn't that a good thing for the world? Why should the government interfere?

Posted by zachd

on February 11, 2013 at 12:35 PM

@7 You say "domain squatter," I say "maker." Did they not invest money and time in this effort?

I'm sure their website is brimming with Unobtainium! Ron Paul is just a taker.

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on February 11, 2013 at 12:56 PM

@7: The market will dictacte who truly deserves the website, certainly not deserving of running to the NWO/UN/Bilderberg/Reptiloids.

Posted by undead ayn rand on February 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM

I'm pretty sure Ron Paul at least has legal grounds to do what he's doing. That site is using his common law trademark in his name in order to try and make money. Paul's a libertarian, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's for infringing trademarks in order to profit. I have no idea what his principles are in this situation. That being said, fuck Ron Paul anyways.

Posted by Sinbad on February 11, 2013 at 2:15 PM

Is not a man entitled to his HTML and listserves?

No, says the man in New York! It belongs to Ron Paul.
No, says the physician in Texas, it belongs to the Free Market.
No, says the Republican Party, it belongs to a poorly-debugged android!

Posted by FonsieScheme on February 12, 2013 at 4:17 AM