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THE REPUBLICAN LIBERTY CAUCUS OF TEXAS E-NEWSLETTER
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THIS ISSUE:
o EVENT - SATURDAY - 5/19 – BRENHAM RON PAUL FUNDRAISER
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EVENT - SATURDAY - 5/19 – AUSTIN RON PAUL FUNDRAISER
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EVENT - FRIDAY - 5/18 – HOUSTON RON PAUL MEETUP
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EVENT - FRIDAY - 5/25 – AUSTIN RON PAUL MEETUP
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ARTICLE - THE WAR IN IRAQ – LOOKING BACK
BRENHAM’S - RON
PAUL FUNDRAISER
SATURDAY,
5/19/2007 AT 1:30PM:
Texas congressman and current Republican Presidential
Candidate Dr. Ron Paul, will be speaking
at the Brenham
campus of Blinn College on Saturday, May
19, at 1:30PM.
WHAT: Current Congressman, and Former LP
Presidential
Candidate, Dr. Ron Paul speaking.
WHEN: May 19, 2007, 1:30pm
WHERE: Janice Sneed Ballroom, Student Center,
902 College Ave, Blinn College in Brenham, TX
DIRECTIONS: From Bus 290 (E Main St),
go South on Bus 36 (St Austin St) for 0.3 mile.
Turn Right on College Avenue
and go 1/4 mile to Blinn College.
AUSTIN’S - RON PAUL FUNDRAISER,
SATURDAY, 5/19/2007 AT 6:30PM:
You
are invited to a fundraiser for Republican
Presidential
Candidate Dr. Ron Paul, with
Buffet,
Drinks, Live Music with Jimmie Vaughan.
WHEN: May 19th, 6:30
– 10:00 PM
WHERE: Texas History
Museum (entrance by ticket only!),
1800 N. Congress Avenue (intersection
of Congress / MLK),
Austin, TX – free covered parking
COST: Tickets to the
May 19th event are $100 each.
REQUIREMENT: Please RSVP as
soon as possible,
so that we can reserve seating. Call Don Zimmerman
at 512-577-8842 for more details and/or
mail in check
or money order, to address below.
Maximum contribution is $2,300 per
person.
Make
checks payable to:
Ron
Paul 2008 PCC
Memo:
May 19th Event
13492
Research Blvd, #120-141
Austin,
TX 78750
Federal
law requires we report the name, mailing address,
occupation,
and name of employer for contributions of
more
than $200.00 per election cycle. Individuals may
contribute
up to $2,300.00. Couples may contribute up
to
$4,600.00. Contributions are not deductible as
charitable
contributions. Corporate contributions are
prohibited. Paid for by Ron Paul 2008 PCC
www.RonPaul2008.com
HOUSTON’S - RON PAUL MEETUP
FRIDAY, 5/18/2007 AT 7PM:
At our
first meeting everybody set a goal to bring three
new
people to the following meeting.
WHEN: Friday, May 18,
2007, 7:00 PM
WHERE: Electronics
Museum
1100 Winbern @ Fannin, Houston, TX
Houston ,TX 77002
AUSTIN’S - RON PAUL MEETUP
FRIDAY, 5/25/2007 AT 7:30PM:
Discussion on ideas about helping Ron
Paul get elected
President in 2008.
WHEN: Friday, May 25,
2007, 7:30 PM
WHERE: Changos
3005 S. Lamar Blvd.
Austin, TX 78704
512-773-3065
THE WAR IN IRAQ – LOOKING BACK
By Dick Mills, Harris County Republican
Liberty Caucus Director
Dear Friends of the Republic:
On May 15, 2008, at the Republican
Debates in South Carolina,
Rudy Giuliani attacked Ron Paul’s
statement that U.S. foreign
policy perhaps contributed to the
motivation for the 9-11 attacks
as the most absurd thing he had ever
heard and asked Dr. Paul
to retract his comment. Dr. Paul stood his ground at the debate
and later gave a solid defense of his
statement to Sean Hannity
in a post-debate interview which sent
Hannity ballistic. Sean
Hannity (narrowly informed on so many things
but vocal on all)
and Giuliani, are both ignorant of the
9-11 Commission report
that supports Dr. Paul’s comments.
For anyone who has closely followed
American foreign policy for
the past 50 years or longer, it is
absolutely astounding that we
were not attacked sooner and more
frequently. While it is one
thing to hold a definite preference for
one’s own country, religion,
and form of government, working for, and
negotiating favorable
trade agreements and international
cooperation in many areas, it
is quite another to assume the position
of “Dear Decider” for the
rest of the world. As Dr. Paul so clearly pointed out in the
debate
and subsequent interview, our elected
leaders should consider the
impact our foreign policy has on other
nations and individuals
prone to extreme behavior, asking, in
effect: “What would we think
or do if other countries presumed to
occupy America, build military
bases on our soil, and interfere with the
operation of our country
and its government.”
Not that any of this is in any way
justification for the evil acts of
9-11, or any other terrorist act by any
individual or nation. But
an interventionist attitude by the
greatest power on earth can
certainly, in the minds of most
reasonable people, be a catalyst
provoking the extreme fringe and
unbalanced to committing such
atrocities. And consider the fact that our national
hands are not
lily white and clean of the blood of
innocents. When there are
people who will murder for the few dollars
in a convenience store
clerks pockets and till, is it any
stretch of credulity that some men
in positions of great power and
“leadership” would provoke and
start wars in the furtherance of gains
amounting to literally trillions
of dollars?
This article by Scott Ritter, Jr., written in 2002, is
worth reading in
light of these comments and Giuliani’s
vicious attack on Dr. Ron
Paul, who told the American people a
truly “inconvenient truth.”
Actions and policies have
consequences. The American people,
as perhaps never before, are mostly in a
total state of denial and
do not want to hear the truth, being
incapable of coping with the
consequences of realizing that America is
not always right.
Any boy who has ever “chunked” at
hornets’ nests or poked them
with a stick knows that they get highly
hostile and sometimes sting
you.
Even though they are much smaller and weaker, they can
inflict agonizing pain. The best policy is always to leave them
alone!!
The “war” in Iraq is like a ten year old
boy trying to “occupy” and
“pacify” a Yellow Jacket’s nest. America’s meddlesome, bullying
foreign policy, and downright blackmail
at times, has caused the
rustlings of anti-Americanism around the
world for the past 100
years.
“The term, “Ugly American,” is not
directed at the American people,
per se, but toward their so-called
“leaders” project an arrogant,
selfish, imperialistic attitude that
tells the rest of the world that
they must do what the U.S. demands or we
will bomb, invade,
and occupy their countries, destroy their
economies and
infrastructures, replace their
governments to ones of our liking,
and generally deny them the right of
self-determination and home
rule that we fought for so valiantly
during our War for Independence.
Just what are these “vital American
interests” we hear so much
about?
Answer: the lust for global
political power, and
somebody else’s resources because we
don’t want to “damage”
our pristine wilderness by developing our
own. It’s time we obeyed
the moral Commandments and stop our
national lust and stealing.
But our foreign policy seems just an
extension of our domestic
tax policy which is essentially what
Frederic Bastiat called “legal
plunder.”
Once successful at home, our “leaders” seem to think
that the world is their smorgasbord and
they can just take whatever
they want without asking permission or
negotiating a deal.
And make no mistake about it: President
Dr. Ron Paul would be
no whining pacifist unwilling to defend
our nation. If attacked or
invaded, he would be first to lead in our
defense, repelling
imminent invasion by his Constitutional
authority to do so, and
then asking for a formal declaration of
war by Congress.
For Constitutional Government, Liberty
and Accountability,
Dick Mills, Editor
Keep the Republic Newsletter
Houston, TX
Harris County Director
Republican Liberty Caucus -- Houston, TX
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OUR PURPOSE:
After decades of New Deal and Great Society social
activism ... combined with the rapid decline in civics
and American history education in our government-run
public schools ... mixed with a growing population
of ill-informed and apathetic voters ... government at
every level in this country continues to be too big,
too intrusive and too expensive.
Founded in 1990, the Republican Liberty
Caucus
of Texas works to advance the principles of limited
government, individual liberty and free markets
within the Republican Party and throughout Texas.
Our candidates focus is on a broad range of issues,
including education, taxation, property rights, gun
rights, free speech, federalism and the proper role of
government.
In addition to giving disenfranchised smaller-government
Republicans a home by creating incentive to stay in our
party, the Republican Liberty Caucus
of Texas helps
avoid a potential exodus to Libertarian,
Constitutional, and other third parties, which would
open the door to big-government victories from leftist
candidates. The Republican Liberty
Caucus of Texas
is proud to promote the GOP's smaller-government
message. Our limited government, individual liberty and
free market ideas will win by inclusion.
While rolling back decades of government "nannyism"
will require a great deal of public education and
grassroots lobbying, the most important means of
changing public policy is to change public officials.
Therefore, the Republican Liberty Caucus of
Texas
works to elect pro-liberty Republicans to offices at
all levels, partisan and non-partisan, in both primary
and general elections.
The Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas
is
committed not to just electing more Republicans ...
but better ones, as well.
COMMITTEE:
Executive Director:
Mr. Don Zimmerman
Austin, TX
(512) 577-8842
Chairman:
Mr. Jerry Patterson
Austin, TX
Vice Chairman:
Penny Langford
Angleton, TX
Secretary:
Mr. John Reed
Buda, TX
Treasurer:
Mr. Richard Relph
Austin, TX
At-Large:
Mr. Trey Summitt
Dallas, TX
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