Mayday Money Bomb for Vern McKinley

Nathan at RonPaulDonors.com asked me to pass along this message:

Mayday is an emergency code word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications.

Today America itself is in distress. We are sending out a distress signal to liberty-loving Americans everywhere.

This May 1st, we need to support a Ron Paul Republican.

This May 1st, we need to support Vern McKinley’s congressional bid.

Vern is running against Frank Wolf, a 28-year incumbent in Virginia’s 10th District GOP Primary on June 10th, 2008.

This year we help Congressman Wolf towards retirement. But we can’t do it without your funding and support.

This May 1st, your generous donation to the Vern McKinley campaign will help send Dr. Paul another ally in Congress!

Sign up with your email address @ http://www.maydaymckinley.com/ today.

More information about Vern McKinley is available at www.mckinleyforcongress.com.

Mayday. Bombs away. Donate to Vern McKinley, this May 1st.

Does anyone have information to share about this candidate?

New national economic plan: Federal Reserve’s power will be hugely increased

CNN reports that Treasury Secretary Paulson is preparing to unveil a plan that would basically do the exact opposite of abolishing the Federal Reserve- the plan will grant the Fed nearly unlimited powers of regulation of oversight.

“One of the most dramatic changes would extend the powers of the Federal Reserve — designed to regulate the commercial banking industry — to oversight of virtually the entire financial industry.”

CNN writes:

“The banking and financial industry regulation structure has been developed over decades, from the establishment of the national bank charter in 1863 to the creation of the Federal Reserve system in 1913 to recent changes made in response to other crises. Now, however the ever-expanding complexities of global markets have largely outgrown some of the structure’s component parts, creating weaknesses and redundancies.

Paulson will propose the Federal Reserve have authority to look at the financial status of any institution that could affect market stability; the Securities and Exchange Commission merge with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; stock exchanges have more room for self-regulation; and bank supervision be consolidated into one regulator, according to Brookly McLaughlin, another department spokeswoman.”

Don’t look to Congress to scale back these drastic power increases.

“Nearly all of the proposals will require the approval of Congress, where Democrats are already at work on their own proposals. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said that Democrats “agree with large parts” of Paulson’s plan but think the proposals should go further.”

The Boston Herald elucidates some further points:

• “The proposal would abolish agencies such as the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, shifting their responsibilities to other federal institutions.”
• “Under the current hodgepodge, institutions that take deposits and are federally insured face multiple regulatory bodies. By contrast, hedge funds, private equity firms and investment banks endure substantially less regulation.”

It frightens me to see that power is being even further consolidated behind the tightly closed doors of the Federal Reserve. Giving near-limitless regulatory power to a group that conducts its business under little or no regulation seems to me to be self-defeating… or self-serving.

An example from Montana

We are from the Bozeman, Montana meetup group. We are sending this email out to various groups as part of this project we are working on.
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Everyone who is involved in this movement talks about this being a grassroots revolution. And it truly has been so far, in terms of raising money, and the grassroots campaign for the presid ential race.

However, despite this, so many of the people in this movement are focused solely on the top level aspects, like the presidential campaign. This is not what a grassroots movement is. We cannot take back our country just by electing a president. That is a top-down approach, and it will never work. It must be done from the bottom up.

This is why Ron Paul, as well as Rand Paul, are always telling people to take over their local governments, as well as the state governments. They know that the presidential race pales compared to the importance of people all over the country stepping up to replace the corrupt politicians in their city government, and state legislatures.

I believe this in the main reason why Ron Paul is hanging in the race; not so much for the nomination itself, but to continue to inspire people to stop basing their hopes on him, to stop focusing so much on the presidential race, but to take it upon themselves, and their countrymen at their side, to take back government little by little.

When I browse various Ron Paul forums, and talk to other Ron Paul revolutionaries in various parts of the country, I get the sense that many people talk about this now and then, but that many of us dont know how exactly to go about doing this. I also think many people in our movement don’t yet realize that this was & is the a key of the revolution — not simply trying to get Ron Paul elected. I believe the purpose of starting this campaign was not simply to try and win the nomination for Ron Paul, but to inspire
people to look not at some national figure to fix things, but to look to themselves, and the person standing next to them. A man once said “ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.”

Now, I say “ask not what Ron Paul or any other candidate will do to reclaim our country, but ask how each and every one of us can do it, regardless of who is running for president.”

If you can take back the city councils, and the city precinct positions, you can take back the state legislatures. If you can do this, you can take back each state, one by one. Only when We the People have done this, can we start taking back the national
government.

Here in Montana, we are doing just that. Not only are we taking over local precinct seats, but we are moving on the state legislature. Out of 100 House seats in Montana, we have 4-6 people in our group running for seats, just from our county alone. We even have a few people running for seats in the State Senate. It is much easier to win precinct seats and campaign for house seats than most people realize.

You don’t need any political background; a few of the people in my group running for the State House are just college kids. It is entirely possible to win these seats with door-to-door campaigning in your district. Most people dont vote in these elections, and with a little effort, just about anyone
has a good chance of winning a seat. Most people who vote for the state legislature positions do not really know who is who. They vote based on “oh, I’ve heard of this guy here… I saw his name on a poster… I’ll vote for him”

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I, and a few other people in my group are spearheading a project to organize the groups in Montana into a cohesive effort to take back our local and state government. Right now, people are doing a little of this thing, and a bit of that thing. But there is no cohesive movement in the state focused solely on this particular thing.

There is no reason why a small group of 50-100 people must stay confined to their local area. There is nothing to stop each and every small group from doing something that can flame the revolution on a national level.

Our plan is to first build a website that
is designed specifically for 3 things:

1.) Show how simple it actually is for any old average person, and especially for any old Ron Paul group, to start taking over local and state government positions.  Since many more people will act on something when someone else is already leading the way, our aim is to design a simplistic, step-by-step process for winning state & local seats.

2.) Show the importance of focusing on this, and how it is not just ‘one the many things you can do’, but one of the MAIN things we must be doing.

3.) Show what exactly we are doing to accomplish this, in each city/county in Montana. After forming the groups in our state into a
cohesive movement, we want to show the rest of the nation what we are doing — that we are actually DOING IT as a unified, non-piecemeal movement — and not just talking about this.

This will open the door for groups all over the nation to see how simple and doable this actually is, and hopefully trigger groups all over to follow suit.

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So I am working on getting this message here out to groups all around the nation ahead of time to help encourage many more groups to start doing what we are doing (for those that already havent started), and to let everyone know that We the People here in Montana (especially we in the Bozeman group) are determined to make our state one of hopefully many examples to follow.

When this project starts gaining momentum, we will be working on exposing every single group in the nation to it, which I believe & hope will help fan the fire that is now beginning to burn within every real Patriot’s heart.

We must not look to other people, other groups, and other states as an example of what to do. We must become an example to inspire others. That is our goal with this project. It’s time for every person in the Ron Paul movement to realize that this was never really about the presidential race.

As soon as we get this project moving, we will be contacting groups around the country with more
information about this.

Regards,

Joe Hensleigh - joehmontana@yahoo.com
Bourne Chase - bournechase@yahoo.com

Assistant Organizers for the Bozeman, Montana meetup.