Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom"

Charliemopps writes "Ron and Rand Paul are shifting the central focus of their family's libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom. From the article: 'Kentucky senator Rand and his father Ron Paul, who has not yet formally conceded the Republican presidential nomination, will throw their weight behind a new online manifesto set to be released today by the Paul-founded Campaign for Liberty. The new push, Paul aides say, will in some ways displace what has been their movement's long-running top priority, shutting down the Federal Reserve Bank. The move is an attempt to stake a libertarian claim to a central public issue of the next decade, and to move from the esoteric terrain of high finance to the everyday world of cable modems and Facebook.' This seems like welcome news to me. Let's see if they can get more traction here than they did with the Fed."

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Given his failure as a representative, why should we pay attention to anything else he says?

We pay attention to ron paul on slashdot because he is the source of >90% of the political groupthink here. If he said tomorrow afternoon that Coca-Cola should indenture their employees to invade Malaysia, slashdot would come out in roaring support of it because his is the majority opinion here, by a long shot. It would quickly be endorsed by slashdot as the greatest idea in the history of mankind - or at least, the greatest idea since ron paul's invention of the internet.

Anyone like me to dares to suggest that ron paul is not the second coming is generally moderated down quickly and severely.