Attention Grows Around Ron Paul

Ron Paul Greeted by Overflow Crowd First Day Back in Iowa

January 2, 2012

The Ticket - Ron Paul's first public event in Iowa since the release of a Des Moines Register poll putting him within striking distance of Mitt Romney was so packed that workers took down a dividing wall at the downtown Marriott's Salon D ballroom. Supporters as well as national political reporters lined up to cover the action.

"This is almost like a real rally!" the Texas congressman told the crowd at the event, which had been billed simply as a "whistlestop."

The Des Moines Register poll, released this weekend, showed Paul 2 percentage points behind former Massachusetts Gov. Romney (22 to 24 percent) in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa ahead of Tuesday night's vote. (The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 4 percent.) Monday's Marriott throng reflected the fresh jolt of energy behind the Texas congressman's campaign.

Monday's speech was packed with media celebrities, including MSNBC's Joe Scarborough; Bret Baier of Fox News; Joe Klein of Time; Dana Bash and Soledad O'Brien of CNN; Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Times' David Brooks and CSPAN's Steve Scully.

Some 150 chairs and all of the press risers were filled a half-hour before the event was scheduled to begin, prompting organizers to remove the room's sliding wall.

"The enthusiasm is growing by leaps and bounds and crowds are getting bigger," Paul said.

He chalked up some of the growing interest--and the growing coffer of campaign donations that's come with his new visibility on the trail--to his anti-war stance and a desire to bring troops home from Afghanistan. Paul added, however, that his growing appeal all comes down to a single message.

"As far as I'm concerned, there's only one issue," Paul said. "There's one issue that has made America great, an issue that you can answer all your questions on is individual liberty."

"We want our privacy back!" he said to wide applause from the receptive crowd.

"Ron Paul! Ron Paul!" the standing-room only crowd chanted, thrusting their hands in the air and waving signs. (Paul joked that if they chanted the entire time, he wouldn't get a chance to speak.) "Preach it!" some yelled.

Paul was introduced at the event by his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who highlighted what he felt to be his father's best qualities: never "flip-flopping" or accepting a single congressional junket; pledging his commitment to balance the budget in his first term and to cut $1 trillion in spending during his first year in office; going directly after conservatives on the charged issue of cutting military spending; and soliciting strong support from active members of the military. Finally, the younger Paul stressed that he views his father as incorruptible.

Ron Paul spoke for just 10 minutes, but members of the crowd told Yahoo News that they were satisfied to be a part of the action.

"It's one thing to see him on television or an ad, but it's another thing to see him in person," Zander Morales, a local student, said.

Though many Iowans in the crowd said they planning to participate in Tuesday's caucuses, a good number of the Paul supporters on hand said they were from out of state: a Minnesota family on Christmas break; a busload of Cincinnati, Ohio high school students on a school trip. Others, such as Morales, were local students who can't participate in the caucuses because they're not Iowa residents or registered to vote in the state.

Just one man raised his hand when reporters asked if any of the first 20 seated attendees were from Iowa.

Is COINTELPRO Effort Underway to Sabotage Ron Paul in Iowa?

January 2, 2012

Infowars.com - As should be obvious by now, the establishment will do almost anything to make sure Ron Paul does not win the Iowa caucus tomorrow. It will sabotage his campaign if that’s what it takes to make sure he does not win.

On December 29, the Occupy Des Moines or the Occupy the Caucus group traveled to Ron Paul’s Ankeny, Iowa, campaign office and staged an “impromptu demonstration.” A dozen or so protesters chanted anti-Paul slogans and blocked the door of the office. Five of them were arrested after the police ordered them to disperse.

On December 31, The End Run website noted that one of the arrested, Clarke Davidson, has an interesting background. In addition to claiming to be a Ron Paul precinct captain, Clarke is the person who uploaded a video to YouTube purportedly from the shadowy hacktivist group Anonymous calling for a shut down of the Iowa caucus.

“In case you haven’t heard, this ‘threat’ video is now being used in conjunction with these ‘Occupy’ protests (which have targeted other candidates this week as well) as a pretext to move the vote counting in Iowa to a secret location,” explains the website.

Oddly, although Davidson now disagrees with Paul – despite claiming to be a precinct captain for his campaign – he was holding an End the Fed placard when he was arrested. Ron Paul, of course, wrote the book on the End the Fed movement.

The threat to shut down the caucus has given the establishment the perfect excuse it needs to count the vote at a secret location and make sure Ron Paul loses. It also provides a pretext to get the FBI and the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center involved.

Iowa RINOs are “assessing security procedures” and “crafting a new, more error-proof system for the roughly 800 Republican caucus sites to report their results to party headquarters.”

The End Run has posted a detailed timeline covering the suspicious activities of Clarke Davidson, who fits the profile of a governmental intelligence operative to the letter. His behavior has all the hallmarks of COINTELPRTO activity.

Vote manipulation and rigging in the United States is epidemic, as Black Box Voting has documented, so it should come as no surprise that the establishment would attempt to skew the caucus in order to downgrade Ron Paul and damage his effort win the presidency and work to finally return the United States to its constitutional republic roots.

It now appears our rulers will engineer the result they desire – Romney in the lead with Santorum second – and they have the police state apparatus in place to micromanage the effort under the guise of hacktivist and Occupy terrorism threats.

If elements of the Occupy movement and Anonymous are not intelligence operations, then they are nothing less than useful idiots who will allow the state to once again determine the outcome of an important election.