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		<title>The Brits Want Their Guns Back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that our country is swinging back to left, it's time to vigilantly guard our right to bear arms.  Rumors are a flying about gun bans and so forth and I thought I'd put a subtle reminder out there about why we have such rights to begin with.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/images/automaticrifle.jpg"><img class="alignleft" title="Automatic Rifle" src="http://jeffwhiteside.com/images/automaticrifle.jpg" alt="" width="167" height="195" /></a>It&#8217;s a good thing I didn&#8217;t tell anyone about that New Year&#8217;s resolution that I wanted to blog more.  <img src='http://jeffwhiteside.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   Bang up job so far!  Dang, it&#8217;s almost February and I haven&#8217;t even wished my one or two viewers a happy New Year!</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;m inspired today because of a video I watched over lunch.  Now that our country is swinging back to left, it&#8217;s time to vigilantly guard our right to bear arms.  Rumors are a flying about gun bans and so forth and I thought I&#8217;d put a subtle reminder out there about why we have such rights to begin with.</p>
<p>This video is case in point why we will NEVER surrender them in this country.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><p><a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2009/01/25/the-brits-want-their-guns-back/"><em>Click here to view the video!</em></a></p></p>
<p>I also wanted to put my 2 cents in about the Obama thing now that he&#8217;s our President and all.  I haven&#8217;t quite gotten on board yet, but I must say that I appreciated his inaugural speech.  Of course, the words &#8220;LIE&#8221; and &#8220;You&#8217;ll never be able to do that&#8221; were coming to my head far too frequently while watching&#8230;but nonetheless, I listened and I want to believe the speech.</p>
<p>SOOOOOOO&#8230;for those of you who didn&#8217;t get it, what he&#8217;s telling us is that it&#8217;s up to US to do what he&#8217;s talking about.  He didn&#8217;t say, &#8220;Go back to your homes, watch your TV and let me take care of it.&#8221;  He said we need to ACT and I fully agree with him.</p>
<p>So all your Democrats and koolaid drinkin&#8217; Republicans out there&#8230;let&#8217;s particpate in this Republic again.  Get educated.  Write a letter to Congress.  Join an activist group.  Start a cause.  Do something.  I say that as much for myself as I do any others that might come across this.  Let&#8217;s hold him to the fire!</p>
<p>You want to end the wars?  Make it known.  You want sound monetary policies because you see our nation spiraling into debt?  Demand it.  You want to keep every firearm in your arsenal?  Defend them.  You want end the corporate bailouts?  Protest them.</p>
<p>If WE don&#8217;t, WHO will????  Not the politicians, I can guarantee you that.</p>
<p>Out.</p>
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		<title>Change &amp; Obama&#8217;s Cabinet Appointments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was once said that, "There's nothing new under the sun.  There's only history you haven't learned yet."  So true that is.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Change For The Same!" src="http://jeffwhiteside.com/images/changethesame.jpg" alt="" width="181" height="154" />I&#8217;ve been meaning to get the time to comment on Obama&#8217;s recent choices for his cabinet appointments.  Things are shaping up exactly how I thought they would.  The power circle will remain with the reigns of the &#8220;haves&#8221; that always have.</p>
<p>First, and probably foremost, we can&#8217;t ignore the Secretary of State position that has been offered and accepted to none other than Hillary Clinton.  While this makes some of those rabid leftist Clintonites happy, I&#8217;m sure&#8230;this is a very clear throwback to not-so-way back.  &#8216;Nuff said.</p>
<p>Next in the line up, Eric Holder&#8230;appointed to Attorney General&#8230;who&#8217;s history as #2 in the Clinton Justice department is another clear regression back to Clinton era politics.  Here we have a guy who advocated the pardoning of Marc Rich, an international commodities trader who was convicted of tax evasion and illegal oil-trading with Iran during the Iranian hostage crisis.  A man who clearly respects the law, I&#8217;m sure.</p>
<p>Then of course we have Biden&#8217;s Chief of Staff, Ronald Klain who served as Al Gore&#8217;s Chief of Staff.  You starting to see a pattern here yet?  Klain also acted as one of Fannie Mae&#8217;s political lobbyists.  Nothing says &#8220;insider&#8221; like a reprise act&#8230;this &#8220;change&#8221; is starting to look like margarine vs. bovine growth hormone infused butter.</p>
<p>John Podesta, head of Obama&#8217;s presidential transition team, served as Clinton&#8217;s chief of staff.  Mmmmm&#8230;margarine.  He&#8217;s also the CEO of the liberal think tank American Progress who ignorantly blames Bush for our economic woes, yet also promotes and advocates tax-payer bailouts.  Apparently they haven&#8217;t done any historical research and they believe that such things actually work.</p>
<p>Oh, and to fill the &#8220;change&#8221; out even further, we have Rahm Emanuel as Obama&#8217;s chief of staff, who conveniently served as one of Clinton&#8217;s advisers.  Next up, Greg Craig, who formerly represented Clinton in his many legal troubles.  We&#8217;re also going to see further former Clinton team members in Obama&#8217;s cabinet, such as William Daley, Carol Browner and Federico Pena.</p>
<p>It was once said that, &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing new under the sun.  There&#8217;s only history you haven&#8217;t learned yet.&#8221;  So true that is.</p>


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		<title>Shocking County By County Election Results</title>
		<link>http://jeffwhiteside.com/2008/11/24/shocking-county-by-county-election-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This map of the county by county election results made it's way into my inbox tonight.  I found it rather shocking.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>This map of the county by county election results made it&#8217;s way into my inbox tonight.  I found it rather shocking, honestly&#8230;so much so that I didn&#8217;t believe it.  Well, I did my research and sure enough, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/election/uscounties.html" target="_blank">it&#8217;s true</a>.</p>
<p>This just goes to show how controlling a few major population centers is all it takes to rule America.  Either that or that it doesn&#8217;t really take a majority to do so.</p>
<p>It really makes me want to go on some rant about why a republic, not a democracy, is so much better suited for America.  Instead, I&#8217;ll just let the image do the talking and you can come to your own conclusions.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Election Results - County By County" src="http://jeffwhiteside.com/images/election_countybycounty.gif" alt="" width="486" height="350" /></p>


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		<title>The Next Step&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well...it is now known that Ron Paul will, in fact, not be our next president.  Instead, I'm seeing a euphoric and God awfully weird, manufactured messiahfest sweep across the nation.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>So, yeah, I&#8217;ve been quiet on here for a while.  Kind of a lot&#8217;s been going on lately.</p>
<p>First off, I&#8217;m sure some are interested in my take on the election.  Well&#8230;it is now known that Ron Paul will, in fact, not be our next president.  Instead, I&#8217;m seeing a euphoric and God awfully weird, manufactured messiahfest sweep across the nation.  I just hope these ignoramuses realize that if they want change, it&#8217;s the people that are actually going to change things.  I hope they&#8217;re prepared to make their chimp perform.  Sadly, I think the overwhelming majority of them think their vote is their highest civic duty and we&#8217;re going to see more of the same dressed up like &#8220;change&#8221; in the coming years.</p>
<p>Then again, we will likely be in for a bumpy ride here in the near future as we recoil from the effects of massive inflation caused by these serial bailouts, military occupations and seismic future obligations.  The way I see it, Obama&#8217;s going to be our escort into the New World Order.  Not exactly the kind of change I was looking for.</p>
<p>On a lighter note, my official home is now Missoula, Montana.  I made a decision to move here after being offered an opportunity to transfer within my company.  It&#8217;s a different world than Spokane, and I miss my many friends there&#8230;but a lot of things made sense about me moving to Montana.  Now that I live here, I can tell you it sucks and you would never want to live here.  <img src='http://jeffwhiteside.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>With that said, I&#8217;ve picked up my liberty and educational efforts here in my new state and have been actively participating in the <a title="Campaign For Liberty" href="http://www.campaignforliberty.com" target="_blank">Campaign For Liberty</a>.  The new C4L site has proven to be a marvelous networking tool and could prove to be a game changer in coming years.  I&#8217;m just starting to get in touch with folks across the state, but this place is all ready starting to look like just as fertile ground for a statewide liberty coalition as Washington was.  There&#8217;s a lot of work that must be done to get there, though.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m conflicted about what else to write about&#8230;so, I guess I&#8217;ll call it a night and leave you with a video.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><p><a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2008/11/06/the-next-step/"><em>Click here to view the video!</em></a></p></p>


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		<title>Two Conventions &#8211; Lifelong Lessons&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I would bring to your attention an article that I recently wrote for a local rag called the Idaho Observer.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p style="text-align: left;">I thought I would bring to your attention an article that I recently wrote for a local rag called the <a title="Idaho Observer" href="http://www.proliberty.com/observer/" target="_blank">Idaho Observer</a>.  I have been a subscriber of the IO for a year and a half now and <a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/05/05/idaho-observer-plug/" target="_self">hold it in high regard.</a> When I was presented the opportunity to write an article from my perspective about the Washington State Republican Convention, I was honored by the request.  Though it took some work to get the article into a mangeable length, I was rather pleased with the end result.  You can check out the article <a title="Idaho Observer Article" href="http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20080631.htm" target="_blank">here in it&#8217;s entirety</a> &#8211; or, for convenience, I have copied the body of the article below.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And of course, here&#8217;s a video of the Spokane, Washington Ron Paul march that spontaneously erupted moments after the convention ended.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><p><a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2008/07/17/three-weekends-two-conventions-lifelong-lessons/"><em>Click here to view the video!</em></a></p></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It wasn’t all that long ago that I found myself in the improbable position of being a key coordinator for Ron Paul’s national delegate effort at the Washington State Republican Convention. I was on the inside, amongst the most trusted, dedicated and capable Ron Paul supporters in the state of Washington. This group was amazing. Like me, they were willing to deny themselves sleep, spend months of man-hours and do whatever it took to give Ron Paul a fighting chance of getting national delegates at the Washington State Republican Convention.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Together, we had planned out almost every possible scenario, locked down hundreds of details and pushed this State Convention well beyond where any had been before. We had a strong delegation – nearly 40%, or about 450 people. We owned the perimeter with a decked out Ron Paul RV command center, a glow-in-the-dark Ron Paul van and hundreds of Ron Paul signs deployed in the surrounding area. We even had our very own Ron Paul bottled water and an awe-inspiring Ron Paul display directly across the street from the convention center. It was a masterpiece of the grassroots. We were ready.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So were they. During an executive session a few days before the convention the Washington State Republican Party (WSRP) illegally passed an executive rule, ultimately ratified by the Washington State Republican delegation, that essentially controlled the ballots and prevented legal voters from fairly electing a large number of national delegate positions.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Undeterred, we hit the convention floor running – we were prepared to challenge the rules, the credentials report, and the order of business – essentially, we intended to lay down an intellectual fight at every level. It was clear early on that this would be no easy battle…and in hindsight, what we wanted never would have happened. The deck was stacked and the other side was willing to break laws to maintain its position.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Despite being outright denied any semblance of fair representative elections, our delegates were able to win 10 national delegate and alternate positions for Ron Paul. But then something unexpected began happening: At the cost of adopting by acclimation a so-called Soviet style &#8220;Unity Slate,&#8221; the tide began to change. We were then able to utilize core conservative values to break up McCain leadership’s stronghold and methodically cause their delegates to vote against their conservative conscience in the process of Resolutions and Platform. This caused a crisis in the ranks of the party faithful. Leadership had led them to vote against things like right to life and 2nd Amendment rights just to oppose Ron Paul supporters. If we could claim one major victory during this convention, it would be this: Members of the party who believe in the system discovered that it is a closed system, that your voice will be heard and your vote counted only if they are in agreement with leadership.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As we broke for lunch, there was a definite shift in the attitude among many McCain supporters. It was as if we were no longer the enemy. McCain campaign strategists on the floor were sensing the shift and made a deal with us. They agreed to make no attempt to block our resolutions so long as we did not resolve to withdraw from Iraq. They warned that they would leave the convention and deny us a quorum if we brought up our war resolutions.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Just two hours before the end of the convention, the John McCain leadership began instructing their delegates to leave the convention floor when we resolved to oppose Real ID. Delegation chairmen and McCain leaders, like sheep in the fold, followed orders and began evacuating their willing delegates. Hundreds upon hundreds of delegates sheepishly stepped out of the room. Their plan was to deny the Ron Paul delegates a quorum (a majority) and consequently end the convention right there.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What the McCain camp hadn’t anticipated was that our previous methods had worked. Those who remained, all 700+ of them, established a quorum…we had won over the hearts and minds of the majority. What time we had was only able to be used for passing a resolution that requires the WSRP to officially observe the Constitution when declaring war, thereby requiring an official declaration by Congress. We were about five minutes away from approving a motion to extend the convention until all business had been completed when the McCain people started filing back in and diluted our 2/3 majority. Nonetheless, we had accomplished our goal all along – to cause McCain delegates to question their leadership, realize their hypocrisy and rethink everything they had been told about Ron Paul and his supporters.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In conclusion, the most important thing we accomplished was a political education for hundreds of new people in the state of Washington. I can only pray that these individuals, further resolved by their treatment at the convention, realize the imminent need to further the Ron Paul Revolution, with or without Ron Paul. This is the only hope we have for regaining control over our country and avoiding tyrannical big brother government, bent on keeping us in a prison without bars.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK...I've seen some protests.  I've seen some marches.  Heck, I've orchestrated such things.  But nothing prepared me for viewing the Ron Paul Revolution march on Washington, DC.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>OK&#8230;I&#8217;ve seen some protests.  I&#8217;ve seen some marches.  Heck, I&#8217;ve orchestrated such things.  But nothing prepared me for viewing the Ron Paul Revolution march on Washington, DC.</p>
<p>It was funny&#8230;as I was watching this video, I began to be a little disappointed.  I was like, &#8220;that&#8217;s it?&#8221; &#8211; over a million votes and &#8220;that&#8217;s it?&#8221;  But then the camera man zoomed in on the approaching demonstrators and I did a complete 180.  I can&#8217;t even imagine what Minneapolis / St. Paul is gonna be like&#8230;but this march is on the magnitude of insane.</p>
<p>I wish I coulda been there&#8230;this energy is just fantastic.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Good things ARE happening in the world&#8230;I just hope the mainstream hops on.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last year and a half of my life has brought about great transformation. Where I used to be a philosophical pessimist bent on arm-chair quarterbacking an ineffective bitch fest, I am now a decided and battle tested foe in the war against American civil liberties, personal privacy and individual freedom. What brought about this [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The last year and a half of my life has brought about great transformation.  Where I used to be a philosophical pessimist bent on arm-chair quarterbacking an ineffective bitch fest, I am now a decided and battle tested foe in the war against American civil liberties, personal privacy and individual freedom.  What brought about this change?</p>
<p>Ron Paul.</p>
<p>It was with mixed emotion that I learned of the Ron Paul presidential campaign coming to an official end.  On one hand, I have invested so much of my time, blood, sweat and tears as a grassroots activist for his bid for Presidency, and I&#8217;m wondering what I can do now that it&#8217;s clear that America has made two bad choices.  On the other hand, though, I realized quite some time ago that mainstream America was not READY for Ron Paul and that this effort was more about the message than the man or a Presidential seat.  It is an effort to steer America off this path of certain financial ruin, to preserve the original intent of our country and to stave off hundreds of powerful elitists that want as much control over mankind as possible.</p>
<p>I have been concerned for some time that this movement of freedom fighters inspired by Ron Paul would fracture into thousands of pieces and eventually and irrevocably be lost until the next great conservative comes along.  I was hoping that Ron Paul would steer us in a right direction &#8211; a channel to funnel our energy into effectual change based around the principles we love and cherish.  Freedom.  Peace.  Prosperity.</p>
<p>As I have frequently found the case, he and I share consistent concerns.  I am happy to announce that Dr. Paul has done it right, yet again.  He has announced phase two of his campaign &#8211; a much broader and<br />
longer term project &#8211; the <a title="Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty" href="http://www.campaignforliberty.com/" target="_blank">Campaign for Liberty</a>.  Essentially, it is an advocacy group to educate and inform the public, promote our common principles and insure the retention of this amazing network of some of the smartest people in America.  There is no doubt there&#8217;s something amazing about this group &#8211; within 24 hours of the announcement of this new phase, almost 42,000 supporters have joined the new campaign and it&#8217;s growing by the minute.   These are numbers that can seriously change things, especially if they are a group that is paying attention, dedicated to the cause, and can focus their energy on the same things at the same time.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t done so all ready, please consider <a title="Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty" href="http://www.campaignforliberty.com/" target="_blank">joining the campaign</a>.  As always, keep learning.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the official announcement from Ron Paul:</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I did something today that I&#8217;ve never done before in my life.  I donated money to a presidential campaign &#8211; specifically, Ron Paul&#8217;s 2008 campaign.  It was a piece of cake, I feel good about it and for a moment, I was recognized world-wide for it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/" target="_blank">Ron Paul&#8217;s campaign website</a> provides instant feedback for those who donate to their campaign &#8211; names scroll across a graphic, showing the most recent people who have donated.  I wondered if these names were real people&#8230;there were so many that I&#8217;d seen over the last few weeks since they introduced it.  Well, I&#8217;ve got absolute confirmation it&#8217;s real.  Within seconds of my donation, my name graced the graphic for several minutes&#8230;I liked it.  It was fun, encouraging and best of all&#8230;personalized.  What a great personal touch for the rather &#8220;mundane&#8221; act of giving money to a politician?</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img title="Jeff Whiteside's Ron Paul Donation" src="http://www.jeffwhiteside.com/images/rpdonation.jpg" alt="Jeff Whiteside's Ron Paul Donation" width="409" height="183" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><em>As of my donation to this writing (about ten hours), the total has gone from $539,617  to $588,448&#8230;yeah!!  How about over half a million in ten days?  RP supporters &#8211; you ROCK!  Let&#8217;s keep it going!</em></p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard, Ron Paul is shooting to raise over $12 million dollars by December 31st.  If you also weren&#8217;t aware, Ron Paul recently raised over $5 million dollars for his campaign, surpassing the relatively dismal efforts of almost all the other candidates.  His message is being spread by thousands of grassroots supporters in a blinding effort to raise awareness to the great things he could do for our nation.  Where Ron Paul has held the title of internet superstar, the people that believe in him are insuring that it goes well beyond just that&#8230;we&#8217;re putting real dollars in the bank, and we&#8217;re hittin&#8217; the streets making sure you&#8217;ve heard about him.  We&#8217;re gonna make sure he&#8217;s the GOP candidate.  We&#8217;re not just talking Ron Paul revolution, we&#8217;re walking it.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p><img title="Ron Paul Revolution" src="http://www.jeffwhiteside.com/images/ronpaul_revolutionwhitesmall.jpg" alt="Ron Paul Revolution" hspace="10" width="226" height="87" align="right" />A lot of us Americans have had this uneasy feeling about the direction our country has taken.  This is not a new feeling &#8211; it&#8217;s been gradually building over the course of many Presidential terms.  We&#8217;ve bounced between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism" target="_blank">neo-con</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism" target="_blank">neo-liberal</a> factions for a couple decades now and the &#8220;massiveness of scale&#8221; of our ever-increasing government is finally being recognized as a huge financial liability.  As our national debt hovers just under $10 trillion dollars and inflation pushes our cost of living higher and higher, a lot of us are wondering how we could ever pay that down&#8230;especially if we continue to overspend, decade after decade.  Many of us are growingly concerned over dependence on foreign money&#8230;concerned because it has implications that affect our nation&#8217;s sovereignty.</p>
<p>Bush &amp; Congress have really screwed up our country.  In so much as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_act" target="_blank">Patriot Act</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tribunal" target="_blank">military tribunals</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act" target="_blank">Real ID act</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_and_the_United_States" target="_blank">prisoner torture</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_Prosperity_Partnership_of_North_America" target="_blank">North American Union</a> and other laws that have all but chipped our Constitutional freedoms to dust, we&#8217;re just not the same nation as we once were.   I personally know an American on the &#8220;no fly list&#8221; and they&#8217;re neither a criminal or a terrorist.  My friends have died because of this war. These were irrational acts of fear, perhaps acts of purpose, not determinate acts of protection.</p>
<p>As far as I am concerned, there&#8217;s one item in Ron Paul&#8217;s campaign that really stands out&#8230;and it&#8217;s what has inspired me to not just vote for Ron Paul, but to be one of those grassroots activists that insists he get into office.  &#8220;Stop the national ID card.&#8221;  Sure, I support the idea of limited government, ending the IRS, getting out of Iraq now, international non-intervention, stopping deficit spending &#8211; but the whole Real ID national drivers license is a really bad thing for America.  My blood boils when I think about having to accept a microchipped driver&#8217;s license in 2009.  If we&#8217;re to be a free nation, we cannot allow government to track our every move through RFID tracking chips found in our driver&#8217;s licenses.  I tell you now &#8211; that IS what the Real ID will do.  Ron Paul&#8217;s committed to stopping it&#8230;Hillary, Obama, Giuliani&#8230;pretty sure they&#8217;re for it.</p>
<p>If any of this concerns you, well, there&#8217;s finally something you can do about it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><p><a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/10/10/proof-ron-paul-loves-me-wants-me-to-be-happy/"><em>Click here to view the video!</em></a></p></p>
<p>Help Ron Paul help US&#8230;<a href="https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/" target="_blank"><strong>donate today</strong></a>.  It&#8217;s fun, you&#8217;ll be famous for a moment and you&#8217;ll be participating in what could be the most important fight for freedom ever waged in America.  Even if it&#8217;s $25&#8230;with Paul&#8217;s frugality, he&#8217;ll make that go a long way.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t joined your local Meetup group &amp; you want to make a real difference for America&#8230;<a href="http://ronpaul.meetup.com/" target="_blank">get started today</a>!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>In light of my <a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/10/05/im-such-a-hyprocrite/">hypocrisy</a>, I&#8217;m gonna go a little nutz with the videos here.  I particularly liked these videos as they&#8217;re an excellent introduction to Ron Paul&#8217;s views and political strategies.</p>
<p>Now, for a moment, I want you to pretend that there are no political affiliations and also pretend that you don&#8217;t <strong>have</strong> to vote for the media anointed idiots, such as Hillary, Giuliani, and Obama.  For just a second, let&#8217;s pretend that the most pressing issues facing our country are not a woman&#8217;s right to choose, the death penalty, and faux religious affiliation.  Let&#8217;s look at this coming election from the big picture.</p>
<p>Where are we at?  If you&#8217;re paying attention, you might have noticed that a <a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/05/03/real-id-update/">National ID card, designed to track our every move, is being shoved down our throats in 2009</a>.  We&#8217;re being lead into a <a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/02/13/got-real-id/">surveillance-laden police state</a>, hell bent on destroying our civil liberties and freedom, all in the name of perceived (not actual) safety.  We&#8217;re fighting a war, ultimately for oil, at an astronomical cost that can neither be maintained nor actually provide us a modicum of national safety.  <a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/05/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-economics/">Our financial outlook is bleak</a> with nearly 9 TRILLION dollars of debt and rampant inflation that destroys the middle class and poor&#8217;s purchasing power.  We have an illegal IRS system that literally destroys people&#8217;s lives, all to support a massive government machine, that garners anywhere from 30 to 60 percent of our incomes, month in, month out.  Our dismal educational system suffers from continual cutbacks as we shuffle our dollars towards failed foreign policies, petroleum superiority and policing the world in a failed effort to make the world &#8220;safe&#8221; for Democracy. We&#8217;re in a pretty bad way&#8230;but there&#8217;s hope for America&#8230;Ron Paul is running for President in 2008.</p>
<p>With the primaries just around the corner, time is running short for Ron Paul&#8217;s ever-growing base of patriots and lovers of liberty to fight like hell with their grass-roots campaigns to get you, the average American, to open up their eyes and see things how they are.  With all the political &#8220;enemies of the state&#8221; that want to continue trodding down this path of <a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2005/10/02/57/">reckless abandon</a> and <a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/05/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-economics/">financial ruin</a>, there&#8217;s never been a more important time to think outside the party lines and base our decision, not on <a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/05/03/america-the-leftright-paradigm/">has-been Republican/Democrat ideologies</a>, but rather what is most important for our nation.</p>
<p>So, with that said, I present you with the core views of the beloved Ron Paul.  Remember, <a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/10/04/how-democratic-representation-works/">forget everything you thought you knew about politics</a> and let the man talk to you with a common sense that is all together foreign in this day and age.</p>
<p>First, we have Dr. Ron Paul discussing the success of his <a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/" target="_blank">internet media campaign</a>, quite possibly the first time an election has utilized the tools of the web, on a large scale, as a primary means of reaching out to the American people:</p>
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<p>Next up, a two-fold view on the American economy, representing Dr. Paul&#8217;s critical foundation towards financial stability and preserving the (currently falling) value of the American dollar.  The first shows his views on American fiscal policy and the second, relating to what we can all get behind &#8211; the abolishment of the IRS.  If you&#8217;re wondering how on earth we can abolish IRS, you need to understand the difference between direct taxation and indirect taxation.  Our country<strong> can</strong> actually survive on indirect taxation alone &#8211; that&#8217;s how taxation in America began and there was never an intention of going to an direct taxation system, such as the IRS like we have today.  Watch the <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=xvNgbKy3OiE" target="_blank">late Aaron Russo&#8217;s America:  From Freedom to Fascism</a> for more information about this.</p>
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<p>As the only physician that&#8217;s running for President, Dr. Paul has some refreshing views on how to handle our failing, corporate-run healthcare system.  The gamut of healthcare is not just between socialized medicine or privatized, for-profit corporate-moguls who&#8217;s interest is reaping every dollar they can out of American wallets.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><p><a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/10/06/ron-paul-video-extravaganza/"><em>Click here to view the video!</em></a></p></p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s the billions of dollars that we waste, every year, on failed entitlement systems.  You need to wake up and realize that you are not ENTITLED to anything other than life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.  With those freedoms alone, we will take care of our own because we LOVE and because we can afford it, not because a government insists on robbing Peter to pay Paul.  If everyone has a lower level of taxation and we follow Dr. Paul&#8217;s healthcare plans, we&#8217;ll be able to provide for our own.  He wouldn&#8217;t strip programs for the disabled and other critical programs &#8211; but the abuse of our current entitlement systems are a huge financial burden for the poor and middle class.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><p><a href="http://jeffwhiteside.com/2007/10/06/ron-paul-video-extravaganza/"><em>Click here to view the video!</em></a></p></p>
<p>Then, of course, there my hot-button topic&#8230;the erosion of American freedom and the battle we&#8217;re waging RIGHT NOW to preserve our civil liberties.  It seems that Dr. Paul is the only candidate wise enough to see the importance of civil liberty and certainly the only one that makes freedom the core of their campaign.</p>
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<p>And you can&#8217;t go without discussing gun rights.  Gun rights were never established so we could &#8220;pop a cap in your ass&#8221; or wage gun-battles in America&#8217;s schools.  Just because there are violators of law (which there always are and always will be, people), doesn&#8217;t mean we should disarm the American people.  Frankly, if more people had guns, there would be LESS crime&#8230;we can&#8217;t rely on police that are MINUTES away to protect us from threats that are happening NOW.  Not just that, but a disarmed people opens the door to a totalitarian government with nothing to stop them from throwing any man, woman or child into political prisons, or much worse, the hijacking of what was once a great country for the purpose of wielding great power.</p>
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<p>So, there you have it.  A Ron Paul video extravaganza!  Break free of the political mind-prison that is being constructed for you on the television and other media outlets.  Consider out future, for a change&#8230;consider your freedom of choice.  Reach deep down and find the patriot within you&#8230;stand up and fight for liberty.  America may never be free again if we don&#8217;t fight for it.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>So, a question&#8230;who&#8217;s smarter: Bill O&#8217;Reilly, media swill and spinmaster, or Dr. Ron Paul, 10th term Congressman from Texas?  Well, two things are clear:  Bill O&#8217;Reilly is still a lying, ignorant idiot and Fox news still has an interest in brainwashing their viewers with fearmongering and lies.</p>
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<p>In typical O&#8217;Reilly style, he ignorantly fumbles historical fact, rudely interrupts an <strong>*Honorable*</strong> Congressman, squirms like a tickled school girl when he must avoid confirming his guest&#8217;s accuracy, disrupts conversation about sensitive topics so they get no coverage and, worst of all, goes so far as to insult a US Congressman.  O&#8217;Reilly says himself, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need a history lesson!&#8221;  God forbid, it might teach him to have a little more respect for those that lead our nation. Bill, you&#8217;re not that good.</p>
<p>Ummm&#8230;just for anyone that&#8217;s not clear on the subject, the CIA did state that Iran was 10 years away from even possibly having a nuclear weapon and found no evidence of such a program in place.  Apparently, Fox news has better sources that say the danger is more like 5 years.  Who has more authority&#8230;the CIA or the &#8220;everybody says&#8221; that Fox News just conjured up?</p>
<p>Oh, and notice when Dr. Paul brings up that 50% of the suicide attackers are Saudi&#8230;O&#8217;Reilly wasn&#8217;t going to touch that one.  Or the Pakistan reference. Subjects broiling with controversy&#8230;and a Google search will pretty much lay it all out for you&#8230;but O&#8217;Reilly won&#8217;t pause for you to think about it. Why can&#8217;t we talk about it, O&#8217;Reilly?</p>
<p>Just for the record, if O&#8217;Reilly told me I was living in Oz and treated me like that, I think I&#8217;d throw off my microphone, crawl over the desk and strangle the guy on air.  I don&#8217;t know how his guests stay so composed when he gets like that.  Dr. Paul&#8217;s a better man than I.</p>
<p>So you can see what happens when Ron Paul is interviewed by a reasonable host,  you can view Bill Maher&#8217;s new hero here:</p>
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<p>Remember&#8230;vote Ron Paul for President in 2008&#8230;and stop watching Fox News!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Ron Paul telling it how it is&#8230;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those that may not have noticed, I&#8217;m rooting for Ron Paul in the 2008 elections. It&#8217;s time we get the caliber of leadership that Dr. Ron Paul represents. I received some good news today&#8230;fantastic news, actually&#8230;Ron Paul seems to be getting an underestimated amount of support. He&#8217;s moved from underdog to one of the [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img src="http://jeffwhiteside.com/images/ronpaul_blue.jpg" title="Ron Paul" alt="Ron Paul" align="left" height="188" hspace="10" width="150" />For those that may not have noticed, I&#8217;m rooting for Ron Paul in the 2008 elections.  It&#8217;s time we get the caliber of leadership that Dr. Ron Paul represents.  I received some good news today&#8230;fantastic news, actually&#8230;Ron Paul seems to be getting an underestimated amount of support.  He&#8217;s moved from underdog to one of the more popular candidates, just since his well spoken GOP debate on March 3rd.  This is particularly amazing considering that the major news media has pretty much blacked-out Paul&#8217;s campaign and what little time has been spent does little justice.  Per his regular emails, here are some things that he has to say about the success of his campaign:</p>
<p>Since the debate on May 3, Ron Paul:</p>
<p>1. Handily won two post-debate  polls posted by event sponsor MSNBC.</p>
<p>2. Placed a close third (18%) in a  post-debate poll on the conservative Drudge Report.</p>
<p>3. Won an ABCNews.com  online debate poll with 84%.</p>
<p>4. Won a C-SPAN online GOP candidate poll  with 69%.</p>
<p>5. Became the third most-mentioned person in the blogosphere,  beating out Paris Hilton, according to the reputable Technorati.com.</p>
<p>6.  Produced a YouTube.com video that was ranked the 8th most popular overall video,  and the most-viewed political video.</p>
<p>7. Was featured, by popular demand,  on the front of Digg.com.</p>
<p>8. Generated so many bulletin posts on  MySpace.com that the site owner News Corp. blocked all additional posts about  Dr. Paul.</p>
<p>9. Became a &#8220;most searched&#8221; term on Google and Yahoo!.</p>
<p>10. Saw a quadrupling of daily visitors to RonPaul2008.com.</p>
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<p><strong>Update:</strong></p>
<p>Found <a href="http://infowars.com/articles/ps/ron_paul_yahoo_censors_popular_support.htm" target="_blank">this article</a> that Yahoo is censoring their polls by not including Dr. Ron Paul.  Just another shining example of how our media is complicit in public manipulation.</p>
<p>Of course, this reminds me&#8230;they&#8217;re talking about excluding Dr. Paul from future debates&#8230;so I guess I shouldn&#8217;t get too worked up about it.  If they do that&#8230;you are going to see one scathing rant&#8230;so I better save my energy, just in case.</p>
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<p>Ron Paul delivered a powerful performance in the recent GOP debate.  This video contains some of the highlights.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img src="http://www.jeffwhiteside.com/images/ronpaul_flag.jpg" title="Ron Paul" alt="Ron Paul" align="right" height="200" hspace="10" width="183" />I meant to write this article something like a month ago, but somehow it slipped past me.  Not a surprise when blogging takes a bit of effort, at least for me.  Anyway.  Earlier this year I wrote an article that Ron Paul, a representative from Texas, was exploring the possibility of running for President in 2008.  Well, it&#8217;s official &#8211; he&#8217;s decided to run for the biggest seat in the house.  According to his recent updates, his fundraising and awareness campaigns are going well.  I&#8217;m still a little frustrated that the media is still in full-blown blackout mode &#8211; but I guess that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve come to expect from our hegemonic and complicit media.</p>
<p>One of the things I like most about Ron Paul is that he tells it how it is.  He makes no bones about informing the people and fellow Congress about the Federal Reserve, the Internal Revenue Service, anti-freedom legislation, and the erosion of American sovereignty.  His credibility, research and informed leadership is exactly what this nation needs.  We must figure out a way to &#8220;fight terrorism&#8221; without further devastation to civil liberties, human rights and America&#8217;s founding document, the Constitution.</p>
<p>Ron Paul is also a voice against the formation of a North American Union.  Despite the fact that most Americans are not familiar with the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and it&#8217;s consequence of forming a North American Union, there is very much an effort going on to erode the sovereignty of America in favor of a unionization between Canada, America and Mexico.  If you&#8217;ve followed what has happend with the European Union, the individual countries are being forced to give up their own founding principles in favor of a unionized &#8220;Constitution&#8221; that effectively makes each nation subservient to the Union&#8217;s federalization.  Not to mention&#8230;to oppose it, by it&#8217;s very words makes you suspect.  What?  Are you against prosperity and security?  Who are you?  This is by design and the same thing was done with the Patriot Act.  Now&#8230;you&#8217;re not a patriot, are you?  There&#8217;s much more going on here than fancy wordplay &#8211; right now, there is a focused push for global governance and further centralization of power.  Ron Paul is not only too aware of this&#8230;but also recognizes why it&#8217;s not good for nations, especially ours.</p>
<p>As I don&#8217;t like to speak for people, generally speaking, I will provide some info from his website.  These are the focal points of his campaign:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Debt_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-section-head">Debt and Taxes</a></li>
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<p>Working Americans like lower taxes. So do I.  Lower taxes benefit all of us, creating jobs and allowing us to make more decisions for ourselves about our lives. (<a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Debt_fx.html" target="_top" class="style-more">more&#8230;</a>)</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Independence_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-section-head">American Independence and Sovereignty</a></li>
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<p>So called free trade deals and world governmental organizations like the International Criminal Court (ICC), NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and CAFTA are a threat to our independence as a nation. (<a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Independence_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-more">more&#8230;</a>)</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-War_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-section-head">War and Foreign            Policy</a></li>
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<p>The war in Iraq was sold to us with false information.  The area is more dangerous now than when we entered it.  We destroyed a            regime hated by our direct enemies, the jihadists, and created thousands of new recruits for them. (<a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-War_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-more">more&#8230;</a>)</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Border_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-section-head">Border Security            and Immigration Reform</a></li>
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<p>The talk must stop.  We must secure our borders now.  A nation without secure borders is no nation at all.  It makes no sense            to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked.  This is my six point plan: (<a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Border_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-more">more&#8230;</a>)</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Privacy_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-section-head">Privacy            and Personal Liberty</a></li>
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<p>The biggest threat to your privacy is the government.  We must drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data            regarding citizensâ€™ personal matters. (<a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Privacy_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-more">more&#8230;</a>)</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Property_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-section-head">Property            Rights and Eminent Domain</a></li>
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<p>We must stop special interests from violating property rights and literally driving families from their homes, farms and ranches. (<a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/issue-Property_fx.html" target="_self" class="style-more">more&#8230;</a>)</p>
<p>I really do believe he&#8217;s our last chance of retaining our freedom and sovereignty, the indirect casualty of the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; and the neo-con / neo-liberal agendists that have hijacked this nation.  I&#8217;m trying to get the word out because our media is failing to inform the people and people should be informed in their vote.  In the interest of the future of America, please step outside the box and check out Ron Paul.  I hope that you will find wisdom, knowledge and understanding in his view and realize, whether you&#8217;re a Democrat, Republican, Independant or otherwise, that the future of American privacy, liberty and sovereignty is at risk and could be a story we tell to our grandchildren.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img src="http://www.jeffwhiteside.com/images/ronpaul.jpg" title="Ron Paul" alt="Ron Paul" align="left" height="238" hspace="20" width="150" />Ron Paul, a representative from the 14th District of Texas, has formed an <a href="http://ronpaulexplore.com/" title="Ron Paul Explore Website" target="_blank">exploratory committee</a> for whether he should run for President.  For those that aren&#8217;t familiar with Ron Paul, you should view his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPlPT4bncq8" title="Ron Paul Exploratory Video" target="_blank">Exploratory Committee Video</a>.  He is a lighthouse of hope for radical change in foreign policy, reduction in size of government and is truly interested in our Constitutional freedom.  I fear that due to his Republican affiliation, many automatically &#8220;will not vote for&#8221; despite the good he could do for our nation.  The situation with this next election is beyond Democrat/Republican&#8230;it&#8217;s about whether we want a surveillance society, our Constitution further destroyed, and further financial distress.  I would encourage you to at least spend a moment of your life to <a href="http://www.house.gov/paul/legis.shtml" title="Ron Paul Legislation" target="_blank">look at his legislative information website</a> and find something of interest to you in his hundreds of posted articles, speeches, and press releases.  If you are behind getting America back on track, you could even go so far as to contribute to his campaign.</p>
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