A letter from Ron Paul

[Guest guest]

December 17, 2007

 

What a day! I am humbled

and inspired, grateful and thrilled

for this vast outpouring of support.

On just one day, in honor

of the 234th anniversary of the

Boston Tea Party, the new American revolutionaries brought in $6.04

million,

another one-day record. The average donation was $102; we had 58,407

individual

contributors, of whom an astounding 24,915 were first-time donors. And

it was

an entirely voluntary, self-organized, decentralized, independent

effort on the

internet. Must be the "spammers" I keep hearing about!

The establishment is

baffled and worried, and well they

should be. They keep asking me who runs our internet fundraising and

controls

our volunteers. To these top-down central planners, a spontaneous order

like

our movement is science-fiction. But you and I know it's real: as real

as the

American people's yearning for freedom, peace, and prosperity, as real

as all

the men and women who have sacrificed for our ideals, in the past and

today.

And how neat to see

celebrations all across the world, with

Tea Parties from France to New Zealand.

This is how we can spread the ideals of our country, through voluntary

emulation, not bombs and bribes. Of course, there were hundreds in America.

As I dropped in on a

cheering, laughing crowd of about 600

near my home in Freeport, Texas, I

noted that they call us

"angry." Well, we are the happiest, most optimistic "angry"

movement ever, and the most diverse. What unites us is a love of

liberty, and a

determination to fix what is wrong with our country, from the Fed to

the IRS,

from warfare to welfare. But otherwise we are a big tent.

Said the local newspaper (http://www.thefacts.com/story.lasso?ewcd=36475b4d132fc0a1):

"The elderly sat with teens barely old enough to vote. The faces were

black, Hispanic, Asian and white. There was no fear in their voices as

they

spoke boldly with each other about the way the country should be. Held

close

like a deeply held secret, Paul has brought them out of the disconnect

they

feel between what they know to be true and where the country has been

led."

Thanks also to the 500 or

so who braved the blizzard in Boston to go to

Faneuil

Hall. My son Rand told me what a great time he had with you.

A few mornings ago on

LewRockwell.com, I saw a YouTube of a

14-year-old boy that summed up our whole movement for me. This

well-spoken

young man, who could have passed in knowledge for a college graduate,

told how

he heard our ideas being denounced. So he decided to Google. He read

some of my

speeches, and thought, these make sense. Then he studied US

foreign

policy of recent years, and came to the conclusion that we are right.

So he

persuaded his father to drop Rudy Giuliani and join our movement.

All over America,

all over the world, we are inspiring real change. With the wars and the

spying,

the spending and the taxing, the inflation and the credit crisis, our

ideas

have never been more needed. Please help me spread them https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate

in all 50 states. Victory for liberty! That is our goal, and nothing

less.

Sincerely,

Ron