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Title: Near Riot As GOP Leaders Try To Steal Caucus From Ron Paul
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URL Source: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/20 ... s-steal-caucus-ron-paul-99851/
Published: Mar 19, 2012
Author: Alexander Higgins
Post Date: 2012-03-19 17:38:20 by Capitalist Eric
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As the Missouri Caucus opened today the GOP establishment immediately tried hijacking the caucus by appointing the Caucus committee when procedure is to have a elect a committee from those in attendance. It was a blatant attempt to seize control of the physical ballots and perpetuate the nationwide vote fraud of systematically suppressing votes for Ron Paul. But Ron Paul supporters where not going to stand by and just let it happen and soon the situation exploded into a near riot which ended with the police in body armor arresting Ron Paul supporters beneath a helicopter in sky wailing its siren and ordering the crowd to disperse over a megaphone. The events in Missouri come just after a similar small minority of GOP leaders in Seattle attempting to hijack the caucus in the same manner in an attempt to prevent Ron Paul from having the opportunity to participate in a fair election. In Seattle the crowd of Ron Paul supporters were not having it so they staged a coup and despite GOP leaders attempts to thwart them from doing so they were able to run a fair election in which Ron Paul walked away with the full slate of 21 delegates. The GOP was up to their dirty tricks in Seattle Washington as the Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney people tried to team to prevent any delegates from going to Ron Paul. But there was a little problem… they were massively outnumbered by Ron Paul supporters who just weren’t having. Instead, they staged a coup and took the chair from few establishment GOP puppets on site who responded to the mutiny by walking off with the ballots and the scanners as an attempt to steal the delegates from Ron Paul. It didn’t matter because the crowd of highly motivated Ron Paul Supporters took over the caucus and figured things out just fine without using the fancy scanners. Then the establishment sock puppets tried putting motions through to kick out Ron Paul’s chair after voting ended, presumably so they can take the ballots and pull some shenanigans behind closed doors. As a writer on the Daily Paul reports, the motions were responded to with “a resounding spartan-like “NAY!” The GOP leaders tried doing the same thing in the Missouri caucus today in Saint Charles, but this time instead of GOP leaders gracefully stepping aside, they decided to resist the overwhelming majority of people who were in attendance in support of Ron Paul. Needless to say, chaos ensued and the situation festered out of control developing into a nearly all out riot. The situation started to spin out of control when the GOP leader tried to appoint the committee to run the caucus instead allowing an open vote to elect the committee members. Here is audio of the Chaos that breaks out as the crowd starts going crazy of the “appointment of the committee” with many more videos below detailing the entire chain of events. The crowd whipped into a frenzy as a frequency of the booing and heckling increased and soon turning into a constant loud moaning roar. Then instead of allowing a fair democratic vote and party leaders decided not to have a vote at all and instead chose to call in the police state enforcers to shut down the election altogether. In protective body army squads of police rolled up to the Caucus escorted by a helicopter and ordered the Ron Paul supporters to leave! The GOP had strict rules about not allowing any recording devices, but many turned their cell phones and cameras back on as soon as they notice there was a foul play going on. Needless to say video and audio soon made its way on to the internet exposing their fraud. Once outside, the Ron Paul supporters tried to collect the identities of other Ron Paul supporters in attendance so they could be contacted in the future if needed as witnesses but the police acting on orders from the GOP leaders would not have it. Instead the helicopter buzzed overhead blaring its sirens and instructing people to disperse immediately over the megaphone. Below is video of the police arresting and hauling off a peaceful Ron Paul leader during the chaos. The Brad Blog reports, giving us a fairly comprehensive overview of the days’ events. As the caucus was prematurely shut down before a vote, with state police called in, no delegates were elected at what “was to have been the biggest single prize of the day,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch coverage of the Missouri Caucuses’ mess. It was just the latest, of many, embarrassments to arise out of a GOP caucus state this year. A Facebook page called “Hold St. Charles Republican Tyrants Accountable” includes many cell phone videos of the near riots that occurred as party leaders attempted to commandeer the caucus to thundering cries of protest and shouts of “Point of Order!” and “Division!” (a process in Roberts Rules of Order requiring an immediate written vote after a contested voice vote) by what seems to be hundreds of Paul supporters. Despite the GOP ordering recording devices to be turned off at the outset of the meeting for some reason, a number of videos [several are posted below] appear to document what happened as one man declared himself chair - without the approval of attendees - before subsequently naming a parliamentarian and other caucus officials, in what looks to be a very clear violations of the rules of order that are supposed to be used in the MO GOP caucuses. A very similar commandeering of the Athens-Clarke County, Georgia delegate convention was reported - and also documented on video - last week. Those videos [also posted below] show state and county GOP officials blatantly ignoring what appears to be a majority of Paul supporters hoping to elect their own as delegates to the district and state GOP conventions. There as well, calls for “Division” votes were summarily ignored by the chair, and the official proceedings were prematurely shut down without the required two-thirds majority vote. At the St. Charles caucus yesterday, state and local police were called in and the caucus was prematurely “voted” to a close (or, at least, announced as much by the local party apparatchik who had declared himself chairman). An impromptu parking lot meeting of Paul supporters outside the venue afterward was then broken up by several dozen police, a hovering helicopter, police sirens, and the arrest of Brent Stafford, the man who is seen as the local leader of the Paul supporters. Stafford was peacefully addressing the crowd in the parking lot when he was handcuffed and hauled away to shouts of “Right to Assemble!” from the onlookers. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen anything like the huge St. Charles event or the very similar, if smaller and less unruly, Athens-Clarke County, GA affair. At both events, Republican Party officials appear to be caught in the act - and on video tape - of blatantly stealing the democratic processes away from supporters of Paul. All of that, amidst the background of elected Republican officials across the nation implementing disenfranchising polling place Photo ID restrictions in order to, they claim, deter “voter fraud” from corrupting elections... Raucus Caucus in St. Charles, MO “Even before the day’s events took a rancorous turn, state Republican officials said the winner of the caucus would not be officially known until next month,” according to the report in the Post-Dispatch. “But with the confusion surrounding St. Charles, and many more delegates available in a pair of caucuses next weekend, the primary picture for Missouri may have only become murkier Saturday.” “It was a joke. It was a complete joke,” David Nelson of St. Peters, who participated in the St. Charles County caucus, is quoted telling the Post. The most decipherable depiction I’ve been able to find so far, of what exactly happened inside the large gymnasium at Francis Howell North High school in St. Peters, before the official caucus meeting ended without a vote for delegates, is heard only on audio, after the party officials had instructed caucus goers to turn off all recording devices. Matt Ehlen, described by the Post report as a “Republican activist” was named chairman without a vote taking place. “All of sudden he’s the chairman and the place goes nuts,” Paul supporter Tim Finch told the paper. “This is not how it’s supposed to work.” But the written descriptions of the event don’t really seem to do it justice. Listen to the audio of what transpired yesterday (partial video versions of the chaos follow below it)... The following video shows the Ron Paul campaign’s Brent Stafford attempting to instruct fellow Paul supporters - in the parking lot, after the caucus was prematurely shut down in the wake of the pandemonium - to record their names, addresses and caucus bracelet numbers for the record. He is then seen being cuffed and taken away by state police, for some unknown reason, to cries of “Right to assemble!” by those gathered near by... After Stafford is taken away, the police are seen gathering, as a helicopter hovers overhead and as they begin blasting sirens to warn the crowd to break up immediately... One other Paul supporter was reportedly arrested as well. St. Louis’ CBS Radio affiliate KMOX, has a response from party leaders, claiming Paul and Romney supporters, not they, were attempting to work together to hijack the caucus process by overwhelming supporters of Rick Santorum with, ya know, more actual votes than those for Santorum. “They’re crying foul now saying they were shut out the process,” says St. Charles County Republican Central Committee member Jon Bennett, “but the fact of the matter is they were beaten at their own game. They got shut out of being able to shut everyone else out of the process.” Incredible. And, yes, Missouri is one of the state’s where the Republican Party has, for years, been attempting to institute polling place Photo ID restrictions in order to put a stop to alleged “voter fraud” at the polling place - for which they have no evidence at all. A Peach of a Mess in Athens-Clarke County, GA A similar scene was on display in Athens-Clarke County, GA just one week earlier, on March 10th, at the County GOP convention there. While a much smaller gathering than the one in St. Charles, MO, events played out similarly as party apparatchik ignored the protests of the apparent-majority of Paul supporters in attendance. Days earlier, Newt Gingrich had been declared the winner of the state primary - with Paul a distant fourth behind Santorum and Romney - but it is at county conventions where delegates are supposed to actually be chosen. As seen in the video below, the chairman of the Athens-Clarke gathering names his own slate of delegates; takes a voice vote where he appears to be outnumbered by “nays” from the Paul supporters in attendance; declares “the ‘ayes’ have it,”; ignores calls for “Division” (a written vote that must be taken immediately, according to the rules), before adjourning the meeting without the required 2/3rds vote of approval. The video below begins with a clip from a GOP gathering in Athens-Clark County, GA one year earlier, in 2010, where the GA State Party Chairwoman apologizes to Paul supporters for the “shoddy treatment” they received at the 2008 state convention. She promises that will not happen again. Of course, it does happen again, as seen below. Following the premature shut down of the convention by the chair, the Paul supporters are seen gathering to take testimony as to what occurred. They then decide, since the convention had not been “legally” called to a close, as they see it, that they have a quorum required to take their own vote for their own slate of delegates for the upcoming district convention, which is then followed up by the state, and finally, national conventions. What will occur at those conventions, given the disputed slates of delegates, remains to be seen... Georgia is the second state in the union, following Indiana, where the Republican legislature and Governor instituted polling place Photo ID restrictions in order to, as they claim, deter “voter fraud,” despite the thousands of disproportionately Democratic-leaning, legally registered voters who the lack the ID needed to cast their legal vote. Proponents of the Georgia Photo ID restrictions have been unable to point to any single case of voter fraud in state history which would have been deterred by the Republican Photo ID restrictions. * * * Poster Comment: So exactly HOW is the GOP in any way different from the DNC, or from the Socialist Party, for that matter???
Caucus Coup: Ron Paul Mob Overthrows Seattle GOP For 21 Delegates
A mob of Ron Paul supporters run GOP establishment sock puppets off site at Seattle caucus, with ballots in hand, and win the prize of 21 delegates.
The situation continued to grow more and more tense. Pandemonium at MO GOP Caucus as Party Leaders Seen Attempting to Steal It From Paul Supporters
Police arrest peaceful Paul leader in parking lot after chaotic St. Charles meeting prematurely closed without delegate vote
This is just amazing. At yesterday’s GOP caucus in St. Charles, MO - one of the largest and most conservative counties in the state - the Republican establishment is seen blatantly attempting to steal the caucus from supporters of Ron Paul.
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#1. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
AMERICA says; Near Riot As GOP Leaders Try To Steal Caucus From WHO? When does your wee failed FRAUD hero go third party do ya think gurls? LOL! Ron Paul = FAIL (Again/still).
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Just when I think maybe you've been on your leash long enough, you post one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever seen. Not one word about crooked party's and/or elections. Not one word about American citizens being deprived of their right to a fair election process. Just simple minded, retard level digs at Ron Paul and his supporters. I should have known better. I'll leave you off your leash long enough to respond, then back to the fuck you list you go. Make it a good one, it'll probably be the last response of yours that I'll ever see.
. Honest to God man do you really think that I give a F what YOU "think" or do? Do you think that trying to treat me as if I was one of your F'ing crumb snatchers that I'll do as YOU will? Really? 1.) Ronnie Paulie is a 100% FRAUD azzhole. 2.) RonniePaulie will NEVER be nominated to any mainstream party's Presidential candidate. 3.) You F'ing credulous brain dead CULTISTS don't have a F'ing snow ball in Hell's chance at foisting your little FRAUD onto the general American public. 4.) You F'ing WISH that I was "retarded" azzwipe. 5.) You PaulTARD cultists act EXACTLY like the worshippers of the one messiah "king" obammy. Don't like that? Tough shit, it TRUE. 6.) F' YOU and the horse you rode in on bitch. I don't toe any man's line. I don't live for anybody's "approval", and that you really thought you could influence me in ANY way with "threats" shows exactly what kind of a person YOU are. You CULTISTS are pitiful drones. Your wee failed lifer POLITICIAN is a TOTAL FRAUD. Don't like that being pointed out? Tough shit, it's the OBJECTIVE TRUTH. Something your wee hero knows NOTHING about. So ... go ahead and act like the little bitch you really are CULT boy, oh and pi$$ off CULT boy.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Ohhhhhhh, that was not a good one! You even fucked that up. Now, back to the fuck you list.
. Piss off you sniveling little CULT boy bitch.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Near Riot As GOP Leaders Try To Steal Caucus From Ron Paul
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