Another blow from the MSM to the Ron Paul campaign.
The first thing I saw on my home page when I launched my browser was this tidbit courtesy of MSN.Com...
Super PAC supporting Ron
Paul is operated by a 9/11 'truther'
Have a little look at the opening two paragraphs of the article linked above:
As Libertarian Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul looks for a state he can win, some of his supporters have turned to a new theme: voting
fraud.
A Super PAC supporting Paul has pledged to monitor the vote in all the remaining states, using an army of exit pollsters to fight what it calls
results that are "outrageous, unacceptable and patently un-American." The group, called Revolution PAC, has spent half a million dollars supporting
Paul with videos, webcasts, online ads, direct mail, billboards and radio ads in primary and caucus states.
Okay, so a PAC that supports Ron Paul is concerned about voter fraud in the primaries/caucases. Fair enough. Can't say that I blame them.
However, in what strikes me as an attempt to sling mud upon Mr. Paul the article quickly devolves into an article about how the chairman/treasurer of
said PAC believes in conspiracy theories.
The leader of the group, its founder, chairman and treasurer, is Gary Franchi, a promoter of conspiracy theories and sophisticated social-media
entrepreneur in the resurgent movement known as the Patriots.
The 34-year-old political activist from the Chicago suburbs told msnbc.com that his goal is a "non-violent intellectual revolution, which results in
a full restoration of the federal Constitution."
Online videos produced by Franchi, and online interviews with him, add specifics:
•Franchi has supported the 9/11 Truth Movement, which supports the idea that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, werean inside job to create a
pretext for a reduction in American liberty, or at least involved a cover-up, with the World Trade Center brought down by a planned U.S. demolition,
instead of terrorist-controlled airplanes. Franchi founded the Lone Lantern Society (a reference to Paul Revere indicating that foreign enemies are on
American soil). The group supports "the birth of freedom and the death of the New World Order," a secretive elite that is supposedly trying to set
up a world government. Lone Lantern has held street demonstrations on the 11th of every month in Chicago and elsewhere, demanding an investigation of
9/11. In New Hampshire in 2008, a video shows Franchi asking Tom Ridge, the former secretary of Homeland Security, who was campaigning for Sen. John
McCain, whether Ridge would support an investigation of the "controlled demolition" of the World Trade Center. Ridge was having none of it, saying,
"I just don't buy into that. That's a conspiracy theory that has no basis in fact. It's almost out of the Twilight Zone."
•According to a 2010 reportby the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks domestic fringe groups, "Gary Franchi is one of the leading promoters
of a resurgent Patriot conspiracy theory that alleges the government is creating concentration camps for U.S. citizens." In 2009 he co-wrote and
co-produced the video "Camp FEMA: American Lockdown," which claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is creating concentration camps on
air bases and in vacant buildings to house political dissenters when the federal government proclaims martial law. "Your church may have already
signed a deal with the devil," reads promotional material for the film. The film questions whether Census data will be used to round up Americans.
Clips from Franchi's film on YouTubeshow Hitler youth marching while the narrator ominously describes President Obama's plans to expand AmeriCorps
and the USA Freedom Corps, the volunteer initiative launched by the Bush administration after 9/11.
•Franchi operates Restore the Republic, which opposes the Federal Reserve, the IRS and the income tax, decries the control of the economy by the
Rockefellers and the "banking cartel," and warns of government plans to plant RFID microchips into all Americans. The group was founded by Franchi
and filmmaker and Libertarian presidential candidate Aaron Russo, and has been operated by Franchi since Russo's death from cancer in 2007. RTR
shares an address with Revolution PAC in Northbrook, Ill. The group, which describes itself as a social media platform for like-minded individuals,
promotes Russo's film, "America: Freedom to Fascism," in which Ron Paul declares, "If that's the definition of a police state — that you can't
do anything unless the government gives you permission —we're well on our way." In a YouTube video interview with Franchi in 2008, Paul credited
the Russo video with bringing a lot of people to his presidential campaign. The group has also placed billboards fueling the bogus claim that Obama is
not an American citizen, asking, "Where's the REAL birth certificate?"
Now I know how upset the typical ATS member gets when somebody starts spouting off about "conspiracy theories".
Wait! There's a YouTube video linked to this story:
This is scary folks. YouTube has taken the courtesy of warning me about the video with this message:
The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as being potentially offensive or inappropriate. Viewer discretion is
advised.
Thank you for saving me from hearing anything controversial YouTube. Those crazy Ron Paul supporters. They are all sooooooooooooooo offensive to
me.
Seriously folks. When and where is this crap going to end?
When will Mr. Paul get his chance to tell us his thoughts about where this country is headed? What direction we need to begin taking?
Right! Got it! Pretty much never if the MSM has its way.
Sorry, but this is truly getting ridiculous. The really scary part is how effective it can be!
Thanks MSM from saving all of us from that crazy radical Ron Paul!
