Here's the new Gamers4Paul video, "save yOUR game" :
I also started a gamers4paul myspace group, and I'm hoping folks will start signing up. : )
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I will give 100% of any proceeds collected from these Ron Paul shirts or stickers to Dr. Paul's campaign. (This is my attempt at increasing my impact using limited resources)
I also uploaded the sticker images to my pics, if anyone would like to use them to spread the message, feel free!
make custom gifts at Zazzle
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I'm a gamer chick, and a game dev. I'm also a pretty conservative parent that sets limits above the normal recommendations. To some that may be contradictory, but I believe it is up to us to regulate what we and our children consume. I don't endorse game laws, or government intervention in our personal lives.
I once considered myself a liberal (not to be confused with classical liberal ) activist, and really felt I was working for positive change. The people I worked with were super nice and passionate about trendy issues. After a while I began to connect the dots between well intentioned action and coercive tyranny.
While working on a campaign during the 90's against Ron Paul , I learned more about who he was and became a supporter.
I don't believe that you can legitimately claim to promote freedom, while undermining the rule of law. I believe that HABEAS CORPUS is far more important than pet issues or social hysteria. I think that too often the Bill of Rights is mentioned rhetorically to support agendas which ultimately endanger the precious jewel of liberty it was enacted to protect.
I'm a nonviolent person, but I don't think you can be for Free Speech and against the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. I've known many people who would protest at the Capitol, call their legislators, pound on doors, and defend their right to beliefs and opinions...yet would not be uncomfortable with forcibly denying others the right to self-defense. Just the same, I don't think you can be for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and against the Right to Privacy. I've heard many people who support RKBA, but are very quick to advocate militarized police forces pursuing & incarcerating people for actions which harm no one but the supposed offender. I've known tons of gun nuts who would be fine with federalizing all sorts of personal behavior choices. I've encountered so many people who wave the American flag but they have absolutely no apparent understanding of, or interest in the philosophical underpinnings of the country they feel is represented by their exceptionalist idolatry.
I don't believe that "there oughta be a law." A stroke of a pen is not a godly, peaceful, or even necessarily benevolent action. Laws are enforced with violence, and ought to be used more sparingly than salt. The Golden Rule is absolute wisdom.
I don't think you can spread Democracy and values through the use of force. I don't think you can trust ANY leaders with concentrated power. The government is way too big! The ring needs to be thrown back into the fires of Mordor before it ends up in the wrong hands again. While we're at it, we should toss in the scores of elected representatives who swore to uphold the Constitution, and then upheld their own desires instead.
We are witnessing a crucial period in the history of our country. I hope that the citizens of the Republic will wake up and right the glass before we pass the tipping point.
