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paul_roncalif_040512.jpg FILE: April 5, 2012: Rep. Ron Paul speaks in Berkeley, Calif. (AP) Libertarian folk hero and retired Rep. Ron Paul is fighting to take the domain name RonPaul.com from a legion of loyal supporters. And he's turning to an unlikely source for help, filing a complaint with an agency of the United Nations -- a body he's criticized for years. The site owners’ response: “That’s not cool! We want our old pre-retirement Ron Paul back!” The Texas Republican and three-time presidential candidate filed the complaint Friday with the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization. He argues at length in his complaint that he should have the domain name -- as well as one for RonPaul.org -- for free because he already has a common law trademark on his name. Paul spokeswoman Megan Stiles said the WIPO was need to settle the dispute because the domain-name owners used a foreign registrar to get the domain name. They “subjected themselves to this proceeding in this forum when they registered RonPaul.com with an Australian registrar," she told FoxNews.com. Beyond his 14 years in national politics, Paul argues, his trademark is further burnished by his many books, being “widely quoted by scholars” and having the reputation as a “premier advocate for liberty in American politics.” The owners of the domain names say they are disappointed by the complaint, considering how many of them -- particularly the young, energetic supporters -- kept Paul’s 2012 run energized through grassroots campaigning and fundraising. “Like thousands of fellow Ron Paul supporters, we put our lives on hold and invested five years of hard work into Ron Paul, RonPaul.com and Ron Paul 2012,” the owners, who are getting a lawyer and have 20 days to prepare a complaint response, said on their site. The owners also are bristling over Paul filing the complaint with a U.N. agency, which many libertarians mistrust. Plus they dispute Paul's argument that they tried to sell him the website for $848,000. The owners say they offered up RonPaul.org for free after hearing Paul say last month he regretted that he did not own the site. However, they said they would sell Paul the RonPaul.com site and their mailing list of 170,000 people for the price of $250,000. “Claims that we tried to sell Ron Paul ‘his name’ for $250k or even $800k are completely untrue, and there is little doubt that our mailing list would have enabled Ron Paul to raise several million dollars,” the owners said. “What in the world is going on?” |
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What has the world come to when liberty loving American Ron Paul patriots are forced to defend themselves against the New World Order attack of a United Nations Agency at the behest of Saint Pope Ron Paul himself??? :crazyeye:
When did Saint Paul become a freeloading liberal communist socialist when he turned down the good free market invisible hand certius paribus lassiez faire market price these liberty loving small business owners offered of $250,000? A fair value for the 170,000 names we are told by aforementioned liberty loving small biz owners.
Heavens to Bessie! I feel a swoon coming on. What happened to the brave Knight in Shining Armor Ron Paul who was there when we needed him?
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Below is what Ron Paul had to say about the United Nations while in office: Those bureaucrats are not satisfied by meddling only in international disputes, however. The UN increasingly wants to influence our domestic environmental, trade, labor, tax, and gun laws. Its global planners fully intend to expand the UN into a true world government, complete with taxes, courts, and a standing army. This is not an alarmist statement; these facts are readily promoted on the UN’s own website. UN planners do not care about national sovereignty; in fact they are actively hostile to it. They correctly view it as an obstacle to their plans. They simply aren’t interested in our Constitution and republican form of government. The choice is very clear: we either follow the Constitution or submit to UN global governance. American national sovereignty cannot survive if we allow our domestic laws to be crafted by an international body. This needs to be stated publicly more often. If we continue down the UN path, America as we know it will cease to exist. |
See how his supporters weep bitter bitter bitter sweet salty tears of disappointment:
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Back in 2007 we put our lives on hold for you, Ron, and we invested close to 10,000 hours of tears, sweat and hard work into this site at great personal sacrifice. We helped raise millions of dollars for you, we spread your message of liberty as far and wide as we possibly could, and we went out of our way to defend you against the unjustified attacks by your opponents. Now that your campaigns are over and you no longer need us, you want to take it all away – and send us off to a UN tribunal? |