After the Leadership Summit on Monday, we headed to the Nation Celebration, a free outdoor concert attended by thousands of Ron Paul supporters. What a blast! We arrived late and missed the first few performers. I was really looking forward to hearing Marc Scibilia perform his song dedicated to Ron Paul, called Hope Anthem. We missed it, but here's his music video for the song if you want to check it out. We did make it in time to see Aimee Allen perform her rockin' Ron Paul song. You can view her MTV video here. Ron Paul gave an inspiring speech, too, thanking all his supporters for the hard work they've done over the previous year. The Nation Celebration was one of my favorite parts of the week--I met so many cool, freedom-lovin' people and they were all instant friends. Liberty unites!
Here are some pictures of that event. The middle one is of Caitanya and another 15 year-old, Zach, who also attended all the events. Like Dr. Paul says, this movement has drawn so many young people.
Tuesday was the Rally For the Republic at the Target Center, with 12,000 people in attendance. What an amazing event! There was quite a line up of speakers, from Lew Rockwell, Doug Wead, Bruce Fein, Jesse Ventura, and Barry Goldwater Jr., to Olympic swimmer Erik Vendt and Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against The War. Every one of them got the crowd riled up--by the end of the night, my throat was raw from all the cheering and hollaring I did. Aimee Allen also performed again-- a super fun show. Here's a picture of that performace, as well as one of me, Jen, Christy, and Jenny Brown, one of Oregon's Ron Paul alternate delegates to the RNC, enjoying the show.
Ron Paul gave a phenomenal address, doing (as he always does) a fantastic job of speaking truth about the problems of an ever-growing federal government failing to follow the Constitution, failed foreign, monetary, and drug policies, and the Federal Reserve system and its connection to inflation, that our country faces, but also energizing us to carry forward to correct these problems: "What we need is a Universal Champion of Liberty," he said. If you haven't had a chance to watch his speech, here is a link to the C-SPAN2 coverage. Also, I have a short video (my camera can only record 1 minute videos) of when Ron Paul first came out on stage. In it, you can see the size of the crowd and their excitement.
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