If Paul's people are smart, they're going to form some form of long-term organisation based on their donor lists - like Goldwater's people did - and use it to organize future fundraising, donations, and activism of various kinds.
We'll see if they're smart.
They did all that about 2 months ago.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/The second to most recent one arrested for not being registered also was doing 60 in a 35 zone in a residential area... and then they threw themselves to the ground and made the police drag them to the cruiser. Really mature, that.
The most recent, as mentioned in the local news, had also recently been under a court order for refusing to pay child support.
These were both Free Staters and Ron Paul disciples.
Real winners.
I'm not much of a fan of this tactic. Individual incidents don't really mean a whole lot to me. In fact, if you're able to focus on individual incidents it just shows me that there's really no major problem within a specific demographic. The Brady Bunch
http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/category/law-abiding-gun-owner/"" target="_blank">tries to do this with gun owners. David Codrea
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22only+ones%22+site%3Awaronguns.blogspot.com&lr=lang_en"" target="_blank">tries doing this with police officers.
Now, if you could cite a study that said something like 60% of Free Staters or Ron Paul supporters had criminal records, that'd be interesting. Heck, even 1%.
The Brady Campaign uses this tactic in an attempt to paint 80,000,000 gun owners as being responsible for the roughly 30,000 gun related deaths every year. That's 0.03% of gun owners killing somebody. If you break it down by firearms (270 million) that's 0.01% of guns being involved in a death.
David, on average, posts about 4 "Only Ones" stories every working day. That's about 1280 a year. In a country where there's 1 policeman for every 300 people that's 0.12% of all police.
It's an interesting tactic, and it does work to some extent, but I'm of the opinion that it only works when you're just trying to reinforce a pre-existing bias or emotional response of those listening to you.
