RON PAUL SUPPORTERS "SPAM" A CHILDREN'S SHELTER

While Ron Paul visited Spartanburg South Carolina to deliver a one-hour plus speech to potential voters, his supporters were taking a little action of their own. Over and over it has been said that all of Ron Paul's supporters are not real people but simply a few spammers because no news station can quite understand that the man generally draws interest in his stances on non-interventionism, limited government, and a return to liberties that have been lost over the last administration.

Instead of heralding this man of principle and picking up on the overwhelming thirst Americans seem to have for Ron Paul's message, the mainstream media instead pretends it is not real. When Ron Paul takes a commanding lead in a debate poll, the media giants claim that he must have only a few supporters who are "spamming" the polls. When he comes out ahead on Internet polls, pollsters take his name off the list of choices because they accuse his supporters of "skewing" their numbers (by somehow refusing to cooperate and let the shows reflect the pollsters opinions rather than the people's.)

By now most Ron Paul supporters have grown a pretty thick skin and are used to being called spammers. This weekend, instead of griping about the usual unfair media treatment, a group of these "fictitious" persons decided to use the unflattering moniker to help a group of needy children. In a move as generous and kind as Ron Paul himself, these "non-existing" supporters decided to not only attend the Spartanburg rally, but to bring a present for a local charity as well: SPAM. These "non-entities" managed in one and half days, to put a large food drive together, gathered all of the funds for the event, and found several kind supporters willing to drive the trucks and bring in the food in Ron Paul's honor.

They arrived in multiple waves on Saturday morning until noon, 7/21/07, with their generous donation for the Spartanburg Children's Shelter. The name and address for the shelter was also posted for supporters who wanted to give money directly to the charity. By noon, several supporters were there to help stack the food into a 3 foot high by 8 foot long wall of cans and boxes (only a few cans were actually Spam, the supporters felt that variety was better for the health of the children. No offense meant to the Spam company.) By the time all of the trucks had arrived sporting food, crayons and coloring books, the Spartanburg Children's Shelter had experienced some of their own shock and awe. The volunteers, as some report, had tears in their own eyes as they gave the goodies away.

When you stop to think about it, this was an amazing thing to do in only a few days. The idea was first sprouted at 10:55pm on 7/18/2007. The idea was kicked around and at 3:33am on 7/19/07 the first donations began rolling in. By 7/21/2007, the Spartanburg Children's Shelter had a ton of food in their pantry. These are grassroots supporters of Ron Paul, not paid volunteers. They had no input or help from the official Ron Paul campaign. In fact, since Ron Paul has outgrown his headquarters, the Ron Paul headquarters were closed while they were moving to their new site, and there was no possibility of contacting anyone from the campaign to let them know this was happening. Nevertheless, these supporters carried on.

People from all over the country donated $5, $10, $20, or more to the cause and very shortly they had over $500 dollars donated, but they had less than a day to drive to Spartanburg, purchase the food, meet up at the Charity and give the food away. The loyal supporters (who supposedly do not exist) called ahead and rushed to a supermarket and purchased food and toys for the shelter with four pickups to carry all of the loot and donate it to the shelter.

This is the kind of spirit that Ron Paul invokes in his supporters or rather this is the kind of person who believes in Ron Paul's message. They are honest to goodness real people who truly support Dr. Paul and his message of live and liberty and freedom for all. This includes taking care of the needy, not with other people's money, but with their own hard earned cash, to help people worse off than them. This was a group of regular Ron Paul supporters who decided to let their presence be known by donating and volunteering to a children's shelter. So now the media can add to their list accusations of Ron Paul supporters that they spam polls, spam the Internet, and even SPAM a children's shelter.

Well done folks, you are an inspiration to us all.

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Jennifer Reynolds, Special Contributor to Gambling911.com

Originally published July 22, 2007 10:13 pm ET[/