Please don't feed the troll.

It is however seemingly odd that a libertarian who allegedly believes so dearly in the Constitution which of course has some amendments, known as the Bill of Rights that includes the right to free speech….wishes to suppress an individual’s Freedom of Speech.

It is extremely sad that I must remind you, of all people, that Freedom of speech is an underlying principle that supports the freedom of an individual to articulate his opinions and ideas without intimidation, retaliation, censorship, sanction or interference.

You are perfectly within your rights to post your trash here - we as readers also have the right to ignore said trash and mock your goofiness.

But you do need to keep up and understand what is under discussion at this time. I am not being ignored or mocked…..there is a blatant effort to suppress the speech of those who wish to freely respond to my posts. I have shown this to be factual and you should understand that since you normally dwell on every word I post.

No one is trying to control you freedom-hater, stop your incessant whining.

It really Is un-libertarian of you to stalk my posts and try to persuade those responding to them to cease making comments. You do have that freedom and I am in no way trying to suppress it. I am merely calling to the attention of everyone another shining example of how the libertarian dogma operates.

... you are a troll.

... my [Gatlin] intelligent and thought provoking posts.

Where in the world did you find that idea?

Tater peeling is the single foremost thought always in your mind.

Just asking a legitimate question ...

I believe in a creator ....

Fuck off. I added "Gatlin" to the content filter.

And his comments don't mean a fucking thing to anyone on the planet but himself.

They mean “nothing” to you libertarians because not one of you can ever dispute the factual information in those articles.

All any of you can do is post stupid memes, make smart-assed comments about peeling potatoes and launch a barrage of personal attacks.

If flippant memes meant anything, then maybe they could win a victory for libertarians and they would have been in power long ago. But flippant memes don’t mean shit and any lofty hopes libertarians had in 2016 went out with a whimper, as they garnered less than 4% of th popular vote total and not ONE electoral college vote in one of the most shocking outcomes in recent political history….which saw Donald Trump elected President in stunning repudiation of the establishment.

“Boss Gatlin”….NO, it’s “Hail TO The Chief” Donald Trump.

… how many times did you vote for Jeff Flake?

Never once have I …

Gatlin is a liar!

When Bill Greene cast an electoral vote for Republican Ron Paul in the 2016 presidential election, he probably never guessed that action would prevent him from serving his local Republican party in the years to come. Greene has volunteered and worked with various Republican parties for more than 30 years, but his act of voting for Ron Paul caused him a lot of trouble in Hidalgo County. Now he’s not allowed to serve as a delegate for the state Republican convention in Texas. Some members even told him that he might secretly be “Antifa.” Heavy is speaking with the Hidalgo County GOP and may have a comment to add to this story soon.

Here’s what happened.

Bill Greene Was Not Allowed To Be a Delegate, Even Though Hidalgo County Didn’t Have Enough Delegates to Fill All Their Seats

In late March, Bill Greene attended the Hidalgo County Senate District 27 Convention, where delegates were picked to go to the upcoming State GOP convention. When his name was brought up, he was voted out as both a delegate and an alternate because he had cast his electoral vote for Ron Paul. What makes this even more egregious, he told Heavy, is that Hidalgo County didn’t even have enough delegates to fill half of their 35 seats. You can watch a video of the proceedings above. About three minutes into the video, the discussion about Greene begins, but then is sidetracked until about nine minutes in. Then they discuss allowing Bill Greene’s wife, Kelley, as a delegate, and resume discussion about Bill at 27 minutes.

“They tried to vote my wife, Kelley, out too because she’s married to me. In a split vote, she is still a Delegate,” he shared. “This is what my party has come to. Add this to all of our GOP ‘leaders’ votes lately. The future of the GOP is pretty clear. I am sad.”

During the meeting, a motion was made to add Bill Greene and his wife to the list of delegates, since they didn’t have enough delegates to fill all their available seats. One person said that the Greenes were not nominated because “based on past performance of the last election cycle, it was brought to our attention that they were a faithless elector, and may not be deserving of going this year.”

Kelley Greene spoke up about this, saying that she loved her husband dearly, but it was incorrect to lump her in the same bucket as her husband since she was not even an elector. “So what is your reason for refusing me?” she asked. The district officials admitted that there wasn’t a reason not to include her and she was ultimately added as a delegate after a very close vote.

But things went differently when discussing Bill Greene. Greene pointed out that he was very active in the Republican party since college, for 30 to 35 years, which was a requirement for being a delegate.

“My vote as an elector was very clear, that I wasn’t voting against a Republican, I wasn’t voting against a person, I was voting for someone, as my oath of office required me to do…” he said during the meeting. “I voted for a Republican for President of the United States. I didn’t vote for Trump, but that’s because the electors are free agents and our sole responsibility is to vote for who we believe is the best candidate for President of the United States… To say that your 30 to 35 years of active service to the Republican party, your attendance at four national conventions… dozens of state conventions… is irrelevant to what we’re doing here, I think you’re setting a very dangerous precedent….”

The Convention Chair that day, Denny Church, responded that electors needed to vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

“Bill Greene was out for Bill Greene,” Church said at the meeting. “When it comes to moving forward, we do it as a group. In this case it’s SD 27. Overall, it’s Hidalgo County. Overall, it’s the state of Texas. The state of Texas voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, he got it, boom, guess what? ‘Well, I’m going to vote for Ron Paul. Look at me….’ This was not anything … to help the party… We’ve got to earn things in life, that’s the rules. Beyond that, let’s just give it away. That itself is socialism. … We’ve had enough of that. Look at Washington, D.C. It’s all look at me… We shouldn’t follow the rules and just do what we want? That’s how we get $1.3 trillion debt.”

Greene disagreed with the way Church represented him. He said that in voting for Ron Paul, he wasn’t trying to make a name for himself. He was voting his conscience, voting for a Republican, and following the Constitution. Keeping him out for that, he reiterated, would set a dangerous precedent.

Ultimately, the delegates present voted to not allow Greene to be a delegate.

Many people commented on Facebook about the decision regarding Bill Greene, angry about their party’s actions. One person wrote: “After all of these years, Republican Party is still shady as hell when it come to creating Delegate Slates…”

Greene told Heavy that what happened was not representative of the Republican grassroots in Texas, and the people who chose him at the 2016 convention and who voted for him in the 2016 election. Church, he said, “had a personal political vendetta against me for refusing to bow to the demands of the party ‘elite.'”

“I am saddened — though not surprised — that a majority of those few delegates present failed to see that I did absolutely nothing that violated either the rules or the principles of the Republican Party of Texas.”

Greene has also been told on more than one occasion that his vote for Ron Paul could indicate that he might be working for Antifa.

At around 34:00 into the video shared earlier in this article, one member of the SD 27 meeting stood up and voiced his strong dissent against Bill Greene’s being a delegate. “Who knows if he has a secret agenda (and is) Antifa or any other organization,” he said. “We have to be careful.”

Greene said that about a week later, when talking with a local Hidalgo County GOP member on Facebook, he was told the same thing again.

“It was right for us to remove you as a delegate to the Republican Party of Texas state convention, because you didn’t vote for the Republican in the Electoral College,” she said in a Facebook conversation, Greene shared. “We need party loyalty. You might secretly be Antifa.”

She later said that she believed they needed to bind electors, and blocked him, so he was unable to get screenshots of the conversation for Heavy.

This isn’t the first time some Republicans have used allegations of Antifa connections against voices of dissent to try to question motives, and you can sometimes see the same thing with Democrats and allegations of Russia connections during disagreements about establishment policies.

Despite what happened, Bill Greene has said that he will still be attending the Republican Texas state convention, as his wife’s guest. But he also told Heavy that he believes that what happened to him points to a larger issue within the GOP, and he regrets voting for the Hidalgo County Chair, who ultimately backed Church’s call to not let Greene be a delegate. This, he told Heavy, is why the County can’t get enough delegates to fill all their seats, but it’s also a symptom of even greater issues facing the GOP in the future.

“I’ve been active in the Republican Party longer than most of them there that day (at the SD 27 meeting) have even been voting, having served as a Precinct Chair, on the County Executive Committee, on the District Executive Committee, and on the State Executive Committee; I attended many many many County and State Conventions, and four National Conventions; I ran as a Republican for City Council, State House, and U.S. Congress; and I’ve voted in GOP primaries since I started voting,” Greene told Heavy. “I even voted for a Republican in the Electoral College — just not the ‘Republican’ that Denny Church and his ilk incorrectly insisted I was ‘required’ to vote for… I’m glad there were a few there that day who spoke out against this man’s asinine behavior, but to put it simply: it’s people like (this) who will spell the death of the Republican Party.”

Heavy is speaking with the Hidalgo County GOP and may have a comment to add to this story soon.

Paul FINALLY won an electoral vote that meant absolutely nothing.

Ron Paul, exposing one Gatlin lie, after the other. It proved once again that you're a liar, that means a lot, and it can't be said too often.

Gatlin is a liar!

I didn’t count that ONE electoral vote since Ron Paul was NOT even a registered libertarian and he was NOT a candidate in the 2016 United States presidential election. If I were a libertarian, I would have been terribly embarrassed to mention that one libertarian in Texas cast a protest vote for Ron Paul and after all these MANY years of running for President, Ron Paul FINALLY won an electoral vote that meant absolutely nothing.

Ron Paul is a longtime libertarian …

… AND also still a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party.

He ran as the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in '88, against GHW Bush and Dukakis. He did resign from the GOP prior to that run. He has never resigned from the Libertarian Party, as he recently said in an interview.

After all your rambling, it is blatantly obvious that you are NOT paying any ATTENTION to what I said.

I will repeat what I said and ask that you please READ my words very CARFULLY so that you fully UNDERSTAND them.

I said:

Ron Paul was NOT even a registered Libertarian and he was NOT a candidate in the 2016 United States presidential election.

In some states, voters cannot register by political party. In other states, they can.

Alaska / Arizona / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / District of Columbia / Florida / Idaho / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico/| New York / North Carolina / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Dakota / Utah / West Virginia / Wyoming.

Ron Paul lives in Texas and he is registered to vote in Texas. Texas is a State where one CANNOT register as a Libertarian. Consequently, there is absolutely NO way Ron Paul could be REGISTERED as a Libertarian in Texas….absolutely NO way.

And so I repeat for about the third or fourth time:

Ron Paul was NOT a REGISTERED Libertarian in 2016.

Watch the sidebar tomorrow morning for my latest article exposing libertarians for what they really are.

If you're registered as a Republican, you can still vote for Gary Johnson, or Hillary, Jill Stein or whomever.

The Electoral College member that you voted for when you chose Trump, might just vote for Hillary, Bernie Sanders, or Jeb! when they cast their vote.

Quit sniveling and accept the fact that you live in a Republic,

The United States of America, not a Totalitarian Democracy where it's a Tyranny of the Majority and you Yukonites can screw over Joe Sixpack.

Suck it up, you democratic collectivist commie.

This is NOT majority rule, the Electoral College system is structured along the lines of a Republican form or government, as guaranteed in the Constitution. "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion" ~Article IV

If we had your majority wins democratic system, Hillary would be president right now, since she won the popular vote.

Would you be happy then, in your idiotic collectivist statist utopia?

Nothing you have said in your post here is related to our ongoing conversation. Please get back to me when you can make sense.

Yukonites

Great term for Gatlin and others of his ilk.

Sad….that you have no points to make and must look for small things to be amused.