Remember the Ron Paul campaign for president? If you're not a political junkie who was paying attention back before the voting even started in January, you might have missed it. In case you saw one of the Repugnican debates, Ron Paul was the little white haired guy who would get laughed at by the other candidates when he would say something outrageous like, for instance, the truth. It was during such moments that I came to regard John McCain as the complete and utter fucking asshole that I now consider him to be - once again demonstrating that the major parties are incapable of delivering nominees that are worthy of governing.

Unfortunately, the official Ron Paul campaign was not ready for prime time. I ordered a couple of yard signs from them mid-December. They arrived barely in time to be in my front yard for the February 5th primary here in Illinois. The fact that Ron Paul got such attention as he did from the media - not nearly enough, was not from a lack of energetic, creative grassroots support. In fact, it was that support that generated more coverage of the Paul campaign than it would have otherwise gotten. It was some young geniuses unaffiliated with the campaign who organized the record setting, headline grabbing Money Bombs of November and December. And it was the same group, with financial support from lots and lots of supporters, who got an advertising blimp airborne in record time to promote the Paul candidacy over the Mid-Atlantic and South Eastern United States in the early primary season.

With Ron Paul's presidential aspirations fading, this same group of liberty lovers has launched a new venture to channel the grassroots energy generated by the Ron Paul candidacy into an information medium that will provide an alternative to the corporatist-statist propaganda machines that currently dominate the national media. There is no Rupert Murdoch or Ted Turner financing this effort, so the beginnings are modest. But the ambitions are admirable and, for my money, worth supporting. Microsoft was started in a garage. Yahoo and Google began in dorm rooms. CNN was hardly taken seriously until Bernie Shaw reported on the first bombing of Iraq from under his bed in a Baghdad hotel room. Break the Matrix is in its infancy which only makes it all the more exciting to get on board.

So tell the corporatist-statist media to go fuck itself. And go have some fun while you secure your free and prosperous future in a rejuvenated republic. End the empire. Revive the Constitution. Break the Matrix!