Kent Snyder, der Mann, der Ron Paul überzeugte, als Präsidentschaftskandidat anzutreten; der Mann, der die Ron Paul Presidential Campaign 2008 leitete; der Mann, der die Campaign For Liberty ins Leben rief, ist am 26. Juni - 49 Jahre jung - an einer Lungenentzündung verstorben.
Im Namen aller bayerischen Paulites: Thank you!
Christoph
Kent Snyder1959-2008
In loving memory of Kent Snyder
The Freedom Movement has suffered a great loss. Kent Snyder, chairman of my presidential campaign, lost his tragic battle with pneumonia last week. Kent was a true lover of liberty. He was an American patriot. He was my friend. And, he will be missed.
Kent was a gentle man who carried himself with quiet dignity. While soft spoken, great inner strength lay behind his kind blue eyes. He was filled with conviction, and principles of decency, loyalty and respect ran to his core. Those fortunate enough to work closely with Kent were touched by his integrity and old-fashioned American work ethic. Stories of his youth in Kansas and lessons taught to him by his two greatest influences, his mother and father, were often shared with friends and colleagues. During difficult times, Kent was always a calm at the center of the storm.
I first met Kent in 1987 when he, as a young man in his late 20’s, served on my first presidential run. Over the next twenty years, we worked together on countless projects in the name of Freedom. It was Kent, more than anyone else, who urged me to run again for president last year. I was skeptical, but he was much more confident that the time was right. Without Kent, I don’t think it would have happened. Though he was an optimist, in the end, even he didn’t expect what we achieved.
Like so many in our movement, Kent sacrificed much for the cause of Liberty. He sidetracked a blossoming political career when he chose to work for a third party candidate. He walked away from a lucrative career as telecommunications executive to work for me in Washington when I returned to Congress in the late ‘90’s. Ultimately, he sacrificed his health as he worked tirelessly around the clock on our presidential campaign, ignoring the pleas of his doctors to pull back.
Kent poured every ounce of his being into our fight for Freedom. He will always hold a place in my heart and in the hearts of my family. We deeply mourn his loss.
I hope we can celebrate Kent’s life, the wonderful man he was, the tremendous success of his contribution to the cause of liberty, and the bright path he helped blaze to a future where freedom springs alive once again. Kent should be remembered with every victory we achieve as we move forward together. Without Kent Snyder, the fight for liberty would not be where it is today. We all owe him a great debt.
In liberty,
Ron Paul
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Im Gegensatz zur Präsidentschaftskampagne Ron Pauls ist in diesem Fall die Spendemöglichkeit (für Kent Snyders Familie, die offenbar auf 400000 $ Behandlungskosten sitzt) nicht auf US-Bürger beschränkt. Supersimpel mit Kreditkarte über Paypal. Hab's ausprobiert, klappt tadellos. Nur so als Anregung.
It's convenient that I'd get schadenfreude at a German blog. That $400,000 debt he's leaving to his family is made all the more amusing by the fact that libertarianism is anathema to the universal health care that would have saved him without leaving his relatives in crippling debt.
@anonym 13. Juli 2008 17:14
Wow, you seem to be very well-informed about the personal situation of Kent Snyder. Could you please tell us about the medical measures that would have prevented him from passing away, if he only had believed in the holy church of "universal health care"? Which btw will be one of the really fat bricks in our financial and social tombstone (at least in Germany).
There is nothing more expensive
than government free healthcare.
Nichts ist teurer, als eine kostenlose staatliche Gesundheitsversorgung.
http://knowledge.allianz.com/nopi_downloads/images/demographic%20change_health%20care%20costs%20per%20country_96dpi_1.jpg
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c323/korbjaeger/Vyan/HdiGDP.jpg
Hmm yes, nothing is more expensive than universal healthcare, except not having universal healthcare.
I despise people who're lucky enough to be born in one of the richest, most properous countries in the world and who are dumb enough to want to get rid of one of its cornerstones.
You have it better than most anyone outside of Western Europe and Japan as far as living standards go, and somehow you think that's worth fighting. I mean, Jesus.
And yes, UHC likely could have saved his life because people who can't afford more medical care avoid certain treatments because of cost. Even if he had that 1-in-a-million case of pneumonia that was untreatable, he still wouldn't, y'know, give his family a nearly half-million debt.
Sucks to have a pre-existing condition without UHC. I guess we can call his death a "market correction".
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