Economic Populism Sells...Libertariansim? Not so much...

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This is a reply from Dr. Paul's campaign manager to a blogger on the MoJo Blog.

Dr. Paul stands for freedom, peace, prosperity and the protection of inalienable individual rights for every American. All of our campaigns energy is dedicated to spreading the message of liberty and limited government, and we do not spend time screening donors or blocking websites. We don’t know who Don Black is, and pay him no attention. If a small number individuals who hold racist beliefs want to waste their money by giving to Dr. Paul, a man who stands firmly against their small minded ideologies, then the campaign will simply use those funds to protect freedom, peace and civil liberties across our Nation.

 

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I am a white man. I have never felt like Affirmative Action did me wrong. I tend to look at Affirmative Action more like physical therapy. As my brother BAC has pointed out countless times, enslaved for 400 years relatively free for the last 40. For four centuries the white people of this country worked HARD to keep the black population from having anything. First through slavery, then through aparthied, and that is what we had. No more and no less than the system that existed in south africa. From 1865 to 1964 we had a de jure system of threatening any black person from attempting to achieve. From burning down the house of any one getting so uppity that he thinks he and his kind should have the right to vote. By intimidation of any child that sought to get an equal education not in a school that was "separate but equal" but in the SAME school as white children. By having our GOVERNORS stand in the doorway of Universities, where people should have known better than to think that the color of your skin makes you any more or less intelligent, and attempt to halt the desegregation of Public universities. By threatening with incarceration anyone that had the nerve to marry someone outside their race (although we are all human). So then we passed civil rights legislation, we bussed and forcefully integrated schools, because if we hadn't they wouldn't have been. We forced Universities like the University of Texas to admit blacks to their law school. And then the white separtists changed their tactics. They started to whine about how bad they had it.

Like I said up above, I look at Affirmative action as Physical therapy. For 400 years we broke and rebroke the collectives legs of black people in this country. Then in 1964 we passed civil rights law. Which was akin to setting the break. And now we are letting the patient walk but with some assistance. You don't overcome four centuries of racism in 40 or even 60 years. The Topeka Independent School District was still, at the time I went to law school there in 1995-98, not in compliance with the orders set out in the 1954 case. At some point the patient is going to have to walk alone, and if you look at the time period between 1964 and today, Affirmative Action has advanced the cause of civil rights. But universities are still infected by the "legacy admissions" that favor the past discrimination of that institution because it is hard to be a legacy if your forefathers were never let into the institution.

It is ludicrous to think that once the civil rights act of 1964 was passed that everything was made right. There are still neighborhoods in the US where past discrimination in home sales and rentals have kept them segregated. Where city planning spent money on new sewers and new streets in the new areas where upwardly mobile white people were moving and ignored sewers and streets in the sections of town that were inhabited by people with more melanin in their skin thereby harming housing prices in the older browner sections of town. That in turn brought down property taxes which affects the funding for the schools. And so it goes. You cannot purposely hobble any creature for a long period of time and then one day say ok get up and run. It takes time. And that is what Affirmative Action has allowed to happen. The healing process takes time. But in the end, we will all be healthier for it.

 

[blackascoal]

I am a white man. I have never felt like Affirmative Action did me wrong. I tend to look at Affirmative Action more like physical therapy. As my brother BAC has pointed out countless times, enslaved for 400 years relatively free for the last 40. For four centuries the white people of this country worked HARD to keep the black population from having anything. First through slavery, then through aparthied, and that is what we had. No more and no less than the system that existed in south africa. From 1865 to 1964 we had a de jure system of threatening any black person from attempting to achieve. From burning down the house of any one getting so uppity that he thinks he and his kind should have the right to vote. By intimidation of any child that sought to get an equal education not in a school that was "separate but equal" but in the SAME school as white children. By having our GOVERNORS stand in the doorway of Universities, where people should have known better than to think that the color of your skin makes you any more or less intelligent, and attempt to halt the desegregation of Public universities. By threatening with incarceration anyone that had the nerve to marry someone outside their race (although we are all human). So then we passed civil rights legislation, we bussed and forcefully integrated schools, because if we hadn't they wouldn't have been. We forced Universities like the University of Texas to admit blacks to their law school. And then the white separtists changed their tactics. They started to whine about how bad they had it.

Like I said up above, I look at Affirmative action as Physical therapy. For 400 years we broke and rebroke the collectives legs of black people in this country. Then in 1964 we passed civil rights law. Which was akin to setting the break. And now we are letting the patient walk but with some assistance. You don't overcome four centuries of racism in 40 or even 60 years. The Topeka Independent School District was still, at the time I went to law school there in 1995-98, not in compliance with the orders set out in the 1954 case. At some point the patient is going to have to walk alone, and if you look at the time period between 1964 and today, Affirmative Action has advanced the cause of civil rights. But universities are still infected by the "legacy admissions" that favor the past discrimination of that institution because it is hard to be a legacy if your forefathers were never let into the institution.

It is ludicrous to think that once the civil rights act of 1964 was passed that everything was made right. There are still neighborhoods in the US where past discrimination in home sales and rentals have kept them segregated. Where city planning spent money on new sewers and new streets in the new areas where upwardly mobile white people were moving and ignored sewers and streets in the sections of town that were inhabited by people with more melanin in their skin thereby harming housing prices in the older browner sections of town. That in turn brought down property taxes which affects the funding for the schools. And so it goes. You cannot purposely hobble any creature for a long period of time and then one day say ok get up and run. It takes time. And that is what Affirmative Action has allowed to happen. The healing process takes time. But in the end, we will all be healthier for it.

It is because of people like you and many others here that has kept me from losing hope and losing my mind all these years. I've been alive longer than the relative freedom for African-Americans has existed in America .. a sad testament to who and what this nation truly is.

In spite of all the racism, degradation, and oppression I've had to see and endure these 58 years of my life, I've also had the pleasure of listening to good people like you and others here on this site. The screaming voices of a thousand racists don't equate to the calm sense of reason, intelligence, and spirituality I get from those who possess them .. and that is what I pass on to my children, and their children. Growing up listening to my father tell me of his childhood and the horrors and manifestation of evil he saw and endured in his life made me aware of how ungodly and demonic Americans could be. Living through the sixties only reinforced what my father had told me. When he was dying he told me that he was ready to go, he had seen and endured enough. My father was a strong man, an activist, a union organizer, a good man .. but because he was black, he was never able to live to his full potential. He was all the impetus I have ever needed to get educated, live to my potential, and challenge and attack every manifestation of the evil of racism that came my way.

What I pass to my children is that the ignorance of racism is still alive and well in this country, but there are a great many good people of all races who will stand with you to fight against it in all its forms. White people are not their enemy, ignorant people are.

I hope .. make that, I know that in your endeavors as an attorney you remain cognizant of the plight, even to this day, of blacks and the gross injustice of the criminal system.

Thank you for your awareness, understanding, and humanity.

Much love for you my brother

 

[TheDanold]

I am a white man. I have never felt like Affirmative Action did me wrong. I tend to look at Affirmative Action more like physical therapy. As my brother BAC has pointed out countless times, enslaved for 400 years relatively free for the last 40. For four centuries the white people of this country worked HARD to keep the black population from having anything. First through slavery, then through aparthied, and that is what we had. No more and no less than the system that existed in south africa. From 1865 to 1964 we had a de jure system of threatening any black person from attempting to achieve. From burning down the house of any one getting so uppity that he thinks he and his kind should have the right to vote. By intimidation of any child that sought to get an equal education not in a school that was "separate but equal" but in the SAME school as white children. By having our GOVERNORS stand in the doorway of Universities, where people should have known better than to think that the color of your skin makes you any more or less intelligent, and attempt to halt the desegregation of Public universities. By threatening with incarceration anyone that had the nerve to marry someone outside their race (although we are all human). So then we passed civil rights legislation, we bussed and forcefully integrated schools, because if we hadn't they wouldn't have been. We forced Universities like the University of Texas to admit blacks to their law school. And then the white separtists changed their tactics. They started to whine about how bad they had it.

Like I said up above, I look at Affirmative action as Physical therapy. For 400 years we broke and rebroke the collectives legs of black people in this country. Then in 1964 we passed civil rights law. Which was akin to setting the break. And now we are letting the patient walk but with some assistance. You don't overcome four centuries of racism in 40 or even 60 years. The Topeka Independent School District was still, at the time I went to law school there in 1995-98, not in compliance with the orders set out in the 1954 case. At some point the patient is going to have to walk alone, and if you look at the time period between 1964 and today, Affirmative Action has advanced the cause of civil rights. But universities are still infected by the "legacy admissions" that favor the past discrimination of that institution because it is hard to be a legacy if your forefathers were never let into the institution.

It is ludicrous to think that once the civil rights act of 1964 was passed that everything was made right. There are still neighborhoods in the US where past discrimination in home sales and rentals have kept them segregated. Where city planning spent money on new sewers and new streets in the new areas where upwardly mobile white people were moving and ignored sewers and streets in the sections of town that were inhabited by people with more melanin in their skin thereby harming housing prices in the older browner sections of town. That in turn brought down property taxes which affects the funding for the schools. And so it goes. You cannot purposely hobble any creature for a long period of time and then one day say ok get up and run. It takes time. And that is what Affirmative Action has allowed to happen. The healing process takes time. But in the end, we will all be healthier for it.

No one denies racism can exist, but at the end of the day AA is DEFINITIVE racism supported under the guise of countering POSSIBLE racism.
From a purely logical standpoint, it's a worse evil without question.

Also America is far less racist than it used to be, yet looking in American inner cities which are completely run by Liberal Democrats and you see despair, crime and joblessness. There aren't any white racists or Conservatives living/running in inner cities, can't blame them. You can blame government welfare programs which substituted for the role of the father and a disintegration of the family.

Finally history of one persecution does not justify it going the other way, for the simple reason that 2 wrongs do not make a right.

 

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No one denies racism can exist, but at the end of the day AA is DEFINITIVE racism supported under the guise of countering POSSIBLE racism.
From a purely logical standpoint, it's a worse evil without question.

Also America is far less racist than it used to be, yet looking in American inner cities which are completely run by Liberal Democrats and you see despair, crime and joblessness. There aren't any white racists or Conservatives living/running in inner cities, can't blame them. You can blame government welfare programs which substituted for the role of the father and a disintegration of the family.

Finally history of one persecution does not justify it going the other way, for the simple reason that 2 wrongs do not make a right.

So your solution is just pass the CRA of 1964 and then let things go as they always have? Do NOTHING to increase the number of minorities in Universities that the system has purposely kept out? DO NOTHING to make insure that schools in black districts are funded ON PAR with the white schools? ONLY a privileged white man can make that argument because ONLY a privileged white man can have NO IDEA how high the bar had already been placed to insure that without government assistance the CRA of 1964 would NEVER succeed. Without affirmative action city police forces all over america would have remained white only organizations. As President Johnson rightly observed "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair." For you Dano that is what you think is fair.

 

[TheDanold]

So your solution is just pass the CRA of 1964 and then let things go as they always have? Do NOTHING to increase the number of minorities in Universities that the system has purposely kept out?.

DO NOTHING to make insure that schools in black districts are funded ON PAR with the white schools?[/QUOTE]
I have advocated many times, allowing a voucher system which minorities have used successfully to get better education and actually gain choice. It is the current status quo crapola system that lefties want to keep them using.

ONLY a privileged white man can make that argument because ONLY a privileged white man can have NO IDEA how high the bar had already been placed to insure that without government assistance the CRA of 1964 would NEVER succeed.

What privelege, what do you really know about me?
I started from scratch when I dropped out and was on my own, nobody gave me or owed me a damn thing. I saved up and PAID for my own private computer college tuition and took out a regular loan for the rest. And I worked full time while in college to keep myself in.
Did asians have government assistance, they encountered racism, yet today they live better than whites do (statistically) and that is despite largely NOT using affirmative action.

Without affirmative action city police forces all over america would have remained white only organizations. As President Johnson rightly observed "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair."

LBJ is a piece of shit and that is just showing a mindset of thinking that the race is something ongoing for generations. Try to think of people as individuals, all of them starting anew each generation in that race.

For you Dano that is what you think is fair.

I will say it again, there is POSSIBLE racism, there is POSSIBLE unfairness a person can encounter, but AA is DEFINITE racism and DEFINITE unfairness.

 

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I don’t think I’ve ever been personally affected by AA either. However it is a possibility and in my case, as in millions of other Americans my grandparents came here from Norway 75 years ago. They moved to MN so they not only were not involved in slavery they were also not involved in Jim Crow. So I don’t see how white immigrants post slavery are any more accountable to American blacks as Asian immigrants, Nigerian immigrant, Mexican ect ect. At least if the debate were blacks that have family ties to slavery should have some advantages over those people whom had families whom owned slaves at least that would be a more sensible debate.

Also, to many black intellectuals that oppose AA, it has a lot less to do with how it affects whites but rather the negative consequences on blacks and the black family. Preferential treatments based on race are not a new thing, it’s happened innumerous times in different countries from Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, India with detrimental results.

http://www.amazon.com/Affirmative-A...r_1_21?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195913761&sr=8-21

“A delight: terse, well-argued, and utterly convincing.”—

Economist

“Masterpiece that deserves to be one of the most influential books of our time. Any honest reader will be informed and enlightened”

Donald Kagen, Yale University

“A brilliant and learned annalists of the negative effects of racially preferential policys both in the United States and in several other countries around the world”

Stephen Thernstrom, Harvard University

 

[blackascoal]

I don’t think I’ve ever been personally affected by AA either. However it is a possibility and in my case, as in millions of other Americans my grandparents came here from Norway 75 years ago. They moved to MN so they not only were not involved in slavery they were also not involved in Jim Crow. So I don’t see how white immigrants post slavery are any more accountable to American blacks as Asian immigrants, Nigerian immigrant, Mexican ect ect. At least if the debate were blacks that have family ties to slavery should have some advantages over those people whom had families whom owned slaves at least that would be a more sensible debate.

Also, to many black intellectuals that oppose AA, it has a lot less to do with how it affects whites but rather the negative consequences on blacks and the black family. Preferential treatments based on race are not a new thing, it’s happened innumerous times in different countries from Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, India with detrimental results.

http://www.amazon.com/Affirmative-A...r_1_21?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195913761&sr=8-21

“A delight: terse, well-argued, and utterly convincing.”—

Economist

“Masterpiece that deserves to be one of the most influential books of our time. Any honest reader will be informed and enlightened”

Donald Kagen, Yale University

“A brilliant and learned annalists of the negative effects of racially preferential policys both in the United States and in several other countries around the world”

Stephen Thernstrom, Harvard University

400 years of preferential treatment based on race hasn't destroyed white people or their families.

Is there any doubt that whites have enjoyed preferential treatment based on their race?

But that's supposed to be bad for blacks?

Your argument is ridiculous.

 

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It’s not my argument as I’m not a black intellectual. But their you go again with the name calling and then acting as if the debate is over based on your childish names.

You can go ahead and read the book. The one with the high reviews from the economist magazine and other respected intellectuals from such shabby schools as Yale and Harvard.

Also in my personal opinion preferential policies for whites are the biggest stain in our history. I don’t think it ruined the white family but it certainly is the low point for white history and something we obviously are dealing with still today.

 

[blackascoal]

It’s not my argument as I’m not a black intellectual. But their you go again with the name calling and then acting as if the debate is over based on your childish names.

You can go ahead and read the book. The one with the high reviews from the economist magazine and other respected intellectuals from such shabby schools as Yale and Harvard.

Also in my personal opinion preferential policies for whites are the biggest stain in our history. I don’t think it ruined the white family but it certainly is the low point for white history and something we obviously are dealing with still today.

First, I didn't call you anything .. I said your argument is ridiculous .. clearly ridiculous as you seem to agree that white preference has not destroyed white families.

I couldn't care less what the color of so-called intellectuals may be that put forth such a clearly ridiculous, easily disputed theory, nor do I care what schools they attended.

Are Powell, Rice, and Thomas any less the fool because they're black and attended good schools? Were Powell and Rice correct about Iraq because they went to good schools?

Preferential treatment for whites is far from the biggest stain on American history. 264 years of demonic slavery followed by another 100 years of wholesale murder, rape, lynchings, torture, and terrorism FAR outweighs getting a job because you're white.

 

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Come on BAC, obviously slavery is part of the prefferential treatment of whites I'm talking about. You have called me plenty of names in this thread, I've disagreed with you throughout but on the whole have been respectful towards you.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

So your solution is just pass the CRA of 1964 and then let things go as they always have? Do NOTHING to increase the number of minorities in Universities that the system has purposely kept out? DO NOTHING to make insure that schools in black districts are funded ON PAR with the white schools? ONLY a privileged white man can make that argument because ONLY a privileged white man can have NO IDEA how high the bar had already been placed to insure that without government assistance the CRA of 1964 would NEVER succeed. Without affirmative action city police forces all over america would have remained white only organizations. As President Johnson rightly observed "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair." For you Dano that is what you think is fair.

Devastating white lives with discriminatory policy is as wrong as slavery ever was. Plus, allowing less accomplished people into programs because of their victimhood status degrades professions and dilutes the value of education itself.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

Morris ran numerous attacks, including publicizing issues of the Ron Paul Survival Report (published by Paul since 1985) that included derogatory comments concerning race and other politicians.[53][54] Alluding to a 1992 study finding that "of black men in Washington ... about 85 percent are arrested at some point in their lives",[55][56] the newsletter proposed assuming that "95% of the black males in Washington DC are semi-criminal or entirely criminal", and stated that "the criminals who terrorize our cities ... largely are" young black males, who commit crimes "all out of proportion to their numbers".[57][58]


On October 26 nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Medved posted an "Open Letter to Rep. Ron Paul" on TownHall.com. It reads:

Dear Congressman Paul:


Your Presidential campaign has drawn the enthusiastic support of an imposing collection of Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Holocaust Deniers, 9/11 "Truthers" and other paranoid and discredited conspiracists.


Do you welcome- or repudiate - the support of such factions?


More specifically, your columns have been featured for several years in the American Free Press -a publication of the nation's leading Holocaust Denier and anti-Semitic agitator, Willis Carto. His book club even recommends works that glorify the Nazi SS, and glowingly describe the "comforts and amenities" provided for inmates of Auschwitz.



As a Presidential candidate, will you now disassociate yourself, clearly and publicly, from the poisonous propaganda promoted in such publications?



Will you now answer these pressing questions, and eliminate all associations between your campaign and some of the most loathsome fringe groups in American society?


Along with my listeners (and many of your own supporters), I eagerly await your response.


Respectfully, Michael Medved
Medved has received no official response from the Paul campaign.


There is more. The Texas-based Lone Star Times October 25 publicly requested a response to questions about whether the Paul campaign would repudiate and reject a $500 donation from white supremacist Stormfront.org founder Don Black and end the Stormfront website fundraising for Paul. The Times article lit up the conservative blogosphere for the next week. Paul supporters packed internet comment boards alternately denouncing or excusing the charges. Most politicians are quick to distance themselves from such disreputable donations when they are discovered. Not Paul.


Daniel Siederaski of the Jewish Telegraph Agency tried to get an interview with Paul, calling him repeatedly but not receiving any return calls. Wrote Siederaski November 9: "Ron Paul will take money from Nazis. But he won’t take telephone calls from Jews." [Update] Finally on November 13 the Paul campaign responded. In a short interview JTA quotes Jim Perry, head of Jews for Paul describing his work on the Paul campaign along side a self-described white supremacist which Perry says he has reformed.


Racist ties exposed in the Times article go far beyond a single donation. Just below links to information about the "BOK KKK Ohio State Meeting", and the "BOK KKK Pennsylvania State Meeting", Stormfront.org website announced: "Ron Paul for President" and "Countdown to the 5th of November". The links take readers directly to a Ron Paul fundraising site from which they can click into the official Ron Paul 2008 donation page on the official campaign site. Like many white supremacists, Stormfront has ties to white prison gangs.




Perhaps frustrated by the weasel words, Lone Star Times asked Benton: "Bottom line- Will the Ron Paul campaign be rejecting the $500 contribution made by neo-Nazi Don Black?"


On October 11 Stormfront Radio endorsed Ron Paul for President saying:

"Whatever organization you belong to, remember first and foremost that you're a white nationalist, then put aside your differences with one another and work together. Work together to strive to get someone in the Oval Office who agrees with much of what we want for our future. Look at the man, look at the issues, look at our future. Vote for Ron Paul, 2008."
As of November 11--the Ron Paul donation link is still up and active on Stormfront. No IP address has been blocked. Stormfront's would-be stormtroopers are still encouraged to contribute to Paul's campaign.


The white supremacists do more than raise funds. Blogger Adam Holland reports:

"one of Rep. Paul's top internet organizers in Tennessee is a neo-Nazi leader named Will Williams (aka ‘White Will'). Williams was the southern coordinator for William Pierce's National Alliance Party, the largest neo-Nazi party in the U.S."
Pierce is author of the racist "Turner Diaries". When the Lone Star Times exposed the $500 Don Black donation, Williams responded on the national Ron Paul meetup site,

"Must Dr. Paul capitulate to our Jewish masters' demands?"
The mild responses to Williams' MeetUp post make a sharp contrast to the hatred and invective with which Paul supporters respond to Medved or any other writer questioning Paul's refusal to disassociate himself from his racist supporters. Any other campaign would presume Williams' expression of anti-Semitism was a dirty trick by an opposing campaign. Williams would have been hurriedly denounced and booted out of the campaign. Not Ron Paul.


Williams has also organized at least one other discussion, "the Israel factor revisited" on the national Ron Paul MeetUp site. Again the measured tone of the remarks by Ron Paul supporters in the comments section contrasts sharply with the invective Paul supporters rain down upon bloggers who oppose him. Paul's campaign relies heavily on MeetUp sites to organize. Over 61,000 Paul supporters are registered on MeetUp as compared to 3,400 for Barack Obama, 1,000 for Hillary Clinton, 1,800 for Dennis Kucinich and only a couple of dozen members for most other candidates.


On the white-supremacist Vanguard News Network, Williams links to Paul's "grassroots" fundraising site and organizes other racists to "game You Tube" to advance a specific Ron Paul video to the top of You Tube's rankings. Writes Williams, "Everybody here can do this, except bjb w/his niggerberry." Holland points out, "BJB" stands for "burn Jew burn". BJB's internet signature is, "Nothing says lovin' like a Jew in the oven."


Williams is not Paul's only supremacist supporter. "Former" KKK leader (and convicted fraudster) David Duke's website http://www.whitecivilrights.com/, calls Ron Paul "our king" and cheers while "Ron Paul Hits a Home Run on Jay Leno Show." Duke also includes a "Ron Paul campaign update" and plugs Ron Paul fundraising efforts. These articles are posted right next to articles such as "Ten reasons why the Holocaust is a fraud" and "Germans Still Remember their Historical Greatness"-featuring a map of Hitler's Third Reich at its 1942 military height, just in case anybody doesn't get the point. Apparently "Dr. Paul's positive agenda for freedom" is attractive to those who ape the world's worst tyrants and genocidaires.


There are others. In a You Tube video circulating the internet, Ron Paul is endorsed by Hutton Gibson, a leading Holocaust denier and father of controversial actor and director Mel Gibson.

Ron Paul is supported by Patrick Buchanan, whose website carries videos and articles such as: "Ron Paul epiphany" and "Ron Paul a new hope." Buchanan has a long history of remarks some call anti-Semitic (see link). Ron Unz, editor of Buchanan's American Conservative magazine, is a Paul contributor and may have helped raise money from Silicon Valley sources.


Ron Paul's American Free Press supporters run literally from one end of the country to the other:

A Maine Ron Paul MeetUp activist who once ran for US Senate describes himself as, "a 911 truth researcher & video documentarian, & a writer for The Barnes Review." The Barnes Review is a Holocaust-denier magazine founded by Willis Carto.
A Hawaii Ron Paul MeetUp organizer is pictured here pumping the Paul campaign and selling copies of Willis Carto's American Free Press at a farmers market.
There is more to the Paul campaign than racists. The mis-named 9-11 "truth" movement has also been a big source of Paul support. The Detroit Free Press describes the scene as Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani shared the ferry ride back from a Mackinac Island Michigan Republican caucus September 21.

"According to one eyewitness, Giuliani was beset by dozens of Paul enthusiasts as he was leaving the island, some of whom shouted taunts about 9/11, including: ‘9/11 was an inside job' and ‘Rudy, Rudy, what did you do with the gold?' -- an apparent reference to rumors about $200 million in gold alleged to have disappeared in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Ed Wyszynski, a longtime party activist from Eagle, (MI) said the Paul supporters threatened to throw Giuliani overboard and harassed him as he took shelter in the ferry's pilothouse for the 15-minute journey back to Mackinaw City."
Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton told the Detroit Free Press "Ron Paul does not think that 9/11 was an inside job." But the "truthers" aren't fooled. Paul's committee paid 9-11 conspiracy nut and talk-show host Alex Jones $1300. Jones claims the payment is a partial refund after he over paid August 27 when giving Paul a $2300 contribution. Aaron Dykes of Alex Jones' company Magnolia Management and Alex Jones' Infowars website gave Ron Paul $1600.

Jones has been pumping Paul's campaign on his nationally syndicated radio show for months. Alex Jones got Paul's first radio interview January 17 after announcing his Presidential campaign. LINK: http://prisonplanet.tv/audio/170107paul.mp3. In a lengthy October 5 interview -- apparently Paul's fourth with Jones -- Paul thanks Jones for his support saying: "You and the others have always said run, run, run." Alex Jones' websites are piled with Ron Paul articles and campaign paraphernalia for sale.


Other Paul donations and activists come from leftists and Muslims. Singer and Democrat contributor Barry Manilow is also a Ron Paul contributor and possibly a fundraiser. There are close ties (but no endorsements) between Ron Paul's San Francisco Bay Area campaign and Cindy Sheehan's long-shot Congressional campaign.


An Austin, TX MeetUp site shows Paul supporters also involved in leftist groups such as Howard Dean's "Democracy for America." MeetUp lists other sites popular with members of the Ron Paul national MeetUp group. The number one choice is "9/11 questions" another leading choice is "conspiracy."


MuslimVoterOnPaul.com chimes in writing:

"Brothers and Sisters, please vote for Ron Paul in the Republican Primaries. It's our obligation to come together and try to stand up for not only our best interests, but the best interests of the entire Ummah."
A Ron Paul flyer directed at Muslims reads: "Who is Ron Paul and why does the Jerusalem Post call him crazy?" A "Muslims for Paul" bumper sticker puts the Islamic crescent in Paul's name.


The ugly mishmash of hate groups backing Paul has a Sheehan connection as well. David Duke is a big Cindy Sheehan supporter eagerly proclaiming "Cindy Sheehan is right" after Sheehan said, "My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel." Stormfront.org members joined Sheehan at her protest campout in Crawford, TX and posed with her for photos. Sheehan is also intimately associated with the Lew Rockwell libertarian website which has posted over 200 articles by Ron Paul as well as some "scholarly" 9-11 conspiracy theories.


The white supremacist American Nationalist Union also backed Sheehan's Crawford protests and endorsed David Duke for president of the United States in 1988. Now they are backing Ron Paul-linking to numerous Pro-Paul articles posted on LewRockwell.com.


Medved's questions surprise many, but they shouldn't. Paul's links the anti-Semites and white supremacists continue a trend which has been developing since the 9-11 attacks. Barely six weeks after 9-11, Paul was already busy blaming America. On October 27, 2001 Paul wrote on LewRockwell.com, "Some sincere Americans have suggested that our modern interventionist policy set the stage for the attacks of 9-11". Paul complained: "often the ones who suggest how our policies may have played a role in evoking the attacks are demonized as unpatriotic." He says the US is "bombing Afghanistan" and is upset nobody is interested in his solution:

"It is certainly disappointing that our congressional leaders and administration have not considered using letters of marque and reprisal as an additional tool to root out those who participated in the 9-11 attacks."
Paul is quick to blame the victim when the issue is Islamist violence. But when it comes to ordinary criminal violence, Paul once blamed "95% of black males." During Paul's 1996 Congressional campaign a Houston Chronicle article raised questions about a 1992 Ron Paul newsletter article. Under Ron Paul's name was written: "If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.' Paul added: "I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city (Washington, D.C.) are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."


Texas Monthly later interviewed Paul. He claims:

"They were never my words, but I had some moral responsibility for them . . . I actually really wanted to try to explain that it doesn't come from me directly, but they campaign aides said that's too confusing. 'It appeared in your letter and your name was on that letter and therefore you have to live with it.'"
Adds Texas Monthly:

"It is a measure of his stubbornness, determination, and ultimately his contrarian nature that, until this surprising volte-face in our interview, he had never shared this secret. It seems, in retrospect, that it would have been far, far easier to have told the truth at the time."
Paul defenders often point to a December 24, 2002 Paul essay, "What really divides us?" Wrote Paul,

"Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans only as members of groups and never as individuals. Racists believe that all individual who share superficial physical characteristics are alike; as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups."
What his supporters don't often mention is that Paul deployed this fine rhetoric only in defense of Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS). Lott was pilloried in the press for his flattering words about the segregationist 1948 Presidential run of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond.


Responding to rioting in Los Angeles under the heading "Terrorist Updates", Paul's 1992 article exposes a double standard. Substitute the words "Islamist terrorism" for "riots" and try to imagine Paul using this language:

"The cause of the riots is plain: barbarism. If the barbarians cannot loot sufficiently through legal channels (i.e., the riots being the welfare-state minus the middleman), they resort to illegal ones, to terrorism. Trouble is, few seem willing to do anything to stop them. The cops have been handcuffed. And property owners are not allowed to defend themselves. The mayor of Los Angeles, for example, ordered the Korean storekeepers who defended themselves arrested for "discharging a firearm within city limits." Perhaps the most scandalous aspect of the Los Angeles riots was the response by the mayors, the media, and the Washington politicians. They all came together as one to excuse the violence and to tell white America that it is guilty, although the guilt can be assuaged by handing over more cash. It would be reactionary, racist, and fascist, said the media, to have less welfare or tougher law enforcement. America's number one need is an unlimited white checking account for underclass blacks.

"Rather than helping, all this will ensure that guerrilla violence will escalate. There will be more occasional eruptions such as we saw in Los Angeles, but just as terrifying are the daily muggings, robberies, burglaries, rapes, and killings that make our cities terror zones."
If one forgets the implication that the US treasury is a "white checking account" or the suggestion that all "underclass blacks" are thugs, it seems that Paul believes that appeasing street criminals "will ensure that guerrilla violence will escalate." But when it comes to the Islamist terror, Paul's message, now the theme of his Presidential campaign is: "our policies may have played a role in evoking the attacks."


The double standard raises questions. Paul's real motivation for appeasing Islamists may be underlined in quotes from a May 24, 1996 Congress Daily article:

"Stating that lobbying groups who seek special favors and handouts are evil, Paul wrote, ‘By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government' and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism."
"Ron Paul-America's Last Chance", a January, 2007 article by Ted Lang on the anti-Semitic site Rense.com, makes a familiar argument for supporting Paul. Lang claims,

"Dr. Paul's best credentials are those identifying him as a true libertarian, meaning a ‘classical liberal' of the anti-Federalist genre of libertarians that helped found this country, true liberals such as Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams...."
Paul himself writing on antiwar.com says:

"Thomas Jefferson spoke for the founders and all our early presidents when he stated: ‘peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...' which is, ‘one of the essential principles of our government'. The question is: Whatever happened to this principle and should it be restored?"
Perhaps Paul forgets America's 1801-05 war with the Islamic terrorists known as the Barbary Pirates? Paul's interpretation of American history is false. This writer explained in "The Colonial War against Islam":

"In 1786, Thomas Jefferson, then U.S. ambassador to France, and John Adams, then American Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey's ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress' vote of funding. To Congress, these two future presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims' hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.

"‘...that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.'"
Apparently Paul chooses to remember only the parts of American history which benefit his arguments. As part of the War on Terror Paul wants the US to abandon, the US Navy is on duty fighting Islamic pirates off the coast of Somalia, in the Persian Gulf, and Southeast Asia.

Michael Medved is a JudeoFascist Pig. M.E.D.V. (as in Vagina) E.D.