Posted on 12/20/2011 12:26:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
So as Ron Paul is on track to win the Iowa caucuses, he is getting a new dose of press scrutiny.
And the press is focusing on the newsletters that went out under his name in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They were called the Ron Paul's Political Report, Ron Paul's Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report and the Ron Paul Investment Letter.
There is no doubt that the newsletters contained utterly racist statements.
Some choice quotes:
* "Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
* "We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational."
* After the Los Angeles riots, one article in a newsletter claimed, "Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks."
* One referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as "the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours" and who "seduced underage girls and boys"
* Another referred to Barbara Jordan, a civil rights activist and congresswoman as "Barbara Morondon," the "archetypical half-educated victimologist."
* Other newsletters had strange conspiracy theories about homosexuals, the CIA, and AIDS.
In 1996 when the Texas Monthly investigated the newsletters, Paul took responsibility for them and said that certain things were taken out of context. (It's hard to imagine a context that would make the above quotes defensible.)
When the newsletter controversy came up again during the 2008 campaign, Paul explained that he didn't actually write the newsletters but because they carried his name he was morally responsible for their content. Further, he didn't know exactly who wrote the offensive things
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Ron Paul is going to be joined at the hip with Lew Rockwell if he somehow wins.
The may not represent his views.
But I question the veracity of a man who says he does not know WHO wrote letters under his name, published by him.
I can’t imagine any case where you would publish something without knowing who wrote it.
Did Ron find this stuff written on scrolls that appeared on his porch?
You can’t be president if you don’t know who’ writing inflammatory stuff you “happen” to publish.
So no matter who wrote it, Ron’s either a DOLT or a RACIST.
You got that right!!
I understand he was the publisher. Suggesting that he was only peripherally involved is silly. Does anyone think this sort of cr@p might have gone out in National Review while Wm Buckley was alive? The closest thing I can recall to this is the stuff that Pat Buchanan wrote. In response to criticism Buckley devoted an entire issue to consider the question: Is Patrick Buchanan anti-Semitic? For Ron Paul, everything in his newsletter was peaches and cream.
But I guess it's more important for the MSM to smear the good men.
ML/NJ
RE: : If Ron Paul is so libertarian that he won’t even police people who use his name, if his movement is filled with incompetents and opportunists, then what kind of a president would he make?
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One thing is certain, he OBJECTS to government monitoring conversations between Islamists from the USA to places like Yemen and vice versa. He believes it is a violation of our right to privacy.
He’s also against t”targetted assassinations” of Al Qaeda leaders like Bin ladin or Al Awlaki without DUE PROCESS.
The Democrats wouldn’t have an opposition file on Paul, they’d have an opposition warehouse.
Yeah that one crosses the line. In fact it's flat out wrong, while their certainly are many poor black families in DC, there are also many upper-middle class ones (mostly federal employees) who think about as much of the lower class criminal blacks as any other race.
* "We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational."
I assume the writer was refering to the higher rates of crime among black men, while this was poorly phrased. I think it was aimed more a political correctness than race.
* After the Los Angeles riots, one article in a newsletter claimed, "Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks."
Andrew Dice Clay should sue Ron Paul for plagarism, I remember this joke in his routine back in the 1990's.
* One referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as "the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours" and who "seduced underage girls and boys"
It's not polite to talk about since society has decided to deify MLK, but most serious biographers would admit this is at least partially true.
* Another referred to Barbara Jordan, a civil rights activist and congresswoman as "Barbara Morondon," the "archetypical half-educated victimologist."
Yeah, that sounds like her, although the "Morondon" was a little juvenile.
* Other newsletters had strange conspiracy theories about homosexuals, the CIA, and AIDS.
Well this IS from Ron Paul, what do you expect?
I would NEVER vote for Paul (in the primaries)...he sits behind Romney in my view.
but most of what the quotes represent sound like sociological studies not racist rambling by Paul...
just my $0.02
Never mind that some of it might actually be true...
We must all take turns beating our breast and proclaiming loudly that we too carry water for “diversity”.
Thats almost as screwy as someone sitting in church for 20 years while your minister spewed racist anti-american non-sense and yet you claim you didn’t know anything about it.
Who in their right mind would believe that?
Oh,wait..nevermind.
YES, WE KNOW. PAULBOTS HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT BEFORE THE BI-BLOG JUST RE-HASHED THE SAME STORY!
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Why? The bi-blog isn't on the excerpt-only list. Is the bi-blog paying you?
I’ll be watching this to see if any of the Paul cult koolaid drinkers respond. So far they avoid the issue, call the newsletters fake or say they don’t care.
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RE: Well this IS from Ron Paul, what do you expect?
And in the most recent interview on Jay Leno’s show, he said Michelle Bachmann HATES MUSLIMS and Rick Santorum HATES GAYS.
See here: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/316325
This is the guy some FReepers want to support as President?
P M
His defense, "I didn't do it, and I don't know who did it and I don't agree with it but I didn't know it was being done," sounds like eric holder testifying before congress about fast and furious.
Both of them are lying about some aspect of what happened.
Holder knew and Paul knew.
Maybe neither one sold a gun nor wrote a word, but being in charge, means just saying, "I take full responsibility", means it's your ass on the line and you take the punishment that comes with the screw up.
Looks like even CBS is picking up on the Ron Paul racism:
Ron Paul disavows racist newsletters under his name
Time for the GOP to throw that crackpot bum out once and for all.
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