Posted on 11/19/2007 6:00:13 AM PST by tlb
After the Republican debate on Tuesday evening in Dearborn, Mich., a reporter from the Arab-American News asked Ron Paul what he thought of the term “Islamic fascism.”
“It’s a false term to make people think we’re fighting Hitler,” Paul responded. “It’s war propaganda designed to generate fear so that the war has to be spread.”
The call has gone out to all the Muslim Americans to hurry up and register to vote Republican so that they can vote in the Republican Primary to support Ron Paul, the anti-interventionist, non-isolationist candidate for President of the United States. Muslims are opening their wallets and joining teaparty07.com as well.
An anonymous Ron Paul supporter posted the following message on the internet: “Muslims and Americans have an unique window of opportunity for the 2008 election. There is a candidate running as a Republican that would work to completely cut off the funding to Israel, remove ALL US troops from Arab lands, and repeal the Patriot Act. He’s a Republican with Libertarian views named Ron Paul. Ron Paul’s policies ranging from monetary to foreign are top notch. Till now Muslims and Americans have not had an American Presidential candidate that really suited their best interests. This election is unique in that we have a man running as a Republican that speaks the truth…We know the current policies in the Middle East are failing, not only making it less safe in the world but hurting and killing innocent Muslims, which our media callously calls collateral damage. It is our duty as Muslims to follow the truth regardless of how futile it may seem. Ron Paul is the only candidate that does not seem to be swayed by the influential lobbies that the other candidates are catering to.”
Ron Paul stood up in Congress in 2006 and opposed a resolution that sided with Israel in the Lebanon-Israel conflict. He stated the following.
Ron Paul: “Mr. Speaker, I follow a policy in foreign affairs called non-interventionism. I do not believe we are making the United States more secure when we involve ourselves in conflicts overseas. The Constitution really doesn’t authorize us to be the policemen of the world, much less to favor one side over another in foreign conflicts. It is very clear, reading this resolution objectively, that all the terrorists are on one side and all the victims and the innocents are on the other side. I find this unfair, particularly considering the significantly higher number of civilian casualties among Lebanese civilians. I would rather advocate neutrality rather than picking sides, which is what this resolution does.”
Ron Paul has also sponsored a bill to overturn the Patriot Act. He is one of the few members of Congress from either of the major houses that is speaking rationally about these issues. How can we get everyone, and I mean everyone, to join the Ron Paul Republican voter sign-up campaign?
There is general frustration with politicians these days, and the unwillingness to believe that supporting a particular candidate will make a difference. But whether Ron Paul wins or loses, ronpaul.meetup.com is a great way to meet your neighbors who are against the war and organize the community on a grassroots level. If something like Katrina ever happened to us, knowing our neighbors could mean the difference between life and death to our families.
The common thread I’ve been reading lately about leftists and Jews is that they are having trouble getting more than a dozen people to come to their stuff (whether anti-Zionist or Zionist). The anti-Israel movement is not moving forward, because “protest Zionist imperialism” is just not a catchy slogan. By contrast, there are over 400 RP activists against war taxes in Boston alone. Every day the list of passionate anti-war activists grows. Very few of them agree with every single RP position, they just want to get the Lobby out of the way and pull the troops out of Iraq.
One reason it’s working is because of the software. They made the ronpaul.meetup.com site almost like a dating site, where you can make friends with people in or near your zip code. They made it very easy to get together with new people to join the activism. You can’t beat technology, may as well use it.
In the event that RP actually won the election and got the Hamas treatment, his supporters are fully in support of the Right to Bear Arms. It would be interesting to see what followed.
If anti-war protesters want to continue to focus on the genocidal machinations of the global zionist-imperialist military, industrial, financial, political, neoliberal, media complex, they have to be willing to meet with anyone any time to hear what ideas people have to address this, which is our primary responsibility - even if they are Republicans.
If you ever saw Ron Paul in an interview it cannot be said that he avoids discussing vital issues. He is someone who is willing to make a statement and stick by it even when no one agrees with him. I don’t “believe” in electoral politics but it’s not that much sweat off my brow to go and vote to end war.
I think the fact that NO pro-Israel group will let Ron Paul speak at their convention, not even peace Zionists, is evidence enough that he is the only person to put in charge as commander-in-chief. And, even if he loses, making all these contacts with local anti-interventionists is priceless. If you want to expand the peace movement so that it overlaps with the freedom movement like ripples in a pond, you just have to respect the fact that people might agree with you, but for different reasons.
That aside, your example is outstanding though, on several levels.
As an active Paul supporter, it demonstrates that you get your news from the left, the Village Voice. And digest only what supports your preexisting bias, since the answer to your question was in the article. Don Black showed up, Don Black was rejected.
The incident wasn’t a campaign function, rather a student rally organized by Joshua Light.
Don Black turned up, what did Joshua Light do?
Accept his support like Ron Paul.
No, he turned it down. Something Ron Paul finds himself unable to do. I’d find sources, there aren’t many it was a small rally, but then I don’t need to, do I since your article states.
Unavailable for comment when this story was filed yesterday, organizer of the rally, Joshua Light, says he wants no part of racial hatred or prejudice. his event has nonetheless drawn the vocal support of the white supremacist Don Black, founder of the Florida-based Stormfront.Describing himself as a Jewish kid originally from Philadelphia, ht says he intended only to rally Republicans and conservativescause he believes Democratic "partisans in Palm Beach are trying to take the election away."
Light has been advertising the rally on NewsMax.com, a national conservative news wire that has peppered protests all week with signs printed with its URL. On the site, Light's ad calls for "troop enforcement" from local (and distant) conservatives who feel "outnumbered by the marches led by Jesse Jackson."
The ad exhorts, "Stop the madness of anyone trying to steal this election away from the American people and what they believe in!"
Light appears to be drawing troops he never intended to invite. Black, the founder of the Internet's first "hate" site is claiming he'll help lead the rally. Black has been using his site to promote the event to the world from his home in downtown West Palm Beach, two miles from the voting action this week at the Emergency Operations Center. Black, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, will be there with his 11-year-old son, Derek (the webmaster of Stormfront for Kids.) Both father and son are featured in the HBO documentary Hate.com, airing this week.
The Buchanan supporter—who voted for George W. Bush to keep Al Gore out—said Wednesday that he participated in the Jackson protest Monday, which he insists was more anti-Gore than pro-Bush.was right in the middle of things," Black said with a laugh. "Not a single reporter recognized me. My ego was deflated in a way."
That is not entirely surprising. Although Black is a former deputy of KKK leader David Duke's (and actually married Duke's former wife, Chloe), he tries to stay below the media radar in his wife's hometown of West Palm Beach, where they moved in 1987. Likewise, Black said that he is counseling fellow "pro-white" extremists to show up to support Bush, but not to emphasize their controversial stances such as support for the Confederate flag.
no part of racial hatred or prejudice
I’ll repeat.
no part of racial hatred or prejudice
A college kid has the commonse sense to reject this support immediately, Ron Paul, weeks and months and counting.
Send ole Ron an Email, tell him how the college kid handled it,
A threat that could be better addressed through immigration policies instead of endless war. It is simple. We keep em out of here and send back any who are not citizens. How would they attack us then? Storm the beachs at Malibu perhaps?
Yup.
Only Paul supporters are lucid posters, the rest of us are trolls or ignorant freepers.
Why do you ask me what “I” think and then argue with the answer. Fred has problems... but they’re not insurmountable.
lormand
I’ll admit I don’t know what the USS COLE was doing in YEMEN, but I bet it was involved with protecting our oil and security interests. Do you ride a bicycle? Use oil or oil products?
I do know a Navy soldier who was on a similar mission in the middle east during that period. He boarded ships of those who were potentially carrying weapons to be used for terrorist attacks on our interests there.
“a million times”
And remember, exageration is the worst thing you could ever possibly do in a million billion years to get a point across. ;-P
Wait, didn't the Paul meetup groups boot the scumbags? Isn't that exactly like what you just described?
I know quite a few Lebanese Americans who are Christian. Some vote RAT, but many like Louisiana’s 7th district US Congressman is a Reagan Republican, not a flaming Blame America coward like Ron Paul.
Because what "you" think is wrong, be it about Paul or Thompson.
Ha, neither, I'm not an anti-zionist myself.
Praise the Lord, pray for Jews and for Israel, and pass the ammunition. Yet I wince at what I think God will do to the proud, intellectual, secular, communist, humanist, atheist, liberal, racist, survivalist impostors in Israel who rely on their own strength instead of God's. Israel is a miracle.
Resorting to personally attacking me is about all you can do?
Keeping oil shipping lanes open for malcontents like you?
Well he marched with then anyway...
And there was no condemnation from the Bush party hacks.
Not even you at the time.
No it isn’t.
Tin Foil Hat Alert
You just don’t know a compliment when you see it.
Cognitive dissonance is an amusing thing.
White Willie "burn the Jews" Williams was booted, though it's not clear if it was the Paul campaign or the meetup site which is a source for lots of folk other than Paul. I say uncertain because to my knowledge there's been no statement.
As to Willis Carto advertising Paul as a columnist, no answer three weeks after Medved raised the issue, a couple months after it was on the internet, nothing on David Duke, Don Black, contributions and donation link at Stormfront, nothing from the campaign at all. BTW, if you check the meetup site, members of the group are quite upset about banning White Willie. Latest endorsement, Hutton Gibson, admittadly a less prominent Holocaust denier.
Sould the MSM decide to get into the issue, it will be ugly for Republicans, though only for awhile, since the GOP will reject it and likely Paul. You might note comments 112 and 121 for how the media handles even minor incidents. This is a very stupid move by Paul. Adaptted from two of Reagan's condemnations of the KKK, here is what I've suggested for Paul. Probably take 2 minutes to release it, return Don Black's $500, and block the Stormfront link. The issue is put to bed.
I have been distressed to learn that I have been receiving support from various hate groups and that my columns have appeared in their print publications. The latter will end immediately. I do not want such support and that I repudiate it and reject the ideology these people stand for.I have no tolerance for what these groups represent, and would have nothing to do with any groups of that type. The politics of racial hatred and religious bigotry have no place in this country, and are destructive of the values for which America has always stood. Those of us in public life can only resent the use of our names by those who seek political recognition for the repugnant doctrines of hate they espouse.
I firmly believe that there is no room for partisanship on this question. Democrats and Republicans alike must be resolute in disassociating ourselves from any group or individual whose political philosophy consists only of racial or religious intolerance, whose arguments are supported only by intimidation or threats of violence.
We must, and will, continue our unified rejection of such elements of hate in our political life, for while there are many issues which divide us, it is fundamental principles such as this which will always draw us together.
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