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.
Amen to that !
Holy crap, that's a long run-on sentence. Have a quaalude. You Paul haters are nuckin futs.
Neither does Thompson, and he's still more than enough pro-life for me. Shut up.
There are plenty of threads supporting various candidates. You choose to hang out on the gay ones.
You're a rare breed amongst the anti-Paul crowd. Your civility is appreciated.
I have thought about the question and the answer is - no.
Try to speak the truth about Islam, something Paul wont do and see what tolerance you get.
Yet Paul has opposed every attempt to actually track non-citizens or look at Islamist extremism in America.
hmm...Liberals aren’t the only traitors, in our mist.
IMO evacuating the PLO to Tunis intact was a terrible idea. They should have been destroyed. As you know Arafat survived to cause all sorts of problems in the region, as did the 20% or so of his terrorists left behind to form the core of todays terror problem in Lebanon. The buffer zone in the south, a decent compromise, clearly Israel's withdrawl was a mistake in retrospect.
The point isn't agreement/disagreement with RR's Lebanon policy, rather the absurd comparison to Ron Paul. Ron Paul wouldn't have had a hand in negotiating a withdrawl agreement, "saving face" in your terms, he wouldn't have had a hand in relocating the PLO, vetting terrorists who stay, or in handing over the South to Israel, which he clearly would consider a provocation of the terrorists. He simply would have left cold, as he would do in Iraq, with no consideration of the consequences.
It's worth noting he's opposed to virtually all RR's other foreign policy actions, from Grenada to Central America to Afghanistan to the maintainance of troops in Europe. The Ron Paul=Ronald Reagan comparison is absurd.
As to your rather stupid question, no I don't consider Ronald Reagan a traitor, I don't consider Paul one either. If you're interested in the traitor card, read.
I won't shut up and particularly not to accommodate paleophonies who would not recognize conservatism if their lives depended on it. I might well vote for Fred Thompson even if you claim to support him. I will NEVER support the antiwar, antiAmerican, thoroughly phony likes of El Ron Paulie, the shrimpin' earmark man. Ask JimRob what he thinks of paleoPaulie and the surrender caucus.
I am a conservative and I leave the ludes to libertarians as you can see from their support of paleoPaulie and their posts in favor of him.
The relentless intellectualism of your arguments is too much to bear! I will manage somehow to persevere especially as the p[aleosurrender caucus are evicted by the voters in caucus after caucus and primary after primary. Go back to the libertoonian party where you all belong.
Note: this topic is from November 18, 2007.Thanks 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...
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