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.
I would hope he "hates" Jonathan Pollard.
I don’t think that Paul is anti-Semitic but his isolationism disqualifies him to be President. Anyone who thinks that the U.S. somehow provoked the 9/11 attacks, that the US should immediately withdraw its troops from Iraq regardless of the consequences, and who thinks that retreating behind our borders will somehow protect us from the rising tide of radical Islam, is hopelessly naive. The fact that Muslims are now endorsing his candidacy is further proof that Paul is clueless about the danger that Islam poses to the West.
I don’t care what his views on other issues might be, I will never vote for him.
Now I don’t care who you are, That is funny! You even have a one eyed guy!
Pray for W and Our Troops
Please, you don’t have to pretend to care about Israel’s security. Afterall RP himself said they and the US have NO reason to fear Iran or her proxies. The Mullahs are gummidrop peaceful. And according the Paul Iran has never done anything hostile to us. So if you disagree with him on this point, letting the ME being overrun by Islamic extremists and cutting aid to Israel is not letting them (and more importantly the US security) hang out to dry?
Please elaborate on your tortured logic. Is Ron Paul right or wrong when saying there is no danger from the Middle East?
As for me and my voice, Ron Paul does not make the cut. He is AGAINST the federal government protecting the life of the unborn currently and he is AGAINST a constitutional amendment clarifying that protecting the life of the unborn is constitutionally required duty of the federal government. i.e. HE IS NOT PROLIFE.
(You’re looking pretty well POWNED yourself.)
Answer this, KDD, is there any Jew at all that Ron Paul hates?
And for what it's worth, SJackson does not think that Paul is an anti-semite.
Dick Durbin could not have said it better. Ron Paul should be shouted down and pelted with tomatoes wherever he goes. What a louse.
Pat Buchanan or Neturei Karta?
The only place Kook Paul is more popular than here is DU.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
The ignorance displayed here by knee jerk Paul haters is disgusting and fortifies what other sites on the web have been saying about us. The tone of debate here these days is pitiful and the reason that a google of "hate sites" reveals the name of our forum. Hence my tagline. If Freerepublic is considered a hate site as it is by many I don't want to see Paul smeared by his association with some of its members.
Even simple questions aren't answered by the Paul haters. I'm through wasting my time with mental midgets for now. Good day.
First of all, link me up to some proof of this. I have Googled this up and I can't find any quotes from Paul opposing this. And are you one of those pain in the butts that insists that Fred Thompson is not pro-life?
(You’re looking pretty well POWNED yourself.)
If you're going to use l33t sp33k, get it right, n00b.
No, he doesn't.
Only noobs say noob.... You noob.
Some of the most hateful, irrational and ignorant posts I ever read are to be attributed to Ron Paul supporters (I’m not necessairly talking about posters on FR...)
Oh yeah. Those DU'ers are fond of pro-life pro-gun anti-welfare candidates
LOL!
No, I don't, we've played this game before KDD. I don't think Paul hates Jews or blacks, though he's tolerant of those that do.
The issue is that he readily accepts supports from the worst corner of the hate community and, unlike other candidates, refused to condemn their ideology thus, at least in his small corner of the electorate, normalizing it.
Among his supporters David Duke, a well known white supremecist. Do you, KDD, condemn Dukes ideology? Do you acknowledge it's inappropriate to inject this ideoloty into the American political climate, thus normalizing it?
Among his supporters Donald Black, a well known white supremecist and felon. Do you, KDD, condemn Dukes ideology? Do you acknowledge it's inappropriate to inject this ideoloty into the American political climate, thus normalizing it? Should Blacks contribution be returned? Should Stormfront, Blacks website, be allowed to link to Paul fundraising?
Among his supporters Willis Carto, a well known white supremecist and Holocaust denier. Do you, KDD, condemn Dukes ideology? Do you acknowledge it's inappropriate to inject this ideoloty into the American political climate, thus normalizing it? Do you think it's proper for Paul to be advertised as a columnist by Carto?
Do you think it's proper for Paul to allow the Council of Conservative to run his column in their print publication? Do you acknowledge it's inappropriate to inject this ideoloty into the American political climate, thus normalizing it?
Are you pleased with Hutton Gibsons recent endorsement? Do you, KDD, condemn Gibson's Holocaust denial? Do you acknowledge it's inappropriate to inject this ideoloty into the American political climate, thus normalizing it?
Do you think it would be a good idea for other Republicans to accept support from this corner of the electorate? If so, have Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Bush I to Bush II to the RNC made a mistake by rejecting it?
So about Fred Thompson...
Camera... the second picture, the two rows of the guys wearing turbans; the bottom row second from left: doesn’t he look like the American terrorist that made a few videos? I think he wears glasses, but those that don’t need them to see but read, don’t wear them all the time.
He knows that, we’ve covered this ground before. IMO, supporters like this, both neonazis and his aggressive internet clown, do Paul no good at all, either in gathering support or more immportly should he not win the nomination, generating support for his ideas.
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