I would also like to see the things from Paul’s newsletter that are being discussed. I watched them misquote Newt over and over last month and would believe they are misquoting Paul. Perhaps someone who knows where to find them will post a link...
You wrote: “I would also like to see the things from Pauls newsletter that are being discussed. I watched them misquote Newt over and over last month and would believe they are misquoting Paul. Perhaps someone who knows where to find them will post a link...”
I haven’t read the whole thread, but here is something for you:
First, you need to know this:
FreeRepublic bans the likes of Alex Jones, Prison Planet, Lew Rockwell and other Ron Paul supporters
Sunday, December 27, 2009
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415837/posts
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Now:
Excerpted from the item below:
“....In the four years since my article appeared, Paul has gone right on appearing regularly on the radio program of Alex Jones, the most popular conspiracy theorist in America (unless that distinction belongs to Paul himself). To understand Joness paranoid worldview, it helps to watch a recent documentary he produced, Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, which reveals the secret plot of George Pataki, David Rockefeller, and Queen Beatrix, among other luminaries, to exterminate humanity and transform themselves into superhuman computer hybrids able to travel throughout the cosmos. There is nothing Jones believes the American government isnt capable of, from [encouraging] homosexuality with chemicals so that people dont have children to blowing up the Space Shuttle Columbia, a textbook psychological warfare operation. ....”
The Company Ron Paul Keeps
Meet Alex Jones.
Dec 26, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 15 By JAMES KIRCHICK
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/company-ron-paul-keeps_613474.html?page=1
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In January 2008, the New Republic ran my story reporting the contents of monthly newsletters that Paul published throughout the 1980s and 1990s. While a handful of controversial passages from these bulletins had been quoted previously, I was able to track down nearly the entire archive, scattered between the University of Kansas and the Wisconsin Historical Society (both of which housed the newsletters in collections of extreme right-wing American political literature). Though particular articles rarely carried a byline, the vast majority were written in the first person, while the title of the newsletter, in its various iterations, always featured Pauls name: Ron Pauls Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Political Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report, and the Ron Paul Investment Letter. What I found was unpleasant.
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks, read a typical article from the June 1992 Special Issue on Racial Terrorism, a supplement to the Ron Paul Political Report. Racial apocalypse was the most persistent theme of the newsletters; a 1990 issue warned of The Coming Race War, and an article the following year about disturbances in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was entitled Animals Take Over the D.C. Zoo. Paul alleged that Martin Luther King Jr., the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours, had also seduced underage girls and boys. The man who would later proclaim King a hero attacked Ronald Reagan for signing legislation creating the federal holiday in his name, complaining, We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.
No conspiracy theory was too outlandish for Pauls endorsement. One newsletter reported on the heretofore unknown phenomenon of Needlin, in which gangs of black girls between the ages of 12 and 14 roamed the streets of New York and injected white women with possibly HIV-infected syringes. Another newsletter warned that the AIDS patient should not be allowed to eat in restaurants because AIDS can be transmitted by saliva, a strange claim for a physician to make.
Paul gave credence to the theory, later shown to have been the product of a Soviet disinformation effort, that AIDS had been created in a U.S. government laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Three months before far-right extremists killed 168 Americans in Oklahoma City, Pauls newsletter praised the 1,500 local militias now training to defend liberty as one of the most encouraging developments in America. And he offered specific advice to antigovernment militia members, such as, Keep the group size down, Keep quiet and youre harder to find, Leave no clues, Avoid the phone as much as possible, and Dont fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
If the above were not enough to place Paul beyond the pale for the RJC, what the congressman had to say about Jews and Israel would probably be a deal-breaker. No foreign country was mentioned in the newsletters more often than Israel. A 1987 newsletter termed it an aggressive, national socialist state, and another missive, on the subject of the 1993 World Trade Center attack, concluded, Whether it was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little. In 1990, the newsletter cast aspersions on the tens of thousands of well-placed friends of Israel in all countries who are willing to wok [sic] for the Mossad in their area of expertise.
This is just a sample of the hateful and conspiratorial nonsense that Paul promoted for decades under his own name. His response to the revelations was nothing short of unbelievable. The quotations in the New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed, he said. When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name. In an interview with CNNs Wolf Blitzer two days after the article appeared, Paul waved away accusations of racism by saying that he was gaining ground with the blacks and getting more votes right now and more support from the blacks.
Yet a subsequent report by Reason found that Ron Paul & Associates, the defunct company that published the newsletters and which counted Paul and his wife as officers, reported an income of nearly $1 million in 1993 alone. If this figure is reliable, Paul must have earned multiple millions of dollars over the two decades plus of the newsletters existence. It is incredible that he had less than an active interest in what was being printed as part of a subscription newsletter enterprise that earned him and his family millions of dollars.
Ed Crane, the president of the Cato Institute, said Paul told him that his best source of congressional campaign donations was the mailing list for the Spotlight, the conspiracy-mongering, anti-Semitic tabloid run by the Holocaust denier Willis Carto.
This sordid history would not bear repeating but for the fact that the media love to portray Paul as a truth-telling, antiwar Republican standing up to the hawkish conservative establishment. Otherwise, the newsletters, and Pauls continued failure to name their author, would be mentioned in every story about him, and he would be relegated to the fringe where he belongs.
But Paul has escaped the sort of media scrutiny that would bury other political figures. A December 15 profile of Paul in the Washington Post, for instance, affectionately described his love of gardening and The Sound of Music and judged that world events have conspired to make him look increasingly on pointall without any mention of the newsletter controversy.
Though present at nearly every Republican debate, he has yet to be asked about the newsletters. Had Pauls persona and views changed significantly since 2008, this oversight might be understandable. But he continues to say and do things suggesting that, far from disowning the statements he has claimed do not represent what I believe or have ever believed, he still believes them.
In the four years since my article appeared, Paul has gone right on appearing regularly on the radio program of Alex Jones, the most popular conspiracy theorist in America (unless that distinction belongs to Paul himself). To understand Joness paranoid worldview, it helps to watch a recent documentary he produced, Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, which reveals the secret plot of George Pataki, David Rockefeller, and Queen Beatrix, among other luminaries, to exterminate humanity and transform themselves into superhuman computer hybrids able to travel throughout the cosmos. There is nothing Jones believes the American government isnt capable of, from [encouraging] homosexuality with chemicals so that people dont have children to blowing up the Space Shuttle Columbia, a textbook psychological warfare operation.
In a March 2009 interview, Paul entertained Joness claim that NORTHCOM, the U.S. militarys combatant command for North America, is taking over the country. The average member of Congress probably isnt a participant in the grand conspiracy, Paul reassured the fevered host, essentially acknowledging that such a conspiracy exists. We need to take out the CIA. On Pauls latest appearance on the Jones show, just last week, he called allegations that Iran had attempted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States a propaganda stunt of the Obama administration. In a January 2010 speech, Paul announced, Theres been a coup, have you heard? Its the CIA coup against the American government. Theyre in businesses, in drug businesses, the congressman added.
Likewise, Pauls insistence that America should be a friend of Israel is belied by public statements like one from a November 22 GOP debate: Why do we have this automatic commitment that were going to send our kids and send our money endlessly to Israel? This is an echo of Pat Buchanans 1990 claim that if the United States went to war against Saddam Hussein it would be on behalf of Israel, and that kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales, and Leroy Brown would be the ones doing the fighting and dying. The assertion that American soldiers are risking their lives to protect Israel and not the United States is as false today as it was two decades ago.
Last, Paul continues to be the favorite candidate of those who believe that the United States either orchestrated the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, or allowed them to happen in order to create the pretext for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Its not hard to understand why. In a December 9 speech to supporters in Iowa, Paul had this to say: Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq.
Pauls more mainstream supporters have always explained away his popularity with 9/11 Truthers as an unfortunate consequence of his altruistic, if at times naïve, libertarian ethos: The man just loves freedom so much that hes loath to turn away backers who may think differently from him.
To anyone who bothers to look into Ron Pauls record, that claim is simply not credible.
James Kirchick is a fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a contributing editor to the New Republic. bttt