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Thanks for posting this. Hopefully, it will help give people a clearer picture of who Ron Paul really is and what he stands for. His latest book, "LibertyDefined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom" is also an easy to understand book that explains his position. He is a man of integrity and would certainly be helpful in getting this country back on track if he's elected.
Thanks for posting this. Hopefully, it will help give people a clearer picture of who Ron Paul really is and what he stands for. His latest book, "LibertyDefined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom" is also an easy to understand book that explains his position. He is a man of integrity and would certainly be helpful in getting this country back on track if he's elected.
I recently read a couple of chapters of "Liberty Defined" at Barnes and Noble and I am definitely impressed. What other politician has written a book that clearly defines his/her views?
The problem with Ron Paul isn't Ron Paul. Its the people.
People only think in "Yes or no, black and white, true and false, this or that." If he is against federal laws to restrict X, it means that he thinks X is ok.
That's the trap Ron Paul falls into. Whether you agree with Ron Paul or not, citizens of this country aren't intellectual enough to understand what he is about. He doesn't stand a chance for a presidential run due to this.
Paul believes in property rights, which means that people have the right to discriminate – even to be racists. That does not mean that Paul is happy with racism or is racist himself.
Dr. Paul, who served in Congress in the late 1970s and early 1980s, said Tuesday that he has produced the newsletter since 1985 and distributes it to an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 subscribers. A phone call to the newsletter's toll-free number was answered by his campaign staff. [...]
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When Paul was first asked about the racist newsletters that went out in his name in the 90s, he defended them. Then he blamed them on a ghostwriter. Only in 2008 did he categorically reject the newsletters that had been sent out with his name on them. But don't worry, he's going to find out who actually wrote those --
Oh wait, he told CNN he's not going to try to find out who wrote them. Good for him on not wanting to get to the bottom of an issue that has led many reasonable people to conclude that he is a racist.
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When Paul was first asked about the racist newsletters that went out in his name in the 90s, he defended them.
I missed where this happened. Would you share a specific quote where he defended the newsletters?
I've been supporting Ron Paul since the 2008 campaign and I believe in his integrity. Frankly he's the only candidate out there that has the integrity to say what he truly believes and write it down in several excellent books.
When Paul was first asked about the racist newsletters that went out in his name in the 90s, he defended them. Then he blamed them on a ghostwriter. Only in 2008 did he categorically reject the newsletters that had been sent out with his name on them. But don't worry, he's going to find out who actually wrote those --
Oh wait, he told CNN he's not going to try to find out who wrote them. Good for him on not wanting to get to the bottom of an issue that has led many reasonable people to conclude that he is a racist.
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I missed where this happened. Would you share a specific quote where he defended the newsletters?
I've been supporting Ron Paul since the 2008 campaign and I believe in his integrity. Frankly he's the only candidate out there that has the integrity to say what he truly believes and write it down in several excellent books.
Racism is group think, libertarians are the opposite of group think. It is just the current talking point by the puppets of the privileged elite to claim he defended those statements.
They can't put down the ideas of liberty so they need to demonize the leading champion of those ideas.
In America we think we are free so it is difficult to demonize the ideas of freedom without sounding like you are unAmerican. Unfortunately authoritarianism is now considered the American way.
The problem with Ron Paul isn't Ron Paul. Its the people.
People only think in "Yes or no, black and white, true and false, this or that." If he is against federal laws to restrict X, it means that he thinks X is ok.
That's the trap Ron Paul falls into. Whether you agree with Ron Paul or not, citizens of this country aren't intellectual enough to understand what he is about. He doesn't stand a chance for a presidential run due to this.
Yep. Ron Paul unfortunately isn't good at telling people what they want to hear. He's great at telling people what they NEED to hear. But if he can play politician a little bit better he might win. But then again that's why we love Ron Paul so much. The biggest argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average Ameircan voter LOL. So true. The average American even college educated ones know nothing about their own history, the Fed, Money creation, etc. They just want to be entertained by feel good sound good diatribes by fools like Herman Cain and other American fascists. The US government has taken a big dump on our liberties with the renewal of the Patriot Act and they've been dumping on our liberties for the pats 50+ years and Americans stand by ready to lube up and grab their ankles again. It's really amazing actually..........the sodomized American people are so gutless, so brainwashed, so apathetic.
In an interview with the Dallas Morning News in May 1996, Paul said:
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In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men. "If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them," Dr. Paul said.
He also said the comment about black men in the nation's capital was made while writing about a 1992 study produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think tank based in Virginia.
Citing statistics from the study, Dr. Paul then concluded in his column: "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."
"These aren't my figures," Dr. Paul said Tuesday. "That is the assumption you can gather from" the report."
The bolded quotes were Paul's responses to the newspaper interviewer when asked about portions of the newsletters. When the paper called the newsletter's number, a staffer from Paul's campaign answered them. When Paul said in 2008 that the newsletter was something that he had no involvement in and had never approved of, it means that he was either being dishonest in that interview for a local congressional seat, or was being dishonest in the course of a national campaign.
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LOL. So true. The average American even college educated ones know nothing about their own history, the Fed, Money creation, etc. They just want to be entertained by feel good sound good diatribes by fools like Herman Cain and other American fascists. The US government has taken a big dump on our liberties with the renewal of the Patriot Act and they've been dumping on our liberties for the pats 50+ years and Americans stand by ready to lube up and grab their ankles again. It's really amazing actually..........the sodomized American people are so gutless, so brainwashed, so apathetic.
