Community | February 05, 2012 | 6 comments

YEAH, RON PAUL IS RACIST AFTER ALL, SORRY

source: http://www.vice.com/read/yeah-ron-paul-is-racist-after-all-sorry

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There's always been a kind of awful element of fun to listening to rabid Paul defense, given that much of it was reality-optional. But, hey, at least his fans believed in something. And no true believer deserves this week. In the last seven days, some of Paul's former staffers admitted to deliberately courting racists, with his blessing. Then, adding insult to injury, Paul's current ties to American white supremacist groups surfaced courtesy of Anonymous.

As outlined before, there were only a limited number of explanations for Paul's racist, conspiracy-oriented newsletters, and none of them were good. Either he believed the things he printed, merely capitalized on the things he printed, or was unaware of the things he printed. It was a spectrum ranging from monstrous to cynical to incompetent.

Apparently, it's the second option, at least according to the Washington Post:

"[People] close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company that produced the [racist] newsletters, Ron Paul & Associates, and closely monitored its operations, signing off on articles and speaking to staff members virtually every day.

"It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product. . . . He would proof it,’’ said Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Paul’s company and a supporter of the Texas congressman.

"... A person involved in Paul’s businesses, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid criticizing a former employer, said Paul and his associates decided in the late 1980s to try to increase sales by making the newsletters more provocative. They discussed adding controversial material, including racial statements, to help the business, the person said.

“It was playing on a growing racial tension, economic tension, fear of government,’’ said the person, who supports Paul’s economic policies but is not backing him for president. “I’m not saying Ron believed this stuff. It was good copy. Ron Paul is a shrewd businessman.’’

The story matches one broken by Julian Sanchez and David Weigel in 2008, in the libertarian magazine Reason. Not only was it an "open secret" in libertarian circles that Lew Rockwell ghost-wrote many of Paul's newsletters, but the racial and paranoid tone was part of his and Murray Rothbard's attempt to create a "paleo-libertarian" movement, which is basically libertarianism without all that fun stuff about legalizing drugs and prostitution. Rockwell was trying to court southern conservatives who thought the Civil Rights Act, the Great Society, and the Democratic Party were all enemy combatants in a Civil War that had just transitioned from active shooting to economics and "politically correct" social engineering.

All of this just confirms what strenuous opponents of the newsletters have been saying since their publication. And as much as it sucks for Ron Paul fans to confront staffers and aides confirming critics' arguments, it's tough not to say, "We told you so," because, well, practically everybody did.

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6 comments // YEAH, RON PAUL IS RACIST AFTER ALL, SORRY

  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • [ a "paleo-libertarian" movement, which is basically libertarianism without all that fun stuff about legalizing drugs and prostitution.]

      . . . .it just NOT the same. Like leaving the salt out of the lasagna .

    • 4 months ago
  • Kilnsapper
  • OneLovEvolution
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      OneLovEvolution  

    • God you people trying to discredit the ONLY person that would make your life better are just fuckin embarrassing!!!!!! Oh ya vote for Romney....or Obama.....HAHAHAHA how dumb are you

    • 4 months ago
  • unimatrix0
  • ZiggyStrange
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
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    • http://current.com/community/93649973_lbjs-1964-ku-klux-klan-campaign-ad-similar...

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUHH8tjYg2A

      The 1964 presidential campaign ad linking Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater and the Ku Klux Klan that was commissioned for President Lyndon Johnson made hay out of his opponent's endorsement by the white supremacist group.

      The New "Racist" Charges Attacking Dr. Paul
      By Ry Dawson of Rys2Sense

      "The latest attacks on Ron Paul are so pathetic. It's so lame this is the same shit as in 2008 when Don Black (of Stormfront) sent Ron Paul money and then bragged about it. CNN instantly had a story about it. Odd how they would even be reading an obscure website like Stormfront. Its a way of getting the media to jump on Ron Paul and at the same time get mass media exposure for a racist group's web site. No one had ever heard of ATP until they started trying to attach themselves to Ron Paul. The mass media did nothing but make a bunch of racist groups nationally famous. Bravo, morons.

      I made this video before this junk came out anticipating something like it. Lynodn B. Johnson did this guilt by association junk when he ran against Goldwater. The video also shows Paul being questioned because Don Black made it very public that he sent a donation to Ron Paul (as did tens of thousands of of other people in the money bomb)

      Think back to that bogus Huntsman attack ad that came from Huntsman supporters themselves. It was aYoutube account created that day with no other videos and the duo were bragging about it on Jon's forum. Do you know how many Ron Paul videos are uploaded on a day or exist on youtube? Yet CNN found this brand new Youtube account's single video the day it was made and put it on the news as a surprise attack on Paul. That is what they did with Stormfront in 2008 as well and that wasn't even a video is was a guy's post in a forum of a tiny extremist's website.

      Bill White, and I forgot the other losers name but they all worked together with a communist group on Myspace (which was the Facebook back in 2007) One People's Party (OPP) and was approached by James Kirchick the originator of the racist news letters stories back in 2007 he was all over myspace asking communist groups and neonazis for any dirt on Ron Paul when they had nothing he said to make it up. So Don Black donated $500 dollars to Paul and then boasted about it and CNN had Paul on later saying you got money from a neonazi! Paul was like so what Im not in charge of who donates me money and they said are you going to give it back, he said no way why should i give money to a neonazi he gave it to me he lost it, it's not going to change my views at all.

      I got all the dirt on Kirchick because a guy I know hacked his whole data base. I have this all recorded too in a Skype conversation. And I sent a letter to Michael Rivero (of What Really Happened) about it months ago so he can verify that. A mod from overthrow also spilled all the beans to me as well as a former National Alliance member. These groups are crawling with FBI and plants. They exist to snow useful idiots into violent acts and to use guilt by association of political enemies. For the "news" media to pick up so quickly on these bottom feeders shows a set up from start to finish. James Kirchick also intentionally removed the last page of the News letters showing who actually wrote them just so he could try to imply it was Paul. The author was James B. Powell which was finally revealed by Ben Swann on "Reality Check" in 2011. Kirchink the guy who really does hang out with neo-nazis and communists knew that the whole time. He didn't care because he is a die hard Israeli firster and Paul will not continue to send America's youth to go die in Israel's desired wars.

      For some loser to run up behind Paul walking and get his picture taken or to ask for a picture with him obviously without saying by the way I'm a White separatist, is so low and for the press to act like its a story is even lower. Paul as a libertarian doesn't view people as groups and has never advocated national socialism or any kind of separatist movement as it is the direct opposite of his philosophy. And you can know that by everything he has ever said or done in a 30 year career.

      This attack will fail, it already has really, but I thought it was also important to point out the media's freakishly close role on promoting filth sites and pretending like they randomly discovered dirt stories rather than helping to create them start to finish."

    • 4 months ago
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