[Vision2020] Fw: Mr. Paul’s Discredited Campaign

Fri Dec 30 07:54:19 PST 2011

Why doesn't the NYT address Paul's stances on foreign policy? On defense spending?

Sunil

Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:38:24 -0800
From: godshatter at yahoo.com
To: deco at moscow.com
CC: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: Mr. Paul’s Discredited Campaign

    I'm beginning to believe that Ron Paul is our only hope to stop the
    downslope this country is on.  For example, the Transportation
    Security Administration just got an extra $7.85 billion in funding
    for 2012, including several hundred million dollars of funding for
    whole body imagers.  This passed both the House and the Senate. 
    Does anyone here actually believe that terrorism is a personally
    actionable danger?  Do you change your behavior at all due to the
    threat?  Do you think all the security theater is worth the money?

    Ron Paul is about the only guy out there that votes against this
    kind of crap.  Pretty much everybody else, (R) or (D), votes it in. 
    All they seem to argue about is who is getting the pork.

    As I see it, your choices are 1) the same old shit, but next year
    having slipped even farther away from rationality or 2) this one
    bat-shit crazy dude that might actually try to do something about
    it.

    One thing I've noticed this year is that Ron Paul is actually
    getting press.  There was a massive grassroots campaign for him the
    last couple of elections, but nobody in the media would take him
    seriously as an actual candidate.

    The fact that they have started the smear campaign means that there
    is actually a chance of getting him in office.

    My advice?  Don't vote for the person that looks like the most
    responsible Dad, or the guy that looks like he's someone you could
    have a beer with, or the one that looks like a he's a successful
    lawyer.  All of those guys are going to perpetuate the power grab
    that has been going on for the last few decades.

    Vote for the dude that puts the fear of God into the others.  Vote
    for the one that will work to decrease their power, not the others
    that only want to increase it for personal gain.

    Sure, he's a bag of mixed nuts sometimes.  But he's the only one
    with half a chance to shake things up a bit.

    This should be a fun election year.

    Paul

    On 12/28/2011 11:35 AM, Art Deco wrote:

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          December 27, 2011
          Mr. Paul’s
              Discredited Campaign

          Ron Paul long ago
              disqualified himself for the presidency by peddling
              claptrap proposals like abolishing the Federal Reserve,
              returning to the gold standard, cutting a third of the
              federal budget and all foreign aid and opposing the Civil
              Rights Act of 1964. 
          Now, making things worse, he
              has failed to convincingly repudiate racist remarks that
              were published under his name for years — or the
              enthusiastic support he is getting from racist groups. 
          Mr. Paul, a Republican
              congressman from Texas who is doing particularly well in
              Iowa’s precaucus polls, published several newsletters in
              the ’80s and ’90s with names like the Ron Paul Survival
              Report and the Ron Paul Political Report. The newsletters
              interspersed libertarian political and investment
              commentary with racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and
              far-right paranoia. 
          Among other offensive
              statements, the newsletters said that 95
                percent of Washington’s black males were criminals,
              and they described the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
              birthday as “Hate Whitey Day.” One 1993
                article appeared under a headline lamenting the
              country’s “disappearing white majority.” Other articles
              suggested that the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence
              service, was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center
              bombing, praised the Louisiana racist David Duke and
              accused some gay men with AIDS of deliberately
                spreading the disease, “perhaps out of a
              pathological hatred.” 
          A direct-mail
                ad for the newsletters from around 1993 warned of a
              “coming race war in our big cities” and said there was a
              “federal-homosexual cover-up” to suppress the impact of
              AIDS. 
          Mr. Paul, who, beginning in
              2008, has disavowed the articles and their ideas, now says
              that most of them were written by others and that he was
              unaware of their content. Even if that were the case, it
              suggests a stupendous level of negligence that should
              force a reconsideration by anyone considering entrusting
              him with the White House. 
          When the newsletters first
              became an issue during his Congressional campaigns in the
              1990s, however, he
                did not deny writing some of them or knowing about
              them. 
          Mr. Paul has never given a
              full and detailed accounting of who wrote the newsletters
              and what his role was in overseeing their publication.
              It’s especially important that he do so immediately. Those
              writings have certainly not been forgotten by white
              supremacist and militia groups that are promoting his
              candidacy in Iowa and in New Hampshire. 
          The Times reported
                on Sunday that dozens of members of the white
              nationalist Web site Stormfront are volunteering for the
              Paul campaign, along with far-right militias, survivalists
              and anti-Zionist groups. Don Black, the Stormfront
              director, said his members were drawn to Mr. Paul by the
              newsletters and his positions against immigration and the
              Fed (run by Jews, Mr. Black said), even if Mr. Paul were
              not himself a white nationalist. 
          Mr. Paul, saying he still
              hopes to “convert” these supporters to his views, has
              refused to disavow them or to chase them out of his
              campaign. If he does not do so, he will leave a lasting
              stain on his candidacy, on the libertarian movement and,
              very possibly, on the Iowa caucuses. 

      _____________________________________
      Wayne A. Fox

          wayne.a.fox at gmail.com

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