<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span>Jay,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>If a passenger rocks the boat enough the Captain and his crew will find a reason to have them thrown off and sink. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan Arnold</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jay Borden <jborden@datawedge.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
Saundra Lund <v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm>; vision2020@moscow.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 31, 2011 3:17 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] <span id="misspell-1" class="mark">Fw</span>: On Ron Paul and Racism<br> </font> <br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv427128005WordSection1"><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>I would agree with Paul’s statement… but I would word it a bit differently to deflect some of the immediate hatred I’m sure will be heading my way.</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>I would say that racism, like abortion and gay marriage are *<b>USED</b>* as theatrical issues. </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size:
11pt;'>It’s interesting as soon as any candidate becomes popular in the polls, some wild-card story gets tossed about dealing with one of these issues. Then it’s pressed as long as necessary until the candidate just “goes away”.</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Rick Perry (again, not a fan) was gaining traction… and then suddenly a story about “<span id="misspell-2" class="mark">Niggerhead</span>” surfaced. (He has since nearly imploded on his own, but that’s a separate issue).</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73,
125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Ron Paul gains even more traction this time around in the polls… and suddenly some story connecting HIM to <span id="misspell-3" class="mark">racisim</span> surfaces. (I don’t recall anything coming up about this story 4 years ago when he was running for President).</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>The topics themselves are extremely important… but the *<b>USE</b>* of these subjects has become nothing more than positioning and theatrical tools. </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color:
rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Is your opponent getting too much positive attention? No problem… just toss out one of these venomous statements (who cares whether it’s true or not… just phrase it in the form of an “objective question” like Fox News does to avoid slander/libel)… and then sit back and watch the show.</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Once some story making any of these accusations hits the public… it’s like <span id="misspell-4" class="mark">kryptonite</span>… and it’s used as such. </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div><div
class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Jay</span><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span></div></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Saundra Lund<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] <span id="misspell-6"
class="mark">Fw</span>: On Ron Paul and Racism</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>In part, Paul wrote:</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>“</span><span style="color: black;">Racism, like abortion and gay marriage, are all "theatrical issues". They are issues that are tossed out to the American public like scraps to hungry dogs for them to fight over. While they are important in and of themselves, they are really meant to distract us from realizing that we have more power than we think we do.”</span><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif";
font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Yes, I do suppose it’s a lot easier to look at issues like racism, abortion, and gay marriage as “theatrical issues” when you’re <b>not</b> the minority family unable to rent a home due to racism, and you’re <b>not</b> the 17-year-old incest victim forced to carry your granddaddy’s baby or risk death from a backdoor abortion, and you’re <b>not</b> the lesbian at risk of losing custody of your children born via <span id="misspell-7" class="mark">IVF</span> to your now-deceased 15 year partner because her family never “approved” of the non-marriage.</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family:
"sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'><span id="misspell-8" class="mark">Yuppers</span> – I guess for some, it is a lot easier to take the position that those issues, while “important,” really are just “theatrical issues” when one <span id="misspell-9" class="mark">isn</span>’t the target, when one lacks of empathy . . . or when one lacks the sense God gave a billy goat.</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Not in <b>my</b> America. I agree with Sue’s comment, “</span><span style='font-family: "sans-serif";'>All rights and even some privileges should belong to all citizens” a</span><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'><span id="misspell-10" class="mark">nd</span>
<span id="misspell-11" class="mark">shouldn</span>’t depend on where in the US one lives.</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Paul also wrote:</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>“</span><span style="color: black;">In my opinion we should concentrate on our civil liberties . . .”</span><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size:
11pt;'>I guess I’m unclear as to how you define “civil liberties,” but reproductive freedom & gay marriage both fit into my definition of the right of privacy, which is an important US civil liberty.</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Saundra Lund</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Moscow, ID</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span
style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>~ Edmund Burke</span></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul <span id="misspell-13" class="mark">Rumelhart</span><br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday,
December 31, 2011 9:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] <span id="misspell-14" class="mark">Fw</span>: On Ron Paul and Racism</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">I sent this only to Sue, when I meant to send it to the list.</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Paul</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>----- Forwarded Message
-----<br><b>From:</b> Paul <span id="misspell-15" class="mark">Rumelhart</span> <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> Sue <span id="misspell-16" class="mark">Hovey</span> <<a href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">suehovey@moscow.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:32 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] On Ron Paul and Racism<br><br></span><span style="color: black;"></span></div><div id="yiv427128005"><div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">It doesn't negate the evidence. For what it's worth, he claims that he didn't write those newsletters that were put out in his name. Like you've shown, a person can be compassionate and still be racist. Being racist is not a black
and white thing, no pun intended. It's something that can change over a period of years. I grew up in a casually racist household, and had to unlearn much of that over the years, as did my parents. It's easy to fall into that trap when you grow up with it and everyone around you thinks the same thing. As society changed, so did those around me, and so did I.</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">I've said this many times on the Viz: I'm not looking for Jesus Christ or Gandhi when I'm looking for a Presidential candidate to vote for. I want someone who will perform well in the job.</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">
</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">So the question is, assuming he is some kind of die-hard racist from the sixties like he's being portrayed, is he going to deny blacks the right to vote or serve on juries?</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Racism, like abortion and gay marriage, are all "theatrical issues". They are issues that are tossed out to the American public like scraps to hungry dogs for them to fight over. While they are important in and of themselves, they are really meant to distract us from realizing that we have more power than we think we do. In my opinion we should concentrate on our civil liberties, and in stopping the steady power
buildup for the Executive branch that's been going on for years. That's far more dangerous to us in the short term than any of these hot button issues are. Like <span id="misspell-17" class="mark">Sunil</span> said in another post, it's all about priorities.</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Paul</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white; text-align: center;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr"
contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> Sue <span id="misspell-18" class="mark">Hovey</span> <<a href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">suehovey@moscow.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> Paul <span id="misspell-19" class="mark">Rumelhart</span> <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 30, 2011 10:34 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] On Ron Paul and Racism</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div><div id="yiv427128005"><div><div><div><div><div style="background: white;"
class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif";'>It’s a lovely story, Paul. And a powerful instance of Ron Paul’s compassion, but how does it negate the evidence of his racism in those published reports? My Texas grandfather was a racist through and through, yet he performed kind and generous acts to the people he belittled, and to whom he would have denied the vote, the right to serve on juries (along with women) and most especially the right to sit up front in public transportation. </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif";'> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif";'>Sue H. </span></div></div><div><div><div><div style="background: white;"
class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></div></div><div><div><div style="background: whitesmoke;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <a title="godshatter@yahoo.com" href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">Paul <span id="misspell-20" class="mark">Rumelhart</span></a> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: whitesmoke;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Sent:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> Friday, December 30, 2011 10:18 PM</span></div></div><div><div style="background: whitesmoke;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><b><span
style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>To:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: whitesmoke;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Subject:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> [Vision2020] On Ron Paul and Racism</span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif";'> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Here is a video in response to allegations of racism being leveled
at Ron Paul. It was made by "Revolution PAC", a "<span id="misspell-21" class="mark">superPAC</span>" whose sole purpose is to get Ron Paul elected. It's entitled "The Compassion of Dr. Ron Paul":</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4</a></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv427128005MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">If we're going to attack Ron Paul with allegations of racism on the list, I thought it might be nice to see what his side has to say.</span></div></div><div><div
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