Ron Paul has recently suggested there was only a “total of about eight or ten sentences” of “bad stuff” in the newsletters that he regularly used to publish under his name. This assertion was patently false: As is evident from earlier postings, the newsletters contained dozens of statements marked by bigotry and conspiratorial thinking.
It is impossible to read any of the Ron Paul newsletters over a 20 year period and agree with him. Instead, it is evident that Paul continues to obfuscate, evade, and prevaricate about his knowledge of the content and the authorship of the vile, abominable, revolting, and most malignant newsletters containing disgraceful thoughts, ideas, and positions on Jews, African-Americans, homosexuals, and others. Absolutely NO individual should be rewarded with the votes of his fellow Americans if he believes in such hideousness and, if somehow he does get elected to a position, it is incumbent upon honourable men and women to stand up and condemn such repulsiveness in our political system. This should apply to everyone regardless of history and "mitigating factors." Yes, slavery was an abomination, but Andre Carson should be shamed and driven out of the Democratic Party for saying that the "Tea party wants blacks 'hanging on a tree." Likewise, Ron Paul must be repudiated by Libertarians. Yes, we can agree with him on the Federal Reserve and the deficit and on a host of other issues, but those mitigating factors cannot overcome the disgrace that be brings to our cause as a result of decades of outrageous language. Even if someone else authored these works, as he has later claimed, Dr Paul profited from them. Furthermore, he has "palled" around with a disgraceful coterie of racists, anti-Semites, homophobes, bigots, and conspiracy theorists, who maintain that the United States is the cause of all evil in the world.
It is true that the United States is supposed to be a bastion of liberty where free speech is cherished. I am a staunch believer in the First Amendment, but the protections therein are to protect a speaker from the government, not to insure that he pays no consequence in his community for his words. Bill Maher may have a right to speak however disgustingly he wants, but HBO and Americans have the right to takeaway his platform to spew such vileness. The power of the government is unnecessary for the community can deal with him through ostracisation, boycott, indifference, etc.
Ron Paul should have every right to speak or write whatever he likes. He should be able to associate with whatever loathsome characters he so chooses. Honourable Americans should give him the opportunity to all of that as he wishes, but far, far away from public office and they shun him after he leaves unless and until he gives a full accounting (not 5 different stories) of the history and authorship of these vile words.
Israel and Jews
A letter on congressional letterhead, dated 30 August 1979, from Paul thanked a Mr Amos W Bruce for “the copy of the article in The American Mercury and the copies of your essays. I found them all very interesting.”
The American Mercury was an anti-Semitic magazine owned by Willis Carto, one of America's most notorious holocaust deniers and the founder of The Liberty Lobby. The issue of The American Mercury Paul praised included essays entitled, “You Can't Escape the Kosher Food Tax,” “Are You Ready for the White Man's Doomsday,” and “Racism - Black African Style.”
The February 1988 Political Report alleged that a female terrorist who bombed a disco in Berlin frequented by American servicemen (an operation backed by the Libyan government) “was in cahoots with Syria, or Israel’s Mossad, which always seeks to stir up anti-Arab feeling here.”
The November 1989 issue of the Political Report revived conspiracy theories about the U.S.S. Liberty, namely that Israel deliberately attacked an American warship in the Mediterranean (investigations by both the U.S. and Israeli governments concluded that the attack was a mistake).
The June 1990 Political Report Paul complained, in the context of deported war criminals, of “the anti-German bigotry that the Nazi spectre is used to stir up” and suggested the creation of “a German Anti-Defamation League.”
The February 1991 Political Report alleged that Israel’s “supporters in this country were the most bloodthirsty for war” against Iraq. “And why, would someone please explain to me, are we supposed to be so grateful to Israel because it lets us fight its war?” it asked. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq “was Israel’s enemy. This poor country of 17 million with a GNP less than 1% of ours, was no threat to us, despite the hysteria of the Israel First Lobby.”
The February 1993 issue of the Survival Report claimed that “major Jewish organizations are complaining that Zionists did not get enough jobs in the Clinton administration. Plenty of Jews were appointed but just being Jewish doesn’t count. These lobbyists want people 100% dedicated to Israel.”
[The March 1990 issue of the Political Report (Palestinian Rights) will be uploading soon.]
Racism
The newsletters repeatedly defended and expressed support for a variety of prominent racists. The May 1990 Political Report cited Jared Taylor, a prominent eugenics advocate.
The July 1994 Survival Report again cited the “criminologist Jared Taylor.”
The newsletters warned repeatedly of “race war.” The June 1990 Political Report carried an item entitled, “Race War?” which claimed that said war was on the horizon because of “the victimisation mentality created by the civil rights movement, where every black failure is a white crime. If there is indeed this sort of trouble ahead, it is just another reason why every honest American should be armed.”
The August 1990 Political Report claimed that “we’ve got a potential race war.”
The December 1990 Investment Letter reported that “Abortion is rampant, race war is heating up, AIDS is spreading, and inflation is wiping out the middle class.”
The September 1992 edition of the Political Report wrote of a supposed spate of bank robberies this way: “Today, gangs of young blacks bust into a bank lobby firing rounds at the ceiling.” It also said that “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held as responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult, and should be treated as such.”
A January 1993 Survival Report item headlined “Poor Marge Schott!” defended the former Cincinnati Reds owner, who was “being crucified” after she referred to her own players as “million dollar niggers,” said that “sneaky goddamn Jews are all alike” and “only fruits wear earrings,” and claimed that Hitler was an initially positive force for Germany.
The March 1994 Survival Report warned of a “South African Holocaust.” It said, “Quite frankly, I cannot see how South Africa is going to escape a blood bath.”
In June 1994—two months after South Africa’s first democratic election—an item headlined, “There Goes South Africa,” claimed that “Mandela is trying to appear as a moderate, and indeed he may be as the Red ANC goes.” The newsletter advocated a separate state for whites in South Africa, writing, “If everyone accepts the notion that a homeland can be created for the Palestinians, I wonder why no consideration is given by world opinion leaders to a similar situation for the whites in South Africa, as they have requested.”
A 1992 issue of the Political Report featured an article headlined, “What Blacks Think,” which concluded that “they have some odd political opinions.”
"The Disappearing White Majority":
I will be adding more newsletters over the weekend.
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