Prominent Ron Paul website promotes Farrakhan anti-Jewish speech

Adam Holland ^

[mnehring]

Judging by the comments for the post, it would seem that a nexus of support for Ron Paul and Louis Farrakhan has coalesced around conspiracy theories concerning Jewish political power and banks.  Among other artifacts of extremism found in the discussion attached to the post is a link to an article in the Nation of Islam's official newspaper, The Final Call, spinning a conspiracy theory blaming the popular uprising against Qaddafi not on an expression of Arab Spring revolutionary spirit, but (predictably) on a conspiracy of bankers upset about Qaddafi's monetary policies.  (Read here.)  The Final Call article fails to mention the Qaddafi regime's long history of violently suppressing political opposition -- suppression which rose to unprecedented levels of brutality in response to demonstrations in support of liberalizing Libya's political system.  Rather than citing revulsion at Qaddafi's massacre of peaceful Arab Spring demonstrators as the cause of the NATO intervention, the Final Call quotes Farrakhan as saying:

“I know why you are angry with him; because he never agreed with your policies when it came to sucking the resources of Third World peoples, and putting in place dictators that would be amenable to America's policies.”

It has long been known that some Ron Paul supporters share with Farrakhan a strong opposition to the central banking system, support for isolationist foreign policy, and a conspiratorial view of Israel and Jews which verges on paranoia.  Now we can add support for Muammar Qaddafi to that list.  Makes sense.

Below is the string of comments submitted by the Daily Paul forum members in response to the Farrakhan videos.  It is interesting to see them working out how to talk about these issues without sounding bigoted -- that whole "we're opposed to Zionists, not Jews" thing.  Only they get it a bit wrong.  One commenter seems to think the founder of Goldman Sachs is still alive as he argues that Goldman Sachs ins't bad because it's Jewish. "I don't consider Goldman a Jew I see him as being of Israeli descent big difference."  Another argues that his support for Naturei Karta  shows that he can't be an anti-Semite.

The main point of Farrakhan's speech, that international bankers and Zionists work together to control the world and punish those who resist that control, and that the Libya conflict results from that conspiracy, meets with broad approval among at least this group of Paul supporters.  I wonder what Ron Paul would say about it?

[llandres]

“Need a job? The MSM or NAACP will hire you to play the race card.”

What?? I’m condemning those like the ones above for doing that. for calling anyone racist who disagrees with BHO.

I also said that it’s equally unjust to call anyone RINO or non-conservative who happens to disagree with RP. FWIW, I don’t know anyone (including me) who doesn’t like what he says about our monetary/fiscal policy - but where many of us part company with him (as did Rick Santorum in the debate) is on his naive, even dangerous, foreign policy views, particularly as they relate to dealing with radical Islam which is openly bent on destroying both Israel AND us.

To me and millions of others, foreign policy will be a critical challenge for our next president to replace, and repair the extreme damage BHO has caused us in the world (with both friends and enemies) due to his globalist, anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-Islamic policies and actions.

[llandres]

“My main concern is that the lazy and arrogant media is going to tie RuPaul and his cyberstormtroopers to the Conservative Movement”

Mine too, AN. That’s why all the DBM is giving him so MUCH coverage and air time. It’s also why more conservative candidates NEED to call him out on his loony stances, particularly foreign policy. Conservative pols like Allen West should as well. They all have big microphones and for the good of the country, they need to forget about political correctness and start USING them!

Unfortunately, most of the public are either too busy or too apathetic to get educated on the extreme dangers of radical Islam facing us, both overseas AND here at home, so it’s up to those with the big mics who ARE knowledgeable about it to tell them the truth and debunk RP’s harmful propaganda.

And finally, let’s pray he doesn’t switch to a third party ticket and dilute all the anti-BHO votes.