Posted on 01/08/2008 11:55:32 AM PST by seanmerc
A damning New Republic expose on Ron Paul shows the “libertarian” Republican candidate to be a racist, a homophobe and an anti-Semite. Will his diehard supporters continue to defend a man who called Martin Luther King a gay pedophile? Daniel Koffler, a former Paul sympathizer, has a compendium of the Texas congressman’s creepiest hits, pulled straight from his decades-old newsletter.
by Daniel Koffler
James Kirchick of the New Republic has a devastating piece on Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) online today on the TNR website. Kirchick provides a meticulously detailed history of the “Ron Paul Political Report,” a newsletter Paul had circulated to a network of some 7,000 subscribers from the late 80s and early 90s.
As Kirchick reports—whether describing post-apartheid South Africa as a “destruction of civilization,” alleging that Martin Luther King “seduced underage girls and boys,” warning of “tens of thousands of well-placed friends of Israel in all countries who are willing to wok [sic] for the Mossad in their area of expertise,” or urging white readers to arm themselves after “the first skirmish in the race war of the 1990s,”—virtually every historic trope of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-gay bigotry, or conspiracy theorizing featured in the “Ron Paul Political Report” in one way or another. For his part, Paul has alternately acknowledged writing some of the material that went out under his name, only to deny authorship when confronted with the most disturbing details. In any case, Paul has taken “moral responsibility” for the contents of the “Ron Paul Political Report.” What follows is a quick digest of some of his greatest, which is to say most disgraceful, hits.
I might add, on a personal note, that as a libertarian with significant sympathy for Paul’s platform, I initially viewed claims of his past history of racism skeptically. But the evidence is so overwhelming that the defense of Paul is now, itself, indefensible.
Racist Pull Quotes:
“[O]ur country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists—and they can be identified by the color of their skin.”
“I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city [Washington, D.C.] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
“We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational.”
“The riots, burning, looting, and murders are only a continuation of 30 years of racial politics.”
“The criminals who terrorize our cities—in riots and on every non-riot day—are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to “fight the power,” and to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible. Anything is justified against ‘The Man.’ And ‘The Woman.’’”
“My friend waved to the tiny [African-American] child, who scowled, stuck out her tongue, and said (somewhat tautologically): “I hate you, white honkey.” And the parents were indulgent. Is any white child taught to hate in this way?” [As a matter of fact, Paul has appeared on a radio program called “The Political Cesspool,” which has featured the neo-Nazi twin pop stars Prussian Blue. –ed.]
“But this is normal, and in fact benign, compared to much of the anti-white ideology in the thoroughly racist black community. The black leadership indoctrinates its followers with phony history and phony theory to bolster its claims of victimology.”
“Korean-Americans, hated by blacks, never riot, and in fact are some of the most productive people in America (the reason for black hatred).”
“The cause of the riots is plain: barbarism. If the barbarians cannot loot sufficiently through legal channels (i.e., the riots being the welfare-state minus the middleman), they resort to illegal ones, to terrorism.”
“We must not kowtow to the street hoodlums and their sanctimonious leaders.”
“Regardless of what the media tell us, most white Americans are not going to believe that they are at fault for what blacks have done to cities across America. The professional blacks may have cowed the elites, but good sense survives at the grass roots.”
“Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country.”
“Blacks have ‘civil rights,’ preferences, set-asides for government contracts, gerrymandered voting districts, black bureaucracies, black mayors, black curricula in schools, black beauty contests, black TV shows, black TV anchors, black scholarships and colleges, hate crime laws, and public humiliation for anyone who dares question the black agenda.”
Source: The Ron Paul Report, “Los Angeles Racial Terrorism”
“Black males age 13 that 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.”
Source: The Ron Paul Political/Survival report, 1990-1994, excerpted by the Austin Chronicle
Conspiracist Pull Quotes:
“We now know that we are under assault from thugs and revolutionaries who hate Euro-American civilization and everything it stands for: private property, material success for those who earn it, and Christian morality.”
“In San Francisco and perhaps other cities, says expert Burt Blumert, the rioting was led by red-flag carrying members of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Workers World Party, both Trotskyite-Maoist.”
“Many people tried to buy guns to protect themselves. But, whoops, California has a 14-day waiting period. And then, just to make sure honest Californians could not get ammunition for the firearms they already owned (poor ragefilled youth might be shot), Mayor Tom Bradley ordered all gun and ammo shops closed, a great help to criminals who had stocked up earlier, or who could simply break in and loot.”
“Several days after the violence ended, we learned that there would have been blacks on the King jury—if the NAACP hadn’t engaged in jury tampering by telling potential black jurors that it was their racial duty to convict the cops. The blacks admitted this to defense lawyers, and were rightly excluded from jury. This is a serious crime, but the NAACP will not be prosecuted.”
“Two years ago, in a series of predictions for the 1990s, I said that race riots would erupt in our large cities. I’m now predicting this will be the major problem of the 1990s.” [Helter Skelter, anybody?—ed.]
Source: The Ron Paul Report, “Los Angeles Racial Terrorism”
“Last month I reported on massive, illegal spying by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith against its perceived opponents, as revealed in California. The ADL keeps track of people and groups from left to right, and purchases illegally obtained information on Americans from its agents in police departments in order to prepare and maintain hundreds of thousands of dossiers.”
“The [Los Angeles] Times also brought to light the ADL’s work against ‘cults,’ especially interesting given the BATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms]-ADL connection.”
“It was such a seminar [i.e. a cult awareness training seminar], arranged by the ADL, that targeted the Branch Davidians in the first place.”
Source: The Ron Paul Survival Report, June 15, 1993
“The intensity with which Israel lobbies in the U.S. Congress is surpassed only by its media campaigns to drown all criticism of Israel. Prominent U.S. Editors and media owners don’t even pretend to objectivity on the issue. They all follow the advice of Norman Podhoretz, editor of the influential neo-conservative magazine Commentary….” [Our emphasis –ed.]
“This bias [Martin Peretz’s] informs every opinion expressed in The New Republic. For example, it opposed Contra aid until the Sandinista government showed sympathy for the PLO.”
Source: The Ron Paul Political Report, date uncertain
“If this walking bomb had gone off, it would have demolished the House Chamber and most of the congressmen in it. Yet this attempted terrorist attack was buried by the media. Why? Because the perpetrator was an undoubtedly mad Israeli, furious over alleged slights to his country… [T]he Israeli lobby deep-sixed the story, and no one outside of Congress ever head about it.”
Source: The Ron Paul Political Report, date uncertain
“The Earth Summit is the creepiest meeting of politicos since the first gathering of Bolsheviks. Officially known as the UN Conference for Environment and Development, it will be held in Brazil in June; bad guys from all over the globe will attend.”
“[Hillary Clinton] is one of the most dangerous women in public life. Not only is she a fanatical abortion advocate, she wants parents to register with the government as a condition for having children to be able to sue and `divorce’ themselves from their parents. Maybe her daughter ought to sue her parents for attempting to raise her as a leftist. That sure qualifies as abuse to me.”
“Disgruntled taxpayer Dean Hicks fired bombs through mortars at night at buildings of the Internal Revenue Service in California. Hicks did damage federal property, but no individuals were injured… Hicks was sentenced to 20 years in prison, given a $45,000 fine, and ordered to pay $335,000 in restitution to the IRS. If he had been a serial murderer, he would not have gotten this sort of sentence.”
“There is good news after the L.A. riots. Statewide, gun sales are up 45% over the same period last year. People have been purchasing a record number. If the cops are not going to take care of the problem, the people will.”
Source: The Ron Paul Political/Survival report, 1990-1994, excerpted by the Austin Chronicle
MORE THAN EVER. There is a reason paranoia is called a mental illness.
It’s a smear. Pure and simple. Guilt by association. RP is still dead wrong on a number of critical issues (islamofascism for one). I’m gonna take heat from both sides on this, and I guess I can take it. If I was hearing more about smaller government, fewer gun controls, and closed borders from the rest of the field (at least reliably so [e.g. when McCain says he’s against illegal immigration I know he’s a liar]) I would feel better.
Why did they wait until most of the votes were in to come out with this? Ron Paul is going to finish 3rd and raise millions from his “victory”.
Suggest you learn to read. Never said I was pro-RP did I? I did say he had some things right. Too many here want a government which is bigger, more nannyish and which limits our rights. Not me.
Is the New York Times anti-semite also?
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William Safire Op-Ed column on involvement of Abraham Foxman in Pres Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich; notes Rich's generous donations to Anti-Defamation League, which Foxman heads, and says at issue is ease with which Rich, an unpatriotic wheeler-dealer, was able to manipulate fine organizations and hungry politicians in United States and abroad into expunging all unanswered charges from his record March 29, 2001
Federal jury in Colorado rules against Anti-Defamation League in lawsuit over anti-Semitic remarks recorded from telephone conversation; privacy rights win over defamation as jury awards $10.5 million in damages to William and Dorothy Quigley for illegal taping by Mitchell and Candace Aronson, neighbors in Evergreen with whom Quigleys were feuding; ruling that league regional official Saul F Rosenthal defamed Quigleys with public remarks that relied on illegal taping puts limits on how far orga...
A lawsuit filed this week charges that the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith deviated from its civil rights work by conspiring with police agencies to spy, harass and intimidate several political groups. The suit, filed in Federal District Court in Los Angeles, accuses the defense league and its longtime San Francisco-based investigator, Roy Bullock, of obtaining confidential files about political activists from the San Francisco police and from sheriff's officers in Los Angeles and San Di...
More than a dozen people have filed a lawsuit accusing the Anti-Defamation League of invading their privacy by spying on them. The complaint, filed in San Francisco Superior Court on Wednesday, is open to all people who believe they were targets of spying by the league, an 80-year-old division of B'nai B'rith dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism.April 16, 1993
Are these the same newsletters that were discussed some time ago? IIRC Paul didn’t write or edit them.
> I spent twenty years on active duty in the US Armed Forces [how ‘bout you?], so I know I’m not a coward.<
I served two tours of duty in Nam, ‘65 thru ‘67
Yes, the NYT’s bias against Israel is well known.
Yeah, he over exagerated a bit there. I’d say 75% would be closer but then it’s been quite a while since I’ve been to DC, so he may just have the numbers correct.
They are all gangs, they just wear different colors and use different tactics. If you don’t think the anarchist gangs ELF, ALF and the such don’t want to kill people, you are really out of touch.
The consensus here on FR is that Dr. Paul is a nut, has no chance of winning and hates America. That being said why is there so much bandwidth spent trashing the guy? If he’s such a non-entity then just ignore him.
Update, especially for everyone defending the comments. The Paul campaign has just denounced them and said anyone who thinks this way is small minded.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/press-releases/125/ron-paul-statement-on-the-new-republic-article-regarding-old-newsletters
There is probably some truth in there somewhere even if you refuse to admit it. At least that's my take on the issue.
I agree with you, and his issued statement doesn’t suffice.
“The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.
Ron Paul, denouncing his small-minded defenders, who proceed to advance small-minded defenses.
I guess Ron Paul was just following orders when he put his name to the articles and mailed them out.
Wisdom comes with increasing age.
You will agree with him in time.
sometimes true doesn’t make it true all the time,extremist always use some bit of truth to expand to a universal truth or actually a universal lie, I can see where thinking like this is dangerous. As an American conservative,I believe in an equal,free,playing field for all,as long as the constitution and basic principles of government are for all people no matter what color,ethnic background,etc.,but I believe liberalism is as destructive a force as we face and also is based in extremism and should be(and thankfully is most of time) exposed for what it really is. God Bless America
Because they fear the truth.
Like you have to step back in fear when Buffy and Brandon walk by...
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