I asked the question because I like Ron Paul. I did search references to Ron Paul. I looked through about a dozen threads. There were dozens of comments about how "we few, we poor, we miserable Ron Paul supporters are so abused."
The thread which got the most negative reaction was the one calling the United States a police state. It is slander against the United States, its institutions, its laws, and its people to call us a police state. And it is dangerous, too, since you can rest assured that every one of our enemies will use that slander for propaganda against us.
NOUN: A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force.
Not so far off. Remove the secret part and it looks a lot what this country has degenerated into. It hasn't stopped either.
There really are only a few Paul haters, but they are disproportionately vocal. Several FReepers justifiably disagree with Paul on Iraq, but admire him on domestic issues, but the Paul haters have a blind loathing of the man. These are the same folks who are hardcore proponents of the War on Drugs, gun control, and illegal alien amnesty.
Somebody wants us to condemn W without so much as reading the report, without knowing the details and take the esteemed Senator's word for everything. Reminds of the Good Old Soviet Union. Communist Party Local Meeting, locksmith Ivanov taking the floor: "I haven't read Solzhenitsin, but I condemn him with all of my working class resolve". Nice.