Okay, I Can’t Resist This Ron Paul News

For months, Ron Paul supporters have been denying their candidate’s involvement in various racist, homophobic, conspiracy-laden newsletters printed from the 1970s to the 1990s; these newsletters, which sported names such as Ron Paul Political Report and Ron Paul Survival Report and many of which were published by “Ron Paul and Associates,” were initially defended by the good doctor as being “taken out of context,” but in 2001 he changed his story and claimed not to have written them at all. His fanatical supporters, who attack the neoconservatives in government for their falsifications, for some reason have no problem buying this incredibly unbelievable line.

Today, though, The New Republic reported on some elusive copies of this obscure newsletter, with Ron Paul’s name plastered all over the place and current members of his 2008 campaign staff in the publishing information. The content of these articles is far more hateful and nutty than anyone could have guessed:

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca

Don’t be surprised if the link doesn’t work. I’ve had a lot of trouble accessing it thanks to what appears to be a mass DDoS attack by Paul’s cyber-crusaders (defending liberty through coercive censorship!). If you can’t get the link up, here are some choice selections:

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-”Take, for instance, a special issue of the Ron Paul Political Report, published in June 1992, dedicated to explaining the Los Angeles riots of that year. “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began,” read one typical passage. According to the newsletter, the looting was a natural byproduct of government indulging the black community with “‘civil rights,’ quotas, mandated hiring preferences, set-asides for government contracts, gerrymandered voting districts, black bureaucracies, black mayors, black curricula in schools, black tv shows, black tv anchors, hate crime laws, and public humiliation for anyone who dares question the black agenda.” It also denounced “the media” for believing that “America’s number one need is an unlimited white checking account for underclass blacks.”

-”This “Special Issue on Racial Terrorism” was hardly the first time one of Paul’s publications had raised these topics. As early as December 1989, a section of his Investment Letter, titled “What To Expect for the 1990s,” predicted that “Racial Violence Will Fill Our Cities” because “mostly black welfare recipients will feel justified in stealing from mostly white ‘haves.’” Two months later, a newsletter warned of “The Coming Race War,” and, in November 1990, an item advised readers, “If you live in a major city, and can leave, do so. If not, but you can have a rural retreat, for investment and refuge, buy it.”

-”In the early 1990s, a newsletter attacked the “X-Rated Martin Luther King” as a “world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” “seduced underage girls and boys,” and “made a pass at” fellow civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy. One newsletter ridiculed black activists who wanted to rename New York City after King, suggesting that “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” and “Lazyopolis” were better alternatives.” (This really puts Hillary Clinton’s recent statements in perspective. Her comments about MLK may have been bad, but she’s not even in the same ballpark as this dude)

-”Like blacks, gays earn plenty of animus in Paul’s newsletters. They frequently quoted Paul’s “old colleague,” Congressman William Dannemeyer–who advocated quarantining people with AIDS–praising him for “speak[ing] out fearlessly despite the organized power of the gay lobby.” In 1990, one newsletter mentioned a reporter from a gay magazine “who certainly had an axe to grind, and that’s not easy with a limp wrist.” In an item titled, “The Pink House?” the author of a newsletter–again, presumably Paul–complained about President George H.W. Bush’s decision to sign a hate crimes bill and invite “the heads of homosexual lobbying groups to the White House for the ceremony,” adding, “I miss the closet.” “Homosexuals,” it said, “not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.”

-”The newsletters were particularly obsessed with AIDS, “a politically protected disease thanks to payola and the influence of the homosexual lobby,” and used it as a rhetorical club to beat gay people in general. In 1990, one newsletter approvingly quoted “a well-known Libertarian editor” as saying, “The ACT-UP slogan, on stickers plastered all over Manhattan, is ‘Silence = Death.’ But shouldn’t it be ‘Sodomy = Death’?”

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There’s a lot more, so look up the whole article if you can (I’m sure the TNR servers will recover from the Paul supporters’ attack shortly). Seriously, though, even if Paul’s BS about these newsletters being written by a “ghostwriter” are true, it means that he’s so incompetent that he allowed this drivel to be published under his name for decades. This guy isn’t fit to serve as a member of Congress, let alone as president.