All you need to know about Ron Paul
All you need to know about Ron Paul can be found in this excellent article by Seattle's own David Neiwert. Ron Paul is being declared "the one" by the libertarians and many anti-war progressives. It would be wise for anyone who might consider actually voting for Ron Paul to consider Davids words below:
As my cohort Sara has already explained, there's a real problem with that -- namely, for all of Paul's seeming "progressive" positions, he carries with him a whole raft of positions well to the right of even mainstream conservatives. Ron Paul has always had the wholehearted support of the White Supremacists. Is it any wonder when you consider the things he's said:
If Paul's express views on racism are less than convincing, then the piece that appeared under his name in 1992 about black crime, as reported by the Houston Chronicle, was simply damning. The ugly smear intended by the rhetoric in that case was unmistakably racist. Paul has since claimed it was ghostwritten and he wasn't paying enough attention, but that doesn't explain why he continued to defend those views to a reporter four years later, in 1996: And then, in typical Neiwart fashion, he digs deeper into the story to tell us where Paul got his "statistics" from, illuminating the circles that Ron Paul runs in:
What Paul never explained was that one of the primary sources for this information about black crime came from Jared Taylor, the pseudo-academic racist whose magazine American Renaissance was at the time embarked on a long series of tirades on the subject (the June 1992 issue was primarily devoted to the subject; the statistic claiming that 85 percent of black men in D.C. have been arrested appears in the August issue), the culmination of which was Taylor's later book, The Color of Crime, which made similarly unsupportable claims about blacks. Ron Paul is definately NOT "the one".
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