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Ron Paul’s racist friends.
Paul’s disinclination to separate himself from the Larry Pratts of the world is part of a pattern that over the last 20 years has seen him snuggling up to some extremely questionable characters on the far right fringe. Like, for example, secessionists, who gathered at a conference in April of 1995 to hear Paul speak about the ”once and future Republic of Texas.” Or the beady-eyed listeners of The Political Cesspool. It’s the unofficial radio program of theCouncil of Conservative Citizens—you know, the repainted White Citizens Council that got Trent Lott into a bit of trouble a few years ago. (Tune in tonight for their special program on “the disastrous Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision, one which ushered in an era of radical leftist ideology upon the American citizenry.”) Paul has been a guest on the program; you’ll find him listed under P, right above Prussian Blue, the white supremacist teenage singing duo.
Or the crazy-as-fuck John Birch Society, to which Paul is more than happy to grant the occasional interview and even speak at their dinners (the podcast, I am sorry to report, no longer seems to be available). In fact, Paul is the only member of Congress to receive a perfect 100 from the John Birch Society in its most recent member ratings.
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“Death to Gays” Pastor Supports Ron Paul
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VIDEO- Ron Paul is a Christian Reformist homophobe
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What does Ron Paul really believe about gays?
Currently, with one week remaining until Iowa’s Presidential Caucus, Ron Paul is in the hot seat. The Texas GOP hopeful denies writing racist columns for a newsletter bearing his name during the 1990s. Examining Paul’s denials, the Washington Post’s Josh Hicks gave Paul three Pinocchios which according to the Post means that Paul’s statements are misleading and use “legalistic language that means little to ordinary people.”
Paul’s views on gays are also open to question. One newsletter citation, frequently noted in the press, relates to his views on gays and HIV. Reportedly Paul said that gays “enjoy the attention” of that illness. In another 1989 newsletter, he criticizes the Massachusetts legislature for passing a gay rights laws, and implies that gays wanted to promote pedophilia:
The Paul campaign’s current State Director is Mike Heath. Heath is also the chairman of the board of the Americans for Truth About Homosexuality and once worked to oppose state initiatives such as the one condemned by Paul in the 1989 newsletter. A 2010 article on the AFTAH website describes Heath as
…the former executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine and the new executive director of American Family Association of New England. (Heath will also retain the title of AFA of Maine.) He is also the only pro-family leader in American history to direct (as part of a pro-family coalition in Maine) the defeat of two statewide homosexual “special rights” laws, 1998 and 2001. In this interview, Heath, the Board Chairman of AFTAH, touches on the new evangelical politics surrounding anti-”gay marriage” initiatives — in which principled advocates against homosexuality like Heath are ostracized in the name of building coalitions more palatable to “moderate” voters.
AFTAH describes itself as “a group dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda.” Last year, the organization was listed as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center due to frequent misrepresentations and vilification of gays in public statements and literature. Just recently, AFTAH used the Penn State child abuse scandal as a platform to link sex crimes of pedophiles with homosexuality.
Apparently, Heath’s work is having some effect in Iowa with at least one endorsement touted on Paul’s website. According to the news release announcing the endorsement, Heath has been to “295 houses of worship” in Iowa. On the matter of gays and gay rights, I wonder what position is being articulated in those houses of worship.
Given his prior newsletters and his current staff, it is fair to ask what Ron Paul really believes. Despite Paul’s denials, his views in 2012 may be about what they were in 1989.
UPDATE: Here is more on Ron Paul’s views from a former staffer. According to Eric Dondero, Paul is uncomfortable around gays but believes they should be free to do whatever they please in their private lives. The Paul campaign is taking this seriously, responding to CBS News over the matter.
http://wthrockmorton.com/2011/12/27/what-does-ron-paul-really-believe-about-gays/
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Ron Paul racist newsletters: The top 10 most racially insensitive claims
Ron Paul newsletter
Ron Paul is catching hell this week for racist (or at the very least racially insensitive) newsletters that were distributed in his name throughout the 90s. While Paul has repeatedly repudiated the contents of the newsletters, voters and pundits are scrutinizing his role in their publication far more closely now that Paul is the latest GOP frontrunner in Iowa. Check out the slideshow below to see the most incendiary racial rhetoric to appear in these controversial newsletters
- A 1990 newsletter called Martin Luther King Jr. “a world-class adulterer” who “seduced underage girls and boys” and “replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.”
- According to a Dallas Morning News review of documents circulating among Texas Democrats, Dr. Paul wrote in a 1992 newsletter: “If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be.
- On the 1992 LA Riots: “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….What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting.”
- A March 1993 newsletter claims Bill Clinton (pictured here with close friend and advisor Vernon Jordan) has “illegitimate children, black and white: ‘woods colts’ in backwoods slang.”
- A January 1993 newsletter laments America’s “disappearing white majority.” The title of this newsletter includes the phrase ‘Survival Report”
- A December 1989 newsletter claims that roving bands of African-Americans are trying to give white people HIV. According to the newsletter, “at least 39 white women have been stuck with used hypodermic needles-perhaps infected withAIDS-by gangs of black girls between the ages of 12 and 14.”
- On how to shoot and kill blacks and get away with it. “Carjacking. It is the hip-hop thing to do among the urban youth who play unsuspecting whites like pianos…. If you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible.”
- On Haitian immigrants in the 90s: “If there is one thing we don’t need in this country, its more Haitians immigrants [sic] with AIDS. Congratulations to the Senate for stopping, at least temporarily, Clinton’s plan to have the AIDSians move here to die at $100,000 a pop, courtesy of the taxpayers.”
- Praising white supremacist David Duke’s campaign for Louisiana governor: “Duke lost the election, but he scared the blazes out of the Establishment. If the official Republican hadn’t been ordered to drop out, he might have won. Certainly there would have been a run-off.”
- On DC: “To be white in Washington, however, is to experience a culture that is anti-white and proud of it. Radio stations urge listeners not to shop in white (or Asian) owned stores. Ministers lead anti-white and anti-Asian boycotts. Professors teach that whites are committing genocide against blacks
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/ron-paul-racist-newsletters-the-top-10-most-racially-insensitive-claims.php
Ron Paul is a repulsive old liar. I do not believe he had no idea what was in these letters. Truthfully, I think he wrote this stuff. People like Ron Paul should not be allowed in politics, and it makes me sick that people support this bigot and want him to be president. I have no doubt that this man would destroy our country.
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No. You’re friend Ron Paul actually does have Neo-Nazi fans and staff tho.
Google Don Black and Ron Paul.
Google Randy Gray and Ron Paul.
Google David Duke and Ron Paul.
Google Jamie Kelso and Ron Paul.
THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE DO NOT WANT.
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Page 2- Ron Paul’s special issue on “Racial Terrorism” from his Ron Paul Report.
The racist newsletters.
Wake up!
