I am pissed, really pissed. There is another outrageous hit piece on Ron Paul. This one comes from
the Washington Post and continues the attack on Dr. Paul for comments that appeared in newsletters published under his name some 20 plus years ago. The implication being that Ron Paul is a racist. Here's what needs to be understood fully, everyone, that is, everyone, agrees that Dr. Paul did not write one word in those articles.
Here's what you need to know about this attack. It has been aggressively pushed by the Koch brothers-funded Reason magazine, a supposedly libertarian organization. Got that? An attack on Ron Paul by libertarians. The mainstream media has simply broadcast further what was handed to them on a silver platter.
Also curious is the fact that the original reporting on the newsletters was from James Kirchick, who writes that he found many of the newsletters
at the University of Kansas. Hmm, University of Kansas? Just a few miles from Wichita, headquarters of
Koch Industries.
Interesting that a Yale boy, who travels in elitist circles, ends up in a library just miles from the billionaires' bunker to find the Ron Paul newsletters.
Check this guy out, does he look like the type that generally hangs in Witchita.
From wikipedia:
James Kirchick (pronounced /ˈkɜrtʃɨk/; born 1983) is a reporter, foreign correspondent and columnist. Kirchick attended Yale University and wrote for its student newspaper, the Yale Daily News.[1] He is a fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington;[2] prior to this he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.[3]
For over three years, Kirchick worked at The New Republic, covering domestic politics, intelligence, and American foreign policy.[4][5]While he remains a contributing editor for TNR, Kirchick’s reportage has appeared in The Weekly Standard,[4] The American Interest, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Columbia Journalism Review, Prospect, Commentary and World Affairs Journal. He writes frequently for newspapers including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal,[6] The Los Angeles Times,[7] and Ha’aretz.
Kirchick has worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and The Hill, and has been a columnist for the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner.
Kirchick is a regular book critic and reviews frequently for Azure,[8] Commentary, the Claremont Review of Books, Policy Review, and World Affairs, among others. A leading voice on gay politics, he is a contributing writer to the Advocate, the United States' largest gay publication,[9] and a recipient of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism Award and the Journalist of the Year Award.[10][11]
But, just to nail in the fact that this is coming from Koch circles, co-founder and president of of Koch-funded Cato Institute, Ed Crane, now volunteers to WaPo that Ron Paul told him his best subscriber response had come when he used the mailing list of Spotlight, which Crane characterized as racist and anti-Semitic. Puhleez.
I am somewhat familiar with mail list rentals of that period and Spotlight was a hot list to rent for almost any investment type newsletter, including those that took no social or political positions at all. In fact, I doubt most newsletter writers who rented the list through rental agents even knew what Spotlight was, other than that it was a "hot" list. I knew it was a hot list, but I had no idea, back then, what it was. Ed Crane is the one who just recently, in his comments, made it clear to me. Crane was clearly reading the letter to know, not me. But, I am wondering if the Cato Institute or Reason magazine would be willing to release the names of all the lists they have rented so that we could put the same magnifying test on them. As a matter of fact, let's see what mailing lists WaPo uses.
But aside from this attack on Congressman Paul from so-called libertarians, lets look at what a Ron Paul presidency would mean for Black America.
First and foremost, Ron Paul would end the insane war on drugs. Dr. Paul has pointed out that more blacks are in jail on drug charges than any other group. He would release them.
Second, he would close down the Department of Education which has resulted in some of the worst education for black youth possible. Education needs to be in the private sector.
It is the growth of government involvement in individuals lives that has created the miserable state that many blacks find themselves in. I have known enough sistas to see what it is like for most brothers in the hood. If they aren't way on the right side of the bell curve in terms of being persistent and self-starters, there isn't much for them to do, especially with minimum wage laws preventing them from entry level positions. It shouldn't be surprising that many of them become gangstas.
So while WaPo, Reason and Ed Crane yank out a few quotes not written by Ron Paul and obsess over them every chance they get, the bastards don't for a minute write about what Black America would be like under a Ron Paul presidency.
It would mean for blacks a new freedom for those who have been suffocated and (literally) caged by big government.
Any black person, who has a brother, sister, father, mother or cousin, caged in Federal prison because of drug charges , Ron Paul is your only hope to get your loved one home now. You should vote for Ron Paul.
Any black person, trying to make ends meet, who has small children, Ron Paul is your only hope, among the candidates, that private sector education might develop that would provide hope for a cheap and good quality education. You should vote for Ron Paul.
Any gangsta, who would like to get a decent job, Ron Paul is your only hope that minimum wage laws might be eliminated so that some businessman will give you a break and hire you at a low wage in an entry level position. Rather than your slinging dope and risking getting shot or jail time. You should vote for Ron Paul.
There would be big changes for blacks under Ron Paul and the changes would mean more freedom, more opportunity and less of big brother keeping the thumb on the black community.
What must be asked is "Why aren't Reason magazine, Cato, Ed Crane and WaPo highlighting the changes that would come about for Black America during a Ron Paul presidency?"
It's a damn injustice to all blacks when Reason, Cato, Ed Crane and WaPo fail to present the truth about a Ron Paul presidency and what it would mean for the black community. Ron Paul is the best thing that could happen to Black America, and these evil bastards know it.
Update:
Gary Chartier writes:
Per your piece of this morning: it also strikes me that, since the military recruits disproportionate numbers of poor Americans, and since black Americans are particularly likely to be in that group, a Paul presidency, which would lead to a dramatic reduction in the involvement of US military personnel in violent conflict, would thus also lead to a reduction in war-related deaths for black Americans.
