Dorfsmith
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Check out this hit piece on our meetup activities and Ron Paul. Anybody want to help set the record straight? I am so frustrated right now 
http://www.flaglive.com/flagstafflive_story.cfm?storyID=162669
The dangerous desperation of the moonbats
By Avtar Khalsa
Published on 11/29/2007
You can see them on Sunday afternoons standing out by City Hall with their signs and the devotion of true believers. They have a message. It can be summed up in 14 words: “We all believe he is the only hope we have to save our nation.”
Strangely, they’re not referring to any deity or higher power. And they’re not out there spreading the good word about Jesus or Reverend Moon or Lord Krishna.
No, for them, the salvation of our great nation depends on the election of a 72-year old Republican congressman from Texas who is running for president. His name is Ron Paul.
Among his somewhat interesting qualities, Congressman Paul happens to be the only contender for the 2008 Republican nomination for president who thinks the U.S. should get out of Iraq, and do it now.
If you’re a Republican and you’re against the war, you don’t have a lot of options. You can acknowledge that your party has become a brutal combination of Big Brother and an international crime syndicate that makes the Corleone family look like a bunch of school boys stealing bubble gum.
That would cause a sane person to at least consider some other political affiliation.
Or you can imagine there is some Republican great and wise enough to lead your party out of the darkness of corruption, greed and the lust for empire. And I guess if you imagine hard enough, you find that person in Dr. Ron Paul, neo-libertarian and candidate for president.
He has received significant attention recently for his campaign’s ability to successfully raise large sums of money online. The other Republican candidates remain clueless about the power of what has come to be called “Netroots” fundraising. But libertarian computer techies flocked to Paul’s campaign, and provided a means to both raise money and raise their candidate’s profile with Net-savvy voters.
I don’t know if anyone else calls Congressman Paul a neo-libertarian, but that’s an apt label for someone of his leanings. He wears the libertarian mantle proudly when he decries the current administration’s passion for conducting surveillance on just about everyone with a telephone and a computer. Put that together with his opposition to the war, and you can see why, at first blush, Congressman Paul might look attractive to voters on the libertarian right who feel they have no where else to turn.
But Congressman Paul is not a true libertarian. Twice he has proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution banning destruction of the U.S. flag. A true libertarian places the value of free expression above that of a symbol of that freedom.
Free to pick and choose which libertarian causes he promotes, Paul champions those that run the gamut from mean-spirited to outright scary.
Six times he has introduced legislation prohibiting any federal funds being used for family planning or population control. That would mean members of the armed forces, who get their medical care from the government at military hospitals and clinics, couldn’t get any guidance or assistance about any form of birth control whatsoever.
Further, he would ban all federal courts below the Supreme Court from ruling on cases involving abortion, or cases concerning discrimination based on religious belief or sexual orientation.
He has also introduced legislation that would repeal the minimum wage and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, gut the Labor Relations Act, the Clean Air Act, and Social Security. There is not enough room in this column to list all the disastrous legislation Paul has pushed in Congress. I’ve only scratched the surface here.
What’s really troubling about Ron Paul is his views on race. And it is those views that have made Ron Paul the darling of numerous neo-Nazi and white separatist groups. While it is not fair to judge a candidate by his supporters, it’s important to know why they support him.
Here’s Ron Paul in his own words: “The professional blacks may have cowed the elites, but good sense survives at the grass roots. Many more are going to have difficultly avoiding the belief that our country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists—and they can be identified by the color of their skin.”
Referring to Washington, D.C., Paul wrote, “I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are either semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
There he is, folks, in black and white. The only hope we have to save our nation? Wrong answer.
http://www.flaglive.com/flagstafflive_story.cfm?storyID=162669
The dangerous desperation of the moonbats
By Avtar Khalsa
Published on 11/29/2007
You can see them on Sunday afternoons standing out by City Hall with their signs and the devotion of true believers. They have a message. It can be summed up in 14 words: “We all believe he is the only hope we have to save our nation.”
Strangely, they’re not referring to any deity or higher power. And they’re not out there spreading the good word about Jesus or Reverend Moon or Lord Krishna.
No, for them, the salvation of our great nation depends on the election of a 72-year old Republican congressman from Texas who is running for president. His name is Ron Paul.
Among his somewhat interesting qualities, Congressman Paul happens to be the only contender for the 2008 Republican nomination for president who thinks the U.S. should get out of Iraq, and do it now.
If you’re a Republican and you’re against the war, you don’t have a lot of options. You can acknowledge that your party has become a brutal combination of Big Brother and an international crime syndicate that makes the Corleone family look like a bunch of school boys stealing bubble gum.
That would cause a sane person to at least consider some other political affiliation.
Or you can imagine there is some Republican great and wise enough to lead your party out of the darkness of corruption, greed and the lust for empire. And I guess if you imagine hard enough, you find that person in Dr. Ron Paul, neo-libertarian and candidate for president.
He has received significant attention recently for his campaign’s ability to successfully raise large sums of money online. The other Republican candidates remain clueless about the power of what has come to be called “Netroots” fundraising. But libertarian computer techies flocked to Paul’s campaign, and provided a means to both raise money and raise their candidate’s profile with Net-savvy voters.
I don’t know if anyone else calls Congressman Paul a neo-libertarian, but that’s an apt label for someone of his leanings. He wears the libertarian mantle proudly when he decries the current administration’s passion for conducting surveillance on just about everyone with a telephone and a computer. Put that together with his opposition to the war, and you can see why, at first blush, Congressman Paul might look attractive to voters on the libertarian right who feel they have no where else to turn.
But Congressman Paul is not a true libertarian. Twice he has proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution banning destruction of the U.S. flag. A true libertarian places the value of free expression above that of a symbol of that freedom.
Free to pick and choose which libertarian causes he promotes, Paul champions those that run the gamut from mean-spirited to outright scary.
Six times he has introduced legislation prohibiting any federal funds being used for family planning or population control. That would mean members of the armed forces, who get their medical care from the government at military hospitals and clinics, couldn’t get any guidance or assistance about any form of birth control whatsoever.
Further, he would ban all federal courts below the Supreme Court from ruling on cases involving abortion, or cases concerning discrimination based on religious belief or sexual orientation.
He has also introduced legislation that would repeal the minimum wage and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, gut the Labor Relations Act, the Clean Air Act, and Social Security. There is not enough room in this column to list all the disastrous legislation Paul has pushed in Congress. I’ve only scratched the surface here.
What’s really troubling about Ron Paul is his views on race. And it is those views that have made Ron Paul the darling of numerous neo-Nazi and white separatist groups. While it is not fair to judge a candidate by his supporters, it’s important to know why they support him.
Here’s Ron Paul in his own words: “The professional blacks may have cowed the elites, but good sense survives at the grass roots. Many more are going to have difficultly avoiding the belief that our country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists—and they can be identified by the color of their skin.”
Referring to Washington, D.C., Paul wrote, “I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are either semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
There he is, folks, in black and white. The only hope we have to save our nation? Wrong answer.
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