December 20, 2011 2:39 PM

Ron Paul disavows racist newsletters under his name

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Brian Montopoli
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Campaign 2012
(Credit: John Huff)

Ron Paul reiterated Tuesday that he did not write a series of newsletters that appeared under his name in the 1980s and 1990s that included controversial comments about African-Americans, including a claim that "[o]rder was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks."

Asked by CBS News and National Journal if the newsletters are fair game on Tuesday in New Hampshire, Paul responded, "I don't know whether fair is the right word."

"I mean, it's politics," he continued. "Nobody talked about it for 20 years until they found out that the message of liberty was making progress. And everybody knows I didn't write them, and it's not my sentiment, so it's sort of politics as usual."

Writing in The New Republic in 2008, reporter James Kirchick revealed some particularly incendiary passages from the monthly newsletters, which carried names like "Ron Paul's Freedom Report" and the "Ron Paul Political Report." Many of the newsletters, which were mostly written in the first person and usually didn't otherwise carry a byline, were reportedly being held in collections of extreme-right political literature.

The newsletters included a criticism of Ronald Reagan for legislation creating a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., who is described as a "world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours" and "seduced underage girls and boys."

"We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day," one newsletter said of Reagan, according to Kirchick. The newsletters also claimed that AIDS sufferers "enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick," expressed support for and offered advice to the "local militias now training to defend liberty" shortly before the Oklahoma City bombing, and questioned whether the 1993 World Trade Center bombing "was a setup by the Israeli Mossad."

Kirchick revisited the newsletters in the Weekly Standard on Tuesday, writing that "Paul's lucrative and decades-long promotion of bigotry and conspiracy theories, for which he has yet to account fully, and his continuing espousal of extremist views...should make him unwelcome at any respectable forum."

Kirchick tied the newsletters to Paul's willingness to appear on the radio program of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has reportedly accused the government of encouraging "homosexuality with chemicals so that people don't have children." He noted that Paul seemed open to Jones' suggestion that the military's NORTHCOM combatant command is "taking over" the nation.

Paul denied his involvement with the newsletters back in 2008, saying the controversial comments "are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed."

"When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product," he said. "For over a decade, I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name."

In 2008, the Libertarian magazine Reason (citing libertarian activists, some close to Paul) reported that Paul's chief ghostwriter for the newsletters was one Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr., who was Paul's congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982 and a longtime Paul confident and adviser. (Rockwell denies this.) Paul and his wife were officers of Ron Paul & Associates, the now-defunct company that published the newsletters, which reportedly earned Ron Paul & Associates nearly one million dollars over one year, according to a 1993 tax document. Paul, his family and Rockwell were listed as four of the company's 11 employees.

Paul's campaign chairman, Jesse Benton, told Hotsheet Tuesday that "We take Ron at [his] word that he did not write" the newsletters.

"So have his constituents in Texas," Benton continued. "We do so because everything he has worked and stood for forty years stands anathema to racism. We know that Dr. Paul stands for Liberty for all Americans."

Asked if the issue was fair game, Benton responded, "He has answered questions about these newsletters for 20 years, but it is reasonable that he answer them again now."

"We are confident that Americans will look to his vast, consistent and principled record, his life [as] a doctor, faithful husband and family man, and accept his answer," he added.

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by timeofmind January 6, 2012 6:51 PM EST
The writer has been identified:

http://www.fox19.com/story/16458700/reality-check-the-name-of-a-mystery-writer-of-one-of-ron-pauls-racist-newsletters
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by kazymandias January 3, 2012 4:26 PM EST
You can easily see whether Paul wrote the articles, here:

http://pithy.butnowyouknow.net/the-facts-about-ron-pauls-newsletters-and-the-racist-articles/
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by SaintReamer December 24, 2011 8:47 PM EST
Outside of superstition Ron Paul is parochialism's best friend. Inside of superstition Ron Paul is safe from Negroes.

ZZZwww.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game-over-scans-of-over-50-ron-paul.htmlZZZ
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by regular_john December 22, 2011 11:02 PM EST
BREAKING: Even More Racially Charged Writings by Ron Paul Uncovered!

http://www.dailypaul.com/195717/breaking-even-more-racially-charged-writings-by-ron-paul-uncovered
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by stljoe December 22, 2011 10:04 PM EST
Sounds very much like Barack "I missed my pastors racist rantings for 20 years" Obama. If Obama got away with using a psychotic racist and conspiracy crackpot as his primary personal and spiritual adviser then this seems like a non-story.
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by kurdish FF December 22, 2011 9:12 PM EST
Man Oh Man the MEDIA is scared to DEATH, you know Ron Paul is winning when they go back 20 years ago to find fake lies about him, I am supporter of Ron Paul, but I think he should of got his act together at the time and be aware of whats going on those newsletters, but he was praticing medicine so How can you blame the guy?
you can just look at the man and you know he just doesn't have it in him to be racist, let alone the 6 decades of giving a crap about all Americans. you really are ignorant and truly aren't intelligent enough to figure out the whole story, he took the money from the KKK and used it to fundraise for his message instead of giving it back to the KKK leader who of spent it on racist deeds and actions, I would of done it, and the media can keep trying but all I can say GAME OVER FOR THE MEDIA!!
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by zaclitch December 27, 2011 8:57 PM EST
Ron Paul is teflon. No matter what the discredited mainstream media tries to throw at him, it will not stick. He has been explaining for 20 years that these weren't his writings. But MSM will keep bringing it back up for the people that aren't awake yet. You people at CBS are zombies. Don't you know that when they implode the economy and bring in the North American Union and there's hyperinflation after every nation holding 1.5 trillion dollars dumps them, you won't be immune. You will be like every other zombie that isn't awake, trying to come up with 5,000 to get what was $100 worth of groceries. You are discredited and the only reason people come to your website is to expose your lies and disinformation and misinformation. You better get rid of your white house correspondents and get some real researches that actually read the globalist white papers and what the fake right-left paradigm congress is passing in their bills that anyone with a 6th grade level of comprehension can read and figure out. If Obama signs the NDAA it will be exposed and it is a U-turn on civil rights and gets rid of Posse Comitatus. There is more dirt on your correspondents than most of these candidates that are running for president. But no matter what you try and put on Ron Paul, it is only going to hurt you. Why do you go along with the globalist propaganda? It's called Eugenics, it's called flouridated water, lithium in the water, BPA chemical used to make plastics causing estrogen levels to rise in everyone and make males sterile. I could go on and on, and on. CBS better wake up, you aren't immune, you aren't set aside. Look up Georgia Guide Stones - this is their agenda.
by NOMADIC13 December 22, 2011 6:37 PM EST
"Morris Dees and I, from the first day of our partnership, shared one overriding purpose: to make a pile of money. We were not particular about how we did it; we just wanted to be independently rich. During the eight years we worked together we never wavered in that resolve."


Millard Fuller ceased partnership with Morris Dees and in 1968 sold ALL his assets giving his millions to charity! He moved to Africa to do Christian service work and died in 2009. Morris Dees on the other hand continued to expand his financial empire and founding the SPLC in 1971. In 2000, Ken Silverstein wrote a hard hitting piece on the corruption within SPLC in Harper's Magazine titled "The Church of Morris Dees".


Peruse the 2008 SPLC, IRS form 990 "Return of Organization
Exempt from Income Tax" at: http://www.thelaymanscorner.co...

Note line 22 - the "Net assets of funds balances" for $199,951,946. 00. Also note line 15, salaries paid to SPLC members and employees totaling $12,311,645.00 and line 18, for total expenses of $29,894,976.00!

See where that heartfelt donated money for SPLC goes with
pictures of the posh home of SPLC founder Morris Dees:
http://www.montgomeryadvertise...

Don't take my word for it - please do your own research and I'm certain that after a review of the damning information regarding SPLC available on the internet... if you ever gave any of your hard earned money to the SPLC - you will at the least, seriously reconsider doing so in the future! They are a crooked organization from top to bottom!

A fatal flaw when making allegations for an "anti-Semitic" Ron Paul is that Paul's economic policy is shaped almost exclusively from the "Austrian School" and the persons aligned with the philosophies of the Ludwig von Mises, a Jewish intellectual. Von Mises embodied classical liberalism and is regarded as a founding leader in the Austrian School of economics. The Ludwig von Mises Institute was founded primarily by Jewish intellectuals of like persuasions.


So, ask yourself - Ron Paul's life long world view is classical libertarianism - he lives and breathes Austrian economics are these the signature patterns of a bigoted anti-Semite and racist?

I don't think so!!

WE WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!
Ron Paul 2012!!
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by NOMADIC13 December 22, 2011 6:37 PM EST
The concept of "race" is a collectivist idea. Any true classic libertarian, such as Ron Paul, can not be a racist because acceptance and adherence to that philosophy demands you take all people one at a time as individuals - evaluating each separately on the content of their character and not in the "collective" sense of being categorized by the color of their skin;
firmly believing that each person is born with the inalienable rights to: their life;their liberty and their pursuit of happiness as members of a human race!

Every election the establishment tries to smear Ron Paul with these old trumped up charges of racism. Now the establishment has their back on the ropes and is trying once again - but it won't work - it never does!

So, here right on cue - the smear begins once again! Stories will begin to surface of the past newsletters and dredging up James Kirchick's palette of smear pigments from a 2008 "attempt to smear" article from TNR or "The New Republic" which desperately attempted to convince the reader that Ron Paul was both anti- Semitic bigot and racist. They failed as usual. The 2008 mainstream media threw it around for a week or so - you know how they do it - Cnn/Wolf Blitzer and the whole package. see at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Once it became evident to the public there was no sound basis for the allegations the MSM dropped the story or it would have totally smacked of blatant smear!

In the 2008 election cycle, after the TNR article, radio talk show host Alex Jones interviewed then presiding President of the NAACP in Austin Texas, Nelson Linder (listen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... asking questions regarding Ron Paul and allegations of racism. Mr. Linder not speaking for the NAACP but only for himself came to Ron Paul's defense saying:

"Knowing Ron Paul's intent, I think he is trying to improve this country but I think also, when you talk about the Constitution and you constantly criticize the federal government versus state I think a lot of folks are going to misconstrue that....so I think it's very easy for folks who
want to take his position out of context and that's what I'm hearing."

Linder continued:

"Knowing Ron Paul and having talked to him, I think he's a very fair guy I just think that a lot of folks do not understand the Libertarian platform, - I've read Ron Paul's whole philosophy, I also understand what he's saying from a political standpoint and why people are attacking him, - If you scare the folks that have the money, they're going to attack you and they're going to take it out of context,...What he's saying is really threatening the powers that be and that's what they fear,"

When Jones asked directly if Ron Paul was a racist, Linder responded "No I don't," He added that he had heard Ron Paul speak out about police repression of black communities and mandatory minimum sentences on many occasions.

The author of the 2008 TNR attempted smear article, James Kirchick is a neo-con progressive with an overt globalist agenda! The New Republic attempts to be a neo-liberal mouth piece for the dying progressive agenda, much the same as the neo-con Weekly Standard - each being driven primarily by their desires for a globalist world dominated by international banking and the military industrial complex. This predisposition for elitism and predilection for global governance by an oligarchy of international banking power elites is the philosophy I might add, that has currently brought America to the brink of destruction! They play the phony "two party paradigm" relentlessly. This is the illusion of two different political parties counter balancing one another - please don't say you can't remember recently this spring when
republican Senator McCain and democrat Senator Kerry went arm in arm bellowing
for illegal war with Libya? Do you not find it is strange that Obama never changed Bush/Cheney policies regarding: torture; bailouts; WARS; Patriot Act and lost of civil liberties and abuse of American citizenry. Exactly - both parties want huge intrusive central authority - its just one side prefers to balloon the size of government with aggressive warfare and less social welfare and vice-versa.

If memory serves, much of the so-called 'source information" for the bogus Kirchick 2008 TNR smear article came primarily from the SPLC or Southern Poverty Law Center, founded by none other than, Morris Dees. This dubious organization has been exposed numerous times as nothing more than a rip-off institution specializing in appealing to well minded liberal leaning citizens for their money - requesting donations for various causes to right injustices for minorities. The problem is that very little of the funding generated ever goes to help the actual persons in need. The American Institute of Philanthropy has repeatedly given SPLC an 'F' rating for nearly a decade. Morris Dees former business partner Millard Fuller said this:
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by NOMADIC13 December 22, 2011 6:25 PM EST
The concept of "race" is a collectivist idea. Any true classic libertarian, such as Ron Paul, can not be a racist because acceptance and adherence to that philosophy demands you take all people one at a time as individuals - evaluating each separately on the content of their character and not in the "collective" sense of being categorized by the color of their skin;
firmly believing that each person is born with the inalienable rights to: their life;their liberty and their pursuit of happiness as members of a human race!

Every election the establishment tries to smear Ron Paul with these old trumped up charges of racism. Now the establishment has their back on the ropes and is trying once again - but it won't work - it never does!

So, here right on cue - the smear begins once again! Stories will begin to surface of the past newsletters and dredging up James Kirchick's palette of smear pigments from a 2008 "attempt to smear" article from TNR or "The New Republic" which desperately attempted to convince the reader that Ron Paul was both anti- Semitic bigot and racist. They failed as usual. The 2008 mainstream media threw it around for a week or so - you know how they do it - Cnn/Wolf Blitzer and the whole package. see at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Once it became evident to the public there was no sound basis for the allegations the MSM dropped the story or it would have totally smacked of blatant smear!

In the 2008 election cycle, after the TNR article, radio talk show host Alex Jones interviewed then presiding President of the NAACP in Austin Texas, Nelson Linder (listen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... asking questions regarding Ron Paul and allegations of racism. Mr. Linder not speaking for the NAACP but only for himself came to Ron Paul's defense saying:
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by I-C-Warming December 22, 2011 4:32 PM EST
Every time I put out a newsletter with my name on it that makes me a million dollars, I at least skim through it. I guess that makes me special.
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