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strikematch:

ethiopienne:

raise your hand if you’re surprised. don’t worry, i’ll wait.

as opposed to a dishonest rape? what the fuck are you, ron paul?????

(Source: ron-paul, via katelinbrooke)

katelinbrooke:

ineedivasap:

paper-trains:

ronpaulsucks:

ARTICLE:

Are you kidding me with this guy?

It amuses me to no end when white folks laud the Declaration of Independence — with all of its lofty rhetoric about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — all the while stoically ignoring that all that happy-happy-joy-joy talk didn’t apply to the Africans whites dragged to this country and enslaved.

So when I see the tiny wizened messiah talking about the Civil War and lamenting all the liberty that was lost as a result of the war, I laugh bitterly.  When I hear him talking about goooooold! and ending the Fed, I begin banging my head against the closest wall.

Dude is so out of touch with the 21st century, I’m starting to wonder if he’s some sort of time traveler who crawled through the Rift and has managed somehow to amass Paul-lovers and the Paul-curious from each end of the political spectrum, and everything in between.  Everyone from Katrina vanden Heuvel and Glenn Greenwald to David Duke and Stormfront are singing this guy’s praises, in some fashion or another (but not necessarily endorsing him. *wink wink*)

I find it fascinating and more than a little unsettling.

Here is Ron Paul giving a speech about how the South was right, and the Civil War was awful because it destroyed “individual choice.”  Never mind “individual choice” vis-à-vis the enslaved; they weren’t people and thus could lay no claim to “individuality” or “liberty.”  What Paul means by “individual choice,” is “white men’s (specifically white property-owning men) individual choice.” 

Just look at this silly little man, standing proudly in front of a Confederate flag talking about the enslavement of black people in transactional terms. In the Ron Paul Gospel, adherence to the quintessential American values of “individual choice and” “liberty” would have required the Yankees to buy the slaves’ freedom.  A detestable notion, to be sure, but also historically inaccurate since, as we all know, the South started it.

Ultimately, when it comes to black people, the world “liberty” seems to disappear from Paul’s vocabulary.  Funny, that.

MORE:

http://www.angryblacklady.com/2012/01/21/shorter-ron-paul-the-south-will-rise-again/

D: wow really.

… Check your sources when you see political things on the Internet. Not saying this is true, or that it isn’t, but educate yourself. Every report is a biased opinion. Every speech could have been written. Regardless of Paul’s idea of what history should have been, the 13th Amendment will not be changed ANY time soon. So what if he is a bigot, who isn’t (and don’t tell me you’re not, even just a little)? He doesn’t support the Patriot Act, he doesn’t support SOPA, he doesn’t support PIPA, he would rather see America return to an isolationist nation(which is an awful Foreign Policy, but it would never fly because of the market). He focuses and stresses the issues of why “big” government entities shouldn’t be involved with our personal lives. He might not be the attention of the media but if you have read one of his books you’d understand what this guy is really all about. I’m not saying that this Republican Candidate should be nominated, that he’s the best choice for President, or anything that involves Election Day. It just boggles my mind that posts like these only show one side, not both.

…….

“So what if he is a bigot, who isn’t (and don’t tell me you’re not, even just a little)?”

“So what if he is a bigot, who isn’t (and don’t tell me you’re not, even just a little)?”

“SO WHAT IF HE IS A BIGOT, WHO ISN’T (AND DON’T TELL ME YOU’RE NOT, EVEN JUST A LITTLE)?”

i don’t want to hate everything really i don’t BUT I DO

(Source: moronpaul, via katelinbrooke)

steviemcfly:

Quotes from Ron Paul, pictured here with the founders of white supremacist website Stormfront:

• “If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”
• “Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
• “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”
•  ”I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.”
•  ”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. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.”
• “Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”
• “Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer, Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressmen [sic]. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”
• “Our priority should be to take the anti-government, anti-tax, anti-crime, anti-welfare loafers, anti-race privilege, anti-foreign meddling message of [KKK Grand Wizard David] Duke, and enclose it in a more consistent package of freedom.”
• “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…Duke carried baggage from his past, but voters were willing to overlook that. And if he had been afforded the forgiveness that an ex-Communist gets, he might have won.”
• On the end of apartheid: “It is the destruction of civilization.”
• “The criminals who terrorize our cities — in riots and on every non-riot day — are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to ‘fight the power,’ to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible.”
• “Although we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”
• He also mocked the idea of renaming NYC after MLK (which is a silly idea, but nonetheless), saying it should be instead renamed ”Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” or “Lazyopolis.” Of the rally on the subject, he suggests that ”[n]ext time, hold that demonstration at a food stamp bureau or a crack house.”