Ron Paul wins nearly half of the young voters in new hampshire

[southcoast]

So the old radical can get the young to vote for him,that shows just how much a radical manifesto can win over the voters,take note Rommney et al.

 

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/01/11/ron-paul-wins-younger-voters-in-new-hampshire/

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Poll: Obama %48 - Paul %46, CNN Baffled

 

[f0rd]

I actually quite like Ron Paul, he's a cut above the rest of the Republican field.

[southcoast]

I actually quite like Ron Paul, he's a cut above the rest of the Republican field.

 

 

Just goes to show in spite of the media not giving the same coverage as the rest he is still able to poll well.

[southcoast]

This is worth looking at if you want the real lowdown on whats going on in the US, MAX KEISER on RT shows up how the media ignore Ron Paul and how Bloomberg and CNN et all are all as guilty as hell for not playing it straight.

 

 

http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-237-max-keiser/

[plekhanov]

I actually quite like Ron Paul, he's a cut above the rest of the Republican field.

Whilst in comparison to the upfront authoritarianism of most Republicans Paul can seem appealing it's worth noting that Paul is 'libertarian' only when it comes to the Federal government. He favours state rights over individual rights and wants to remove federal measures which stop the states violating civil rights.

 

I must say I find this stance of Paul’s rather confusing, why is it a terrible violating of liberty for the federal government to do something but all fine and dandy for a state government to do the same or worse?

 

, hard to say which is worse.

 

TNR Exclusive: A Collection of Ron Paul’s Most Incendiary Newsletters

 

For years, Ron Paul published a series of newsletters that dispensed political news and investment advice, but also routinely indulged in bigotry. Here's a selection of some especially inflammatory passages, with links to scanned images of the original documents in which they appeared.

 

Race

 

“A Special Issue on Racial Terrorism” analyzes the Los Angeles riots of 1992: “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.”

 

The November 1990 issue of the Political Report had kind words for David Duke.

 

This December 1990 newsletter describes Martin Luther King Jr. as “a world-class adulterer” who “seduced underage girls and boys” and “replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.”

 

A February 1991 newsletter attacks “The X-Rated Martin Luther King.”

 

An October 1990 edition of the Political Report ridicules black activists, led by Al Sharpton, for demonstrating at the Statue of Liberty in favor of renaming New York City after Martin Luther King. The newsletter suggests that “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,”and “Lazyopolis ” would be better alternatives—and says, “Next time, hold that demonstration at a food stamp bureau or a crack house.”

 

A May 1990 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report cites Jared Taylor, who six months later would go onto found the eugenicist and white supremacist periodical American Renaissance.

 

The January 1993 issue of the Survival Report worries about America’s “disappearing white majority.”

 

The July 1992 Ron Paul Political Report declares, “Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,” and defends David Duke. The author of the newsletter—presumably Paul—writes, “My youngest son is starting his fourth year in medical school. He tells me there would be no way to persuade his fellow students of the case for economic liberty.”

 

A March 1993 Survival Report describes Bill Clinton’s supposedly “illegitimate children, black and white: ‘woods colts’ in backwoods slang.”

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Whilst in comparison to the upfront authoritarianism of most Republicans Paul can seem appealing it's worth noting that Paul is 'libertarian' only when it comes to the Federal government. He favours state rights over individual rights and wants to remove federal measures which stop the states violating civil rights.

 

I must say I find this stance of Paul’s rather confusing, why is it a terrible violating of liberty for the federal government to do something but all fine and dandy for a state government to do the same or worse?

 

, hard to say which is worse.

 

Paul said that Martin Luther King is one his heroes for practicing "the libertarian principle of peaceful resistance and peaceful civil disobedience," and highlighted his understanding that the drug laws in the United States unfairly penalize African Americans.

 

"True racism in this country is in the judicial system," Paul said, "the percentage of people who use drugs are about the same with blacks and whites. And yet the blacks are arrested way disproportionately."

 

"They're prosecuted and imprisoned way disproportionately," he continued, "they get the death penalty way disproportionately. How many times have you seen a white rich person get the electric chair or get, you know, execution?"

 

"If we truly want to be concerned about racism, you ought to look at a few of those issues and look at the drug laws, which are being so unfairly enforced," said Paul, who is known for his libertarian views on U.S. drug policy.

 

source

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57354591-503544/ron-paul-says-he-is-not-racist-slams-drug-laws-as-unfair-to-blacks/

[plekhanov]

Paul said that Martin Luther King is one his heroes for practicing "the libertarian principle of peaceful resistance and peaceful civil disobedience," and highlighted his understanding that the drug laws in the United States unfairly penalize African Americans.

 

"True racism in this country is in the judicial system," Paul said, "the percentage of people who use drugs are about the same with blacks and whites. And yet the blacks are arrested way disproportionately."

 

"They're prosecuted and imprisoned way disproportionately," he continued, "they get the death penalty way disproportionately. How many times have you seen a white rich person get the electric chair or get, you know, execution?"

 

"If we truly want to be concerned about racism, you ought to look at a few of those issues and look at the drug laws, which are being so unfairly enforced," said Paul, who is known for his libertarian views on U.S. drug policy.

 

source

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57354591-503544/ron-paul-says-he-is-not-racist-slams-drug-laws-as-unfair-to-blacks/

Right so Ron Paul's official line would seem to be he's "not a racist" simply someone who has happy to use race baiting of the crudest kind when he thought it was advantageous. That's hardly reasuring.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

He favours state rights over individual rights

No- read that as '...over federal rights'.

Know that the USA does not have a 'Government' as the word is used in the UK and Europe but an 'Administration'. States' Rights are essentially the bedrock of the USA. It's still sad that the 'wrong' side won in the USA Civil War. That was not about slavery, despite leftist propaganda claiming that it was, but about the Administration's right [union] to override State Legislatures [Confederates].

[plekhanov]

No- read that as '...over federal rights'.

Err no because Paul, as in the bill he sponsored that I linked to, wants to remove limits upon what the states can do to individuals giving them powers beyond those he objects to the federal government wielding.

 

Know that the USA does not have a 'Government' as the word is used in the UK and Europe but an 'Administration'. States' Rights are essentially the bedrock of the USA. It's still sad that the 'wrong' side won in the USA Civil War. That was not about slavery, despite leftist propaganda claiming that it was, but about the Administration's right [union] to override State Legislatures [Confederates].

If the war was about "state rights" then why did the south attempt to use the federal government to force Free states to return slaves who'd escaped the south?

 

Why does the South Carolina Declaration of Secession mention salvery in the very 1st paragraph and then go on to complain about free states failing to implement pro-slavery federal law & passings laws preventing new salves being imported through their ports?

 

"The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution. The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation."

 

"leftist propaganda indeed" Damn those leftists for writing the assorted declarations of secession, the confederate constitution, speeches by confederate leaders... to make it look like slavery was the big issue:

 

"But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other-though last, not least: the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions-African slavery as it exists among us-the proper status of the ***** in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time. The Constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly used against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it-when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell.

 

Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the ***** is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition. [Applause.] This, our new Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. "

 

So said Alexander Stephens VP of the Confederacy.