More Bigoted Statements By Ron Paul Come To Light

Some things are just so predictable you can set their watch by them.

As soon as the derangers started embracing Ron Paul, it was only a matter of time before some new revelations would come out about how in his extremism he has promoted homophobia, racism, antisemitism, and bizarre CT. After all, for people so far Left they are Right, homophobia, racism, antisemitism, and bizarre CT are apparently in the 'pluses' column.

Now, according to the New York Times, previously unpublicized statements of Paul's have come to light. The story has been further investigated by The Weekly Standard, who, say what you will about them, appear to have done the investigative reporting here that other organizations haven't.

Reporter James Kerchick tracks down Paul's statements from his former newsletters, sone of which are in state historical society archives dedicated to the materials of far right groups. While Paul claims that not all articles in his newsletters were written by him personally, he published and distributed them himself, and they all contain his name, with titles such as Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Political Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report, and the Ron Paul Investment Letter.

There are examples of Paul's racism:

“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks,” read a typical article from the June 1992 “Special Issue on Racial Terrorism,” a supplement to the Ron Paul Political Report. Racial apocalypse was the most persistent theme of the newsletters; a 1990 issue warned of “The Coming Race War,” and an article the following year about disturbances in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was entitled
“Animals Take Over the D.C. Zoo.” Paul alleged that Martin Luther King Jr., “the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” had also “seduced underage girls and boys.” The man who would later proclaim King a “hero” attacked Ronald Reagan for signing legislation creating the federal holiday in his name, complaining, “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”

And, of course, as predictable as the Sun rises, anti-Israel Paul is revealed to love antisemitic CT as well:

No foreign country was mentioned in the newsletters more often than Israel. A 1987 newsletter termed it “an aggressive, national socialist state,” and another missive, on the subject of the 1993 World Trade Center attack, concluded, “Whether it was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.” In 1990, the newsletter cast aspersions on the “tens of thousands of well-placed friends of Israel in all countries who are willing to wok [sic] for the Mossad in their area of expertise.”

And general nuttery:

Another newsletter warned that “the AIDS patient” should not be allowed to eat in restaurants because “AIDS can be transmitted by saliva,” a strange claim for a physician to make.

Paul gave credence to the theory, later shown to have been the product of a Soviet disinformation effort, that AIDS had been created in a U.S. government laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

The articles go on to discuss Paul's ongoing relationship with extremist insame CT peddler Alex Jones, and various truther movements.

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Ron Paul is a true right wing nutball, unfit to be anywhere near the levers of government. It is truly sad that there is more consensus around that simple fact at The Weekly Standard than there is among the supposedly liberal or progressive people who embrace him.