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Ron Paul, the once and future Republican presidential
candidate and cult-hero among Libertarians, has a long and disturbing
history of racialism and anti-Semitism.
During an appearance on Chris Matthews’ ‘Hardball’ TV program on
MSNBC a few years ago, Paul defended earlier comments his son Rand made
regarding the 1964 Civil Rights Act (which he asserted his father’s Libertarian views would have led him to oppose the law).
Ron Paul told Matthews he would have voted against the Act in
Congress, and added "I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow
laws."
He explained that didn’t necessarily oppose the intent of the Act (to
eliminate institutionalized discrimination against blacks), but rather
because it imposed on the personal rights of private business owners.
In 2004, during the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Paul spoke against the law, stating that it violated the Constitution and curbed individual freedoms.

“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and
reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals
of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society,” he said.

According to various reports, years ago, Paul was affiliated with newsletters that were obsessed with racial subjects.

Paul had published a plethora of newsletters over his political
career with names including Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, Ron Paul
Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report, among many others.
In June 1992, in the wake of the ‘Rodney King riots’ in Los Angeles
that killed dozens and caused $1-billion of property damage, the Ron
Paul Political Report wrote: “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,”
The editorial suggested that the looting and rioting was an
inevitable consequence of the federal government providing blacks with
“civil rights quotas, mandated hiring preferences, set-asides for
government contracts, gerrymandered voting districts, black
bureaucracies, black mayors, black curricula in schools, black TV shows,
black TV anchors, hate crime laws, and public humiliation for anyone
who dares question the black agenda.”
Paul’s screed also attacked the media for espousing the belief that
“America’s number one need is an unlimited white checking account for
underclass blacks.”
A few years before, in December 1989, Paul’s Investment
Letter spelled out a doomsday scenario for the future, warning that
“racial violence will fill our cities” because “mostly black welfare
recipients will feel justified in stealing from mostly white ‘haves.’”
Two months later, another Paul newsletter predicted “The Coming Race War.”


In the following year an article advised readers: “If you live in a
major city, and can leave, do so. If not, but you can have a rural
retreat, for investment and refuge, buy it.”
In June 1991, following incidents of racial clashes in Washington,
DC, a Paul newsletter featured an article titled: “Animals Take Over the
D.C. Zoo.”
“This is only the first skirmish in the race war of the 1990s,” the newsletter gloomily warned.


In October 1992, in a segment on urban crime, Paul’s newsletter
declared: “I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in
self-defense. For the animals are coming.”
Following a basketball game in Chicago in which the Bulls won the NBA
championship in 1992, Paul’s publication sneered that: “blacks poured
into the streets of Chicago in celebration. How to celebrate? How else?
They broke the windows of stores to loot.”
The newsletter also assailed white liberals for wanting “to keep
white America from taking action against black crime and welfare. Jury
verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black
rage, it seems.”
Another newsletter claimed that “opinion polls consistently show only
about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions,” and “if
you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how
unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”
Paul’s publication also attacked the distinguished black
congresswoman for Texas Barbara Jordan as “the archetypical
half-educated victimologist” whose “race and sex protect her from
criticism.”
Another newsletter declared: "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."
In 1991, a Paul-controlled newsletter praised ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.


“Duke lost the [Senate] election [in Louisiana], but he scared the blazes out of the Establishment,” it stated.


Paul also has expressed hostility toward the Jews.


According to the Philadelphia Jewish Voice, Paul refused to return a
campaign contribution in 2008 from white supremacist and notorious
anti-Semite Don Black.
Paul has reportedly called Israel “evil” and has alleged that the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, might have blown up the World Trade Center in 1993.
In 1987, an edition of Paul's Investment Letter described Israel as "an aggressive, national socialist state."


However, it isn’t clear if Paul himself wrote any of these
inflammatory segments (the newsletters apparently lacked by-lines). Paul
himself has reportedly said many of these passages were taken out of
context.
When confronted by CNN, Paul insisted that he was not the author of the racialist pieces and that he had "no idea" who did.


Moreover, he denied having any racial bias.


"When you bring this question up, you're really saying, 'You're a
racist' or 'Are you a racist?' And the answer is, 'No, I'm not a
racist,'" he said.
He added that he repudiated “everything that is written along those lines.”


Paul also told CNN: "People [who] know me, nobody is going to believe
this. That's just not my language. It's not my life. Martin Luther
King, Rosa Parks, Gandhi, they're [my] heroes."
Paul has also claimed that he sympathizes with blacks who have been
victimized by draconian drug laws. He once told a reporter: "I am the
anti-racist because I am the only candidate -- Republican or Democrat --
who would protect the [minorities] against these vicious drug laws.
Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a
collectivist idea."
However, David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst, didn’t buy Paul’s denials.


"These stories may be very old in Ron Paul's life, but they're very
new to the American public and they deserve to be totally ventilated,"
he said "I must say I don't think there's an excuse in politics to have
something go out under your name and say, 'Oh by the way, I didn't write
that.'"
Paul remains a unique and singular character in U.S. politics. His
adherence to libertarian values, and opposition to foreign military
intervention and drug laws have won him the admiration and support among
many liberals, especially among the youth.
His espousal of limited government and attacks on certain government agencies, including the Federal Reserve, has gained him support among some conservatives.


However, the mainstream Republican Party largely rejects Paul and regards him as a crackpot.