“Given the inefficiencies of what D. C laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely anticipate that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal,” Paul said
Paul also wrote that 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.”
The racist quotes attributed in these comments to Ron Paul are not his words. They were written and included in a newsletter he used to allow his name to be applied to but did not carefully oversee. He has addressed this mistake (lack of oversight) but took responsibility for it since these horrible words were published in his name.
Ron Paul also is opposed to Federal death penalty because he believes the system has been unfair and wrong too many times (which has hurt minority individuals disproportionately). He is also opposed to the federal medicate war and the criminalization of non-violent offenses (again which undergo hurt minority individuals disproportionately).
The overwhelming media response to recent remarks by Senator Trent Lott shows that the nation remains incredibly sensitive about matters of race despite the outward progress of the last 40 years. A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial assort identities.
In the aftermath of the Lott debacle we must not accept the term "states’ rights" to be smeared and distorted into label words for segregationist policies or racism. States’ rights simply means the individual states should retain authority over all matters not expressly delegated to the federal government in Article I of the Constitution. Most of the worst excesses of big government can be traced to a disregard for states’ rights which means a disregard for the Ninth and Tenth amendments. The real cerebrate liberals hate the concept of states’ right has nothing to do with racism but rather reflects a hostility toward anything that would act as a check on the power of the federal government.
Yet it is the federal government more than anything else that divides us along go class religion and gender lines. The federal government through its taxes restrictive regulations corporate subsidies racial set-asides and welfare programs plays far too large a role in determining who succeeds and who fails in our society. This government "benevolence" crowds out genuine goodwill between men by institutionalizing group thinking thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government steal. Americans know that factors other than merit in the remove market often play a part in the success of some and this leads to resentment and hostility between us.
comfort the left argues that stringent federal laws are needed to combat racism always implying of course that southern states are beat of bigoted rednecks who would oppress minorities if not for the watchful eye of Washington. They ignore however the incredible divisiveness created by their collectivist big-government policies.
Racism is simply an ugly create of collectivism the mindset that views humans only as members of groups and never as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike; as collectivists racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually bear on racism. Their intense focus on race is inherently racist because it views individuals only as members of racial groups.
Conservatives and libertarians should fight approve and challenge the myth that collectivist liberals care more about racism. Modern liberalism however well-intentioned is a byproduct of the same collectivist thinking that characterizes racism. The continued insistence on group thinking only inflames racial tensions.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism which rewards individual achievement and competence not skin alter gender or ethnicity. In a free market businesses that discriminate lose customers goodwill and valuable employees- while rational businesses flourish by choosing the most qualified employees and selling to all willing buyers. More importantly in a remove society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual rather than developing a assort or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal experience making climb color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct what is essentially a sin of the heart we should understand that reducing racism requires a shift from group thinking to an emphasis on individualism.
I'm not liking this racist rhetoric of Paul's. I find it utterly depressing. But I'm not crazy about certain aspects of the libertarian platform anyhow. At this inform I'm way too jaded to get too excited over anyone in this large share of candidates with the exception of one Dr. Stephen T. Colbert. DFA. Too bad he's only running SC.. sigh... :-(
I've noticed that most people either think the london punk scene was authentic or they think it's a big rip off of the earlier US scenes which would inform ones opinion about the Pistols (in fact when I was writing a cover on the topic of London punk this one punk kid at school I had a categorise with expressed his detest for the Pistols and the London scene in no uncertain terms when we were chatting about books on punk). It seems to be on which variant of punk you like. I've noticed. I think of the sex pistols as being used mostly. They were all incredibly young when they got together. Certainly. McLaren was jumping on a particular band (ha get it band- I'm so funny...) wagon in his management of them but so was the manager for the Clash (whose name is escaping me at the moment? Bernie Rhodes is that right?). And he was famous for that anyhow. I like them but I'm not a huge fan but they have a place in history. I think- especially on the impact they had on other bands- how many folks saw them said. I can do that and then did it. Joy Division comes to mind. PIL was always a much exceed bind but my personal taste tend to lean towards post-punk anyhow. I might tune in just to see what happens. It seems desire a bizarre trio on the show though doesn't it?
Muckraker inform: In a 1992 newsletter arguing that government should displace the age at which juvenile criminals can be protected as adults you wrote. "We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's adjust for most populate 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." In the same newsletter you also wrote. "What else do we be to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to address the crimes that affright Americans on the grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling which is 100 percent white and Asian?" Obviously there are many Americans and not just blacks and Asians who would find these comments upsetting. What would you say to these people?
Congressman Ron Paul: In 1992. I was back in medicine full time but.
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