A 1998 Documentary featuring Ron Paul by the John Birch Society.
It’s fascinating to watch the long knives coming out for Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, now that according to some mainstream polls he has become the front-running candidate in the Jan. 3 GOP caucus race in Iowa, and perhaps also in the first primary campaign in New Hampshire.
Remember, we’re talking about a guy who has been in Congress on and
off for 12 terms, dating back to 1976. His views have been pretty
consistent, and because he has run for president several times, also
pretty well known. A practicing physician who claims to have helped in
the births of over 4000 babies in his career, the 76-year-old Paul is a
free-market advocate, an abortion opponent, an uncompromising defender
of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, an opponent of government
regulation, the Federal Reserve and the IRS, and of big government in
general--especially big federal government.
What’s interesting is what he’s being attacked for: being a racist, being “anti-Israel” and being an isolationist.
The racist bit is funny. After all, if we’re honest, the whole
political infrastructure of the US is riven with racism. Just check out
the public schools in any urban area, where you’ll find most of the
students are non-white, or check out the schools in rural parts of the
southeast in areas where most of the students are black -- compare the
condition of those schools and the class sizes to schools in the white
neighborhoods. Check out the wildly different jobless figures for whites
and for blacks. Check out the (very pale) complexion of the student
bodies at just about any state university, check out the skin tones of
the judges on the US Supreme Court, or for that matter, the whole
federal bench. Check out the racial breakdown of the nation’s jails,
and especially on the country’s many death rows, where you’ll find a
wildly outsized percentage of people with black or brown skin waiting to
be killed by the state.
Being a racist is clearly no disqualifier for national political
office. It’s just that you are not supposed to say overtly racist
things, at least in public.
Read more of this important article by Dave Lindorff at This Can't Be Happening!
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