Comments | mizunol: A little more Ron Paul blogging...

mizunol

A little more Ron Paul blogging...

Dec 27, 2007 01:50

I can't believe I left out one of the other things that motivated me to make that Ron Paul post.

Check out this out: Ron Paul on Racism. That right there is a link to Paul's "Racism" plank in his platform. When I told Grant the very brief version of why Ron Paul is a racist, I only had the newsletter to go on. And while I don't care that that ( Read more... )

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anonymous December 27 2007, 07:33:05 UTC

He's not a racist. He is right. 50+ years of social programs designed to repeatedly incinuate that black people are simply too stupid and weak to survive without government aid...that's racist.

The newsletter crap was written by a person who was promptly fired. Even the NY Post gave him a pass.

And abortion rights aren't in the Constitution, like it or not.

WHat's so scary about individual choices and freedom for god's sake?

anonymous December 27 2007, 07:34:35 UTC

PS - He said he opposed the civil rights act as it was written because it infringed on private property rights. Libraries aren't private property.

hokie December 27 2007, 13:47:49 UTC

This is probably not worth getting into, but your last two statements here seem at odds.

Abortion rights have nothing to do with the enumerated powers of the federal government: either women have reproductive rights that trump state authority or they don't (this being where the idea of the penumbra of privacy provided by the Fourth Amendment, etc, comes into play in Roe). Abortion, after all, is purely an issue of individual rights (contrast this with the debate over the Endangered Species Act, the constitutionality of which directly turns on the enumerated powers of the federal government), and if women have such rights that trump state authority, then no government can ban (note: not regulate, ban, since one can plausibly argue that certain restrictions on abortion are well within the interest and authority of the state) abortion (which shows the disingenuity of those who claim that overturning Roe would "send the issue back to the states ( ... )

RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL mizunol December 27 2007, 15:00:06 UTC

You have made my day, anonymous troll ( ... )

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tsuki_no_suzu December 27 2007, 07:53:49 UTC

:: blinks at above comment ::

Whatever. This is why I'm not registered to vote. And anyone can harp on at me about that forever, I don't care. Consider it me exercising my right not to have a vote. XP

Anyway, mizunol you should run for president. You seem very spirited about all this (or just pissed off ^_~) and methinks the world could use some of that right now.

SILENCE NOOOOO mizunol December 28 2007, 04:27:34 UTC

Ohio is a battleground state! If we didn't do things because sometimes people are dumb then nothing would ever get done!

Register, at least, because then you really will be acknowledging that you have the power to vote but are making the choice not to.

Re: SILENCE NOOOOO serafaina December 28 2007, 06:10:10 UTC

Oh, I'm with Elaine. Register but then don't vote.

And although I think it's okay to say "My, I really don't know what I'm doing and I should stay out of it" But I also really don't think it is okay to stand on the sidelines if there is some sort of wrong being committed. So if you don't think there is a wrong, register, but choose not to vote. Because then you are saying, oh, I could vote, but I choose not to.

Re: SILENCE NOOOOO tsuki_no_suzu December 28 2007, 06:11:12 UTC

Two words: jury duty.

DO NOT WANT.

And really, it's more that I simply don't like politics. When you have an Honors American Government teacher who accuses your entire class of plagiarism, it kinda has that effect on you. I don't blame it all on him, of course, but I really just have no patience for the subject.

My greatest aspiration in life is to move to Canada- Newfoundland or Ontario.

serafaina December 27 2007, 08:40:30 UTC

I doubt this is helpful, but it's my two cents.

I was struck by the incorrect usage of collectivist. First of ala, collectivistic cultures are different, but not better or worse than individualistic cultures. And collectivism isn't threatening to individualism. By saying that it is bad and wrong, he is actually insulting most of the other cultures in the world, since mostly those who are industrialized, westernized cultures like America and Britain are individualistic nations.

hokie December 27 2007, 13:12:06 UTC

Eh, it's standard libertarian babble, along with "fiat money."

mcmartin December 29 2007, 02:46:32 UTC

I thought "fiat money" was a dog-whistle for "filthy Jewish bankers what have all the money zomg".

hokie December 29 2007, 05:44:52 UTC

The trouble with reading that into it is that the gold standard libertarians fall into two camps. There are the relatively harmless naive/stupid/willfully ignoring reality types and the raving anti-Semite types, and "fiat money" has a different meaning depending on which sort is talking.

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hokie December 27 2007, 13:34:59 UTC

Actually, I don't think Ron Paul is a racist ( ... )

hokie December 27 2007, 13:52:12 UTC

Ah, I see, you've already hit on most of this. That's what I get for replying to the first post, I suppose, instead of taking the post's subject as a hint that there was a previoust post!

mcmartin December 29 2007, 03:23:20 UTC

More fun:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/12/ron-pauls-friends-in-black-and-white.html