Ron Paul Racist Newsletters

When people tell me about Ron Paul as racist, and his newsletters, I say "show me."  I was reading those newsletters 20 years ago, and ones written by the same crew, and I do not remember any racist newsletters.  But who knows, maybe I missed one.

And of course, Ron Paul did not write any newsletter, but of course if it went out over his name he is responsible for the content.  He did not write them because all politicians send out newsletters, as do dentists and real estate agents, and none of them write the newsletters.  There are companies that do that for a living. Ron Paul had some of the best such newsletter producers writing his.  I know, because it is no secret who wrote them, and I spent a week with them in Alabama about a decade ago.  They are huge talents behind the efforts.

Anti-Ron Paul people are trying to get Ron Paul to talk about them. The trick is to get Ron Paul to talk about the newsletters in order to get him to shut up about the bank bailout, the Fed, the wars, the civil rights violations, etc.  So when Ron Paul says he did not write them and he disavows them, he has said what is necessary and sufficient.  It is true that he did not write them, and since the content is irrelevent, he surely can disavow the content without any problem.

But if the content is not racist, why disavow it?  Because the trick is to get him off message by bogging him down in a debate if the content was racist or not.  It is a version of the question "do you still beat your wife?" He is too smart to fall into that trap.

As I said, I was reading the stuff written for him, and for others, written by the same crew, at the time.  I do not remember any racist stuff, but I do recall being in awe of their talent.

When I tracked down one putatuve example of a Ron Paul racist newsletter (rather hard to find people actually quoting anything) I found something I vaguely recall.  Jesse Jackson famously said he was fearful of groups of black youths in the inner city. When he saw them he crossed the street, something to that effect. All writers play off current events, and one newsletter picked up on this Jesse Jackson headline to make the point that minimum wage laws hurt inner city youth who thus unemployed get into mischief, so get rid of minimum wage laws.  Racism is a nasty charge, and since a newsletter mentioned black youths, and employment, there are plenty of people who will claim it is racist.  Ron Paul is not going to get trapped in that game.

Back to the writers. As I mentioned they are splendid talents, and I do recall occasionally cringing at things they would write, in this instance for someone else, not Ron Paul.    In it a reference was made to Dr. ML King and how he was backed by New York homosexual Jewish Communists.  Now, this is a simple fact, well known at the time and now, but it is the kind of thing that is red meat to rabid racists.

Dr Abernathy explains that after 7 or 8 years of getting no traction on the civil rights movement, a black New York homosexual associate of Dr. King had shared this concern with Jewish New York homosexual communists, Trotskyites to be precise, who said, "traction?' no problem, we can get you traction.  The skill set for getting traction for the movement was within the group of New York homosexual Jewish communists, who were ready willing and bale to assist Dr. King.

The government had plenty of spies in Dr. King's org, so they quickly found out, and just imagine, circa 1962, when FBI agents learned that Jewish New York homosexual communists (it does not get any better than that) were assisting Dr. King.  Now, as to the message, or the means, it matters little who is getting it out.  Jewish New York homosexual communists had nothing to do with the content, just the methods.

So reference to this in an article was irrelevant (and again, this was not written in relation to Ron Paul) but extremely effective in getting attention in the audience they were addressing.  And that is the game, get their attention, get their money, and advance your own cause.

But is it not awful to take money from sick minds?  Who better to relieve of their disposable income.  Shouldn't he give the money back?  Give money back to racists?  Why would anyone give money back to racists?  And one cannot be sure that the racists did not reform when presented with a better way, a way out of the false dilemma of black vs white politics.

But why write such alarming things at all?  It is a time honored rhetorical device.  Say something the audience already knows and believes.  And when they are nodding their head in agreement, introduce some good and true.  The audience is still nodding.  St. Paul starts out saying "wives obey your husbands..." and then nails the husbands with "love your wives..."

It is pretty clear there was election fraud in Iowa.  I watched it four years ago in the Washington State caucauses.  The powers that be have no intention of letting Ron Paul get any traction.  Maybe Ron Paul ought to bring in some New York Communist Jewish Homosexuals to run his campaign.  Then we might see a President Ron Paul.

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