{"id":10222,"date":"2011-12-28T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=10222"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:07:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:07:47","slug":"the-skeletons-in-ron-pauls-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/12\/28\/the-skeletons-in-ron-pauls-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skeletons In Ron Paul’s Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Article:<\/strong> 10 Shocking Quotes from Ron Paul’s Newsletters<\/a><\/em> by Benjy Sarlin in Talking Points Memo.<\/p>\n

The Text:<\/strong> Ron Paul\u2019s 1980 and 1990\u2019s newsletters \u2014 and their incendiary content \u2014 are coming to the forefront of the campaign as the candidate surges to the front of the pack in Iowa.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to overstate just how extreme these publications are, from comparing blacks to zoo animals to speculating about Israeli involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Paul denies having written or read the offensive material in question, but even a casual glance at the newsletters would have revealed their basic formula. As a recently uncovered direct mail piece advertising the newsletters demonstrates, the most out there passages were the chief selling point, not out-of-context asides.<\/p>\n

The New Republic, which first obtained the archives during the 2008 campaign, have recently posted images of several issues of the newsletters. Here are 10 of the most shocking quotes from the publications and related materials.<\/p>\n

1. \u201cOrder was only restored in LA when it came time for the blacks to collect their welfare checks. The \u2018poor\u2019 lined up at the Post Office to get their handouts (since there were no deliveries) \u2014 and then complained about slow service.\u201d -Report on LA riots, June 1992<\/p>\n

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2. \u201cI\u2019ve been told not to talk, but these stooges don\u2019t scare me. Threats or no threats, I\u2019ve laid bare the coming race war in our big cities. The federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS (my training as a physician helps me see through this one.)\u201d -Direct mail ad promoting Paul\u2019s newsletters, written from Paul\u2019s perspective, 1993<\/p>\n

3. \u201cIt is human nature that like attracts likes. But whites are not allowed to express this same human impulse. Except in a de facto sense, there can be no white schools, white clubs, or white neighborhoods. The political system demands white integration, while allowing black segregation.\u201d -\u2018The Disappearing White Majority,\u2019 January 1993<\/p>\n

4. \u201cI miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities. They could also not be as promiscuous. Is it any wonder the AIDS epidemic started after they \u2018came out of the closet,\u2019 and started hyper-promiscuous sodomy?\u201d -June 1990<\/p>\n

5. \u201cWhether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.\u201d -\u2018The New York Bombing,\u2019 April 1993<\/p>\n

6. \u201cAn ex-cop I know advises that if you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example).\u201d \u2018Blast \u2018Em\u2019, October 1992<\/p>\n

7. \u201cThe opposition will do its best to provoke some precipitous action on on our part to discredit us and our cause. Follow the orders of Captain Parker at Lexington: Stand your ground. Don\u2019t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.\u201d -Militia\u2019s 10-point advice to other militias, January 1995.<\/p>\n

8. \u201cWhen the New Money is imposed, every American family must have a Survival Kit of highly liquid, small-denomination silver and gold coins for hand-to-hand use. The Ron Paul Survival Kit \u2014 now an industry standard \u2014 comes in an official World War II US Army ammo holder.\u201d -Ad for \u2018The Original Famous Ron Paul Survival Kit,\u2019 undated<\/p>\n

9. \u201c[Martin Luther King, Jr.], the FBI files reveal, was not only a world-class adulterer, he also seduced underage girls and boys\u2026 And we are supposed to honor this \u2018Christian minister\u2019 and lying socialist satyr with a holiday that puts him on par with George Washington?\u201d -December 1990<\/p>\n

10. \u201cIt turns out that the brilliant [Bobby Fischer], who has all the makings of an American hero, is very politically incorrect on Jewish questions, for which he will never be forgiven, even though he is a Jew. Thus we are not supposed to herald him as the world\u2019s greatest chess player.\u201d -November 1992, background on Fischer\u2019s \u201cpolitically incorrect\u201d views (which include Holocaust denial) here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Article: 10 Shocking Quotes from Ron Paul’s Newsletters by Benjy Sarlin in Talking Points Memo. The Text: Ron Paul\u2019s 1980 and 1990\u2019s newsletters \u2014 and their incendiary content \u2014 are coming to the forefront of the campaign as the candidate surges to the front of the pack in Iowa. 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