Letters to the Editor
Phoenix Woman
Published Letters: 192 Editor's Choice: 5
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Proof that Ron Paul's a racist
[Read the article: The Ron Paul phenomenon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since the fact that Stormfront loves him isn't enough for you, Glenn (have you EVER known them to back someone who wasn't a racist or at least a dog-whistling fellow traveler?), here's the evidence of Ron Paul's own newsletter.
1) From the San Antonio Express-News, May 24, 1996:
Texas Newsletter by Paul attacked
A 1992 newsletter by Republican congressional candidate Ron Paul highlighted portrayals of blacks as criminally inclined and lacking sense about top political issues.
Reporting on gang crime in Los Angeles, Paul commented: "If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."
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Writing in his independent political newsletter in 1992, Paul commented about black men in the nation's capital.
Citing statistics from a 1992 study produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think tank based in Virginia, Paul concluded in his column:
"Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
2) Newsletter excerpts offer ammunition to Paul's opponent: GOP hopeful quoted on race, crime (http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/aol-metropolitan/96/05/23/paul.html)
Copyright 1996 Houston Chronicle Political Writer
Texas congressional candidate Ron Paul's 1992 political newsletter highlighted portrayals of blacks as inclined toward crime and lacking sense about top political issues.
Under the headline of "Terrorist Update," for instance, Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."
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Paul, writing in his independent political newsletter in 1992, reported about unspecified surveys of blacks.
"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action,"Paul wrote.
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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."
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Paul continues to write the newsletter for an undisclosed number of subscribers, the spokesman said.
Writing in the same 1992 edition, Paul expressed the popular idea that government should lower the age at which accused juvenile criminals can be prosecuted as adults.
He added, "We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, 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."
Paul also asserted that "complex embezzling" is conducted exclusively by non-blacks.
"What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?" he wrote.
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Ashcroft, Gonzales, Mukasey
[Read the article: What happened to the Senate's "60-vote requirement"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember how we thought that Ashcroft as AG was The Worst Thing Ever? We were wrong. Alberto Gonzales was worse. Much, much, much worse. (When Ashcroft on his hospital bed can become a comparative hero for standing up to BushCo, you know how far things have fallen.)
The scuttlebutt in DC is that while he's conservative, Mukasey is actually worlds better than the clowns running DoJ now -- the ones Gonzales brought in. (Yes, that tells you just how awful Main Justice is right now.) And Bush is never going to appoint anyone we like. (Movement conservatives like Richard Viguerie came out against Mukasey (http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/17/viguerie-angered-over-mukasey-nomination/) early on precisely because he was someone that many Democrats didn't find utterly repulsive. Again, that should tell you something.)
So while Mukasey's never going to be confused with Louis Brandeis, know that -- sadly -- he's as good as we're probably going to get out of the worst group of persons ever to occupy the White House.
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That's Our Rudy, all right
[Read the article: Rudy Giuliani's messianic paranoia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's the ultimate Vicar of Bray. Imagine Norm Coleman with a couple dozen extra IQ points, more powerful friends (Coleman had to leave New York to make his mark), and even less in the way of scruples, and that's Rudy Giuliani.
He's so vile that he corrupts even otherwise-good people. His running buddy Howard Safir used to be a good law enforcer until he got into Rudy's orbit. One of my friends who used to be in the US Marshals' Service knew both men fairly well a few decades ago; while Rudy was always scum under a glad-handing veneer, Safir did in fact once possess morals.
Oh, yes: The big cleanup of NYC for which Rudy likes to claim the credit? Most of it was done by William Bratton, who Rudy forced out in 1996 as Rudy didn't want him taking what Rudy sees as his fair share of the limelight (meaning all of it).
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I'm calling 'Upton Sinclair' on Joke Line
[Read the article: Joe Klein: Both factually false and stuck in the 1980s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That picture and caption are insanely prejudicial. I'd have to say that they alone change the situation from Joe Klein being an idiot to asking if Time mag isn't flat out pursuing an agenda to elect republicans?
Of course they are. Big Media loves its corporate tax cuts, it loves not having the Fairness Doctrine, it loves being able to have foreign ownership of our electronic media, and it loves seeing the FCC's anti-trust regs gutted. All this was pushed and made possible by Republicans: Respectively, Bush I & II, Reagan, Gingrich (Rupert Murdoch gave him a $4.5 million book deal in exchange for undoing the laws prohibiting foreign ownership of TV networks, a move that led directly to the creation of FOX News), and Bush II.
To quote Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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Poor Johnny Howard!
[Read the article: Good riddance to John Howard ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't worry, I'm sure your buddies at the various conservative-financed sheltered workshops wingnut-welfare "think tanks" will gladly subsidize your entry onto the neocon lecture circuit, telling the Metternichs what they want to hear.