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- teeowe, on 01/28/2008, -10/+22RP haters are pathetic. These people don't even bother to research his positions. Instead they resort to name calling (racist? -- this has been disproven;) and false accusations. The American people are waking up to the dose of reality we are given by Dr. Paul. I am proud to be able to support him for president once again.
- SoyJames, on 01/28/2008, -4/+12Really? Please explain why.
- Dimalinch, on 01/29/2008, -3/+10I would argue that the current system is much more racist than what Paul is advocating.
- greenspikefrog, on 01/29/2008, -5/+12Ron Paul 2008, we're fighting this to the end.
- adrian108, on 01/28/2008, -9/+15well all you ***** trolls/ ron paul haters/ freedom and liberty destroyers have succeeded in getting the first lsu story off digg. you guys are ***** pathetic and digg is weak as hell for allowing you pieces of ***** to continue to do this. digg has an agenda and wants to protect and support the establishment. this establishment will bankrupt the middle class and bring tyranny to america, then create the north american union and end our sovereignty and we will be using the amero as currency once the world bank devalues the dollar to zero. do you know who and what you are serving?
- pictureDIGGER, on 01/29/2008, -0/+6He was going to pay out of pocket for a memorial for Rosa Parks, but none of the other members in congress wanted to chip in.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 01/29/2008, -1/+5They're trying to bury the one candidate that doesn't pander to the corporate lobby groups.
The one guy with proven integrity is the one guy they don't even want in the election. - inactive, on 01/28/2008, -12/+15I have lost track. Let's see if I have this correct
"I wrote it, but you misunderstand. The NAACP needs to shut up"
"I didn't write it, someone else did. Can't say who, just someone else. Just take my word for it. Forget what I said before"
"I didn't write it, never knew about it, never even read the newsletter. Forget the other two things I said before."
That about covers it? - brisbin33, on 01/29/2008, -1/+4source?
- Minarchian, on 01/28/2008, -1/+4minarchian@live.com
And while you're at it send along a link to where Paul said this in a newsletter...I'll be interested to see if you find it. - Hortnon, on 01/29/2008, -6/+9I remember the days when you weren't completely ***** insane...
- V3n0M, on 01/29/2008, -0/+3Bury Brigade/AntiPaul -
Are you even reading the stories anymore? This is news. The article was not asking for money, the article was not saying "how great Ron Paul is", and it was not inaccurate (whether or not the election was tampered with in Louisiana may be yet to seen, but it is accurate to say Ron Paul's campaign is contesting the process).
It doesn't matter who your candidate is, voter fraud taints the election for everyone. If you're an American, this concerns you and your candidate as much as it concerns Ron Paul.
Thank you. - lvp1138, on 01/28/2008, -8/+11expat002, iamarete and reed311 are all paid trolls.
See here: http://diggcomments.headzoo.com/Default.aspx?user= ...
All they do all day long is do this. They are being paid to do this. - Hortnon, on 01/29/2008, -4/+7You forgot:
"I like the NAACP these days. Oh, did you hear? They defend me now!" - pictureDIGGER, on 01/29/2008, -1/+3Don't you wish. If he loses, I could imagine a "Grassroots Write-In Campaign" without hesitation. It's not like the GOP wants him, and that is obvious by reading this article.
- pictureDIGGER, on 01/29/2008, -1/+3I wonder who is doing all the burying. I mean besides Huckabee's 300 paid bloggers. Or Obama supporters who just can't accept opposition? Who else is on digg? Maybe the lobbyists are on digg now. lol
- martalli, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2Libertarianism is not racist. In fact, the most inflammatory racial rhetoric lately has been coming from our very own Bill Clinton. Now, one may regard libertarianism as a cover for racism (because it would gut welfare), but that is a separate discussion. At its heart, Libertarianism is simply about making government smaller and less intrusive.
- saltgrain, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2Has the integrity of the LA GOP actually been compromised? Hopefullu it's only ineptitude. Ron Paul campaign including RP himself states that when all the votes are in he may in fact have won. If this story revolved around McCain or Hillary it would front page news.
- notmike721, on 01/29/2008, -3/+5You forgot about the Rfid chips. Btw, can we officially add digg to the list of groups that support the neo-cons?
- pictureDIGGER, on 01/29/2008, -1/+2Earmarks are the only Constitutional way to represent your district. It was to actually provide a service for the peoples taxes. This is a true story spun out of control in an attempt to make Paul look bad. Ron Paul wanted to help the Shrimping Industry in Texas, in his District. Not Pork if you know what Pork is.
- V3n0M, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1If you care about Obama, you really should be just as concerned about the tampering in Louisiana. Hillary's got friends in high places and she would pull every nasty trick that Bill and her can cook up to win this election. Starting with diebold fraud in New Hampshire, and creating confusion and disruption in Nevada.
I'm not sure where the anti-Obama strain of RP supporters are coming from, personally (now that Gravel and Kucinich are gone), I'd love nothing more than to see Obama and RP battling and debating one another for the general election. Get the Clintons and the Bush heirs out of the White House for good! - notmike721, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Its like the boy who cried wolf. You waste every one's time with nonsense articles for months and months and now you want people to start respecting the articles? Start submitting articles and diggingwith some restraint, then we will see what happens. Also, stop the anti-Obama posts as well.
- inactive, on 01/28/2008, -13/+14Dallas Morning News, May 22nd 1996. Ron Paul defends WRITING newsletter articles:
Dr. Ron Paul, a Republican congressional candidate from Texas, wrote in his political newsletter in 1992 that 95 percent of the black men in Washington, D.C., are "semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
He also wrote that black teenagers can be "unbelievably fleet of foot." [...]
Dr. Paul, who is running in Texas' 14th Congressional District, defended his writings in an interview Tuesday. He said they were being taken out of context.
"It's typical political demagoguery," he said. "If people are interested in my character ... come and talk to my neighbors." [...]
According to a Dallas Morning News review of documents circulating among Texas Democrats, Dr. Paul wrote in a 1992 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report: "If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be."
Dr. Paul, who served in Congress in the late 1970s and early 1980s, said Tuesday that he has produced the newsletter since 1985 and distributes it to an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 subscribers. A phone call to the newsletter's toll-free number was answered by his campaign staff. [...]
Dr. Paul denied suggestions that he was a racist and said he was not evoking stereotypes when he wrote the columns. He said they should be read and quoted in their entirety to avoid misrepresentation. [...]
"If someone challenges your character and takes the interpretation of the NAACP as proof of a man's character, what kind of a world do you live in?" Dr. Paul asked.
In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men.
"If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them," Dr. Paul said.
He also said the comment about black men in the nation's capital was made while writing about a 1992 study produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think tank based in Virginia.
Citing statistics from the study, Dr. Paul then 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."
"These aren't my figures," Dr. Paul said Tuesday. "That is the assumption you can gather from" the report. - pictureDIGGER, on 01/29/2008, -2/+3Sorry for choosing somebody different than you. You need to get real if you think EVERYBODY is like you. You resort to childish insults when you disagree. I would never want to be like you, I may just try to be different than you.
- Minarchian, on 01/28/2008, -8/+9It's completely obvious these people are paid shills.
It would be cool to find out who is paying them - ApokalypseNow, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1I haven't done much research into it, but I found this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Democrat
that you might be interested in. Sounds to me like a socially-aware libertarian. Not sure how it necessarily aligns with my own views but worth a look. - notmike721, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Or, maybe, just maybe, it is democracy and freedom of speech at work. It is the very principles you espouse and the reasons you support RP that people are doing this. people can make their own rational decisions, this is very basis of libertarianism. But you can't accept that. RP supports can't understand that in the same way that RP supporters spend their own time promoting him, other people, who RP scares the ***** out of, want to try and stop him. It is democracy in action. And trust me, I'm not getting paid to do this and if I were, I'd do this for free.
- notmike721, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Yeah, its kind of wishful thinking to hope this nonsense will stop. I imagine a third party campaign is inevitable.
- notmike721, on 01/29/2008, -2/+2Yeah they are definitely paid. That or they are regular digg users who are liberals. But I feel like the first answer is more likely. I mean, isn't obvious that the tri-lateral commission set up a special task force to stop Rp? I mean, come on, that makes so much sense.
- inactive, on 01/28/2008, -13/+13The American people. All of them. Not just the ones that have the same skin color that we do.
- inactive, on 01/28/2008, -1/+1Linder says Paul being smeared because he is a threat to the establishment!
Austin NAACP President Nelson Linder, who has known Ron Paul for 20 years, unequivocally dismissed charges that the Congressman was a racist in light of recent smear attempts, and said the reason for him being attacked was that he was a threat to the establishment.
Linder joined Alex Jones for two segments on his KLBJ Sunday show this evening, during which he commented on the controversy created by media hit pieces that attempted to tarnish Paul as a racist by making him culpable for decades old newsletter articles written by other people.
"Knowing Ron Paul's intent, I think he is trying to improve this country but I think also, when you talk about the Constitution and you constantly criticize the federal government versus state I think a lot of folks are going to misconstrue that....so I think it's very easy for folks who want to to take his position out of context and that's what I'm hearing," said Linder.
"Knowing Ron Paul and having talked to him, I think he's a very fair guy I just think that a lot of folks do not understand the Libertarian platform," he added.
Asked directly if Ron Paul was a racist, Linder responded "No I don't," adding that he had heard Ron Paul speak out about police repression of black communities and mandatory minimum sentences on many occasions.
Dr. Paul has also publicly praised Martin Luther King as his hero on many occasions spanning back 20 years.
"I've read Ron Paul's whole philosophy, I also understand what he's saying from a political standpoint and why people are attacking him," said Linder.
"If you scare the folks that have the money, they're going to attack you and they're going to take it out of context," he added.
"What he's saying is really really threatening the powers that be and that's what they fear," concluded the NAACP President.
http://prisonplanet.com/audio/130108linder.mp3 - inactive, on 01/29/2008, -3/+3teeowe's comment makes me think I walked into an eight month old Ron Paul Digg timewarp...
- inactive, on 01/29/2008, -4/+3Modern American Libertarianism is racist and is composed of extremist right wing religious fundamentalist, left wing anarchist and anti-government conspiracy theorist.
They both dislike government because the right wingers and racist groups want to push religious or racist agendas at the State level while the anarchist and conspiracy theorist just hate the government.
I can respect certain aspect of libertarianism but Ron Paul's version is just *****. - inactive, on 01/28/2008, -12/+11Completely obvious? Proof?
- dshPls, on 01/29/2008, -8/+7Jealous that your job at KFC isn't as fun?
- dshPls, on 01/29/2008, -9/+7"freedom and liberty destroyers"
Great quote, you raving lunatic. - inactive, on 01/29/2008, -6/+3You forgot:
The one guy with the greatest number of earmarks and pork in the congress. - inactive, on 01/28/2008, -17/+12Because it's a 19th Century racist ideology.
- notmike721, on 01/29/2008, -11/+5Congrats bury brigade! A rp article hasn't made the front page in days and I couldn't be happier.
One week left, then the end to this nonsense. - chaosium, on 01/29/2008, -11/+5Like any good Schizophrenic.
- Hortnon, on 01/29/2008, -12/+6America disagrees.
- inactive, on 01/28/2008, -34/+13You guys are pathetic.
The American people reject this racists 19th century ideology!
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