Ron Paul, the Media, False Charges of Racism and the State as an Equal Opportunity Oppressor

Ron Paul, False Charges of Racism and the State as an Equal Opportunity Oppressor

People who understand Ron Paul, how he came to his positions and the intellectuals who guided him, know he is guided by reason alone.  His second greatest mentor, Murrary Rothbard, advanced the work of Ron Paul’s greatest mentor, Ludwig Von Mises. Both Mises and Rothbard were Jewish and anti-statists.  Rothbard was a student of Mises in the very concrete meaning of the term.  Ron Paul constantly mentions both Mises and Rothbard and never once deviated or differed from the postions of these intellectual giants.

The anti-Sematic smears by Jewish voters used against Ron Paul who has criticized our Middle East foreign policy are absurd charges and are given no credibility by those who know him.  So it is with African-Americans who charge Ron Paul with racism.  Ron Paul correctly identifies African-Americans as the intentional targets of a drug war in which racism places millions in prisons to be raped, maimed, brutalized and marginalized by society via a corrupt justice system that sells justice by the pound.  

Ron Paul has stated he would IMMEDIATELY release all non-violent marijuana offenders, a group that contains hundreds of thousands of African-Americans, and work to correct a criminal justice system that thrives on racism.  You will not hear such talk from even Obama or witness any greater indictment of the system by even the most liberal democrat or conservative Republican.

While a caucasian rarely sees a prison for minor marijuana offenses, African-Americans are used as a new form of slave labor that is exploited by a new corporatist prison-industrial complex where incarceration-for-profit has so perverted justice that it needs to be immediately smashed.  This word will get out and Ron Paul will benefit from those whose eyes will be opened once his positions are made known.  

Rothbard addresses racism in his book, “Man, Economy and the State with Power and Market” and describes racism as “a revolt against reason”.  Trying this nonsense of accusing Ron Paul of racism will further discredit the media and allow his African- American supporters, who have posted thousands of articles about him on the internet, to bring more voters to Paul.  The people are tired of the media attempting to control the political process in a way that harms the democratic process.  Additionally, Ron Paul supporters have been effective at exposing the establishment media as a “dead wood industry”.  Smearing Ron Paul will prove to be a bridge too far.  

To my African-American brothers, I ask your help in smashing the police state.  We can not do it without you.  I know your experience has taught you the police are not your friends.  It is a shame that it took “white people” so long to wake up to what the African-American community has known since the civil rights movement.  Institutional racism is alive and well.  The best way to beat it is to crush the totalitarian government which has proven to be an equal-opportunity oppressor.

Ron Paul says that freedom and liberty unite people.  He argues that rights belong to people not because they belong to any specific group, but because God have given each man inaleinable rights as a human being and any intrusion upon those rights is an act of violence.  Rights granted on the basis of race is a form of collectivism.  He argues that the government’s greatest and most important role is to protect the rights of each man from the state, from criminals, and acts of violence by those who use the government as a weapon without respect to justice. 

Those who love liberty and oppose tyranny in all its forms welcome African-American citizens as brothers-in-arms against oppression of the state.  The African-American community has great leaders who oppose racism that continues to be supported institutionally via state power.  We call on these individuals to lend us their expertise and strength to further the fight against tyranny and oppression.  We all need to rememeber that It is the individual who is the smallest minority and that is the minority that needs to be the most protected -the individual, each and every single one.

Ron Paul 2012!