Look guys–you’re going to have to throw out the Neo-Nazi, White Power, Holocaust-denying trash that hangs around Paul if you want him to be considered a serious candidate. You may babble on about it being a “Libertarian ethos” to “not judge the mindset of other libertarians” but to the rest of the populace it looks like you’re all too willing to hang out with some pretty smelly individuals as long as they mouth “Constitutional Rights! Down with Taxes! Down with Government!” Which makes you either a bunch of jerks or a bunch of naive fools. Neither are the sort of the people that the US populace is going to grant any credence to.

“The burden of the newsletter content is on Ron Paul, the man whose name graces the covers, and shame on you scoundrel ‘libertarians’ for automatically drawing the assumption that Lew Rockwell must have, had to be, surely was involved in writing those passages that have you all so horrified. Yet you claim that this man, who has worked so hard – on his own time and dollar – to open peoples’ minds to the more radical aspects of freedom and free markets, is ‘destroying your movement,’ as if this is some juvenile brotherhood of badges, pin pricks, sworn statements, and membership cards.”

You can read the entire tiresome screed here:

http://www.karendecoster.com/blog/archives/002714.html

By the way, did anyone else not know that Rockwell was accused some time ago of having an affair with Cindy Sheehan? Google it if you want to read about it. I thought good paleos weren’t so morally lax, what with being “traditionalist Catholics” and all that.

Good to know.

LOL! Thanks, Adam, for that! I’ve been reading TLP silently and steaming for the last many weeks – ‘cuz it seems to me it has turned over to the “fringe” element that some of us abhor. Glad to know that I’m not the only one who could see the hypocrisy spewing forth . . .

Dear Lew,

You have now had three opportunities – 1996, 2001, and 2008 – to prove that you are a friend of Ron Paul and freedom, and you have failed to do so each time.

This week, for the third time, the puerile, racist, and completely un-Pauline comments that all informed people say you have caused to appear in Ron’s newsletters over the course of several years have become an issue in his campaign. This time the stakes are even higher than before. He is seeking nationwide office, the Republican nomination for President, and his campaign is attracting millions of supporters, not tens of thousands.

Three times you have failed to come forward and admit responsibility for and complicity in the scandals. You have allowed Ron to twist slowly in the wind. Because of your silence, Ron has been forced to issue repeated statements of denial, to answer repeated questions in multiple interviews, and to be embarrassed on national television. Your callous disregard for both Ron and his millions of supporters is unconscionable.

If you were Dr. Paul’s friend, or a friend of freedom, as you pretend to be, by now you would have stepped forward, assumed responsibility for those asinine and harmful comments, resigned from any connection to Ron or his campaign, and relieved Ron of the burden of having to repeatedly deny the charges of racism. But you have not done so, and so the scandal continues to detract from Ron’s message.

You know as well as I do that Ron does not have a racist bone in his body, yet those racist remarks went out under his name, not yours. Pretty clever. But now it’s time to man up, Lew. Admit your role, and exonerate Ron. You should have done it years ago.

John Robbins, Ph.D.
Chief of Staff
Dr. Ron Paul, 1981-1985

Good to know.

How is that the head of state for Canada, Mexico, and America along with all sorts of agencies and businesses and thinktanks in all three nations agree that this is the plan but it’s a conspiracy theory to talk about it? I see webpages with maps and discussions of how to establish the NAU from government websites, I see Vicente Fox on American television talking about the Amero and more, I see books and papers coming from the CFR and other groups, etc, etc, etc. It seems about half of our government is talking about how to do this, and the other half (i.e. the guy in charge of the highway department) say it’s a conspiracy theory.

What’s up with that?

Rothbard knew that in order for libertarianism to become a viable movement, it would have to loosely ally with existing forces whose ideals had common ends. In this case, those ends include the diminishment of the federal government. All of these support groups oppose the growth of the federal government into a megastate, and would like to at least reduce it to its constitutional limitations. Dr. Paul knows this.

And give the John Birch Society some credit. Without their paranoia, the Washington mob would still be trusted and respected – and your libertarian thinktank would be the laughingstock that JBS is now.

It’s better to be right than president. Let’s hope it’s possible to be both.

Um, Mises himself wrote for the John Birch Society’s publication, American Opinion.

This is nonsense that every libertarian with an article page is such a wimp.

I agree…when somebody attempts to hijack libertarian policy arguments as a platform for their racism, then it’s acceptable and necessary to get rid of them. But not until then, because not every racist/bigot/xenophobe is interested in imposing their personal prejudices through public policy.