On Sep 19, 2011, at 10:53 PM, ken hanly wrote:
> He may be a libertarian but as with many libertarians for example those associated with antiwar.com he is an avid anti-war activist much more so than many Obama liberals. He is often outspoken in his support of civil rights too.
Ron Paul?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul#Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
Paul wrote of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964: [It] not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife.[
Oh, and this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul#Electoral_college
In 2004, he spoke out against efforts to abolish the electoral college, stating that "Democracy, we are told, is always good. But the founders created a constitutionally limited republic precisely to protect fundamental liberties from the whims of the masses, to guard against the excesses of democracy. The electoral college likewise was created in the Constitution to guard against majority tyranny in federal elections. The President was to be elected by the states rather than the citizenry as a whole, with votes apportioned to states according to their representation in Congress”[