[lbo-talk] Did Ron Paul really say this ?

michael perelman michael.perelman3 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 16:00:35 PDT 2011


You can read about Ron Paul and John Birch at

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/152192/5_reasons_progressives_should_treat_ron_paul_with_extreme_caution_--_%27cuddly%27_libertarian_has_some_very_dark_politics/

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 28/09/2011 18:36, Doug Henwood wrote:
>  On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:32 PM, c b wrote:
>>>
>>> Congressman/Presidential candidate Ron Paul wrote, ""The beneficial,
>>> educational impact of the John Birch Society over the past four
>>> decades would be hard to overestimate. ...
>>
>> Wow, that's terrible. Where did you get it?
>
> Is it really that shocking?  If you look at his books of speeches, he's
> obviously been a far right conspiracy theorist for some time.  His 'antiwar'
> stance throughout the 1980s usually relied on the theory that the US was
> deliberately funding its communist rivals in order to create the pretext for
> war, and thus further compromise the constitution, concentrate power in the
> federal government, and push further toward world government.  This has
> always been his bread and meat.
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