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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRon Paul’s New Organization Reportedly Stacked with Extremists
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/04/26/ron-pauls-new-organization-reportedly-stacked-with-extremists/Ron Paul, the libertarian former Texas congressman whose hard-line views are widely admired on the radical right but who claims to reject racism, has started a new organization stacked with a hodgepodge of far-right extremists.
As The Daily Beast reported yesterday, the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is ostensibly designed to promote a discourse about U.S. foreign policy. But its advisory board is stacked with what writer James Kirchik characterized as a bevy of conspiracy theorists, cranks, and apologists for some of the worst regimes on the planet.
And just who are the far-right luminaries helping guide Pauls new endeavor?
One is Lou Rockwell, Pauls former congressional chief of staff who now heads the Ludwig von Mises Institute, an Auburn, Ala., think tank with deep ties to the neo-Confederate movement. Theres Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News and journalist Eric Margolis, both 9/11 truthers who suspect that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks may have been orchestrated by the government.
And alongside them sits Butler Shaffer, a Southwestern Law School professor who similarly once asked: In light of the lies, forgeries, cover-ups, and other deceptions leading to a war in Iraq, how can any intellectually honest person categorically deny the possibility of the involvement of American political interest in 9/11?
But thats not the worst of it, according to The Daily Beast.
Also on Pauls board are prominent former government officials who claim that American Jews constitute a fifth column aimed at subverting American foreign policy in the interests of Israel, Kirchick reported. One of those is Michael Scheuer, a former CIA intelligence officer who has accused a long list of individuals and organizations of being intent on involving 300 million Americans in other peoples religious wars, The Daily Beast said.
Still another board member is Walter Bloch, a fellow at the Mises institute who The Daily Beast said believes the wrong side won the war against Southern secession and blames most of Americas current problems on the monster Lincoln.
Yesterdays article wasnt the first to note the affinity many extremists have for Paul. An article in The New York Times in 2011, when Paul was running for president, noted that while white supremacists, survivalists and anti-Zionists had allied behind Pauls campaign, he had not disavowed their support. Paul told the newspaper: If they want to endorse me, theyre endorsing what I do or say .."
As The Daily Beast reported yesterday, the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is ostensibly designed to promote a discourse about U.S. foreign policy. But its advisory board is stacked with what writer James Kirchik characterized as a bevy of conspiracy theorists, cranks, and apologists for some of the worst regimes on the planet.
And just who are the far-right luminaries helping guide Pauls new endeavor?
One is Lou Rockwell, Pauls former congressional chief of staff who now heads the Ludwig von Mises Institute, an Auburn, Ala., think tank with deep ties to the neo-Confederate movement. Theres Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News and journalist Eric Margolis, both 9/11 truthers who suspect that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks may have been orchestrated by the government.
And alongside them sits Butler Shaffer, a Southwestern Law School professor who similarly once asked: In light of the lies, forgeries, cover-ups, and other deceptions leading to a war in Iraq, how can any intellectually honest person categorically deny the possibility of the involvement of American political interest in 9/11?
But thats not the worst of it, according to The Daily Beast.
Also on Pauls board are prominent former government officials who claim that American Jews constitute a fifth column aimed at subverting American foreign policy in the interests of Israel, Kirchick reported. One of those is Michael Scheuer, a former CIA intelligence officer who has accused a long list of individuals and organizations of being intent on involving 300 million Americans in other peoples religious wars, The Daily Beast said.
Still another board member is Walter Bloch, a fellow at the Mises institute who The Daily Beast said believes the wrong side won the war against Southern secession and blames most of Americas current problems on the monster Lincoln.
Yesterdays article wasnt the first to note the affinity many extremists have for Paul. An article in The New York Times in 2011, when Paul was running for president, noted that while white supremacists, survivalists and anti-Zionists had allied behind Pauls campaign, he had not disavowed their support. Paul told the newspaper: If they want to endorse me, theyre endorsing what I do or say .."
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Ron Paul’s New Organization Reportedly Stacked with Extremists (Original Post)
Phillip McCleod
Apr 2013
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The person who should shock you on the advisory board: Denis Kucinich
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2013
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NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)1. I am shocked---shocked to find Ron Paul hanging out with a cabal of crackpots
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)2. The person who should shock you on the advisory board: Denis Kucinich
dionysus
(26,467 posts)3. yikes!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)4. Denis has jumped the shark
Too bad, it will taint the good causes that he once stood and fought for. I wonder what he gets out of this?
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)6. Disgusting.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)5. If they weren't extremists before, we're in for a ride.
crystal dawn
(85 posts)7. wow
COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON is on the Academic Board!