Comments on: UPDATE II: Diane (Sawyer) in Disneyland (The Homo-eroticism of Left-Liberalism)

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:05:50 +0000

I don’t believe Dr. Paul is capable of shoddy thinking. This reeks of conscious strategy. I don’t blame him. Rhetoric is unimportant to me. If he ends up accomplishing what he promised, the reasons he cooked up for the media are uninteresting. Just git ‘er done!

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:02:50 +0000

Collectivist sociologists analyze people by groups as if people were electrons and protons – with ”statistical” validity but it ignores our nature as distinct individuals (vs. “identical particles”). Oriental women collect more social security than black men by living longer but black men can get into colleges with lower SAT scores than oriental women thanks to affirmative action… etc. – the “level playing field”, however idyllic, is never attainable.

The DRUG WAR is bad on several grounds: (1) it is a constitutional abuse of federal power with the “interstate commerce” excuse, (2) it penalizes a victimless crime, (3) it encourages violations of civil liberties because of its “personal” nature – e.g. no-knock home raids, etc., (4) it allows mafias to thrive to fulfill the needs of casual users and addicts.

The “racial argument” (drug war impacts blacks more than white) does not stand up by itself. One could argue that BASKETBALL IS RACIST since blacks outperform whites or that PHYSICS IS RACIST since Jews outperform Hispanics. By the reasoning of the left, ANTI-RAPE LAWS ARE DISCRIMINATORY since most rapists are men (sex discrimination) and non-white (race discrimination). Ron Paul gave in to shoddy thinking trying to defend himself against “racism” charges.

By: Fred Cummins

Fred Cummins — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:21:36 +0000

I am afraid that with every debate and interview with Ron Paul it is getting harder and harder to defend him. Some of his liberal or libertarian ways are just more than I can handle. If we were all armed and ready to protect our families with those arems then I could follow free to do as one wishes, but we are not and if we raise our voices with any anger in it to a neighbor we will find ourselves deemed to be presenting a terroristic threat by the local Sheriff. Oh yes I have seen it first hand and it is ridiculous but true. It is time we bring Sara Palin out of the north country and put someone in there that might put some excitement and logic to the fray. With Ron falling apart I despise all the other folks on the stage. I liked Bachmann also, at least over the other clods up there. If we can not pull Palin in then I am going to have to go third party no matter.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:36:13 +0000

Her it goes:

1. Drug. Watch “GANGLAND” on cable TV and see what happens in most large metro cities and who conducts and profits from these distribution operations.

2. Read about “celebrity” drug users, e.g. Lindsay Lohan, and all the other repeat arrestees. My Black, teenage neighbor in the Detroit eastside spent 3 years in hard time for using…did Lohan?

3. SINOPHOBIA??? Please read “BOWING TO BEIJING” by Decker & Triplett II.

4. Diane Sawyer: she’s s-o-o-o passe’

5. Ron Paul has to do one thing every time he counters a point made by the others: WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION DOES THE FEDGOV GET THE AUTHORITY TO DO…?

6. DISCRIMINATION IS AN INHERENT PART OF LIFE EXCEPT FOR GOVERNMENT.

7. Betcha Cough Drops are FDA controlled and Training Wheels under Vehicle Safety Standards for Children!?!?

Good points Glisson! Happy Birthday RP!

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:50:25 +0000

It seems that Ron Paul is attempting to make amends for the sophomoric and insensitive comments in the 1990’s newsletters by sounding like a born-again leftist on the issue. I find him partially right and partially wrong. I am not a social scientist or expert although there are various websites about the war on drugs such as

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/64

which has some of these statistics (which, arguably, can be skewed to make various points). One stat has blacks 4 times more likely than whites to be ARRESTED for marijuana but 12 times more likely to be IMPRISONED – now this could be because (a) the amounts of pot are different OR (b) whites have better access to better legal defenses OR (c) juries/judges show racial bias OR (d) some combination of all these. Certainly the Kennedy and Bush kids are less likely to do hard time for their problems (for example, Chappaquiddick) as some random noodnick.

[See post update.]

Still, I get a bit uncomfortable with a the blanket statements that Paul made implying that the death penalty is racist because blacks get it more than whites. What if it is because blacks committed much more heinous murders and at a much higher rate?

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:42:02 +0000

Since, I don’t watch the debates or much other television, I missed Dr. Paul’s Leftist rant; however, on his comments above, I can understand his points. MLK was protesting discrimination in the south. It existed and the government had no legal right for its existence. No matter what type of person he was personally, he was right in protesting. It was the US Congress and President that made the broad sweeping Civil Rights Law, not MLK. Paul would be right commending non-violence. The drug laws do not discriminate, nor do the police and judges; however, circumstances surrounding them do. A white is a better candidate for probation, White drug crimes normally have less violence connected to them. Whites are harder to catch, not because they are smarter, but if you know black society, it is easier to catch Blacks. It’s not racism, but the facts of life that put them in that position, which appears to be what Dr. Paul means, the system is racist in result. Like abortion hurts blacks more than whites, because they abort a higher percentage than whites do, the law doesn’t discriminate but effect does.

By: Redman

Redman — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:30:26 +0000

As evidenced by this and the other debates, the MSM , the GOP, the Dems, unions, arms dealers, etc. all want to maintain the status quo. Any deviation or attempt to deviate is not to be allowed and only the approved script is to be presented. With the dumbing down of our citizens, most can’t or won’t see the forest for the trees. Goodbye, New York; hello, East Orange!

By: Steve Hogan

Steve Hogan — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:06:37 +0000

I can’t watch the debates. Too painful. The MSM has an agenda, and it isn’t to educate voters.

If there is an industry that desperately needs to go bankrupt (other than the banks), it is traditional media. They’ll be bailed out and we’ll be given the bill. Count on it.

By: Fred Cummins

Fred Cummins — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:57:11 +0000

Diane Sawyer is the most despicable human I have ever watched grow up. After a lifetime of watching our news reporters I can say that they all turned out to be liars with agendas. It was indeed the worst debate I have seen and that says a lot since i have seen a lot. The whole system is beginning to show cracks in its validity. The people asking and the people answering are bogus. Dr. Paul stays on the simple side of truth, which confuses many….” a penny saved is a penny earned. ” A talking head would ask ” exactly what penny are you referring to here?” Their agendas have overcome their limited brains. Ilana I fear for the whole system.

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:00:07 +0000

One additional comment – Santorum (or Fimian here in Virgina) and the other Republicans that create LEAVE NO CHILD BEHIND and all this big Spending and then clamor for an idiotic “Balanced Budget Amendment” – – –

They are like drunks clamoring for Prohibition!