Posted by
Catmman on Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:05:18 PM
An open letter to Ron Paul:
Dear Congressman Paul:
Your Presidential campaign has drawn the enthusiastic support of an imposing collection of Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Holocaust Deniers, 9/11 “Truthers” and other paranoid and discredited conspiracists.
Do you welcome- or repudiate – the support of such factions?
More specifically, your columns have been featured for several years in the American Free Press –a publication of the nation’s leading Holocaust Denier and anti-Semitic agitator, Willis Carto. His book club even recommends works that glorify the Nazi SS, and glowingly describe the “comforts and amenities” provided for inmates of Auschwitz.
Have your columns appeared in the American Free Press with your knowledge and approval?
As a Presidential candidate, will you now disassociate yourself, clearly and publicly, from the poisonous propaganda promoted in such publications?
As a guest on my syndicated radio show, you answered my questions directly and fearlessly.
Will you now answer these pressing questions, and eliminate all associations between your campaign and some of the most loathsome fringe groups in American society?
Along with my listeners (and many of your own supporters), I eagerly await your response.
Respectfully, Michael Medved
Let's see what happens, but
this is why it's important:
Ayn Rand said that one ought never to grant one's moral sanction to people or ideas that one opposes. She observed that in any collaboration between men of differing principals, the more evil always wins. (In any collaboration between men of similar principles, the more cosnsistent always win.)
Regardless of your feelings about Ms. Rand, her philosophy, or her fiction, the above statement is dead on.
By accepting donations from white supremacist hate groups and 9/11 truthers, by receiving open endorsement from these same hate groups and 'truthers', and by actually paying a known conspiracy nut from his campaign coffers, it may already be to late for Ron Paul.
Does Ron Paul sanction what people like Alex Jones and Stromfront believe? And that sanction can be passive as well as active (one could make the argument that Ron Paul has already given active sanction by appearing on Jones's radio show) or does he repudiate this garbage.?
No spin allowed Paulbots. Ron Paul himself needs to answer these questions.
Or will Ron Paul and his supporters take a 'non-interventionist' stance on this like so many other things?
(H/T:
LGF)