Back in September, I got my first look at Ron Paul during a televised debate he participated in with the other Republican presidential candidates. Paul struck me as a weird, angry man with a "blame America first" attitude, so I did some quick research and discovered that he'd appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's radio show.
I thought that appearance was enough to disqualify him from the presidency since Jones is a prime promoter of the notion that the Bush Administration engineered and carried out the attacks of September 11, 2001. Paul's appearance on the Alex Jones radio show helped legitimize the program and implied that he was not repulsed by Jones's crackpot world view.
Now, writer Andrew Walden reveals something far more disturbing about the Ron Paul campaign: It has garnered the support of numerous American neo-Nazi groups and personalities and Paul has done little to distance himself from them:
Daniel Siederaski of the Jewish Telegraph Agency tried to get an interview with Paul, calling him repeatedly but not receiving any return calls. Wrote Siederaski November 9: "Ron Paul will take money from Nazis. But he won’t take telephone calls from Jews." [Update] Finally on November 13 the Paul campaign responded. In a short interview JTA quotes Jim Perry, head of Jews for Paul describing his work on the Paul campaign along side a self-described white supremacist which Perry says he has reformed.
Racist ties exposed in the Times article go far beyond a single donation. Just below links to information about the "BOK KKK Ohio State Meeting", and the "BOK KKK Pennsylvania State Meeting", Stormfront.org website announced: "Ron Paul for President" and "Countdown to the 5th of November". The links take readers directly to a Ron Paul fundraising site from which they can click into the official Ron Paul 2008 donation page on the official campaign site. Like many white supremacists, Stormfront has ties to white prison gangs."
It's bad enough that Ron Paul is enthusiastically supported by the misnamed 911 "truth" movement. Now he can also count on Nazis and other racist enemies of freedom for campaign support.
Read the rest of Walden's damning article by clicking here.
