
Originally Posted by
10th Planet Riverside, Ca
Paul Wrong. His ideas on bringing the troops home are great but he's a nut.
Anybody who is against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a racist pure and simple.
Why couldn't the jackass admit he was wrong?!
Black people and other minorities would still not be allowed to eat in restaurants
and other public places or it would have been years later. In 1952 or so blacks
were intergrated into the military. I'm sure Ron Paul would have been against that too.
Just imagine little black kids not allowed to swim in public swimming pools. Black
athletes not allowed to compete against whites etc. etc. Not allowed to stay
at the same motels and hotels as whites. There was
a famous black actress who put her toe in a swimming pool in Vegas one time. They
drained the pool and had black guys scrub it. Go figure. But it gets much much worse.
Black people who would get seriously injured in car accidents or whatever and then would
be refused treatment at white hospitals. And you have this a**hole Ron Paul against
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect restaurant owners. All those Repub candidates
are fruitcakes and in many ways worse than Ron Paul, that I will admit but being
against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is el colmo!
The Civil Rights Act did not improve race relations at the time, they forced business owners to render goods and services against their will (be they racist or not) to people they didn't want to serve. As well meaning as the law was, it increased racial tensions instead of helping to pacify them.
Freedom of speech, the preservation of personal liberty, and property rights all tie closely together. If you don't want a certain type of people coming on to your property for whatever reason you like, you reserve the right to ask them to leave or get arrested for trespassing. the Civil Rights Act stripped business owners of their rights to refuse services to whomever they did not wish to serve. It doesn't matter if they are racists or not. If the community had a problem with a racist business owner, they simply organize a boycott and watch the business crumble.
Making laws for or against a certain group of people is racist in nature. The federal government should not get involved in these matters. Just like hate crime laws are racist and redundant. They just punish someone more for assuming because they aren't the same race, the criminal deserves more than the normal punishment.
You seem to be getting pretty worked up about something you clearly have limited knowledge about. The constitution grants the rights of all Americans. Ron Paul recognizes that. He is also no racist. He is against the failed war on drugs and regularly denounces the fact that the war on drugs targets blacks and minorities the most. Blacks and minorities are prosecuted at much higher rates than whites. Racists wouldn't point that out. Here are some other links proving he is no racist.
"Racism is a collectivist ideology, Ron Paul HATES collectivism. He believes in individualism, which is incompatible with racism."
Coolins335
"I served 6 long years in the Army. I use to run with a rifle yelling kill kill kill!
Shot expert. Was a champion at the pogo sticks and all that. Fired 60mm machine gun, crawled
under bobwire with a machine live machine gun shooting over my head with a gas mask on and a
rifle in my hands"
Running with your rifles yelling kill kill kill is programming for war. I did it in the Marine Corps also. Shooting expert in the Army is no astonishing feat. Trying to hit 36 of 40 man sized pop up targets from 50m to 300M is not a challenge. I never saw pugil sticks after boot camp and don't know what you mean by "and all that." I'm not saying a 60MM machine gun doesn't exist, but in two tours to Afghanistan conducting engineer security, I never saw them. I also know that mortars can be 60MM and that would be one mighty beast of a gun that wouldn't be easily mobile. After a google search, I still cant seem to find anything. Perhaps you meant the 40mm Mk 19 Grenade Launcher? That is a crew served weapons system that I am very familiar with. The barbed wire fence thing is fine and dandy but you are in no danger. I did it in Army Basic in Ft Sill back in 2002 and again during USMC Basic in Parris Island in early 08.
Sounds to me like you never went anywhere worth talking about. It's cool if you served but didn't deploy to a combat zone, but don't pretend things you did in basic training amount to anything legitimate.