The Daily Background
| Is Ron Paul really a Libertarian?
by Arlen Parsa
More of the truth about Ron Paul, this time from Carpetbagger:
* Libertarians say that a person’s reproductive rights should be sacrosanct. No decision could be more personal, more private. So Paul supports legal abortion, right? Wrong. Paul’s Web site says, “The right of an innocent, unborn child to life is at the heart of the American ideals of liberty. My professional and legislative record demonstrates my strong commitment to this pro-life principle.†It goes on to list the numerous bills Paul has introduced designed to curb or outlaw legal abortion.
* Libertarians believe in open borders. They support no curbs on immigration and condemn fence-building as a solution. This is Paul’s view, correct? Nope. From Paul’s Web site: “The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all.†His six-point plan calls for ending “birthright citizenship†– a move that would require a constitutional amendment.
* Libertarians assert that what you believe about religion is your own business and say government should not meddle in theological matters. Where does Paul stand? He has repeatedly co-sponsored moronic constitutional amendments pushed by the Religious Right that would give government officials the right to impose religious worship on children through the public schools and on adults through the display of religious iconography in courthouses, city halls, state assemblies and other public facilities.
* Libertarians maintain that an individual’s sex life should be of no concern of the government. They oppose laws that seek to reduce gays to second-class citizenship. Paul’s view? He says he does not support amending the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, but he has backed legislation that would strip federal courts of the ability to hear challenges to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. In 1999, Paul voted for a mean-spirited provision designed to deny same-sex couples in the Washington, D.C., the right to adopt children.
Previously:
Racism in Ron Paul’s Past Writings?
Another good Ron Paul rant (but this one isn’t from me)
A progressive viewpoint on Ron Paul
What Ron Paul would get rid of
Ron Paul’s dangerous advocation of a non-interventionist foreign policy
From the website of the Libertarian party:
“Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on both sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.”
Great original reporting there. I’m pro-choice, by the way.
http://www.lp.org/issues/platform_all.shtml#reprodright
he also voted for the government to fund offshore oil exploration, and voted against non hetero couples adopting in Washington, D.C.
I’ve been posting essentially the same things about Ron Paul…the hate mail is fun anyway
mind if I blogroll you?
Which authorititave, and strangely, capital L, libertarians, do you speak of?
Do you have any idea what you are talking about or have the Marxists so completely warped your critical thinking schools that you think there are only competing, settled ideologies?
Just because it’s not true doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t repeat it over and over until people believe you, i guess.
You and yours taught the neocons well. They trumped your Democratic butts in elections fraud too.
Keep playing your stupid status quo games and we all lose.
Fluffy did a nice job refuting your charge against Paul on religion. I’ll take a stab at refuting the gay marriage charge… From today’s New York Times:
“He was the only Texas Republican to vote against last year’s Federal Marriage Amendment, meant to stymie gay marriage.”
That doesn’t seem very “mean-spirited” toward the gay community, as Carpetbagger suggested.
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