Ron Paul's “South Was Right” Civil War Speech With Confederate Flag

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I only have one question for the Ron Paul supporters. How would he get any of his ideas to become law if he was elected President? He won't have enough support from either the Republican or Democratic party to get anything passed.

I am not a Ron Paul supporter (I don't like his racist attitude and his anti-civil liberties stances), but he could accomplish some of his agenda just through the executive branch, like changing federal drug policy, foreign intervention, etc.
 

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Racist Ron Paul's supporters will still say that he's the most electable candidate despite his alienation of the majority of the population by speaking his nonsense in front of a Confederate flag. What awesome judgment this man has.
 

IceBergSLiM

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No, Ron Paul is all about doing that at the federal level and making sure that you have almost no civil liberties at the state level. He is fine with the biggest possible government doing the biggest possible things against the individual, as long as it is at the state level. Effectively, Ron Paul is the most anti-civil liberties candidate since segregationists of the 60s.

Do you even know anything about this racist old man that you seem to support?

troll more dude. I know you can't find anything to validate any of your above assertions.
 

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I only have one question for the Ron Paul supporters. How would he get any of his ideas to become law if he was elected President? He won't have enough support from either the Republican or Democratic party to get anything passed.

he's answered this exact question in interviews before. The people would have to demand the changes he represents. So if everyone is apathetic then nothing will change. which is the truth because that is how it works.
 

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Like I said before and will continue to tell the hopelessly slow Paulbots here; dude isn't electable, isn't taken seriously and his ideas are all easily debunkable in an in-depth debate. It's why this confederate stuff really hasn't made any headway in the media; because when push comes to shove, no one cares what a crackpot thinks. Any other candidate would have dropped out by now; see Hermain Cain this election cycle over something far less important (infidelity) than siding with the freaking Civil War era South. Christ what a loon.
 

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Yep, Paul is not electable if he's standing in front of a confed flag regardless of what he says.
 

Remobz

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Relax people. We can argue for both sides all we want, but we all know already that Ron Paul will NEVER NEVER win the Presidency of the United States.

With that said, I still admire some of his approaches to Big Government.
 
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troll more dude. I know you can't find anything to validate any of your above assertions.

It's basic Ron Paul platform. You should read up on this racist. He is against the 14th Amendment and the incorporation doctrine. Ron Paul doesn't think that the rights that you currently enjoy under the Bill of Rights are applicable against state government. This is at the very heart of Paul's platform.
 

Fern

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In fact, the opposite is true. Lincoln was in favor of doing exactly what Paul claims should have been done to end slavery: offer compensation to free the slaves. The south ignored the proposal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensated_emancipation

Note that this was actually done to free the slaves in Washington D.C.

Another reason that Paul has no idea what he's talking about.

- wolf

Not saying this is why they necessarily refused to sell, but I noticed they were offering just $300. I thought I recalled slaves being far more expensive than that. This link says about$3,000 per slave at that date (1863 was when Fort Sumter was in battle).

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/wahl.slavery.us

Fern
 

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Uh... he's speaking truth? Lincoln broke the law when he went after the South, they had every right to leave the union which was trying to strangle them. The Yankees in the North are still trying to cause problems TIL THIS DAY. Sure I can't say much now, I was born after the fact and it already happened, but I see nothing wrong with what the South did in leaving the Union, even if I disagree with it. Morons who just eat up what has been fed to them, who allowed Lincoln to be created into a martyr in their eyes eat this shit up. Foolish religious fanatics the lot of you.

Also, don't get me wrong Lincoln wasn't terrible terrible, he did try to fight off the banksters and economic manipulators some what.
 

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It's basic Ron Paul platform. You should read up on this racist. He is against the 14th Amendment and the incorporation doctrine. Ron Paul doesn't think that the rights that you currently enjoy under the Bill of Rights are applicable against state government. This is at the very heart of Paul's platform.

ok buddy, I'll take your word for it....oh wait no I wont. trolls :rolleyes:
 

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LMAO, you think the war was actually about slavery? What a nice dose of liberal hippie coolaid you swallowed there.
 

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Also, don't get me wrong Lincoln wasn't terrible terrible, he did try to fight off the banksters and economic manipulators some what.
No he didn't. He signed into law the national banking acts which issued greenbacks. There is very little difference between what he imposed and the Federal Reserve.

Lincoln was also recorded as supporting SBUS (which his political opponents abolished) which was privately owned and would've signed into law the Fed if he had been given the chance.

Gary North is a good source on Lincoln and money.
 

sm625

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People were too stupid to elect someone like Ron Paul long before this speech. But for the record he is right. The civil war was not about slavery. I would say study your history a bit more closely but I dont think the average romnebama voter studies history at all. Which is why we are doomed to repeat the history of the soviet union. And these dumbed down morons will cheer all of it and attack mindlessly ideas which they cannot comprehend.
 
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ok buddy, I'll take your word for it....oh wait no I wont. trolls :rolleyes:

That's how horrible Ron Paul's ideas are, that once someone tells you a little bit about them, you think it's trolling. Sorry, but it's the truth. Ron Paul doesn't believe in the incorporation doctrine, he calls it 'phony.'
 

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Again, it's sad when there are still American children/young adults that don't actually know the Civil War was about slavery far more than any other peripheral issue (be it state's rights to secede or whatever other nonsense they believe was more important in the War).

You just know these same cyber kids wouldn't be able to hold an argument face-to-face with people that have actually learned and studied Civil War era politics. But meh, still love the Internet despite the misguided loony toons.
 

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Michael Perdue Implicates Ron Paul in White Supremacist Invasion

http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gan...-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/




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Ron Paul with Don Black the owner of KKK site Stormfront posing with paul and supporter of paul.
Remember these guys know each other.

lol by that logic I know Ron Paul too!
 

fskimospy

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LMAO, you think the war was actually about slavery? What a nice dose of liberal hippie coolaid you swallowed there.

The war was about secession, and secession was primarily caused by slavery.

This is simply a fact.
 

Munky

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The war was about secession, and secession was primarily caused by slavery.

This is simply a fact.

So you just answered your own question. It was about secession, whether the original dispute revolved around slavery or stealing someone's horse.
 

etrigan420

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So you just answered your own question. It was about secession, whether the original dispute revolved around slavery or stealing someone's horse.

Dude...just stop.

Watching you post is like watching somebody drive a nail into their own skull.

Amusing on a certain level, yet horrific and vomit inducing at the same time.
 

IceBergSLiM

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That's how horrible Ron Paul's ideas are, that once someone tells you a little bit about them, you think it's trolling. Sorry, but it's the truth. Ron Paul doesn't believe in the incorporation doctrine, he calls it 'phony.'

so that makes him racist and unelectable? I don't follow whatever brand of logic your using. Why would should I take your "word" for anything more than nonsense when I've asked for any kind of back up and you haven't produced squat? I've admitted in this thread I don't agree with everything RP believes but I'm not a one issue voter so that's fine.

Just in googling RP and incorporation doctrine I find this thread on the first page of results. THis tells me I should be skeptical of your claims.

any case I found a good debate on the topic here....
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?291755-RP-on-the-Incorporation-Doctrine


some goods points made on both sides. This does not change anything for me even though I'm probably not prepared to take the same hardline he is simply because I'm not a pure libertarian Its not a deal breaker for me because he isn't going to overturn the supreme court ruling on this unless the majority of americans wanted it.

Despite all that I still have to respect him because he is grounded in his principles and this shows that. And I'd rather have libertarian hand guiding this country than whatever liberal-neocon-socialist debt spinners we have had in recent memory

What the RP critics don't get and what is attractive to alot of voters is that despite the controversy his hard line constitutionalist/libertarian principles create, he doesn't back down. He can't be bought and sold like everyone else. He is the only one that you actually know what your getting, he is the only one not fucking lying outta both sides of their mouth.

I'd prefer an honest man who doesn't always have the answer that I like than the liar that will tell me whatever they think I want to hear <<<<<< its called integrity and its non-negotiable imo
 
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Munky

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Dude...just stop.

Watching you post is like watching somebody drive a nail into their own skull.

Amusing on a certain level, yet horrific and vomit inducing at the same time.

I don't see you posting a counter-argument. Put up or shutup.