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

20.01.2012 - Ron Paul has made no secret the fact that he thought that the South was right in the Civil War. Here he is giving a speech in front of a giant Confederate Flag about why he believes the North was wrong in the Civil War and why the South was right.

Ron Paul is a neo-Confederate, and proud member of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, which has been labeled as a neo-Confederate organization. In the video he claims that the North should have paid to buy slaves from southern slave owners to avoid the war, rather than the South renouncing slavery. Paul also fails to bring up the fact that it was the South that started the war by attacking the North in 1861.

Ron Paul was also was the only member of congress to vote against honoring the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 on its 40th anniversary in 2004. Paul would also claim that he wouldn’t have voted for it at the time, putting him on the side of the racists in both the fight against slavery and the fight against Jim Crow segregation, the two defining struggles of Black people in America.

Several Ron Paul supporters have asked that the video be taken down, from the pro-Confederate channel, Patriot Review but Patriot Review believes that the video could help Paul win South Carolina. If they do take it down,  Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has downloaded a copy of the video.

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a portrait of lunacy 

Jesus fucking Christ.

I’m regretting those two lunch sundaes, because I’m starting to feel them come back up.

I couldn’t get through this, and I doubt my followers will be able to, but it’s important that everyone sees it.

He is.  A racist.  Homophobic.  Sack.  Of.  Dicks.

People will still support him because “this was s long ago” and “he wants to legalize drugs”. Some people refuse to see the truth.

i just need people to note that this happened on 

JANUARY 20, 2012

This is not some skeleton from his past. This is 6 days ago.

Fuck Ron Paul, and fuck anyone who supports him.

All these big dummies here in Austin support this whack job because they only hear him say that he doesn’t believe government should be involved with our personal lives. If you really want to help this country move forward then don’t support a fucking homophobic, racist, unprepared, conservative politician. I get it he wants us out of Iraq and he doesn’t support the FCC. This is all well and good but there’s a hell of a lot more to a President than that.

Damn, he’s a fucking fruit loop.

Okay, I’m not an avid Ron Paul, supporter, but I do agree with many of his policies and he is a knowledge man and uses critical thinking, which many of the previous posters seem to not possess. It’s aggravating when people don’t actually read or listen to what he’s saying in it’s entirety.  Everyone needs to cool their grits!

Previous posters are taking what he said out of context. And as many of the previous posters stated, they didn’t even watch the video in it’s entirety.

1. The Civil War was not only about slavery. It was also about states rights and the south was unfairly tariffed.  States rights and the consent of the governed are the points of this speech.

2. No where does Ron Paul say that HE thinks the South was right. He states that Lysander Spooner (An avid abolishonist, yankee, and northerner—everything contradictory to what the South is believed to stand for) sided with the south because the CIVIL WAR WAS NOT ONLY ABOUT SLAVERY.

3. He doesn’t say that the North should have paid for the slaves in order to attain their freedom—he mentions non-violent means that slavery was abolished in other countries and considering the massive casualties and turmoil that the civil war caused, it’s not such a bad idea.

Why do you think there is so much resentment EVEN NOW that the south feels for the north? Because they were FORCED to completely relinquish their assets without compensation.  Imagine a farmer today having to give up all of his/her machinery used to maintain the farm and subsequently produce their revenue—giving all of that up without any compensation.  The farmer loses everything that once maintained their lifestyle and now faces poverty because they have nothing left.

4. Fun Fact: Lincoln who is renowned as a hero for abolishing slavery and a champion for blacks DIDN’T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE AND DIDN’T BELIEVE IN THEIR EQUALITY! 

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races [the crowd applauds] — that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people, and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the black and white races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race”—Abraham Lincoln in 1858

5. Ron Paul doesn’t believe that the Civil Rights Act was constitutional because he believes in states rights and having the consent of the governed (which was not present at the time of the act and therefore breeds animosity when people are FORCED to comply). Ron Paul is CONSISTENT in his belief that states have the right to make their own laws, even in instances where he morally does or does not believe in the idea of the law.  Just like his stance on abortion.  He is morally opposed to it, but, “At the same time, Ron Paul believes that the ninth and tenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution do not grant the federal government any authority to legalize or ban abortion. Instead, it is up to the individual states to prohibit abortion.”

6. This video was not posted only a few days ago, but it’s from 2003.

7. You know how people say, “if you don’t like it, then leave”? Well, the states that disagreed with the north on these multiple issues were not legally allowed to leave for the first time ever.  Before the 1860s, New England states had discussed secession from the Union in the 1814 Hartford Convention, and no objection was brought up, UNTIL the time of the civil war.

8. The speech was in it’s entirety about the issue of secession (which the confederate flag is a primary symbol representing the idea of secession) and whether states have the right to secession. Here’s an additional video from the same speech.

9. Click the links and actually read them/watch them in their entirety.  You look like an ass when you don’t actually watch the entire video or read the entire article and furthermore admit that you didn’t watch all of it. 

10. He’s not preaching his personal beliefs, he’s explaining history (ya know, actual history and not revised history).

End Rant.

Please stop following me if you support Ron Paul. End rant.

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