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pandalover
07-05-2010, 09:07 AM
for not voting to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a Federal Holiday? You think such an anti-fed would want to give a lot of Federal employees the day off.

sailingaway
07-05-2010, 09:09 AM
for not voting to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a Federal Holiday? You think such an anti-fed would want to give a lot of Federal employees the day off.

We pay vacation time when there are federal days off. For all the federal employees. And it rolls to state, as well.

rprprs
07-05-2010, 09:18 AM
If the members of this forum have the good sense and discernment I would like to attribute to them, this thread will end here.

specsaregood
07-05-2010, 09:28 AM
If the members of this forum have the good sense and discernment I would like to attribute to them, this thread will end here.

Sorry, but I can't resist.
IIRC, he voted against it in the late 70's because the same bill had unconstitutional spending in it. He voted FOR it in the early 80's when it was bill limited to just creating that holiday.



If Kirchick had bothered to actually check Ron Paul's voting record (real research doesn't seem to be his forte) he would have learned that on one of the very rare occasions when the Congressman has voted for something that is not explicitly authorized in the Constitution, it was for America to recognize Martin Luther King day as a public holiday.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/010808_yellow_journalism.htm

someperson
07-05-2010, 03:08 PM
Keep in mind that, while a site like "ontheissues," for example, may be an effective tool to research most politicians, on all too many occasions, they completely fail with Dr. Paul. The primary reason is that he actually reads the bills, which often contain unspecified measures, amended into the bill, that are visible in neither the title, nor the bill summary.

Here is a thread from a while back, where I did some research on various "strange" votes, such as how he seemingly voted against removing subsidies for oil companies, when in fact, that bill was written to simply redirect the subsidy money in order to create new unconstitutional programs:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=232915

On a site like "ontheissues," you would typically see something inane like:
Voted NO to repeal oil subsidies.

Stop Making Cents
07-05-2010, 04:47 PM
maybe because mlk was a communist philanderer despite the relentless media worship he receives today?

Nate-ForLiberty
07-05-2010, 04:53 PM
maybe because mlk was a communist philanderer despite the relentless media worship he receives today?

no.

erowe1
07-05-2010, 04:58 PM
If the members of this forum have the good sense and discernment I would like to attribute to them, this thread will end here.

Bump.

Stop Making Cents
07-05-2010, 05:03 PM
The truth is not always pretty


A liberal judge has sealed the FBI files on King until the year 2027. What are they hiding?


On Labor Day, 1957, a special meeting was attended by Martin Luther King and four others at a strange institution called the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The Highlander Folk School was a Communist front, having been founded by Myles Horton (Communist Party organizer for Tennessee) and Don West (Communist Party organizer for North Carolina). The leaders of this meeting with King were the aforementioned Horton and West, along with Abner Berry and James Dumbrowski, all open and acknowledged members of the Communist Party, USA. The agenda of the meeting was a plan to tour the Southern states to initiate demonstrations and riots.


The Federal Bureau of Investigation had for many years been aware of Stanley Levison's Communist activities. It was Levison's close association with King that brought about the initial FBI interest in King.

Lest you be tempted to believe the controlled media's lie about "racists" in the FBI being out to "get" King, you should be aware that the man most responsible for the FBI's probe of King was Assistant Director William C. Sullivan. Sullivan describes himself as a liberal, and says that initially "I was one hundred per cent for King...because I saw him as an effective and badly needed leader for the Black people in their desire for civil rights." The probe of King not only confirmed their suspicions about King's Communist beliefs and associations, but it also revealed King to be a despicable hypocrite, an immoral degenerate, and a worthless charlatan.

According to Assistant Director Sullivan, who had direct access to the surveillance files on King which are denied the American people, King had embezzled or misapplied substantial amounts of money contributed to the "civil rights" movement. King used SCLC funds to pay for liquor, and numerous prostitutes both Black and White, who were brought to his hotel rooms, often two at a time, for drunken sex parties which sometimes lasted for several days. These types of activities were the norm for King's speaking and organizing tours.


In fact, an outfit called The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, which is putting on display the two bedrooms from the Lorraine Motel where King stayed the night before he was shot, has declined to depict in any way the "occupants - -of those rooms. That "according to exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold "would be "close to blasphemy." The reason? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women at the motel and physically beating and abusing a third.

Sullivan also stated that King had alienated the affections of numerous married women. According to Sullivan, who in 30 years with the Bureau hadáseen everything there was to be seen of the seamy side of life, King was one of only seven people he had ever encountered who was such a total degenerate.