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In his 1987 manifesto “Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution after 200-Plus Years,” Paul wrote that AIDS patients were victims of their own lifestyle, questioned the rights of minorities and argued that people who are sexually harassed at work should quit their jobs.

The slim, 157-page volume was published ahead of Paul’s 1988 Libertarian Party presidential bid and touches on many of the themes he continues to hammer on the stump.

Returning again and again to the of concept of “liberty,” he hails the virtues of the gold standard, attacks the Federal Reserve and defends the rights of gun-owners.

But the book, re-issued in 2007 during Paul’s last presidential bid with a cover photograph of an ominous SWAT Team, has so far escaped scrutiny amid the latest furor over his newsletters.

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In early book, Rep. Ron Paul criticized AIDS patients, minority rights and sexual harassment victims (via ryking)

This is the book I read and criticized the other day, here’s a gem, 

Victims of the disease AIDS argue, with no qualms of inconsistency about rights, for crash research programs (to be paid for by people who Chapter 1 - Individual Rights 23 don’t have AIDS), demanding a cure. And it’s done in the name of rights. Victims demand health care as well and scream “discrimination” if insurance companies claim they have a right to refuse to issue a policy to someone already infected with the AIDS virus. The rights of the insurance company owners are not considered, while legislation is passed forcing insurance companies to provide the insurance demanded by the victims. The individual suffering from AIDS certainly a is victim — frequently a victim of his own lifestyle — but this same individual victimizes innocent citizens by forcing them to pay for his care.  Crash research programs are hardly something, I believe, the Found Fathers intended when they talked about equal rights.

What kind of freedom lover makes an honest living attacking AIDS victims and AIDS research? It’s ludicrous even at a superficial level. I began to read the book after in order to clarify a puzzling inclusion into Buzzfeed’s 22 Reasons Ron Paul is Not a Racist.

Thanks to the Ludwig von Mises Institute, the book is available for everyone to read here. 

Dec. 30 2011
Via diadoumenos
#politics #Ron Paul #LGBTQ #sexism #racism #HIV/AIDS #GOP #libertarianism #2012 elections
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