Senate Contender Dr. Rand Paul is a Racist!
May 26, 2010
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The Statist Media Lies
And that’s what the statist media wants you to believe.
To be honest this article should’ve come long before now, but I was busy unpacking boxes and only on Monday got the internet installed in my new home! I planned to write a blog about the freedoms we've gain due to the internet, but since thongpatrol suggested I catch up on the “news” on my favorite Senate hopeful Dr. Rand Paul, I discovered it was necessary to write this message after discovering a principled man under attack for being principled, yes I said “principled” (although the statists wish to twist it into racism).
An Illustration
For the moment let’s completely ignore race (like I’ve done my entire life). Let’s say you own the proverbial “lunch counter,” you are not a racist (you might be but we are gonna pretend for the sake of this story).
Alright, so your picturing your little “lunch counter” and everyone is happy. All the patrons (black, white, Mexican, black-whites, white-blacks, Mexican-Indian, Indian Indian, American Indian, Native American, Latino, German, Dutch, French, Swahili…) everyone is getting along beautifully. Until…Daretoth, a notorious trouble maker in town, saunters in through your café swinging doors, spurs clinking, and all goes silent.
Now make sure that (in your mind) Daretoth is whatever skin color or race that you are the least prejudice against. If that be your own skin color or race, that’s fine. If it’s another skin color or race (like your wife’s) then that’s fine too.
Daretoth has a history in town of coming into places and starting fights. Not physical fights, but political fights! He doesn’t actually beat anyone up or tear up the joint, but he does piss off the majority of your patrons. In fact, every time he shows up about half the people leave the “lunch counter” and you lose a small fortune in that day’s sales.
Needless to say, you don’t want to serve Daretoth. You are business man, it’s your property and you have never accepted a single dime of tax payer money. You worked hard, saved and built the place on your own. You created a friendly environment free of political controversy. This is not because you’re an apolitical person yourself, but because running your business in that way has proven to be more profitable. You are after all a private property owner and a business owner and you desire to do what is best for both.
So, the question is should you be able to ban Daretoth from your lunch counter?
YOU’RE A RACIST!
At least, that’s the giant leap of logic that the statist media would have us believe about Dr. Rand Paul. Because someone believes in property rights and believes that a private owner should be allowed to do what he see fit to do with his property, he must be a racist!
Now I understand that in 1964 when the civil right legislation was passed the racial tension in this country was far greater than today. I was not alive in 1964, but I watch the old videos of blacks being tear gassed and pressure hosed for protesting in the streets. I, like Dr. Rand Paul, have no issue whatsoever with the first 9 provisions of the bill the media continues to question him about. Anyone who has ever accepted my tax dollars for their school or not-for-profit business or to build a bridge or whatever has no right to discriminate on the basis of anything but merit.
But here’s the problem with the 10th provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You can’t ban Daretoth from your proverbial lunch counter if he’s black and you’re not (even if you’re not racist). Your decision might have nothing to do with race. It might purely be a business decision, but we have passed legislation which strips the private business owner of running his business as he chooses.
The satirical philosopher Voltaire once said, “I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
The great Libertarian doctor Ron Paul once said, “The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.”
My Friends Will Tell You...
I am possibly the least racist person you will ever meet. I grew up describing my friends as having “dark hair, dark eyes, and dark skin” because I didn’t understand the concept of “black people” until I was much older, and even then I used it as a convenience of description that I learned from the older kids.
I don’t know how many times Dr. Rand Paul will have to tell people that he abhors racism, and would’ve marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. before people will listen to what he is really saying. He is saying the government needs to stay out of private property because it’s a fundamental right laid out in our constitution and that the 10th provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is in direct contradiction to the ideas of liberty laid out in the rest of the Constitution.
As much as it pains me to say that I support people’s right to be racist, that is precisely the principle on which I stand because if I don’t support your right to make bad decisions or to believe foolish ideas, then neither can I support your right believe in wonderful ideas.
This is what Rand Paul is trying to get people to understand. The media just wants a sound bite they can loop over and over again to try to make Rand look like a racist. But the truth is, if Rand or I ever knew of a “lunch counter” owner who refused to serve our black friends, they would never see our white a$$es sitting in one of their stools.
Of course, they would never see us using the coercive power of the state to force them to serve our friends either. That’s the price of freedom. People are free to be racist, anti-racist, atheist, Christian, klan members, and book club members. I’ll keep my private ownership rights, and I will boycott and run out of business those stupid enough to be racist.
Liberty is not always easy but it’s always right,
Dare
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