Ron Paul in 2015: “I Support the Black Lives Matter Movement” - The Libertarian Republic

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August 8, 2016

Ron Paul Has Been Advocating For Many of Their Ideas Since 1988

By: Elias J. Atienza

With the recent controversy over Gary Johnson supporting aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement, it is important to note that the modern-day father of the liberty movement supports it as well. In his weekly column for the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity last August, Ron Paul wrote that he supported the Black Lives Matter movement.

Paul writes:

I support the black lives matter movement. I have long advocated an end to the drug war, police militarization, and other threats to liberty that disproportionately victimize African-Americans. However, I wish some of the black lives matter movement’s passion and energy was directed to ending abortion. Unborn black lives also matter.

The column caused some controversy as well. Reason.com associate editor Elizabeth Brown tore into him, writing that the column was “at best tone-deaf and at worst totally fucking insulting to compare the killing of black adults by armed (and unaccountable) government agents to the abortion of embryos and fetuses by the women whose bodies are hosting them.”

It is important to note that Paul has not much to say about Black Lives Matter since the column. However, during his presidential runs in 2008 and 2012, he was the only candidate who wanted to end the War on Drugs. For example, during a debate in 2007, he said that minorities were punished unfairly in the war on drugs.

The Young Turks unearthed a video from 1988 during Ron Paul’s presidential run discussing how the war on drugs has “racist origins.”

These revelations show that any libertarian concerns about Governor Johnson’s support of Black Lives Matter is misplaced.

As Brandon Morse writes in RedState:

And if it works to reduce crime, reduce sentencing, and reduce spending, then Johnson’s attitudes towards Black Lives Matter is good news, rather than bad. His staunch stances on reduced spending and government programs means he’s not going to give into any demands, but he will move to help solve a very real problem.

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