Most of what you have written can, as one blogger put it, be researched and satisfactorily answered via google. I’ll address those if you wish. I am an avid Ron Paul supporter. As with most of us, we care only for the truth.

Notwithstanding, you do raise a very astitute and a poignant observation in No. 8. I think this is the most worthy part of your blog here.

I don’t know how Paul reconciles it anymore than we can reconcile the Louisiana Purchase or that Congress and Lincoln arrogated the power to outlaw slavery. I suppose an issue rises so high morally, that one is compelled? Compelled to use a mulligan? That can’t be the answer. I’ll post further if I find out how to reconcile his position.

1) If you believe you have direct quotes from Dr. Paul that address my questions, please feel free to post them.

2) You Tube user getonid makes an excellent point about Dr. Paul’s position on the war on drugs and its negative effect on the black community. He could also have pointed out that Dr. Paul wants to abolish the death penalty, which disproportionately effects racial minorities. I commended Dr. Paul on both of these things in the introduction of my letter. In certain areas, he stands out above most if not all other candidates. It is worth noting, however, that both Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich oppose the war on drugs. Gravel, Kucinich, Obama, and Dodd all oppose the death penalty.

But that doesn’t address the questions I ask. Via the You Tube link you posted, I found another You Tube video, asking similar questions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwOxi4oPF7g

I ask the question because Paul seems to refuse to talk about it now. In a New York Times Magazine article Christopher Caldwell writes “He remains touchy about it. ‘Even the fact that you’re asking this question infers, “Oh, you’re an anti-Semite,”‘ he told me in June.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/magazine/22Paul-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all

3) I didn’t mean to imply that they were something Dr. Paul just made up. As he says, there’s historical precedent for them. My question is about Blackwater, as I can’t find any quotes about Blackwater from Dr. Paul, and about the accountability of these private sources.

Dr. Paul suggests that a private contractor could have gotten to Bin Laden before he fled to Pakistan. Assuming that’s true, these contractors would still have to enter a sovereign nation and possibly commit crimes. Knowing what we know now, it’s easy to believe that Bin Laden could have been apprehended or killed before he went to Pakistan, but how were we to know at the time he wouldn’t flee to Pakistan sooner? What would the political implication of our “deputies” crossing into Pakistani territory?

It’s in the heroic Article I, Section 8. Check out that Konstitution, Klint!

I’m sure Dr. Paul will respond personally to your open letter, especially since all the answers to your questions could be found with 15 minutes of Google time.

Proof positive that Ron Paul is a racist! MUST SEE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ji_Ft23BDw