Re: Any Paul fans want to try and explain this one?

Ron Paul has a gigantic blind spot when it comes to any kind of foreign
policy / statement. I stopped expecting him to make sense on extra-US
matters long ago.

Johne Cook
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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Mike Findlay <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/08/ron-paul-casts-lone-vote-against-house-resolution-honoring-heroic-chinese-dissident/
>
>  Ron Paul casts lone vote against House resolution honoring heroic Chinese
> dissident
> posted at 7:37 pm on December 8, 2010 by Allahpundit
>
> The roll: 402-1 <http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll612.xml>. The
> dissident in question is Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo<http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/08/bombshell-nobel-committee-finally-does-something-right/>,
> whose existence so upsets the totalitarians in Beijing that on top of
> locking him away and making his wife disappear<http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/nobel_peace_prize_liu_xiaobos.html>,
> they’ve organized a boycott<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-nobel-20101208,0,3335507.story>of the Nobel ceremony and introduced their very own “Confucius
> Prize”<http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2010/1208/China-counters-Nobel-Peace-Prize-with-Confucius-Peace-Prize>as an alternative. (Pelosi, to her great credit, is attending
> the Nobel ceremony<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/us-politics/8164265/Outgoing-US-Speaker-Nancy-Pelosi-to-attend-Nobel-Peace-ceremony.html>to show her support for Liu.) Shouldn’t a proud libertarian want to
> recognize a guy doing his level best to strike a blow for freedom against a
> giant, vicious state machine? No, ostensibly for two reasons: The House
> resolution is purely hortatory and therefore a meaningless waste of taxpayer
> time and money, and of course we shouldn’t be so arrogant as to meddle in
> other nations’ internal affairs. Even if that meddling consists of saying,
> “Hey, please don’t kill that guy for writing some stuff about democracy.”
> But give Paul this — at least he’s consistent.
>
> Except, actually, he’s not. If he’s opposed on principle to meaningless
> House resolutions, how come he voted yes on this one<http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/house/2/592>during the summer to honor golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez for his contributions to
> Latino youth programs? And if he’s against telling foreign nations how to
> conduct their business — even when it comes to standing up for core
> libertarian values — why’d he vote for this one<http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll095.xml>a few years ago urging Romania to relax its rules on intercountry adoptions?
> That’s proof enough that he’s not above rhetorically pressuring other
> countries, but if you need more, you can always revisit his floor speeches<http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/03/video-ron-paul-denounces-israels-flotilla-raid-of-course/>and YouTube
> videos<http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/05/video-ron-paul-laments-israels-preemptive-war/>criticizing Israel.
>
> Any Paulnuts want to help me square the circle on this? I notice that he
> was also the lone no vote <http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll306.xml>two years ago on a resolution expressing condolences to the people of Burma
> after they were hit by a devastating cyclone, which is hard to jibe with the
> fact that (a) he voted yes on resolutions congratulating various football
> teams on big wins<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/paulhatesburma.html>and (b) saying “sorry all those people died from bad weather” doesn’t
> constitute “meddling” in anyone’s affairs. Is this a simple matter of Paul
> not wanting to antagonize our Chinese trading partner, even if it means
> politely betraying the values for which he stands? Clue me in.
>
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