{"id":19018,"date":"2013-08-24T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=19018"},"modified":"2013-08-24T21:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T01:00:47","slug":"ron-paul-to-keynote-anti-semitic-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/08\/ron-paul-to-keynote-anti-semitic-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul To Keynote Anti-Semitic Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Texas congressman Ron Paul will reportedly<\/span>\u00a0deliver the keynote address<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0at an anti-Semitic conference in September, in the latest example of the three-time presidential candidate\u2019s close association with extremists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul will speak at the Fatima Center\u2019s \u201cFatima: The Path to Peace\u201d conference, which will run from September 8th through the 15th in Niagara Falls, Ontario. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Fatima Center is part of the<\/span>\u00a0\u201cradical traditionalist\u201d Catholic movement<\/span><\/a><\/span>, which comprises \u201cthe largest single group of serious anti-Semites in America,\u201d routinely attacking Jews as \u201cthe perpetual enemy of Christ.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Along with Paul, the conference will feature Roberto Fiore \u2014 a self-described neo-facist Italian politician who was<\/span>\u00a0convicted<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0for conspiring to set off a bomb in a Bologna train station in 1980, and has been described by fellow Parliament member Glyn Ford as \u201cabsolutely the most extreme person who has ever served in the European Parliament\u201d \u2014 and John F. McManus, the president of the John Birch Society, a\u00a0<\/span>radical right-wing organization<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0with which Paul is<\/span>\u00a0intimately familiar.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It comes as little surprise that Paul would choose to speak at such a gathering; after all, Dr. Paul has a<\/span>\u00a0decades-long history<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0of publishing hate speech under his byline, and his recently founded think tank includes a who\u2019s-who list of 9\/11 truthers, anti-Semites, neo-Confederates, and other luminaries of the paleo-libertarian right. (Among others, the board of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity features Eric Margolis, who argues that the September 11th attacks were \u201ca plot by America\u2019s far right or by Israel or a giant cover-up,\u201d and Michael Scheueur, who has described American Jews as a \u201cfifth column\u201d determined to undermine American foreign policy.) As a private citizen, Paul seems to be enjoying the close ties to the fringe that he was forced to conceal during his time as a presidential candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n

But those ties still present an ever-growing problem for his son, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). In April, I<\/span>\u00a0wrote<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>that \u201cas long as his father persists with his fringe right-wing activity \u2014 or unless Rand Paul does the unthinkable, and publicly disavows his father \u2014 Rand may never come any closer to the presidency than Ron.\u201d Since then, Ron Paul has apparently jumped feet-first into the extremist speaking circuit, and Rand Paul has faced a racially charged controversy of his own (his reluctance to part ways with Jack Hunter, his<\/span>\u00a0neo-Confederate former social media director<\/span><\/a><\/span>.) These are the kinds of incidents that can derail a presidential campaign. If Rand Paul cannot find a way to credibly distance himself from the radical right-wing extremism that seems to surround his family, then he will simply never have a serious shot at becoming President of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

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