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pinboy3niner

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2. Real: Ron Paul’s “South Was Right” Civil War Speech With Confederate Flag

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 11:45 PM

Jun 2015

Jan 20, 2012
By Casey Gane-McCalla

Ron Paul has made no secret the fact that he thought that the South was right in the Civil War. Here he is giving a speech in front of a giant Confederate Flag about why he believes the North was wrong in the Civil War and why the South was right.

Ron Paul is a neo-Confederate, and proud member of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, which has been labeled as a neo-Confederate organization. In the video he claims that the North should have paid to buy slaves from southern slave owners to avoid the war, rather than the South renouncing slavery. Paul also fails to bring up the fact that it was the South that started the war by attacking the North in 1861.

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Video of his speech at link:
http://newsone.com/1812845/ron-paul-made-south-was-right-civil-war-speech-with-confederate-flag/

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Is this for real? Or photo shopped? [View all] yuiyoshida Jun 2015 OP

It surely wouldn't surprise me if it is real Cal Carpenter Jun 2015 #1

Real: Ron Paul’s “South Was Right” Civil War Speech With Confederate Flag pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #2

Hey thanks for that... yuiyoshida Jun 2015 #3

Went to college in Richmond VA abelenkpe Jun 2015 #4