Title: Alex Jones Says It, Rand Paul Agrees: He’s a “Torpedo” in “The Revolution” Source:
alternet.org URL Source:http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/05/23/8204/ Published:May 23, 2010 Author:B. E. Wilson Post Date:2010-05-23 21:24:08 by Brian S Keywords:None Views:457 Comments:1
Breathless speculation in the aftermath of a recent explosion that tore the South Korean warship Keonan in half posited the massive blast may have come from a North Korean “human torpedo” crew, an “elite squad of naval kamikazes”, as Wired Magazine put it. The existence of the alleged suicide squad is disputed, but there’s a real “human torpedo” running for one of Kentucky’s two Senate seats in the 2010 election: Rand Paul.
In a July 23, 2009 appearance on the right-libertarian, conspiracy theory oriented Alex Jones Show, Jones told Senate candidate Rand Paul,
it’s so important to just launch more torpedoes at the enemy and I see you as a very important torpedo. Not just because of your father’s name but because of your great education, your patriotic stance, your activities in Kentucky, your history of liberty, uh, I think you’re the man for the job and you’re a weapon I think we need to use against the New World Order.
And Ran Paul tacitly agreed.
What’s striking about the Rand Paul/Alex Jones interview is how much in agreement the two men seem, and it’s more than that – it’s obvious they think they’re in the same movement.
Rand Paul has been widely cast as a libertarian but there’s considerable evidence tying him to another tendency – theocratic Christian nationalism, and specifically Christian Reconstructionism.
The Constitution Party was originally founded, as The U.S. Taxpayers Party, by Howard Phillips, who called Christian Reconstructionism founder R.J. Rushdoony “my wise counselor.”
Rushdoony’s Chalcedon Foundation was the central institutional locus for the budding Christian Reconstructionist movement, and in 1989, as Frederick Clarskon’s Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Decmocracy (1997, Common Courage Press) details,
“In 1989, [Howard] Phillips authored a fundraising letter soliciting $1,000 donors for the Chalcedon Foundation in which he wrote “Each of us who has read The Institutes of Biblical Law… has been uniquely privileged. God has blessed us with the opportunity for exposure to the insights and teachings of a great theologian and servant… I have no doubt that he will be ever after regarded as one of the most significant figures in the history of Christian thought and advocacy.”
Rousas Rushdoony gave a speech at the 1992 inaugural event launching the new Taxpayers Party, later to become The Constitution Party. Rushdoony advocated executing homosexuals by stoning, wanted to reimpose the institution of slavery, and maintained that the Sun rotated around the Earth. He was a Holocaust denier, a racist, a creationist, and claimed that African-American slaves were lucky.
In 2008 Rand Paul’s father, U.S. Texas Congressman Ron Paul, endorsed the Constitution Party candidate for president and even, according to Religion Dispatches’ Sarah Posner, spoke at a 2009 Constitution Party fundraiser. As my Rand Paul Keynoted 2009 ‘Biblical Law’ Constitution Party Rally story notes, in Rand Paul’s July 23 Alex Jones Show appearance Rand Paul told Jones that his political beliefs were close to identical to his father’s.
I’d guess there’s more to this story than I’ve had time for, but meanwhile, here’s an audio excerpt from Rand Paul’s April 23, 2009 Alex Jones appearance,
And here’s a partial transcript,
Alex Jones – Yeah, a lot of people said, `Oh look – Ron Paul lost – what a waste.’ And I said, `wait a minute! – revolutions always take time. The number one movement on campuses, starting to overshadow the phony liberals and phony conservatives, is the libertarian Ron Paul patriot movement. He was just a focal point in that. All this investment and time and energy, uh, is, is, just going to continue to grow and now everybody has seen that and are more heartened than ever and have learned the lesson that this isn’t going to be instant gratification.
This is like planting crops. A lot of work comes into it but before you know you’re bringing in that harvest. And it’s going to be the same with your senate campaign and I pray, just like we pushed your dad to run for president.
I pray, uh, that you will, uh, after you’re done exploring this, do it, uh, because it’s so important to just launch more torpedoes at the enemy and I see you as a very important torpedo. Not just because of your father’s name but because of your great education, your patriotic stance, your activities in Kentucky, your history of liberty, uh, I think you’re the man for the job and you’re a weapon I think we need to use against the New World Order.
Rand Paul – Well, the amazing thing about my father’s loss, and I was very involved with the campaign, and I heard some of the dissatisfaction from people – but I try to convince people that the amazing thing about the loss is that he is routinely on the mainstream media now.
Our viewpoint finally, probably for the first time in 30 years, we have a spokesman. And they may not be listening to him all the time in Washington. But, we have someone who presents our point of view to a large audience on a national basis and he became a national leader. And there’s something quirky about the media in the sense that you can be a regional person, a congressional candidate or congressman, but when you take that next step up to the national level all the sudden everybody wants to know your opinion.
