Questions about racism have been brought to the fore ONLY to serve as “gotcha journalism”. Ask Doug, Maddow, the Louisville newspaper, etc., why they brought racism up? Neither Rand Paul or anyone else without a reason to fear his electability made a point of it or even care.

It’s just anopther diversion from the issues that really challenge US.

“While our current government is run amok and has murdered easily a million people (brown people of course) in the last decade alone you are worried that I am uncivilised.”

1. Our current government has not been in office for a decade. It has been in office for about a sixth of that time.

2. Murdered a million people? A million? I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

The range is huge, and the extremely large numbers are based not upon body count but upon opinion polls and include things like this:

“The Lancet study’s figure of 654,965 excess deaths through the end of June 2006 is based on household survey data. The estimate is for all excess violent and nonviolent deaths. That also includes those due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc.. 601,027 deaths (range of 426,369 to 793,663 using a 95% confidence interval) were estimated to be due to violence. 31% of those were attributed to the Coalition, 24% to others, 46% unknown. The causes of violent deaths were gunshot (56%), car bomb (13%), other explosion/ordnance (14%), air strike (13%), accident (2%), unknown (2%). A copy of a death certificate was available for a high proportion of the reported deaths (92 per cent of those households asked to produce one).[18][19][20] Iraq’s Health Minister]”

Death from “increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, ” can hardly be laid at the feet of the United States as examples of “murder.”

The danger to this country is and has already been here. The danger is the Bush and Obama supporters who assassinate american citizens, imprison people without trial, murder thousands of civilians with drone attacks, deny medical supplies to innocent citizens of foreign countries they don’t like with sanctions, invade countries that are no threat to us, and spy on citizens without warrants.That is the threat to the this country.

While our current government is run amok and has murdered easily a million people (brown people of course) in the last decade alone you are worried that I am uncivilised. Liberty, peace, friendly trade, non-violence here and abroad, those are the hallmarks of civilised behavior. Those are the principles Rand Paul and people like him support. It is amazing to me that anyone would equate those positions with uncivilised behavior.

The barbarians are already in charge, we are merely trying to bring about a more sane country, here and abroad. If you are for unnecessary war, then you are not a civilised human being.

Such simple creatures haven’t truly earned their freedom yet, and may never.
Llamraf.

Do you defend or champion the right of a locally-owned restaurant to refuse to serve blacks or Hispanics?

Do you defend or champion the right of a small company to refuse to hire black or Hispanic workers?

Do you defend or champion the right of a national company like McDonald’s to refuse to serve black or Hispanic customers?

Do you defend or champion the right of a large company like Walmart or GE to refuse to hire black or Hispanic workers?

In answering the questions you may insert the minority of your choice in place of black or Hispanic.

If you answered yes with respect to small businesses and no with respect to large businesses please tell us at exactly what point does a small company become a large company.

For extra credit: bearing in mind that males in the US are a minority, even though slight, please tell us whether you defend or champion the company that refuses to serve a male or to hire a male.

Kent