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To the People |
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Ron Paul's comments on slaves and the Civil Rights Act bother me! |
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I thought his comments on the civil rights act were pretty weak, especially because he didn't talk about what the federal government should be doing to protect civil rights - making sure no one is being denied the right to vote, prosecuting local law enforcement that commit civil rights violations, etc. I thought his comments on the civil war were spot on. It was no more necessary or moral to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans to end slavery than it was to kill tens of thousands of Iraqis to bring democracy to that country. I think - and this is what he should have said -you're either anti-war or you're not. We should have let the south go their own way, abolished slavery in the north, accepted and freed all run-away slaves, permitted northern citizens to give aid to anti-slavery rebels in southern states and worked with Britain to institute a near global ban on the importation of products made by slave labor. This combined with the economic inefficiency of slavery would have led to slavery's demise. Slavery only works if you have a big government to enforce it (to catch run-away slaves, to make it illegal to teach slaves math and science, to read the mail in order to confiscate anti-slavery literature). It's doubtful poor souther states could have maintained slavery without being able to tax the rich northern states. They certainly couldn't have afforded to have their cotton barred from being sold in northern states, Britain, France, etc. Especially if the British navy was seizing ships with southern cotton and destroying the cotton. |
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