An eight-page letter that bears the signature of “Congressman Ron Paul” claims people with AIDS, “enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick,” warns of IRS agents showing up at the door of U.S. citizens “armed with an AK-47,” offers racist comments about Martin Luther King, Jr., and inflict an overall paranoid tone that include warning of a coming nuclear war inflicted upon American citizens by their own government.
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This letter was a mailing created to sell subscriptions to Ron Paul’s newsletters, a business that reportedly earned Paul one million dollars in a single year. Ron Paul has repeatedly claimed he did not write the letters, though he refuses to say who did. Media reports point the finger at libertarian activist Lew Rockwell, but there has been no proof of that claim.
Reuters, which offers a PDF of the letter, notes the it appears to have been written around 1993, and “warns that the U.S. government’s redesign of currency to include different colors – a move aimed at thwarting counterfeiters – actually was part of a plot to allow the government to track Americans using the ‘new money’.”
The letter promoting Paul’s newsletters claims that Paul – through what he describes as a network of “extraordinary sources” in Congress, the White House, the Treasury and Justice departments, the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service – had acquired unique insider information that would his subscribers to “neutralize” the plans of “powerbrokers.”
Paul’s letter went on to describe various plots and schemes that he had “unmasked,” including a “plot for world government, world money and world central banking.” He also claimed to have exposed a plan by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to “suspend the Constitution” in a falsely declared national emergency.
Despite being “told not to talk,” Paul wrote that his newsletters also “laid bare” the “Israeli lobby, which plays Congress like a cheap harmonica,” and a “federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS.”
Paul claimed that his “training as a physician” helped him “see through” this alleged cover-up.
Paul also suggested that a planned U.S. currency with new notes designed to curb counterfeiting and money laundering would result in the distribution of “totalitarian bills” that “were tinted pink and blue and brown, and blighted with holograms, diffraction gratings, metal and plastic threads and chemical alarms.”
Paul said the money was designed to allow authorities to “keep track of American cash and American citizens.”
