In
Defense of Dr. David Duke
Originally
Written on May 9th, 2011
Edited on
January 17th, 2016
I
would like to go on-record and state that I do not have much of a problem with Dr.
David Duke, the former Louisiana State Representative, the former National
Director (a/k/a Grand Wizard) of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (K.K.K.K.),
and the former unsuccessful candidate for Governor and State Senator of
Louisiana.
My
personal religious and ethical views do not always line up with those of Dr.
Duke; in fact, the vast majority of the time, they don’t. However, I am fully
willing – at great personal risk to myself, and to my credibility – to publicly
admit and defend my positions on him, and on his legal and political views.
David
Duke may be a white-separatist Christian, a pro-life homophobe, and a blatant
anti-Semite, but in a free society, he has – and, rightfully, should continue
to have – the legal right to hold, and to express, these non-violent views,
without fear of either prosecution, persecution, or continued threats of
violence against himself and his family. That is, unless and until he says
something which poses a credible, specific, direct, clear, present, and
immediate risk of danger and/or harm to someone’s safety.
Regardless
of his views, Dr. Duke is a principled individual whom has real intellectual
integrity and courage which is unlike almost any other prominent person in the
public spotlight today. Dr. Duke says what he believes, has consistently done
so for the past thirty years, and is completely rational and reasonable on the
vast majority of the legal and political issues about which he speaks.
Although
he has been accused of “inciting racial hatred”, Dr. Duke does not wish to
change the law in order to impose his religious or ethical views upon anybody,
and he has never encouraged nor condoned the use of violence against members of
any racial and ethnic groups with whom he does not personally choose to
associate.
Dr.
David Duke is willing to go to great lengths, as well as to put himself and his
family at great personal risk, to expose the State of Israel’s practice of
institutional racism and discrimination against Palestinians, which is a lot
more than you can say about most politicians in America today. He also doesn’t
buy into the sensationalist incitement of the American people against the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
Dr.
Duke supports neither corporate welfare, nor the nationalization or bailouts of
big banks on Wall Street. Like Ross Perot, Ron Paul, and myself, Dr. Duke
opposes N.A.F.T.A. (the North Atlantic Free Trade Association)’s “free trade”
agenda, which contributes to the outsourcing of American jobs, and which does
nothing to combat the human rights abuses of laborers which are permitted and
excused by foreign countries such as China. Duke cares about protecting
American entrepreneurship and local and small businesses, and wants to impose
modest and fair tariffs in order to promote American products.
As
I stated previously, I do not share Dr. Duke’s personal moral nor religious
views, although our political and legal views are very much in-line with one
another. I believe that he should continue to exercise his freedom to express
his non-violent opinions, without fear of either being sued, being prohibited
from speaking, or having violence threatened against him and his family.
I
would invite you to visit his YouTube channel “drdduke”, and to watch his
videos, especially those on Zionism and Iran. I believe that you will find him
to be an ardent opponent of institutional racism, of any and all
forms of legal discrimination, the
incitement of racial and ethnic violence, and the Israeli and Zionist
domination of American foreign and military policy.
No comments:
Post a Comment