Rand Paul’s Drug-Fueled Crime Spree

Filed in National by on August 10, 2010

Rand Paul comes across as a boring candidate. Crazy, but boring. At the Fancy Farm Picnic Rand Paul apparently gave a snoozer of a speech about the U.S. tax code (hint: it’s long!). Rand Paul manages to be boring, wrong and crazy all at the same time. Apparently Rand Paul has another side: stoner kidnapper. This story comes from a GQ profile of Rand Paul:

But when Paul showed up in Waco, he didn’t conform to type. According to several of his former Baylor classmates, he became a member of a secret society called the NoZe Brotherhood, which was a refuge for atypical Baylor students. “You could have taken 90 percent of the liberal thinkers at Baylor and found them in this small group,” recalls Marc Burckhardt, one of Paul’s former NoZe Brothers. Sort of a cross between Yale’s Skull & Bones and Harvard’s Lampoon, the NoZe existed to torment the Baylor administration, which it accomplished through pranks and its satirical newspaper The Rope. The group especially enjoyed tweaking the school’s religiosity. “We aspired to blasphemy,” says John Green, another of Paul’s former NoZe Brothers.

A secret society full of liberal thinkers? The penalty for belonging to this organization was expulsion if you were caught.

The strangest episode of Paul’s time at Baylor occurred one afternoon in 1983 (although memories about all of these events are understandably a bit hazy, so the date might be slightly off), when he and a NoZe brother paid a visit to a female student who was one of Paul’s teammates on the Baylor swim team. According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, “He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They’d been smoking pot.” After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. “They told me their god was ‘Aqua Buddha’ and that I needed to bow down and worship him,” the woman recalls. “They blindfolded me and made me bow down to ‘Aqua Buddha’ in the creek. I had to say, ‘I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.’ At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no.”

Nearly 30 years later, the woman is still trying to make sense of that afternoon. “They never hurt me, they never did anything wrong, but the whole thing was kind of sadistic. They were messing with my mind. It was some kind of joke.” She hadn’t actually realized that Paul wound up leaving Baylor early. “I just know I never saw Randy after that—for understandable reasons, I think.”

Some of the details of this story are amusing but overall I don’t think kidnapping and tormenting a fellow student falls under the category of “prank.” Rand Paul’s campaign has issued several non-denials and is now considering legal options.

In a previous statement about the story sent to TPM, Benton dismissed the GQ piece, saying “National Enquirer-type stories about Dr. Paul’s teenage years should be left to the tabloids where they belong.”

It should be noted that Paul’s campaign has not said the substance of the story is wrong.

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  1. a.price says:

    It is reverse racism to bring this up. CLEARLY it is the liberal socialists who want to make a good American like Rand Paul look bad so he can’t save the country from evil Nazis.

    Another musing about Ran NoZe Paul, I bet he is so much of a phony…. like his father (who is a fraud) that if elected he wont even honor his glibertarian roots by supporting legalization of the AquaBuddha sacrament.

    Boiled down, Rand Paul is an unlicensed “doctor” who thinks America should be businesses doing whatever they want to whomever they want with no intervention from any kind of governing force whatsoever….. also he is a moron

  2. anon says:

    Victim: “…they never did anything wrong…”

    Wow.

  3. a.price says:

    maybe she meant they never raped her. but kidnapping, forced drug consumption, and what seems to be anti-Christian terrorism on Randy the Fraud’s part seems wrong to me.

  4. anon says:

    Folks, what this thing is, is a forced baptism straight out of the Spanish Inquisition. It is a very historically Christian act.

  5. fightingbluehen says:

    I wonder why Obamas past is kept locked away somewhere

  6. xstryker says:

    “I wonder why Obamas past is kept locked away somewhere” – I presume you are talking about how he was secretly born in Kenya? And is part of a secret plot to get Americans to submit to the UN via promoting bicycles?

  7. xstryker says:

    FYI, every last grain of Obama’s past has been on Fox News, but I can forgive you for not watching it, since I don’t either.

  8. We keep the President’s past locked away because its fun to watch the goon squad go batshit over it!

  9. pandora says:

    I wonder why Obamas past is kept locked away somewhere

    Such a nasty little sentence, sorta like: I wonder why FBH is so obsessed with gay marriage?

    Unfair, no?

  10. Geezer says:

    “I wonder why Obamas past is kept locked away somewhere”

    As usual, Repuppetlican myths fly straight into the teeth of reality. Name a president whose past has been more thoroughly mined than Obama’s. Bush, meanwhile, skated on his entire life before age 40.

  11. anon says:

    I wonder why the evidence of FBH’s wife-beating is kept locked away?

  12. a.price says:

    http://www.DidFBH_rape_and_murder_a_12_year_old_girl_on_apri_l2_1998.com

    im not saying he DID… im just asking and innocent question. The public has the right to know if FBH brutally attacked a child because he was high on meth…. again.. not saying one way or another. just asking a question.

  13. anon says:

    The wingnut smear job is a team effort. First you get the kooks like Crazy Eileen to plant the idea that Obama is not a citizen. Then the wingnut regular army like FBH can come along and just say things like “Obamas past is kept locked away somewhere.” and everybody knows what he means, but stays just shy of being an overt birther.

    Funny thing is, I think FOX and the RNC were all prepared to go full birther, until it didn’t test well with the public and backfired. Then they had do officially disown the birthers, while keeping the whisper campaign going.

  14. Victim: “…they never did anything wrong…”

    It’s amazing, this woman is a clinical psychologist.

  15. fightingbluehen says:

    It’s not about his questionable birth record, that’s just water under the bridge really. It’s more about his true beliefs, things he has said or written, his involvement with his church, and so on.

  16. a.price says:

    fking THAT chicken again are ya? tell me, do you try and re-package Hannity’s show in your own words, or do you just type down verbatum everything he says?

  17. fightingbluehen says:

    I don’t watch fox . I listen to Rush Limbough once in a while, but he just repeats things I already read in the morning. You see a.price, there are plenty of news sites that post news from the AP, Reuters etc. Try google news or even the drudge report. Even you could form your oun oppinion if you tried. Stop being brain washed by the type of media you get on the TV. bbc/sport/football is the news I mostly follow .

  18. a.price says:

    EVEN THE DRUDGE REPORT!?! MY MISTAKE, FBH!!! i didn’t realize you got your news from such reputable sources. PLEASE excuse my charges that you only look to conservative news outlets…. turns out you also look to ULTRA conservative news outlets.

  19. Aoine says:

    the Drudge report – are you serious!!! the mentor and incubator for Andrew Breitbart??

    that is where he learned his slick stichk shenanigans – for APete’s sake!! are you really that clueless??

  20. Geezer says:

    If he was as high as this anonymous source claims, I’d be surprised if he remembered anything.

  21. missundaztood says:

    The only thing that would make the Rand Paul story funnier would be if the baptized girl was Christine O’Donnell.