Letters to the Editor
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There is a reason
There is a reason these people are so angry and hostile, aside from the fact that they are proto-fascists or crypto-fascists.
They are ostracized and shunned by most other libertarians for being kooks and racists and worse. They are constantly whipped like the red-headed stepchildren of libertarianism that they are. They should stop pretending. They are anarachists, not libertarians, and a particularly vulgar form of anarchism, the right wing kind. Give them political power and you have RWAs. Like booze and a drunk. Just add alcohol: Instant Right Wing Asshole.
Are you sweating for Hilldog to win? With Obama currently in the lead and getting Ron Paul'd on Cable News, it will be fun when the shoe is on the other foot, won't it? You know what they say, smart guy, what goes around comes around. Will he ever put this controversy to rest???
-- Chris Sinnard
You take it from here Chris.
I'm sure you can get Ron Paul back on the ticket, you silver tounged devil.
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Chris Sinnard.
Before I leave .... Peace.
If I get a mohawk hair style,
a 3rd grader will surely tell me,
you need a Cher wig instead.
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No one ever thinks they'll get caught
Why in the world didn't Gov. Spitzer know this would be the outcome? Lack of imagination? Too distracted? Never read Shakespeare?
-- SusanMc
No one.
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LWM and a question ...
What, pray tell, does this have to do with what I was talking about?
Please quote so there is no misunderstanding.
Such as a corporate employers' intrusion into an individual's private life and affairs, like drug testing in the workplace that bags some poor pot smoker who only tokes up on his own time when he gets home or on the weekend. I think you need to take a deep breath and slow down and reread what I wrote.
Do you really think Ron Paul or Lew Rockwell intend to pass any laws restricting any corporation from poking into the private lives of their employees? If you do, you are seriously deluded. Do you even know the difference between the two? Corporations, private entities, and government, public entities?
-- L.W.M.
Ah, a question.
Lew Rockwell would like to see the country take away the corporate welfare, regulations that favor the corps, and other bailouts and giveaways. He is an 'Austrian' in his economics. He has been preaching against any government involvement for decades and I believe he is serious. He likes what Glenn G. says and often carries his posts. Anyone who writes about government wrongdoing will get a hearing among the lrc crowd.
You are fighting an imaginary enemy fellow. Rockwell would love to see the government as weak as a newborn kitten. I would rather see it be only a bad memory.
There should be no government involvement at all; only the free will voluntary cooperation of men and women to make their lives better. Any government involvement only makes things worse. The problem is that Americans allow their government to create problems and then beg them to solve the problem government created in the first place.
As an example, government is squandering money stolen from the working poor to bail out the banking system; but the government is the root cause of the problem in the first place.
Ah, but one needs take off the blinders and stop worshiping government to see the truth.
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Reasons for a NO vote
Glenn, did you hear each congressman's "impressive" debate/speech on the floor? I found this speech particularly impressive and wonder why you didn't mention it. This often maligned republican (for not following the status quo) explains why his peers should vote "no", and why this version doesn't go far enough to protect Americans from warrantless surveillance. Do I think any other repubs think like him? Not a chance. But I wish more democrats did. I think the demos are sill running scared on the subject of "keeping America safe".
March 14, 2008 Speech to Congress:
"....The assurances in this bill that Americans will not have their communications monitored without warrant are unconvincing. The bill merely states that the government should do its best to avoid monitoring Americans if possible. We have seen how meaningless such qualified prohibitions have been as we recount the abuses over the past several years.
Just today, we read in the news that the federal government has massively abused its ability to monitor us by improperly targeting Americans through the use of “national security letters.” Apparently some 60 percent of the more than 50,000 national security letters targeted Americans, rather than foreign terrorists, for surveillance.
This is what happens when we begin down the slippery slope of giving up our constitutional rights for the promise of more security. When we come to accept that the government can spy on us without a court order we have come to accept tyranny.
I urge my colleagues to reject this and all legislation that allows Americans to be spied on without a properly issued warrant."
Congressman Ron Paul
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SusanMc
LibertyGirl had me thinking....
Susan ask, "Never read Shakespeare?"
The "news" makes one wonder if maybe,
When some children were in grade school.
A teacher forced the student to read, 'Beowulf' at recess.
SusanMc has a husband that reads to her and her milk and cookies?
This is not making fun of anyone.
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-- Kitt
"As I told you, I don't "whine" or alert Glenn or Salon when you post the foul comments you post."
What foul comments? Ones you disagree with?
Whine to Glenn.
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apologies. serves her (SusanMc) milk and cookies.
My neighbor eldest girl-friend gave me a gift certificate for a face lift and a hair cut.
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Denser than a black hole
Lew Rockwell would like to see the country take away the corporate welfare, regulations that favor the corps, and other bailouts and giveaways.
Good for Lew. Does he want a cookie? You don't need to be an "Austrian" to realize that free money is better directed to those who don't already have it. Even Hayek and Friedman knew that.
He is an 'Austrian' in his economics. He has been preaching against any government involvement for decades and I believe he is serious.
Yes. Very Serious. I'm not "preaching against any government involvement". On the contrary, I believe there is a role for government in the economy. I've been doing it for decades and I am serious.
He likes what Glenn G. says and often carries his posts. Anyone who writes about government wrongdoing will get a hearing among the lrc crowd.
We've been over this before. It's a news aggregator. They carries many different people's articles. If they didn't nobody important would bother to visit.
Ludwig von Mises Institute
www.mises.org
The Ludwig von Mises Institute, founded in 1982 by Llewellyn Rockwell Jr. and still headed by him, is a major center promoting libertarian political theory and the Austrian School of free market economics, pioneered by the late economist Ludwig von Mises. It publishes seven journals, has printed more than 100 books, and offers scholarships, prizes, conferences and a major library at its Auburn, Ala., offices.
It also promotes a type of Darwinian view of society in which elites are seen as natural and any intervention by the government on behalf of social justice is destructive. The institute seems nostalgic for the days when, "because of selective mating, marriage, and the laws of civil and genetic inheritance, positions of natural authority [were] likely to be passed on within a few noble families."
But the rule of these natural elites and intellectuals, writes institute scholar Hans-Hermann Hoppe, is being ruined by statist meddling such as "affirmative action and forced integration," which he said is "responsible for the almost complete destruction of private property rights, and the erosion of freedom of contract, association, and disassociation."
A key player in the institute for years was the late Murray Rothbard, who worked with Rockwell closely and co-edited a journal with him. The institute's Web site includes a cybershrine to Rothbard, a man who complained that the "Officially Oppressed" of American society (read, blacks, women and so on) were a "parasitic burden," forcing their "hapless Oppressors" to provide "an endless flow of benefits."
"The call of 'equality,'" he wrote, "is a siren song that can only mean the destruction of all that we cherish as being human." Rothbard blamed much of what he disliked on meddling women. In the mid-1800s, a "legion of Yankee women" who were "not fettered by the responsibilities" of household work "imposed" voting rights for women on the nation. Later, Jewish women, after raising funds from "top Jewish financiers," agitated for child labor laws, Rothbard adds with evident disgust. The "dominant tradition" of all these activist women, he suggests, is lesbianism.
Institute scholars also have promoted anti-immigrant views, positively reviewing Peter Brimelow's Alien Nation.
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=106