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I also follow Franklin Lamb's articles at CounterPunch very closely. They sometimes have the air of having been transcribed by someone whose english is a bit defective, which is odd, but generally I think they are excellent. However, I am a bit confused about "the Friday Lunch Club," because there is a blog by that name which doesn't name its author, but follows a close to Franklin Lamb type line. What exactly does the phrase "the Friday Lunch Club" refer to, if not "the Welch Club"?
Now as to the goody goody libertarians, I agree completely with Mike Sulzer, who said while I was either asleep or hiding my shame and not visiting the thread, "If libertarianism says that everything would be great if everyone would leave everyone else alone except for voluntary interactions, then the realist would say: but everyone won't. And because of that, and in reaction to that, we have governments," except that I would go further, and say that anyone who claims to believe that in the absence of "government" (and at this point one begins to wonder how they define "government") people would spontaneously revert to being nice to each other, is not just being naive, they are being disingenuous, by which I mean, they are sinister, cynical liars.
