J’Accuse

lewrockwell.com ^ | December 24, 2001 | Michael Peirce

[tberry]

"Government most certainly did not make America great. We are, or were, great because of what we as Americans did, what we built and produced, and what we believed. We as a people were fairly devout and honored God, family and country. We worked hard and earned money that we kept for our own families. When the government clinched its fist against the Southern states there was a fringe benefit – the income tax. American no longer had control over their own finances. World War I, that least necessary of wars, sealed the tax in gold and FDR brought us the glory of income tax withholding. Nixon took us off the gold standard without so much as a "by your leave." Are we truly free when these people can take our money and use it to finance an agenda of which we do not approve? Is it unpatriotic to state the facts?"

[an amused spectator]

Do you wonder why George Bush has refused to investigate the crimes of the most despicable criminal to ever hold office, his predecessor?

I've been studying on this question for quite some time, and have yet to believe that I've got enough facts in hand to come to a reasonable conclusion. I'm glad that this author is so much smarter and insightful than I am.

There's a reason why I call it Spew Pukewell. ;-)

[al_possum39]

He does have many good points.

[John Hines]

The origianl "J'accuse" was a broadside published by Emile Zola in 1898. It summarized Zola's thoughts on the Dreyfus affair. ("Dreyfus was a Jewish French army officer whose trial for treason began a 12 year controversy that deeply marked the political and social history of the period - a fierce denunciation of the French general staff in the newspaper L'Aurore. It took the form of an open letter defending the innocence of Dreyfus." source

The title of this article summarizes everything that is wrong with lewrockewell.com and it's crew of loose cannons. they think they are like Zola, that they're doing something important. what they are really doing is wasting bandwidth, discussing how life whould be conducted if the real world was Never-Never Land.

[Catspaw]

Previously posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/596242/posts

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

If this thread manages to survive, my view of the 'current' FR may improve a little.

But then... how many are really going to read this? I'd say the thread should be safe. It's as safe as if it were written in French.

Why would the Rockwell people be bothered about FR posters calling them names? Do they care about what DU has to say about them?

[Lazamataz]

There has been a lot of criticism of LewRockwell.com on FreeRepublic

That's because LewRockwell is a bunch of Blame-America-First LEWsers.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

ALL, DAMN fine rant. Peace and love, George.

[Cultural Jihad]

I accuse American conservatives...

I accuse American libertarians of not being conservatives at all, but rather moral-liberal ideologues who largely agree with the DNC, the Greens, and the Spartacist League on moral issues.

[Ligeia]

Already posted here.

[Cyber Liberty]

I think they're becoming a "Blame Free Republic First" group.

[LibKill]

How would Monty Python react? Oh yes, now I remember...

Spam-spam-spam-spam,

Spam-spam-spam-spam,

Spaaaaaaaam! Wonderful Spaaaaaaaam!

[Nick Danger]

Lets consider the issues and use the facts to consider if government deserves our unswerving support.

Are we to take this as meaning that our only other choice besides accepting drivel from LewRockwell.com is to give government our unswerving support? That sounds like kind of a false choice to me. If this is the best he's got to use against Freepers, he's already lost.

[Cyber Liberty]

"The people on FR used to say that but turned chicken after 9/11."

I've been around FR long enough to know that "turning chicken" is the epithet of choice for anybody who disagrees with the libertarians.

[Cultural Jihad]

I've been around FR long enough to know that "turning chicken" is the epithet of choice for anybody who disagrees with the libertarians.

...which is ironic considering that most libertarians are really moral-cowards.

[tpaine]

"I accuse American libertarians..."

I accuse FR's authoritarian contingent of not being conservatives at all, but rather moral-repressive ideologues who largely disagree with the constitution on moral based freedom issues.

[Cyber Liberty]

"...which is ironic..."

You'll get no argument from me there.

[tpaine]

I've been around FR long enough to know that "moral coward" is the epithet of choice for anybody who disagrees with the authoritarians.

[Cyber Liberty]

I think this place is crawling with epithets. One of the reasons I enjoy it so much. I'd start a thread on the subject, but the Gestapo would get me.