Myths of Martin Luther King

www.lewrockwell.com ^ | January 18, 2003 | Marcus Epstein

[farmfriend]

You are a blessing on this thread.

[farmfriend]

I'm glad I did copy those remarks. For the record, I did not hit abuse at any time. I would have been satisfied moreso if they would have remained as they were.

I wish the comments would remain. We can tell who made the remarks by who you are replying to but I would love to read their ignorance first hand. You do hold your own and look good doing it. Marron is a breath of fresh air on a thread that is mostly "removed by Moderator".

[marron]

Thank you for your comment. I notice it got ugly after I left.

I have to say, rdb3 did a fantastic job of carrying the load all the say through.

Some of the stuff I read there almost takes my breath away; its hard to imagine there are still people out there that think that way.

The worst are the so-called libertarians, especially the lew rockwell crowd. It spins my head around for supposed libertarians to be apologizing for Jim Crow. Especially to misuse the name of Von Mises (Lew Rockwell heads the Von Mises Society). Von Mises is one of the great economists from a liberty perspective, and yet Rockwell's bunch are forever trying to defend the slave economy of the old South.

What I love about the Republicans is that we were on the right side of the most important battle of our history. I want to see us stay on the right side of it, which to me means we have to steer clear of the fake libertarians, and the re-tread segregationists. How can we effectively defend "states rights" if we have to carry the baggage of the old "states rights" segregationists?

The original Republican party was a movement born out of the religious abolitionist movement. They were mostly former Whigs, which is to say, classic liberals, believing in limited government and individual liberty, but the Whigs were "pro-choice" on slavery. The Republicans were the people who could not abide such an amoral stance on a fundamental moral question.

In modern times, to me, this means that the believers, Christians and Jews, are not a burden to the Republicans as some believe but must be at the heart of the movement, or it loses its soul. Morality is not a burden to a political movement, it is its reason for existence.