Sike!
Anyway, far-Right, meet far-Left. And to think that they call me crazy for saying this.
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
Sike!
Anyway, far-Right, meet far-Left. And to think that they call me crazy for saying this.
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
If you're not with us, you're against us Rockwell et.al.
A coalition of 62+ million and growing.
This man is obviously an idiot and his with his world view he will never go further than being watched by a few other looneys.
The Rockwellians joined the enemy a long time ago. The Rockwelians, Buchananites, paleocons, et al, all aligned themselves with France/Germany/Russia and Iraq against America when we went to war against Saddam Hussein. No surprise to me that they'd join in with the America hating Communist backed International ANSWER and the PinkOs. Traitors all.
I do recall blips over the past 12 years when Lew's columns were educational. The problem I've always had with the Libertarian platform is that so much of what is "great on paper" is simply not realistic in practice. When something is not realistic in practice, it goes into the category of John O'Sullivan's great maxim: Anything not intrinsically right-leaning will inevitably list leftward.
Another inherent problem with Libertarianism, as I see it? "Self-centeredness". There's no concern for others, or in living civilly amid a community. It is inherently, a "what I want" philosophy which undergirds the Libertarian platform.
Libertarianism *can* work but only if ABSOLUTELY everyone adheres to the tenets of Libertarianism. What does this spell? The flipside of potential tyranny.
Socialism, OTOH, also follows the same marks of Libertarianism but with difference -- in Libertarianism, individuals must pull their "own" weight; In Socialism, there has to be a worker/provider class and then the receipients or beneficiaries of the worker/provider class.
IOW, the shortform translation:
Libertarianism: The Kingdom of Self
Socialism: The Kingdom of the Collective "Self".
I admit it. You got me.
Lew Rockwell has no aversion whatsoever to printing trash from communists, fascists and even Nazi sympathizers (Noam Chomsky - look it up in Frontpage magazine for details) while completely refusing to identify the Marxist connections of these so-called writers.
There's no excuse not to ID communists and call them what they are.
At best he's a kook.
During my more sinister moods I believe him to be a Marxist plant roaming the net and perverting the concept of national self-defense.
One thing I have seen, is that many of the Libertarians hold about the same view as the hard core Liberals except for markets, in which they want no restrictions.
Libertarians are often libertines without the hedonistic commitment.
Man, I'm feelin' the love in this thread.
Imagine! Cutting taxes. Oh the horror!
These guys have gone off the deep end.
Can you actually say that America is clearly in a better position after the past 60 years of global military interventionism than we would be had we not gotten involved in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq twice, Iran, Central and South America,... et al ??
Of course the above is a hypothetical question, but I fail to see the logic of those in the pro-war right who contend that preemptive wars, or those which are not fought out of necessity of self defense, can ever solve our problems.
Ultimately, the whole issue hangs on whether or not the United States has the legitimate right to act as "world policeman" in some sort of impossible effort to defend all those people who are being persecuted or slaughtered. (Why do so many of the people we want to protect seem to live near large oil reserves?)
Perhaps you could illustrate the wisdom of our current policy which has our military spread around the globe in well over 100 countries, yet fails to secure our borders and coasts through which terrorists arrive daily.
While I am not here to defend or reject Pat Buchanan, Lew Rockwell, or anyone else's ideas besides my own, I do think that some of the hatred in the Muslim world derives from American presence in their lands.
Remember once upon a time when Patriots named Washington and Jefferson fought the British in order to expel foreign occupiers who thought they knew best how the colonists ought to live in spite of their wishes for self-determination?
Lew Rockwell is a horse's ass, IMO. The sad thing is that he and the Libertarian Party have done more to harm the cause of libertarianism than more authoritarian philosophies could ever hope to do.
I am "far-right" and I have nothing in common at all w/ Lew Rockwell.
Even down to the obligatory heaved sigh as I clicked on the link.
I don't even think he's far right anymore.
Exactly the reason I can't even claim to be a libertarian-leaner anymore.
Conservatarian? Liberservative?
**shrug shoulders**
No money for the war, but it's ok to spend it on 'human rights' feel good stuff? That's not libertarian. That's left. Neal Boortz, one of the strongest libertarian supporters in radio, talked about this years ago.