Re:[WAR]: Does *anybody* read libertarian views against this war?

From: alexboko@umich.edu
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 18:27:07 MST

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    From: "Alex Future Bokov" <alexboko@umich.edu>
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    Well, I'm undecided about the war, but the more right-wing hype I hear about
    it, the less sold on it I am.

    At current hype levels this war had BETTER give us f*cking 10%-per-year
    economic growth, no terrorist acts anywhere ever, and oil at $1/barrel. That
    and Bush not getting "re"-elected is all it will take for me to unequivocably
    start supporting the war.

    For the record, I was in favor of regime-change in Afghanistan as list
    archives will show. So, this is not some kind of knee-jerk opposition to all
    use of force.

    By the way, thanks for raising this issue, Mr. Wiik. I'm so sick of these
    pseudo-libertarians spending more energy sticking it to leftists than being
    consistant with the ideals of personal autonomy and non-coercion.

    The "leftists" on this list are largely intelligent and Extropian individuals
    with whom I disagree on a number of issues sometimes for subtle and
    complicated reasons that have more to do with information theory than whether
    or not they "love America" or "love Freedom".

    The pseudo-libertarians who fill this list with liberal-baiting, childish,
    ad-hominem insults are interfering with the spread and evolution of
    libertarian memes. They are like Revolutionary Workers League moles
    infiltrating real activist groups or Scientologist moles infiltrating damn
    near anything they can. 

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