From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 10 2003 - 21:42:43 MDT
--- Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com> wrote:
>
> <<As every chirping bird out there repeats ad nauseum post-9/11,
> "everything's changed." What’s really changed is that the war
> "libertarians" have fought bitterly to denounce non-pro-war
> libertarians
> and their adherence to ABC axioms of libertarianism. (And I need not
> explain all that again here.) This has led to the creation of the
> Neocon-Libertarian Monster. The libertarian stance on war, as Jacob
> Hornberger once remarked to me, "separates the wheat from the chaff."
> Indeed it has.>>
What it has done is separate those who realize they live in an unfree
world and try to work toward a libertarian world from those who don't
realize this and moronically try to apply strict libertarian theory in
entirely counterproductive ways to entirely inappropriate situations.
>
> Now on to the trotskyist references:
>
> <<Here is the new rage on the Internet (especially in blogging):
> become
> disenchanted with the Republican party, maintain the Social Democrat
> core philosophy, keep yourself emotionally attached to the movement
> principals, stay comrades with the old gang, but call yourself a
> "libertarian." Sound familiar? It’s very similar to the embittered
> Trotskyites leaving for the Republican Party, calling themselves
> "conservatives" and becoming the dreaded Neocons, thus destroying the
> conservative movement.>>
Frankly, whenever someone starts trotting out the old "Trotskyite"
shotgun demonizer, I have to doubt the motives of the person making the
accusation. This used to be something you only saw from the mouths of
embittered and whiney left-anarchist losers to describe anything they
opposed which was not so obviously as evil as a Nazi.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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