quote of the year?
holy jesus. i knew ron paul was at least a demigod, but i sure as fuck didn't know whence came his immortal power. ladies and fucking gentlemen, meet the guy behind the guy behind the guy:Without the Mises Institute and LRC, Ron Paul is just another politician, devoid of any principle and intelligence.scrote max raskin, natch. give some overconfident precious boy doink a blog pass to LRC, and before long he thinks whatever laughable pomposity he's stupid enough to hit "publish" on (in this case the preposterous and repugnant notion that anyone — let alone LRC and LvMI — can have a monopoly on knowing and spreading the ethics of liberty) carries more weight than his mere twatness can deliver. lew gives this unreal clod keys, and there he goes. happened with the other high school boy. this one's even worse.
And as far as I'm concerned, LRC and the Mises Institute are the foremost defenders of the principles of liberty.you haven't checked your watch lately, maxella. past tense. LRC used to defend liberty, and many times so did LvMI. now? it's mostly GOP dickwads salivating over caucuses and force.
BTW, the nominated quote wasn't above. it's this:
They will give birth to more Ron Pauls; more politicians, lawyers, philosophers, economists, and professors who are unwavering in their support of free markets, private property, and peace.politicians whose very survival depends entirely on aggression. professors, such as at LvMI, who rarely saw a state university they didn't want to stand at the helm of, reveling in the theft and monopoly power. that is not support of free markets, private property, and peace. i'll grant it's unwavering support, however.
Labels: derailleur, emperor factory, government dumb
posted by saltypig @ 00:43
When did things at lewrockwell.com go sour.
Is there a period or a date?
as an entry point into a better view, it was always a ragged portal for GOP-type anti-liberty jerkoffs who'd wander by for a topic or two, or even post at the blog (e.g., the despicable and stupid marcus epstein). but that was mostly a good thing, getting them exposed here and there to what was wrong with them. even the smoking-jacket problem, thickest at LvMI, was ignorable in a pinch.
now LRC's near fully abandoned its former clearly voluntarist bent, apparently using this RP baloney as cheap publicity. publicity for what though — a raped ethic transmuted into its opposite?
i can't pick a date for the flip, but in the last 6 months LRC's decline into reversal has become undeniable, IMO. would be very curious to eavesdrop on an honest discussion or two lew might have had about this subject which i know has to bother him somewhere. he's putting on his PR face, but this shameless embrace of a system built on thuggery is not what he claimed to believe when i knew him.
What I find odd is that prior the the RP campaign hysteria, the big scandal/debate at LvMI/LRC seemed to be about Herr Kaiser HHH and his position on immigration (was it defensible by libertarian principles, etc.?). He was like a super-star for a time, getting all kinds of awards the LvMI made up and all kinds of talking-heads from the institute were reveling in his glory.
Now, there isn't word one about him or his position on immigration, even though RP approximates it quite well.
I'm not shouting "Conspiracy!" I just marvel at how easily poster-boys are displaced by one another, and how quickly people forget the past crisis of the moment.
I wonder what HHH is up to these days, besides receiving a salary thanks to the good taxpayers of the state of Nevada?
As off as HHH was on the immigration issue I think, his book "Democracy: The God That Failed" was quite interesting and introduced me to several different economic and philosophical concepts I wasn't familiar with before hand. I think he is a good thinker for the most part and probably more consistent in his libertarian ideas than someone like RP. His comparison of monarchy and democracy got me thinking as well...
oh, HHH is a scream. seriously. hell of a funny, electric personality, and — content and consistent thievery aside — one of the best speakers from the LvMI crowd. i learned from that book too.
the immigration thing though... i'll address this in my RP article, but i'm curious why RP's lauded for his bullshit immigration stance even by supposed constitutionalists. maybe i haven't read that piece o' crap well enough, but i saw nothing in it delegating to the fedgoons power to fuck with immigration. you?
haven't even researched it yet, so if there's some obvious place RP defense his apparently unconstitutional position, just throw me a link or something.
The constitution does give Congress the power "To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization". But that's about it.
yeah. now if there were something stating that only citizens could enter the country, or some visit duration thing. there isn't though.
dunno. i've asked "illegal" alien/immigrant fetishists about this, and the best i've heard is the strained theory that aliens are an invasion, and therefore subject to "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"
even the guy who said that basically admitted it was bullshit, and that the basis for his claiming "illegality" was simply de facto crap, at which point he went ballistic and called me a nitpicking asshole, etc.
just googled a bit, including targeting LRC. don't see this matter addressed constitutionally. but hey, it's not like i'm the "champion of the constitution". and since i piss on LRC and LvMI, that might mean i'm just another dude, devoid of any principle and intelligence. i'll have to get a ruling on this from maxella, if i can afford it.
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