Libertarians are a strange lot. Their targets often seem reasonable; their solutions myopic and partial. So it goes with Christopher Buckley’s Boomsday, a sub-Swiftian sendup of the looming threat of an overwhelming federal deficit, set in the carnivorous confines of D.C.’s wonkscape. Cassandra Devine is a heroine for our spin-crazy times—or actually, for five years from now, when the first… return to article
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Reader Comments (9)Page 1 of 1 pagesJessica, Carl’s overrated and overhyped and NONE of the Buckleys have EVER been “libertarians.” Ever. Read Master Booeyfuckley’s many attacks on Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard. The Master who likes to inhale his own gas and was always a Big Government Conservative going back to his Commonweal artice in 1952. ALWAYS.
I do have to admit that the paragraph you directly quote from Junior
is entirely accurate. And I will concede that many libertarians and Objectivists ARE boring, just like many lefties. Don’t quit your day job yet.
Posted by blondemike on Mar 30, 2007 at 12:46 PM BIll Buckley is becoming more of a libertarian with his advocacy of legalized drugs and his opposition to war as a government racket. Still like most libertarians he is way on the right. The lib in libertarian is an illusion. To enforce a libertarian social order would require massive state repression. Scratch a Libertarian find a fascist. Such an irony!! But look at fascist sympathizer BM who claims to be a “libertarian/objectivist” whatever that means. I suspect there are many other such individuals as well.
Posted by cabdriverinchicago on Mar 30, 2007 at 10:36 PM Booeyfuckley is NOT for decriminalized drugs, he SUPPORTED the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws in NY and has never recanted that
support. His opposition is NOT to the mass murder we call war but only jumping ship because it’s going badly. Unlike YOU, i’ve never advocated the fascist form of socialism and actively supported states
founded on legal racism like Israel. A libertarian social order means the total absense of initiated force where people are put in jail for opposing
some official dogma. Even Chomsky wrote me in 89 that laws in Canada trying Zundel were fascist to the core, and you COLOSTOMY
BAG HEMORRHOIDS FACE Chicago ADVOCATE SUCH LAWS. That
makes you a HARDCORE FASCIST.
Posted by blondemike on Mar 31, 2007 at 2:54 PM I am only trying to stop fascism in its tracks before it gets to far. Canada doesn’t need Zundel. He is a shit. He violates the rights of Jews to live in peace and not be scapegoated, libeled, or mistreated. Let him suffer. Who told him to go and mess with the Jews in the first place?
What is initiated force. In the Libertarian world you will need force to suppress the resistance of the poor who won’t even be able to walk down the privatized streets. Maybe a “faith based” charity will subsidize the cost but only if they turn their lives over to the Lord.
Posted by cabdriverinchicago on Apr 1, 2007 at 7:55 AM Chicago, I just refuted you again on the bisexual thread. Zundel NEVER violated ANYONE’S rights. Zundel’s rights WERE violated by the use of STATE force which is the only way rights can violated. Neither the US Bill of Rights nor the Canadian Charter says that if Jewish assholes do not approve of something that that violates their rights. No wonder the average JewIQ is 99 in Israel and less here.
Posted by blondemike on Apr 1, 2007 at 2:47 PM By the way, there are no blood libel laws in civilized countries and hebes are as much subject to criticism as anyone else and that doesn’t constitute mistreatment. Jews scapegoat all the time and can be scapegoated in return. All fair and legal. Of course, 90% of Jews here aren’t really Jews, see Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe, they are Khazars, the whole AshkeNAZI group are not semites but Khazars. So even the relatively recent term of Jews just in the last few centuries is inaccurate as is antisemitism unless referring to Arabs. BTW, advocating fascist censorship and thought crime laws
is a very strange way of trying to “stop fascism.” You are a very stupid person if you really believe that.
Posted by blondemike on Apr 1, 2007 at 2:52 PM Zundel is a known active fascist and anti-semite. His sole purpose is to agitate against Jews in order to create a dangerous, untenable, and threatening situation which will result in their mass physical harm and consequent pressure to leave their homes. This is deliberate and intolerable. All people deserve to live in peace and dignity with their neighbors free of threat from vicious incitement. Zundel’s slanderous campaign of hatred is designed to bring harm to innocent people. He deserves to be in jail for what he is doing.
By jailing Zundel, the government sends the message that hate and attempts to incite violence against whole groups will not be tolerated. Society has the right and the obligation to protect itself and its citizens.It is hard for rights conscious Americans to understand this because WWII was not fought on their soil. Europeans who have personally seen millions upon millions of people killed, maimed, interned, expelled, displaced by war, and orphaned have no desire to repeat the experience. They should be praised for taking actions to prevent a repeat of this situation. Americans talk incessently about strategies of combating prejudice. Europeans and others like the Canadians take concrete and effective steps on behalf of this worthy goal.
The other thing is that it is important to stem the tide of the fascist threat to democracy. It exists everywhere. The threat is from the far right not the left which respects democracy. Let Zundel and his disgusting ilk rot in prison where they belong.
Posted by cabdriverinchicago on Apr 2, 2007 at 8:24 AM If the state jailed all hatemomgers you would be serving several life sentences. Your advocacy of jailing people for their views is no different than Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot. You prove that the left is the major danger to our liberty and that people like McCarthy were right to clean Communist shit like YOU out of the government. Any Jew who supports the fascist-Stalinist type of legislation against anyone HAS NO RIGHTS AND IS FAIR GAME FOR ANYONE. IF EVERY ADVOCATE OF THOUGHT CRIMES LIKE YOU WERE PUBLICLY KILLED THAT WOULD BE A GREAT THING. IF WE NEED A “HOLOCAUST” TO STOP UNTERMENSCHEN COMMUNIST SHIT LIKE YOU FROM FALSELY JAILING PEOPLE THEN BRING IT ON ! Far from stopping fascism, you have endorsed and promoted it and the more that this type of legislation gets pushed, the more will be the backlash against the vile degenerates who promote it. No other group including the hundreds of milllions of victims of communism-socialism or even the millions of victims of US imperialism has called for jailing people for the views. Even if Zundel was motivated as you said, he has every right to promote his views. But then YOU are a liar who habitually misrepresents revisionist views, Zundel’s is the honest one of trying to combat what he sees as the mass blood libel of his people by the phony “holocaust” accusation. You, Chicago Colostomy Bag Hemorrhoids Face, are a totalitarian liar and piece of shit. I wish you ill. All future insane postings from you will be answered as follows: “ASKED and ANSWERED.” The exact way we handle vexatious repetition liars in legal depositions.
Posted by blondemike on Apr 2, 2007 at 10:41 AM Libertarians........The other white meat.
“ Any Jew who supports the fascist-Stalinist type of legislation against anyone HAS NO RIGHTS AND IS FAIR GAME FOR ANYONE. IF EVERY ADVOCATE OF THOUGHT CRIMES LIKE YOU WERE PUBLICLY KILLED THAT WOULD BE A GREAT THING. IF WE NEED A “HOLOCAUST” TO STOP UNTERMENSCHEN COMMUNIST SHIT LIKE YOU FROM FALSELY JAILING PEOPLE THEN BRING IT ON !”
What the hell can you say to that Cabdriver.
Hardesty the Dickless Wonder, Jew Hater Supreme has surpassed himself in bile and vitriol. I hope you blow your o-ring Mikey......Stroke out you old freak. Croak right on your keyboard.
I will piss on your grave. I have time on my side....You on the other hand.....Tick,tick,tick,tick,
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