On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:10:54 -0700, Curly Surmudgeon
<curly@curlysurmudgeon.com> wrote:

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:24:06 -0500, plonk wrote:

from the blog at AntiWar.com:
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P2403



Imaginary powerful libertarians
What sort of bizarre "Guest Editorial"
http://www.juancole.com/2005/10/guest-editorial-smith-on-libertarians.html
is this on Informed Comment today? Billed by Cole as "Guest Editorial:
Smith on Libertarians and Iraq" (apparently this Jan Smith),
http://go.owu.edu/~social/faculty%20bios/smith-bio.htm
this odd piece reads like an email from the middle of a series, as it
makes statements and associations which aren't explained at all, most
of which would make any libertarian's mind reel. Like this:

"For the libertarians themselves, or more precisely, the private
elites they represent, has had far more influence than Israel on the
administration?s foreign policy."

We represent private elites? Who knew? I always thought it obvious
that we were the bag ladies of American politics. Or this:

"Justin Raimundo can tell you what it takes to satisfy the private
elites."

No sh%^&@#*t?! Justin, you old dog, you've been holding out on us!

And just to confirm that this guy has absolutely no idea what a
libertarian is or what they stand for, he adds:
"But what about the libertarians? They are angry that the government
is spending 'their money' in Iraq. And they are powerful"...

POWERFUL? *Boggle*

Smith:
"Want many Iraqs, one after another until this century?s empire
crumbles into dust? Become a libertarian."

What is this guy talking about? I'm one of those powerful
libertarians, typing my opinion powerfully onto the internets. In
February of 2003, I, along with other libertarians, powerfully marched
in a quarter-million strong protest against invading Iraq. Oddly, the
Bush administration ignored our powerful demand.

I'm OK with the Empire crumbling into dust, but what sort of insane
logic would lead a person to blame libertarians for "many Iraqs?"

It's the Orwellian-doublespeak taken to an artform by the Rove/Bush team.
"Deny everything, blame someone else, screw plausable denial."

You see vivid examples here on a daily basis. If not this newsgroup then
find one with "republican" in the name. No, it's not "Republicans" but
the crytpo fascists making their move for world domination via what was
once a semi-rational party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_fascist

Plausibly, Smith could be talking about the war-supporting
"neolibertarian" Liberventionists, but the only libertarian he names
is the editorial director of AntiWar.com, for pete's sake. Hello, Jan?
AntiWar.com? Get it?

Hi Curly,
They would be attacking War Party # 2 if they didn't represent
pro Iraq war interests of their own.
Just to clarify the Libertarian anti-Iraq War movement:

Hey Neolibertarians

Donald Boudreaux explains the libertarian antiwar position for all
those who missed it the first thousand times.

http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2005/10/an_open_letter__1.html

http://www.antiwar.com/photos/perm/bush-joke.jpg