Justin Raimondo on Getting Beyond ‘Left’ & ‘Right’ (video)

Eric Garris, November 12, 2010

Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo spoke in Boston yesterday on “Getting Beyond ‘Left’ and ‘Right’.” The event was sponsored by the new antiwar coalition, Come Home, America, which seeks to unite conservatives, liberals and libertarians against militarism and Empire. Thanks to The Daily Paul for the video.



8 Responses to “Justin Raimondo on Getting Beyond ‘Left’ & ‘Right’ (video)”

  1. Reme
    November 12th, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    Great speech Justin, you deserve a better podium! Somethin like a presidential one.

  2. hardtruth
    November 14th, 2010 at 5:49 am

    The US can't get "beyond left and right" because it has no "left" . Justin is clearly intellectually incapable of grasping this though I've explained it many times here. I'll try again: The "Democrats" are not remotely "left" from an international perspective. They are "far right". The "progressive" Democrats are not left either. They are just "right". The Republicans are "extreme right" bordering satanic

    Justin should stop referring to the "left" in the context of US politics because there ain't no such animal.

  3. Good Luck
    November 14th, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    Please travel to the UK to explain to the anti fascists that they should support the BNP in their “Bring Our Boys Home”.

  4. hardtruth
    November 15th, 2010 at 2:05 am

    "Please travel to the UK to explain to the anti fascists that they should support the BNP in their “Bring Our Boys Home”. "

    Only the white ones, though. The BNP is profoundly racist.

  5. Rich911T
    November 15th, 2010 at 6:55 am

    There is already a left-right antiwar coalition: it is called 9/11 truth.
    WTC7 is the Achilles heel of the war party, yet Raimondo refuses to exploit it. (Hmmm.)
    As long as alleged antiwarriors like Raimondo tacitly perpetuate the official 9/11 myth, the PTB will be able to scare Americans into supporting the "war on terror."
    9/11 got us into this mess; only 9/11T can get us out.

  6. Justin Raimondo: A ‘Sustainable’ Empire? | Same Old Change
    November 17th, 2010 at 4:16 am

    [...] Boston – This was a great success, too, I thought – a good crowd, all of whom were brought in either by leafleting by the wonderful organizers of the event – Prof. John Walsh, and Doug Fuda – which was sponsored by the Boston chapter of ComeHomeAmerica.org, the new left-right anti-interventionist coalition. Around 100 people crowded into the basement of the wonderful old church in downtown Boston where the meeting was held. People came from all over, some as far away as New Hampshire, and all in all it was a very eager, interested crowd: here we have the makings of a movement (ditto in Danbury). I spoke for an hour and twenty minutes, criticizing the Obama administration and its leftist acolytes, giving a wide-ranging historical account of the development of anti-interventionism on the right as well as the left, and ending with a call for a single issue movement. The question and answer period was lively, to say the least, with one representative of the remnants of United for Peace and Justice, a group that I singled out for criticism, taking me to task for being “divisive.” This was effectively countered by John Walsh, who pointed out that several approaches had been made to UfJP to little avail, and non-leftist speakers were banned at their events. Other audience members agreed, and this led to a debate over including issues like “global warming” – which Green Party types brought up – and I made the point that there is a difference between founding an effective coalition that wants to achieve a specific goal – say, ending a war – and founding a political party. It was heartwarming, I have to say, to get a question about Murray Rothbard’s classic book, Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy – that moment was truly the high point of my tour. [...]

  7. Gabe
    November 17th, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    Senator Max Cleland resigned from the 9/11 comission and claiemd it was a frau being perpetrated ont eh American people. This is rather bizarro. Other 9/11 comission memebers have said they were lied to by the government many times.

    People who acknowledge these facts and ask "Why?" are denounced as "troothers!". I can understand being scared of the consequnces for speaking out, but acknowledging the lies of our government surrounding 9/11 and asking follow up questions is THE ONLY logical course to follow.

  8. andy
    November 20th, 2010 at 12:45 pm

    Racist? The British people never asked to have their country flooded with ethnic foreigners.