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Horowitz
responds:
Raimondo
is a deranged individual with a pathological obssession [sic]
for me because of a conflict we had over Martin Luther King
(whom he despises) almost ten years ago. According to Freedom
House Qatar has "no human rights". Al Jeezera [sic] TV daily
incites 35 million Muslims to think of the United States as
a mass murderer. Its rulers have as much integrity as the
Saudi dynasty, which is also our "ally". [University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill Chancellor James] Moeser attacked me
as despicable and shameful while he pretended to defend my
free speech rights. He made no such critical judgment of his
own professors for putting on [a] teach in to promote the
idea that the United States deserved the World Trade Center
attack. Why should I have been nice to him when I was there?
I have read a couple of Raimondo's attacks on me. People can
have honest differences. I try answer those who do. Raimondo
probably has such differences with me, but he prefers character
assassination as a method of argument instead.
Justin
Raimondo's rejoinder:
Your
nutty idea that I have an "obsession" with you, David, is
laughable: is everything really all about you? I don't
think so. It really doesn't behoove someone who is so vocal
about his opinions to whine about how people are attacking
him – when you are constantly on the attack yourself.
Your idea that I "despise" Martin Luther King is typical of
your hopped-up hyperbolic state: while I disagree with King's
ideas (as a libertarian, I oppose anti-discrimination laws)
this hardly amounts to "despising" him.
Your
curious obsession with Qatar – of all places! –
is what is truly deranged. Here is a faithful US ally, which
one would think would get your imprimatur on account of its
cravenly pro-US foreign policy – and instead you are
conducting a one-man "divestment" movement, in parodic imitation
of your former comrades on the Left. Al Jazeera may not have
a program of which you approve, but neither does its editorial
policy coincide with that of the pro-US Qatari government
– a point that underscores Qatar's relatively free media.
Nothing you have written supports the idea that Qatar is a
"radical Islamic state," as you put it.
Furthermore,
your diatribe nowhere cites an actual reference to anyone
saying that "the US deserved the WTC attack": who said this
at UNC-Chapel Hill, and when?
Finally,
for you, of all people, to complain that I have engaged in
a campaign of "character assassination" is disingenuous, to
say the least. This from someone who screeches that
I am "deranged" and, in an answer to another letter, claims
that I am the reason for his having to travel with
bodyguards! Look, David, don't blame me if people hate
you: you've made enough enemies on your own, without any help
from me.
If
you choose not to answer any polemics directed at you written
by me, I suppose you have your reasons. But please quit the
victimological whining: if you can't stand the heat, then
get out of the kitchen.
– Justin Raimondo, San Francisco, California, 12/06/01
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