Comments on: Lew Rockwell

By: Game Cat

Game Cat — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:55:43 +0000

“The state is not the only enemy of freedom; It could be the company that runs your neighborhood supercenter.”

It could be the company that makes your voting machines:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/20/sequoia_kills_evoting_review/

And yeah, great interview although as European I only get half the references.

By: Steve B

Steve B — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:24:50 +0000

Buckley wore his Catholicism as a cloak and fit well with Gandi’s comment on Christianity “A great idea, someone should try it!!” He was most comfortable with country club and marina sets than having any compassion for those less fortuntate. I imagine he would not allow Jesus into his inner circle if the opportunity presented itself. Buckley was a son of inherited wealth and though ranking in the top entelligentia somehow never managed to imitate others who also shared his privileged status but did empathize with them. Perhaps the one story exposing his inner-self was when he was seen talking to an elderly couple with an Iris background. One of his upper-echelon journalists commented “Well you had a lot in common with them.” “How, so?” “Well, Irish, Catholic of course.” “They’re nobodys!!” Of course Buckley identified with the “somebodys” and despite his enormous intellectual gifts this statement will always define his characted to me.

By: Rich Aucoin

Rich Aucoin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:16:49 +0000

Regarding Paul Craig Roberts’ assertion that most Americans will reject pure laissez faire economics, so what?
Most Americans reject the pure forms of EVERY political philosophy.
Why is it news that certain aspects of libertarianism might also be unpopular at a given time in history?
Let us instead focus on purely libertarian proposals that ARE popular.
For example, when ultra-liberal Massachusetts voted in 2002 on the boldly libertarian ballot question to END their income tax, a stunning 45% voted YES. The question is back on the ballot again this year. So let us see how it does before we conclude that liberty is being “destroyed” by its “ideologically blind purists.” (www.SmallGovernmentAct.org).

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Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:22:50 +0000

[...] of “modern conservatism.” Hear more about Buckley as antiwar.com’s Scott Horton interviews Lew [...]

By: George Griffin

George Griffin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:53:48 +0000

History will say of William F. Buckley that he charmed, like a sophist, the American middle class while all along serving as the mouthpiece for the elite/aristocratic US military-industrial establishment responsible for the greatest national debt an empire ever inherited. Thanks Bill!!!

By: Jet

Jet — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:49:08 +0000

The broken window fallacy [destruction creates jobs] has been disproven some time ago. It is used today by irrational people stuck in the 5,000 year old tradition of trying to create empires that always fail. In this sense humanity is like the matrix movie.

If wars are so great for the economy, as the current admin is claiming, why hasn’t the dollar gained valued? Why hasnt more jobs been created? Why has the GDP slowed to 2%? Why hasnt fuel prices stabilised? Why is inflation rising? Why is Bush talking about sellling 400 tons of gold the IMF is holding?

As for the free market myth I hear espoused on libertarian sites its more of the same Buckley type rhetoric and leads to more of the same problem we have today.
he U.S. Senate voted [Republican ruled] in 1999 to approve S. 900, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed the Depression-era barriers that separate banking, insurance and securities.

Sen. Phil Gramm, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement:
“I believe we have passed what will prove to be the most important banking bill in 60 years. It overturns the key provision of the Glass-Steagall act that divided the American financial system. -Phil Gramm

Yeh, riiiiiight.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:08:44 +0000

just wanted to say – great interview. Very informational especially regarding the history of the “conservative” and libertarian movements.

By: the legendary Bill

the legendary Bill — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:05:48 +0000

Mr. Paul Craig Roberts has an excellent column that is always worth reading…His kind is in short supply: A thoughtful conservative-the kind that almost seems to have died out in the 80’s..Also read Patrick J. Buchanan’s new book…

By: Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:48:44 +0000

What is going to destroy the libertarian message, unfortunately, is offshoring of US production for US markets, which is destroying US job opportunities and the tax base of many communities, transferring US labor income to corporate fat cats and shareholders, busting unions as a countervailing power, and preventing any real income gains for the majority of the American people. Libertarians have unconsciously positioned themselves as favoring freedom for capital at the expense of labor. Libertarians are seen as partisans for capital freedom at all cost. The dismantling of the ladders of upward mobility in the US limits the ability of the libertarians to reach the majority of the American people who are under tremendous economic pressure.
This is unfortunate, because it is an ideological blindness not based in fact, and it will cost America its liberty.

By: the legendary Bill

the legendary Bill — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:29:33 +0000

No wonder Churchill called him ” the most noble American who ever lived.”