James Bovard: Libertarian looney

WBAP-820 | 1/2/2004

[sinkspur]

James Bovard is currently being interviewed by Brian Wilson (a substitute host for Mark Davis).

He believes that "it will be a test as to the strenght of our democracy" when and if George W. Bush "is put on trial for his unconstitutional war and for the murder of Iraqis."

There's still time to hear the last 15 minutes of Bovard's bovine bleatings.

[sinkspur]

I've read a couple of this guy's books, and had no idea he was such a lunatic.

[sinkspur]

Go to wbap.com for a live feed.

[Revolting cat!]

[Cultural Jihad]

Is he a member of the "Libertarians For Howard Dean" committee?

[ArrogantBustard]

His books always seemed reasonable enough ...

"bovine bleatings" ????? Ovine bleatings perhaps... or even Caprine bleatings. But surely not bovine. I'd think a Texan would know better.

[sinkspur]

Bovard repeated his demand that Bush be tried for "the murder of thousands of Iraqi children through bombing and sanctions."

What a flake!

[michaelt]

Did Bovard explain why the war was unconstitutional?

[Cultural Jihad]

Regardless of the war, isn't the issuing of speeding tickets a treasonable offense, according to the losertarians?

[JohnGalt]

Conservative opinion: "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice"

Sinkspure opinion: "Defending liberty is a lost cause, the best we can hope for is social democrat led Republicanism."

Is that about right?

[Taliesan]

I don't get it. Congress said use force and Bush used force.

[sinkspur]

I don't get it. Congress said use force and Bush used force.

You do get it. Bovard doesn't get it.

Instead of making rational arguments, he resorted to the Ramsey-Clarkisms of "murdering Iraqi children."

He said the sanctions that the world imposed on Iraq were the equivalent of genocide, and he thinks Bush should be held responsible. Lots of anger in his voice when he said that.

I was just surprised that someone whose writings on waste in government are so rational could be so off the rails on Iraq.

[tbpiper]

Is that about right?

no

[tbpiper]

Libertarian looney

You realize, of course, that's redundant?

[Cultural Jihad]

Conservative opinion: "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice"

JohnGalt opinion: "Defending liberty is treasonous; the best we can hope for is a moral-liberal isolationist social-Darwinist led Libertarianism."

Is that about right?

[Captain Kirk]

Anyone is deemed a lunatic here who dares to criticize our Big Government president.

[Mr. Jeeves]

This fellow isn't criticizing the President using the language of libertarianism - he's using the language of the radical Left. Which calls into question whether he is really a libertarian, or one of those radical Leftists who like to use "libertarianism" as a cloak of respectability over a very different agenda.

[JohnGalt]

LOL

Diversity is our strength, CK.

[Revolting cat!]

What Brian Wilson once said, (like "I wish they all could be California girls", for example) was more consequential than what some nobody says on a provincial radio station that hardly anyone listens to. A great big yawn!

[Cultural Jihad]

Or really, there is little true difference between the leftists and the libertarians when ideology leads them both into irrelevant extremism.

[woofie]

I think if you head right long enough you run smack dab into the left...note Pat Buchanan