CHOMSKY - Libertarian
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Posted on 11/09/2006 7:37:02 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
Thursday, October 3, 2002
GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) -- Montana's Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease.
Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.
He made his own concoction by electrically charging a couple of silver wires in a glass of water.
His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago...
...He does not take the supplement any longer, but the skin condition, called argyria, is permanent....
(Excerpt) Read more at archives.cnn.com ...
Good point, but that don't matter to the barking liber-bats.... Santorum's ACU rating was 92 last year and the frothing-at-the-mouth libertarians in PA were outright calling him a "Socialist".
CHOMSKY - Libertarian
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Looks more like an anarchist.
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1132&id=70
Chomsky's Economics
By James Ostrowski
Posted on 1/6/2003
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Aside from Noam Chomsky's work as a linguist, he is a great critic of US foreign policy, the corporate state, and the media establishment. There is much to criticize in these spheres and Chomsky does so prolifically. He is so prolific a critic that we are inevitably drawn to the question, "What is Noam Chomsky for?" It is difficult to discern this from his essays and remarks which are overfilled with analysis and criticism.
Why should we care what Chomsky, or any critic, is for? Simply because if we get rid of that which the critic criticizes, and install the critic's favored form of regime, it just might be worse! To so conclude does not and would not justify the status quo; it would merely point us away from a particular alternative to the status quo.
It turns out that figuring out what Chomsky is for is not easy. He just doesn't say much about it. He doesn't like what we have now. He disfavors Stalinism and fascism. He despises the libertarian alternative to the present regime, which he calls American libertarianism. So he is not for a minimal state, anarcho-capitalism, or a free market.
He describes Murray Rothbard's vision of a libertarian society as "so full of hate that no human being would want to live in it." (I will not attempt to dissect this insane remark here except to note how the "anti-authoritarian" Chomsky purports to speak for all human beings.) He is against any form of capitalism. It goes without saying that he is not a political conservative. But he has repeatedly denounced "Marxism"[1] and fiscal Keynesianism and protectionism as well[2].
What is left? Not much. Chomsky uses the following terms to define himself: libertarian, libertarian socialist, anarchist, and anarcho-syndicalist. It is not clear what any of this means, which is just as well for Chomsky. If it isn't clear what he is for, it is difficult to criticize it. But I will try anyway.
Chomsky follows Marx in opposing the private ownership of the means of production, which he believes permits "elite groups" to :"command resources, based ultimately on their control of the private economy," and ends up excluding the public from "basic decisions concerning production and work."[3]
Let's stop right there. As Ayn Rand so eloquently argued, the ultimate means of production is the human mind. Chomsky of course doesn't want to abolish the private ownership of our minds (I hope.)
That will happen when a) the LP ceases to nominate fruitloops for office; b) starts saying sensible things a about foreign affairs. I don't see any chance of it happening.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. They don't call them the stupid party for nothing.
Silver is being used in clothes and clothes washers for it's anti-bacterial properties.
And lest we forget, one of the greatest Republicans of all started out as a Democrat. They don't make em like they used to.
Or, would you eschew everything Charlie said?
Odd, the Democrats nominate their share of fruitloops for various national offices and talk nonsense on foreign affairs, and it seems to work for them.
^_^
thanks, there isn't alot of political reality on here lately.
We lost the Senate because of HIM??? Jye-sus. Well, if 10,000 Montanans think the Senate election is a fricking joke, who am I to object. I quit.
I don't expect subservience from libertarians. Nor do I expect rationality or critical judgment. I expect infantile narcissism and self-defeating stupidity, and I am rarely disappointed.
1998 - John Ensign fails to unseat Harry Reid by 428. The L candidate gets over 3000 votes.
2000 - Slade Gorton loses to Maria Cantwell by 2228 votes. The L gets more then 10,000 votes.
2002 - John Thune fails to unseat Tim Johnson by 524 votes. The L gets more then 3000 votes.
2006 - Conrad Burns loses to John Tester by about 2000 votes. The L gets 10,000 votes.
Well of course, his campaign song was "Am I Blue?" :-)
oops - I forgot my comment, Ivan:
{Coffee through my nose!) ROFL!
If the Whigs in the 1850's hadn't voted for that new third party that called themselves Republicans we wouldn't be here.
Not true. Whigs had already completely self-distructed by the time Republicans were a force. They weren't forced to destruct by Republicans running against them.
The U.S. House election, 1854
| Party | Total Seats (change) | Seat percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 84 | -73 | 33.3% |
| American Party | 62 | +62 | 24.6% |
| Whig Party | 60 | -11 | 23.8% |
| Republican Party | 46 | +46 | 18.3% |
| Independents | 0 | -1 | 0% |
| Other | 0 | -4 | 0% |
| Totals | 252 | +18 | 100% |
the chart is from wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_election,_1854
Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.
He made his own concoction by electrically charging a couple of silver wires in a glass of water.
His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago...
Here in Britain from time to time, we see these "only in America" news items...
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