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Nationalism is a Poison
Reason Magazine ^ | February 8, 2015 | Sheldon Richman

Posted on 02/08/2015 6:04:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Here's his earlier column:

The American Sniper Was No Hero
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3253135/posts

1 posted on 02/08/2015 6:04:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubbish. Not worth reading.


2 posted on 02/08/2015 6:07:12 PM PST by kabar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

An eloquent elaboration of why libertarianism is traitorous selfish and in league with anti Americanism.


3 posted on 02/08/2015 6:07:24 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who IS this idiot??????
4 posted on 02/08/2015 6:08:08 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WE..the American NATION have always been a Nation of Laws.....thats why we LOVE IT!

some people miss this stuff and rush off the the first illogical conclusion they can find..

taking a concept and misrepresenting it entirely...is the sign of a weak mind


5 posted on 02/08/2015 6:11:04 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These people would have us unilaterally eliminate love of our country. Surely a recipe for national destruction.

Self hatred is a bitter poison, right?


6 posted on 02/08/2015 6:11:41 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow, what a load of crap.

I am, and have always been, a staunch nationalist. IMO most of those who decry nationalism are UN communists. They hate nationalism because it is an obstacle to their One (communist) World ideal.

To claim that my love of country is at the same time a hate of other countries is an illogical lie.

The European Union is a good example of the despotism exerted by just the sort as this author. This socialist despotism is superior to defending one’s country from....European socialist despots?

I no longer argue logic with these LibTard pinheads. I now tell them to kiss off, you want my freedom, come see if you can take it.


7 posted on 02/08/2015 6:14:13 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author is correct, in one respect – “Nationalism” (as he considers it) seems to evoke a deep hatred and venom in this person against his own countrymen & particularly those who would selflessly defend his right to utter such garbage.


8 posted on 02/08/2015 6:15:47 PM PST by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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To: left that other site

This is the flagship libertarian publication.

“Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.”


9 posted on 02/08/2015 6:16:23 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: lonestar67

Only traitorous if you consider blind patriotism a virtue.


10 posted on 02/08/2015 6:17:11 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Far as I’m concerned the guy drilling holes into kids is more than enough reason not only to shoot the scum from rooftops, but to take military action in their country in the first place.


11 posted on 02/08/2015 6:20:56 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: MeshugeMikey

“WE..the American NATION have always been a Nation of Laws.....thats why we LOVE IT!”

Reality today demonstrates that we are no longer a nation of laws as you describe. We are a nation of fiat manipulations, by unelected government agencies and judges. They all do whatever they wish.

Laws now are purely for the purpose of controlling anyone who gets in their way.

Last year, +79,000 pages of laws, rules and regulations were added to the Federal Register. Do you know any of them? Me neither.

That is the point. They are there to be used as a weapon against anyone who dares stand in their way.

They are above the law. They choose what to enforce as it pleases them.


12 posted on 02/08/2015 6:21:13 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: kabar

One of the reasons I have no use for libertarianism.


13 posted on 02/08/2015 6:21:13 PM PST by Pelham (WWIII. Islam vs the West)
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To: ansel12

“This is the flagship libertarian publication.”

Yes it is and they are usually not this crazy.

People need to realize that all the people killed by Chris Kyle, et al. are just a drop in the bucket of the number that will have to be killed in order to end global jihad.

But folks are really not getting that yet. I have no idea what will finally get the idea through their thick heads. I dread to think of what it will take.


14 posted on 02/08/2015 6:21:15 PM PST by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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They are crazy enough, and this does fit in with libertarianism.


15 posted on 02/08/2015 6:23:43 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
To these people, nations are nothing but occupied land. They ignore that a national culture emerged to mobilize a people to improve their lot, defend against encroachers, and educate their young to sustain what their predecessors have built in order to pass it on to their own posterity.

All these people see today is a territory of resources to exploit, and an indigenous peope who are in their way. In order to overthrow them, they must first disconnect them from their history by making nationalism a sin.

-PJ

16 posted on 02/08/2015 6:28:12 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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He's right. I'm not a blind patriot. I wouldn't follow this leader into a wet paper bag.


17 posted on 02/08/2015 6:28:51 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: huckfillary

After 60 years of liberalism and libertarianism, that old fashioned American patriotism that worries you so much, is just about gone.


18 posted on 02/08/2015 6:29:27 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dear Mr. Richman, ( and I use the term “Mr.” loosely because I am not sure that you deserve it, ) if not nationalism then what? Internationalism? No nationalism at all? What?

Idiot!


19 posted on 02/08/2015 6:30:49 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: lonestar67

Not only is this the libertarian flagship publication, but look at the author.

“Sheldon Richman is vice president of the Future of Freedom Foundation and editor of Future of Freedom, FFF’s monthly publication.”

“The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) is a nonprofit libertarian foundation based in Fairfax, Virginia. It was founded by libertarian author and former defense attorney Jacob G. Hornberger in 1989 in order to advance the libertarian philosophy by “providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and a limited government.” Sheldon Richman is vice president and editor. James Bovard is a policy advisor.”


20 posted on 02/08/2015 6:31:15 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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