Where Is Smedley When We Need Him? [Rockwell Barf Alert - Long, Stupid, Toothgrinding Rant]

lewrockwell.com ^ | 4/29/03 | Butler Shaffer

[Chancellor Palpatine]

This one rates really high on the "Rockwellian Excess" scale. We've got it all, from evil Yankees to isolationism in the Second World War.

I realize that it is long and pointless, but Rockwell does not deserve the click.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

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[Poohbah]

Sheesh.

[dirtboy]

The Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the Cold War, had in common the purpose of furthering American corporate interests in other regions of the world.

Un-friggin' believable. This one is a world-class stinker even by the aromatic standards of LewRockwell.com. Millions of dead in these wars, fascism, nazism and communism defeated and millions of others liberated and all this a**wipe can bleat is that it's to further American corporate interests.

[Dog Gone]

If all of the business-sponsored laws, regulatory schemes, tariffs and taxation policies, and wars were suddenly eliminated, we would soon discover the free and creative nature of a stateless society.

He's an anarchist.

[dighton]

Over the years, I have run across the writings of a number of Butlers whose views of life seemed to parallel my own . . .

You rang?

[Valin]

The Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the Cold War, had in common the purpose of furthering American corporate interests in other regions of the world.

Question, should I be having this shooting pain in my (so called) brain right now?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I couldn't look at the phrase too hard - it caused me to go crosseyed and a huge migraine like pain to develop.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Lurch would have been a more talented writer.

[habs4ever]

Why do you torture yourself so? You can at least get that sort of thing, and booze, at a family get-together ;-)

[wideawake]

Wow. The hysterics have really reached a fever pitch.

What is galling about this is that Ludwig von Mises, whose Institute runs this website and whose legacy Rockwell claims to be preserving, did not oppose the destruction of Nazism in Europe.

[Lazamataz]

The Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the Cold War, had in common the purpose of furthering American corporate interests in other regions of the world.

Lewser Rockwell literally opposes American involvement in World War Two.

The man is a screaming, flecks-of-spittle lunatic.

[Lazamataz]

What is galling about this is that Ludwig von Mises, whose Institute runs this website and whose legacy Rockwell claims to be preserving, did not oppose the destruction of Nazism in Europe.

But the Lewser does.

[Lazamataz]

Un-friggin' believable. This one is a world-class stinker even by the aromatic standards of LewRockwell.com. Millions of dead in these wars, fascism, nazism and communism defeated and millions of others liberated and all this a**wipe can bleat is that it's to further American corporate interests.

If I met him, I'd slug him.

[wimpycat]

Why are these people so nauseatingly long-winded?

[conservonator]

Personally, I would rather see you go back to posting your theological opinions rather than any more of the bilge that Lew Rockwell be pumpin’.

[conservonator]

Lew Rockwell = lewrockwell.com

[Valin]

Rockwell does the paleo-con position no good with this kind of drek.

[general_re]

The defense of a truly "free market" has never been on the agenda of either "big business" or the state. This is why mercantilism has long been attractive to the interests of both sets of institutions. There are many – Rothbard being the most visible example – who understand this quite well. If all of the business-sponsored laws, regulatory schemes, tariffs and taxation policies, and wars were suddenly eliminated, we would soon discover the free and creative nature of a stateless society.

I believe I am beginning to understand. If you were to eliminate this single paragraph with the proposed anarcho-capitalist solution to the "problem" being discussed, the rest of this article would fit in just fine over at the "Socialist Worker" website. Really, Lew and the Marxists are in perfect agreement about what the problem with the world is - corporate/state influence.

Oh, sure, Lew thinks it's the state corrupting free enterprise, and the Marxists think it's free enterprise corrupting the state, but beyond that, it's exactly the same thing. And they have exactly the same solution - Lew says "tear down the state", and the Marxists say "eventually the state will fade away".

We're gradually traveling full-circle - go far enough to the right, and you end up on the left....

[Welsh Rabbit]

This is the first time I've read this man's work. What a horrible writer. That was one of the worst introductions to an editorial I've ever encountered; a pointless tangent that had absolutely no connection to the subject. A lot of words to say, "corporations rule us and are responsible for all the evil in the world."