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Peter Thiel, Phony Billionaire Libertarian, Donates $1 Million to Anti-Immigration Group NumbersUSA
ValleyWag.com ^ | November 14, 2008 | Owen Thomas

Posted on 11/16/2008 8:43:48 PM PST by Samantha_West_2008

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Billionaire Peter Thiel, best known as the founder of PayPal and a prominent libertarian, has just been caught donating $1 million to the anti-immigration group NumbersUSA.
1 posted on 11/16/2008 8:43:48 PM PST by Samantha_West_2008
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To: Samantha_West_2008; Admin Moderator

And what is the problem with that, troll?


2 posted on 11/16/2008 8:46:28 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Obama is bringing in every crook and bumbler he can to assure consistency in his message.)
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3 posted on 11/16/2008 8:48:24 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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4 posted on 11/16/2008 8:49:53 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Good, we need more monied non-liberals to step up and contribute to offset Soros and his band of nogoodniks.
5 posted on 11/16/2008 8:50:22 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Enjoying the final death throes of the dinosaur media.)
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To: Samantha_West_2008

Good for him.


6 posted on 11/16/2008 8:51:23 PM PST by Sloth (What's the difference between taxation and armed robbery, aside from who's doing it?)
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

It’s a PRO-IMMIGRATION group...

The illegal aliens and their enablers are the ANTI-IMMIGRATION group...

Learn that difference ...

There be a closed book test...


7 posted on 11/16/2008 8:52:16 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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I'm not sure what the headline means. Does it mean he is supposed to be a phony Billionaire, or a phony Libertarian, or both?

I have no problems with someone being a Libertarian who believes in the Constitutional duty of the Federal Government to secure the borders from invasion. I do not see a conflict there.

I really have no problems with a billionaire who would donate a million dollars to those ends (securing the border, or pushing for that). Seems patriotic to me.

I noticed the "Anti-Immigration" part of the headline, too, but as garbled as the rest is, I figured that was the mediaspeak code for anti-ILLEGAL immigration. Or did I get that wrong?

8 posted on 11/16/2008 8:55:42 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Samantha_West_2008

Sounds like a great way to spend a million bucks to me.


9 posted on 11/16/2008 9:00:32 PM PST by pgkdan ( All Catholics should know supporting Obama constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.)
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I just looked at their website, and they are not a pro-immigration group. They don't seem to distinguish between legal and illegal immigration much either. They really are a group that want's less immigration. From their website...

NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan immigration-reduction organization. We conduct research on the impacts of high numerical levels of immigration and educate the public, opinion leaders and policy makers on the results of those and other studies. Undergirding our work are beliefs in environmental sustainability, economic justice, the rule of law, and individual liberty, and opposition to federal immigration policies that threaten these values by forcing massive U.S. population growth.

10 posted on 11/16/2008 9:00:47 PM PST by Hugin (GSA! (Goodbye sweet America))
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To: Samantha_West_2008

Thanks for the informational post from a source I doubt I would have read had it not been for your posting. I did not know much about Thiel. You did not editorialize at all in my opinion, so we don’t know your view on this (unless I am missing something in the thread). However I guess since you are new, some automatically called you a troll, I guess about posting an article that might lean toward Thiel’s conversion and donation being a bad thing?

I think this issue, like legalized drugs, is one big hot button issue between the classic libertarians and the less-libertarian conservatives, though both of those groups agree a lot more than they disagree, and we will all benefit from understanding issues such as this.

So instead of calling you a troll, I will just say “Welcome to FreeRepublic” and keep an open mind.

So, what is your take on the situation described in this article?


11 posted on 11/16/2008 9:26:26 PM PST by Weirdad (A Free Republic, not a "democracy" (mob rule))
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To: Samantha_West_2008

I am getting sick of the outright blind, naked bias in these Gawker Media-run websites. Is this what you wanted to point out?


12 posted on 11/16/2008 9:43:48 PM PST by Captainpaintball (I 'aint to blame...I voted McCain!)
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To: Samantha_West_2008

Fantastic!!!!!


13 posted on 11/16/2008 9:48:57 PM PST by dalereed
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Dear Troll

Numbers USA is an ‘anti-illegal’ immigration group


14 posted on 11/16/2008 9:58:55 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: Samantha_West_2008

ping


15 posted on 11/17/2008 5:15:41 AM PST by Ladycalif (Free - Ramos and Compean)
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To: Samantha_West_2008

Good for him


16 posted on 11/17/2008 5:18:49 AM PST by Ladycalif (Free - Ramos and Compean)
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BTT!


17 posted on 11/17/2008 9:20:24 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: Samantha_West_2008

I read an interview with Pete Thiel about 18 months ago in Barrons. He is very bright I am not easily impressed but the guy really knows his stuff.


18 posted on 11/17/2008 10:20:48 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: ConservativeMind

Ping.


19 posted on 11/17/2008 1:51:47 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Obama is bringing in every crook and bumbler he can to assure consistency in his message.)
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To: Samantha_West_2008

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I just sent a thank you note to Bob Morrow.


20 posted on 11/18/2008 1:39:41 AM PST by rmlew (The loyal opposition to a regime dedicated to overthrowing the Constitution are accomplices.)
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