Justin Raimondo -- Enemy Agent?

RichardPoe.com ^ | February 8, 2003 | Richard Poe

[sheik yerbouty]

Raimundo is still seething over the Levitical Codes...

[Keith in Iowa]

Who is Justin Raimondo, and why do we care what he says about anything?

Looks to me he's just a putz with a web site...

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Looks to me he's just a putz with a web site..."

No, that would be Senator Chuck Schumer.

[Richard Poe]

<< Looks to me he's just a putz with a web site... >>

Well, in fairness to Raimondo... aren't we all just putzes with a Web site, when you get right down to it?

[IronJack]

Most of the time, Justin Raimondo's work is well reasoned and articulate, even if he is at the opposite end of the spectrum from my own stance. Lately, it seems the burden of saving the world has taken its toll though, because the tenor and caliber of his writing seems to be in decline. Maybe it's because it's hard to say anything positive about Saddam Hussein, or to keep repeating the same tired talking points about the Iraq situation. Stridency alone won't win that argument.

[MadIvan]

If you want to drive him around the twist call him "Justine". That makes him frothing at the mouth crazy.

I've crossed swords with him before. Justine's hatred of the British and Britain knows no bounds.

Regards, Ivan

[ken5050]

He gets paid by the word....

[MadIvan]

He gets paid by the word....

Well it wasn't obviously by the quality of the words selected, nor by the thought contained therein (should there be any).

Regards, Ivan

[Pinch]

Enemy agent? If a total lack of logic coupled with an alarming ignorance of history makes one so, then I guess you are correct.

I would rather just chalk HIM up as one of the left wing (or so-far-right-that-he's-left) kooks.

[ken5050]

Back at ya, my friend.....BTW..are the Brits deploying the Tornados again to the Gulf.....they got hit hard early in the air campaign in Desert Storm, before their missions were changed from low level bombing. I fear the planes are a tad over the hill.....

[MadIvan]

Tornados, Jaguars and Harriers are all going, if I recall correctly.

Regards, Ivan

[dennisw]

Justin Raimondo's crud no longer can be posted here. (There was a recent exception) The site owners/managers could't stomach his "essays" anymore. 

My take: He's an anti-American and anti-Semitic skunk and I don't care how many phony Jews he has as associates at antiwar.com. Justine is as Jew obsessed as the old German nazis were and the Islamics are today. His crap is copy& pasted on Aryan nation, nazi and Arab websites. I know a man by the company he keeps

[Dan(9698)]

>>>...aren't we all just putzes with a Web site,

Some are more putz than others.

[dennisw]

Good luck in your tussle with the skunk

[Registered]

Great article.

[Registered]

flag.

[doug from upland]

Justine......I like it.

[Cicero]

The only reason Justin Raimondo concerns Freepers at all is that he was about 99% right in his opposition to clinton's war against Yugoslavia. His articles then were excellent.

I agree with you that he has been dead wrong about most things since 9/11. But one can't resist the faint hope that someone who was right once may get his head straight again.

Writing for Pravda may or may not make him suspect. I would guess that the Russians may have found a common interest with him because of his writings about the war against Yugoslavia, since Russia supported their "little brothers" the Serbs but were unable to help them in the face of clinton's brutal onslaught.

US security interests sometimes coincide with Russia's and sometimes diverge. On the whole, however, I think that Bush has been very wise to try to work with Putin. Although Putin has ties to Saddam, the US and Russia share a common interest in fighting Islamic terrorism. Whether Raimondo is a tool of the Russians, I have no idea. I would rather doubt it, since he seems to be a man with very strong convictions of his own--even though they have recently been very wrongheaded.