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Ask, and You Surely Shall Receive June 8, 2006

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Heed this — via the LA Times:

[June 8th, 2006 | Vienna, Austria] — Iran began to enrich a second batch of uranium in its research plant this week on the same day that world powers delivered a negotiating offer to Tehran conditioned on its suspension of nuclear activities, according to a report released Thursday by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Whoever says there is no justice in this Universe definitely does not watch the evening news.

They Nailed the Bastard! June 8, 2006

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Via MSNBC:

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings, was killed overnight by F-16 jets dropping two 500-pound bombs, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday. It was a long-sought victory in the war in Iraq.

Al-Zarqawi and seven aides, including spiritual adviser Sheik Abdul Rahman, were killed inside a building in a remote area 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, officials said.

Finally! A thousands pounds of mayhem is definitely not a bad way to send these neanderthal SOBs back to HELL! Unfortunately, this isn’t the way this war is going to be won, as Zarqawi (and bin Laden himself, for that matter) can simply replaced by someone just as sick as him — if not worse. The way to end this war — as quickly and with as little cost as possible, be it in monetary terms, or in that which is most important: our freedom and rights — is to put an end to the material means by which these anti-life thugs put their bloody, unearthly ideals into practice, i.e.: by putting an end to the existence of state-sponsors of terrorism and imperialistic Islam.

Brothers in Arms September 26, 2005

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The following is an excerpt of a speech given at an anti-war rally:

[T]he state fears the advocates of peace. It fears the truth, and those who tell the truth. It fears those who dare to judge the state by normal standards of morality. The state fears you. Why? Because you hold the opinions that you do, and refuse to surrender your mind, your talents, your soul. By joining the resistance, you help thwart their plans. You help establish the basis for peace in the future. You help preserve and develop civilization, for the human family can only thrive in a setting of peace.

Wouldn?t you say that that is a great speech capable of being delivered only by a great advocate of liberty-properly-defined ? one who doesn?t divorce his case for liberty from an objective ?[standard of morality]?? And would you not say that this great orator has both the honor and pleasure of having a particularly virtuous audience ? one that never ?[surrenders its mind, talents and soul]? in the face of obstacles? Well, as pompous islamo-fscists would put it, ?you should think 101 times? before you answer that.

The above speech was delivered very recenlty at an Alabama anti-war protest by none other than patron, anarcho-libertarian, Lew Rockwell. And just in case you?re wondering, this speech was indeed delivered at a leftist [read: socialist] anti-war rally, and in front of a lefitst audience. It is to such kind of people ? supposedly his ideological antagonists ? that Mr. Rockwell entrusts with the ?[establishment of a basis for peace in the future.]? It is to these militants of the anti-industrial revolution that he entrusts with the ?[preservation and developement of civilization]?!!! Whoever said that ?anarchists? and totalitarians were political enemies?

The testament to the chronic intellectual poverty (and promiscuity) that gave rise to the above state of affairs doesn?t take too much time to surface. Having finished lavishing his audience with praises of integrity, independance and courage, Mr. Rockwell immediatelly follows up with an ode to altruism:

So I say to you: Keep making the sacrifice. Believe in peace. Proclaim peace. Stand up to the state. Be a dissident. Tell what is true. And do not fear the emperor-pirates. They, after all, fear you. For you help tilt the balance of history against their barbarism, and in favor of peace and freedom.


Is he mad? He must be. For he does not seem to be aware of the fact that he?s speaking to crusading advoctes of Leviathan Government, i.e., the admirers of ?emperor-pirates.? The Alabama Peace and Justice Coalition ? at whose rally Mr. Rockwell was speaking ? has the following as its motto:

Our message is: Stop the killing!
Support the troops, bring them home now!
Spend money for human needs, not war!

That last sentence is the key. To the extent that today?s pacifistic leftists are opposed to the quasi-fascist policies being undertaken by the right, they subsitute, not individual freedom for totaliarianism as Mr. Rockwell deludes himself into believing, but merely: one form of statism for another. Paradoxically enough though, Mr. Rockwell is well aware of this fact ? but he dismisses it quickly because, allegdly

the opportunity to make a difference in favor of freedom should not be passed up, even if one?s associates have a mixed-up ideology. After all, most ideologies these days are mixed up, and have been for the better part of a century.

Objectivists are too well aware of the dangers of this sort of intellectual promiscuity and prostitution. One that should be evident here is that ?mak[ing] a difference in favor of reedom? has come to mean praising totalitarian socialism, and gving it moral and intellectual credit where it has earned none, i.e., it has come to mean promoting statism as a way of promoting ?freedom.? The inevitable outcome of such a course of action shouldn?t be hard to imagine.

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