Thank you. Im too busy to reply at the moment, but Alister's post suffices.
Thanks for saving me the time.
I recognize that the right is fishing the left's pond, but that doesn't
absolve us of the need for critical thinking, etc.; it rather makes it all
the more necessary.
DDeBar

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> From: alister air <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] FW: An Important Recent Letter from Congressman
RonPaul
> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 9:17 PM
>
> At 15:17 23/12/97 -0000, you wrote:
> >This is maybe a little too flag waving for my taste, but this guy has
most
> of the right answers, & if he gets them from >his belief in the US
> constitution....  I don't mind.....I have a hard time understanding how
it
> is that I find myself >agreeing with a right-wing (?) Congressman and
> Texan, but........ please read.
>
> With respect to this post, I think the guy's a fruit loop whos ideas
would
> be pretty much totally in contradiction to Chomsky's.
>
> We'll ignore for the moment that the entire post is pretty much a call
for
> campaign contributions, and deal with the letter on its merits.
>
> Libertarian socialists tend not to put their faith in electoral change,
as
> I understand it.  I could be wrong, of course.
>
> >We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"
>
> This person seeks an end to corporate welfare, which is good, but at the
> cost of *all* welfare?
>
> >no attacks on private property
>
> No comment required.
>
> >That system is called liberty.  It's what the Founding Fathers gave us.
> Under liberty, we built the greatest, freest, > most prosperous, most
> decent country on earth.
>
> Which country is he talking about?  "Greatest" is a matter of opinion,
> "freest" is debatable (it's free if you can afford to pay for the freedom
-
> something this guy should have learned by now), and as for "most decent"
-
> don't make me puke.
>
> >Just as important, we wouldn't have this endless string of booms and
> busts, recessions and depressions, with each bust >getting worse.  They
> aren't natural to the free market; they're caused by the schemers at the
Fed.
>
> While Chomsky talks about the "free market" and its non-existance
anywhere
> in the world, I think we can be safe in assuming that the sort of free
> market this person is talking about contradicts somewhat with the
> libertarian socialist ideal.
>
> >I also work to save our schools from D.C. interference.  Thanks to the
> feds, new curriculums not only smear the Founders >as "racist,
slave-owning
> elitists," they seek to dumb down our students so they will all be equal.
>
> He also appears to be engaged in ancestor-worship - either that or in
denial.
>
> >After all, the UN is socialist and corrupt (many votes can be bought
with
> a "blonde and a case of scotch," one UN >ambassador once said).
>
> Corrupt, obviously, but socialist??
>
> >Not one dime for the UN, and not one American soldier!  Not in Haiti,
not
> in Bosnia, not in Somalia, not in Rwanda.
>
> We all like this idea, I'm sure... as would the victims of US soldiers or
> soldiers trained by US forces throughout the world.
>
> While there are a couple of things we can agree with in this person's
> letter, the majority appear too scary.  The agreements we have are on the
> surface, such as the US governemnt's interferance, curbing the rights of
> its citizens and the like.  But people influenced by Chomsky's work would
> surely not follow this man down the free-market path?
>
> Alister