Comments on Pro Libertate: Pick-Pockets, Leg-Breakers, and Bigots: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others

You say Paul's mistake was licensing his name out....

2008-01-30T02:09:00.000-07:00

You say Paul's mistake was licensing his name out. That newsletter was produced in Paul's office. His wife and daughter were on the staff. It was printed by Paul's campaign manager. And don't you actually write for the guy who wrote those articles? Lew Rockwell!

American interventionists have brought the divisiv...

2008-01-29T16:34:00.000-07:00

American interventionists have brought the divisive tools of the left, e.g. Affirmative Action, to Brasil. This is a tragedy. Brasilians while having some of the attitudes of race that one can see in any part of the world, were at least not in the ethnic identity mode of politics. What Brasil will now end up being with US style leftist agenda will surely be worse than it is currently. Already the division in students over admissions to college with AA is starting the rot.

Whatever happened to merit? Now it is more important than ever that the principles of the republic here in America be adhered to and I would add that the Brasilian people would also benefit greatly from doing so also.

I spent some time in Brazil and observed a couple ...

2008-01-27T18:56:00.000-07:00

I spent some time in Brazil and observed a couple of things there- people were open about feelings of differences of race, and it went both ways. I wasn't aware of a lot of affirmative action legislation or political correctness on this subject, and it wouldn't have done much good anyway- indigenous, European and African descendants had so thoroughly mixed that 90% of the people I met were a mix of the three.

Interestingly enough, the government of Brasil HAS intervened heavily in the economic sphere. The result is clear and unmistakable. The class distinctions and utter disdain for those in different economic classes was venomous and defined a major part of the Brazilian culture.

You can always count on government intervention to take a problem and make it infinitely worse.

Dear Mr. Grigg,A wonderful essay! Bravissimo! I am...

2008-01-25T21:17:00.000-07:00

Dear Mr. Grigg,

A wonderful essay! Bravissimo! I am even more impressed by your printing the rant above by that unfortunate latter-day Nazi, Victor. Many people talk a good talk about freedom of speech, but you walk the walk - even though you have control over what gets into this blog, you printed that man's incoherent and venomous attack on you. Bravo again.

What is so sad about people like him is that he knows he is angry, but is too lacking in education or native wit to understand why - to see that he is being used, screwed and royally f****d by the people feeding him that racist garbage. I mean, it is so pathetically dumb, it is hardly even truly offensive, which I am sure was his intention.

Eric Hoffer described that sad person's siutation best. (I paraphrase since I can't remember word for word, but it is in "The Ordeal of Change".) He wrote: "If we cannot have what we really crave and want, we settle for substitutes. Money is a substitute for love, pride is a substitute for self-respect, and blind belief is a substitute for reason. But no amount of the substitute is sufficient to satisfy us - we can never have enough of that which we do not really want."

Then we become emotionally impoverished people like Victor. His racism is probably, I would hazard a guess, a substitute for self-respect and a cry for the affection he probably never got from his father. Sad.

To return to Ron Paul: There is indeed a class of people exploiting us, and squeezing enormous sums of money out of us - trillions of dollars. For that kind of money, those people would sell their own mothers. They own the so-called mainstream media, both political parties, and the mega-corporations (many of which have revenues greater than the GNP of scores of poorer countries.)

Don't call them Nazis. The Nazis were angels by comparison. The money men financed the Nazis, and also financed the Bolsheviks, and financed the British Empire, and the United States too. They always finance both sides in every war. No sooner does one war end than another starts. Read history. War, death and oceans of blood are their food, their stock-in-trade, their triumph and their glory. No human endeavor is more profitable than war. Was so then, is so now, and always will be so.

Naturally the money people are attacking Ron Paul. He is getting too popular. They cannot risk his getting ahead, because he cannot be bought, unlike the Clintons (both of them), Obama (who is starting to understand the game) and all the rest, except Kucinich.

Wait and see. The next President has already been chosen for us, and has probably been interviewed for the job and told what he or she will have to do for the money people, who are going to get him or her "elected." Ask yourself who is in favor of endless war and you will see who is in the money game and who is not.

Any one not under control who gets too popular will have some long-forgotten scandal trumpeted all over the media - their mother caught them masturbating in the shower when they were twelve - or something will be fabricated out of whole cloth, like McCain's fathering a black bastard in 2000 or Kerry shooting a Vietnamese child in the back, or Max Cleland "faking losing 3 of his 4 limbs" in combat in Vietnam. Whatever it takes.

We will never be able to win against such immense power. This country is too large to get any message out, unless the MSM owners endorse it. Ron Paul will not be the next President, because he refuses to play ball.

But let us all be of good cheer, God will not be mocked. Those money powers have killed the golden geese - us workers - who laid their golden eggs for them, and it is too late now to do anything about it, and all of us are going to face an economic catastrophe of millenial proportions very soon. The money men will suffer too. Their billion dollars will be reduced to 50 million, and they will suffer mentally just as much or more than you and I, even if they may not be eating leaves off the trees like us. And we will be richer, because we will still have the love of our families to sustain us, while those people will have watched 95% of their poor substitute for love drain away through their fingers.

May God and us folks of good will bless Ron Paul. He is a good man. Even if he is being cursed and slandered by the powers of evil. And even if he did masturbate in the shower as a boy. (Who didn't?)

Kind regards,
Chris Taylor
Arlington, VA

Doc -- It sounds to me like you were a veritable E...

2008-01-25T13:17:00.000-07:00

Doc -- It sounds to me like you were a veritable Eric Hoffer, a blue-collar scholar and philosopher. A man of that kind is worth his weight in palladium.

As for Dock Ellis -- he was a very good pitcher, but not the best on that staff. He claims to have pitched a no-hitter while on LSD, which is both dubious and disturbing. He was a teammate of the late, much lamented Roberto Clemente, one of the purest baseball talents who ever lived and a REAL man who died trying to relieve the misery of Nicaraguan earthquake victims.

Thanks for indulging my bad pun, and pointless little excursion into nostalgia.

Dear Mr Grigg:Thank you for the kind words. They ...

2008-01-25T13:10:00.000-07:00

Dear Mr Grigg:

Thank you for the kind words. They really should go to him.
I earned my name because I exhibited a propensity toward utilising polysylobic vebalisations when I was working as a freight company dockworker in 1979. The 124 part of my tag is my initiation number at the CSUN chapter of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. I hope this helps.
Doc

Doc Ellis -- thanks so much for your kind words. A...

2008-01-25T12:58:00.000-07:00

Doc Ellis -- thanks so much for your kind words. And allow me to say that I was a big fan back in the early 1970s when you used to bring the starboard-side heat for the Pittsburgh Pirates. ;-)

This is for the poster who accused Grigg of lying:...

2008-01-25T12:55:00.000-07:00

This is for the poster who accused Grigg of lying: why are you reading lies? Go away and read something else. To Mr Griggs: I thank you and believe you. Keep up the good work.

Doc Ellis 124

Thank you, Mr. Grigg. There's much refreshing goo...

2008-01-24T18:32:00.000-07:00

Thank you, Mr. Grigg. There's much refreshing good sense here.

There is no such thing as race. It is entirely a ...

2008-01-24T17:02:00.000-07:00

There is no such thing as race. It is entirely a political fiction similar to the two party system. When the news gets out, all manner of well-spoken, well-educated intellectual morons are going to be engaging in strenuous and comical rhetorical back-peddling about "perceptions" trumping "reality". I look forward to it all.

Good points about the neocons. Too bad though that...

2008-01-24T16:57:00.000-07:00

Good points about the neocons. Too bad though that you are lying, and you know Whites will fall for it, naive as we are; you paint this picture of a deranged Nazi drunk (learning from Hollywood, good boy), and claim that you don't care about race. It is all "melanine." Right. Non-Whites care about their own, the honest ones admit it, and they know perfectly well that the differences between the races are not simply "skin deep," no matter that the research into racial differences has been banned from the schools. You write this kind of lie to protect your own, of course. Enough Whites need to be kept in a state of confusion long enough for Whites to become a minority in the U.S., in Canada, Australia, and European countries. That is the goal, then your kind will be on the safe side, in parasitizing on the wealth of White nations and having access to White women, by the "you're not racist are you?" line or by force. The libertarian camp, the socialist camp, the neocon camp - wherever the non-Whites goes, he will bring this foremost goal. Work it in to every debate. Too bad you are still losing. Whites are getting tired of being robbed and spat at, and when the globalist recession hits for real, and millions of Whites lose their jobs, they will finally dare stand up against your invasion. You write on a computer invented by Whites, you live in a house built by White-invented architecture, you drive a car invented by Whites, even your light bulbs are a White invention. I understand, you hate us for being better than your race, even while you always try to keep near us, like the other non-Whites. Enjoy it while you can. Payback will be a bitch.

To touch on the issue of race/nationality, I think...

2008-01-24T11:53:00.000-07:00

To touch on the issue of race/nationality, I think the Bush regime has proven that the color of one's skin or their ancestral heritage has nothing to do with political opinion or thought. Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice are among the best liars that a government has ever produced. John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales are among the best twisters of law that any person of any color has ever been. These people are a testament to the idea that it's not your skin color/heritage, but your ideas that really count. Thank you Mr. Grigg for having and promoting ideas of liberty and freedom---people like you and those who read you have a commonality that transcends the accidents of birth.

Well done.

2008-01-24T10:14:00.000-07:00

Well done.

Fantastic article. I am building a collection of v...

2008-01-24T08:15:00.000-07:00

Fantastic article. I am building a collection of various writings to help educate my son (now 4) about decency and adulthood (covering morality, ethics, society, politics, economics, etc.)

This article is going in the folder.

George Gaskell

I think your demolition of the Paul-haters was sup...

2008-01-24T08:09:00.000-07:00

I think your demolition of the Paul-haters was superior to Justin Raimondo's. When Raimondo gets too worked up he tends to lose his sense of humor

Dear Mr. Grigg,I looked you up on Wikipedia and im...

2008-01-24T08:07:00.000-07:00

Dear Mr. Grigg,

I looked you up on Wikipedia and immediately knew that you were all right. Anyone with the handles 'Blarney con Carne' and 'Cuchulain Cuauhtemoc' is someone who is aware of their heritage and able to laugh at themselves. As we say in the Irish, Go Maith Thu !

Slan, David Burke

Brilliantly thought out and as always , well writt...

2008-01-24T07:06:00.000-07:00

Brilliantly thought out and as always , well written.

Peace on Earth

Goodwill to Men

Power of Love

Forgiveness of Sin

Lots of turgid prose and less than accurate representations of ancient history can be found in the Bible as well. Often times the message gets lost in the dissection of the unimportant Biblical passages.

These 12 word are Jesus gift to men. They are worth studying. All of the misery and suffering of mankind on this Earth can be traced to the negation of some or all of these twelve words.

The Bible was transcribed by fallible, and mortal human beings. Linguistic analysis has demonstrated that it had many authors at many different points in time. However these words will be valid as long as men draw breath and seek his Grace to facilitate an honorable passage through this life.

Mr. Grigg:I have no idea whether or not you concer...

2008-01-23T09:44:00.000-07:00

Mr. Grigg:

I have no idea whether or not you concern yourself much with Latino/Hispanic affairs being of mut origin as myself, but I'm curious as to what you think about Hillary and her connections to Raul Yzaguirre. Here is an exerpt from the Judicial Watch web site that talks about this:
http://judicialwatch.org/http%3A//www.corruptionchronicles.com/2007/04/hillary_picks_la_raza_leader_a.html

Do you know much about National Council of La Raza and their possible connections to movements like "reconquista?"

You can email me at brettzwo@juno.com

-Brett

Thanks,

-Brett

Anonymous -- thanks for your kind words, and pleas...

2008-01-23T09:41:00.000-07:00

Anonymous -- thanks for your kind words, and please forgive my failure to communicate clearly.

Under the rules of political correctness, to which Beltway "libertarians" adhere with slavish devotion, one can be critical of anybody other than Lincoln and King.

Ron Paul and his associates who ghost-wrote some essays in his newsletter unabashedly scorn Lincoln and his legacy, and are -- at best -- ambivalent about King. They also don't conform to the PC stylebook regarding matters like homosexuality/AIDS. These stylistic offenses and crimes of opinion matter much more to the Beltway "libertarian" crowd than Paul's decades-long career devoted to reducing the power of the State.

I was trying, unsuccessfully, to encapsulate that message in the lines you quoted. I'm sorry to have left you puzzled, and since it's the writer's responsibility to be clear in his expression this was entirely my fault.

Thanks again!

Mr. Grigg. I really like what I've read of your b...

2008-01-23T09:29:00.000-07:00

Mr. Grigg. I really like what I've read of your blogging. I didn't quite understand what you were getting at when you said the following regarding RP:

"his failure to burn incense to the State's official deities (such as Lincoln and Martin Luther King) and his willingness to associate with people who say and write things that violate the canons of political correctness."

Thank you Mr Grigg for the clarification of your h...

2008-01-22T17:04:00.000-07:00

Thank you Mr Grigg for the clarification of your heritage, as if it has any effect on the writings flowing from your pen...(coming from a cracka, btw)

I don't believe that anyone who has accepted Christ can truly, honestly, be bigoted. If they are, they need to take a closer look at their faith and Jesus' message.

When I started to read the blogging coming from supposedly "libertarian" writers, I was amazed at how quickly they could write large amounts of smear, and in effect disown the man they had "supported" for a long time, based on comments and insinuations with little or no fact. I was thinking that these brats had the intestinal fortitude of Mitt Romney, maybe less, jumping ship or changing tack at the smallest sign of rough water.

As "anonymous" above pointed out...
Neo-conservatism/Weekly Standard
Neo-liberalism/New Republic
Neo-libertarianism/Reason

1)Neo-conservatism/Weekly Standard2)Neo-liberalism...

2008-01-21T17:17:00.000-07:00

1)Neo-conservatism/Weekly Standard
2)Neo-liberalism/New Republic
3)Neo-libertarianism/Reason

And there you have it.
All three "neoisms" dressed up as our finely arrayed, acceptable mainstream political "movements" of
soulless claques and their flagship rags tethered to the Beltway Establishment coterie. Could these Washington DC
Gatekeeper "movements" prove to be
any more venal and insidious to America's political psyche?

It's time for Dr. No to answer this house call, cuz I think that town needs an enema!

Ron Paul 2008/2012! (Why not?)
R. Wiesinger

Indeed, Jerri Lynn, action betrays the heart. Spee...

2008-01-21T06:20:00.000-07:00

Indeed, Jerri Lynn, action betrays the heart. Speech is mere window dressing. If empty words of support don't put food on the table, neither do slang terms take it off.

Yes, indeed Ron Paul has franchised his name to pe...

2008-01-20T17:08:00.000-07:00

Yes, indeed Ron Paul has franchised his name to people whose agendas are contrary to his. Now genuine Ron Paul supporters are going to have to work harder to get Ron Paul the nomination.

Another great article; keep up the good work.

2008-01-20T07:22:00.000-07:00

Another great article; keep up the good work.