i’d take him more seriously if he appeared on the daily show.

after alex jones called noam chomsky a “ new world order shill “ , i stopped listening to him.

Seriously, you think they’ll invite him?

I heard that AJ episode where he ripped Chomsky. I always thought he was a rightwing blowhard prone to making wild and unsubstantiated claims (like “there are more gun deaths in Austraila than in the US”) but there was something about his style I found intriging. Maybe it was his callers (The foot soldiers of rightwing populism). I stopped listening that day as well. I just realized I was wasting my time thinking that I had anything in common with anything the radical right (and don’t fool yourself about this guy) was going to organize around. Sometimes you hold your nose and get into bed with people on issues, but you don’t pretend that they are ultimately on-side . Same definately goes for Ron Paul.

One thing I do agree about is preparing ourselves. Water, food, lawyers, guns and money.

I think that anarchist / leftist have more in common with libertarians than y’all are allowing. A police state sucks just as much for right wingers as for left wingers. Was “Communist” Russia “right-wing” or “left-wing”? Was Stalin “right” or “left”? The “right” wing has been building a soviet-style totalitarianism in America for decades (the only difference being that it is a “two-party” totalitarianism); the instrument of control has been the corporations. Think about it… WalMart is the nation’s largest employer… every town in America has nearly identical suburban rings… wages are being controlled… the media is in the control of 3 or 4 conglomerates… even the internet is subject to corporate control. The webiste from which this article is reprinted was recently censored by one of this “free” nation’s top Internet Service Providers (Road Runner Cable, a Time Warner Company)

So, Bryan, Casual, I think we should worry less about the shibboleths of “right” and “left.” No one is asking you to give up your political heart or convictions, but certainly, Paul is right that the Bush administration is a kind of Big Government “trojan horse,” at least if “Big Government” means a proto-totalitarian state. Give him props for that.

There is one thing I disagree with him on, though: Harriet Miers is far from an “arch-liberal;” she is a neo-conservative fundamentalist Christian. There is absolutley no doubt that her conversion to the Republican party was and is authentic, and there is no doubt that her religious affiliation is to the most conservative and virulent form of American fundamentalist evangelicalism. My concern is, and Paul’s should be, that while sitting on the Bench, she will gladly sit by and watch, meaning she will quietly cast her vote to bring about, the creation of a truly totalitarian America.

“I think that anarchist / leftist have more in common with libertarians than y’all are allowing.”

Anarchists are really just friendly libertarians… :-P