-Caveat Lector-
Last night I had an opportunity to listen to a local radio talk program
hosted by an individual who claims to be a "libertarian." Since he's a
new host for the show, the regular callers were interested in his opinion
on Kosovo.
Strangely, this self-proclaimed "libertarian" was championing the
government's policy in Kosovo.... I thought that this was a rather
peculiar
position coming from someone who claims to espouse libertarian ideals.
Then, as he elaborated his position, it became clear. The war is "good"
because Serbia has refused to practice "free trade."
You see, if a nation
insists on its right to have an economic system that is different from the
"free trade system" championed by the
New World Order, then, according to the host's logic, Yugoslavia's
"illogical" insistence on not practicing "free trade" and signing onto the
EU agenda
means that its regime (and its people) should be punished.
Punishment, I guess, means "humanitarian bombing."
But the "libertarian" host continued to make an astonishing statement. He
told his listening audience (for the most part, conservative Republicans)
that a world government is not a bad thing at all. Why? Because the world
government would usher in what he believed to be a libertarian utopia:
businesses will dominate and control global populations...local
governments will be abolished....we will all be part of one big happy
economic trading system (presumably, led by the wise men of capital)...and
in this "libertarian" paradise, the rich will get richer, and the poor
will be justly punished.
Surprisingly, not one of the usually contentious "conservative" telephone
callers seemed interested in challenging him. It was as if a thick wooly
blanket had descended upon their thought processes, and I was shocked to
hear some of the usually crusty "better dead than Red" patriot types agree
with him.
I would like some of the libertarians on the list to share their thoughts
on this subject.
Clearly, NATO has violated the terms of its own charter
by waging war on one if its European neighbors. It's also clear that the
"accidental" bombing of civilian targets is not really accidental. The
NATO forces are interested in terrorizing the civilian
population....perhaps, it reflects a Malthusian approach of getting rid of
Europe's "useless eaters."
But I'm a little perplexed why so many of the
libertarian contributors to CTRL condemn these Nazi-like policies. After
all, once Milosevic is gone, and NATO enjoys its "victory," the last
remnants of Tito's socialist state will have been delivered into the hands
of EU apparachniks working for Swiss/German/British capitalists. Many of
you free marketeers should find that a heartwarming prospect. Certainly,
our local talk show host certainly does.
But then I began wondering if libertarianism itself might be a tool of the
global elite to usher in a one world government... well...it's a
possibility. Just more of the old Hegelian thesis-antithesis stuff to
keep the public constantly off balance while the noose around our necks
grows tighter and tighter.. hmmmmmm..
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Peter L. Sroufe wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> (Be Careful Brothers and Sisters, The overclass elites are using the media
> lords to condition our psyche in to accepting the Culture of Death; then
> proclaim themselves as our Protectors.)
> Sounds to me like Hitlerian nazism. Better learn who these people are that
> considers it a 'necessary price'.
> Of course if your a dumbed-down product of our socialist public school
> system, you'll think, "Who cares?".
> Socialism=Slavery and Death
> Constitutionalism=Freedom and Life
> We shouldn't allow the illiteracy of the many enslave the literate few!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Monday, May 31, 1999 Published at 18:25 GMT 19:25 UK
>
>
> World: Europe
>
> Civilian deaths 'necessary price'
>
> Nato admits bombing bridge in Varvarin
>
> Nato says civilian casualties in Yugoslavia are the price of defeating evil,
> after three separate attacks in which at least 32 people are reported to
> have died.
>
>
>
> "There is always a cost to defeat an evil. It never comes free,
> unfortunately. But the cost of failure to defeat a great evil is far
> higher," said Nato spokesman Jamie Shea.
>
> He insisted Nato planes had bombed only "legitimate designated military
> targets" and if more civilians had died it was because Nato had been forced
> into military action.
>
>
>
> BBC's David Sillito: The number of civilian injuries continues to grow
> Yugoslavia says at least 20 people were killed when Nato planes hit a
> sanatorium and a neighbouring old people's home during a midnight raid in
> the town of Surdilica in south-eastern Serbia on Sunday.
>
> Another 11 are reported to have died in an attack on a bridge in Varvarin,
> south-central Serbia, and one person died when a bomb hit a car carrying
> foreign journalists.
>
>
>
> Wreckage of the bridge at Varvarin
> Alliance military spokesman General Konrad Freitag said Nato warplanes had
> successfully hit an ammunition storage depot and a military barracks in the
> raid on Surdulica.
>
> Nato is still investigating the claims of civilian deaths.
>
> Nato also described the attack on the bridge at Varvarin as a "designated
> and legitimate target".
>
> Mr Shea said: "Nato does not attack civilian targets, we attack exclusively
> military targets and take every precaution to avoid inflicting harm on
> civilians."
>
> According to Belgrade, at least 11 civilians were killed and 40 injured.
>
>
>
> Jon Leyne reports: "NATO denies allegations that its bombs are going astray"
> Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said the area would have been crowded with
> people attending the town market at 1pm local time (1100GMT) on Sunday, the
> time of the attack.
>
> Witnesses said four cars fell into the River Velika Morava during the first
> waves of attacks and rescuers who went to help victims were hit in a second
> wave of bombings.
>
> (Click here to see a map of latest Nato strikes)
>
> Tanjug also reported a car carrying foreign journalists in Kosovo was hit on
> Sunday, although Nato says there is no evidence an alliance plane was
> involved.
>
>
>
> Jamie Shea: We have no information so far that we were responsible
> The driver of the car, who was an interpreter, was killed and one British,
> one French and one Italian journalist had been injured, said the agency.
>
> Eve-Ann Prentice of The Times newspaper was treated in a hospital in Prizren
> but has since been released.
>
> Milosevic peace move
>
> Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has confirmed he will accept the G8
> principles for ending the Kosovo conflict.
>
>
>
>
> In a statement issued to Serbian radio, he said: "In line with our
> consistent policy of peace and defence of freedom, the Federal Republic of
> Yugoslavia has accepted the G8 principles and believes that the UN Security
> Council, in line with the UN Charter, should now make it possible with its
> resolution to move the solution to the crisis from the military to the
> political track."
>
> The US reacted with caution, saying it welcomed any positive development but
> it was not clear all the terms had been accepted.
>
> Michael Williams, a BBC correspondent in Belgrade, said Yugoslavia first
> accepted the G8 principles as a basis for negotiation some three weeks ago.
>
> But he said it was perhaps significant that the announcement had finally
> come from the highest echelons of government.
>
> Clinton calls for support
>
> US President Bill Clinton has urged Americans to support the Kosovo
> campaign.
>
> "What we are doing today will save lives, including American lives, in the
> future and it will give our children a better, safer world to live in," he
> said in his Memorial Day address.
>
> Mr Clinton said that if the United States was more heavily involved than
> other countries, it was because the US had a greater capacity.
>
>
>
> Jeremy Cooke reports: "The fighting threatens to spread into Albania itself"
> In another development, there has been upsurge in fighting between Serb
> forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army along the border between Kosovo and
> Albania.
>
> Serb shells hit an area less than a mile from the Morino crossing point used
> by hundreds of refugees every day.
>
> Aid agencies in the nearby town of Kukes have warned that the area is
> becoming increasingly unsafe.
>
> Some 2,000 refugees a day are being taken to camps further south, although
> many are unwilling to move away from the border, and from home in Kosovo.
>
> http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_357000/357355.stm
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>
> "A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot
> survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for
> he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the
> traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers
> rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
> For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to
> his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to
> the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of
> a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the
> pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer
> resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."
> --- Cicero in a speech to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust
>
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>
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>
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