Laugh At The Gibberingly Mad Right Wing Nutcase's Website Part 587

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Found this totally fuckwitted site via a link on NotBBC Comedy Board.

"The joyous celebration of diversity and longing for absolute equality that we are all encouraged to share is against human nature."

― Chris Lyons, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

New answers!

― Chris Lyons, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Best / worst line:

"The Daily Telegraph, showing its usual cowardice when the politically correct classes are challenged", or something to that effect.

Gawd, Robert Henderson ... Stevo, haven't you had a run-in with him on Usenet?

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's all fun and games till the right-wing nutcases come to power (see current pResident* of the Oval Office).

* not a misspelling -- ask Bill Rehnquist, Tony Scalia, or Uncle Thomas.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

On a couple of occasions Robin, (blimey how did you know? My internet past catching-up with me).

For those not familiar with him Robert Henderson is a paranoid ultra- right wing crank whose article in Wisden Cricket Monthly ‘Is it in the Blood?’ questioning non-white English cricketers commitment saw the magazine successfully sued for liable.

I won’t easily forget his description of meeting Ian Duncan-Smith when being investigated by the police following a string of ‘abusive’ letters sent to Tony and Cheri Blair. Henderson met IDS at the Commons but described the MP as appearing uncomfortable, sweating profusely and visibly nervous. Within minutes IDS suddenly claimed he had to leave on ‘urgent’ constituency business ‘could they arrange another meeting some other time etc’. Naturally Henderson never received any more replies, all of which he took as proof IDS wasn’t fit to lead the Tories!

― stevo, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Does libertarian always have to = right-wing nutter?

― DG, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not at all: Marx was a libertarian (obv not in name). But libertarianism gravitated way to the right during the 60s because of the morass of moralistic paternalism and/or stalinism sexual conservatism and/or totalitarian statism hobbling if not killing the old left. American libertarians are (some of them) very hard to call on "English" left- right characteristics.

― mark s, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(eg "gun-nuttism" = associated w.right becuz of affiliations of NRA, *but* Black Panthers' "crime" was — in part — insistence on right for black man to go armed; Dave Marsh — noted rock'n'roll leftist — is pro-gun)

― mark s, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dope, guns, and fucking in the streets!

― dave q, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

As for Canadian libertarians...?!¡¿

― mark s, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Canada was the first de facto modern police state (True!), founded upon principles laid down by the Mounties and not the wild bunch down South. Canadians tend to be either so in awe of authority that they're pathetic, or (a minority) utterly hostile toward any authority whatever.

― dave q, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

mounties = proto-gestapo?

(i realise brits hsave a warped cosy view courtesy a. python, b. dreary comedy staple "they always get their man ho ho")

― mark s, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

reasons why "libertarianism" in the USA is more affiliated with the political right than the political left: (1) Ayn Rand (though, through the magic of Usenet, her putrid reach seems to have global); (2) shrewd GOP co-opting of libertarian-sounding ideas and dogma (if you have the stomach, read the 1994 Contract with America or Newt Gingrich's rhetoric circa those days); (3) goofy über-rich benefactors (Richard Mellon Scaife) financing libertarian "think tanks" (like CATO Institute), "law and economics," and talking heads; (4) federalism, and the back-and-forth between Washington D.C. and the 50 states (which dynamic precedes current American right-libertarian -- think Tom Jefferson v. Alex Hamilton). Now you know :-)

on the other hand, Mr. Chomsky (and probably Mr. Vidal these days) are properly seen as left-libertarians. then there's the issue of the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World), for the history buffs amongst us. mark s. correct about the NRA, of course.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would also point people's attention to a state and federal judiciary willing to gut and/or rollback as much federal/state economic regulation as possible, using their notions of "federalism" and "law and economics" (more precisely, laissez-faire economic dogma as a rationale for regulatory rollbacks) as figleaves. Ergo, the current pitched battle in the Congress over nominations to the federal judiciary and the on-going hostility towards folks like CJ Rehnquist, Scalia, and Uncle Thomas.

(I could include long rants on pre-New Deal jurisprudence, but that would bore and confound everyone [esp. non-Yanks] so I'll shut up now unless prompted to speak more re this :-)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

This made me laugh on gibbering nutcase's website:

'We should take the BBC permanently off air. I accept that it has existed long enough and been prominent enough to qualify as an historic institution. I also accept that, bias aside, it probably is the best broadcasting organisation in the world. But I see no alternative to shutting it down.' (How To Destroy The Enemy Class)

He can't resist a touch of kneejerk nationalist pride in an institution he nevertheless has to hate because it's run by liberals.

― Momus, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

DG:

Does libertarian always have to = right-wing nutter?

I'm on a music mail list, mainly american, where some of the members are right-libertarians, members of the US lib party. hey are actually pretty decent, & not raving loonies in any way. I do get the feelong that part ov thee US lib party's (www.lp.org) appeal is this

You don't have to pay taxes, 'cuz they're ev0l.

They are certainly no worse, & prob better in many ways than GWB and his loathsome cohorts.

― Norman Phay, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

twenty years pass...

came across this https://www.jonathanepmoore.com

i’m sure it’s par for the course but just the relentlessness of it is impressive. constant invocations of ‘we the people’, the UN, soros, etc. he seems to have become radicalized around the time obama was elected, wonder why

also the guy died in january, not long after praising the power of ivermectin

― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link

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