Recently at Reason.tv: Glenn Greenwald on Civil Liberties, David Post on Jefferson's Moose, Matt Kibbe on Tea Parties
Salon columnist and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald is the author of a new Cato Institute policy paper on Portugal's pathbreaking and hugely successful drug decriminalization program.
Greenwald sat down with Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie to talk about the lessons from Portugal-and Barack Obama's decidedly disappointing performance so far on drug policy, executive power, and civil liberties. Approximately nine minutes. Shot by Dan Hayes and Meredith Bragg; edited by Dan Hayes.
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Reason contributor David Post teaches cyberlaw at Temple University and blogs at the Volokh Conspiracy. Long recognized as one of the most original thinkers about the Internet and digital culture, he is the author of the widely acclaimed new book In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace.
Post recently sat down with Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie to talk about the cutting edge in intellectual property, constitutional history, what the Internet tells us about the economic crisis, and much more.
Shot by Dan Hayes and Meredith Bragg and edited by Roger Richards. Approximately nine minutes.
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During Reason Weekend, the annual event held by the nonprofit that publishes this website, Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie caught up with Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks, the group that has done more than anyone else to coordinate the controversial and wildly popular Tea Party demonstrations against out-of-control government spending.
Kibbe, a longtime limited-government activist, explains the meaning of the Tea Party movement, its grassroots appeal, the mainstream media's inability to understand the rage of the common man, and what comes next for the most vital anti-government movement in memory.
Shot and edited by Roger Richards; approximately 5.30 minutes.
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Related materials:
An archive of anti-stimulus, anti-bailout writings by Freedomworks' chairman, Dick Armey.
Kibbe's writings on the same topics. And his classic Reason.com article from October 2, 2008, "What Would Mises Do?: Confessions of a free-market, anti-bailout operator."
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Obama sucks on civil liberties? Say it ain't so, joe!
I'm confused. This post's content appears copied from the previous posting, yet the title says, "Reaso.tv". Jitters?
Anywhoo, it's both hilarious and sad that the GreatestPoliticalThinkers of our time like Gillespie, Insty, and the like just can't get their minds around why the tea parties will never be effective.
As everyone knows, I'm not a BHO supporter. I want there to be a strong opposition to BHO, and the "parties" will never provide that because a) they don't have the numbers, and b) their leaders can't think.
The "parties" only got 0.1% to 0.2% of the U.S. pop to turn out, and they won't go much beyond that because their market is strictly limited: the "kulaks" (legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/02/revolt-of-kulaks-has-begun.html_, specifically the SmallEntrepreneurClass: RealEstateSaleswomen, SoloAccountants, and on and on. Add into that the fact that the underlying message of the "parties" is "mean-spirited" and is a slap in the face to millions of Americans who are struggling right now, and you can see that they'll never go anywhere. And, of course, StreetProtests are generally a stupid idea.
Of course, some "partiers" may realize that and push ahead anyway in order to get their LoungeSingerCareer going, or to sell t-shirts, or to show their organizing chops. But, all the rest are obviously incapable of figuring out that they're just wasting their time.
P.S. Here's my round-up of the first one hundred days of the Obama administration.
P.P.S. In case anyone replies to this, their responses will almost assuredly be ad homs, thereby conceding my points.
LoneWacko, are you for real? Or are you a lefty spoof troll trying to make out all opponents of BHO as nutjobs?
Orange Line, your comment seems to be one big advertisement for your blog and doesn't offer any solutions. Ad hom? Maybe. Yawn. Conceding your point? Not sure what your point is. Is it to do nothing? Have at it.
The tea parties, the signs, the bumper stickers, the rallies - they give me hope and refresh my spirit. These are much needed opportunities for us to meet each other face to face, to know we are not alone, to give us the courage to take this to the next level. Very, very powerful stuff. Thank goodness we are showing our faces. And our names.
"Of course, some "partiers" may realize that and push ahead anyway in order to get their LoungeSingerCareer going"
WTH?
The tea parties, the signs, the bumper stickers, the rallies - they give me hope and refresh my spirit... to give us the courage to take this to the next level.
Solipsistic and clueless. There is no "next level". Your leaders have foreclosed such a "next level" by restricting the market for their "movement". There are probably more people drawing a check from the state of CA than attended all the "parties" combined. Your leaders who actually think they'll ever have any power are living in a fantasy world. Perhaps the clearest example is the call for a Constitutional Convention. Both TammyBruce and Insty promoted that, completely oblivious to the incredibly obvious fact that your "movement" does not have the numbers. What part about you don't have the numbers don't you understand?
Regarding LoungeSingerCareer: link.
And, what's sad/hilarious about the "movement" is that its leaders support MassiveImmigration, and those millions of new Dems will... vote to raise taxes on the tea partiers. Sweet irony for useful idiots.
Shut up, LoneFucko.
Lonewhacko:
It will be amusing if you catch the SwineInfluenza from an IllegalMexican.If this is truly a pandemic we will need massiveimmigration just to repopulate the TaxBase.
*Citizen of the World
P.P.S. In case anyone replies to this, their responses will almost assuredly be ad homs, thereby conceding my points.
This has got to be my favorite part of LoneWackoScreeds. "They hate me because I'm right...no, no, no...they hate me therefore I'm right! Yeah, that's it! That's how logic works; I read that on teh Internets."
completely oblivious to the incredibly obvious fact that your "movement" does not have the numbers. (em original)
Sez the guy who promotes himself as a sort of modern day John the Baptist.
(btw that's a tu quoque, not an ad hom)
"completely oblivious to the incredibly obvious fact that your "movement" does not have the numbers. (em original)
Sez the guy who promotes himself as a sort of modern day John the Baptist."
Coherence has never been one of the great virtues of LoneWhacker.
(btw that's a tu quoque, not an ad hom)
To cross into utter pedantville, tu quoque arguments are a specific subclass of ad hominem arguments.
Considering that all of LoneJacker's comments are ad hom, I think it's perfectly fair to respond ad hom.
"You guys are stupid and nothing you do works and you're shilling for MassiveImmigration" (paraphrase)
Response: And you're retarded, you're insane, and you live in your mom's basement.
Sounds fair to me.
P Brooks | April 26, 2009, 3:18pm | #
Shut up, LoneFucko.
Close but no cigar.
"They hate me because I'm right...no, no, no...they hate me therefore I'm right! Yeah, that's it! That's how logic works; I read that on teh Internets."
Perhaps his strategy is to be such a repulsive and pathetic character that the temptation to ad hominize him is irresistable, at which point he plays the LogicalFallacy card.
Not sure how it's working out for him in the big picture though.
to ad hominize
That's a solid verbing.
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LOL.
I wonder if Nick cuts his own hair. Clearly no reputable stylist was involved with his latest look.
Hey, LoneWacko...
Tu quoque sucker!
Say there Lonewhacko, I took a look at your list of "achievements" by the Anointed One, and the first thing on there is a revision to the whitehouse.gov web site.
Skipping a bit further down, I see an item about his attempt to organize petition drives to show support for the porkulus bill.
This has got to be the most anemic list of so-called achievements that I can remember. Hell, Jimmy Carter could probably top that if he were re-elected.
-jcr
Regarding Glen Greenwald, it's good to get some details on the Portugese experience with decriminalization. I had some familiarity with the Dutch approach, and it sounds like the data is in; criminalizing drug use is a fucking stupid idea if your goal is actually to reduce rates of addiction.
Of course, if your real goal is to have a pretext to harass and/or imprison poor people, sick people, or dissidents, it's about as handy a law as any jackbooted thug could wish for.
-jcr
Shut the fuck up, LoneWacko. People get all ad hominem when they see you coming not because they can't argue your "points" but because your points are not worth arguing.
That's a solid verbing.
Cut it out, yo. Verbing weirds the language.
Teabagging parties are neither grassroots nor do they have mass appeal.
Teabagging parties are neither grassroots nor do they have mass appeal.
Very true, Tony. Of course, anti-tax and spend Tea Parties appear to be both grassroots affairs and to have mass appeal.
A few thousand 60-something white people prodded by FOX news and FreedomWorks to gather and protest... uh, taxing and spending (whatever the fuck that means) is not a mass movement.
A few thousand 60-something white people prodded by FOX news and FreedomWorks to gather and protest... uh, taxing and spending (whatever the fuck that means) is not a mass movement.
Oh, I agree, Tony. Of course, several hundred thousand people of all ages, races, and genders protesting taxing and spending is a mass movement.
When that happens, R C, let me know.
From what I saw it was just Sarah Palin rallies all over again, bunch of people who are pissed that a black liberal is president and don't know what to do about it except whine.