Via Brad Spangler
Dana Rohrabacher wants me dead. Well, not just me. Dana Rohrabacher wants a whole bunch of Americans dead.
“I hope it’s your family members that [sic] die,” said US Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to American citizens who questioned the Bush administration’s unlawful extraordinary rendition policies.
Rohrabacher, bring it you fucking traitor.
“But in 1969-71, Dana Rohrabacher was the most successful and most beloved libertarian activist… he was a close friend of mine until he crossed the line with his campaign for Congress.“ — Samuel Edward Konkin III
This reminds me. I’ve been trying to get confirmation as to whether Rohrabacher was a warmonger during the Vietnam War. As a former anarchist and follower of an actual pacifist, Robert LeFevre, it would have been illogical, but I would like independent reports from those who actually knew Rohrabacher back then.
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This can’t be true. Eric Dondildo said he’s a fine libertarian.
I think an important clue regarding Dana Rohrabacher’s position during the Vietnam War — at least initially — can be found in his enthusiastic support of Ronald Reagan’s ill-fated bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968. The California YAF (Young Americans for Freedom), of which Rohrabacher was a leading spirit, pretty much served as Reagan’s advance guard during that short-lived campaign.
Reagan was arguably the most hawkish candidate running in either major party that year and sharply criticized LBJ for waiting too long to begin escalating the conflict, arguing that the administration should have started its massive bombing campaign two years earlier — a position also held by the trigger-happy General Curtis Le May, George Wallace’s vice-presidential running mate.
Like “Bombs Away With Curtis Le May,” Reagan wanted to bomb North Vietnam into submission. “We have the power to wind it up fast,” Reagan asserted, “and I think we should use it. Ho Chi Minh should be sitting on an apple crate, begging for help.”
A kind of right-wing, anti-communist hippie at the time, one can only assume that the 21-year-old Rohrabacher agreed with the candidate he was actively supporting.
I remember reading in Radicals For Capitalism that most of the 70′s era libertarians were more interested in lowering taxes than ending the war in Vietnam.
Well, libertarians DID end the draft… that was Friedman whispering into Nixon’s ear.
At any rate, it’s true-a lot of libertarian institutions were passive on the war if they didn’t support it, which is sad. The Economist supported it, for instance.
Anyway, I like that Rohrabacher is fighting for medical marijuana but this extraordinary rendition thing is bullshit and if he really said that, he needs to eat AIDS and die.
Wow – I’m aware that people change. But Rohrbocker became his own opposite so to speak. How many times do folks go from being anarchists to being statists? I would like to think that once you are an anarchist you never go back, at least all the way to statism like this guy has done.
Incredible. Just incredible.
*says prayer that she never becomes her complete opposite*
TiGirl, I’m curious as to what your complete opposite would look like. Any living examples?
I knew LeFevre and Rohrabacher back in the late sixties. As I remember, Dana was completely on board with Bob’s pacifist stance and was anti-war at that time.
He had an activist’s mentality, and I simply presume that saying “no” to policies was not as exciting as participating in setting policies.