re: An LRC Fan

Writes Jed Shirts, in reply to our anonymous fan:

Bless you, Tom DiLorenzo. Your ferreting out actual history vs. what has been taught is refreshing, eye-opening, and mind-expanding.

Bless you, Lew Rockwell, forever, for providing Ron Paul (and thousands of us) with a reflection of what we instinctively know to be true; that our best friend is our own conscience and horse-sense, and our worst enemy is the state. Because of you, I am no longer lost in the wilderness of ignorance, being pummeled by the stones of government lies. And for the record, you do make banksters (and gangsters) shake in their boots, by showing them the truth they have so artfully ignored for decades. I haven’t missed a day of lewrockwell.com in almost ten years.

Bless you, David Kramer, and your skillful way of using political labels to show what they really mean.

Bless you, Stephan Kinsella. Your personal crusade against tyranny is justified, admired, and shared by many who hear and read your words.

Bless you, Gary North! I don’t go a single day without reading your common sense. Even though I am no Calvinist, I greatly admire your commentary on the Bible, and am starting to tackle those 20,000 pages. A man can absolutely hope for a biblical theocracy in the next life and strive for a libertarian, peaceful existence in this life. Rather than being incompatible, they perfectly complement each other. God’s greatest gift is our ability to choose what to do with our own lives. How is that not libertarian? And with six children, your YouTube video on affording college will directly increase my retirement fund.

Bless you, alternative medicine sources. Even if you don’t get everything right, at least what you’re saying isn’t politically motivated. At least when you get something wrong, you admit it and find something that works.

Karen de Coster, Bob Murphy, Butler Shaffer, Tom Woods, David Gordon, Mike Gaddy, Walter Block, and Roderick Long (and many others) MEETING any one of you would be a cherished privilege. You are truly gems inside the fetid swamp of villainy known as the USA, each in your own way.

And as for the not-so-gentleman who can’t seem to write a sentence (let alone speak one) without using the most uncouth word in the English language: In lewrockwell-land, I would fight and die to defend your right of speech, no matter how utterly reprehensible, ignorant, foul, false, and misguided it may be. You just spit in the face of your greatest ally without knowing it. When writing such vitriol, swear words only make you look ignorant. In the words of one of my favorite comedians, “Here’s your sign.”

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11:32 am on January 8, 2010