At the CPAC meeting, when everyone was supposed to salute blood-drenched authoritarians Cheney and Rumsfeld, the Ron Paul libertarians refused, and walked out. One young man asked, “Where’s bin Laden?” Others called the chickenhawk Cheney, “draft-dodger” and “war criminal.” The red-state fascists chanted, “USA! USA!” by which they mean, “Pentagon! Pentagon!” Notice that the liberal Democratic TPM is bugged by the opposition to Cheney-Rumsfeld (headline: “Ron Paul Supporters Hijack Cheney-Rumsfeld Reunion”–a sweet reunion, hijacked by bad boys and girls!). In the Beltway, forget all the pretend splits: they all love the State. Except the Ron Paulians, of course.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.