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Honored by Eric Donderoooooooooooooooo

November 15th, 2007 by Steve

Here’s a list on which I’m honored to be included:

The Anti-War libertarian Shit List:

Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Justin Raimondo, Eric Garris, Gene Berkman, Walter Block, Sheldon Richman, Anthony Gregory, Thomas Knapp, George Phillies, Richard Winger, Carol Moore, Steven Gordon, Todd Andrew Barnette, Jeff Rigenbach, Alan Turin, Stephen Kinsella, Bruce Dovner, and Doug Bandow.

And to answer ~~Sean Hannity’s~~ Eric Dondero’s question, the news of the day from Iraq has nothing to do with whether we should have intervened militarily in the first place. Attacking Iraq for the actions of bin Laden would be like prosecuting Dondero for torturing people at Abu Ghraib.

To be sure, Dondero personally committed no acts of torture (unless one counts the effect of his obnoxious blog comments), but he’s certainly been a cheerleader for these sorts of heinous actions. Even recently, he defended waterboarding, a practice outlawed even in Mississippi in 1926 as being “barbarous” and “a specie of torture.”

Dondero’s cheering for Bush policy isn’t new. In 2005, Dondero wrote a very similar piece, but around 2,300 American soldiers have lost their lives since then. It almost seems that one of Dondero’s missions is to host a biennial Iraq War celebration, continuing the practice which started with Bush’s declaration of victory in 2003.

Dondero believes that the threat from radical Islam is “the greatest threat this country has ever faced, even eclipsing Hitler and the Soviet Union” and “Muslim Radicals are literally slaughtering Americans in our streets.” If this is the case, does Dondero think we should round up American Muslims and place them in concentration camps? Exterminate them?

Overseas, at what point do we stop killing them? Should we just kill ever Islamic male of military age or should we also target the young and elderly? To prevent future terrorism, should we also kill all of the women and children? Should we poison their wells and slaughter their camels and goats, too?

At what point will Eric Dondero’s bloodlust be sated?

Posted in Foreign Policy, Bad Republicans, Ron Paul, Libertarian Movement

33 Responses to “Honored by Eric Donderoooooooooooooooo”

Curtis wrote on 11/15/07 at 1:58 pm :

Dondero - “I am making a list!”
Fred Mangels wrote on 11/15/07 at 3:11 pm :

Hey!!! How come I didn’t make the list?

Oh, maybe cause I’m not well known enough.
somebody wrote on 11/15/07 at 3:12 pm :

Why is Dondero taken seriously by anybody? Honestly, even if he had any smart ideas his immaturity is exasperating.
Franklin Harris wrote on 11/15/07 at 3:38 pm :

“Why is Dondero taken seriously by anybody?”

He isn’t. But sometimes someone who is anti-Ron Paul will pretend to take Dondero seriously when quoting him for an anti-Paul smear story.

Dondero knows nothing of the libertarian movement and less than nothing about libertarian philosophy. He once told me the only libertarian book he’d read was “Free to Choose.” That’s all well and good, I suppose, but it’s not much. And how ironic that Dondero would now have to put Milton Friedman on his “anti-war shit list” because Friedman was against the Iraq war.
somebody wrote on 11/15/07 at 3:54 pm :

Lol. I didn’t even think of that. Seriously, get the message to Dondero to add Friedman to the list.
Doug Bandow » Blog Archive » Libertarian Warhawks? wrote on 11/15/07 at 4:25 pm :

[…] Steve Gordon has dug up a wonderful screed published two years ago by just one such warhawk whose recent blog posts are most noted for not […]
Franklin Harris wrote on 11/15/07 at 5:54 pm :

Of course, now that I think of it, when Eric said “Free to Choose,” he could have meant the TV series, which might mean Eric doesn’t read at all. That would explain a lot.
Timothy wrote on 11/15/07 at 6:12 pm :

I have only the following to say on the matter: DONDEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
DangerMan wrote on 11/15/07 at 6:20 pm :

Having personally spoken with Eric Dondero, I now know that Islamist Terrorists only hate because we have beautiful big-breasted women, and they don’t. I am serious. Ask him directly. Please.
Rich Paul wrote on 11/15/07 at 7:49 pm :

Please, ask ED to add me to the list — Rich Paul.
Eric Dondero wrote on 11/15/07 at 7:53 pm :

No connections between Saddam and Terrorists ‘eh?

You need to read two books:

Rich Miniter’s The Shadow War in Iraq, which contains an extensive Appendix Section documenting over 40 instances of direct cooperation between Saddam and Muslim Terrorists including Al Qaeda.

Also, new book by Georges Sayda, Saddam’s Top Air Force General, “Saddam’s Secrets.” Sayda gives a chilling detailed account of Saddam Hussin behind the scenes, what he did with the WMD, how he tortured Iraqis, and the Iraqi Regimes ties to Terrorism.
Eric Dondero wrote on 11/15/07 at 7:58 pm :

I know things are touch on your guys these days. With daily news coming out that we’ve won the War in Iraq. You must spend half your day cleaning the egg off your faces. I’ve heard windex works wonders.

Just yesterday Joe Klein, CHAMPION LIBERAL CRITIC OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, headlined his Op-Ed in Time, “We’re Winning in Iraq.”

Even the Liberals are admitting it. But the Anti-War Libertarians are left out in the cold. Nobody ever took them seriously. And now that they’ve been proven to be completely wrong on their predictions of “tens of thousands of body bags,” and “Iraqi people will turn on US Troops,” and “Democracy will never work in Iraq,” and “Bush’s War is a complete Dissaster,” well, all one could day I guess is lash out at those of us who’ve been saying the opposite all along.

So, go ahead, fling that mud. Make up stories about me, like Franklin Harris saying the “only libertarian book I ever read was Milton Friedman.”

I’m a big boy. I can take it. It will actually be quite amusing.

And I’ll especially be smiling come Feb. 6, when Rudy Giuliani (or Mitt or Fred) is the Republican Nominee for President, and everyone of you all here will be stuck supporting GEORGE PHILLIES!!

LOL
Franklin Harris wrote on 11/15/07 at 8:56 pm :

Let’s dissent Dondero’s knownothingism one piece at a time, shall we?

Who founded the libertarian movement?

Barry Goldwater.

This would certainly come as a surprise to the people at the Foundation for Economic Education, which was founded in the 1940s, before Goldwater was even elected to the Senate, and is the oldest libertarian organization still in existence. FEE was the center of the postwar libertarian revival and was central to spreading libertarianism in the ’40s and ’50s. All before Goldwater.

Who was the second most influential individual in the founding of the libertarian movement?

Dana Rohrabacher.

A former anarcho-capitalist (the sort of libertarian Dondero says isn’t a real libertarian) who has since abandoned any hint of being a libertarian.

Who was the very first Libertarian Party Presidential candidate?

John Hospers.

And who was the fifth? Ron Paul. Dondero’s point? Oh, yeah, that’s right: With him, seniority trumps everything. It’s all about how many years someone (mostly himself) has been a libertarian activist.

Well, guess what. Goldwater, Rohrabacher, and Hospers all three were/are STRONGLY PRO-DEFENSE AND PRO-MILITARY.

So am I, which is why I value the military enough not to get its members killed in a pointless war. But none of those guys was instrumental in founding libertarianism, and only Hospers was instrumental in founding the Libertarian Party, decades later.
Franklin Harris wrote on 11/15/07 at 9:03 pm :

So, go ahead, fling that mud. Make up stories about me, like Franklin Harris saying the “only libertarian book I ever read was Milton Friedman.”

Fine. Name another one. If I were to guess, I’d say maybe you’ve read “Conscience of a Conservative.” Anything by Hayek? Mises? Rothbard? David Friedman? I don’t think so. Don’t forget, I stayed at your house years ago, and I’ve seen your bookshelves. Oh, wait, you did have a copy of “Freedom Under Siege” (complete with the misprinted title on the cover) by none other than … Ron Paul.
Fred Mangels wrote on 11/15/07 at 9:08 pm :

Eric, you’re an ass.
Steve wrote on 11/15/07 at 9:15 pm :

Franklin,

Perhaps Donderoooooo thinks Rudy’s book Leadership counts as a great libertarian text.

Of course, there is always Dondero’s libertarian favorite: Mein Kampf.
somebody wrote on 11/15/07 at 10:59 pm :

Did I already point out his immaturity?
Anonymous wrote on 11/16/07 at 12:59 am :

At what point will Eric Dondero’s bloodlust be sated?

We’ll never know, because he will cease to virtually exist as soon as the election is over.
Eric Dondero wrote on 11/16/07 at 6:32 am :

Yes Franklin, I do have that collector’s item copy of Ron Paul’s “Freedom Under Seige” with the misspelling on the front cover. I ought to sell it on E-Bay.

Okay, where to begin. My bookshelves include practically everything Mises every wrote, a complete collection of Libertarian Party Presidential candidate books from John Hospers to Harry Browne, Hayek, Thomas Sowell, Rose Wilder Lane - original copy that Roger MacBride gave me, Hazlitt, Goldwater, Hess, and everything ever written by my all-time favorite PJ O’Rourke.
Eric Dondero wrote on 11/16/07 at 6:38 am :

Franklin, I’m a political libertarian NOT a boring-ass philosophical dweeb. Yes, I’ll admit on the philosophical front FEE could be viewed as “libertarian Founders.” But on the political front that title definitely goes to Goldwater and for practicality’s sake - Rohrabacher. (Who btw, scores 2 or 3 consistently today on the RLC’s Liberty Index, supports Medical Marijuana legislation, and is regularly a sponsor of bills to abolish Selective Service.)

Let me ask you something Franklin. Just what would you ever use the Military for? Your version of the US Military is a bunch of guys forever cleaning toilets and sitting around the bunkhouse playing cards.

I know you’re not a Veteran so you won’t understand this. But Military guys join the Military to fight.

One of the saddest things in my mind, is a guy who joins up for 4 years, and ends up not seeing any action at all. What’s the point in even joining the Military if there’s no adventure in it?

You should watch the movie Jarhead. The two Marines spend the entire time hoping and praying for just one opportunity to fire their guns in battle.

Face it Franklin, you say your in favor of the Military, but you’re not. You just want to abolish the Military, or worse, completely emasculate them, so they’re like little girls with no jobs.
Eric Dondero wrote on 11/16/07 at 6:42 am :

Addendum:

Sorry for the length, but I must make this point. I served 4 years in the Navy. I saw action only twice - General Quarters in the Persian Gulf that was not a drill. Saddam’s forces had “locked on target” for our Guided Missile Destroyer.

Scariest mother-fucking hours of my life. But extremely exhilerating. After going through an experience like that, the rest of life is a breeze.

This is something that guys who have never served in the Military never experience. And I think deep down they regret it. They regret the fact that they never served, and they never got the opportunity to see what life was like in battle.

They’re men after all. And men for centuries, for thousands of years have fought in battle. It’s only very recently that battle has been replaced by the computer. But deep down, they still have that thing inside them, that they want to fight.

I pity the man, who never gets that opportunity in life, and is relegated to a girlie-man existence of political correctness.

You Franklin, are certainly one of those men I pity.
Eric Dondero wrote on 11/16/07 at 6:49 am :

BTW, the “boys are starting to come home” from Iraq. Very slowly. Just one Division so far. But they’re coming home.

Wait til a majority of them arrive back, I’d say by next Spring.

Our college campuses, and society in general will be flooded with Iraqi War Veterans.

They will look at you non-Serving pukes with utter disdain. That’s what you all are afraid of, to be dissed for your non-service by those who have served.

They saw 9/11 and they joined up. You all saw 9/11 and you cowered and ran away like little girls. Worse, you badmouthed the Military while you were here at home safe in your comfy chairs behind your computer screens.

But you can’t escape. The Military guys are coming back. And I have no doubt, the climate on college campuses and society in general will change.

And worse for you all. Your girlfriends will go off with the brave soldiers and Marines, and tell you to fuck off. That’s right, enjoy all that sex you’re having right now with that pretty little thing by your side, cause once that brave beefy Marine gets home, “Julie” or “Jennifer” or “Britney” is going to get fucked by him, and she’s gonna love it. Gonna leave your limp-dicked pale white ass in the parking lot of that shitty apartment of yours, looking dumbfounded.

Women love a man in a uniform. College guys may be a substitute for a while. But when the Military guy comes home, it’s goodbye slacker boy.
disinter wrote on 11/16/07 at 11:28 am :

Is Dondero still pissed off that Ron Paul fired him for coming to work high on cocaine?
Eric Dondero wrote on 11/16/07 at 2:04 pm :

Disinter. Tom Lizardo is Ron Paul’s longtime Chief of Staff. He’s been Ron’s Chief since Day One, when Ron entered Congress on Jan. 20, 1997.

Tom prides himself on being accessible. Anyone can call Tom up, on just about anything. (Though, you are not permitted to talk political campaigining on Congressional time).

Here’s his number - 202-225-2831. Just ask the receptionist to put you through to Tom. And if Tom is not in, leave a voice mail for him. He returns 95% of all his calls.

Ask Tom very specifically if Eric Dondero was fired for using Cocaine.

Then when you get the answer, come back here and report back to us.
Timothy wrote on 11/17/07 at 2:16 am :

DONDEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Do you just go around web forums where you get mentioned and make a fuckface of yourself? Or is the fuckface thing an every day that you don’t get scabies from a $1 Nuevo Laredo whore thing?

DONDEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
dhex wrote on 11/17/07 at 1:43 pm :

eric, if you did not exist i would be forced to invent you. now, unlike evolution, i would have done a better job, but in terms of genuine what-the-fuck-itiveness, i cannot outdo mother nature.

i mean, c’mon. the best you can do is a group of unnamed people are going to have their girlfriends fucked by unnamed veterans?

weirdness, bro. weirdness.
Phillip J. Birmingham wrote on 11/17/07 at 4:13 pm :

One of the saddest things in my mind, is a guy who joins up for 4 years, and ends up not seeing any action at all. What’s the point in even joining the Military if there’s no adventure in it?

Yeah, let’s have wars to provide some adventure for the troops. That’s a great foreign policy!
Jennifer wrote on 11/18/07 at 12:04 am :

once that brave beefy Marine gets home, “Julie” or “Jennifer” or “Britney” is going to get fucked by him, and she’s gonna love it.

As a Jennifer who furthermore is one of the busty free-spirited American babes who unwittingly motivated the 9/11 attacks, I have the authority to say: wrong on both counts.
GordonUnleashed » Blog Archive » Ron Paul and the Defeat of Liberventionism wrote on 11/18/07 at 3:54 pm :

[…] sure Eric Donderooooooooooooo won’t like this article over at LRC. Here’s a clip of Anthony Gregory’s column: […]
Eric the .5b wrote on 11/18/07 at 5:22 pm :

Guys, you can’t beat Eric Donderoooooooooooo.

You love Pepsi, but he loves death.
Rick Fisk wrote on 11/21/07 at 5:31 pm :

Hey, Eric. Only now have we won the war? Can’t we come home then? On the other hand, didn’t Bush declare victory 4 years ago? Why couldn’t we have come home then?
Carol Moore wrote on 11/29/07 at 10:09 am :

It’s easy to get on his shit list. Speculate about whether this current wife was REALLY mugged by strangers or got her injuries closer to home. Like I did here. He didn’t DENY it.
http://carolmoorereport.blogspot.com/2007/05/rosie-odonnell-loves-ron-paul-eric.html
sweettruthseeker wrote on 11/29/07 at 3:19 pm :

is the infamous eric missing again?? he probably went to mexico to attempt to make a You Tube debate question for ron paul and got sidetracked in a whore house…but he hasnt been to vocal lately

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