Monthly Archives: December 2005

Crucifying Conrad (Black)

Justice, Law, The Zeitgeist

Mention Justice Department Ãœberbloodhound Patrick Fitzgerald, and the Securities and Exchange Commission in one breath, and even the dimmest libertarian ought to see warning lights flash. These entities are involved in the recent indictment of Conrad Black, former chairman of “one of the world’s most renowned newspaper groups,” on “eight counts of mail and wire fraud. … This epic fight, more fundamentally, is about property; it goes to a proprietor’s prerogatives in the increasingly socialized corporation. … But mostly, the bruising battle concerns an out-of-control, bloated behemoth of a state. Bush’s “New New Deal,” including the Sarbanes-Oxley’s sweeping provisions, has accomplished what FDR failed to: the final federalization of corporate governance law. This machine, now capable of occupying every company across the land, has been commandeered by private parties to do their bidding against Black. In the process, the rent-seekers and their racketeers have dismantled a business they don’t own.

The excerpt is from my new WorldNetDaily column, Crucifying Conrad (Black). Comments are welcome.

The Antiwar Radical Left

Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, War

Could there be a more incoherent and contemptible coalition than the one that convened to protest the war in Iraq? Hardly. No self-respecting libertarian (especially the rightists among us) would be caught dead among a crowd of cheering faux revolutionary socialists and other malcontents, many of whom are probably in the country illegally, judging from their English, or lack thereof.

Speakers for A.N.S.W.E.R, which stands for Act Now to Stop War & End Racism, were Al Sharpton, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and representatives from the United Farm Workers of America, the Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, the Socialist Front of Puerto Rico, the Nicaragua Network, the Community Labor Union of New Orleans, Mexicanos Sin Fronteras (?), the Teamsters Black Caucus, and a lone Palestinian activist claiming to have been “framed cointelpro-style,” whatever that means. That decent Americans have jobs to attend may explain why none was seen for miles on end. No, these are not the natural allies of libertarians. Would that there was a respectable, antiwar movement libertarians could get behind, but there isn’t.