I'm
sitting here at about 9:30pm, Thursday night -- with my jaw on the
floor. I have pretty much always thought Tom G. Palmer of the Cato
Institute was a bit of a weirdo, a bit obsessed with attacking people
like Lew Rockwell and Justin Raimondo, and bit sensitive about his
homosexuality, among other things. I have heard from other people about
how he is "evil," (haha, thought I, just silly hyperbole!) and the
"libertarian hit man" back in the Kochtopus days of the 1970s, and a
"character assassin," but it didn't really sink in until just now, just
a few minutes ago...just when his unadulterated unapologetic lies oozed
across my exposed tongue, leaving a sick taste in the back of my throat.
Look, when I write some of the things I write, I expect criticism. At least the "look at us, we're girls and libertarians!" pundits at Liberty Belles (not including their dumb, lying readers) made an attempt
using my actual quotes to "expose" me as a monster while also allowing
me to post on their blog without my comments being deleted or even
edited. They even linked to posts I made in response on the
Anti-State.com forum directly from their blog. That's honesty.
In contrast, check out Tom Palmer's blog post. I was originally going to ignore him like I did last time, but too many people begged me to respond and also his post was just too ignorant to let stand. Here is my original post to his comments section:
Clearly
I am a conduit by which Palmer can attack Lew and Justin when there
happens to be nothing good to get them on. I don't have anything at all
to do with all these old queens and their decades-old, bitter bitch
feuds. Palmer knows nearly nothing at all about me, or what I believe,
or the millions of other words I have written. Here's just a bit of
clarification:
1) I am not a Lew Rockwell columnist. I used to send stuff in to Lew
back when I was a kid, but that was about FIVE years ago now. Doesn't
exactly qualify me as staff. Hell, I started anti-state.com in 2001
because I just wasn't a match for that site, and I didn't really like
being on the same page as retards like Gary North and other dingbat
South-lovers. Whatever, at least now it's a good reason to finally ask
that I be removed from the columnist roster and have my archive page
deleted.
I have nothing to do with Confederate worship,
slavery-apologies (I even call Thomas Jefferson "slave rapist" and have
many threads on ASC about how the South was a third world backwater
because of slavery). I am not a racist -- even by Palmer's outrageously
loose definition of the word. I despise religion in all its forms (even
statism). Most of the people at ASC, along with me, criticize the likes
of Hoppe on the grounds that he's trying to justify his racism with
economics. [Protests about this accusation make me add this
parenthetical saying that it's really Hoppe's views on immigration
(which happen to generally coincide with race?) that should be
criticized. There.] I have consistently advocated for
immigration for all people to all areas of the world on the basis that
if certain skin colors and cultures are not borne by the market, they
deserve to go the way of cassette tapes. Pretty much everything you
could criticize LRC writers for you could not pin on me. All I ask is
that you get the facts straight and at least KNOW your enemy (you may
realize he's not very much of an enemy at all).[Added on ASC:
No offense to Lew, whose own writings I can rarely find fault with; I
just don't like the writings a lot of the other people on his site.]
2) I'm not sure if this is intentional, but Palmer makes it seem like I
am the one who complained that he "smeared" me. I am not at all, that
was Justin, and I actually complained about that to HIM. A quote is not
a smear. He [Justin, I meant] just made things worse.
3) The enemy of my state is not a friend of mine, and nowhere have I
EVER said this. But there are thousands of words on the ASC forum
showing how they are NOT my friends. If a quote deep in an old thread
is pertinent enough to quote as the substance of an expose, certainly
the critic can take the time to find out what I really think about the
subject as a whole, and the reasons I think this way. But nobody ever
took that time -- accuracy gets in the way of a good vendetta. Palmer
and the Randroids at SoloHQ (they were by far worse than Palmer) simply
made up things about me and ignored literally everthing else I ever
wrote on the subject.
There is probably a lot more I am leaving out that needs addressing, but a good look should be taken at the comment thread on my blog post, where I clarify a lot of my position (and other ASCers make complimentary comments).
The good stuff starts on the second page. I'm currenty
"Celia" (with the blue wig) but I have added "Jeremy" under my profile
so that you can more easily follow.
For more, check out Joel Wilcox's Soldiers Are the State, and its corresponding comment thread. And then also my post "Iraq Was Better Under Saddam" where I respond to critics on another blog.
I hope this helps fix your understanding of my views. If you're gonna hate me, hate me for the right reasons.
Guess
what? This never saw the light of day on Tom Palmer's blog. At about
9:30, I checked to see if he had approved my comment, but instead I saw
this:
UPDATE: I just had a chance to settle in to
my hotel room in Portland, Oregon when I checked my email and found one
insisting that Mr. Sapienza isn't a columnist for lewrockwell.com. Sure
enough, his name cannot be found on the list. I'll respond to some of
the comments later, but I did have the foresight to take a screenshot
of the list of "Columnists and Commentators" before posting the column
above. Here it is. And just in case Mr. Sapienza gets dropped from the masthead of the antiwar.com and sent down the memory hole, here's
a screenshot of the antiwar.com masthead taken at the same time the
material above was posted. Had the neo-conservative warhawks set out to
do it deliberately, it would have been an astonishing accomplishment
for them to have invented personas more likely to discredit the cause
of non-intervention and peace than Justin Raimondo and Jeremy Sapienza.
Uh-huh,
what the fuck, indeed. Excuse me, he "found an email" insisting that
"Mr. Sapienza" isn't a columnist for LRC!? I said that, my own self,
with my own contact information. In a comment on his blog, not in an
email. And then he not-so-slyly suggests that, like the truly disgusting Bob Wallace (attacked right here on ASC's forum 17 days before Palmer's post),
Lew purged me after Palmer "exposed" me. As I said above, I requested
that my name be removed from the columnist list and that my archive
page be deleted, but that it was okay to keep my articles up. I had
been wanting to do this for a while anyhow since it's the first thing
that comes up in a google search for my name (screen shot because google will probably remove it since it doesn't exist anymore)
and frankly, half of that shit is embarassing since it was written when
I was much younger and less knowledgeable, and it's just very old stuff
that I would rather remain just as an archive, not an active
representation of my beliefs.
And that's it. Not even a
private response to my post. Merely a ghost of just the first few words
of what I actually said, mutated in the mind of a psychopath and
regurgitated onto his blog as the gospel truth. It's one thing to
vehemently disagree and debate. It's a whole other to bury any evidence
of the rationality or even humanity of your opponent so that he can
always be shown as insane and unreasonable. I have been buried under a
mountain of Palmer's burning hatred for Justin Raimondo and Lew
Rockwell.
What's so shocking to me is that there was pretty
much 100% chance that I was gonna make this blog post exposing his liar
ass and spreading it as far as I could. So -- why lie, Tom? I have
never done anything to you. You're a fucking asshole who runs over
anyone even if they are inconveniently innocent of having ever crossed
your vile path. You can say what you like about my opinions, but I am
not a vicious, brazen liar who hates for the hell of it. How
disgusting, you pig.
Tom Palmer libertarian CATO
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