If One Believed in Involuntary Commitment….
By Mona
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Should it happen that members of the Riehl family would seek confinement proceedings against Dan, few libertarians would be inclined to support them, out of principle. But others might contemplate his ravings about “dark hours” and conclude that his being free is dangerous to others:
…had the Founding Fathers been saddled with an alleged leader like a Harry Reid, I suspect they would have tried and convicted him of treason before dragging him out behind some courthouse to stretch his treacherous neck…..Then there’s Pelosi,….And Murtha?…..My God – and these people, idiots mostly, and traitors all are part of our leadership today?This next election may be the most important in our history. And we must turn these neo-socialist, utterly defeatist un-American losers out. The future of the world’s greatest nation, if not the free world itself, may well depend upon it.
Shhh. Don’t tell the judge, libertarians. Or something we usually disapprove of might happen. And, perchance Insty will stop linking to Deranged Dan now (hope for Reynolds springs eternal in me, and sentiments such as stretching the “treacherous” neck of the Senate Majority Leader might give even our Professor pause), and cable news cease inviting his fevered personage to opine on camera.
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Hey, it could happen.
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Comment by KCinDC —
April 20, 2007 @ 11:43 pm
Can you explain why hope for Reynolds springs eternal in you? A sentimental attachment to some long-ago, possibly never-existing Reynolds who’s certainly not the guy we have now? General hope that anyone who claims to be a libertarian might some day start acting like it?
Comment by Mona —
April 21, 2007 @ 12:04 am
Before 9/11, and for some months thereafter, he DID speak libertarian.
I can’t psychoanalyze him because I lack the qualifications and personal encounters, but I surmise there is some weirdness going that has changed the man since. Redemption happens.
Comment by turkey turkey turkey —
April 21, 2007 @ 2:31 am
Why isn’t this guy behind bars for implicitly advocating for the execution/murder of the congressional leadership?
Comment by Hektor Bim —
April 21, 2007 @ 10:05 am
This is the problem with libertarians in general: allowing people who are clearly not libertarians to be part of their club. Many people who claim to be libertarians are closet authoritarians where non-conservatives or “people not like me” are concerned. Give up on Reynolds. The man is not a libertarian (as you understand it) and arguably never was, and you taint yourself by pursuing the association.
Comment by Barry —
April 21, 2007 @ 11:02 am
Mona, Glenn Reynold’s first reactions to 9/11 were, indeed, libertarian. But by the start of the Iraq War, it was clear that he had sold his soul. He provides evidence of that several times each week, on a slow and unusually high quality week. On a normal week, he provides evidence every hour on the hours.
Now, it’s possible that he might change, but it’s unlikely, and the working assumption now should be that he has to prove it.
Comment by Mona —
April 21, 2007 @ 11:34 am
All:
Yes, I agree, Reynolds’ sins against reason, liberty, and truth, and his embrace of authoritarianism, these sins are the brightest shade of blood red. And they mount daily, even hourly. Anyone reading me here or at my prior digs knows my contempt for him has been boundless.
But it is very hard for me to understand how the Glenn Reynolds that existed up through 9/11 and even for some time thereafter, could possibly co-exist with the lunatics he abides with now. I mean that literally, I cannot fathom it. Even when I supported Bush, I was revolted by Powerline and Hewitt, and it took me very little time to see that LGF was a disgusting hate site. Constant approving links to them and to abject bloodthirsty morons like Riehl, well, I just DO NOT GET IT. And I am somewhat more conservative on a few issues than Reynolds is — for example, I am quite squeamish on abortion whereas he is proudly, in his word, “pro-abortion.” So how can he be so happy-happy with the relgious right?
Everything the man wrote for so much of his life could not have been a pose, and I cannot reconcile his Old Self with his behavior in the last however many years. It truly mystifies me.
Comment by Jackmormon —
April 21, 2007 @ 11:54 am
He got closer to power. Duh.
Comment by Eric the .5b —
April 22, 2007 @ 9:33 pm
What power?