helmuth_hubener
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Someday, when you are no longer old and your neural net is no longer calcified, you will see how ridiculous this view was.
The good Professor has fought for liberty all his life; he has devoted himself to it. It is his calling. It is his obsession. It is the mark he has chosen to leave on the world. Every position he takes, every research path he follows, every class he teaches is taken, followed, and taught in light of furthering human liberty upon this planet! Now knowing you, Galileo, you likely have some exceedingly tedious and pedantic theological quibble with him. He somehow has interpreted the meaning of liberty wrongly!!!!!!11!! Perhaps he hasn't written enough fawning biographies of James Madison, Super-saint and indeed God on Earth. If that is your beef, let me just remind you he is an economist, not an historian, and he hasn't written any biographies of anyone else, either.
Anyway, whatever your beef is, it is, as I say, tedious and pedantic and ridiculous. It is like saying "Ron Paul opposes liberty, because of XYZ which I differ from him on," or "Galileo opposed liberty back in the 17th century, because he wasn't calling clearly for an end to state science subsidies, which I disagree with," or any other such ridiculous proclamation.
Walter Block is in favor of liberty, despite your gnat-picking disagreements with him. He is:
In favor of the budget of the federal government being greatly reduced
In favor of reducing the size of the state at all levels
In favor of sound money
In favor of free markets and private property
In favor of civil liberties and enforcement of the bill of rights
In favor of religious freedom
And on and on. He doesn't disagree with you on anything important. Whatever your issue is that he disagrees about, it's likely equivalent to angels dancing on the head of a pin. He wrote a book supporting the candidacy of Ron Paul! Hello? He agrees with and loves Ron Paul, and in fact is good friends with him. Do you like and support the favored policies of Ron Paul? If so, then you like and support the favored policies of Walter Block.
You now make another ridiculous claim, this one more specific. However, the facts are these:
Dr. Walter Block opposes the war on Syria.
In fact, he strongly opposes aggressive war in general.
Dr. Block's wish would be that everyone would vote against aggressive wars, every time they come up (should they come up for vote, which he would, of course, say that they shouldn't even get that far).
Here is an article he wrote condemning war and defending Ron Paul's pro-peace position: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/07/walter-block/libertarianism-vs-war/
In summary, are you perhaps smoking crack? Not judging, not judging, just curious.
