Comments on: Chris Hedges: ‘Gravel’s Lament’

By: paulie

paulie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:39:00 +0000

Where was the anti-war right? the libertarians (paulie)? Where was Ron Paul (paulie)?

I’m not sure what your question is. I wasn’t in or near DC. If I had been, I probably would have gone. I imagine Ron Paul was probably not invited, which I think was a mistake on the part of the organizers. However, I have no knowledge of Ron Paul’s schedule.

I think we need a new organizing bodyy for these things which invites people like Ron Paul as well as those that spoke at this rally.

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:41:32 +0000

This sparsely attended Emergency anti-escalation rally seems to be a Green & red event. Where was the anti-war right? the libertarians (paulie)? Where was Ron Paul (paulie)? Too busy planning his next 35 million haul in 2012?

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:31:24 +0000

Suppose they gave a war & nobody came?

By: PLAS IS AWESOME

PLAS IS AWESOME — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:51:52 +0000

Agreed… PLAS is the best idea EVER!

By: paulie

paulie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:39:55 +0000

PLAS experiment doomed? Don’t be absurd!

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:36:51 +0000

I see that the rally was poorly attended. Kind of like the Green National Convention? Kind of like the Libertarian Convention next year? I hope this does not mean the PLAS Experiment is doomed.

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:27:39 +0000

Yeah, bad ass. Gravel is a respectable progressive. Ron Paul is a counterrevolutionary in libertarian disguise.
Gravel could have won last year. If Ruwart was vp-fusion ticket. & that campaign properly waged. But no. Libs had to have Bann Bobb Barr/W.A.R. I hope both lessons burn their asses.

By: Harry Faversham

Harry Faversham — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:49:42 +0000

Love this guy.
Shame MSNBC, the so-called “liberal media”, banned his defiant voice.
Him and Ron Paul are bad ass.

By: Peter M.

Peter M. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:40:30 +0000

The numbers for this rally/demonstration truly were small; five people from the Socialist Party were there, and they made up a solid ten percent of the entire demo.

By: tiradefaction

tiradefaction — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:58:21 +0000

Gravel doesn’t really associate with parties anymore, he said this in a fairly recent interview with Big Think.

He’s not really a libertarian in the sense you or the LP consider themselves Libertarians.

By: Brian Holtz

Brian Holtz — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:56:28 +0000

A Libertarian shouldn’t suggest that nanny-state spending is not “discretionary”.

What is the latest information on whether Gravel is continuing his association with the LP? The most recent data point I have is that he sent his daughter Lynne to stand in for him at a Nov 20 2008 LPCA fund-raising dinner.

By: tiradefaction

tiradefaction — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:58:41 +0000

Hey, I haven’t seen Gravel in a while, awesome to see him active again!