Walter Williams is no friend of liberty

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LysanderSpooner
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Posted on: December 31, 2009 - 2:34pm

I just got done listening to Walter Williams substituting for Rush Limbaugh.  I know a lot of libertarians try to count him as one of our own, but they are dead wrong.  As usual, he was prattling on about the role of government in a free society and how it's wrong to initiate force.  In addition, he did his normal routine about how this law and that law are unconstitutional.  Nowhere in his criticism today, or ever before, have I ever heard him take on the warfare state.  He even had a column some time back defending Abu Ghariab (I'll get the link later).  To top it off, he had statist Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison from Texas on and he was fawning all over her.  Williams fashions himself as a radical, even going so far as echoing the great Frank Chodorov by saying that anyone who calls him a conservative will get a punch in the nose.  The guy has no guts and is a typical free-market warmonger.

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to be without it—least of all during an emergency.

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Gardner Goldsmith
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Posted on: January 2, 2010 - 12:37pm #1

I love hearing him explain economics to people, but yeah, occasionally he falls short when laying effusive praise on the Founders without bringing up some deserved criticism of the men who formulated the Constitution. If he falls short of being a full-on anarchist, at least he can get people to start thinking about economics in a more free-market direction.

 

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LysanderSpooner
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Posted on: January 2, 2010 - 7:18pm #2

Basically, he is a free market oriented neocon,not a libertarian.  So he opposes socialized medicine, welfare, and the minimum wage.  Big deal.  So does every other traditional conservative.   But he supports big government politicians based on their rhetoric alone.  And I'm not talking about the so-called liberal or moderate Republicans, I'm talking about the supposed free market types like Reagan.