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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald tries to attack Elizabeth Warren on twitter - Uses right wing source [View all]deurbano
(2,895 posts)and that's why there is so much "debate." Is he a Ron Paul-type Libertarian... or an ACLU-type civil libertarian? As you said, he is the latter, but it is more damning to call him a Paulite (or Paulbot) than to accuse him of being an ACLU-ite. Ron Paul and the ACLU share some common philosophical ground (similar to the common ground someone like Patrick Leahy and Rand Paul have found on sentencing reform), but that obviously doesn't make the ACLU a "right libertarian" organization. (And it doesn't make Leahy a Pauljunior-ite.)
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/27/koch_2/
SUNDAY, MAR 27, 2011 07:28 AM PDT
Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers
The libertarian tycoons explain why they are the true victims of America's political culture
GLENN GREENWALD
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For billionaires to see themselves as the True Victims, to complain that the President and the Government are waging some sort of war against them in the name of radical egalitarianism, is so removed from reality universes away thats its hard to put into words. And the fiscal recklessness that the Kochs and their comrades tirelessly point to was a direct by-product of the last decades rule by the Republican Party which they fund: from unfunded, endless wars to a never-ending expansion of the privatized National Security and Surveillance States to the financial crisis that exploded during the Bush presidency. But whatever else is true, there are many victims of fiscal policy in America: the wealthiest business interests and billionaires like the Koch Brothers are the few who are not among them. ..>