Who Plans Whom? » Fox News http://www.whoplanswhom.com Who plans whom, who directs and dominates whom, who assigns to other people their station in life, and who is to have his due allotted by others? — F.A. Hayek Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:07:01 +0000 en hourly 1 Glenn Beck: Anarchists for ‘Total Government’ http://www.whoplanswhom.com/blog/2010/glenn-beck-anarchists-for-total-government/ http://www.whoplanswhom.com/blog/2010/glenn-beck-anarchists-for-total-government/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:54:56 +0000 Justin Oliver http://whoplanswhom.com/?p=474 I think Glenn Beck, like Alex Jones, is a great entertainer. But they both take cheap shots at anarchists all the time.

On Beck’s Feb. 17 television program, he said in the clip below that anarchists and progressives “don’t really like America” and are for “total government.” Beck’s and Jones’ definition of “anarchist” might [...]]]> I think Glenn Beck, like Alex Jones, is a great entertainer. But they both take cheap shots at anarchists all the time.

On Beck’s Feb. 17 television program, he said in the clip below that anarchists and progressives “don’t really like America” and are for “total government.” Beck’s and Jones’ definition of “anarchist” might be anyone who wants less government than they might. The fact is anarchism, the way I understand it, advocates for the most limited and smallest possible government, self-government.

It is also a canard that anarchists don’t like America. The federal government is not America. The people who eagerly manage it are “mere bands of robbers, who have associated for purposes of plunder, conquest, and the enslavement of their fellow men, … and the more peaceable division of their spoils,” as Lysander Spooner said in Natural Law, or the Science of Justice.

(via Daily Paul)

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In response, ACORN has done what the guilty do, attack the messenger. A press release on the ACORN homepage calls coverage by the “international entertainment conglomerate (FOX)” part of an orchestrated effort “to achieve their agenda, their missions, their ideal, retrograde America.” I think they are correct that FOX News has pushed this story far more than any other news agency and given the organization too much attention. I suppose FOX News personalities like Glenn Beck, who has been the point man in the investigation, would say these videos are emblematic of its troubled relationship with the Obama administration.

The ACORN release further states that “We are their Willy Horton for 2009. We are the boogeyman for the right-wing and its echo chambers. … But it is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist ‘filmmaker’ O’Keefe and his partner in crime. And, in fact, a crime it was – our lawyers believe a felony – and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators.”

Utilizing the coercion of the state to suppress the filmmakers is surely despicable, and being willing to assist in the kidnap and bondage of child prostitutes is unconscionable. However, I do support that ACORN employees have been willing to assist in the voluntary trade of prostitution and avoid the revenue collection arm of the state. I know that its favorables are far outweighed by its unfavorable actions. Keep in mind, the vast majority of its customers (granted I’m speculating) do not intend to run Honduran child prostitution rings, which exist in part because of the federal and local government’s immigration and prostitution restrictions.

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