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May 16, 2006
libertarians who support border controls are all Nazis!
Via Drudge, my attention was drawn to the views of this Democratic candidate for Alabama Attorney General: BIRMINGHAM -- A Democratic candidate for attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.Not only that, he's coming to New Jersey! Darby said he will speak today near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group's Internet site.An atheist activist? A Holocaust denier who wants to legalize drugs and shoot illegal immigrants? Where did the Democratic Party find such a candidate? Might he be trying to make the Democrats look bad? Something smelled fishy to me. I soon discovered that he has a history with the Libertarian Party (which apparently does about as well vetting its candidates as the Democratic Party). And Eugene Volokh has been all over this guy (including discussions about the "Zionist-Occupied Government" meme, his bizarre form of atheism, and more). A common method of discrediting unpopular or unusual views is guilt by association: to attempt to link them to views which are immoral, dishonest, or otherwise beyond the pale. I'll never forget that during the California Civil Rights Initiative campaign, initiative opponents managed to bring racist David Duke to California ostensibly to "debate" the Initiative. This was a thinly veiled attempt to tar the Initiative's supporters as racists, and fortunately, the voters weren't fooled, as they passed the initiative anyway. But it played well as a demagogic sound byte. "If you support this initiative, you agree with David Duke!" was a common refrain. I don't know how far it will get, but the meme in Alabama, I suppose, is along the lines of "if you're an atheist who believes in legalizing drugs, you must be a Nazi!" And now the border control issue has been added to the mix. Hmmm..... This Larry Darby guy. He couldn't be an agent provocateur, could he? posted by Eric on 05.16.06 at 08:10 AM |
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