Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Anonymous post from conservative cohouser?

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

The author of the message below requested anonimity.  It was posted by
Fred, the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org>

That post quickly got off topic by arguing their political philosophy. I
guess I asked for that so I am posting it.  Please keep posts somewhat
related to cohousing.  Please refrain from debating the roots of the
economic mess etc here.

I also had another post:

 I am a Libertarian, and I don't care if you identify me on the list as
 such.  I would guess that there are at least a few more Libertarians out
 there in cohousing land.

Fred

--------------------  FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS --------------------


Dear Liberals in Cohousing,

There are lots of libertarians and near-libertarians in cohousing,
many of them prominent.  You would be greatly surprised.

The current financial crisis was caused, in part, by the Federal
Reserve borrowing money in the name of the American taxpayer, then
giving it to banks, which wasted it on loans to people who were
correctly predicted to be unable to pay them back.  The bailouts are
repeating this exact mistake.  This behavior is unsustainable.

While you are cheering for Obama's win, thinking that the wars will
finally stop and the sick and the poor will get help, people with more
knowledge of history understand that happy days are not ahead.
Collectivism, no matter of the Fascist, Communist, or Socialist
varieties, HURTS people.  Done vigorously, it produces genocide.
You're probably familiar with the German example, but what about the
Chinese and Russian flavors, each of which killed more than Germany?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/china2.html

Hitler was not unique, Germany was not unique, and there were over
twenty genocides in the 20th century under the banner of collectivism.
This is a cold, hard, fact backed by archaeological evidence.  And
now, people who fear a repeat of the Chinese, Russian, or German
experience set in America are writing pieces like this:

http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2008/11/vanderboegh-resolve.html

Those ideas are so far from your beliefs about proper human behavior
that you might wonder if the writer has an organic brain injury.  And
yet, about half of those who voted, 56 million people, voted against
Obama.  Why??  Is it possible they might understand some teensy, weeny
portion of political or economic truth that is eluding you?