I'm inclined to go with the latter as there is ample evidence, in and out of the "truth" movement, that Rockwell primary motive for anything he does is $$$$$$$$$$.
Mr. Rockwell has a long history of cynically pushing political garbage to make money. Look no further than the racist Ron Paul Newsletters he helped Paul publish and make millions off of for decades.
Then there's the Von Mises Institute Rockwell helped found with Murray Rothbard of the Cato Institute, putting Rockwell only one degree of separation from the Larouche origins of the "truth" movement. Now Rockwell claims Mises and Cato are at odds, but we really on have his word for it:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon37.html
And Rockwell's word isn't worth much these days, and it seems he and Ronnie had a rather cozy relationship with the Cato institute:
Ed Crane, founder and president of the Cato Institute, told Reason that in a discussion of with Ron Paul during the period in which the newsletters were published, Paul said his chief source of campaign contributions was the mailing address for the controversial Spotlight magazine. Reason reports that the now defunct magazine, run by Holocaust Denier Willis Carto, promoted anti-Semitism.[27]Lew Rockwell was involved with pushing 911 truth conspiracies from at least 2007 to 2009. Rockwell was a frequent contributor to Rick Seigel's defunct 911researchers forum. I don't know all of Siegel's story. But I do know he funded many websites of the "truther" con. It's possible Seigel was conned and his extreme libertarian ideals of "freedom" were exploited. If so, Rockwell would be one of the conartists.
Rockwell used to post on Liberty Forest, the old Ron Paul forum, where he pushed links to Craig "Killtown" Lazo's 911movement forum.
rockwell
SignatureTHE REPUBLICANS PUT A GIANT, RADIOACTIVE MARMOSET IN MY TOOL SHED.www.911movement.orgStatisticsTotal PostsTotal Posts1,019Posts Per Day0.44General InformationLast Activity06-04-2008 06:02 PMJoin Date10-19-2007Referrals1
In fact Rockwell was an administrator at Lazo's forum:
To recap, aimless supposed Green boy enjoying hippy chicks is drawn into the Libertarian party, and becomes a 911 online entity working with supporters of Lyndon Larouche, David Duke and various Holocaust deniers and confederacy sympathizers. Eventually KT would be de facto manager of a forum compiling information about activists—and one of his administrators is THE Lew Rockwell.Making Rockwell responsible for all the lies and cyber shenanigans at 911movement.org. If anyone knew who "Slicks" wife was and wanted to blackmail "Slick", Rockwell would be a prime candidate. After all, would he really want to risk being connected to the forum as he helped Ron Paul prepare for 2012?
Rockwell, with "Killtown" Lazo, was a supporter of the conspiracy movie September Clues:
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| The screenie above, hosted and imageshack and archiving Rockwell's witting self involvement and promotion of "September Clues" at Craig Lazo's forum, has been removed. I have a copy somewhere. Until then bask in the hypocrisy of Mr. Lazo and his associates who refuse to remove one jot of any of their published lies. |
Not sure if it's the same, but it definitely archives Rockwell networking with Mr. Shack and Mr. Lazo:
And for kicks, here's one where Rockwell is agreeing to harrass photographer Devin Clark:
The same Devin Clark Lazo's buddy Ozzy made videos implying death threats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sip3lIcyhMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6esBFmwrB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzHtNchiMI
Stay classy, people.
Rockwell claimed among many things to be ex-military, something wikipedia seems unaware of.
I'm former military, so I have a fair idea how this works.
Posted: May 14 2009, 11:17 AM
I just drove over there.Rockwell's mix of sleazy companions and unfounded conspiracy innuendo, show the man is nothing less than a pathological liar, pushing anything that will support his agenda of the moment. Not only is it dishonest and unethical, but, at it's extreme, it shows Rockwell is a fool.
There is absolutely ZERO signage to indicate what's there except the street adress out front. (That still doesn't account for the Google map showing a wooded lot. I can seee my own care in my driveway when I put in my addy and my street isn't even listed on a mercator map.
Once you drive into the compound there's a a sign for deliveries, parking, etc, but again, nothing to indicate it's a Goldman Sachs Fraud Op. A woman is a black trench coat, slacks, sensible heels and wearing a dour look gave me the hairy eyeball, but other than that it looks like your average 1980's style office park, albeit small.
It might be interesting to find out how long they've occupied the building. If it predates Lisa's foundation, I think it's safe to say the foundation was a GS creation.
HTH
Take the article published on Rockwell's website by Gary North:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/gary-north/kentucky-fried-trouble/
LewRockwell.com ANTI-STATE•ANTI-WAR•PRO-MARKET
Kentucky Trial Balloon: RFID Tracking Chips on All Guns
The Tea Party EconomistSeptember 14, 2013
The Senate of the state of Kentucky wants to run an experiment. It has passed a bill that establishes a new law. As of January 1, all gun owners in one city must bring in their guns. The police will attach a battery-powered chip that will track its whereabouts. The police will charge the gun owners for this service.
Anyone who fails to do this could be fined or sent to jail.
The city chosen is Winchester. You think the politicians are not sending a message? If there had been a Kentucky city called Glock, they would have chosen it instead.
If the politicians get away with this, it is expected that the program will be imposed in every county in the state.
The preliminary report does not indicate that the governor has signed the bill into law.
If this does not lead to protests in Kentucky, gun-control lawmakers around the United States hope to get every state to impose this requirement.
Then, when confiscation day comes, the police will know where every gun is, other than those owned by criminals, who will not register their guns.
This is a trial balloon. The politicians will keep extending this law until they receive opposition sufficient to threaten their re-election.
Continue Reading on nationalreport.net
Gary North [send him mail] is the author of Mises on Money. Visit http://www.garynorth.com. He is also the author of a free 31-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible.
Hope Mr. North's Bible work is better than his political research. One has only to follow his link to National Report to see he's got the wrong end of the stick:
The phraseology should make a thinking person suspicious this is something tongue in cheek. Perhaps inspire a Google search:*DISCLAIMER: The views expressed by writers on this site are theirs alone and are not reflective of the fine journalistic and editorial integrity of National Report. Advice given is NOT to be construed as professional. If you are in need of professional help, please consult a professional. National Report is not intended for children under the age of 18.
National Report (nationalreport.net) is a satirical website devoted to often subtle parodies of real news which convince the unwary. It is published by Allen Montgomery.[1]
Among headline-generating spoofs are a report that Arizona's governor Jan Brewer intended to introduce mandatory gay-to-straight conversion courses into the state's public school system,[2] and a report that fooled researchers at Fox News Channel, in which the President was purported to have announced his intention to spend his own money to keep a Muslim museum open during a government shutdown.[3] Another report that fooled people in Wyoming claimed that a man in Hanna, Wyoming was the first recipient of a RFID chip which, the report claimed, was part of an Obamacare pilot program.[1]
It's satire, people. See how easy that was?
Apparently not easy enough. The comments swarm with people who don't stop for two seconds to wonder if this is real, not even after a fellow libertarian sounds the alarm that this is satire:
Almost six months later, and still no retraction at Lew Rockwell's website.Len LibertarianSeptember 15, 2013 at 12:59 pmThe popular site LewRockwell.com picked up this satire news story and presented it as real news. Well done!The syndicated talk radio show The Freedom Feens talked on their show today about LewRockwell.com getting punked by this. Archive is here:http://www.freedomfeens.com/2013/09/15/traffic-cameras-are-proof-the-government-doesnt-work-live-freedom-feens-radio-archive/–Len.
This tells us a couple things about right-wing Libertarians generally and the Libertarian's promoting the "truther" fraud specifically:
1. As long as something supports their agenda, Libertarian leaders don't care about facts.Now some will object that all parties do this. But this is not true. As a long time lefty I know registered Republicans who think the party's recent alliance with Tea Party extremists is insane. And of course I know many Democrats who were unhappy Obama took so long to withdraw troops. Normal people involved with the traditional parties do NOT vote or hold opinions in lockstep. And party leaders are highly aware they need to look like rational people when the come under fire.
2. Libertarian owners of websites, or newsletters for that matter, do not think it's their responsibility to edit anything, ever. Years later when called out, they lie and/or pass the buck, without even trying to look credible to the public outside their bubble.
3.Libertarian propaganda is directed at loyal followers who will not question the obvious lies and discrepancies. This means Libertarian leaders value brainwashed followers who will do what they say without question.
Not so the official Libertarian Party. Their leaders could not care less if regular voters saw them as sane as long the base is loyal. And the base is defined by loyalty at all costs.
It's the extreme of Right Wing ideology: cynical leadership knowingly pushing lies, and gullible trusting followers any television preacher would envy. The politics of Libertarianism operate less like an economic model and more like a religion. This isn't an accident. If you can get people involved in a faith based ideology, you can manipulate them to react with religious fervor with friend and foe.
Bringing us to Rockwell's involvement in the "truth" movement.
The 911 "Truth" Movement is one of many fringe right propaganda fronts. They all had a natural life cycle:
initial broad appeal,
discovery of flawed facts and/or associations,
decline to small dedicated fringe.The Libertarian Party itself has followed this pattern, now a shadow of itself and the haunt of extremists. It has one victory: being recognized as a national party. But it's reputation as a mainstream alternative is over. Even the openly racist America Freedom Party thinks it has better chances, perhaps because it never LIED about it's racist roots.
This is what did the 911"truth" movement in.
The initial appeal :
anti war activists unimpressed with Bush's over use of "terrorism" as an excuse for military action. Why was he doing this?Truth movement leaders and recruiters who either were strongly critical of Bush or pretended to be politically liberal offered answers. What they didn't explain was the extreme right wing sources of their "theories". They deliberately obscured them, as "debunking911" has said:
At 23 March, 2007 18:46, debunking911 said... I can't hate on the people who have been suckered into this. Not everyone has the time to research this like we do. But I think people in the public eye have a special responsibility to find out the truth before opening their mouth. Some nutcase like McVeigh will try to kill someone some day because people like Rosie jumped to conclusions.D911 frustration was understandable, but like many debunkers, he was looking in the wrong direction. Focusing on debunking hoax theories is laudable, but it's worthless if the source and political goals of the people inventing the theories is ignored. Otherwise they'll just invent another theory, and it will be another game of wack-the-mole.
This gets frustrating. We don't have a radio station and fanatics like they do. We need a group to e-mail or fax these people our web sites like they have. We need someone who knows how to create videos like they do. The thing is people only get motivated by a crisis and they have a manufactured one.
Once all the theories are identified as a fringe right propaganda machine, certain "truther" behaviours encouraged in "truthers" make more sense, particularly the quasi religious Matrix inspired "wake up" "witnessing". Much like the big L libertarians don't want critical supporters, "truther" leaders, don't want critical members. They want a mass of people ready to repeat faith based mantas.
Then the demonizing of anyone asking say Steven Jones questions about his termites, er, thermates, makes sense. As does the hand waving over his OverUnity scam. Or, really, anyone expecting rational adult behaviour.
The faith based aspect of the "truth" movement has been over shadowed by theories, but is far more indicative of the psychology truther leaders were trying to exploit. At least three leaders make claims to religious training and/or institutions:
Griffin, Jones and Barrett.The idea has appeal beyond the fringe right. Most people have trouble seeing mild-mannered religious persons as fronting a scam. Loud and brash ones sure; the typical TV preacher is assumed to be lining his pockets. But to be knowing outright frauds, working with racist loons, that's hard for anyone to accept no matter where they are on the political spectrum.
It takes proof to break the spell:
Griffin: Publisher racist Barnes Review: this link to the The American Free Press/Barnes Review Conference of 2006 proves, better than any snark, that TBR is connected to the racist AFP at the hip.The only people left to defend these racist frauds are the "true believers", like Rockwell and the Paultards, remaining loyal out of blind faith, or because they have no place to go. The leaders remain because there's still money to be squeezed out of the rubes.
Jones: fraudulent paper, pushing OverUnity Hoax
Barrett: Holocaust denier and supporter of Merlin Miller, a White Power political candidate.
The continued presence of Gary North's uncritical and badly researched article on Rockwell's website, is an example of the "thinking" rife in both the Libertarian Party and the 911truth movement: my theory, right or wrong. Facts be damned!
It also proves "Lew" was never interested in any truth. He's only interested in material to feed his libertarian propaganda machine, no matter how foolish it makes him look. Because he knows the true believers will never question and always follow.
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