| | Dear Barbara
You wrote (please pardon the "quoth" -- it's just the usual style I affect in newsgroups and such)
"Because I received one nasty letter -- two, now -- from a nutty Raimondo admirer, Malloy, and since you and Jeff Riggenbach now are gracing Solo with your presence in order to to defend Raimondo against me, I think it not unreasonable to assume that this may be the beginning of a campaign, and that other nuts like Malloy well may weigh in. I hasten to say that I truly do not put you and Jeff in the same category as the Malloy person, but I find it interesting that you both have only now registered with Solo."
Actually, I just RE-registered with Solo. Lost my password. I usually don't participate in the forums, although I did paricipate in at least one thread under my old userid for the purpose of discussing the relationship of Rational Review and Rational Review News Digest to the International Society for Individual Liberty and Freedom News Daily. I visit Solo on a daily basis, and have for some time. Usually RRND and FND feature a few articles every week from Solo.
I'm not here to "defend" Justin Raimondo. I'm frequently at odds with him myself, and occasionally publicly so, especially with respect to the subject of Israel.
More particularly, Raimondo requires no defense from the likes of Stephen Schwartz. Among the 1,000-1,500 or more published political commentaries I read each month, Stephen Schwartz is almost always in the running for the "most baseless, undocumented, stupid piece of trash-talk published in recent memory" prize.
I'm not interested in defending Raimondo as much as I am in trying to figure out what has led a group of alleged Objectivists so far off the path of fact and reality with respect to the war issue that they'd feel compelled to attack him -- even to the extent of lauding Schwartz's screed.
Regards, Tom Knapp
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