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Like the old
joke, I have good news and I have bad news.
The good news is
that LRC is more influential than ever. This was already the best-read
libertarian site on the web, and the one Ron Paul reads first thing every
morning. And 2009 traffic is up 28% over 2008, which was already the
best-read in our 11-year history.
More and more
Americans, especially young people, turn here for the kind of news and
opinion – and good writing – they can’t find in the
standard media, print or electronic. And not only America: LRC is attracting
readers from all over the world.
And I can’t
tell you how many people write to tell me they used to be neocons or
left-liberals, but now, thanks to LRC, they are libertarians.
With
fascism-socialism on the march in the US and so many other countries, how
important is the untrammeled voice of freedom, unafraid, uncompromising,
innovative, and effective.
No part of the
regime, no statist intellectual, bankster, CIA killer, Wall Streeter, nor
shill, will find deference on LewRockwell.com. Here, we recognize the state,
as Murray Rothbard put it, as “a gang of thieves writ large.”
That goes for the presidency, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the Fed, the
Pentagon, and every other sinkhole for our stolen money.
Nor will we heed
the bleats of “terrorism, terrorism” as an excuse to fasten the
police state on us. Clinton, Bush, Obama – and their equally bloody
predecessors – are all given the hotfoot at LRC.
Here's the bad
news: this site has its haters, from oil plutocrats to billionaire bankers,
from neocon mouthpieces to the floozies of agitprop. They want to put us out
of business. But if the bad guys weren’t bothered, we might as well
shut our doors. And that will never happen. If we have your support.
But is all lost,
given the elected-dictatorship of the presidency, the evil clowns in black
robes, the killer generals, and the rest? Absolutely not. Indeed, there is
far more opposition than at any time since 2000. LRC can help fan the flames
of resistance, and grow the giant Ron Paul movement too.
But we need your
help to stay in existence, and to make the improvements in the site that the
times demand, from a new Content Management System and redesign, to
advertising on bigger sites like Drudge. All this is very expensive. Won’t you
help?
Please make a
generous donation if you like this site, and want to see
it grow in influence, and indeed, keep going. We have some dreams about what
we can do to make LRC even more powerful as a voice of liberty, and some
surprises as well, but we need you as a partner.
Socialists, red
and blue-state fascists, Keynesians, militarists, imperialists, welfare
statists, inflationists, warmongers, redistributionists, big-pharma
corporatists, propagandists for the regime – the targets are many and
powerful. LRC may seem only a slingshot against an army, but that’s
what they said about David.
This battle is
exhilarating as well as important. We can do much good, and have fun at the
same time. We can hammer the thieving state, its allies and apologists. We
can undermine them all. We can do so much good for the future of our ideas. Join me in this great fight.
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