January 26, 2003

Takin' Retards to the Zoo

I get home tonight and download my email (after first deleting the spam from the server with Mailwasher). I read all my mail with that program first. So I already knew what was going to appear in my inbox -- this little missive:

Hi, my name is Tom Schell and i am a Libertarian. We believe that our military should be nutural from world affairs and we should have free trade with all. We believe that if our military continues to bomb and rule the world that it will only lead to more anger, death and terror around the world. Winning world war 1 and 2 and the cold war and a varity of other wars has not dont a thing to bring peace to the world. The more we bomb little kids and citys around the world the more those people will feel the same way you felt on September 11th. The idea of liberty is based on peace, justice and economic prosparty for all with out useing force.
Spelling left as is, believe me. Is this what the Libertarian Party has descended to, farming their email campaign out to illiterates? If this was some sort of recruitment spam, it didn't work.

Posted by Andrea Harris at January 26, 2003 10:50 PM
Comments

Winning world war 1 and 2 and the cold war and a varity of other wars has not dont a thing to bring peace to the world.

The mind reels.

Posted by: *** Dave at January 26, 2003 at 11:06 PM

Dear Beelzabubba! I'm a lib, and that guy makes me ashamed of my party. If clowns like that are going to be the future of the party, I might go back to not voting for anyone, ever.

Posted by: Eichra Oren at January 26, 2003 at 11:17 PM

My favorite is "nutural". "Natural"? "Nurtural"? "Nutella"?

Google turns up some interesting suggestions

Something tells me this yobbo is a "nucular" kind of guy.

Posted by: Niccolo Machiavelli at January 26, 2003 at 11:21 PM

Texas Libertarians, apparently. Never tell them to their face they suck, they're probably better armed than you. Just make sure you're a couple of thousand miles away before you scald them with some piping hot logic.

They might still believe in the dueling code.

Or am I confusing them with the Arizona Libertarians, who nominated L. Neil Smith for president last time?

Posted by: Eichra Oren at January 26, 2003 at 11:25 PM

I think his email does make a case that state-run education doesn't work all that well.

But unfortunately yes, if you've ever been to any sort of Libertarian party event, there are lots and lots of really odd people.

Posted by: Jeremy at January 27, 2003 at 12:13 AM

WRT "nutural" I believe he meant "neutral". He wants the US military to not be partisan for the US or anyone else. The fact that we pay for it and that it is staffed by our people apparently is unimportant.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 27, 2003 at 03:16 AM

are we even sure this guy is a Libertarian?

sounds to me like he's a seventh grader who knows ONE big word.

"nutural" - maybe it has something to do with neutering? Like, maybe we can hope internet trolls could be?

Posted by: ricki at January 27, 2003 at 09:33 AM

No surprise here. In terms of institutional competence, the LP ranks somewhere between the FBI and the Pontiac design department.

Posted by: Paul Zrimsek at January 27, 2003 at 09:46 AM

I don't think too many people are going to catch the reference that title, Andrea. But anyone who listens to the Dead Milkmen is okay in my book!

Posted by: BarCodeKing at January 27, 2003 at 10:18 AM

Hey, he did manage to spell "libertarian" right. And a varity of other words. All with out useing force.

Posted by: Aaron Haspel at January 27, 2003 at 10:23 AM

The Libertarian Party has some sort of strange attraction to the terminally clueless for some reason. How else can you explain this guy?

Posted by: John Bono at January 27, 2003 at 03:01 PM

That letter is the one of the main reasons I am still a Republican. If the libertarian party was not made up of sel-professed alien abductees, militia men, and other garden varitey lunatics, I would leave the GOP.

Posted by: John Cole at January 27, 2003 at 08:43 PM

That letter is the one of the main reasons I am still a Republican. If the libertarian party was not made up of sel-professed alien abductees, militia men, and other garden varitey lunatics, I would leave the GOP.

Posted by: John Cole at January 27, 2003 at 08:43 PM

Steven - I figured that's what he meant. I was just being a sarcastic bastard, something that I'm regrettably fond of doing.

It is interesting, though, that there's apparently a "Nurtural Oil Company" in Egypt, or so Google says.

Those fond of conspiracy theories can make of that what you will.

Posted by: Niccolo Machiavelli at January 27, 2003 at 09:24 PM

Correction: "nutural", not "nurtural".

Posted by: Niccolo Machiavelli at January 27, 2003 at 09:25 PM