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What a delightful day. In addition to the usual mix of meetings and correspondence and editing, I had lunch with Sabine Herold and Edouard Fillias of the French libertarian activist group LibertÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?© ChÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?©rie, and then dinner with Paul Cantor, University of Virgina professor of literature and author of Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture int he Age of Globalization. Herold and Fillias spoke at a small luncheon meeting at Cato and Cantor gave a most interesting presentation on “Libertarianism in Contemporary Pop Culture” in the F. A. Hayek Auditorium.
Liberty belle, indeed.
I’m completely confused…
I looked at the Reason article on Sabine Herold and the Liberte Cherie website. The website has some interesting and clearly libertarian commentary on the French rejection of the proposed EU constitution. But what is this stuff about Sabine Herold leading a pro-war demonstration?
The war in Iraq is a nightmare come true — the Bush doctrine that pre-emptive war in justified on those who might someday pose a threat, as determined by “fixed” (to use the Downing Street memo term) evidence. There’s nothing vaguely libertarian about the U.S. war.
Is Liberte Cherie pro-war & pro-Bush?
I asked her and her colleague about whether they had led a demonstration in favor of the Iraq war. They said no, that they had led an anti-anti-American demonstration. The distinction might seem a bit subtle, but they seemed to insist that they had not demonstrated in favor of going to war.
Of course, Charles, there are those who disagree with you. “The war in Iraq is a nightmare come true.” I suppose that depends on who you ask.
I saw Sabine a few years ago. I have been in love ever since:)
Tom: the distinction makes perfect sense to me. There’s a big difference between opposition to a particular American gov’t policy and opposition to things American in general.
John: are you seriously suggesting that there are people who disagree me? Who are they, I want to have a talk with them!