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All is Vanity See other All is Vanity Articles Title: Thank you, Mr. Paul Craig Roberts! I was moved by PCR's final column to send him the following via e-mail: Mr. Roberts, You conclude what may be your final column with these words: “As the pen is censored and its might extinguished, I am signing off.” I question your premise. In the age of the Internet, your words cannot be censored. Yes, the establishment and their servile corporate media ignore you, as they ignore anyone who dares to speak truth about our now openly criminal government. But their former stranglehold on the minds of America has been broken. Their disfavor can no longer deny you your readership and influence. These thoroughly discredited institutions are now in their death throws. They are the past. The Internet is the future, and in that future now being born, you have a growing and devoted readership among the young and not so young (like me) and we are thankful for every word that you have ever written. Better than anyone in the last decade, you have seen through the lies of the regime and exposed its dark heart. The might of your words cannot be extinguished. They are powerful and persuasive, all the more so given your background, which makes your voice unique. Truth may have fallen for many, but truth has not fallen in a cosmic sense so long as there is at least one truth teller who raises that standard high and rallies a remnant to its banner. Your writings have been such a standard. In them, you affirm and extol the core values of America as it once was (or, at least, aspired to be) even as you decry and despair over the America that now is. And though we share your despair and discouragement, we are less despairing or discouraged because of your writings, for they remind us that we are not alone in our revulsion for Empire, for the fraudulent “war on terror”, for the mass murder and plunder of Third World nations, for corporate looting and exploitation via globalization, for Bill-of-Rights-gutting police-state thuggery and for every other malignant manifestation of a system unhinged and rushing headlong towards a hard fall. Your writings reassure us that a remnant remains amidst these ruins, and with it, HOPE. Do not forget about the Remnant, Mr. Roberts! That is your readership. And I commend to you a recent posting on LewRockwell.com of a column by Albert Jay Nock on the importance of strengthening a remnant in times of travail such as these: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/nock3b.html That was the prophet Isaiah’s mission, and that is the effect of your columns, even if that was not your intention. Nock concludes that so strengthening a remnant, “…is a good job, an interesting job, much more interesting than serving the masses; and moreover it is the only job in our whole civilization, as far as I know, that offers a virgin field.” You did that job very well. Perhaps that job is not yet done, but if it is, I would encourage you to do one more thing before you lay the standard down. I have recently received your book “How the Economy was Lost”, a collection of your past columns on primarily economic issues. I wonder, could you publish a similar collection of your columns on foreign policy, false flag terror (i.e. 9-11), Bush and Obama’s fraudulent wars and the police state? Or, even better, how about publishing a multi-volume set containing all of your columns in chronological order from 2000 through 2010? How many volumes would that take, I wonder? Perhaps the Mises Institute could publish it and make it available via LewRockwell.com. That would be a treasured addition to any library, and would enable your Internet readers to gift your wisdom to the more technologically challenged. One downside to the Internet is that there is no one site where all of your columns are published. They are scattered across many sites (Lew Rockwell, Counterpunch, Vdare, Infowars, etc.). Collecting them all together in chronological order in one multi-volume compendium (or even one website) would yield a powerful lodestar of truth that would be an invaluable resource in the ongoing struggle for liberty. If, as you say, you have written your last column, thank you for your heroic service to the cause of freedom and humanity and know that the might of your pen is not extinguished and never will be extinguished so long as the Remnant that you have strengthened and encouraged endures. Yours in freedom, ......
Poster Comment: PCR, you will be missed.
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Excellent!
#10. To: ratcat, Jethro Tull, christine, lod, Original Intent, LACUMO (#9)
Here's PCR on RT. This sheds a bit more light on his good bye. It is the censorship by Internet sites with which he's had a long association that was the final straw. Specifically: Antiwar.com and Counterpunch will not permit any reference findings by experts that raise questions about the government's official 9-11 conspiracy theory. LewRockwell.com will not permit criticisms of free trade/globalization. PCR has no need of such gatekeepers, though. He could start up his own blog and his readers would follow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDNLDXQdlBQ
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