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Entry: William Hawkins, Loser Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/william_hawkins_loser#5963 Post contents: Can't we all get along here? One can have an honest disagreement of views without getting personal. What I like about the JRC and Rockford is that they are willing to have libertarians and leftists like Raimondo and Sale as speakers or members not because they agree with them on everything but because they fit a certain attitude and style and culture that are outside convention ideological labels. Yes, Sale may be a leftist, anti-human kook, but unlike his fellow New Left hypocrites who sold out to the Democrats, he actually believes in "power to the people," not power to Nancy Pelosi. Thus, you can say he and Thomas Naylor are paleo-liberals in that sense. Maybe I've answered my question then. How can you not have disagreements within paleoism if you have liberals, conservatives and libertarians within the same movement? That's fine but we can still be civil about it. What Hawkins did was disgraceful and dishonorable. He went to a notorious neocon website edited by a Black Panther "white kitten" and other Trotskyites (talk about company of ill repute) and submitted his piece because he knew they would publish it. They love crap like this that supposedly tars paleos as being anti-patriotic. This was not an honest appraisal of the debate, this was a diatribe. A pissy Hawkins doesn't want to associate with people he thinks are anti-American. Fine. But instead of keeping this private, he goes to the neocons and says "Guess what happened at the latest JRC meeting? You'll never believe this!" William Hawkins started out as the director of a Tennessee think tank funded by Roger Milliken and textile interests devoted to trade issues. He supported Buchanan because of his protectionist ideology (Gee isn't it interesting Raimondo and Rothbard didn't mind associating with protectionists. Who's being petty here?). Notice that he lives and works in the imperial capital now. There's no doubt in reading his little screed he's been moving away from paleoism for some time because it conflicts with his extreme nationalism. This is the downside of protectionism. No doubt if you asked Hawkins and his ilk they would want to go to war with China because of its economic policies and because they view it as a threat to U.S. power. What a coincidence! The neocons feel the same way about China too. Not that they care about economics, because they don't. They can tolerate a protectionist like Hawkins because he's a nationalist just like they are. He believes the U.S. should be a global empire. He believe in the war. Ergo, he's not going to be paleo for much longer if he feels this way. Sent at: 2008 07 08