That is what I wondered when a question was posted to me about him.

Hello,because my experiences I hate the term revolution,I prefer movement,the only revolution I love is American in 1776,every other is similar to French. But I love to see criminals overthrowed. What is your opinion on Justin Raimondo -and similar libertarians-,his opinions on Kirgyz,Iran,Lebanon,etc. he is a lazy idiot or even worse?

Well, I didn’t really know who the commenter was referring to so I had to Google the name. It’s also ironic that today, just after hearing about him, he sent me some traffic by linking to my “Kyrgyz protestor babe” post at the beginning of his long-winded diatribe about Kyrgyzstan. His column is located at antiwar.com, so that would explain quickly his position on issues. He strikes me as something of an angry and a tad warped individual, because being against the war seems to be his only issue.

So much so that the presuppositions he makes regarding the various revolutions around the world right now are pretty inconsistent from post to post. In his latest article he says that That the Bush administration has unleashed a war of “the poor against the rich” in all of these countries. along with some jibber jabber about the Bill of Rights being suspended, as if he knows what something like that would actually be like. As far as I know, he is still barking lunacy on the internet. And the poor against the rich? What about Lebanon where many people are calling it “The Gucci Revolution?” Or Ukraine, where the revolutionaries were predominantly middle class?

Speaking of Ukraine, Justin thinks that the protests erupted simply because of exit polls.

In the Ukraine, tens of thousands of protesters march through the streets demanding that pro-Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich give up the reins of power: he stole the election, they claim. The whole thing was “rigged.” How do they know this? Well, you see, the exit polls ???????? conducted by Western organizations ???????? showed their candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, the winner. When the final results didn’t jibe with the polls, and Yanukovich came out ahead, Yushchenko called his supporters out into the streets, anointed himself the winner, and threatened civil war.

Gee, why didn’t’ the Kerryites think of that? After all, early exit polls in the U.S. showed the Democratic candidate as the putative winner: on election day in the U.S., rumors of Kerry’s imminent victory were spurred by (possibly biased?) reporting based on the preliminary numbers that were coming in. According to the “logic” employed by Yushchenko and his Western supporters ???????? including the EU, the OSCE, and U.S. government officials (and the White House) ???????? this means Kerry is the actual winner of the November election, and a usurper sits in the Oval Office.

Perhaps — except that the vast difference between the exit polls showing Yushchenko’s clear majority over over Yanukovich and the vast electoral fraud committed. You would think a libertarian would disapprove of such a thing, but in case he just didn’t read the report, here it is. I guess he didn’t see the videos of the mass bussing of Yanukovich supporters and beatings of Yushchenko voters.

Perhaps they protested because something was actually wrong, but Justin started his article with the catchy little line, ” From Iraq to the Ukraine, ‘democracy’ marches on ???????? crushing the popular will.” Because all he has is catchy little lines. Nathan, in fact, has a post up calling into question his recent column on Kyrgyzstan. As a commenter notes:

Most paranoid schizophrenics make up elaborate plots that cannot be proven or disproven. The paranoid attributes any attempt at reasoning with him as evidence that someone is either in on the original plot or covering it up. I????????ve spoken with Justin Raimondo before, and I can????????t say that I????????ve ever personally dealt with a more completely batshit insane individual in my life.

More accurate than anything I’ve seen Justin write thusfar.

UPDATE: He apologizes for using the fake memo!