Comment: In so many words

Here is the event:

http://mises.org/media/1356/Gold-or-Tyranny

Note the date: Monday, February 28, 2005

That is after I worked for and earned a place on the Congressional Election in 1996 here:

http://vote96.sos.ca.gov/Vote96/html/cand/c40.htm

At the time I am working a lot of overtime at a high labor job in construction. I like to work, another long story. But the time period between Waco, my running for congress because of Waco, and this event in Nevada is almost constant work, labor, filled with reading, study, and thinking on Political Economy, plus keeping a family together, raising 2 kids, and discovering principles of political economy.

I take the weekend off, pay the fee, drive up to Las Vegas, arrive and find a basket under a sign and the sign says "Submit your questions to the Speakers" or some other wording, so I fill the basket with questions concerning the economic effects of the Internet, the Chinese economic boom, and if I remember from the time period I also asked questions having to do with the force of competition working on forcing money quality up and money cost down.

It was 2 days of speeches, and an informal day, and I wanted to hear Ron Paul, who I had heard about through newsgroups in the late 1980s.

I talked to Mr. Libertarian Walter Block in the hall, and as far as I am concerned the guy is an elitist, he didn't listen to my viewpoint, and he dismissed my questions about China with a trite reference to the price of my sneakers (tennis shoes in Pacific coast lingo).

I missed the opportunity to shake Ron Paul's hand, and tell him how his example helped inspired me to get on the ballot in 1996: no problem.

I don't know who the anarchist was in the reference to anarchists in Ron Paul's speech, but at the time I was heavily engaged in reading the works of Josiah Warren, Stephen Pearl Andrews, Lysander Spooner, Benjamin Tucker, and other so called "anarchists", and I think that was the time period when my activity on the Mises forum was occurring: before I was removed from their forum deceitfully.

I don't know who was the second anarchists either, as Ron Paul is informed of more than one anarchist in the audience during the speech by Ron Paul in Las Vegas.

I know that my questions on paper filled that basket on that first day. At the end of the day there was a question and answer period for the audience (paid to be there), and I did not raise my hand, for I had already, thoughtfully, filled the basket with written questions.

The speaker running the show read a few questions, and then said that the harder questions would be answered on the second day of speeches. None of my questions were tabled on either day.

I had one of my questions answered during the second day.

The answer is:

If you can't beat them: join them.

If you do not understand my viewpoint, that does not mean that my viewpoint is not valid.