An explanation:
Hi there - I’m the writer, director, editor, and producer of the video in question, and while I admit it’s somewhat tongue-in-cheek, it’s not intended to be anti-libertarian by any means. I wrote the poem 10 years ago when a Koch Associate applied to work for my organization and listed “libertarianism, poetry” as her interests. We all chuckled back then, before “South Park,” and before the explosion of new media and groundbreaking graphic art propagated by Bureaucrash (to see what I mean, check out bureaucrash.com and jdtalley.com). The idea of “libertarian poetry” seemed incongruous. The most committed libertarians I associated with back then were econ nerds. “What do you want to do, privatize sidewalks?” was a common sort of ridiculous question we’d get when defending the libertarian point of view, and then there’s the blanket assumption that all libertarians are atheist or agnostic. (I myself am a Catholic Christian, and as far as I can tell “Thou shall not steal,” i.e. private property, is still in the Bible.) So in any event, if anything the poem and video are poking fun at a stereotype of libertarianism, a movement today much more influential culturally and more diverse than it was 10 years ago. If any libertarians or anarcho-capitalists take offense to the video, please note that it was not intended to offend you.
