Shots Fired
The conference held in honor of the late Samuel T. Francis (1947 – 2005) in release of the posthumous book Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America’s Culture War may at least partly appear on C-SPAN. Well...maybe. The book has a foreword by Pat Buchanan and an afterword by Joe Sobran.
It was surprising to first hear that C-SPAN was there at all. I will try to do my best to keep a look out if it does happen to appear on television. VDare.com will probably keep us up-to-date. And it seems, according to Peter Brimelow and Taki Theodoracopulos, some not exactly welcomed or expected things were said by at least one of the speakers that had little relevance to the conference and Francis.
Here is what C-SPAN says (no air-date ---- at least not yet):
Panel on Neoconservatism Panel on Culture Wars Panel on Immigration Editor Peter Gemma talked about Shots Fired: Sam Francis On America's Culture War, a collection of articles by the late Sam Francis (1947-2005). Mr. Francis was a member of what he called the real Right, those who, besides advocating limited government, states' rights, separation of powers, popular traditions, and the Bill of Rights, believe the U.S. is an organic product of Western European culture, not an artifice founded on some airy proposition (e.g., "All men are created equal"). Accordingly, he deplored massive immigration, multiculturalism, and minority special pleading. This session was part of the Sam Francis Conference.
While there are many areas, in my view from a paleolibertarian perspective, that are disagreeable with Francis, nonetheless the shackles the establishment put on him and their attempt to completely mute someone with his intelligence was uncalled for. As I stated before, there are also many areas that (especially) left-libertarians could learn from his writings.
[I just learned that Sam Francis was for a brief time an adjunct scholar at the Mises Institute. It is kind of hard to square that with him. Once Francis falsely wrote in an article how capitalism is the enemy.]
