It’s been a while since we roasted Libertarians on this site. In my defense, they’ve been pretty irrelevant since they abandoned their advocacy of essential liberties to fixate on smoking street drugs and hiring hookers.
You can’t blame them for pursuing new interests since the whole impetus for their movement was preventing big government tyranny, and the government is now a totalitarian police state.
But they’re still a dependable source of dark political humor. The latest gag is a Libertarian film festival playing deputy to the thought police.
My name is Jason Rink and I’ve been canceled – for producing a film about the importance of free speech and due process.
The 21 minute short documentary titled “The Most Canceled Man In America” is about a controversial internet streamer and political organizer. He is an American citizen who had a half-million dollars seized from his bank account by the Department of Justice. He was added to a federal no-fly list by the Department of Homeland Security. But to this day, he has never been charged with a crime.
This film was formally accepted to the Anthem Film Festival at Freedomfest on April 26, 2022. It was subsequently removed from the festival schedule on May 19, 2022.
My film was “canceled” by the organizers of the Anthem Film Festival and Freedomfest. I was told by the organizers that this decision was made specifically after hearing “from the highest levels at Reason, the Libertarian Party, the CATO Institute, National Review, FIRE, and MPI, people we respect.”
Respecting that rogues’ gallery of establishment gatekeepers wasn’t Freedomfest’s first mistake, but it was fatal.
Which brings us to the punchline:
Ironically, after the film was removed, I was still scheduled to speak at Anthem. The talk was entitled “Canceled: Fighting the Speech Police.”
“Fellating the Speech Police” would have been a more honest subtitle.
Since the director went public with his cancellation by a Libertarian film festival, Freedomfest’s social media account managers have gone on damage control.
Hilarity ensued.
Anyone with two firing neurons and a healthy sense of humor will get a chuckle from the hash of Libertarian platitudes and Death Cult ritual cant in Freedomfest’s attempt at self-exoneration. “Equality is an inherent aspect of freedom” reads like they lifted it from a teen girl running for class president.
In the end, what Freedomfest’s groveling to the Death Cult proves is that undefined freedom is not an absolute. And any attempts to hold it up as one end in comical disaster.
Even communism didn’t earn its place on the trash heap of history this richly.
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