Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Drugged Lady Sings: The Koch-Cato Power Opera is About to End

I am digging around here in DC into the rumors circulating around a senior Cato person, they don't get much more horrific than this. This power opera will end with a key Cato player led off the stage, and the statute of limitations hasn't expired, so handcuffs are not out of the question.

Statutes of limitations for this kind of stuff don't expire for a very long time---and the memories of the victim, even when the victim was drugged, and then paid off (with Cato money?), last a very long time.


28 comments:

  1. OMG, what are we talking about here? I knew Ed hated Murray and Lew and the Mises Institute, but drugging? And why hasn't this come to the fore by now? There are no real secrets among this crowd.

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  2. This is purely a hunch, but could it possibly be related to why the Charles G. Koch Foundation (which does a bunch of intern placements around the Beltway-libertarian orgs) suddenly quit sending them to CATO about 3 years ago?

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    1. Wow. This really happened?

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    2. The Koch Summer Fellowship continues to send interns to Cato, so i'm not sure I see the relevance

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    3. Yeah, this is BS. There are KIPs at Cato right now.

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    4. The article is an unsubstantiated rumor and the replies are outright lies.

      You could at least learn some PR basics from the Catons.

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    5. CGK Foundation sends no FEMALE interns to Cato. Sexual harassment by Ed Crane is common knowledge in D.C. There will be an investigation. Mr. Crane will be outed, perhaps arrested. If Mr. Crane truly values Cato over his own ego, he will leave quietly and blame the Kochs. Most of our brain-dead blame them for one thing or another. It is raining here. I blame the Kochs for that, too.

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  3. At the earliest stage, there is no fundamental distinction between informing people about the existence of a rumor and spreading that rumor. I hope that you've made damned sure that there's really something here before going with this. The principal characters in this drama may not be very respectable, but they don't deserve to have this out there unless it's real.

    I love the site, but I do hope you aren't just chumming the waters.

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    1. I agree. With innuendo like that, this had better turn out to be correct.

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  4. The freak show of Cato personnel always seemed to be at odds with how the Kochs worked. Crane is rumored to be a philanderer. There have also been a couple of wife swapping freaks there, with one still remaining on staff. Also, I always felt that much of the Cato staff couldn't hack it in the free market outside of begging for money from benefactors because of their freakish behavior and their lack of business etiquitte.

    Folks like Crane have no long-term vision. They only look for who they can use at the moment. Otherwise such folks could have nothing to do with you. It's kinda Randian that way.

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    1. The "lifestyle libertarians" at Reason Magazine are known to be hedonists as well. More proof that DC is epicenter of evil in America. Secede! We don't need any of these freaks!

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    2. Say what you like. The sex at reason happy hours is awesome. You peeps are just jealous.

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    3. Wait, there's Sex at Reason happy hours?

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  5. I'm guessing you're talking about charges stemming from the theft of Rothbard's shares that has been mentioned?

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  6. All I know is if it's scandalous, it's bad for the libertarian cause in general- outside of this small fraction of the population reading these blogs and keeping ourselves up with these people... but look around you- 90% of people don't know anything about Libertarian- aside from a passing memory of that "that's like libertarian wacko rock star guy- Ted Nugent, right?"
    Most people will look at this mess, whatever it is, and drag the entirety of libertarian efforts down to the equivalent of party republicans and democrats.

    I want discussion about why our current system can be light-years better, not scandal that- deserving or not- lowers the educational standing of all individuals in the eyes of an already reluctant and in some cases hostile to the idea of even entertaining some of the thoughts we espouse.

    I may be alone on the worry/disappointment about the reflection this 'soap opera' on our libertarian belief system.
    Most unfortunately it has also occurred just as it has gained immense national attention and scrutiny primarily because of the Ron Paul presidential/Senatorial dynamic now in it's final year (for as we know, 12 months from now, if Ron Paul isn't going to be president, he will be gone from DC entirely- when the "ignore and quell the discussion once the squeaky wheel is off the national stage."
    I hope justice is done regarding whatever controversy is about to be revealed- but I hope and will remind that now is a more important time than just about any other in a hundred years- Our absolutely honest and open ideas are the most transparent in the world as libertarians in general.
    If he committed a crime, then he will deal with that- but we risk ignoring and continuing to support the delegate race- the truest ideological struggle unfolding in the United States since it's creation of a small pocket of colonies.

    I want the attention there, because it's the most exciting race in the life of the ideas. I hope the opposition to our general ideas don't exploit it as a distraction/shield during the nations unusually high level of attention on libertarian philosophy- and stop people from learning by choice, which we have gradually been able to do over the last several years.
    The peaceful fire is catching on, and good people are recognizing what we have to share with them.
    Maybe that's just me over-analyzing-

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  7. In other words... Keep your eyes on the ball.

    I couldn't agree more.

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  8. So this is who is behind the Cato institute who consistently attacked Ron Paul as a racist, attacked Dilorenzo as a racist, praised Lincoln and the current day GOP, etc?

    Not a surprise.

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  9. Hey it may or may not be true...I just think the CATO Institute owes it to us to come out and address this messy issue that is hanging over our heads..they are beginning to make ALL libertarians looks bad unless they confront this head on and fire the people that need to be fired.

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  10. Before everyone starts cheering here, you need to come to terms with the fact that the Kochs are NOT libertarians. They are opportunist corporatists--corportunists. All you are cheering here is the demise of the one single soletary libertarian institution in DC that has the respect of the Left and the Right. Do they need a management change, perhaps. But trashing the entire organization to accomplish that, as the Kochs are doing, is not the way to do that.

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    1. And it doesn't occur to you that the fact that Cato "has the respect of the Left and the Right" shows the depth of the problem?

      If Cato were doing its job, it would be hated and feared by the establishment of both the Left and the Right!

      I knew Ed Crane back in the late '70s when Cato was in the San Francisco bay Area and I was a doctoral student at Stanford. Ed kind of gave off bad vibes back then. But, I will wait for the evidence to come out before making a judgment.

      Dave Miller in Sacramento

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    2. I was one of the four dozen or so people who met in Burlingame, CA, at the Hyatt House, to create the California Libertarian Party, in 1972. I was appalled to see the group infested with suits and lawyers, including Ed Clark and Ed Crane.

      As an anarchist, I'll see you and raise - if Cato was anything but a political parasite, its leaders would have prices on their heads and live from day to day by moving from safe house to safe house.

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  11. Jesus Ed, how old were they?! Did the libertarian concept of consent even enter your mind? Where on the planet did you expect to hide?

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  12. With REAL libertarian institutions and "thinktanks" doing excellent work, and Ron Paul's campaign for the GOP Presidential nomination starting to go into overdrive, why is the nonsense associated with Koch and CATO still getting attention?

    Mises Institute, LewRockwell.com, Antiwar.com, Isil.org, Future of Freedom Foundation, and the Independent Institute, among a growing number of other REAL libertarians, along with the Ron Paul campaign, are doing real work for liberty, private property, and peace!

    The Koch brothers, Crane and CATO, along with the other clowns have nothing to show for over 30 years (and millions of $$$) but the likes of Bush I and II, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Alan Greenspan, Goldman Sachs, and the dreadful "Patriot Act"! Libertarians?? I don't think so!!

    PEACE AND FREEDOM!!

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  13. The hint here is that some information will soon come to light that will destroy Ed Crane professionally, correct? I doubt very much that Mr. Crane's abrupt departure, even in handcuffs, would end the current struggle over Cato. The Cato board and staff are motivated to remain independent of the Kochs for reasons unrelated to Ed Crane's personal future.

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  14. Listen up you Rockwell lumpen. If you endanger our weekly satanic rituals and bacchanalia, and cut the supply of virginal interns I deflower, torture and BBQ, as a beltway lifestyle libertarian, I promise you I will come for your children and curse your descendants into the 7th generation.

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  15. This entire fiasco started because the new board member accused Ed of being boorish, at dinner. If you are the sort of person who can turn the Titanic around with your pinkie perhaps you are entitled to boorish 'jock' behavior: he never did anything wrong, he plays by the rules, 'jock' rules, which could be considered boorish perhaps, but over the past thirty years there is a reason why no legal complaints regarding harassment have emerged, and it isn't pay-offs, it's because Crane is, shall we say, popular. It was, 'take a number' time when I worked there, and I suspect it still is. I'm just saying: the slice of heaven door has CEO on it. O.K., enough said. -Nancy

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