I had been invited to speak at Libertopia, and had agreed to do so. Then I wrote about Joe Stack flying a plane into an IRS building. Jason Talley pronounced me an idiot, Joyce Brand agreed. Talley also had a number of outrageously homophobic things to say in his rants against me on Google Buzz.
So I withdrew from speaking. Several years ago I was invited to speak at FreedomFest 2005. But Mark Skousen made it clear at a convention in New Orleans in November 2004 that any member of the audience who disagreed with anything I said should be entitled to beat me up. Skousen actually staged such a fight between Doug Casey and a disgruntled marine who didn't like something Casey had said. Naturally, I withdrew from speaking at FreedomFest. I won't ever speak at Libertopia. I won't ever speak at FreedomFest. These are my choices, and they are not negotiable.
