[arin-ppml] The AC has a job to do with 2009-1 can you please help?

[Tom Vest]

On Apr 7, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:

> Jeremy:
> Like a few others, you are dead set against any market transfer  
> policy, right? (A yes or no will suffice -- and please, no need for  
> the smileys)

You first Milton.

Having reviewed the last 30 years of your career, from your very  
principled writings on political strategy for various anarcho- 
capitalist/proto-libertarian movement zines in the 1970s, to your  
principled defense of the AT&T monopoly but aggressive advocacy for  
maximum privatization and competition for everything else that you  
ever wrote about (spectrum in the 1980s, telecom in the 1990s, root  
DNS and the tyranny of "industry self-regulation" earlier this decade,  
etc., etc.), primarily for beacons of neutral scholarship like the  
Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, it's clear that  
you are dead set against anything and everything *other* than "pure"  
market mechanisms guided solely by subjective value (i.e., "whatever  
the market will bear," regardless of circumstances) in every context.  
Right? Never mind whether situations vary, never mind whether the  
maximalist position might make more sense in some contexts but less in  
others -- your position has been unwavering, right? A simple yes or no  
will do.

As I've said before, everyone has a right to their own personal  
guiding principles -- but YOU don't have the right to hide yours while  
impugning those of others.

And by the way, thanks once again for clarifying what is and is not  
"ad hominem." I guess I always know I'm safe on that count if I just  
follow your example...

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