Comments on: ATLAS SHRIEKED: Ayn Rand’s First Love and Mentor Was A Sadistic Serial Killer Who Dismembered Little Girls

By: haha

haha — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:58:42 +0000

Notice how Hickman used to kill only girls and defenseless old men, that’s cuz he was too much of a pussy to take on someone his own size, i don’t call that a sociopath i call that a fucking pussy and for Rand there’ll always be some retarded masochistic bitch to worship pussies like Hickman.

By: Simon Evans

Simon Evans — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:05:05 +0000

Dorothy Parker said (of ‘Atlas’: ‘Should not be dismissed lightly but thrown out of the window with great force’ – you get any more succint than that.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:15:35 +0000

And the comments are still going strong! Like right above me is NUnya saying “It’s not true! Reality’s not true!” and Ben trotting out the old Obama-Ayers meme. Both are the same person – a fucking imbecile. Because Ayers is now a tame academic – the favorite enemy of petty morons with no balls.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:03:20 +0000

And Obama has a thing for domestic terrorist murderers like Bill Ayers, but I don’t see you cringing from that association. People with good ideas can also have bad ideas.

By: NUnya

NUnya — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:59:08 +0000

Really? This is a horrible opinion piece. No where does she say she admires these people, you are reading to far into it with a bias. She is right, majority rule is not freedom. But I digress, you wont learn until you attempt to take over and are defeated. Soundly.

By: James Bowery

James Bowery — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:25:58 +0000

While a house guest, Robert Anton Wilson brought up Ayn Rand’s writings in the context of libertarian thought. I simply mused: “Ah, Ayn Rand. Literature for the thinking sociopath!” RAW found that highly amusing.

By: lol

lol — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:16:19 +0000

LOL! Rands a piker on the serial killer worship! Commies prefer their murder wholesale, thousands and millions at a time. Hitler was a National SOCIALIST, the Bolshies killed millions, Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin. We have Sanger, the eugenic founder of the lefts beloved Planned Parenthood responsible for the abortion holocaust and you are outraged at Rands strange fixation on this killers amorality. You can’t GIVE people healthcare, it COSTS money, unless you propose SLAVERY.

By: Integrity888

Integrity888 — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:43:55 +0000

Democracy can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury.(Fiat money)
From that moment the majority always votes for the most sociopaths candidates promising the most money from the public treasury and pushing cost always higher so the needs never end. The bigger the Government the more problems there are and the more Government needs to interfere and the more corruption the will be.

Ayn Rand was Antiwar “anti Vietnam war’
Ayn was absolutely not a textbook sociopath she simply made a case for personal responsibility and that that so called altruistic politicians are hypocrites.

Compassion and “organized altruism” is not the same thing. One is voluntary and moral the other is an immoral tool that power sealers used to seduce there naive and misinform subject.

Sociopath where in so called collective and altruistic nations such as the USSR, China, North Korea Cambodia, killing millions of there own people for the benefit of so called equality.

By: Diana Hsieh

Diana Hsieh — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:56:30 +0000

This article is a baseless, dishonest smear. If a person wants to reject Ayn Rand’s ideas, he should do so on the basis of her actual mature views, not invented claims based on private journal entries written when she was 23 about a long-since abandoned writing project. For a detailed discussion, see my YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1KGfnn3cbc

By: Loco

Loco — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:17:02 +0000

The Fountainhead is one of my favorite books….(Atlas Shrugged didn’t move me) Who cares if she admired a killer? so what? She didn’t kill people, she just wrote stories and had an idea with both merits and demerits, like most people. Geez. Why demonize the woman? Writers are all strange and liable to do anything to find a muse, most artist would!
Your vilification is almost as dark as the people who hold her work up as the template for the ideal world. I didn’t agree with all of the ideas she expressed in her books but the characters were diabolical and captibvating (Peter and Ed Toohey in Fountaihead in particular) well-written and developed and definitely examples of a dark side of human nature.. I think psychotic killers who dismember children should be put to slow tortuous deaths but to spin this so that Ayn rand almost sounds like his enabler?…she’s just a writer with some crazy notions…certainly not the first, and we all know she wasn’t the last, nor even the worst…not the devil nor devil spawn. Just a confused human trying to make sense of this chaos we almost laughingly call modern civilization

By: Buster Mountebank

Buster Mountebank — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:01:24 +0000

This whole movement is so unbelievably weird that it’s a wonder anyone can take any of it seriously. At least with the Nazis there was an ‘in group’ of people who were dedicated to taking care of one another. (the Volksgemeinschaft or Folk Community). They may have had paranoid delusions about their supposed ‘racial enemies’ that brought about ruinous results…but at least we can identify a perverse and consistent logic behind it all.

With Rand and her objectivism it’s hard to figure out how the world is supposed to work. What if you suddenly have a surplus of John Galts? Are these people with a total lack of compassion supposed to limit their ambition to the business world? Or would Ayn Rand and perhaps Paul Ryan and her other acolytes rather the world look like eastern Congo? Endless mass murder, rape and torture. Objectivism sounds more and more like Black Fascism than any other philosophy.

By: Ellen Hunt

Ellen Hunt — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:18:15 +0000

Ayn Rand is to economics what bodice ripper romance novels are to marriage.

When I first read “The Fountainhead” at 16 i could see that. I found the hero just stupid, not anything to emulate.

Get this through your head. NOBODY makes it alone. NOBODY. Anybody who looks like they did is just a figurehead.

I knew that when I was just a kid. It should have been called, “The Figurehead”.

By: Ellis Weiner

Ellis Weiner — Tue, 31 May 2011 02:05:05 +0000

If you’ve read Atlas Shrugged and are still waiting for something to have made it worthwhile…or if you seek a way not to have to read it at all, go here for the parody, which visits John Glatt, Dragnie Tagbord, and the rest of the gang ten years later in the “secret sequel.” You’ll have big laffs and thank me later, and all for a fucking 99 cents:

[ADDRESS REMOVED BY EDITORS UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT THIS WORTHLESS FUCKHEAD PAYS US MONEY TO ADVERTISE HIS GARBAGE ON OUR SITE--J.G.] [THAT'S JOHN GALT, IN CASE YOU DIDN'T GET IT, PARASITE-BREATH]

By: hello

hello — Tue, 31 May 2011 00:26:25 +0000

Her name was Alisa Zinov’yevna ROSENBAUM. She was born in Russia but she never was ethnically Russian! Stop calling her Russian. She has nothing to do with Russian culture. People like her always hated Russia and black-mouthed Russia all over the world.

Because you know, no ethnic-Russian would ever bad-mouth Russia or harm a hair on a Russian’s head. They’re all Jews, damnit! Jews, I tell you! Russians are ethnically perfect! They always do everything perfectly! If only it weren’t for those darned Jews!!!

By: Scortchg Dearth

Scortchg Dearth — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:00:02 +0000

@pb100: Hickman also confessed to murdering someone during a holdup, but who knows how many he killed we’re unaware of?…what constitutes a “mass” murderer?…if it’s more than 1, then he is one.

By: Benn

Benn — Mon, 09 May 2011 18:58:58 +0000

i am a piece of dirt: ayn rand is an intellectually disabled author who has nothing to argue becides the dirt about her private life i also cannot spell the word “becides” because ayn rand readers are too fucking retarded to spell

By: pb100

pb100 — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:15:27 +0000

A serial killer has more then one victim William Edward Hickman only killed one person. When you hype up bogus news stories with titles like “ATLAS SHRIEKED: AYN RAND’S FIRST LOVE AND MENTOR WAS A SADISTIC SERIAL KILLER WHO DISMEMBERED LITTLE GIRLS” it doesn’t make you any better then the right wing “pundit attack dogs” you are railing against.

By: Linda Johnson

Linda Johnson — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:41:26 +0000

I need to point out that genuine Christianity does not admire the Ayn Rands, etc. Christians, some real believers in Jesus, at least, who care about the name of our Lord and hate the selfishness and hypocrisy of that movement, are beginning to blow the whistle on the religious right, as in the article, Dominionism and the Rise of Christian Imperialism, by Sarah Leslie, @ http://www.discernment-ministries.org/ChristianImperialism.
Ms. Leslie is a former member of that movement, having been part of Right to Life.

I would also like to point out that Rand would no doubt share your hatred for creationists, you up there. We who believe in the Lord think it is that “there is no fear of God before their eyes” that creates wickedness like this. The fear of God that is “the beginning of wisdom” is not the fear that its enemies think it is, but “reverential trust” in a God who is righteous and good, as many believing Christians describe it. It is not so much wanting to be “on the good side” of a bully God (as in Calvinism) but to be on the side of the One who is good. The actions of the hypocrites who claim that movement is “Christian” are a slander against our Lord Jesus Christ, who loves righteousness and mercy.

By the way, Christianity has not “been proven false by modern scholarship;” it has been painted false by theologians, etc, determined to deep-six it in favor of a world religion they wish to force on everyone. Does that Inquisition appeal to you? Because the one various infidels (including those who believe in Jesus as fervently as we do) were forced through is/was an abomination to us as well as to God. I believe in the Bible’s separation of church and state–”My kingdom is not of this world”–so I don’t believe this could ever be brought about by force or political manipulation, but a society that called what the Bible calls good, good, and what the Bible calls evil, evil, would never admire the GW Bushes or Ayn Rands. And that is what is sick and wrong with ours.

By: John Robert

John Robert — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:27:37 +0000

Wholly baffled by the notion that Nietzsche ‘clung to’ Dostoevsky’s coattails. “Crime and Punishment” is a condemnation of everything that Nietzsche and Rand believed; Raskolnikov, having committed the murder of the old woman, spends the whole novel in the throes of agony & goes off to prison as a man morally renewed by reading the Gospel supplied by Sonia . . .

By: John Robert

John Robert — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:25:02 +0000

I’m so glad that this is getting out. The real conservatives that originally built the movement despised Randism & the Randroids believed themselves to be superior to them; I left the movement after it became evident that the ideas of tradition, compromise, and moderation praised by Russell Kirk in his “Conservative Mind” formed no part of the conservatives of my (and Jack Abramoff’s) generation.