Posted on 11/01/2002 1:12:37 PM PST by winner45
Ten Reasons to Vote for Libertarians
....even if you don’t like them!
1..Libertarians understand that freedom requires responsibility. Freedom can be denied to those who harm others or the property of others.
2..Libertarians ALWAYS vote against tax increases and ALWAYS vote for freedom.
3..Libertarians understand that freedom and equality go hand in hand. Your freedom to live as you please is given to you by the same authority which gives freedom to the persons who may have different lifestyles. You have to give them their freedom to do that to obtain your freedom.
4..Your freedom is not given by the Constitution. It is given from a higher power. Libertarians understand that the Constitution merely sets it down on paper.
5..Libertarians understand that God is of libertarian spirit. He gave humanity free will. He could have just as easily made humanity incapable of free choice. It is kind of arrogant for government to deny the freedom that God Himself has given. When the Israelites wanted a king, God was offended. Laws by man are petty and inferior.
6..If you are unhappy with both Democrats and Republicans, register your unhappiness with a vote for a Libertarian. If a Libertarian got 30% of the vote, it would scare the pants off of the ruling class. They would become more receptive to reason.
7..Libertarians understand that a good society is built upon hard working individuals doing their best in a responsible way. It seems that the ruling parties think that a good society is built upon government group efforts wherein people work (shirk) together.
8..Libertarians understand that the Bill of Rights is as relevant and crucially important today as it was over 200 years ago. Libertarians even think that our government should start observing it once more.
9..Libertarians realize that freedom has many limitations. The winners of elections do not have the right to lord the will of the majority over the rights of the minorities.
10..Libertarians are the only political people that believe that 98% of our citizens are morally good enough and intelligent enough to run their own lives. Basic laws are there to protect us from the other 2%.
Actually, the Illinois LP has spent all year attacking Republican candidates for unproven "alledged" wrongdoing, but rant and rave when THEIR candidate is getting hurt over "alledged" wrongdoing. The Republicans dumped most of their "alledged" criminal leaders. The LP didn't. Can you say HYPOCRITES?
(P.S. You're probably not from Illinois, but since you seem to dislike the "allegation means he's guilty" school of thought, would you say we should all back off RINO Governor George Ryan for "alledgely" selling licenses-for-bribes? After all, not only was it "never" proven, but he wasn't even thrown out of office for it-- MORE than I can say for Mr. Cal Skinner)
L2L don't mind Dead Corpse, he has nothing better to do than call people names.
He has an inferiority complex. He has a fit when FReepers post their opinions that he disagrees with.
In return he feels better calling people names. Take him and his threats with a grain of salt.
30 years ago, you would have had a lot of people agree with you. Now, alcoholism is considered a "disease" - a condition that needs medical treatment, not a moral judgement. Gun ownership would not be a similar example.
I wanted to illustrate, without using drugs, what the libertarian philosophy is about social vices. They believe any social vice is okay as long as nobody uses force. But the reality is that lives are damaged, property is damaged and people die from the abuse and misuse of certain substances and behaviors.
That, in short, is why I am a conservative and not a libertairan or a liberal. I'd rather prevent people from getting addicted rather than making addiction easier - which is what libertarian philosophy would do (though, through their sophistry, they'll deny even that). And that comment on addiction goes for nicotine and alcohol too but we, as a society, have already let those genies out of the bottle and are having to reap the consequences for them (more deaths, higher health care costs, loss of productivity, etc.).
I guess, by your logic, heroin addiction is just a personal weakness - no responsibility goes to the drug smuggler who supplied it?
Idiot. Show me one post where a libertarian has advocated giving away free pot for everyone. One more time and I'll hit the abuse button.
Slander is bad. Learn that lesson.
Hey, if the gubmint is going to drop 12 million free meals into Trashganistan and feed the North Koreans, I'll take a few bags of mary jane. (kidding... well, sort of kidding)
1. Free drugs.
2. Free pot.
3. Free grass.
4. Free dope.
5. Free hemp.
6. Free weed.
7. Free hash-hish(sp?).
8. Free marijuana.
9. Free joints.
10. Free rolling papers!
There, I think I overed all the reasons someone would want to vote Libertarian!
No, you forgot one:
FREE MUNCHIES
O.K., then take out the "free' if it makes you happy.
It doesn’t “make me happy.” Your statements weren’t true. They were idiotic. Now you realize it. You’re making progress.
It still leaves YOU as the IDIOT who keeps voting for LOSERS.
You got a point. I’m a registered Republican and have been my whole life. But I keep voting for them and getting nothing but bigger and bigger government.
I wish the Libertarians would put up a viable candidate every once in a while. I also wish the Republicans would put up somebody who respects the constitution and really intends to shrink the size and influence of government in my life.
No such luck.
See #123
I'm saying that when someone who knows they are going to lose throws an election to someone like, oh, Maria Cantwell - and in so doing impacts the balance of power in this country in favor of a bunch of socialists, that is worse than throwing their vote away.
Talk about "disgusting".
9. Free joints.
10. Free rolling papers!
Why would one need the latter when one is guaranteed the former?
You elect democrats who are certainly more socialistic then Republicans. Do you understand the principle of "cause and effect?" Hope you were not a chemistry major.
Feel free to join in the idiocy here. I for one have given up. You jackasses don't want the truth. You are just as afraid of Freedom as your Liberal cousins. Your hypocracy should have most of you bursting into flames from logical short circuiting and sheer effing denial.
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