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Posted on 05/23/2025 4:10:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Memorial Day brings together people from all political persuasions in remembrance and celebration of dead American soldiers. Libertarians, however, should reject a holiday that consecrates and immortalizes the names and lives of those who sacrificed themselves in unnecessary wars.
The National Memorial Day was originally a national day of prayer for peace. Prior to President Richard Nixon’s declaration, there were many regional memorial days established and spontaneously practiced for a similar purpose. Unfortunately, it has become less about ending wars and more about worshipping conflict.
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No doubt Rand Paul secretly approves.
God bless all those who served and died for this country.
Amen to that.
The author could not be more wrong.
Memorial Day is not a day to remember the politicians who started wars. It’s meant to remember the average Joe (and Jane) who did their duty, and made the ultimate sacrifice.
However, this article does not surprise me. Libertarians have some good ideas. But often they’re in a contest with Socialists to see who can say the craziest things.
They died for the right of Liberaltarians to be wrong and stupid.
Screw them. Having served during war time and lost brothers, I would love to tell them what I think of them in person.
Never much cared for Libertarianism.
Our hero Pat Buchanan wrote that WW2 was unnecessary.
WWII was inevitable after the Brits suckered us into defeating the Kaiser for them.
Did the limeys knee-jerked their way on behalf of the Polaks?
Should we have let the Krauts and Russians continue to carve each other up? Both were as likable as Saddam and the Ayatollas.
“It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.”
― Charles M Province, founder of the George S. Patton Historica Society
They never served. They never sacrificed. They never bled. They never grieved.
They should sit tf down and stfu.
Inconsequential jackasses
hear hear
I don’t recall a single Memorial Day celebration, announcement, parade, speech, or commemoration of any kind that engaged in “worshipping conflict”. The author may imagine that they do but that’s his problem, not ours.
I lean “old school” Libertarian, “Tea Party Libertarian”. But this is what radical extremism looks like here.
I would like to share that what you see now coming from the Libertarians is not true Libertarianism. They have been infiltrated by Communist leftists and they are no longer the party I was once part of. So true Libertarians cannot be stereotyped and judged by current actions. Most of us old guard are now gone from the party and have adopted the conservative party because it more aligns with our political beliefs.
What you see now from the party is NOT true Libertarianism at all... In fact the majority of this Conservative board here is supporting old school Libertarian values and you do not even know it... :)
Any other old school out there see this too? :)
That was very stupid. But he also honors ate troops who fought. This is leftist driving. Libertarians are just really leftists who say they ate for small government.
Leftist drevil.
Some years ago, maybe during the Iraq War, I happened to check out the website of the Libertarian Party of Illinois. They were taking part in an anti-war demonstration in Chicago with the likes of the Revolutionary Communist Party. I know that politics makes strange bedfellows, but come on.
I have come to the conclusion that war is a sign of the essential depravity of the human race. It is politics by other means. But I am not about to forget —and dishonor— the men and women whose lives were sacrificed to politics by other means.
My grandmother’s cousin, aged 18, was killed in France about two weeks before the end of the First World War. What was left of him came home in a box about two years later. I would have known him as one of the old-timers in my family if not for his untimely end. Grandma told me about him. I visit his grave, not far from Grandma’s, when I go back home. I am not going to forget him.
Albert Lawton Wiley, 1900-1918, RIP. You deserved better.
World War 2 was another idiot War Europeans tragedy us into. My Grrandfather, whose father fled the Ukraine, because of European Jew hatred at 14, then had to go back to Europe and almost get his head blown off at The Battle of the Buldge because of Jew hatred.😤😤😡😡
> Our hero Pat Buchanan wrote that WW2 was unnecessary. <
I used to admire Pat Buchanan. But then he started talking about what you said there. Buchanan is of the opinion that the Western Allies should have simply stood aside, and just let Hitler take Poland.
That’s total nonsense. Hitler wasn’t going to stop with Poland. He wanted all of Europe. And he wanted to destroy the Jews and other “inferior” peoples along the way.
I now think Buchanan is some weird combination of anti-British, anti-Semitic, and pro-Nazi. It pains me to say it. Nevertheless, I stand by that comment.
Doesn't surprise me either. One of my big objections to Ayn Rand was her disdain for the notions of altruism and selflessness. Memorial Day is dedicated to those who performed supreme acts of altruism.
Of course some Rand Objectivist will be along shortly to explain that I'm wrong either because I don't understand what altruism rally means, or that altruism had nothing to do with why soldiers sacrificed their lives.
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