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1 posted on 08/19/2016 12:24:22 PM PDT by NRx

2 posted on 08/19/2016 12:25:17 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)

The monarch on the throne (weeping?): Nice Maxfield Parrish painting!

Regards,

3 posted on 08/19/2016 12:43:26 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)

Wow! Did anybody read that opus?

4 posted on 08/19/2016 1:05:12 PM PDT by ozzymandus

there’s only one solution, TMM. Vote Trump!

5 posted on 08/19/2016 1:08:16 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))

This is an excellent critique. And I say that as a committed libertarian.

We can’t have open borders until the act of crossing the border imposes costs on others.

We can’t have “free trade” if it is managed by agreements and commissions.

All true.

Our government does not make us special. It’s our committment to liberty.

We have truly lost our way.

6 posted on 08/19/2016 1:09:59 PM PDT by 2big2fail

We often joke about how the Libertarian Party has nothing to do with liberty and is merely a single-issue pot-legalization party. But it's true. Here is an email I got last month from the Libertarian Party, in which their solution to the police vs. blacks problem is ... (drum roll) ... legalize pot.

For immediate release
July 18, 2016
Libertarian Party mourns slain officers in Baton Rouge
ALEXANDRIA — Nicholas Sarwark, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee, states, "The events in Baton Rouge are heartbreaking and we all mourn with the people of Baton Rouge as they grapple with the loss of innocent lives."
"After every tragedy, people rightfully want to find the cause and prevent future tragedies. Many will use this event to call for gun control and more laws. However, the real solution here would be fewer laws."
Sarwark continues, "If we truly want to reduce situations in which police are pitted against the people they are sworn to protect, we would end the war on drugs. The constant escalation of prohibitionist policies have increasingly pitted police and citizens against each other for decades and are largely responsible for the militarization of police forces across America.
"Ending the violence means ending the policies that lead to black and grey markets, the highest incarceration rate in the world, and reduced economic opportunities in the formal labor market for huge swaths of Americans. Ending the violence means ending the war on drugs.
"Ending the drug war will do more to heal the divide between police and citizens than any other measure. It is the best way to save lives: both those of innocent police officers and innocent citizens."
The Libertarian Party is the only political party in America devoted to protecting all rights of all human beings all the time. As part of this mission, the Libertarian Party seeks a minimal set of just laws that defend the rights of individuals and are equally applied to all.

7 posted on 08/19/2016 1:22:23 PM PDT by snarkpup (Socialism causes the worst people to become in charge - if they aren't already.)

Money and Power. Nothing more to say. That is what ALL POLITICS is about anyway. Self-enrichment by deception.

8 posted on 08/19/2016 2:20:31 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)

The Libertarians and #NeverTrumpers are so devoted to their “precious principles” that they’re happily trying to obliterate those very “principles” to destroy Trump, the very man who would come closer to implementing those same principles than any other contemporary American politician.

9 posted on 08/19/2016 2:45:18 PM PDT by libstripper (out)

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