Posted on 11/21/2001 5:34:10 PM PST by Cuban123
What an outrage!, I just finished listening to the 2000 Libertarian Candidate for President Harry Browne on Hannity and Colmes. What an OUTRAGE!. Harry Browne said Bush was a liar that was lying to the American people, that we were bombing innocent civilians that did nothing when it cameto the terror attacks,that we did not try to solve the situation by negotiating with the terrorists, that America was a mean bully, that Tony Blair's document proving Osama did it was all a fraud, and the whole world hated us and most people did not like us!
This time you're wrong. It should have read "Preschool" not school. LOL
Harry Browne is a PUNK, but he does not speak for most folks I know who support libertarianism!!!!
FReegards...MUD
If his views on warfare are so incompatable with the 'mainstream' of the Libertarian Party, they shouldn't have flocked to him in droves and overwhemingly nominated him TWICE. The LP had the optinion of a fresh face, like Barry Hess or Don Gorman, to "head" THEIR ticket. I advised the Libertarians on this forum to do so over two years ago. They blindly followed Browne just as they had in 1996. Only the Arizona LP refused to embrace him. Since 1995, Browne has become the "face" of the party, reguardless of what his "official" role is.
I listened to both Barry and Don, and I thought either of them would have been a good candidate. However I supported Harry in 2000 because I thought he'd done a good job (under the circumstances) in 1996, and he's generally quite good at articulating libertarian ideas. I don't agree with him on everything, however, and I strongly disagree with his pacifistic blame-the-US attitude towards the terrorist attacks. I'm very disappointed to see him take that position, which I believe contradicts the Libertarian Platform and obviates the whole concept of self-defense.
It's too bad, because I like Harry, but this is a life-and-death issue on which he is way off track. And I think my views are shared by the vast majority of Libertarians. Harry does not represent the Libertarian Party any longer, and at least he's made it clear and explicit in his recent articles regarding the war that he is speaking only as an individual and not on behalf of the LP.
Of course! The so-called conservatives just hate to be reminded of these things when it doesn't agree with their pragmatic approach to politics. It isn't nice to remind them of certain principles, when the only principles they allow are the same ones the liberals have adopted - namely the principles of power.
But I understand how you must feel - and I feel your pain. I really do. And I know that the republicans just need time to implement their "agenda," and then they'll get back to limiting the power of the federal government, right? The important thing is to win, to play the game of power politics. Then, one day, they'll turn the tide.
And as for the Libertarians being such "losers," I guess the operative question is exactly what is "won" when everyone - whether on the right or left - seems to agree that big government is here to stay. And - getting back to the Constitution - you will notice that most everything the government does is nowhere to be found in the text. That's the uncomfortable reality that everyone doesn't want to address; that's the lawless character of your wonderful two-party "system." And that's why the republicans get so bothered when anyone brings it up.
Most importantly, when he does, it doesn't matter.
There ,I've settled your debate.
David Duke.
Even if you sent me a clue, I wouldn't waste it forumulating a response to Eagle Eye. Anyone who decides that everyone in the entire state of California has no idea what they're talking about, isn't worth the effort.
There may be times I don't know what I'm talking about, but it has nothing to do with being from California. I think I just get rummy reading posts by mindless nutcases.
O wise one, show us the way. Maybe some of us are choosing the "lesser of three evils" and not throwing our votes away.
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