Posted on 09/08/2002 9:22:43 PM PDT by doug from upland
The evening started innocently enough for Brian Whitman, Sunday evening talk show host on KABC in Los Angeles.
He had on his show four minor candidates running for governor of California. Three were on the phone and the fourth, Libertarian candidate Gary Copeland, was in studio.
The conversation eventually turned to illegal immigration. Copeland did not like Whitman's position and called him a racist. Although Whitman kept trying to answer, Copeland kept talking over him and would not let him speak.
Just as Whitman puts callers in "timeout" on his show when they won't let him have his say, he told the engineer to cut off Copeland's microphone. Copeland became incensed and started packing his things to leave the studio.
Then, in great FReeper tradition, Whitman told Copeland not to let the door hit his ass on the way out. He also called Copeland a lunatic.
Then the rain came. Copeland walked over to Whitman and spit in his face. Whitman couldn't believe it. Two others on the KABC staff couldn't believe it.
Whitman had the station call the police and is considering filing assault charges.
Poor Copeland. He may no longer be the Libertarian candidate for governor. An official high ranking representative of the party called in to Whitman and told him that Copeland would be receiving no more backing and they were going to see what they could do to take him off the ballot.
Now that was classic talk radio. The unbelievable happened. A candidate for governor actually showed himself to be a bigger jackass than Gray Davis. Davis has spit on the law but never on Whitman, at least not yet. Brian, get him in studio.
What about the aging hippies of California who want to bring in good Mexican weed? Are you going to allow the feds to take over their border and thwart them in the exercise of their free trade rights?
Attention libertarian brain trust. Feel free to help rb22982 out here. Please comment on the proposal to allow the US military to enforce Texas state law, if you're so inclined (ordinarily you would be very inclined).
True. There are good, law-abiding, sincere, well-meaning libertarians who simply haven't thought through the libertarian propaganda sufficiently to find the outrageous anti-conservative pro-socialist absurdities that undergird it.
It was justifiable self-defense--of his unalienable right to speak--no doubt.
Your law is as weak as your history. Taney was on the Supreme Court from 1836 till 1864.
Makes 'em jealous, since they're reduced to sourceless falsehoods.
You remember that episode when Spock had to return to Vulcan, because it was time for the mating ritual and he went totally berserk. Tough luck for this guy's girlfriend, I guess.
Well, Whitman must have "initiated force" by making Copeland look like fool.
First of all, weed grows just as well in California as it does in Mexico. Perhaps you mean Cocaine, which would come from Columbia through Mexico. As long as it came through non-Texas borders I dont think that would be a problem.
Attention libertarian brain trust. Feel free to help rb22982 out here. Please comment on the proposal to allow the US military to enforce Texas state law, if you're so inclined (ordinarily you would be very inclined).
I realize my position is not 100% libertarian, however, as of now, I'll take what I can get, and generally conservatives and libertarians both agree in a return of government from federal power to state and local power. I would like to further that agenda first.
About half of the folks on your list died before the LP was founded, more than half were non-Americans, and quite a number are known not to be members of the Libertarian Party. The question you were discussing related to the wacko quotient of the LP, therefore the vast majority of them are irrelevant to the question. I know two of the people on that list personally, Dr. Buchanan and David Friedman, neither one of them are likely to spit on someone, but I think David is the only one of the two who is in the LP.
Go to Mexico. It's illegal in California under BOTH state and federal law.
Who guarantees the safety of the drug couriers at California's borders to ensure drug free trade rights are not hindered by drug prohibitionist thugs?
I see you haven't been paying attention. This is under a hypothetical situation with federal drug war ended, texas with some of the harshest penalties in the nation and california legalizes it--this was not my setup but your good buddy's KC. PS I dont smoke weed and I live on the east coast
Just imagine what he would have done to that reporter if he lost!!!
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