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.
Nonsense. He wasn't one of the spitters.
"Whosoever, therefore, out of a state of Nature unite into a community, must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into society to the majority of the community, unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority. And this is done by barely agreeing to unite into one political society, which is all the compact that is, or needs be, between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth. And thus, that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of majority, to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world." -- John Locke
Even she despised libertarians, describing them as "hippies, who subordinate reason to whims."
Go quote another commie and have some repect for God.
By bearing false witness against your neighbor? Like you do everyday? Pitiful
For the definitive answer to your question, please read 'The Melian Dialogue' in Thucydides The Pelopenesian(sp?) War.
Even your fallback position is false.
John Locke
Nonsense. He wasn't one of the spitters.
"Whosoever, therefore, out of a state of Nature unite into a community, must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into society to the majority of the community, unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority. And this is done by barely agreeing to unite into one political society, which is all the compact that is, or needs be, between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth. And thus, that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of majority, to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world." -- John Locke
I'm sure you are a swallower.
No, I'm not one of the Libertarian Kool-Aid drinkers.
Your attempt to paint Locke as a Libertarian sure went splat.
I believe Rand's exact term was that libertarians were "a random collection of hippies of the right."
Well, so what. While I admire much of Rand's writings, the LP platform makes more sense than the lunatic fulminations coming out of today's Ayn Rand Institute.
The sad, insipid result of libertarian theology.
Whitman had the station call the police and is considering filing assault charges.
Good move. This scumbag is most probably filled with untold diseases, another result of the libertarian lifestyle.
From the source I referenced: 'The mighty do what they want while the weak suffer what they must'.
Those 2 issues are debated each year, and each year, the vote gets closer to eliminating them from the platform, if only we could get a few more members to join who were opposed to them , they would be long gone. The anti-abortionists in the libertarian party are very sizable, and those against open immigration are also growing each year.
That's right! 999 kooks out of 10 million Dims and Pubs compared to 998 kooks out of 1000 Libertarians. Pretty obvious to me that the two major parties have the most kooks....
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