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To: SJC_Libertarian
Most of the world is very tired of the word "principled" being thrown around by a small cult of self-appointed, self-righteous definers of all things patriot. This is not to say that I think most of you do not believe what you say, but any party that helps elect democrats, while standing on soap boxes yelling principle, is on one hand the stuff of comedy routines, but on the other a main reason the country slids further away from the Constitution....in other words, the LP helps assure we lose the war....It is YOUR opinion that those who broke the law are now considered heroes....most still consider them law breakers, who did not use our system to right a wrong. Law breakers are law breakers....I am against abortion, but I will not be a hero if I bomb and abortion clinic.
647 posted on 09/20/2002 4:15:01 AM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: Impeach the Boy
Most of the world is very tired of the word "principled" being thrown around by a small cult of self-appointed, self-righteous definers of all things patriot.

How would you know? In any event, as a one-time Republican, I can say with conviction that there would be no need for Libertarians if the Republican leadership would only adhere to the principles to which they give lip-service.

By your reckoning, the Green Party are the Republicans' best friends, since they draw most of their support from the Democrats' ranks. Call us "self-appointed" or "self-righteous" if you wish, but we're just telling the truth as we see it.

Are you really trying to say that those who sheltered runaway slaves were "just lawbreakers"? Perhaps you would then applaud the Nazis who were just upholding the law when they rounded up Jews for the concentration camps and eventual extermination. Or perhaps you would applaud those who might have shot Mormons in Missouri, because the law said it was legal.

I do agree with you that it is wrong, in fact and in principle, to bomb abortion clinics, just as it's wrong to kill unborn children. (Two wrongs don't make a right?!)

651 posted on 09/24/2002 6:22:20 PM PDT by SJC_Libertarian
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