What Libertarianism Isn't

Lew Rockwell.com ^ | December 22nd 2001 | Edward Feser

[Kewlhand`tek]

I agree about local schools in in America Libertarians don't. Read the platform. I am a Libertarian and I agree with the "idea" of public schools but ours have long been bastardized as bastones of liberalism haveing little to do with the education of our young ones. About all they are good for is to teach them to get along with one another when they are homeless because they will be lacking job skills and critical thinking. Infact I believe the school really aren't doing good with teaching them to get along with one another

[Kewlhand`tek]

Some Libertarians argue that it should be legal to own human servants." Name one. ok, I would like to own Wisdomx, i hope he is short I'll find a jockey uniform for him and give him a hoola hoop to hold on my front lawn. If you don`t know wisdomx you wont get the joke, he is some stupid black guy that hangs out on paltalk. He place the race card, talks all the Farakhan crap, motherwheel ect... Claims white people were the invention of black scientists. yeah I'd really like to own him :)

[Lchris]

<< I think what he meant is that the definition was so watered down and generalized in order to create a big tent covering so many diverse views resulting in so many divergent and contradictory applications in actual practice, that it became "over-diversified" such that it was drained of meaningul content.>>

I think both you and rdb believe that libertarians hold many contradictory views in order to appeal to a wide spectrum of people. This is not at all the case. Libertarian positions are only "contradictory" from the point of view of left or right wing dogma --e.g. you might think it's a contradiction to be against both gun control and the war on drugs (of course nonlibertarians will assume from this that I'm a druggie with an arsenal, another misunderstanding that equates being against criminalizing something with being personally in favor of it). Libertarians try to be consistent; this results in taking positions that seem contradictory by conventional standards. This has nothing to do with diversifying or trying to appeal to many people. It's taking basic principles to their logical conclusions even when those conclusions go against the status quo.

[rdb3]

Name calling. I see.

Could you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?

How to get to Sesame Street?

[MadameAxe]

The LP's symbol is the Statue.

The mascot, is the Liberty Penguin. It does seems to be adopted by various local chapters, rather than at a national level.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"...talks all the Farakhan crap"

He couldn't possibly be a Libertarian. Besides, Libertarians are a bit smarter than to believe in a "motherwheel", we all know that the ship hides behind Juranus, the 13th planet. ;>

[Lurker]

Yea, but he's an armed penquin.

L

[MadameAxe]

Yea? This was the "official" version I kept running into. Is there another?

[A.J.Armitage]

You're gonna hurt his poor widdle feewings.

[Lurker]

I'd prefer an armed penquin, but that's just me.

(Really I had no idea that it really was a penquin. I thought you were just messing with me.)

L

[MadameAxe]

You wound me, sir. Would I kid you? Lol.

This image seems to be copyrighted but I'll see what I can come up with, next time I have a chance to play around with Photoshop. Might be after the holidays...

[jwalsh07]

And a Merry Christmas to you and yours Torie. May the New Year bring you what you wish for and keep the wind always at your back. :-}

[Kewlhand`tek]

no, sorry you missunderstood the statement.......wisdomx is definately not a libertarian. I said i was one, and i would like to own wisdomx. I was joking of course he would cost more to keep than he is worth

[PatrioticAmerican]

It was sarcasm. I know that winsdomx isn't even close to a libertarian. Most people who claim to be libertarians do so out of it being a fad, not out of true concern for this nation.

[Cultural Jihad]

Most people who claim to be libertarians do so out of it being a fad, not out of true concern for this nation.

Scandalous! Please provide us with a list of the L.I.N.O. fadsters here on FR so as to not besmirch your political movement in our opened minds.

[Kevin Curry]

I second your motion that the true libertarians "out" the LINOs here at FR.

[rob777]

"Suppose the US had a law against abortion, would it 'follow then' that the US 'may' "morally" put economic sanctions on countries or even wage war on a country that allows abortion? "



No, because the U.S. Government only has a moral mandate to enforce laws in territory over which it has soveriegnty.

[rob777]

So, recognizing a community has the right to live 'porn-free' or drug-free, but denying blanket democratic imposition of these rights on any larger scale, we go on to say: If a community is evolving toward a prohibition or repeal, they must proceed using a guideline for transition-- one that doesnt "turn people into criminals overnight" nor "let the drug trade out of a cage".



This sounds like the kind of federal relationship that existed between the states and the national government prior to the Civil War. I would be in favor of restoring such genuine federalism.