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To: Roscoe
Why are we trashing Liberterians? As a party and movement they fight for Americans to have all rights that don't directly harm others. I am not a Liberterian but I respect them and agree with a lot of what they say. I am sympathetic to their arguments on drug legalization. If someone finds usage of what are now controlled substances to be "wrongheaded" then they shouldn't be used.
3 posted on 05/16/2002 11:27:24 AM PDT by Impeach98
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To: Impeach98
...they fight for Americans...

No.

5 posted on 05/16/2002 11:28:48 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: Impeach98
Why are we trashing Liberterians? As a party and movement they fight for Americans to have all rights that don't directly harm others. I am not a Liberterian but I respect them and agree with a lot of what they say. I am sympathetic to their arguments on drug legalization. If someone finds usage of what are now controlled substances to be "wrongheaded" then they shouldn't be used.

As a proud Libertarian I want to thank you for your respectful comments. I find it interesting that ReaganMan concludes his post by saying how important it is to inculcate family values in children. A libertarian society is exactly the way to accomplish this; families will have the time to spend with their children when we end the War On Drugs and the taxes that support it. Mothers will be able to stay home with their children and teach them these values; study after study shows the benefit of 2-parent households. We can't have many of those by stealing money from both parents, thus forcing both to work outside the home.

19 posted on 05/16/2002 11:44:18 AM PDT by seanc623
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To: Impeach98
Why are we trashing Liberterians? As a party and movement they fight for Americans to have all rights that don't directly harm others. I am not a Liberterian but I respect them and agree with a lot of what they say. I am sympathetic to their arguments on drug legalization. If someone finds usage of what are now controlled substances to be "wrongheaded" then they shouldn't be used.

You are seeing the heart of contemporary 'conservatism' at work. It is no better than pharaseeism in that it worships the law and damns the citizen.

Libertarian-bashers (and that is what it is when political disagreement requires repeated use of smear, innuendo, and outright name-calling) prefer to overlook the current society AND Constitutional decay by the current system. By insisting that the current system just hasn't be fully funded or that the right people haven't participated, they, in principle, are little different than the marxist apologists for communism, despite obviousl evidence that neither prohibition or communism have ever worked, EVER.

And let's not forget the small element of dishonesty that the lib-bashers constantyly employ, insinuating that the only reason anyone wants drug law reform or the end to the current War on (some) Drugs is for personal use and abuse. Nearly every libertarian on FR has denied those allegations, yet the bashers continue to charge them with allegations of drug abuse.

Some of us promote the maximum amount of freedom and individual responsibility for all, and others don't.

150 posted on 05/16/2002 1:36:48 PM PDT by Eagle Eye
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To: Impeach98;seanc623
Why are we trashing Liberterians?

Because they advocate things that will destroy our society, that's why. They and their ideas are repulsive and insane.

385 posted on 05/17/2002 12:02:08 PM PDT by VA Advogado
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