A Libertarian congressional candidate and two Libertarian candidates for statewide offices are leading campaigns to give voters a third option at the polls.
Candidate forums leading up to the Aug. 17 primary election often left out Libertarian candidates because they didn’t face a primary opponent. But campaigners hope to raise the party’s profile in the months leading up to the Nov. 2 general election.
“There’s hardly any difference between the Democrats and the Republicans,” said state party Chairman Don Wills. “We offer an alternative.”
Libertarian Viewpoint administrator JimK on several occasions has said “I vote my conscience instead of the lesser of two evils.” I enjoy this statement in that to think, if all people, thought in terms of voting their conscience, a lot more Libertarians will be showing up at the polls. To be mind controlled by the idea there are only two options in control of your political life is one whom pays lip service to the saying “the lesser of two evils.”
We have all heard the cries about the full body scanners at the airport. How they are an invasion of privacy. How they increase our police state. How they can and have been misused. Well, There is a solution. Let us invent a different kind of machine.
The scanner is designed to detect explosive devices. So let us change the idea a bit. Not only should it detect the device but it should do something about what it finds also. This solution will end every bit of controversy over any full-body scanner used at any the airport in the entire world.
Cultural Relativism is the reaction to the fact of cultural diversity in which one attempts to understand and judge the behavior of another culture in terms of its standards of good, normal, moral, legal, etc. rather than one’s own. The descriptive, factual thesis, often made by anthropologists and sociologists, that different societies do, in fact, have disparate views on basic ethical judgments, are core to Cultural Relativism.
I believe the argument can be made, at the point we blend a little anthropology and political science together, a Confederation, opposed to a Federation, is the political framework more intrinsic to human nature.
“While there is no official source for such estimates on the National Mall, Beck told the audience that the accounting from his vantage point showed more than 500,000 people. NBC News estimated turnout at closer to 300,000.” – Bloomberg Aug 30, 2010
I would like to start a conversation on the meaning, if any, of this rally. What are your observations? Is there something going on here or is this just another failure in the making?
I can finally say it, after a week of denial, Robert Lowry of CD-20 FL lost the primary for Republican Congressman…BUT it was SOOOO CLOSE! It was a close battle between the three Republicans fighting it out to take on Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Restaurant owner Karen Harrington won 40 percent of the more than 18,000 votes counted, just edging Lowry who took 38 percent. Donna Milo placed third with 22 percent.
People have constantly criticized Ron Paul for being so vociferous about our intervention into Iraq. He has maintained that it was the wrong thing to do and the desired outcome will never be achieved. People, of course, didn’t want to hear that the US was making a mistake. They were all wrapped up in the thoughts of fear mongering political machine in Washington.
The problem is, Ron Paul was right. Yet people to this day still refuse to see and accept it the facts as they are. We can easily look back and see what it was like when Saddam Hussein was in office. No one will argue that it was bad under his dictatorial rule. How much better off is the country now that the US is pulling out and the last of the battle troops left the arena last week?
Racism is defined as the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races. Now, look at the definition of intrinsic (the key word) – in which denotes a property of some thing or action which is essential and specific to that thing or action. Meaning, to be racist, essentially denotes him being superior to members of other races. Though my rhetoric is cut and dry, I find myself asking “Why?” How is it one can look at a black person and say “I am better than you.” How is it one can look at a Native American person and say “OHHH No, You can’t live here anymore, because I am better than you.” The reason is people are actually not “saying” any of this because rather than saying any of this they rather think it in there heads and make fun of it with their similarly raced friends. What madness!
_______________ Why the growing grassroots movement can’t fight big government at home while supporting it abroad.
BY RON PAUL | AUGUST 27, 2010
As one who is opposed to centralization, I am wary of attempts to turn a grassroots movement against big government like the Tea Party into an adjunct of the Republican Party. I find it even more worrisome when I see those who willingly participated in the most egregious excesses of the most recent Republican Congress push their way into leadership roles of this movement without batting an eye — or changing their policies!
This may be old news to some people but I just heard about it today. The story broke back on June 25th. For those that heard about it please comment here and let us know the current status. For those that don’t know about it, welcome to the club of being kept in the dark. Not much was said and the mainstream media didn’t publicize it, yet it happened.
On June 25th the Senate approved a wide range of sweeping cyber security actions, all in the infamous name of National Security. One of the steps, an internet kill switch.
Okay, libertarians – and those who aren’t. I’ve got some questions for you.
Liberty may be the buzz word, but it seems to me that self-determination is really what is behind it – the ability to choose our own course through life. Control is the means by which that ability is denied or altered. Begging the question of when control crosses the line into oppression, a bigger one keeps rolling around in my head.
And that is, what can we do to stop the controllers, or at least be beyond their influence?
Snitker Congratulates and Warns Rubio and Meek
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Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Alex Snitker had words of congratulations – and words of warning – for tonight’s Republican and Democrat Senate primary election winners. “I’d like to congratulate both Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek for winning their respective primaries,” said Snitker.
As expected, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio has apparently won in a landslide over a handful of lesser know GOP challengers, while Democrat Kendrick Meek prevailed in a relatively close battle with billionaire Jeff Greene.
In a recent interview for Belifnet, John McCain said “the Constitution established the United States as a Christian nation.” And it turns out he’s not the only one who thinks so. A new poll sponsored by the First Amendment Center found that a whopping 65 percent of Americans also believe “the nation’s founders intended the United States to be a Christian nation.”
But the First Amendment to the Constitution seems pretty clear, stating “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
If that wasn’t enough to convince people that we were not built on a Christian Ideal, then I point to the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797 which explicitly states in Article X1 “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. ”http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html
The treaty, with this language, was submitted to the Senate by President Adams, and was unanimously ratified by the Congress. Thank god the founding fathers understood what our nation would have looked like if founded on religious ideals. One just has to peek at the chaos of the middle east to understand what our nation could have looked like.
We have all been there; the crowded 4 way stop signs, the smell of Pork BBQ at 3:15 in the morning, the music justifiably played as a result of years and years of oppression.
I cannot make this any more clear, for I have fear, so read this as you open a beer.
From Time online:
“Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway – and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements.
For many years I have been warning people about disaster. Telling them to “get off the grid” and become self-sufficient. Provide for your own water, electricity and food supply. During those times I have also made mention of my distain for a government run amok with no interest of actually helping the citizenry, only controlling them.
There have been warnings of martial law coming. People think I am a conspiracy note for saying such things. That, of course, doesn’t change the truth. Your government is hard at work designing and putting into law various measures to handle just such situations. All of this is being done behind closed doors out of the public eye so that people don’t know what to expect when the time comes.
Greetings. There is this notion that we the people somehow compose the government. There may be some on Libertarian Viewpoint who believe in this view, and some who may not believe this. To me, it always seemed like a strange concept. I personally believe that those in the government are not the same as you or I. If George Bush or Bill Clinton does something in the name of the people of America, I don’t think that therefore, the whole country is really doing that, or is responsible for what he does.
But my point here is just that I think believing that the people are the same thing as the government leads to conclusions that we don’t really like.
Did you ever wonder how the police department always seems to have new cars just about every year? How they seem to have an endless supply of officers when they NEED them? How they ALWAYS seem to have the money to do their jobs no matter what the economic conditions of the city?
Well wonder no more.
For years people told me that they get stopped for traffic violations because police haven’t met their quota. I often ask police if they have met their quota yet. Of course, I get those rude looks as if I asked a taboo question. Needless to say, there IS a quota and you would be very surprised on how it breaks down.
Recently I moved out here to the LA area in California. I came across some people who
What is the job of a politician? I have always wondered what their real role in life was. I came to the conclusion that the one thing they are good at is saying idiotic stuff that they want pass of to us and make us try to think it is intelligent. Yeah, well it isn’t. Today was no different as I read about Sink and her running mate.
Are you scared, you should be? All Floridians need to be careful who they vote for in November to replace our outgoing Governor. Alex Sink has recently announced that her running mate will be attorney Sen. Rod Smith. During his acceptance speech he made many references to the economy and how government will control it. Be afraid, be very afraid.
He talked about how the Republicans were in control of the House, and Governor seat since 1996. Hinting that they were cause of the economic woes to Florida. It doesn’t matter to him that the other 49% of the legislature was Democrats that voted for the same thing. Now he says
The GOP race for Florida Governorship is heating up. Bill McCollum accuses Rick Scot of attempting to buy his way into the seat. Claiming Rick spent $34 million of his own money on his campaign. Scott says that McCollum is a career politician tainted by special interest.
Funny to hear these two go at it. After all, the self-righteous Bill has spent millions as well, except it is not his own money. It’s the taxpayer’s money since he is participating in the states public campaign-financing program.
I received a piece of email that I thought was so extraordinary I called the author and asked for his permission to post it in its entirety. Luckily for me he has agreed to do let me do so. It is quite an interesting read as the corollaries are made. One can see a definite pattern going on through out the entire country.
For many years I have been telling people we were headed down the tubes unless someone steps up to the late and pulls us from the brink of disaster. I had estimated the crappola would hit the fan somewhere around the year 2012 or so. Then, I see this article and wonder if we haven’t already that mark and are simply waiting for the lid to blow off the top.
Greetings. There is this notion that we the people somehow compose the government. There may be some on Libertarian Viewpoint who believe in this view, and some who may not believe this. To me, it always seemed like a strange concept. I personally believe that those in the government are not the same as you or I. If George Bush or Bill Clinton does something in the name of the people of America, I don’t think that therefore, the whole country is really doing that, or is responsible for what he does.
