Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Looking at the Libertarian Platform: Preamble

For the next few weeks we will be looking at the libertarian party platform. We will be looking at and discussing one section of it at a time. We welcome all comments and questions.

Preamble:


As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others. 
We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.
Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world we seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power.
In the following pages we have set forth our basic principles and enumerated various policy stands derived from those principles.
These specific policies are not our goal, however. Our goal is nothing more nor less than a world set free in our lifetime, and it is to this end that we take these stands.

Discussion: I don't know about you, but that sounds just like what I heard America was all about in the beginning. This is what our founding fathers believed in. We took a wrong turn somewhere along the line and then we started taking all kinds of wrong turns and in my humble opinion we are now helplessly lost on the back roads. We lost freedom a long time ago. Is it possible to get it back? 

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Who Makes Money From The Prison System?


The Libertarian Party believes in legalizing marijuana. It's safer than alcohol, and keeping the safer drug illegal, while making the more dangerous one legal, is unscientific and illogical.
Past that, we believe any drug should be legal. If you take a drug, it doesn't affect your neighbor. By what right does he stop you? If you steal to support your drug habit, or commit assault while high, then obviously that's different, but the problem is not the drugs; it's the robbery or assault. Who supports the War on Drugs? Prison guard unions, private prison contractors, and the like. In other words, the people who directly benefit from unnecessarily imprisoning nonviolent civilians are the actual proponents of this money-wasting boondoggle.

John Stossel's, Stupid in America

Do you wonder what is wrong with public education system in America? How come it never seems to get better no matter how much money we poor into it? It doesn't matter if you are a good teacher or a bad teacher. You will get paid the same and have job security no matter what you do. Watch this video to find out why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw

Water Gun Commercial From 1982

http://www.isthatbaloney.com/toy-water-gun-commercial-you-will-likely-never-see-again/

Conservative Black Republicans Go Way Back

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000533