From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Subject: Re: FW: news release: abolish IRS
Reply-To: pmetzger@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers
	<visser.702539448@convex.convex.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:40:39 GMT


The problem with your pitch in this article is not that what you say
but what you don't. I hope what I have filled in makes some things
clearer.

In article <visser.702539448@convex.convex.com> visser@convex.com (Lance Visser) writes:

   In <1992Apr4.085611.8063@eskimo.celestial.com> Corner.Core.Cafe writes:

   +>     The Libertarian Party is America's third largest and fastest growing
   +>political party. Libertarians believe "That government is best which governs
   +>least." The party supports civil liberties, a free market economy, and a
   +>non-interventionist foreign policy.

	   The party also supports the "right" of private discrimination in
   employment, housing, and "service".  

We support the right of individuals to decide who to do business with
and when. We are also pro choice, because we support the right of
individuals to decide whether or not their wombs are to be put to use
or not, and to decide whether or not to be a parent. We support the
right of individuals to engage in whatever concenting behavior they
may choose to with others; as an example, we against laws intervening
in the consenting sexual behavior of adults, such as Georgia's
anti-sodomy statutes (which are typically only applied to
homosexuals).

	   They believe in repeal of the child labor laws and the
    minimum wage.

We believe that if someone peacefully wishes to hire someone else
at $2.89 an hour instead of buying a machine, its better for them to
have the job. We believe that if a runaway girl would rather work at
McDonalds instead of selling her body on the street, she should have
that option.

We also believe in the elimination of all laws permitting government
agents to seize children without cause. We also believe in the
strengthening of people's rights against arbitrary searches and
seizures, a return to the strict interpretation of the exclusionary
rule, and general improvement of the rights of defendants.


	   They believe that it is wrong to
   have laws that require doctors to help at the scene of an accident or
   an emergency.

Indeed. We are against all kinds of slavery. We are against the draft.
We are against laws permitting the state to seize people's property
for "good uses.). We are against all sorts of things which impose the
will of the government onto what peaceful, free people may and may not
do.

	   They believe in repealing the various neutrality acts that prevent
   corporations from forming and supporting armies aboard and overthrowing
   governments abroad.

Indeed, our position on U.S. neutrality in foreign affairs is so
extreme that we don't feel its our right to dictate to people what
they may and may not do when abroad, and what involvement they may
personally choose in foreign wars; if you feel that the Croations
deserve a donation, well, by all means, send them one.  We also
believe in eliminating the war on drugs here at home, which raises
crime and interferes in innocent people's lives. We also are
absolutists on free speech, favoring the elimination of any laws
interfering in what you can and cannot read.

   They believe in repeal of compulsory vaccination laws and in the
   establishment of a free market for human body parts.

We oppose laws forcing people to inject themselves with any substance
they don't want to be injected with just as we favor allowing them to
inject themselves with whatever they feel is best for them to inject
themselves with. We oppose slavery to the state of ALL kinds.

We oppose laws prohibiting people from selling their bodies, body
parts, body fluids, or anything else they wish to sell, provided that
sale is peaceful. If a poor man would rather sell his organs upon his
death so that his family could get the money than have his family have
no legacy at all, who are we to stop them? Who are we, indeed, to stop
ANY essentially peaceful activity?

	   In regard to the environment they believe that "strict liability, 
   not government agencies should regulate pollution."  They do not speak of
   what happens when the liable entity has ceased to exist through bankruptcy,
   disillusion or lack of funds.

Mostly because we don't believe in limited liability corporations or
bankruptcy, which pretty much means you are left with death, and even
the Federal Government has trouble prosecuting the dead.

	   [All the above is from the current Libertarian party platform.  The
	    parts that usually are not part of the public pitch.]

We don't hide our platform. Its available for anonymous FTP from
think.com, and has been for years. If you want to read it, go right
ahead. We encourage you to.

--
Perry Metzger		pmetzger@shearson.com
--
"That government is best which governs least."
		-- Thomas Jefferson, former US President and early libertarian.
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