From: Rex.Beard@f32.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Rex Beard)
Newsgroups: hsv.general
Subject: Libertarians
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 23:16:24 CDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:373/32

 LH> From: lhughes@b11.b11.ingr.com (Lawrence Hughes)
     (Talking about Leah)
     
 LH> You seem to have a FEW leanings in the libertarian direction, 
 
 I've always thought she had a lot.
 
 LH> but I think you have chosen your party correctly, based on the 
 LH> contents of this message. A real libertarian would never 
 
 I don't think she has chosen correctly. I think many people haven't.
 I think about a third of Americans would find a better home in the
 Libertarian Party. Not a perfect home. But a better home than they have
 now.
 
 LH> consider federal laws to control how (or whether) any subject 
 LH> (including sex, contraception, or disease prevention) is taught 
 LH> in public or private schools. 

 *Whatever* is tought in a public school is in the end a government
 law. And I don't think she was advocating such laws for private
 schools.

 LH> Leah.Wesolowski@p0.f2.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Leah Wesolowski) 
>> From: Leah "From Toney" Wesolowski
>>       Vote!
     
 LH> Oh yeah, I've got a LOT of choices this time... I'll probably 
 LH> once again go and vote for the only candidates I can support in 
 LH> good faith - the libertarian ones (Marrou/Lord) - I really 
 LH> can't see any difference between one evil or another in all of 
 LH> the other races - I HAVE no choices in them, thanks to the two 
 LH> (?) party system. 

There isn't much of a two party system anymore. New Hampshire will see
several Libertarians re-elected and win a new this year. And that isn't
the only place. There are over *700* Libertarians *already* on ballots
accross the country. With more coming before November.

Even in Alabama we have:
Of course Morrou/Lord at the top of the ticket.
Jerome Shockley - for US Senate.
David Rawls - Associate Justice on Alabama State Court.
Bill Crew   - for Public Service Commission
Mike Seibert - For Congress in District 5.
(There are Libertarians for Congress in *every* Alabama district.)
There are also several Local Libertarians running. County Commisioner,
School Board.... Perhaps someelse could list them.

     
 LH> perhaps you are right. How do you think that the rebublican and 
 LH> democratic parties came into being in the first place (and 

The Democrats kind of faded into existence frmo Thomas Jeffersons
party. (Boy, how far they have drifted?)

The Republicans started up very quickly (1852?). Within 8 years they
controlled Congress and the Presidency. In fact they almost won the
Presidency in 1856, but stories came out about their candidates
proclivity for eating human flesh. :-)

 LH> party historians out there?) - we used to have Whig and Tory 
 LH> parties in this country - those had to die out when they no 

We never had a Tory party... Well *maybe* before the revolution.
The Whigs died out when the Republicans started.

>> Libertairianism is my basic philosophy however YOU are not going to 
>> sit there and place the War on Drugs squarely on the shoulders of 
>> the Party (which I am a member) THe GOP.

Just because the Republicans had an accomplice doesn't absolve them
of guilt.
     
 LH> rights. The GOP is leading the charge in the W.O.D. (Nancy 

I don't see them as the leading charge. Most of America is in that
charge. Politicians whipped up a frenzy so they could get elected.
They don't want voters to think about issues.

 LH> Reagan was a Four Star General...), but you are right that 

It is wrong to affix blame on Nancy Reagan. Mrs. Reagan has actually
been one o fthe few "leaders" that have help the situation.

People laughed at the "Just Say NO" program. They said it was
rediculous. You needed money and big bureaucracies to solve a problem.
(And drugs *are* a problem.) In fact Nancy Reagan showed us that
libertarian solutions *work*. "Just say NO" work. Drug use went down
as a result. Education is a good thing.

 LH> there are many opportunistic democrats who smell a Good Thing 
 LH> and are happily trashing rights and freedoms along with the 
 LH> republicans... but I think EVERYONE (with the sole exception of 
 LH> you?) would admit that it is PRIMARILY a GOP thing. The demos 

You'll have to include me in that group as well.

This is getting long. I'll contintue in the next post...

-rex-


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