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Libertarian candidate for Senate doesn't mince
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Stanley wants Allard 'indicted for treason' By Charlie Brennan, News Staff Writer May 4, 2002
Colorado politicos have been expecting fireworks in
the battle between Wayne Allard and Tom Strickland, but a third contender in the
U.S. Senate race is rolling out the dynamite.
In a candidate profile completed by Libertarian
candidate Rick Stanley for the Rocky Mountain News's Web site, he offered this
judgment of Allard's first term in office:
"I believe he should be indicted for treason,"
Stanley wrote of the Republican incumbent. "Hung, when found guilty."
Isn't capital punishment a shade . . . severe?
"Actually, I do" mean that literally, Stanley said
Friday. "All of these people (in Congress) are traitors."
Pressed for specifics, Stanley said:
"Wayne Allard voted for the Patriot Act. That
violates the Constitution seven or eight different ways. You could take almost
any legislation over the last 100 years and say the same thing."
Stanley, like many Libertarians, believes both the
federal income tax system and Federal Reserve violate the U.S. Constitution.
Dick Wadhams, the veteran campaign strategist
managing Allard's re-election bid, let loose an involuntary, if muted,
monosyllabic exclamation of surprise, as the quote was read to him.
After collecting himself, he counterpunched.
"It is unfortunate that someone would engage in
that kind of vitriolic and irresponsible rhetoric," said Wadhams, "in light of
what this nation has been going through, since September 11th."
But Stanley believes that the "elite of this
country are turning our beloved nation into a police state," and that our
elected leaders "have failed to honor the oath that each of them swore to defend
the Constitution, and are therefore traitors, terrorists from within that must
be brought to justice."
The Strickland campaign declined comment on Stanley
v. Allard.
Alan Philp, executive director of the Colorado
Republican Party, went to the same page of the playbook as Wadhams.
"My only response would be, it's a completely
spurious and malicious charge that has no place in legitimate political dialogue
in this country, especially in the wake of 9/11," Philp said.
Stanley, co-owner of Stanley Fastener and Shop
Supply, states on his Web questionnaire that his diploma from Arvada West High
School marks "the end of formal government Socialist indoctrination."
His favorite book, he reveals, is Ayn Rand's paen
to the virtue of free will, Atlas Shrugged. His favorite sports team? The
University of Northern Colorado intramural basketball team known as The Fightin'
Whites -- although he mislabels them "the Fightin' Whities."
Favorite band? The Beatles.
The Beatles?
Wasn't it John Lennon who sang, "Give Peace a
Chance"?
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