While I wish Mike were correct that the party would get some spine just because we tell them to, I'm not holding my breath. I was expecting better from Geoff.
The LP's traditional heritage was pretty radical about issues like the draft (we opposed it) and drugs (got any good pot?) and about free markets, but too many people reacted to 9/11 by supporting intervention to not only kill Osama, but anybody else that the Administration felt like blaming, such as the Taliban, and there are some people in the California party who think that invading Iraq will somehow help stop anti-US terrorism or will kill people who supported Osama and is therefore justifiable.
Perhaps undertaking regime change in the LP is necessary? Practicing "shock and awe," with their spouses liquidated and the children raped and then beheaded, would be an appropriate response to their betrayal? Having his daughter's head returned to him in a box may teach the LP Chairman not to fuck with our liberty.
Or maybe we should avoid injuring the rank and file leadership and only going for a decapitation of command?
As Cathy Young put it, "There are no supporters of liberty in foxholes."
(Or something like this...exact quote below.)
I expect "Reason" is celebrating the War on Some Dictators and Most Liberties.
("Liberty" has been vocally opposed to Shrubya's crusade, though.)
--Tim May, Corralitos, California
Quote of the Month: "It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes; perhaps there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks." --Cathy Young, "Reason Magazine," both enemies of liberty.
