terry12622000 wrote: > By the way I agree with your Fully Informed Jury and I'm a member of > the association, it really would pay libertarians to concentrate on > things like that, education efforts, networking, maybe a little > counter economics like SEKIII spoke about instead of spending so much > time and money running people for high office.--- In > [email protected], "mark robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would answer: "their principles". I don't believe any other > > party had such defined positions on so many issues when it > > started. Their constitutionally aligned principles would make it > > very hard for the LP to become corrupted once in office (at least > > very fast). > > > > > > > > I think one of their most corruption-preventing principles is the > > fully-informed jury. Were this to become more widely known and > > accepted, gov corruption would become MUCH rarer. > > > > > > > > -Mark > > > > > > > > _____ > > > > > > > > Hey guys, I'm not new to this board, I just haven't posted that > > much, > > but I have a question. I do consider myself a libertarian but I > > am > > also finding myself starting to embrace more extreme anarchist > > ideas. > > This sudden shift is because I not only distrust the 2 major > > parties, > > but now the smaller ones too. Lets say the LP succeeds in > > spreading > > the principle of strictly limited government and becomes a big > > player > > in the political world and gets a majority in the House, or > > Senate, or > > even wins the Executive branch, maybe all of them. How do we know > > the > > LP will not become corrupted just like the Dems and Reps? I am > > starting to think that if this country has any hope to turn > > around is > > to elect people for one term only that are not part of any > > political > > party. > >
Corruption is not a partisan problem so much as it is an ethical concern, and the only solution is constant vigilance and enforcement. ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
