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.


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