If you want to hear the man himself explain that, click on the link below and then click on the audio link I posted in that post that I to this group not long ago. In the audio link he tells a story about teaching a horse to fly.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/message/49306 $ --- In [email protected], Richard Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And at the end of Nolan's list of advantages (covering such topics as education, strategic positioning, and identifying like-minded people) we find: > > "An finally, there is always the possibility that we might actually get some libertarians elected." > > "Thomas L. Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoth Richard Shepard: > > > I have now heard several times over the last week or so that the > founders of the LP never really expected the LP to be a "political > party," and that the fundamental purpose in forming the party was to > educate the public in matters of liberty. > > > > First, isn't that what CATO, Reason, Heartland and several others do? > > > > Second, if indeed the purpose of the party founders was not > political why on earth did they form a political party? They could > have formed a PAC, or a think tank, or an interest group like the ACLU. > > > > Third, they DID form a political party. Why should anybody be > surprised if its members want it to act like one? > > There's no real need to wonder what the founders of the LP intended it > to be or do -- they, or at least the man generally regarded as "the > founder," set out their agenda in writing several months before > founding the party pursuant to that agenda. The article was titled > "The Case for a Libertarian Political Party," by David Nolan. It was > published in the July/August 1971 of the Individualist (SIL's, now > ISIL's, periodical at the time), and it's available online at: > > http://elfsoft.home.mindspring.com/politics/nolan.htm > > Regards, > Tom Knapp > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > 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/
