The MP3 will have to wait until I have much more time than I have now, and
perhaps a better sound system.
Even if he has an explanation, that explanation is not in the article. And
so I must assume I can apply ordinary meanings to the words, including the
words "political party".
hrearden_hr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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--- 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
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