----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Dondero Rittberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just released CNN Poll shows 67% of Americans support Israel in the conflict, only 4% back Hezbollah. Your ideas to back Hezbollah in the conflict are idiotic on two levels, firstly from a libertarian perspective - Israel being quite a libertarian nation with a mostly Free Enterprise economy, tolerant attitudes on drinking laws and nightclubs, and semi-nude beaches versus the horribly prudish Muslims who advocate Socialist economics and prudishly repressive laws outlawing personal freedoms. Secondly, from a practical political perspective. Why in the bloody hell would the libertarian movement want to ally with 4% of the American public, versus 67??? Do you really wish to destroy the libertarian movement? Make our movement as obscure and unpopular as we can possibly be? What's next, "Libertarians for Meth-Amphetimine" or "Libertarians for Legalization of Child Pornography?" ****** As a Libertarian, I have been happy to get 4% of the vote. That is twice as good as it used to be. Usually though, when there is such a difference in the vote, it is not because of a lack of good candidates or good ideas, but rather a lack of good media coverage. In this country, it is obvious that there is little to no balanced coverage of this conflict. Unless you have access to Al Jazeera, you wouldn't have a clue. Even the more (usually) balanced coverage from BBC is one sided in this case. And your proclamation that Israel is a libertarian society is idiotic. Did you learn that at the kibbutzim? Israel is a self proclaimed theocracy, something that libertarians usually find repugnant. Lebanon, OTOH, is quite different. It has a multitude of political and religious parties. HezbAllah is merely a minority theocratic political party within that coalition. PEACE Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer Franklin County Libertarian Party (614) 891-8841 P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable" John F. Kennedy ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
