On 9/12/07, NBDriggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Susan, I'm afraid you're a little late on this subject.
I know. And I know others have tried to awaken the slumbering beast but have failed. But what else can I do but try to bring my party back to what's right? > I believe that > this will go down as one of the great "missed opportunities" in the > history of the Libertarian Party. Agreed. > ... > The Party leadership is timid. Ugh, now all my frustration from yesterday - when I tried and failed to interest national in sending a speaker to ANSWER's antiwar rally in DC this weekend - is resurfacing. TIMID doesn't even describe it. Apparently they have developed a policy - formal or informal, I am not sure - of aligning themselves with RIGHTwing groups but refusing even temporary issue coalitions with LEFTwing groups. THAT effectively quashes anything more than tepid antiwar statements. And let's not forget (though everyone seems to want to) AFGHANISTAN. Can any of us who came-of-age in the 80s not look with revulsion on the US government's repetition of the USSR government's depredations there? It appalls me with what ease this issue is ignored - *even among people now talking about Iraq*. > They want to prattle on about abolishing > the income tax, I think you do them too much credit. Even their anti-tax rhetoric is weak. > but say nothing about ending welfare slavery or the war > on drug users. I understand where they're coming from, but quite > frankly, Ron Paul has proved them wrong. I do NOT understand 'where they are coming from', unless it's the Republican Party. And dammit, they can go back there! > Since 1980, I've been promoting Libertarianism as an antidote to > creeping Statism, warning friends and others that if we don't stand up > to incremental tyranny NOW, our future will bring dictatorship and ruin. > Well, the future is now, the dictatorship is imminent, our empire is > despised worldwide, and economic ruin is increasingly probable. The > Libertarian Party's Moment arrived. Then left. ... I disagree. We will prevail, and a temporary derailment will not stop this train. -- Susan Hogarth http://www.colliething.com
