Steve Meiers wrote: SM> Your concept of freedom of consience [sic] seems to be to have the government take a gun and rob me and others to pay for your wars of military adventurism. <SM
I don't know which is more hilarious, 1) your pretense that liberating Iraq was merely some personal whim of mine, or 2) your invocation of the anarchistic all-taxation-is-theft mantra on a forum dedicated to reforming the LP of its anarchist extremism. SM> you are so ashamed of your support for US imperialism that you hide behind missleading terms like libervention <SM Libervention just means intervention that overthrows tyranny and attempts to replace it with democracy. I dare you to assert: "It is not the case in Iraq that America overthrew a tyrannical regime and attempted to replace it with democracy." Go ahead. Make my day. Regarding "imperialism", America is in fact an anti-empire. Literal empires like Rome and Britain used military force to extend imperial sovereignty, but America does not. No other polity in human history has used its military as much as we have for the goal of local democratic sovereignty. We've done so in places like England, Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Greece, Germany, Austria, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Kurdistan, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Our efforts aren't always completely successful, and we've used military force for less noble goals in other places, but our record in advancing human liberty is nevertheless unmatched in human history. SM> You declare yourself to be the Big Tent libertarian and any one who disagrees with you there for isn't a big tent libertarian. <SM Laughably false. I want the LP to not officially choose between liberventionists and anti-interventionists, and to embrace them both. Any anti-interventionist who agrees with that is just as big-tent as I am. Any anti-interventionist who insists the Platform explicitly rule out libervention is clearly smaller-tent. SM> and do your best to obfuscate the platform so that your true intentions are hidden. <SM My intentions are clear: opposition to and minimization of aggression. I'm for whatever maximizes the net incidence of human liberty. How un-libertarian of me.
