Comments on: Ich bin ein Looneytarianer

By: The Lonewacko Blog

The Lonewacko Blog — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 04:24:13 +0000

Many of the online Randheads are, well, nuts. Especially the ones who support Open Borders. Slightly saner members of that class include Hit & Run and theagitator.com. Having libertarian ideals is OK, as long as you have at least a tenuous grip on reality. Unfortunately, many of them have greasy palms. See, for instance, the Libertarian Purity Test. Holy moses malone!

By: The Interocitor

The Interocitor — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:17:22 +0000

Libertarian Party and Reality
Having run for the State Assembly as a Libertarian (CA 47th, 1994), I’m fairly much in agreement with Libertarian ideals. But in the last decade, I’ve seen the LP move further and further towards impossibly “pure” positions — to the…

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:05:08 +0000

I did, in 1992. I didn’t exactly run from the drug legalization issue, either; I brought it up in multiple candidate forums, and also debated the issue the local head of the DEA on Channel 8.

My position has mellowed a bit over the past 12 years, although I do still lean toward the view that prohibition, like most other government efforts to save idiots from themselves, causes more problems than it solves. Even at the height of my libertarian streak, I never would have argued that legalization would cause fewer children to use drugs than do so now. I think my opponents may have raised that position once or twice as a strawman, but it never occurred to me that this strawman might one day come to life and even run for President.

By: Joel B.

Joel B. — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:07:51 +0000

Heh, and you’re the one who ran as a Libertarian once right? Drugs are an interesting thing and I, despite the collective weight of most of the blogosphere, hew to the traditional conservative line. Heck, we treat tobacco like it’s a mortal sin, but marijuana like it is all that is good and holy, what an odd world we live in.