Thanks, Brent, for organizing this. I've added the Critiques site to the links, and will look forward to seeing some action in here as folks who reject...
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Heidi I. Jones
hij@...
Apr 24, 2000 7:39 pm
I'm just curious... what prompted you to start this group? And others to join? I'm not a libertarian, but I went thru a phase of it in high school, but found...
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Mike Huben
mhuben@...
Apr 25, 2000 9:20 pm
Hi, Heidi. I'll let the founder of this group speak for himself (I asked him a similar question.) But I'm darned glad he did start this. And I'm happy to see...
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Lothar
balliso@...
Apr 26, 2000 3:28 am
Hey all, I guess I should explain why I created this list in the first place. I am what I would call an ex-Libertarian (large L) mostly because I found the ...
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jeremy riddle
jeremyr@...
Apr 26, 2000 6:17 am
In my case, I went from being a party Libertarian to a real libertarian. I went through my initial political awakening in high school, and it was centered...
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hij
hij@...
Apr 26, 2000 10:44 am
... www.zmag.org Heidi ... Heidi I. Jones hij@......
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Lothar
balliso@...
Apr 26, 2000 10:55 am
At 06:16 AM 4/26/00 +0000, you wrote: [snip explanation of political past] ... With the Battle of Seattle as well as the recent ruckus in D.C., anarchism is...
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jeremy riddle
jeremyr@...
Apr 26, 2000 6:24 pm
The radicals who took up Bolshevism weren't really motivated by a desire to glom on to those with power; they were, by and large, idealists who wanted to make...
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jeremy riddle
jeremyr@...
Apr 28, 2000 5:10 am
THING #1 What we today call Libertarianism, with a capital "L," only came to be called that in the late 1960s, when a group of fringe conservatives began...
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jeremy riddle
jeremyr@...
May 1, 2000 7:03 pm
Harry Browne, 1996 (and likely 2000) presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, on corruption, campaign finance reform, and dirty money in politics in...
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Lothar
balliso@...
May 1, 2000 7:05 pm
... [snippage] Standard Libertarian line, so what's the big deal? Brent...
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jeremy riddle
jeremyr@...
May 1, 2000 7:13 pm
... No real big deal, Brent. I just mentioned earlier that Libertarian Party types present corruption as a normal function of the market, but I didn't provide...
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Lothar
balliso@...
May 1, 2000 7:22 pm
... It's only corruption when there's government spending involved, not when it's donations going to politicians to encourage them to stop receiving money,...
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jeremy riddle
jeremyr@...
May 1, 2000 7:29 pm
... when ... receiving ... implied ... that are ... <grin> ... Uh.... j. riddle...
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Jennifer L. Brice
j_brice@...
May 1, 2000 9:44 pm
Hello, I am new to this mailing list. I was scared it was dead at first. Anyway, I often run into Libertarians on the newsgroups, and I thought this group...
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lightonliberty@...
May 1, 2000 11:01 pm
From: <jeremyr@c...> ... came to ... conservatives ... the word ... Libertarians ... I am reminded of the prostitutes that followed General Hooker’s troops...
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Lothar
balliso@...
May 1, 2000 11:37 pm
... [snip] You approached the argument well enough, but the problem I had with it was that "High taxes are correlated with economic growth" part. One of the ...
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lightonliberty@...
May 2, 2000 12:29 am
Right now the Browne campaign is effectively dead, though technically it is still active. Part of what Browne was doing was announcing he was refusing to file...
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Lothar
balliso@...
May 2, 2000 3:39 am
... [snip] So's the LP itself. I can understand Kevin's worries about it since they did try to infiltrate his GOP ranks and then "out" themselves midway ...
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jeremy riddle
jeremyr@...
May 2, 2000 4:35 am
... troops in the ... followers. ... basing their party ... I don't want to belabor an insignificant point, but the Libertarians didn't "bas(e) their party on...
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jeremy riddle
jeremyr@...
May 2, 2000 4:53 am
... since they ... midway ... of ... could be ... electoral ... with ... buried in ... As a political party, the Libertarians are marginal freaks who will ...
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Jonathan Williams
jonvwill@...
May 2, 2000 5:00 am
... Hi, Jennifer, The original posting in the thread was barely worth responding to, IMHO. One can find backing for virtually any crackpot right-wing idea on ...
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Lothar
balliso@...
May 2, 2000 2:01 pm
... [snip] ... House seat actually. Brent "I'm not anal retentive, just bored" Allison _____________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the...
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Jonathan Williams
jonvwill@...
May 2, 2000 3:07 pm
Hello, all, I sort of missed introductions last week -- been a bit busy with end-of-the-semester stuff and all. While I think I'm a "civil libertarian", I...
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jeremy riddle
jeremyr@...
May 2, 2000 4:25 pm
... I stand corrected....
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lightonliberty@...
May 3, 2000 12:04 am
On 01 May 2000 23:39:12 -0400 Lothar wrote; ... [snip] So's the LP itself. I can understand Kevin's worries about it since they did try to infiltrate his GOP...
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lightonliberty@...
May 3, 2000 12:31 am
I don't want to belabor an insignificant point, but the Libertarians didn't "bas(e) their party on libertarianism." They just appropriated the word and used...
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lightonliberty@...
May 3, 2000 12:56 am
On 02 May 2000 04:53:45 jeremy riddle wrote As a political party, the Libertarians are marginal freaks who will never be serious contenders for higher office...
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kdb3@...
May 3, 2000 1:44 am
Hello all: I would say that my loss of faith in libertarianism (of the type this list disagrees with) began a short while after I had started college (I'm in...
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hij
hij@...
May 3, 2000 1:44 am
... they are ... Excellent group. ... Hey! Me too! I live in Laurel, MD Heidi...
