Posted on 09/29/2004 5:19:45 AM PDT by Commie Basher
Badnarik accepts award for third parties
September 27, 2004
For Immediate Release
Contact: Stephen P. Gordon
Office: (512) 637-6867
communications@badnarik.org
Orlando, FL - Hurricane Jeanne lashed Florida on Saturday, but the fourth major storm of the season didn’t keep the American Muslim Alliance from holding its ninth national convention – or Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik from addressing that convention.
Badnarik accepted the AMA’s Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Malcolm X Award “on behalf of the Libertarian, Green and Independent parties.”
Named for the civil rights activist and Muslim convert, assassinated in 1965, the award is inscribed:
“For showing courage of conviction in upholding American ideals, for demonstrating total honesty and integrity in dealing with fellow Americans of all religions, colors and creeds, and for doing the right thing at the right time and for the right reason. The coalescance of their convictions and commitments will be remembered as the the institutionalization of a US-wide civil rights movement.”
“Muslims have borne the brunt of draconian government actions since 9/11,” says Badnarik. “A plurality of American Muslims supported George Bush in 2000. Now they’re looking outside the major party club for candidates who support their rights.”
Naturally, Badnarik has his own ideas on whom Muslims should vote for. “The agenda of the American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections is a thoroughly Libertarian document.” Libertarians are aggressively courting Arab and Muslim voters this year. Talk radio host Gary Nolan, one of Badnarik’s opponents for the Libertarian nomination and himself the scion of Lebanese immigrants, addressed several Arab-American events in his own campaign. Badnarik spoke to the Task Force and met with its leaders in San Francisco in June.
The Task Force agenda proclaims support for “the principles enshrined in the US Constitution,” including “due process, equal justice, freedom of religion, speech, assembly and privacy, protection from unreasonable searches and seizures, the presumption of innocence, access to counsel in judicial proceedings, and a fair speedy and public trial.”
A July poll by Zogby found support for Bush among Arab-American voters down to 24.5% from 45.5% in 2000 – and 20% in the “undecided or other” column. Another Zogby poll, conducted earlier this month, found a majority of Muslims support including Badnarik in the presidential debates.
Badnarik will appear on 49 ballots this November – including Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where Muslim voters may determine the outcome. He’s polling over 1% nationwide. A Rasmussen poll conducted last week shows him at 3% in the “swing state” of Nevada; other states in the southwest show similar levels of support.
He is a joke.
Isn't that special.
Yes, he is a joke and I hate to say so is the LP. They have allowed the "legalize pot" crowd to take over and that's all most people see. Most people when asked are really very Libertaian in their daily lives. Too bad it is better explained and more mainstream, they might do better.
The Libertarian Party is quickly running out of ways to parody and marginalize itself.
Make no mistake. LIBERAL-TARIANS are NOT our friends. They are NOT side ways Republicans who just disagree on a few things. They are tinfoil hat morons that would have no drug laws and no age of consent for sexual activity.
LIBERAL-TARIANS are inside out rats who don't have the stomach to say what they really are.
We can't "lose" their votes because we never had their votes to begin with. Any LIBERAL-TARIANS who don't vote with their own candidates, should vote rat if they want to be true to their beliefs.
Hey what the heck? Whether it's a doobie, or a hooka, it's still FREE DOPE AND 72 VIRGINS!
Actually, I think he's more of a nutcase than a joke!
The Libertarian party has some great ideas; unfortunately, Libertarians are the world's biggest idiots when it comes to selling them. At their C-SPAN-televised convention, do they talk about the Fair Tax and how it will end the IRS and boost the economy through the stratosphere? No! They run a video on drug legalization!
It's one ting to be true to your core beliefs; it's another thing entirely, however to be so narrow that you never get elected to anything and wind up having your national conventions at the breakfast bar at the Red Roof Inn.
LMAO
Under a Libertarian administration, planes would be flying into buildings on a monthly basis.
*snort*
:D
What a nincompoop.
Those 'guys' annoy the crap out of me.
Kinda like the LP.
Ah, what the heck!? They're not cutting MY head off...
Pass that bong over here...
Girlie men, the lot of 'em.
Why I'm no longer a card carrying Libertarian....
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