Turn me loose, set me free

boulderweekly ^ | Oct-Nov 2002 | Wayne Laugesen

[watcher1]

Human infiltration, however, can't be defeated. Imagine 20,000 voters, who each cast straight pro-liberty ballots.....

[watcher1]

Start pinging

[watcher1]

Ping

[fone]

Although praiseworthy, the owner(s) of Jackson Hole would stop any such activity.

[watcher1]

the owner(s) of Jackson Hole would stop any such activity.

How could they?

[Larry Lucido]

And imagine the contact high you would get driving through town!

(Just kidding!!)

[Jim Robinson]

Why those low-down, rotten Libertarian carpetbaggers. Hmmmm... any chance we can get them to take over South Dakota?

[chachacha]

The Libertarian downside bagage is to heavy for most Americans.

Before any American votes for a Liberatarian they better fully understand what they are NOT saying.

It's scary indeed.

[Asclepius]

... so don't make the mistake of writing this off as a pie-in-the-sky dream of the political fringe ...

Oh, certainly not. One should write this off as some other sort of dream of the political fringe. E.g. those ephemeral early morning lucid dreams that you can never quite remember: fleeting, vague, lacking substance. I liked it better when our libertarian brothers and sisters were talking about building their own hi-tech floating island or colonizing Antarctica. Taking over a real state would require real commitment and real political pragmatism and libertarians have never had that.

[Arkie2]

Nah! The Libetarians would just offer them free dope and they wouldn't even complain!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I'm so tempted to bait libertarians into doing this through insincere ridicule. I really hope you guys do it. I'd join you, if I were better off financially. Unfortunately, I am not able to move. Low taxes would be great! Freedom would be great. It would be the only spot of True America in the world.

[MissAmericanPie]

I guess if the Mexicans can do it to the USofA...heck we may all end up being pushed to Wyoming.

[watcher1]

any chance we can get them to take over South Dakota?

Possibly, I think it's on the list.

[watcher1]

I guess if the Mexicans can do it to the USofA...heck we may all end up being pushed to Wyoming.

Si'

[fone]

||| How could they? |||

Do you know who "they" are? If so, the answer is elementary.

[archy]

Hmmmm... any chance we can get them to take over South Dakota?

Could be. It's one of the 10 potential candidates, though it scores fairly poorly in most categories of the FSP comparative rankings [scroll to bottom]

-archy-/-

[deport]

High hopes, you got to have high hopes.

[watcher1]

Do you know who "they" are?

Nope. Please tell me.

[fone]

Rockefellers. 'Nuff said.

[Hank Kerchief]

Before any American votes for a Liberatarian they better fully understand what they are NOT saying.

It's scary indeed.

What would that be? That, if we were living in a country as envisioned by the founders, there would be no guaranteed security, that you would have to be responsible for your own actions, that no one would be forced to pay for the education of your children, that no one would have to support them if they took drugs and could not support themselves, that no one could be forced to support other's children if they could not or would not do it themselves, that no one would be forced to supply you a job, health care, or to support you in retirement.

Is that what they are not telling you?

Or maybe they are not telling you that no one would prevent you from owning, using, selling, or buying anything you choose. Or maybe they are not telling you, no one would be allowed to force their views down anyone elses throat regarding religion, or philosophy, or any other personal belief.

Many people are scared to death of freedom. It means being responsible for one's own life, and never being able to force anyone else to pick up after them if they screw it up, and never being able to force someone else to make sure they are happy, and never have to worry, or even to think.

No wonder your scared.

Hank