Posted on 02/19/2015 7:48:26 AM PST by Kaslin
This is why I don’t like Libertarians. They’re too interested in hippness to care about the country or the welfare of the human condition. Jon Liebowitz is an unfunny comedian and the Libertarians are phony freedom fighters. It is for that reason that both groups of jerks get along well with each other. Oh yes, hard core Liberals and Democratic toadies do get along well with the Libertarian loonies.
Horrific and shocking!
A traditionalist Catholic such as the judge is okay with queer marriage and legalizing marijuana reefer, retard sticks? Would St. Thomas Acquinas approve?
” This is why I don’t like Libertarians. They’re too interested in hippness to care about the country or the welfare of the human condition. Jon Liebowitz is an unfunny comedian and the Libertarians are phony freedom fighters. It is for that reason that both groups of jerks get along well with each other. Oh yes, hard core Liberals and Democratic toadies do get along well with the Libertarian loonies.”
Libertarianism would possibly work in a perfect world, inhabited by perfect people. As it is, it is just another “anything goes” form of nihilism.
Yeah something wrong with the judge, he has a weird hairline but I like Jon a tiny bit now that I know he loves dogs.
” ... you ought respect him as a person.”
I said nothing about whether or not I respect the Judge as a person. I simply cannot see how he reconciles his self-proclaimed “traditional Catholicism” with libertarianism. But maybe you can enlighten me about how it is possible to espouse both doctrines and not get tied up in intellectual knots. You can start with their respective views on, say, abortion.
He posts here - let's ask him.
"St. Thomas reasoned that the calculation for criminalizing a vice should weigh the damage resulting from the vice against the damage caused by criminalization. He even believed that there were circumstances where it would be better to tolerate prostitution than criminalize it.
"Anyway, the calculation regarding drug legalization is complex. But I think we have reached the point where criminalization has caused more harm than good."
AND the smartest man on television... Anyone see his take down of Gruber? Or the time he exposed Nancy Peolosi or being a total idiot? He'll be missed... I agree he's more libertarian than 'progressive'... Maybe he'll do a 'dennis miller' and join us... one can dream.
He should get a room!
Should comedy really be a venue for news?
Do all or just some libertarians believe in the use of recreational drugs?
Libertarians like the judge are morally depraved, clueless about how their attitudes are causing God’s wrath to fall on us. “Private” immorality is far from being a “victimless” crime. We’re all paying for it.
My understanding of the libertarian policy position is that libertarians oppose government interference in the production, sale and use of recreational drugs among consenting adults. That's different, however, from having a personal interest in the use of such drugs.
Getting back to the Judge's self description as a “libertarian, traditionalist Catholic”, I would be curious to know if he opposes any legal restrictions on, say, late-term abortions and, if not, how he squares that with his traditionalist Catholic views.
What are you going to tell me next? That a St. Thomas Acquinas would support queer marriage? Homosexuals need to reproduce; therefore, they need to adopt children of their sex so they can molest them -- their method of... reproduction.
“The Carter administration has proposed granting amnesty to illegal aliens in this country who have established ‘equity.’ This might take the form of working, length of residence and the like. The Congress has viewed this plan with little enthusiasm and so have I. What amnesty would do in effect is reward people who knowingly break our laws. Beyond that, it would be inequitable and unfair to those who have applied for legal immigration and may often wait years for approval.”
Who said they did?
What are you going to tell me next? That a St. Thomas Acquinas would support queer marriage?
Nope.
That is to your discredit, Judge.
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