Neil Smith
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Neil Smith
candidate simple truth win
That simple truth is that a libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, not in 2004, not in 2008, not in 2012.
appearance asked bill candidate politician rights sitting stands
No sitting politician or candidate should be able to make an appearance without being asked where he stands on Bill of Rights enforcement.
address courage great knew mark needed timing
Mark really knew timing and he had great courage to address things that needed to be addressed.
brought close lead led policies whether
It is those who would lead us - whether we want to be led or not - and their policies that have brought all of it close to ruin.
avoid establish excesses far government order perspective violent
The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
trials process due-process
I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.
rights government bills
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
law differences bigs
There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.
uncles war fiction
My current novel, Pallas , is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
fun dirty social-values
Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun . When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.
internet strive
The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.
rights lists bills
The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.
laughter wings roots
Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores. Liberalism Progressivism all forms of left wing collectivism , are equally alien to the Founders ' America and must be extirpated, root and branch, laughter and derision being the most effective weapons. Look at the way they have reduced Hillary Clinton to an insignificant greasy spot on the pages of history, turned Albert Gore into an object of merriment, and are accomplishing the same for Barry and Micky Obama.
groups sometimes individual
Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.