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Undertoad · 04-23-2003, 02:29 PM

I'm sure that Radar has interpreted the meaning of the pledge as fits his liking, and not as author David Nolan originally intended. That pledge is for LP joiners:

I certify that I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals.

Nolan originally wrote the pledge in 1972 as a way to ensure that the party did not become a magnet for violent extremists. He has been asked about this, and he has verified it.

Unfortunately, he wrote it in the lingua franca of the Ayn Rand-fueled high philosophers, and that part of the LP decided that it was a high philosophical pledge, not a warning not to take up guns.

Radar will prefer that approach to it, and will sign it with the notion that taking up guns against the government is just fine since the government was the one to initiate the force.

04-23-2003, 02:29 PM	#166
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I'm sure that Radar has interpreted the meaning of the pledge as fits his liking, and not as author David Nolan originally intended. That pledge is for LP joiners: I certify that I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals. Nolan originally wrote the pledge in 1972 as a way to ensure that the party did not become a magnet for violent extremists. He has been asked about this, and he has verified it. Unfortunately, he wrote it in the lingua franca of the Ayn Rand-fueled high philosophers, and that part of the LP decided that it was a high philosophical pledge, not a warning not to take up guns. Radar will prefer that approach to it, and will sign it with the notion that taking up guns against the government is just fine since the government was the one to initiate the force.