Who Supports the War(s)

[Radar]

Sycamore: It's more like this. We setup a booth with information pamphlets, stickers, signs, etc. and we enjoy the music. Someone comes by to ask what we're doing and we tell them we're trying to end the drug war and keep the government out of places they don't belong, like our wallets, bedrooms, and gun cabinets.

We sometimes have discussions regarding various Libertarian positions, we ask if they're registered to vote and if they aren't we offer to register them.

So much for "noninitiation of violence".

I wouldn't be initiating violence toward you or anyone else. It might be my own dick I slap. Who knows?

As long as we're exchanging advice, I would recommend if you are planning to assault me that you wear *good* quality body armor; I might have the +Ps in my side arm that day. Folks wear heavy clothing around here in the wintertime.

Gosh you're scary.

Don't worry, you'll know when I'm *really* making fun of you; it will be something like Overheard at the rave: "See that guy behind the bar? He's Mr E-Man. He does our 'youth outreach'. He'll take care of you." :-)

That wouldn't be much of an insult. While I don't use any drugs or sell any I don't see anything wrong with people who do. That's their personal choice and it's no more wrong than people who choose to be vegetarians. Nobody can tell anyone else what they may or may not consume, not even the government.

And the name isn't “Mr E-Man”. It's MrE Man as in Mystery Man you fucking twit.

How's about you allow guns, but restrict ammo?

Free people don't ask permission to own gun or ammo. People aren't GIVEN rights by the constitution. We're born with rights and the constitution merely defends those rights. The 2nd Amendment defends our right to own an unlimited number of guns of any type including fully automatic machine guns, with an unlimited amount of any type of ammunition including Teflon coated armor piercing hallow tipped rounds, without any permission from or notification to the government.

That's how I read it, anyway.

You read it correctly wolf. It's my way of introducing them to Libertarian ideas before they're corrupted or entirely turned off of politics by the two major parties.

*** NEWSFLASH FOR CAIRO ***

The bible IS THE WORD OF MEN AND NOT THE WORD OF GOD!!! It was written BY MEN hundreds of years after the fact. It's not historically factual, not an authority of any kind, and not any more important than any other religious text.

Radar congrats on the marriage

Thanks Cam. That's nice of you. I have a good friend named Cam. He's Vietnamese. So is my fiancé. I already speak some Spanish, and Japanese, and I'm currently working on Vietnamese, but it's much more difficult.

But Radar you specifically described dave as "wrong” you didn't say his statement was "wrong" you just said he was "wrong".

He was wrong in his false accusation. Not only was his statement wrong, but his actions were wrong. He himself was wrong.

Cam, don't get caught up in semantics so much that you miss the message. What I said regarding trivial things such as dietary restrictions in the grand scheme of things is truthful, honest, and insightful. Christianity is no more valid than Islam or any other religion because in the end it's all about the golden rule. I can recite bible verses with the best of them and show you how Jesus of Nazareth taught that church and state should remain separate. Or he Jesus of Nazareth taught that people shouldn't pray in public (in a public school or an official government meeting for instance), but would it change your mind?

I posted my personal beliefs. You have posted yours and I respect your right to do that. But when you claim that a religious text with more holes than Swiss cheese as historical fact I've got to call bullshit. I hope you'll understand. If you merely say it's your opinion that every word in the bible is true I lump you together with all the other Christian fundamentalists. But saying the Bible is historical fact is like claiming Peter Pan is non-fiction.

I'd rather have it disbanded in its prime anyway, instead of dwindling away like the LP.

The LP may have few less members, but we’ve got more members in elected office than ever before. It sounds like the members we still have are doing a better job at getting elected. Those that left were the equivalent of friends that don't attend your wedding because it's raining outside. Not much of a friend at all. Those that stayed (nearly all of them) were the friends that help you move.

The attrition rate for the LP is far lower than that of the major two parties. In fact normally the party is growing. It's just the last couple of years with highly questionable elections that have thrown things off a bit.