[extropy-chat] Glad to be back

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 24, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > different facts feel the same way about Kerry, and that despite all
> > the election fraud we saw by democrats on election day (that I
> witnessed
> > personally), the media blackout of libertarian candidates by the
> > liberal controlled media (that I witnessed personally), and the
> dirty
> 
> I agree that the libertarians were ignored by the media.  However the
> media are these days primarily toadies to government power first and 
> corporate power second.  These are not the liberals or Democrats.

I beg to differ. Examination of the party registration of reporters and
editors in the media is clearly lopsided, about 3 to 1, in favor of the
Democrats.

> 
> > tricks by Democrats to keep Libertarian, Green, Constitutionalist
> > candidates (plus Ralph Nader) off the ballot in as many places as
> > possible (that I witnessed personally), that despite the  
> > shenanigans by
> > union thugs in assaulting teenage girls campaigning for GOP
> candidates
> 
> You don't think the GOP was just as in to limiting third parties?  Do
> you really believe there is any real difference worth caring about  
> between the major parties any more?

Last time I checked, the GOP had no union thugs to do their dirty work,
and from my discussions with Naders lawyers, they told me clearly that
the Democrats across the country were doing all sorts of dirty tricks
to keep Ralph off the ballot, with no problems from the GOP, in fact,
the GOP was in many cases helping Naderites with their ballot
petitioning. We saw similar actions against us by the Dems, and no
state LP affiliate reported any problems with the GOP.

>From my experience, the GOP has a real aversion to such election
tricks, because their experience from the past is that the media will
gladly print any story of them doing such tricks, but will torpedo
stories of Democrats doing the same. For example, the son of the NH
state Dem vice-chair was caught by police several elections ago with a
car full of GOP and Libertarian candidate election signs he'd stolen.
That story never made it in the papers.

I am sure that the GOP has a record in the past of doing such things,
but has generally been turned away from it by the focus of the media.
The media refuses to give the Dems similar treatment and thus their
shenanigans are going unchecked and rampant.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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