[extropy-chat] Extropy and libertarianism

[Damien Sullivan]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:50:57AM -1000, Robert Lindauer wrote:

> Why?  Because the Libertarian Party (which, BTW, is not the only party 
> that has as a primary ideal personal and economic freedom) has 
> significantly failed at even showing a good faith effort at promoting 
> those ideals within the government.  Instead it has become a repository 
> for Reagan-style Randians interested only in reducing taxation for the 
> rich while hawkishly protecting our foreign interests with imperialistic 

This may be true of many people calling themselves l/Libertarian; the official
positions of the LP are different, I think.  The Party had statements opposing
the war on Iraq -- I checked, at a time when many net.libertarians were
backing Bush to the hilt -- and the current platform, like all the other ones
I've seen, calls for no intervention in other countries.  As well as no nukes
and no immigration restrictions.

http://www.lp.org/issues/platform_all.shtml

-xx- Damien X-)