Posted by
TampaDoc on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 4:26:05 PM
It seems so obvious, so logical; I mean it makes sense, doesn’t it? About thirty years ago was when I first encountered Libertarians through a local radio host. I listened to him and most of what he said made sense. He wanted less government, lower taxes and more personal freedom! Yes! That’s me! Other people I knew were also making the same observations about Libertarians, but then someone I knew said “they’re (Libertarians) a bunch of nuts!” Well, I just wrote that off to them being misguided about Libertarians. Then came the 92” election. Many Conservatives had a bad taste in our mouths. We wanted to see government shrinking under Bush Sr., taxes going down, and a continuation of the policies of Reagan that created prosperity, brought the USSR to its knees, and brought back pride and dignity to a country previously headed in the opposite direction. He might have survived giving in to the Democrats and raising taxes but he was never going to survive the pledge “Read my lips, no new taxes”. Anyway, I found myself turning to the one person expounding my principles, that of Pat Buchanan. I not only align myself behind him, I joined the campaign and found myself driving the local campaign. Although there were many people in the campaign that were echoing my purpose for joining, there was a faction that seemed militant to defeat Bush. I mean they seemed to hate Bush; not the fact that he broke his oath, not that he was giving in to the Democrats, they just hated him in principle. Principle? Yea, that word is going to come up again, I promise you! I was opposing Bush on principle, but I knew that there was a difference between standing on principle and hiding behind it.
So when the primary was over and Buchanan lost, I said, “well, it’s time to back Bush, let’s hope that if nothing else, he got the message” . Most on the campaign agreed with me but there were those that militantly opposed Bush, who were now admitting that they never wanted Buchanan to win anyway, they wanted Andre Marrou to win. So I asked “Then why are you on the Buchanan campaign and not on Andre Marrou’s campaign?” Their answer was to make sure Bush didn’t win. It begged the question “What if Clinton wins?” To which I got the oddest answer ever “That’s not my fault, you can’t blame me, I’m voting for Morrou”. This really turned me off as irresponsible and I mean that sincerely. If your plan is to sink Bush, then you are responsible for the results. Maybe not in total but at least take responsibility for your part.
As time went on I got to know a few Libertarians and then I found out that why my friend told me Libertarians were “nuts”. One guy I knew who was a Libertarian said something that I found outrageous. We were talking about a guy who was arrested for having sex with several young children (around 10-12 years old as I recall) to which he said “They have no right to arrest him for that”. WHAT? I couldn’t believe my ears, yes I knew he was for legalizing pot, and I knew he didn’t pay income tax (that caught up with him several years later), but this just floored me. I asked him to explain that and what he told me was ” as long as it’s consensual it’s none of the governments business. No one is being hurt!” I tried to explain to him that getting the consent of a 10 year old is not the same as an adult for quite obvious reasons that they can be controlled and manipulated by an adult and in fact it was doing damage to the child, all to no avail. So at this point I was reaching, trying to trigger logic in him, and the further I reached, the more I realized that nothing was going to work. I said “What if this guy drugged them to have sex with them?” to which he replied; “So what, drugs should be legal anyway”. Now I’ll admit that this guy was a little odd, so at the time I wrote it off as him just being him. He later got arrested for an over due a library book (no kidding) and then for failing to pay taxes and disappeared form the scene. But he was the first of many Libertarians I would meet with similar views.
As I started blogging years ago, I begin to come across people that would start out sounding like a conservative and then would post something really crazy. It got to be that I would automatically say to anyone who fit this description, “You must be a Libertarian” and without fail they would say “Yes” and explain to me why Libertarians were so much smarter then everyone else. And when I’m talking about crazy stuff, I mean really crazy. Everything is a conspiracy, WWII, Kennedy Assassination, Federal Reserve controls the world, NAFTA was a conspiracy, the Council on Foreign Affairs is really the brains behind the New World Order, 911 was a government set up, Ron Paul only lost New Hampshire because of voter fraud, Bob Barr was a Republican plant to cause chaos in the Libertarian party, etc… What’s really disturbing is that even the leaders of the party echo much of this craziness. You’ll find many quotes from Paul, Marrou, Browne, or Badnarik echo many of these same theories.
No I’m not implying that none of what they believe is true in some degree or other. Some of it may be and in fact I personally don’t believe in anthropogenic global warming. The difference is that I don’t believe in it based on scientific evidence, not on some crazy idea that people are out to get me. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t even have an issue if it were only the conspiracies, but its not. It’s the whole crazy notion that there shouldn’t be order of law that protects children from pedophiles or people from themselves. This is where they totally lose me.
Now here is where they alienate me: As you well know, we have part of that fringe trolling around here. They love to jump on a blog and tell us how much they know about us and tell us what we think (even though they are never right) and they love to tell us how smart they are by referencing propaganda as if it is historical documentation. And then they tell you how smart they are and how stupid we are for not believing their crazy conspiracies and ideology. I’d call them narcissist but it would be a compliment to these truly moronic wackos.
So where am I going with this? Well I had to share a laugh with all of you. I’m sure you all know our famous Libertardian Troll who suffers from gender identity disorder as well as Multiple Personality Disorder and is a pathological liar? Yes I’m referring to anarchosherryneoxxxxxertinePOLDpedophilePutz or wackjob
. In case there are any of you that don’t know where he/she/it derives the name, it seems that it was using many monikers such as Recovering Liberal, Proud Obama Liberal Democrat and many others some of you may recognize but only by one name; “Sherry” and enjoyed inciting confrontation on various blogs and I believe even had a few arguments with its self! Well anarchosherryneoxxxxxertinePOLDpedophilePutz or wackjob just posted the most incredibly stupid thing I’ve ever seen by saying “Republicanism is the worst of both worlds: Democracy in the hands of an oligarchy.” OK, you get that? It thinks our form of government is an oligarchy! I’m sure Sherry just learned that word and It doesn’t know what It means which for anyone that has followed anarchosherryneoxxxxxertinePOLDpedophilePutz or wackjob know that it suffers from serious mental issues. What was more amazing is that Sherry’s cell mate sir Moshe (you know, with the fake girlfriend) posted several times immediately after in the same blog, and didn’t take issue with this stupidity.
I guess the bottom line is this: It’s not the Libertarians; it’s the crazy mentally challenged fringe element of the Libertarians that believe in drugging and raping young children that are alienating everyone from them. If you’re a libertarian and not a drug pusher or pedophile, you may want to start denouncing these wackos or seriously consider changing parties.