From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 01:07:44 MDT
James Wetterau wrote:
>
> I tried. I really tried to stay out of this, but I cannot any more.
>
> The idea that I or anyone I know who values individual liberty would
> want to be involved with putting Bush or Gore in the White House makes
> me want to vomit.
>
> I too want the right to defend myself. But you know what? There's
> not a single non-libertarian candidate who will stand up for your
> right to own the weapons of your choice. And I mean *any* weapon you
> choose.
>
> I want a candidate who will say that it was and is wrong that so many
> fellow US citizens I know have been arrested, imprisoned, and
> otherwise persecuted for their choice of drugs. Any candidate who
> believes that those people deserved what they got and that I or any of
> my friends should be in jail cannot have my vote.
>
> Jail is a pretty big threat to liberty.
>
> Any candidate who doesn't want to do away with seizures of property
> through income taxes doesn't deserve my vote and doesn't deserve your
> vote. Any candidate who wants to eliminate patients' rights to get
> medical procedures from their doctors, such as abortions, or drugs
> such as RU-486 doesn't deserve any of our votes.
>
> This is not about the lesser of two evils anymore. This is about
> acceptable tyranny. As in: there's no such thing as acceptable
> tyranny.
>
> I won't be voting for any tryants this year, and neither should you.
> It doesn't matter if they're the lesser of two tyrants. Don't vote
> for tryants. Please.
>
Hear, hear! Thanks for the wake-up call.
- samantha
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