From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 16:18:51 MDT
CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 5/23/02 16:14:46, mlorrey@datamann.com writes:
>
> >So said by someone who demonstrates every day how incredibly successful
> >their anti-action strategy has worked at spreading libertarianism
> >through the world.
>
> So far the strategy of respecting people's rights to freedom of association,
> freedom of speech, life, etc. has worked quite well. The world is a far
> more extropian place than it was 50, 20, maybe even 10 years ago.
> Socialism is a pretty dead horse. Tolerance is deep throughout the West.
> I see many religions as growing threats, but not one to be fixed by
> mass extermination, involuntary mental re-engineering, or conversion
> to helpless virtual people.
>
> Had the thinkers of the post-WWII era who helped found the current
> open society and libertarian movements not been deeply respectful of
> opponents' rights I doubt we would have come nearly as far.
Which is why the Libertarian Party garners a whopping 2 million votes,
maximum, in national elections, and why our country is being repressed
by the DMCA, the CDA, the Treasury Department's "Know Your Customer"
regulations, Carnivore, the so-called Firearms Owners Protection Act,
and many others. Just what libertarian brain trust was it that got these
laws passed?
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