X-Message-Number: 23158 From: Subject: Re: Message# 23150 (James Swayze) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:55:34 +0000 Our Founders gave us a quasi-Libertarian government and the result was the most prosperous and powerful country on earth. Try to imagine where we would be today if this government had started off back in the 18th century with all the current bureaucracies, regulations and taxes in place. Do you really think we would be even a shadow of the country we now are? Arizona is now boot-licking California by initiating a statewide smoking ban in "public" places (they really aren't public...they are private, but that never stopped the double-speak bureaucrats). The Libertarian response to the smoking "problem" is: If you don't like the fact that people smoke in a business, don't go there! In the same vein, if you, James, don't like the slaughter you described (I don't either) don't buy seafood! If enough people do that, the slaughter will stop. A Libertarian government as envisioned by the Libertarian National Committee has NEVER I repeat NEVER been tried. Please dont emulate your beloved bureaucrats and practice doublespeak! Jerry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23158