From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2004-11-02T22:04:44+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] US Presidential Election On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:46:09 +0900, Zach Dennis wrote: > Not to start anything, but last I heard Kerry had his hands in many > money jars himself. You better vote libertarian and play it safe. It might help if (1) Michael Badnarik himself weren't a bit of a nutbar, as every libertarian candidate run in the last umpteen years has been, and (2) the libertarian party actually had a clue about pragmatism as opposed to True Belief. Individual, thoughtful, libertarians don't bother me. There are, however, too many libertarians that believe that the government can do no good at all outside of an extremely narrow focus. They forget that the laws that exist do exist because of a reason. Not all of the reasons are good, and not all of them are still relevant, but America has already lived through an effective Libertarian paradise -- and it is from this time that we now have labour unions, OSHA, the EPA, etc. I held my nose and voted for Kerry, because Bush has proven to be the singular most incompetent full-term president that the US has ever had, as well as being a warmonger. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca