To: LPS5 who wrote (1186 ) 2/7/2004 6:30:19 PM From: Raymond Duray Respond to of 81568 LIBERTARIANISM -- I swear you have an anal-compulsive obsessive personality. You keep more files on me than I do. What's your aim? You seem to be the perfect police state snitch. As you well know, there are schisms within the broadly defined "libertarian" movement. While you cite certain examples where I suggest that government has an important role to play in enforcing equity in contracts, you simply disregard the bigger issue of how much government we really need. I'm a fan of Rep. Ron Paul and the Lew Rockwell school of libertarianism. I hate the fact that American imperialists are stealing our tax dollars and creating a monstrous and terroristic military machine in order to dominate the planet while these same imperialists actively work to destroy the social fabric of the nation and create a vile oligarchy of criminally minded thugs. Surely we can agree that our nation should not be led by criminals? Right? And I have concluded that the Bush Team is a criminal cabal, enriching itself by common fraud, lies, disinformation, propaganda and Orwellian distortions. (Something you have a talent for yourself.) <g> I think it is part of the libertarian tradition to oppose dangerous concentrations of economic, political, police or military power. That's why I'm so adamantly opposed to the neo-cons and the Bush Crime Family. The direction they are leading is toward a oligarchic police state. And as a small "l" libertarian, I'm vehemently opposed to this theft of our freedoms and perogatives to lead our own lives as we see fit. I stand by my comment that Ayn Randism is a perversion of the notion of basic human freedom. Greed, disguised as individualism, cannot be the basis of a just society. Never has been, never will be.