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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16419)	4/3/2007 6:36:58 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218043

Maurice, You are exactly right about that, there are more varieties of libertarians than there are cats, and they argue all the time. But there is a strain of the belief that sounds a good bit like some of Elmat's theories and I wasn't too crazy about that branch of the franchise even way back then. It is that belief that places an inordinate amount of emphasis on the human acquisitive impulse. If that impulse was paramount, the advertizing, marketing and propaganda business wouldn't be so huge. But I am pretty fuzzy on libertarian theory, and never got beyond novice, theory wise, even way back then. And I got introduced to the party in a really strange way. Back in the 1970's my day job was plant engineer in a place that burned up bunches of oil, gas and propane and then in 1973 the NG shortage hit us like a bomb, and me especially, as obtaining fuel supplies was part of my job description. I went to bunches of US government (Commerce Dept.) "workshops" and "energy conservation for industry" seminars, and this being when Nixon was president. Somewhere along the line I discovered windpower, and just fell in love with wind machines, in a dynamic, mechanical engineering sort of way. Anyway, I got involved with the AWEA and was the delegate from my state to national conferences and got to know some of the movers and shakers of this new national orginization, and most of these guys, who had been the most severe type of college "New Left" radical a few years earlier, had now undergone a complete reversal in their beliefs and many of them were also members of the new Libertarian Party. These guys came to the LP this way: The US, back in the 1930's to 1950's had this tremendous wind electric industry, producing vast numbers of homestead wind electric systems, but along came the EVIL New Deal, with the socialistic REA, and destroyed the American wind energy industry. As these guys were trying to reverse decades of "progress" that the government had caused by stringing powerlines all over the country and creating the national grid, and build a NEW wind electric industry, based on free enterprise, they were natural libertarians. I stuck with the LP till 1980 when most of the "Party of Principle" jumped ship for Reagan, who at the time looked to me like anything but a libertarian. I like him better now, though. Your Ronald Ray-gun. <grin> Slagle