Race, liberty and Ron Paul

[yeats]

Did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 put America on the path to a police state? The answer is yes, according to Ron Paul, the Texas Republican Congressman and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Paul explained that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “destroyed the principle of private

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[screamingintune]

Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra,

lol *draws lovehearts around this article*

[bushy_brow]

Ron Paul displays the moral idiocy of someone who declares that a person who pushes a little old lady out of the path of a bus is just as bad as a person who pushes a little old lady into the path of a bus, because both are equally guilty of pushing little old ladies around.

This is probably the best analogy for the stupidity of lolbertarians that I've seen to date.

[kalikahuntress]

Excellent post, thanks for sharing.

[wrestlingdog]

I want to marry this article and raise a bunch of baby articles with it.

[aviv_b]

I like this a lot.

Libertarians rely on a lot of theoretical 'ifs.' IF we all have the same information, IF the game is played fairly, IF we have equal access, IF we all have the same starting point,then everyone has the same chance.

But life isn't an experiment under controlled conditions. Only the privileged think that everyone has equal access to education, information, services, capital, etc. The rest of us know that isn't so.

[crossfire]

IF we all lived in a world where Libertarianism were the answer, then Libertarianism would be the answer!

It took me a while but I finally realized that all Libertarian arguments are at their core rhetorical tautologies.

[___closetome]

"but what are rights?" is inevitable in any conversation with libertarians.