tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38905222.post4279971234946449822..comments2023-08-28T03:57:48.920-07:00Comments on Libertarian Peacenik: Peace and GlasnostUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38905222.post-44176041011114550032009-07-27T01:06:08.946-07:002009-07-27T01:06:08.946-07:00Hi Thomas. I just got to see the April-July 2009 i...Hi Thomas. I just got to see the April-July 2009 issues of California Freedom. Is there some embargo policy that prevents posting them to the LPCA website more frequently? Up until a few days ago, the most recent issue posted was March 2009. I thought perhaps the newspaper had been discontinued, or you had been fired. I am glad to see that neither bad thing has happened (yet).<br /><br />Anyway, I wanted to express my support for your policy of "Glasnost," as well as to express my concern that the LPCA is turning into some kind of GOP-lite. I have invested a goodly amount of personal time and effort to interest people in joining or at least supporting the LP over the years. Here in Santa Cruz, that means that many of my "prospects" begin as "progressives" or progressive-leaning voters. It undercuts my efforts to convince them that the LP is beyond the "left-right, Demo/GOP" spectrum, when the State party seems to go to great lengths to court GOP voters. I feel especially betrayed, after explaining to people how libertarianism includes a bias against war, to see apologists for the Afghan and Iraq campaigns identify themselves as high-ranking members of the LP.<br /><br />I want to be clear: I love my country and am no coward. If it is necessary to defend this country, I will gladly do it. But war-mongers need to make a much better case than they have in the last 50 years or so, to convince me that defense is necessary. And there is NO case I can accept, for aggressively "spreading democracy" to foreign lands. Non-interventionism + fierce defense of our own territory is the way. Someone who argues otherwise has a major burden to bear to convince me not only that his way is better, but that he is a libertarian at all.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686052627916038253noreply@blogger.com