Colin Ross: Why I’m A Libertarian
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COLIN ROSS: WHY I’M A LIBERTARIAN
|| By COLIN ROSS || I am a doofus.
Colin Ross is a “peace-loving, pot-smoking, free-market loving liberal.”
There, edited it down for you.
That goofy picture at the bottom and his announcement that he likes to smoke pot drives me crazy. It feeds the stereotype that libertarians just want government to let them smoke dope all day long and are libertine in general.
He comes off as adolescent and confirms the bias most people have about libertarianism in general.
It feeds the stereotype that libertarians just want government to let them smoke dope all day long and are libertine in general.
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If the zoo spliffs, smoke it.
you misunderstand. I don’t want the government to let me do anything. I’m saying government has absolutely no right to tell me how to live my life as long as I’m being peaceful. Rights don’t come from government unless you think we are owned by it.
I don’t “misunderstand”. I’m telling you what people think; the stereotype. It’s you that misunderstand. I never said that your rights come from government. Put away the strawman.
Not only is it stupid to announce to everyone that you do an illegal drug(and I agree that it should be legal), but you do no service to libertarianism in general with a silly photo attached to your attempt at persuasion with the statement that you break the law because you’re a libertarian. If anything, it’s anti-persuasive.
It’s just stupid, and if you can’t get that then you’re a lost cause.
It has nothing to do with “right” or “wrong” either.
A government is THE PEOPLE. You cannot have a PEOPLE, or a GOVERNMENT, without a Soul.
Libertarians have NO Soul. And as we see with the baby-mutilation and Killing, liberals have no soul.
You libertarians want the extermination of morals so you can feed your greed, and pleasure yourselves. Your selfishness is all that matters. Liberals want to impose their false religion, and its stringent list of moral dictates, on us.
Neither ever has, or ever will, work.
We built this country with our eyes on the one and only living God. And if we don’t embrace him now (as much as ever) the soulless like you will continue to take our nation from us.
I am a Christian and I can say this with all certainty. God’s himself entrusted us with free-will. He does not exempt us from the consequences of our actions, but he gave us the freedom to choose our own path. I have never understood the arrogance on the part of my brothers and sisters in Christ that somehow we need to step in and fill the void. The idea that somehow God miscalculated at it is up to us to remedy that is absurd to me. No, this country, this world is not YOUR home! Your residence here is temporary. If you truly believe in Christ, you will simply follow his two greatest commandments while you are here. Love God and love your neighbor. Those commands should keep all Christians plenty busy.
I am a Libertarian because the ghost in the political machine has an agenda, and it doesn’t care about Christianity. It cares about getting money from you and using it for its own survival. Jesus himself exposed this corruption when he turned over the tables of the money changers in the temple. I personally believe that I could do more to love God and my neighbor if I had more of my own money after taxes. Why should I support more of my money being spent to keep this parasite alive when we can freely choose where we want our money to go?
Libertarians: all of the the rights, none of the responsibilities.
Perhaps a detailed list of what responsibilities are needed to have rights would help. Or is money just enough?
Libertarians are like anarchists – joining others with the same views doesn’t really make sense.
No Heart: Take away the parts of government that help the poor and needy.
No Brain: Take away the parts of government that prevents and punishes businesses from hurting people.
While we are quoting Winston Churchill:
“The discoveries of healing science must be the
inheritance of all. That is clear: Disease must be attacked, whether
it occurs in the poorest or the richest man or woman simply on the
ground that it is the enemy; and it must be attacked just in the sane
way as the fire brigade will give its full assistance to the humblest
cottage as readily as to the most important mansion….Our policy is
to create a national health service in order to ensure that
everybody in the country, irrespective of means, age, sex, or
occupation, shall have equal opportunities to benefit from the
best and most up-to-date medical and allied services available.”
Sounds like a no good stinking bleeding heart liberal to me!
This post, and poster, is VERY appropriate for FITSNews. You represent each other well.
Ashley Madison should sponsor you infinitely, and you need to post equal-mind musings like that of Ross’, 24/7. This is you. You are mirrors of each other.
But an Ashley link would have helped that SC Political site.
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Always run from what, and who, you are. Don’t you?
Especially w/ PP breaking, I’d be ashamed too. Your problem is: Everybody knows you’re a liar. Look at what’s happening to Hillary. Dumbass.
Idiot.
Nice post, Colin. Sorry the commenters here don’t care about or understand the libertarian philosophy. Why they frequent the site, we’ll never know.
Did we really need the “Pot Smoking” in the signature? I don’t have a personal issue with it, but you have a lot of people that write off the libertarian philosophy because they think it’s all about getting high, especially conservatives that would otherwise agree. You don’t have to make laws about it, and you can and likely should repeal most if not all drug laws, but making that a central part of a platform and boasting about it is not be helpful in getting your way accepted and implemented.
Some people are tired of living in the shadows, being swept under society’s rug.
In my mind, people who boast which political party they belong to have more to be ashamed of than someone who admits he smokes a certain plant.
Uuh, you’re supposed to SMOKE it? Uuh, now I think I understand, uuh, wait a second — let me think about this, uuh, that could explain it, uuh…… never mind, I’ll get back to ya’….. uuh, don’t call me I’ll call you, uuh …..
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The drug war is one of the most disgusting actions of our government. It will only end when regular, everyday people start taking a stand for every humans right to the pursuit of their own happiness. Its also my way of sticking my middle finger to the government. But hey let me know when you stand for anything.
Don’t be a self-righteous douchebag. You breaking the law by smoking a joint isn’t bringing about libertarianism to society as a whole any time soon.
You want a model of how to convince people to be libertarian? Look at Ron Paul, who doesn’t do drugs but says they should be legal.
He doesn’t post silly adolescent pictures of himself to opinion pieces either. He carried himself with dignity and respects traditional culture regardless of his anti-authoritarian stance.
It’s pretty tough to hate Ron Paul for noble reasons(though some try), you- not so much.
“Look at Ron Paul, who doesn’t do drugs but says they should be legal.” Br>
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” but making that a central part of a platform and boasting about it is not be helpful in getting your way accepted and implemented.”
Exactly. Do what the Republicans do and just be a big fat hypocrite – never tell the truth – get your freak on under cover and in public be a moralizing crusader.
Ah screw it. Trying to explain how to win friends and influence people so you can accomplish something makes you a hypocrite. I’m going to become a NeoCon, it’s more interesting. War is fun, run up the debt, let’s legislate morality, Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016! Jeb! 2016!
Let’s just be done, nominate the Bush family as the Imperial Royal Family. Jeb! for Emperor of the American Empire. World Conquest by 2030. Jeb! for Supreme Leader of The World!
LOL Did I strike a nerve or something???
Good post, Colin! While I understand what some on here are saying with regard to the “image” that some perceive of Libertarians as pot heads and druggies, I also appreciate where you are coming from and the need or desire to extend that middle finger. Hang in there and keep up the good work!