[91363] in Cypherpunks
Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Holovacs)
Thu Dec 4 07:12:54 1997
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 06:45:30 -0500
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
Cc: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
At 05:16 PM 12/3/97 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>Libertarians are self-governors in both personal and economic matters.
>They believe government's only purpose is to protect people from coercion
>and violence. They value individual responsibility, and tolerate economic
>and social diversity.
>
Interestingly, New Jersey's recent Libertarian candidate (Sabrin) lost my
wife's vote when his own ads portrayed him as anti choice.
Several members of the religious right also call themselves libertarians.
Sometimes what is meant is freedom from interference in the market rather
than real freedom.
Jay
