Comments on: Libertarian Party congressional contest in Wisconsin

by: True Truther

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:44:54 +0000

Barrett’s juvenile self-promotion and his lack of concern for the facts, his
endorsement of holocaust denial, and his fascination with violence make him
an embarrassment to the 9/11 Truth movement.

For 9/11 Truth, read Dr. David Ray Griffin and google Dr. Steven Jones. It
doesn’t take much googling of Kevin Barrett to find that this clown is Very
Bad News.

by: Michael Seebeck

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:13:29 +0000

This “new” libertarian sounds more like an anti-corporatist progressive that Air America has on the air (see also Thom Hartmann).

Libertarian? Nope.

Can corporations be corrupt? Sure they can. That’s last century’s news.

It ties back directly with the rise of the taxation state, fiat money, and calling corporations “persons”.

Sorry, but if a corporation is a person then I want to see that person in labor or having surgery or donating organs.

The LP focuses on the evils and ills of government, and one of those is the enabling legislation that allows corporations to have theri monopolies, and by extension, become corrupt.

Going after the corporations is not getting at the root of the matter, and it will not work. Most of us “old” libertarians (whatever that really means) understand this.

by: Paulie

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:15:15 +0000

On the other hand, he helps bring balance.

by: Free Al.

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:01:05 +0000

I happen to prefer the “old” kind of libertarian, though Barrett is wrong that we want to shut down all of government overnight. We want to shut down all unnecesary government ASAP. As far as I’m concerned, the old kind of Libertarian is the ONLY kind. People like Barrett, who want to strenghtn governemnt to fight private business, have no right to call themselves Libertarian in any way, shape or form. A TRUE libertarian would leave the battle against abuses by Banks and Corporations to Labor Unions and Boycotts, not to mention Freedom of the Press.

Oh, and barrett is not the beginning of a “new movement,” at least, not from what I read in the article. What I read sounds a lot like Communism, and its been around for quite some time, and is not in any way connected to the libertarian philosophy.

We lost one round in the selection of Barr as our nominee for President. Lets not lose another round to a Communist. Enough is enough.

by: paulie

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:51:24 +0000

Barrett is the beginning of a new movement in politics, neither liberal nor conservative. He knows that private monopolies often abuse government power to oppress the common man.

That’s true, and they do so with government permission and encouragement.
Putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop doesn’t help the chickens any. Just the opposite.

by: silver Republican

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:26:22 +0000

This Barett guy sounds like bad news.

by: Galileo

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:53:07 +0000

GO BARRETT GO!

by: Roscoe

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:41:53 +0000

Is this Ben Olson of the Aloha Caucus fame?

by: timothy west

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:52:07 +0000

Barrett is the beginning of a new movement in politics, neither liberal nor conservative. He knows that private monopolies often abuse government power to oppress the common man. example: the banking bill that allowed banks to buy and own every other type of financial enterprise and merge into huge global corporations accountable o no one. It was even described by a legislative aid at the time as a payback bill to the banks for supporting dozens of crooked republican and Democratic candidates in 2002.

A successful LP will face this truth head on and realize it is corruption that is the issue here and face the issue of private corporate abuse of our laws or another party will come along to do it.