To Libertarian Party Members

Due to my reading of Nietzsche and Dawkins most of my blogs have been about religion and god, so perhaps its time for a different topic.

Today I would like to talk to my fellow libertarians, mostly those of who (probably the vast majority) who still have faith in politics. Or in short, those of you who are minarchists instead of anarchists.

The man you see here is Bob Barr, candidate for the libertarian party.

Today I picked up the November issue of Reason Magazine (the most successful libertarian magazine around) which I still enjoy reading from time to time. In this issue they did an interview with Bob Barr. If you are considering voting for Bob Barr and call your self a libertarian I would highly suggest you read it. Perhaps you will get an idea of how politics is destroying the beautiful philosophy of libertarianism.

Perhaps what I found the most shocking and appalling. was this:

REASON: What is the harm of having people who came here from Ecuador or Mexico, without documentation, if they're not otherwise committing crimes?

BARR: It has to do with basic respect for the rule of law and respect for a country's sovereignty. If people do not have the respect for the law, and if people do not have that respect for our sovereignty, they have no business being here.

Sense when has being a libertarian involved "respect for the rule of law"? I cannot believe that someone can call themselves a libertarian and say that "If people do not have the respect for the law... they have no business being here."

Is this the best the LP (libertarian party) can do?

The term libertarian is starting to become just a name for a slightly more radical republican. We are letting ourselves become corrupted by politics.

It is my belief that this is all politics has to offer: corruption.

For those of you libertarians (or anyone for that matter) consider this.

• Governments always grow
• Small governments always grow the fastest
• Big governments always result in mass murder and oppression.

These are the only things history has to offer us. There is no excuse for being blind to the nature of government, yet we always cling to this failed experiment of the minimal government, or benevolent socialist government, or the "moderate" government. We all have our ideas of what the "perfect government" would be like, yet we ignore the fact that government always grows, always oppresses, and always kills.

In the last 7 years government spending has gone up by 40%. To be patriot 7 years ago and to be a patriot now are entirely different things. America is not anything like it was in the 18th century when it was formed. In fact this whole concept called "America" is nonsense. The people who were proud of their country 100 years ago and those who are proud of it now are proud of entirely different ideas and concepts. There is no constant called "America" there is no standard of "American". The constitution is used as toilet paper on a regular basis.

Despite all this we still waste so much intellectual and emotional time and energy on this joke. "If only we could just shrink the government back down" "if only we could get universal heath care" it is all a false and vain hope. It should now be clear that the nature of government and the nature of human beings are not parallel.

I suppose my cry to libertarians (and everyone else, it is simply libertarians who will be the most open to this message) to consider other possibilities, to consider alternatives to this thing called "government" this thing called "authority" that is clearly corrupt and clearly unfounded by any objective and consistent ethics.

I am not asking you to be an anarchist right away, but to please consider the fact that government is a failure, and an intellectual cancer upon human beings. Please do not simply dismiss this idea, but let us form a new kind of skepticism. The skepticism of the state, as an idea all together. What harm can some skepticism do?