Oxymorons

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By Cody London at 11:44PM

I know I should not even concern myself with such trifles as political baiting...but I will anyway. 

After viewing many comments made concerning the firestorm around Rand Paul's remarks about the Civil Rights Act, I can not help but to take a few steps back and rationalize the entire scope of the Red Herring presented by the Louisville paper and furthered by Rachel Maddow

Unfortunately it is not enough that these talking heads are nowhere close to completely understanding the philosophical rationale behind Rand's comments; they also enter the discussion with their minds already made up with this equation:

Libertarian+objection to portion of Civil Rights Bill= Racist

"Libertarian? Well you are probably racist."  Huh?

After a while one has to assume that these peons will eventually learn that their attacks are futile. The mentality toward government "benevolence" is actually in transition towards a more cynical view. But it seems as if many of those not in the media are no longer fooled by these ideas; and if anything, people now see the government has been the source of much of the civil rights violations.

However, many of the pundits now attacking the libertarian viewpoint on civil rights and private property as racist are in fact unprincipled statists, themselves supporting government policies which could be called racist themselves.  Consider, for instance, policies of blowing up innocent brown people overseas or stigmatizing drug laws.

Yet next to no one argues that liberals and conservatives are racists for supporting these policies.  Why?  Because they see that they are motivated by other ideologies.  So why is it so hard to understand that a libertarian might be motivated by something other than racism when defending property rights?  Indeed, this seems like a pretty easy matter to comprehend, for the point of libertarianism is to further freedom for all people.

Oxymoronic, anyone?

I find that when it comes to governmental/political issues it is not an ideal being set forth by a political party, rather, it is simply an agenda.  They're accusing Dr. Rand Paul of racism because it's an easy, sleazy way of attempting to discredit his opinions, beliefs, work, and everything about him.  In an America so caught up on political correctness, throwing out the race card is the quick-fix of removing someone who quite obviously poses a threat to one's agenda.

Consider it this way--each of the two main parties both want the same thing: control.  Yes, total and ultimate control.  They each go about it different ways, however, the end result of either one is undeniably a totalitarian form of government where the party is the deciding factor on what comes and goes, and there's nothing you can do about it.  They only reason they want to help you out is so that they can get votes and stay in power.  Follow the money:  Even the most difficult of paper trails never lie.

However, I wouldn't be annoyed by such trifles, although we should not let them pass. Rather, I would find a way to discredit political parties as a whole, even if you have to do so one by one.  They are detrimental to freedom and liberty, and do nothing but blame the other side when they could be fixing the problem.

The first step of course, is to remove political correctness.  Everything after that should begin to fall in place.

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Yea racism has always been played by the liberals. Yet it seems to me the fact that the democrats have no problem with the police state and drug policy on the local level because that racism does not directly connect them due to the fact that conservatives are cool with the policy.

So it's all problematic. Rand is not running as a libertarian. So technically he can't do a racism turn on them b/c his platform is a constitutional conservative. Which apparently is very vague on purpose.

He's done a good job talking about the main issue of fiscal conservatism. But the red herring is the best weapon against rookies and he fell for it. He has to gain credibility so they wont pull that mess with him anymore. 

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That Canada Free Press article ought to be in the Libertarian edition of "You Rage, You Lose." 

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