Libertarians Make Bad Life Guards
One of the newest tactics from the left is instigating a terrible falsehood:Â all Republicans are cold, heartless people who are modeled after a quack named Ron Paul.
Dr. Ron Paul is a gynecologist who believes people without health insurace should be left to die, the federal government needs no money, feudalism is the best system of governance and that everyone should have slaves and slapped wives. These values are of course against the GOP, the party of progress.
The GOP has brought many freedoms to this great nation and it will continue to do so for years to come. People like Ron Paul are fringe elements ruining the image and truth about the GOP. Libertarians are a third party: Paul is just trying to garner more attention for himself by claiming he is a Republican, because he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. How is could someone say the people of Joplin should have been left to rot?
I say if Libertarians hate our country, move them to a Mexican drug town and tell them to ‘earn’ their territory, just like our forefathers did. Once the Mexicans have them cornered, their women and children ravaged and husbands trying to figure out how to fight off the last of the ruthless killers, they can call the federal government for help and we can laugh at them, because there is no way the US needs money to pay for an army or national guard. And meddling in international politics? They shouldn’t have let us airdrop them down there in the first place, idiots. Of course we’re not going to help you.
Libertarians are the polar opposite of the Occupy Wall Street people, they just swinged the reverse way on the compass to reach the same point. They are spoiled idiots who have no place in this nation.
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Author: Pat Heinkel
Pat Heinkel is the senior church organist for Shellington Pres., where he also proudly serves as a volunteer firefighter, distinguished lecturer and has the town's (maybe region!) largest collection of Coleoptera. Email Pat
11:21 am
They are the same way when they are babysitters.
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2:13 pm
I would welcome the opportunity to battle Mexicans.
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2:31 pm
My view? Libertarians have proven themselves in the last generation the volunteer lifeguards of the human race.Plus show me one person who drowned because of a Libertarian volunteer lifeguard chickened out.
The cartoon? Substitute Jews or Hispanics for Libertarians and you see what this cartoon is. It’s along the lines of the media campaign a few months ago claiming Libertarian Fire Departments would let your house burn to cover up a BTW, derelict government fire department and local council that took money. Government lifeguards supported with massive salaries through coerced taxes who don’t show up and provided no service are in the news now, so naturally let’s smear voluntary or private lifeguards and hence, Libertarians. Is this going to happen from now on every time an official screws up?
The irony? In my experience about 5-10% of lifeguards and many public safety officials ARE Libertarians, tired of corrupt politicians and realizing voluntarychoice is the way to go. As a Libertarian and former volunteer lifeguard and firefighter who proudly supports –with the Libertarian International Organization activist friends (see http://www.Libertarian-International.org ) —many volunteer including lifeguard groups, this cartoon is deeply offensive and willfully ignorant of facts.
The lie? When you consider the Lifeguard portrayed is in dereliction of a voluntary duty and contract–the exact opposite of Libertarianism–you see how fact-free and morally evil the cartoonist is. How he translates supporting voluntary alternatives to letting people die to mass murder is beyond me. And let’s remember it was voluntary groups like the Red Cross that created lifeguards in the first place! The present Chair of the US Libertarian Party is I undertsand a pool & hence pool safety contractor, so you wonder what all this is.
Finally, as a former deacon the cartoon is deeply un-Christian, or rather from the old bigoted hate-filled Christianity we’re fighting, and does not belong in a Christian zine. Libertarians preach self-regard and voluntary help, and deride thoughtless unselfishness as a racket to con people. Many Christians and other religious groups could learn a lot from them about true service without compromising yourself, conning, or coercing people.
You want to do something productive instead of smear cartoons that reverse the truth? Besides the Red Cross check out http://lifeguardswithoutborders.org/?page_id=126 a group many Libertarians like me publicize and support.
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3:07 pm
//”One of the newest tactics from the left is instigating a terrible falsehood: all Republicans are cold, heartless people who are modeled after a quack named Ron Paul.”//
I haven’t seen this tactic, but Republicans are just as bad as the Democrats.
//”Dr. Ron Paul is a gynecologist who believes people without health insurace should be left to die”//
No, that the federal government shouldn’t meddle in their irresponsible decisions, and that their family, friends, church, or local charities should take care of those that choose not to take responsibility for their health, instead of tax-payers that already care for their own health.
//”the federal government needs no money”//
Or that the federal government doesn’t need as much money as it gets, nor should they have the right to take money from people who earn it. Funny, our founders thought the same thing, which is why the income tax was ruled unconstitutional until it was added by amendment.
//”feudalism is the best system of governance”//
Strawman. Dr. Paul has never said this, and neither has any Libertarian representative.
//”and that everyone should have slaves and slapped wives.”//
Now you’re just making stuff up.
//”These values are of course against the GOP, the party of progress.”//
Yeah, the OTHER party of big government.
//”The GOP has brought many freedoms to this great nation and it will continue to do so for years to come.”//
Oh, yeah, those bastions of civil liberty like the Patriot Act, DADT, and the DOMA.
//”People like Ron Paul are fringe elements ruining the image and truth about the GOP.”//
Which so squarely explains why he’s in third place in national polling of Republican candidates. Quite a big fringe you guys have, huh?
//”Libertarians are a third party: Paul is just trying to garner more attention for himself by claiming he is a Republican, because he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder.”//
Third party, yes. See more here: http://www.lp.org
Narcissistic personality disorder? The guy wants to be on the ballot. Because of your Republican and Democrat friends, Libertarians are denied in most cases the ability to be put on a ballot or in debates. If it’s so fringe, why do your guys keep shutting us out?
//”How is could someone say the people of Joplin should have been left to rot?”//
Funny, because when the floods of Cedar Rapids came, they took care of themselves, and the damage to properties was worse than Katrina. Relying on a government agency like FEMA is only good is you want to avoid burning your money for the smell.
//”I say if Libertarians hate our country”//
That’s a big “if”, sir. I hate our two-party duopoly of government. And I really HATE your mischaracterization of Libertarians. But despite that, I’m still trying to get people elected who care about your economic and civil liberties, even though it’s obvious you don’t care about mine.
//”move them to a Mexican drug town and tell them to ‘earn’ their territory, just like our forefathers did.”//
You now advocate that the federal government remove citizens forcibly to another country. Have you looked up the term “fascism”?
//”Once the Mexicans have them cornered, their women and children ravaged and husbands trying to figure out how to fight off the last of the ruthless killers”//
This is a disturbing visual for someone who thinks Libertarians are the bad guys who would leave you to die in a pool. You go from making us sound uncaring, to now outright advocating rape and murder. Does your church know you feel this way about other human beings?
//”they can call the federal government for help and we can laugh at them”//
Not only do you advocate displacement, rape, and murder of your fellow citizens, but you find this humorous?
//”because there is no way the US needs money to pay for an army or national guard”//
Strawman. You’re talking about Anarchists, dude, not Libertarians.
//”And meddling in international politics? They shouldn’t have let us airdrop them down there in the first place, idiots.”//
This makes as much sense as 2+2=Apple.
//”Of course we’re not going to help you.”//
I would expect nothing less charitable from you, sir, given the rest of your article. It is obvious that whatever lessons you hear in Shellington go in one ear and out the other.
//”Libertarians are the polar opposite of the Occupy Wall Street people”//
You got that right. I want LESS government involvement, not more.
//”they just swinged the reverse way on the compass to reach the same point”//
Libertarianism =/= Socialism
Another excercise in fallacy.
//”They are spoiled idiots who have no place in this nation.”//
I’m thankful that you have the freedom to express how incredibly bigoted and morally bankrupt you really are, sir.
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2:10 am
Could you use some of that christwire science to prove this?
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2:22 pm
Is this because Libertarians don’t worship kikes and moneychangers and start wars to enrich those two groups then send the children of idiot “christians” like heinkel to do their bidding?
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