The ones I know are also Libertarians.
. . . Libertarians just fell considerable in my estimation.
I used to work for the company that printed their brochures and DVD/VHS covers. It was the first I had heard of them, but over the four years I worked there, I have seen some amazing stuff come through. They are, in a word, paranoid. Most of the things they publish are about the government these days, at least everything that crossed my desk was. In the last year, most of it was about immigration.
It’s too bad Vanilla/Good Egg isn’t still here as she was an active member of the JBS as well as a member of the Green Party.
All I know is, I’m a faithful follower of Brother John Birch, and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church, and I don’t even have a garage–you can call home and ask my wife.
Come to think of it, I haven’t heard of the Antioch Baptist Church for a while, either.
Easy there, Freddy.
So, clearly you don’t have a clue what would be on the Libertarian site, ehe? Of the list Fear Itself gave that you quoted I’m hard pressed to think which ones Libertarians would AGREE with. Certainly the one calling for halts on gun control. Otherwise? Maybe the one about getting out of the UN? Other than that its pretty funny that you think libertarians want things like restrictions on free trade and such. Sort of like having a pro-Nazi groups bullet points tied into a hard core Jewish religious group…
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How about government funded education? They (JBS) are against that.
Agreed. Maybe a better analogy on my part would have been the differences and superficial similarities between fascism and Communism. Sure, they have some things in common…but their core beliefs are diametrically opposed. Libertarians are almost all free trade folks…and looking at your bullet list this seems pretty contrary to the JBS thinking (I have to admit I don’t know a lot about them so maybe I’m wrong here).
-XT
Against FEDERAL Gov’t funded/controlled education, to be precise; with a little more leeway on state/local funding/control.
The whole free-trade/fair-trade issue has never been quite settled in conservative circles. I imagine the JBS would argue that NAFTA doesn’t create a North American free-trade region as much as it established a supra-national political-economic authority.
That’s not what their website says:
They want all control and funding to be local, and from the sound of it, that means school by school, not a central school district. They are also very big on home schooling.
OK then, I think there was more of a role allowed to the state when I was active in 80-82, although I know even then, there were a lot of incidents of state bureaucrats cracking down on home & private schools. So perhaps the JBS tightened up whatever support for public education it had since then.
So it does. Which would be a good thing, if said authority were answerable to a transnational elected parliament like the EU’s. But it ain’t.