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Show Free men from tyranny, support libertarianism Focus 71 Since the radical left's true totalitarian nature has all but caused its demise, the resulting political vacuum is being filled by the new libertarian movement which, I think, is the only way to free men from the tyranny of the state. And that tyranny is the product of two groups: The professional pro-fessional liberal and the pious, status-quo conservative. With the professional liberal ardously pouring great amounts of ash on himself in lamenting the abridgment of civil liberties by various groups and subsequently voting against a Senate proposal to abolish the draft and the self-righteous self-righteous conservatives who have been breast-beating over the violence vio-lence in our streets and silently applauded when New York hard-hats hard-hats busted some heads in a peaceful peace-ful anti-war demonstration last May, it is apparent that those who are in power and control are hyprocrites and active supporters of the idea of man's inherently worthless nature. Let us examine these philosophies philoso-phies and their alternative-radical libertarianism. In contrast with the liberalism of the late 18th and 19th Centurys, the current liberals (?) seem convinced of the innate inability of men to solve their own problems without a bureaucracy bureau-cracy guiding their every move. By some strange exercise in metaphysics, meta-physics, the liberals in government (and out) have made themselves exempt from the strange malaise of supposed horrid mortality that they once possessed before they became bureaucrats. In the liberals' belief, that when faced with the practical failures of his programs, we need only heavier doses of the same nonsense, he is fast creating a state, not that will "wither away," but that will become be-come increasingly oppressive and totalitarian. Liberals are not the only people supporting the disease of statism. Though most genuine conservatives conserva-tives have consistently been concerned con-cerned with the growing size and power of the Federal Establishment, Establish-ment, they tended to be opposed only to those federal powers which inhibited on their own sphere of (un) reality. They were not really worried about keeping the government off the backs of everyone, but rather only those of pious convictions and "right" natures: their libertarianism (of sorts) was almost as destructive as the liberal's total renunciation of it. The "conservative" movement has attracted a motley crew of adherents-most anyone but civil libertarians. To some of them, the world would be better a burnt cinder than to allow The Other Side one square inch of worthless real estate. Other adherents partially par-tially sublimated their fanatical piety, joined the conservative movement and used that affiliation affilia-tion as a legitimate "front" to launch inane diatribes against the ruling on no prayers in schools, long hair, pornography and everyone every-one Not Exactly The Same As They Were. While the traditionalist of the "conservative" philosophy supported sup-ported any steps taken by the government against the Monolithic Mono-lithic Communist Conspiracy in Vietnam, the libertarians were more concerned about the intrusion intru-sion of the government in its taxing and military conscription policies. This split in the conservative conser-vative movement was much the same as the split in the liberal persuasion-sans the totalitarian overtones. While the conservatives preached that laws-regardless of nature-should be obeyed until repealed, re-pealed, the libertarians felt that the freedom of the individual was of more importance than the welfare wel-fare of the state and its laws. While traditionalists thought mat order and stability were notions to be defended at all costs, the libertarians admitted his ethically anarchic tendencies, viewed them as an asset and didn't want to become a spineless apologist for the existing order. So this is where we are today: Faced with conservatives who are good for little else except as wall decorations and confronted with liberals who dp their damndest to usurp personal liberty for the good of the whole. We have little alternative except an endorsement of civil libertarianism. Indeed, it is becoming increasing accurate that it is not what government does for you, but rather what it does to you. |