tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14571664.post3634592764685904784..comments2023-10-17T08:38:40.413-07:00Comments on Cleveland Okie: Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14571664.post-11586677292366122582007-12-02T06:01:00.000-08:002007-12-02T06:01:00.000-08:00Original libertarians were Pro-Defense. The moder...Original libertarians were Pro-Defense. The modern libertarian movement arose out of Barry Goldwater's 1964 Presidential Campaign, and Goldwater was hardcore Pro-War. Than Dana Rohrabacher picked up the ball and almost single-handidly founded the libertarian political movement. Rohrabacher back then was hardcore Pro-Defense, and is very much in favor of the War in Iraq today as a US Congressman.<BR/><BR/>Dr. John Hospers was the 1st Libertarian Presidential candidate. Hospers is a longtime member of the Libertarian Defense Caucus. Hospers even voted for Bush in 2004 cause he saw Islamo-Fascism as the utlimate threat to our freedoms.<BR/><BR/>Other Pro-Defense libertarians over the years have included: Bob Poole, Jack Wheeler, Gene Burns, PJ O'Rourke, Larry Elder and Neal Boortz.<BR/><BR/>It's a complete myth that Pro-Pacifism and Pro-Surrender and Non-interventionism (Isolationism) is the "correct" libertarian view. It's only as a direct result of Rothbard's and Raimondo's effective propoganda machine from the 1970s that this has come about. Both were hardcore Leftists who infiltrated the previously Pro-Defense libertarian movement and hoisted their Anti-American views on the Libertarian Party. This is much the same as to what is happening today right before our very eyes. Moveon.org has successfully infiltrated the Ron Paul for President campaign and are presenting themselves as "libertarians."<BR/><BR/>Libertarianism has alway been Pro-Defense. Yes, the Pro-Defense wing was weakened for a couple decades, but now we're back, and we're going to be kicking the asses of all those Pacifist libertarians who want us to surrender to Islamo-Fascism.<BR/><BR/>Eric Dondero, Chairman<BR/>Libertarian Defense Caucus<BR/>www.libertarianrepublican.blogspot.comEric Donderohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02763399145451696076noreply@blogger.com