The New Libertarian Century

While over at the Campaign for Liberty website I happened upon an entry entitled "A Century of Freedom and the Movement that will Achieve it" which printed the first paragraph of an article called "The New Libertarian Century", the same title as this blog post. Here is a portion of the article by Kelse Moen, a writer for the Emory Wheel, the student newspaper for Emory University here in Georgia:

At the Republican National Convention, while Sen. Joe Lieberman yukked it up about the absurdity of a pro-war, Keynesian Democrat like him hanging out with a bunch of pro-war, Keynesian Republicans, an authentically conservative convention was being held simultaneously only a few miles away.

The event was Rep. Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic. Paul ran a contrarian campaign for the Republican nomination this year on a platform of individual liberty, a foreign policy of non-interventionism, a gold-backed monetary system, and a return to constitutional government. That message brought 12,000 libertarians, constitutionalists, hippies, Burkeans, pot-smokers, gun-owners, homeschoolers, anarchists and me to fill up the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis for a celebration of that one thing we could all agree on: that we each have the inalienable right to live however we want.

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The article is extremely well-written and gets to the heart of the issue concerning the differences between what we see out of the Republicrats and the Demoplicans and those who believe in the principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and civil liberties that Dr. Paul and those like him espouse.With determination, luck and God's help hopefully those principles will return to this Republic.

I'll close this post with the final two paragraphs of the article:

Their message is simple: come home, America. They are begging the country in general and the Republicans in particular to reject the philosophy of death and taxes that defined the 20th century and to allow for the traditional American philosophy of freedom and community to define the 21st.

After the hundred years of statism that began with William McKinley and culminated with George W. Bush, it is easy to be pessimistic. But coming out of the Target Center, I plainly saw that the flame of liberty has been dimmed but not extinguished. Perhaps Ron Paul and his supporters still have a fighting chance.

Deo Vindice