From: "Paul" Date: Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:22 pm Subject: Re: More challenges on Iraq for Paul Ireland to duck It's not false. I answered every question you answered, that was worthy of being considered seriously. You have a tendency to ask absurd questions and present unrealistic and insane analogies that aren't worth dignifying with a response. But what the hell, I'm all for having your money given to the LP (though a campaign donation would be better for me) 1. You're asking if I think starting a fight with a bully will lead to less kids getting beaten up by bullies. The answer to your question is that it doesn't matter if it would or wouldn't lead to less overall bullying. The ends don't justify the means. So the answer to your question is "no" I don't make such a claim and I wouldn't make such a claim because it's irrelevant. Libertarians don't support the initiation of force against people who have not initiated it against US. 2. I believe that any liberty lover should recognize that the sovereignty of all nations including aggressive and tyrannical ones. I further believe that if this prevents us from taking part as a third-party by interfering with their aggression this is just fine and very libertarian. I believe we should be neutral in all foreign disputes, and never ever ever use the U.S. military to attack anyone who has not directly and intentionally attacked American soil (land within the United States), or American ships. 3. I believe that no treaty signed by a sovereign nation precludes them from developing any weapons they choose. I further believe that no nation or group of nations has any authority to force any nation to disarm. I don't believe the sovereignty of a nation protects it against consequences when it violates that treaty, but those consequences are only to come from the individual nation in which the treaty has been violated. For instance if Iraq signed a peace treaty with Kuwait and violated it, Kuwait would be justified in attacking Iraq but the United States would not be. The U.N. has no authority over any sovereign state, and treaties made with the UN are not treaties made with the United States. The U.S. government is not here to enforce UN rules and the UN has no authority to make rules. The U.N. is not a sovereign state. 4. Part of being a libertarian means being responsible for your own safety and own actions. When you take part in an activity, you are consenting to any dangers involved. If you play baseball, you can't complain if you get hit by a ball. If you travel to foreign countries with different laws and customs, you're under their jurisdiction and required to follow those laws. If you choose to go to a country where it might be dangerous for Americans to visit, and you are harmed, you accepted the risks involved, and America isn't here to stop you from making stupid decisions. If Americans go to a foreign country and are getting killed, the extent of the American government's actions should be warning Americans of the dangers, and possibly refusal to trade with them. If that didn't work, the next step would be letters of marquis and reprisal. So, nobody would have a "green light" to kill as many Americans as they want, but American people would have a "green light" to visit dangerous foreign countries in which they may be killed. 5. No. Refusing extradition for someone who threatened or targeted American tourists for murder does not constitute support for an anti-American terrorist. Since you've never asked these particular questions of me before, your claim that answering them now is an admission of failing to answer them earlier is entirely false. Feel free to make that check out the Libertarian Party of California with a note in the comment line that the money is restricted solely for the use of paying Mark Selzer to produce new episodes of his show, "The Libertarian Alternative". Somehow I doubt they will see a single penny of the money you promised to send them on my behalf for answering these though. Go ahead and surprise me. I'll look forward to Dave Ruprecht calling me up to say thanks for the donation, but I won't hold my breath.