Libertarian? Are You Serious?

So, you want to be a libertarian? Great, Somalia is waiting for you. You get no support for your views from the “Founding Fathers”, because you are totally opposed to their views on just about everything.

Once again with the basics:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

It isn’t about you, it’s about us. You don’t want to join, fine, but don’t ask us to help you when you get in trouble, because the deal was: we help each other. The preamble to the Constitution is about shared responsibilities. You want rights without responsibility, and benefits without obligations. It doesn’t work that way. You have run up a lot a bills, and you have to start paying them back.

A lot of people paid taxes to give you a public education, so it is time to pay that money back with your taxes.

A lot of libertarians are in love with what they think the Second Amendment says. They don’t want to hear about what was meant.

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

The guys who wrote that didn’t like standing armies. They specifically put limitations on funding them, and forming them. If you actually read about the wars that the US has been involved in, you would probably be amazed at how much of the fighting has always been done by the militias, which formed the basis for the National Guard.

War is only part of the reason for the “militia”, because they were also called out for crimes, fires, floods, and any other emergency that was more than an individual could handle. People were expected to drop what they were doing and help. There was no option to ignore the call – it was a duty, a price paid to be part of the community.

The clown in New Hampshire who wore the gun into town to assert his “libertarian” rights, is a prime example. He made some snide remarks about people from Massachusetts attending the event, and went on about “Live Free Or Die”, the state motto of New Hampshire. If you didn’t think he sounded like a New Englander, you were right. He had moved to New Hampshire from Arizona within the year.

I doubt he moved without using the tax financed road system, and he didn’t look like he had made his own clothes. He didn’t even look like he would be very handy at much, so I don’t know how he thinks he can stay alive without the assistance of others, but if he wants to, Somalia is the place. No taxes, no laws, no government, no nothing. Have at it, Libertoonian, it is your Eden.