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N.C. columnist sides with LP on domestic deployment of troops

December 13th, 2008 · 6 Comments

In his column in North Carolina’s Fayetteville Observer, Gene Smith writes, “Maybe you’ve read about the proposal to deploy 20,000 active-duty regulars Stateside as an emergency-response force. ‘Domestic Deployment of Troops Concerns Libertarian Party,’ said the headline on a news release. I’m no Libertarian, but Domestic Deployment of Troops Concerns Me, too. When are we going to get past the cracked logic that anyone who has trained for combat is a natural for police work? Is every graduate of the Criminal Justice Academy ready to join a combat team in Afghanistan?”

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6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 JimDavidson // Dec 13, 2008 at 5:55 am

    Wait till we get another Kent State, or Boston Massacre. That ought to awaken a few complacent souls.

  • 2 Michael H. Wilson // Dec 13, 2008 at 9:34 am

    Someone actually picked up an LP news release. Holy Crapola!

  • 3 Chris Cole // Dec 13, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    What is even more amazing is that it was in the FayO! This same paper reported election polls which had included Libertarian candidates, while deleting the portions dealing with the percentages of those candidates.

  • 4 Gene Trosper // Dec 13, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    @ 1

    Funny, Jim…I was just watching some YouTube video of Kent State (and of course, listening to CSN&Y performing “Ohio”) minutes before reading this comment thread.

    I like the Gene Smith quote above:

    I’m no Libertarian, but Domestic Deployment of Troops Concerns Me, too.

    Libertarians can reach across party lines when we hit the right issues, such as war and domestic deployment of troops. We need to keep it up and certainly engage in more outreach to the left…especially the antiwar left.

  • 5 electkeithsmith // Dec 13, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Does anyone remember Posse Comitatus???
    Our country has lost neraly all of the traditions and respect for the Constituion that once made us great.
    The military used as a police force puts us in the same league as a banana republic.

  • 6 JimDavidson // Dec 13, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    Just remember, no well armed people have ever been subjugated. Not the Vietnamese, not the Somalis, not the Afghans. There are worse things than war – such as slavery.

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