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A Mock Funeral for Bob Barr & the Libertarian Party

Filed under: Activism, Free Minds TV, National, Video — toby at 7:56 am on Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Free Minds TV is on the scene to cover a funeral for Bob Barr and the Libertarian Party. Fed up with the LP’s big government presidential nominee of Bob Barr and the general stripping of the party’s principles, activists in Grafton NH had a mock funeral for the Bob Barr and the LP at the first annual Burning Porcupine.

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8 Comments »

Comment by lord

July 22, 2008 @ 9:12 am

What you should do, I think is to file a “Death certificate” to the state… I mean some kind of document may have been created to gain an organization number or something from the state which I suppose could be equaliated to a birth certificate.

Logicly a death certificate should be possible for the termination of such organization.

Comment by bile

July 24, 2008 @ 8:56 am

http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/24/a-mock-funeral-for-barr-and-the-lp/

Third Party Watch is talking shit.

Comment by comment

July 24, 2008 @ 5:35 pm

To declare the party dead, you first have to declare life. Seriously, what do you have to lose? I think Barr was a good move. Supporting candidates who are in your political quadrant is smart. Only supporting candidates with a perfect 100 would weed out everyone with a voting record including Ron Paul according to the RLC Liberty Index. If you only support candidates without a voting record, your party is worthless. All you teach candidates is that your support is unattainable and therefore not worth pursuit.

Comment by bile

July 24, 2008 @ 5:52 pm

We aren’t supporting only 100% agreement candidates but Barr is hardly in our quadrant. In the least he has a whole lot further to prove that he is. Many in the FSP supported Paul and we acknowledge his flaws but he’s got 30 years of street cred and we know where he stands. Barr and Root to many are nothing more then Republican turn coats.

Comment by Toby

July 24, 2008 @ 6:32 pm

I’d have to agree with Bile, check out Barr’s voting record compared to Ron Paul’s. Barr has supposedly ’seen the light,’ but he hasn’t proved it yet.

Comment by Bill Cooke

July 26, 2008 @ 4:42 pm

This is stupid and counter-productive.
Bob is a good guy and he has endorsed the libertarian message.

There are things in his past that trouble me, but we ought to welcome converts.

Give him a chance.

Comment by bile

July 26, 2008 @ 7:25 pm

It may be stupid but I doubt it’s counter productive to the liberty movement.

Barr may be a good guy but he has yet to prove himself a good Libertarian presidential candidate. He has seemed to me to be a more a libertarian conservative, not a libertarian.

I’m all for welcoming converts and giving people chances… just not for such a position so quickly.

Comment by Jim Rongstad

August 14, 2008 @ 4:08 am

I agree with Bill Cooke. Pummeling Barr or anyone else who converts and doesn’t have a “pure enough” libertarian view is simply counterproductive.

Barr is out there talking about the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. He is espousing smaller, less intrusive government. He has admitted mistakes and has changed his views significantly.

Instead of beating on him, you should welcome him and encourage him on his journey to libertarianism.

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