Michael Badnarik

Michael Badnarik is the Libertarian candidate for President in 2004. He was officially nominated at the Libertarian Party convention on Sunday, May 30th (winning over Gary Nolan and Aaron Russo). He has collected some endorsements.

Gun Control Means Being Able to Hit your Target

If I have a "hot button" issue, this is definitely it. Don't even THINK about taking my guns! My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.

Let me reiterate an axiom of my philosophy. Rights and privileges are polar opposites. A right is something that I can do without asking. A privilege is something that a higher authority allows me to do. It is utter nonsense for us to accept government permits in order to exercise an inalienable right. Allow me to point out some fallacies in the arguments frequently used by the anti-gun movement.

First, it is impossible for the Second Amendment to confer a "community right", because communities HAVE no rights. Individuals are real. Communities are abstract concepts. You can have individuals without communities, but you cannot have communities without individuals. Ergo, individuals must come first, and only the individuals that make up a community can have rights.

The above is what Michael Badnarik (Libertarian candidate for president in 2004) has to say on the firearms issue.

Medical Marijuana and the Federal War on Drugs

In the 2000 campaign for president, George W. Bush said that the federal government should not interfere with the medical marijuana policies of the several states. Like so many other promises, he went back on his word and has closed down medical marijuana facilities permitted by state governments.

This is an outrage. The federal government has no constitutional authority to interfere with state drug policies. When the federal government outlawed alcohol, it required a constitutional amendment to do so. Nonetheless it has assumed the legal authority to wage its "War on Drugs."

Badnarik speaks on the Drug War, and he's right. Making people understand that the War on Drugs is unConstitutional is difficult enough, but making the general public understand that it is against their best interests as well is nearly impossible. Propaganda is the name of the game, and the government has an unlimited budget and compacent allies in the media.

It's Good to be King...

Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian Candidate for President, has released his new book, It's Good to be King, a treatise on Constitutional government and how our government was intended to work -- before politicians distorted it to serve their own nefarious ends.

Ron Paul has this to say about the book: Michael Badnarik has created a constitutional primer that will edify and entertain school children and seasoned libertarians alike. Good to be King presents a thoroughly readable explanation of how our constitutional republic should work, and how the system became borken in the first place.

I haven't seen a review copy, so I can't give it a personal endorsement. But if you're like many voters, caught between disliking Bush's growth of government and civil liberties infringements, and yet unconvinced by Kerry's failure to, well, get even the most basic elements of his campaign right (not to mention, his evident lack of anything resembling a spine), then this is a good introduction to the Libertarian candidate. The media won't cover him, so if you want a window into his thought processes, this is the best way to get it.

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