Superkuh wrote:
Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian party, I'm fairly confident he'll win the primaries.
I will vote for him because he supports invididual rights.
Bush does not support invidividual rights, he's shown that with his treatment of US citizens with respect to terrorism. Nor will, it seems, any other republican. They tend to infinge upon individual rights in the area of social issues.
Kerry and most democrats do not support individual right either. They tend to create and support socialist programs that steal the profit of one's work with the threat of physical violence if you don't hand it over.
Other third parties I've looked into tend to be various extremes of the of either the democrats of republicans, or just not organized enough to matter.
The Libertarian party has been, and will be on the ballot in all 50 states (unlike the Green, only in 47, weak). It also has the most officials in public office of any third party. Frankly, it's the only third party that actually has a chance--which is why you never hear the media talk about it. Instead they ramble on about the Green to convince voters that third parties suck...but I digress.
I'm voting libertarian.
Well, if I was in the states, I would probably vote for him. I like his stance on individual rights, but some of his ideas are just, well, crazy. But I like crazy ideas. So yeah.
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Bush on the other hand, is crazy. I have yet to see ANY terrorist threat in the US in the past 30 months. I only see thousands and thousands of people being killed in a war meant to intimidate people into accepting the US as the power behind everything. All I see is one terrorist attack that killed as many people as car accidents do in a month, and nothing else in 30 months. The so called "terrorists who are a threat to the world" have killed another one or two thousand people in the past 30 months since 9-11. I don't see big terrorist deathcounts, I see big civilian death counts caused by americans (around 13000 so far, 10000 in Iraq).
I don't see world peace, I see a country invading other, weaker countries for reasons that don't exist, to intimidate the world and make it do what it says. I see the UN, which is devoted to ending all forms of war, being scoffed at and being left powerless. I see the media pumping your heads full of fear that the evil arabs are going to kill you, when you have higher chances of drowning in your bathtub then dying in a terrorist attack.
I see the US saying the Iraq has nuclear weapons, and they are a threat to the world. If nuclear weapons are a threat to the world, what about the other countries, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, and Russia, that also have nuclear weapons? That have DECLARED they have nuclear weapons. I don't see us going to war with them. And I also notice that India and Pakistan, both with substationally large quantities of nukes, are on pretty bad terms (getting better, but still). I also see him saying nuclear weapons are horrible to everyone, when he is in charge of the only country to ever use nuclear weapons against another country, and when he has more than anyone else on the planet.
I see president Bush telling the world how aseful a man Saddam is. I agree, but what about all those otehr dictators who are as bad or even worse? I don't see them getting invaded. Perhaps because they aren't sitting on a substantial quantity of high-quality crude oil, and haven't had all their civilians starved, currency devalued and hospitals useless because of sanctions enforced upon them (like Iraq). Then I see Bush bullshitting the world with his "crusade" crap, and how it is a noble act, when he wanted excuses to invade Iraq in the very first meeting after bein elected. And I haven't seen a single trace of evidence for the so called WMDs, including nukes, thousands of tons of nerve gas and biological weapons. And so he says that the goal was to establish democracy. I don't see the US letting Iraq go ahead with the election that they and the UN wants. I see them setting up an american government, which will supposably give them elections. Hmmmm, starting to act like a dictator Bush. And his BS about the nuclear weapons facilities was complete shit. Nuclear weapons facilities are NOT mobile, and would be impossible to have a complete developement facility that is mobile. I KNOW what it takes to build a nuclear weapon, and it doesn't fit in anything the could drive away when weapons inspectors show up.
And I see people getting arrested for no reason because of the patroit act, and being deported to their countries to be tortured, while totally ignoring the legal system "in the name of justice". All this is doing is giving the government an excuse to lock people away for being islamic or whatnot.
I see him floating "gay marriage is immoral and against the bible" shit, and trying to BAN it! And then he talks about giving people rights and freedoms! Well I guess he means if you are a heterosexual white christian you have rights, but otherwise, I guess not.
[/raging ultimate rant]
Ok, had to get that of my system. ARRGG Chris Hate Bush!