Ferguson: A big test for the new Libertarian movement in this country

[Yavin4]

Their leader is Rand Paul. They rail against government and in particular, the Obama admin for NSA spying. They rail against social spending. They're supposed to represent the new Republican party, tolerant of the GBLT rights, end to the drug war, and no wars overseas. Heck, they even have some sympathizers here on DU.

Well, now is the time for them to show their fidelity to their ideology. What the police did in Ferguson violates their core beliefs. They should be as outraged as the protestors, even more so.

So where is it? Where is the Libertarian outrage? Is Libertarianism a real thing or is it a bunch of White guy conservatives that just want tax cuts, legal drugs, and legalized prostitution.

[el_bryanto]

1. The problem is that the libertarians revere property

at least the older ones do - each person should be free to do what he likes and his property should be involiable. That usually puts them on the side of the cops, because the cops job is to protect property.

Bryant

[LonePirate]

2. The Rand Paul Libertarian movement is a sham.

Their racist, Republican roots trump any professed ideology.

[Ykcutnek]

3. I've seen some of them on Twitter calling protesters "savages"

And other stuff I'd rather not repeat.

They've either failed the test or the libertarian movement is mainly about whites wanting more privilege than they've already got.

[KingCharlemagne]

4. They've got to be experiencing some real cognitive dissonance, because

true Libertarians would like nothing more than to see the return of chattel slavery on the one hand but no government enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act on the other.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

5. today's libertarians do not understand that what they want would in fact kill them

the limited government they talk about would result in corps crushing them

as to race issues I don't trust them one bit

[arcane1]

6. They're only "jack-booted government thugs" when they're mean to white people n/t

[jillan]

7. Wait! Rand Paul was the one who said that the government didn't have the right to tell businesses

that blacks and whites should be able to eat at the same lunch counter!

Need I say more?

[Odin2005]

8. 99.9% of "Libertarians" are just RW Authoritarians who smoke pot.

They are Social Darwinists who believe in the "natural liberty" of the jungle, of the strong oppressing the weak.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Just by way of fact, Rand Paul is opposed to marriage equality and also voted against the Employee

Non Discrimination Act so rather than being tolerant of 'the GBLT rights' he has actually voted against the most basic of those rights and spoken of his personal opposition to marriage equality as well.