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Coyote
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Message 8 of 50 (699097)
05-14-2013 12:34 PM


3 al Qaeda operatives took part in Benghazi attack
By Paul Cruickshank. Tim Lister. Nic Robertson and Fran Townsend, CNN
updated 9:23 AM EDT, Sat May 4, 2013
(CNN) -- Several Yemeni men belonging to al Qaeda took part in the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last September, according to several sources who have spoken with CNN.
One senior U.S. law enforcement official told CNN that "three or four members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," or AQAP, took part in the attack.
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Sources: 3 al Qaeda operatives took part in Benghazi attack | CNN

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Message 44 of 50 (701910)
06-27-2013 2:58 PM
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06-27-2013 1:41 PM


I know I am somehow wrong with this kind of thinking. It seems to make too much sense. Still hoping a republican voter can spell it out for me . . .
Coyote?
I'm libertarian. Not the same thing at all.

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Message 47 of 50 (701917)
06-27-2013 4:14 PM
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06-27-2013 3:16 PM


drone writes:
Libertarians advocate a society with a greatly reduced state or no state at all.
Libertarianism - Wikipedia
Nice quote mine! That effort would make a creationist blush with shame!
Below are the first five paragraphs of the wiki article, with the little tiny part you quoted highlighted in yellow.
Libertarianism (Latin: liber, "free")[1] is a set of related political philosophies that uphold liberty as the highest political end.[2][3] This includes emphasis on the primacy of individual liberty,[4][5] political freedom, and voluntary association. It is the antonym to authoritarianism.[6] Libertarians advocate a society with a greatly reduced state or no state at all.[7]
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines libertarianism as the moral view that agents initially fully own themselves and have certain moral powers to acquire property rights in external things.[8] Libertarian philosopher Roderick Long defines libertarianism as "any political position that advocates a radical redistribution of power from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free individuals", whether "voluntary association" takes the form of the free market or of communal co-operatives.[9] According to the U.S. Libertarian Party, libertarianism is the advocacy of a government that is funded voluntarily and limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence.[10][11]
Libertarian schools of thought differ over the degree to which the state should have a role.[7] Anarchist schools advocate complete elimination of the state. Minarchist schools advocate a state which is limited to protecting its citizens from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud. Some schools accept government assistance for the poor.[12] Additionally, some schools are supportive of private property rights in the ownership of unappropriated land and natural resources while others reject such private ownership and support various forms of left-libertarianism.[13][14][15]
Some political scholars assert that in most countries the terms "libertarian" and "libertarianism" are synonymous with anarchism, and some express disapproval of capitalists calling themselves libertarians.[16] Conversely, other academics as well as proponents of the free market perspectives argue that free-market libertarianism has been successfully propagated beyond the U.S. since the 1970s via think tanks and political parties[17][18] and that "libertarianism" is increasingly viewed worldwide as a free market position.[19][20] Likewise, many libertarian capitalists disapprove of socialists calling themselves "libertarian."[9]
In the United States, where the meaning of liberalism has parted significantly from classical liberalism, classical liberalism has largely been renamed libertarianism and is associated with "economically conservative" and "socially liberal" political views (going by the common meanings of "conservative" and "liberal" in the United States),[21][22] along with a foreign policy of non-interventionism.[23][24]
I think that last paragraph describes my philosophy best.

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