Congress should
- reject all legislation which relies on the initiation of force, coercion, or violence as a means of achieving political or social goals
Government sends the wrong message. It says "Whenever you're frustrated, and things don't go your way, you can resort to force or violence to get what you want."
- Want to raise a little extra money, but can't persuade anyone to give you any? Put a gun to the head of the next American you see. Threaten to lock him up for a few years with pathological felons if he doesn't cough up.
- Did someone in the next city break into your home and steal something? Drop a "smart bomb" on his home and destroy everyone in his neighborhood!
- It's OK to violate the Eighth Commandment ("Thou shalt not steal")
- It's OK to violate the Sixth Commandment ("Thou shalt not kill")
- Need somebody to help you? Enslave as many people as you need!
- Don't call it "armed robbery" -- call it "taxation."
Most Americans would never even think of running their businesses the way the government runs theirs.
The Libertarian Party is the party of principle. To publicly affirm what we believe -- and to ensure that our party never strays from our principles -- we ask our members to proudly sign this statement:
I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals.
This is simply a short-hand for everything contained in "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." Government bureaucrats have forgotten this.
Indeed, the entire theory of "the State" is an excuse for doing violence to others.
More and more Americans are seeing that there are a thousand and one things that can be done to reduce crime and solve social problems that are peaceful and do not involve force or violence. Some ideas are found here.
Persuasion vs. Coercion: This is the heart of capitalism.
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