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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Why Do Conservatives Still Love the Drug War?
by Jacob G. Hornberger
An article by a conservative named Cliff Kincaid, who serves as editor of the Accuracy in Media (AIM) Report, provides a perfect example of how different libertarians are from conservatives and, well, for that matter, how there ain’t a dime’s worth of difference, when it comes to individual freedom, between conservatives and liberals.
The article concerns the drug war and is entitled, “Dopey Conservatives for Dope.” Ardently defending the continuation of the drug war, despite some 35 years of manifest failure, Kincaid takes fellow conservatives to task who are finally joining libertarians in calling for an end to the drug war. He specifically mentions columnist Steve Chapman, whose article “In the Drug War, ...
Before I was to deliver a speech at a recent conference in Virginia, a young woman introduced herself and told me that a quotation of mine, which she had read on the Internet when she was in the 8th grade, had shifted the course of her life by leading her to explore libertarianism. She was so struck by the quotation that she translated it into Spanish so that she could discuss it in her Spanish class. She told me that today she is a libertarian, a freshman at Harvard, and fluent in Spanish. The conference, which was sponsored by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, set forth the principles of a libertarian foreign policy. That young woman’s story goes to the heart of FFF’s mission and methodology.
As longtime supporters of FFF know, our mission is to present an uncompromising moral, philosophical, and economic case for the libertarian philosophy. Ever since our inception 27 years ago, there have ...