CDR: Re: Al Gore goes cypherpunk?

[Declan McCullagh]

Perhaps this is one reason why Ralph Nader is reportedly drawing
crowds of 5,000 at rallies. He's active: Bashing Gore, attacking
corporations, etc. No philosophical twaddle (oh, it might have its
place but not in politics) about landing on someone's balcony and
trespass righs.

-Declan

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:44:18PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> (No time to write a piece on this, but perhaps the whole Libertarian 
> Party effort is foundering precisely because it has picked the "safe 
> and boring" route. Murray Rothbard, for example, has his arcane 
> theory about how people may not even take action when someone is 
> attacking them...until the attack has actually resulted in injury. 
> Many exposed to this kind of thinking, and the "inside baseball" of 
> ultra-boring LP conventions, probably lose interest in Libertarian 
> issues. Part of human nature, driven by evolutionary pressures, seems 
> to be an inclination to act decisively.)