Hello Bob,   
      
   On Sat 2012-Feb-25 04:54, BOB KLAHN (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
      
    RW> Indeed.  I've been an advocate for campaign finance reform   
    RW> though just because that would give qualified people   
    RW> without deep pockets a real shot.  That's why even as a   
    RW> person holding libertarian views for the most part I don't   
    RW> fit the label .   
      
   BK>  Anyone who even tries to fit a label too much is surrendering  his   
   BK> right to think for himself.   
      
   Indeed, which is where i have a problem with the orthodoxies expected.  Sorry   
   if that don't come out right, just   
   ingesting enough coffee to be human .  YEs, I've been an   
   advocate for campaign finance reform, and some things which   
   are just too important, or too big to fail as tehy say are   
   also too important and too big not to be carefully   
   regulated.   
      
   BK>> ... Is there really such a thing as a strict libertarian?   
      
    RW> Good question, even if used as a tagline.  I definitely   
    RW> don't fit.  Some would like you to believe they do.   
      
   BK>  Long ago someone quoted a libertarian writer as saying, "I have    
   BK> been told two libertarians agreed on something somewhere, I am  not   
   BK> one of them."   
      
   I've heard that one.  That's sort of where i fit I guess, as do most of us who   
   label ourselves as libertarians.  That's   
   why we fit the label, our ideologies are too all over the   
   place for conventional political labels .   
   MOst of us think government should do the minimum necessary, but part of that   
   minimum for some of us is making sure that   
   systems are fair and just, and do what is truly necessary to safeguard the   
   populace.  OThers won't even go that far .   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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