Rand Paul Weighs In on the 'Libertarians Don't Care About Ferguson' Meme

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Sen. Rand Paul finally weighed in on the events in Ferguson Thursday afternoon in TIME, condemning the role the government has played in the militarization of our police and implicitly responding to accusations that libertarians don't care about the events in Missouri. Libertarians might not be interested in the racial divide at the heart of the stand off between protesters and the police, but they do care about the tools the police are using.

As events in Ferguson, Missouri continue to unfold, libertarians have been accused on being quiet on the issue. The Washington Post's Paul Waldman said as much on Wednesday, pointing to Sen. Ran Paul and Rep. Justin Amash. "The foundation of libertarianism is skepticism toward government and a belief in individual freedom," Waldman argued. "There aren’t many freedoms more fundamental than the freedom to walk to your grandmother’s apartment, as Brown was doing, without getting shot by a representative of the government."

He argues that we should expect to see libertarians "using the police reaction to the protests over Brown’s killing as a case study in the needless and dangerous militarization of the police," but the most famous libertarians — Paul and Rep. Justin Amash — had so much as tweeted about Ferguson. "So any libertarian politicians concerned abt power of the state & all for expanding GOP appeal might want to weigh in abt now #Ferguson," Garance Franke-Ruta at Yahoo tweeted.

Read the rest here:

http://www.thewire.com/politics/201...tarians-dont-care-about-ferguson-meme/376099/

 

[anaconda]

Libertarians might not be interested in the racial divide at the heart of the stand off between protesters and the police

Is the author on crack? This is classic libertarian.

 

[CaseyJones]

Is the author on crack? This is classic libertarian.

no kidding its been all over libertarian sites since it started, shit like this always is

 

[NIU Students for Liberty]

Is the author on crack? This is classic libertarian.

But is it classic "Ted Cruz/Glenn Beck" libertarianism? Thanks to those two scumbags, their views represent libertarianism in the eyes of a lazy reader or manipulative journalist with a statist agenda.

 

[Vanguard101]

But is it classic "Ted Cruz/Glenn Beck" libertarianism? Thanks to those two scumbags, their views represent libertarianism in the eyes of a lazy reader or manipulative journalist with a statist agenda.

You are kidding right?

 

[idiom]

'Black Cops for Black Neighbourhoods' sounds a lil... I dunno... Apartheid for my liking.

Rand is correct and article is wrong that it is the poor attitudes of the cops, not their race that led to the initial altercation.

 

[James Madison]

You're right. I don't care.

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