Dan O'Connor, Liberty Democrat, stumping at Occupy Wall Street

[mynameisliberty1]

RIch people work too! Bafoons!

[iTitanium]

I want to learn more about the libertarian position on basically everything, anyone recommend any good reads?

[Madfoot713]

@iTitanium I haven't read a lot personally, but I know some of the standard-bearers are For A New Liberty by Murray Rothbard, Healing Our World by Mary Ruwart, and The Law by Bastiat. Can't go wrong with anything by Rep. Ron Paul, either. Come visit the libertarian community on Reddit!

[iTitanium]

@Madfoot713 Thankyou :D

[hueyfiasco]

he might be a libertarian lol

[BuffaloSoldier2007]

That cut out was annoying.

[djb5255]

Hell yes!! Bring on those vouchers!!

[brandinbowler]

This debate was at least moderately successful.

[blakstar101]

Take the money spent on the military and spend it in education? Yep, he doesn't give a shit about the national debt. 

[VictoryInTruth]

Dan O'Connor speaking Chinese

/watch?v=5MX1iuJ1Z2o

[DyeTyme]

@VictoryInTruth damn, he has studied in China before. His Chinese is good I must say.

[dieyoung]

im not impressed with this guy

[rvz77]

@dieyoung I get the impression O'connor is shooting himself in the foot with this. He sounds like the slick guy telling you what you wanna hear after you just finished watching the news.... I wanted somebody to tell him, "hmm, what do I wanna hear; can you tell me?" ---DOES ANYBODY OUT THERE GIVE A SHIT ABOUT SUPPORTING THE AVERAGE level headed family man?

[jimple]

hahaha, i see what you're doing. infiltrating the democratic party. your views are totally libertarian.

[FreedomParadox]

A libertarian democrat. Cool.

[DJKeebler808]

This guy is a chump. He makes no sense and has no coherency in his views.

[HaLfDeAdArtist1]

nice but you cant change the system from within.

[rhinnawi95]

If we can get views like this to go mainstream in the Democratic Party, and Ron Paul's to be mainstream in the GOP, I think we'd be on the right track (though we still need more parties, or none at all).

[LMGunslinger]

This Dan O'Conner seems like a squared away cat. Definitely gonna look into him, Thanks Adam!

[TheEbonicslover]

How can one be so old and so dumb? Shit I forgot there is plenty of halfwits that should have never been born.

[AlexDerossard]

They do not want to take money from people for wars but want to take money for education... the taking still goes on then, nothing changes.

[mana2432]

That guy is cool

[jbkibs]

I don't understand how a group of people can force others to do anything. that is just illegal, plain and simple. groups of people forcing others to do and pay for things = democracy\slavery. 51% OWNS the 49%. A Group of People cannot give Others rights which they, themselves, do not have. that is a fact. can you, legally, force others to give you their hard earned money? so why can "the government" aka "The People" force money from others who are unwilling to give it? ruining their families...

[jimb0lt0n]

Oops...Adam of you just so happen to read this, my last 2 posts were for the choo-choo video and the bum and the asshole that threatened to smash your camera and the occupiers that talk like they know what they are talking about but they have no idea. I'm sure there is a good message in all of this but man is it so dissolved with all of this nonsense.

As far as this congressman hopeful, sounds like he is playing off of too many buzzwords that he hasn't formulated his pitch.

[jimb0lt0n]

Not that I'm saying you are implying that the occupies are insane. You are just reporting and I am coming to the conclusion that they are insane

[jimb0lt0n]

When u getting back in the shtudio dude? I think we get the point that these occupiers are insane

[scalp340]

corrupt gov't needs more of our money or existing funds to be taken and funneled to specific areas, because certain programs getting more free money will decrease corruption.... More garbage logic from moderate statists. UGH, eye roll, give up already!

[greggorey]

i'd vote for him



[jek4prez2032]

Why aren't there more liberty-minded Republicans and Democrats?!

[AngryHateMusic]

Is Dan wearing a bullet-proof vest?

[MisterAvis]

Real democrats, Real liberals, they're out there. They believe in a big government system. But they believe in our constitution. If it passes the judicial system, it passes our congress, and it passes the constitutional test, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with "democracy", so long as it doesn't interfere with the republican system. (I'm not talking about political parties here, sheeple)

[cmiller8492]

@MisterAvis Idk, seems impossible to believe in the constitution and big government at the same time. Likewise you cant have a legitimate democracy alongside a republican system. Democracy is a wonderful idea but pathetic in reality because there are always more poor than rich. Then the poor get a victim mentality and decide that the only route of justice is to take money from the rich usually meaning collapse of business and destruction of jobs creating even more poor people.

[MisterAvis]

heh "Almost a liberatarian point of view" ...

[Theotherletterman]

He thinks the money in the military needs to be spent on education so they're not there in Wall Street, but instead doing something useful. Thanks random video man for accidentally proving my point. Yes, go get a job, a JOB, and do something useful. They've been protesting for like 2 months or so, right? I think I heard that Bank of America dropped the fee for checking accounts. Wow. That's not much progress but that's why you don't protest the banks for the situation the economy is in.

[aletsthegreat]

@1775novten of course congress shouldn't be involved! That'd be a mess.

[TheLegalImmigrant05]

So Dan... School vouchers or tax credits?? :) 

[ADSKFJDSLFLJSDJFL]

I didn't understand if that one guy meant he wants the government to take the money spent on military and spend it on education. I think the two guys were trying to see what the Dan O'Connor guy wanted to do to promote liberty. When he said that thing about UL and they applauded him I think I realized that the whole time they were saying anti-libertarian things to try to test Dan. So why get mad at them over that education thing? They didn't mean it...

[FFarmerCharlie]

what happens next?!

[tommy0135]

so he's a libertarian that won't call it as it is...?

I'm confused..

[garzac7815]

Do these people even know what type of income the capital gains taxes are applied to? Also, it beffudles me that their answer to an already f*d up system is more government.

[InsaneRevolt]

Adam, your videos have a tendency to end abruptly. Is an exact 5:00 length important to you?

[MrJoshDowell]

@InsaneRevolt I think it means donate to Adam vs. The Man to see more.

[AdamKokesh]

@MrJoshDowell That's not what it means, but good point!

[AdamKokesh]

@InsaneRevolt Good question. I always try to round down and it motivates me to be more aggressive in my editing and that's a push that I need. Otherwise, all my vids would just be raw footage and boring as hell overall.

[capitalismforme]

@AdamKokesh Your videos aren't raw and boring but they often are raw and disappointing due to the conversation is rarely finished. In any event, it isn't my place to complain about the free service you've offered and it isn't my intention of coming across as such.

[jakebwallace]

@AdamKokesh Well I for one enjoy it in the raw.

[iwanttocrashmybike]

ALL THE INFOS ONLINE YOU DONT NEED SCHOOL!!!

[iwanttocrashmybike]

United States Corporation.Because they are higher up on the food chain.

Its not "our" money,its funny money,not even fiat.

Communists bailed out the CORPS,people who think that Public school is good should remember Hitler MADE kids get STATE Education...COMMUNIST MEANS STATE RUN!!!!

[Erik22552]

Political parties aside, we are getting close to where a major decision on the part of the public has to be reached and that is whether or not you believe in being free as an individual or, believing that the only freedoms you recieve come from government. Crony capatalism got us to where we are today. It's rampant in both parties! Choose wisely!

[mutley2209]

he needs to buy a bigger shirt

The private sector regulating itself is worse than having the gov do it because of greed, look up the Koch Brothers and how they conduct their business and the multiple law suits against them, that is how large private businesses operate. Looking for the best way possible to make money even if it means bending the law or making a sub standard product, which of course is done under the present system, just magnify it with private sector control over regulation

[kingrexrey]

Smart mufucka! Speaks Mandarin! I hope he gets elected!

[reebok3d]

thats what the Occupy movement is for...

the movement is great for businesses...

and ALL those people are spending there money at these movements on crap, instead of going home and buying food, self defense helpers, water filters/storage and so on...

SCREW the occupy movement, it hasnt accomplished ANYTHING yet... and all it will eventually accomplish is MASHALL LAW IN AMERICA... get ready sheeple, they will corral u up like sheep, lmao!!!!

watch?v=JhzC-22b788

[mr101stmonkey]

@reebok3d thats what all this NDAA bill is for, get ready America!!!

[kalidesu]

@reebok3d

The sheeple is you, it takes one to know one. All a hear from you is Neo-con butthurt.

[reebok3d]

@kalidesu thats interesting that you would say that, considering there both opposite of what your calling me, and what i said... i dont want more democracy, and im far from a sheeple, you wont see me out there, its not productive at all! i dont want to rely on this govt. in the future, let me guess, your fighting for democracy right?

[kalidesu]

@reebok3d

I want a Republic, you don't "gotta me" sunshine, sheeple boy.

[Combat79]

this might one of 2 or 3 democrats that i actually agree with.

[pantera2012]

Here's the thing: Libertarians or liberty minded people can be viewed as being either conservative or liberal. I can say that I'm "conservative" when it comes to spending money. Or I want a "conservative" government, meaning that I want a small government. On the other hand, I can say that I'm "liberal" with freedom and rights, and that I want the most rights for the most people. I think the key is explaining WHY we label ourselves the way we do, since words can have multiple meanings.

[marsvolta1386]

@pantera2012 this is true, I think labels are dangerous also, I'm 24 and like Ron Paul allot, but when I tell a young person he is running as a republican that alone turns them off, they have this "idea" of what party thinks what, pointing out the difference is key in my opinion.

[pantera2012]

@marsvolta1386: Exactly. I too support Ron Paul, and I've had family members (my family is mostly mainline Republican) who've said, "I like Ron Paul, but he's too liberal". They're falling into the whole, "well, the Republican establishment says I should jump off a bridge, so I guess I'll do it" mentality. I think that for the most part, most Republicans (using the current general idea of who a Republican is) like Ron Paul's ideas, it's just that he's not labeled as a mainline Republican.

[kalidesu]

@marsvolta1386

I like Paul and Kucinich as well, it's hard telling people it's not a left/right issue but

a it's state v's a stateless society for the people. It's hard.

[fromero69]

the private market, and free market system win every time.

[TheManzinator]

Democrat you say? Whatever. I'd vote for him.

[HanStanwell]

actually the tax rate for the "1%" is 35% not 15. Propaganda is a wonderful tool.

[trick29420]

Pretty good.

[BobGeorgeAU]

We need more allies on the left like this guy. A long-standing libertarian I know here in Australia has talked to me about his political hey-day (the 1970s) and how back then libertarians were far more closer to the left than the right. Then Reagan and Thatcher happened, and we fell in love with their free-market message so much we excused their social conservatism. But traditionally libertarians are anti-conservative, and of the liberal school. We're classical liberals, not conservatives.

[RKAddict101]

wtf how is he a Democrat? lmao this is awesome

[Jingles2423x]

We need this guy in congress.

[jagorzynski]

I want to see more of this guy, adam. post more fottage if you have it.

[oldschoolkrist]

More proof of a false left/right paradigm. The "liberal democrat" and I (mr. Conservative) are almost Completely in line with our thinking.

[furyofbongos]

"I want those corrupt politicians to stop spending my money on the wrong things. I want those corrupt politicians to spend my money on the right things."

Public schools have done their job very well.

[hooverdog1957]

@furyofbongos Government is the use of force to enable the majority to get their way. At least that is what people think the government is doing. The government actually enacts laws that the most well connected want to protect themselves. Everyone wants something and that is why government will always be corrupt. Think how much better and freer life would be without government. You like putting people that disagree with you in cages?

[aletsthegreat]

Wrong about abortion Mr. O'Connor. Gotta protect basic rights. RON PAUL 2012

[1775novten]

@aletsthegreat What do you mean by that? You're saying congress should be involved in abortion? If so, why?

[swizzlecheeks]

.....and where does all of this corrupt system get its support?.....Right!!! The Worldwide Central Banking System!!! Gov. and Corporations are its offspring. Don't go after the offspring. Go after the CAUSE of all of these problems..

[lymanalpha1216]

I donated to his campaign from AZ. We need more guys like him in congress.

[RonDukeSilverSwanson]

Please show more of this video, I want to see how he handled other questions. These guys would be busting out the tar and feathers if he said he was a Republican with the exact same views.

[gotitans999]

They keep saying we, we, we, instead of I, I, I. The reality is when everything is kept to a personal responsibility/reward level, it's better for everyone. Have a problem with a local school? In a free market, you don't complain, instead you just don't give your money and send your child to that school. Ideally states will also deflect school regulation to counties, and ideally they will deflect and not do anything, and keep everything private.

[elendiel0101]

The problem is representation in general, we need a system of referendums via safe digital communication.

[hooverdog1957]

@elendiel0101 The problem is government, but voting on issues is democracy and mob rule. It is ridiculous to be able to be able to have a rule by majority. This is just a dangerous collective where you simply get your way through force. Democracy is two wolves a sheep voting what to have for dinner.

[elendiel0101]

@hooverdog1957 Excuse me but this whole notion of an uninformed mob imposing iracional policy on the minority through force is an archaic idea from the ancient times when democracy as an governmental form was being created and oligarchs were fearing the common people who at that time couldnt even read mostly. This type of ruling wouldnt possibly work of course in our times. Youre somehow suggesting that a mideval mob is the same as a construction worker union.

[AKGunslinger]

How to sound like a drooling retard: "I think that money that's being spent on the military needs to be spent on education."

[TruthInjector]

We can switch to a debt free currency overnight and supercharge the economy. Give money to start and build real economic activity and innovation by inventors most of whom die not ever having received sufficient capital to develop their concept with our poverty promoting debt based currency system. Debt based currency empowers scamming private banksters to place governments and the people into never ending debt promoting never ending war and tyranny.

[VictoryInTruth]

Never heard of the liberty democrats... They're about as rare as a black albino.

[Brokoro]

@VictoryInTruth Actually black albinos, are actually more common than you would think. Albinism occurs most frequently in North Africa and has an estimated occurrence in one out of every 16,000 or so.

[VictoryInTruth]

@Brokoro I stand corrected. Liberty democrats are rarer than black albinos.

[Bobinator18]

After watching this vid i dont wanna be like any of those people

[slhines7]

I agree with most all with what this man stated, minus his statement about Kucinich. That career Politician is NOT to be trusted, even though he as talked the walk.

[58robbo]

Hallelujah! About time we started to infiltrate the Democratic party, the way they infiltrated ours!

[crazypants88]

Is it me or does Dan sound a lot like and kind of look like Louis C.K. (if he had hair that is)?

[WhatsReallyGoingOnUS]

.... and NIST just stuck that study in the droor, and DID NOT include those EXPERIMENTAL results in their pseudo-scientific (AKA cover-up) report NCSTAR 1.

Needless to say, Ryan was fired after he realized that the UL study indicated that office fires could not have been the cause of the collapse, and went public with the information.

Great Job UL. As long as you get paid and your results agree with your funders' agenda, you do great science.

[WhatsReallyGoingOnUS]

UL (Underwriters Laboratory) is well respected ... except when they fire people like Kevin Ryan for blowing the whistle on their part in the 9/11 cover-up.

Ryan exposed UL after they were hired by NIST post-9/11 to build a WTC floor-truss assembly and subject it to extreme fire-loading. The floor-truss was exposed to greater payload and hotter fires for a longer period of time than the WTC towers. It failed to exhibit the structural deformation NIST claims was required for the towers to fail.

[travz21]

Just checked out this dude's issues, and he seems very liberty-minded. Awesome.

[travz21]

This guy seems good. I'll need to check him out more.

[rockandrock44]

Money needs to be spent on education? Education spending has skyrocketed over the past 50 years and if anything the system has gotten worse.

[EndNuclearAgenda21]

Ron Paul 2012,, those guys dont even know what they think,, sometimes its just to much info and it cant be absorbed,, glad to see people trying to share info, and glad to see that people at least want to talk to each other, but we really should try to be open minded so that we can learn new things

[RationalismDefined]

You don't hear much from the liberty dems, not nearly as often as you should anyway. Republicans seem to forget that libertarians are not conservitives. We are classical liberals.

[YaHuWaHservant]

@RationalismDefined Interesting take. A republican is supposed to be a Constitutionalist, which we don't get today because of the whole Big Business/Big Bank corruption. Ron Paul's definition of Libertarian is in line with the original Republican mindset. So you could make the argument that Libertarians are Conservative, but the words Conservative, Libertarian, and Republican would need to be properly defined.

[RationalismDefined]

@YaHuWaHservant I disagree.Pauls definition may be inline with the original republican mindset,but dont forget the the republicans were originaly a liberal party who wanted to effect change&were opposed by the older,more conservative,democrat party.You might be able to claim that Paul is social conservative but unlike most such people he does not believe in using law to impose his social ideal upon others. It should be noted that conservitive & liberal labels no longer apply to the DNC or GOP

[freakman420]

@RationalismDefined You idiot, Ron Paul is 100% constitutionalist. Don't compare him to your filthy scum bag normal dems and pubs who lobby for corporate interest. Ron Paul would never and has never accepted any $ from your scum bag corporate monopolyist mega elite owners. Go be a slave some where else plz. But you are free to be an idiot here if you wish to continue.

[RationalismDefined]

@freakman420 I never said he wasn't a constitutionalist. As a matter of fact I have temporarily changed my party registration in my state from"none" to "republican" simply so I can vote for him in the primary. My issue was that YaHuWaHservant said that "So you could make the argument that Libertarians are Conservative." I simply wanted to point out that we are not. Libertarians are Liberals in the original intent of the word.

[freakman420]

@RationalismDefined Im sorry for being such an ass hole... Thx 2 u for correcting my judgment... :(

[RationalismDefined]

@freakman420 No offense taken. The 500 char limit means we have to over condense our thoughts. Things easily get jumbled. Unless I was one of those people who just replies to my own posts over and over.. and i hate when people do that.

[MsSarahJ56]

@freakman420 kudos for rethinking your reaction - you dont see much of that today

[YaHuWaHservant]

@RationalismDefined These days any semblance of what either of the party was is destroyed with the rise of the bi-partisan sellout group which is made up of most of them. A conservative originally followed the Constitution. Now it is a word with multiple meaning most of which involve big government being some Corporation or Banks play thing. Same with the word Liberal with regards to Democrats. The Puppet show meant to hide the masters.

[RationalismDefined]

@YaHuWaHservant True. We no longer have a majoy constitutionalist party. Or a small government party despite the GOP's lip service to the contrary. Not that there aren't members of either party who have their heads on straight. Words such as Liberal and Conservative are no more than catch phrases now. All you need to do to determine the true meanings is crack open a dictionary. Unfortunatly Webster's doesn't define our political reality.

[YaHuWaHservant]

@RationalismDefined Seems like we will have to find candidates who are honest in what they believe, such as Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, and allow them to create their own titles of meaning.

[RationalismDefined]

@YaHuWaHservant I agree. Now wouldn't that be an interesting ticket. Paul & Kucinich.

You wouldn't happen to know how that works do you? Does the candidates party have to confirm the running mate?

[YaHuWaHservant]

@RationalismDefined No clue mate. I doubt it would happen though. Kucinich is honorable and true to his word. However, he and Ron Paul have their differences upon role of Federal Government. I do not believe they would work well together as President and Vice President. Just my analysis anyway

[RationalismDefined]

@YaHuWaHservant That might be a problem. On the other hand who in the GOP could Paul select without even worse issues. Jesse Ventura? Thomas Sowell? The ghost of Harry Browne?

[YaHuWaHservant]

@RationalismDefined I would not presume to know best, but I trust that whomever he picks will be an honest consistent type of running mate.

[hooverdog1957]

@YaHuWaHservant What we have to find is a way to get rid of government. Notice that these psychopaths always vote for more force and more war. The free market is the only answer. The individual must be allowed to be free and have choices. You vote every time you buy something. Government uses force and uses violence to enforce its rule. Free markets allow the best ideas to survive and worst ideas fail. Prosperity never will be attained through government intervention.

[gotitans999]

@RationalismDefined how so?

[RationalismDefined]

@gotitans999 How so to which statement?

[pbfrank13]

Where's the rest! this guy was good, at nailing the disease and not the symptoms. But is he trustworthy, or is he riding on the liberty bandwagon to get elected?

[EV1LDC4Teggy]

Dan O'Connor sounds like a Libertarian not a Democrat.

[ih8ronpaulh8ers]

@EV1LDC4Teggy Sounds like a sheep in wolves' clothing. If this tactic allows him to get to left-right-paradigm-ers, so be it.

[Tasadaru]

If I'm not mistaken, democrat and republican were interchangeable in the old days right after the founding.

[RationalismDefined]

@Tasadaru The republican party actualy did not exist untill the civil war.

[MrRashole]

haha, those 2 peoples heads are spinning... WHAT ITS NOW WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD FOREVER....

[rojm]

i love how he's running as a dem, great vid

[YaHuWaHservant]

If find it interesting those two guys said that they agree, after they found out he was Democrat. Damn the false left vs right system!!!

[Uebagi]

@YaHuWaHservant A merchant only sees a merchant from a far. It is easier to work with people when they think you are the same as themselves.

[freakman420]

@YaHuWaHservant ikr? Every one is trained to snap at the neck when it comes to politics. Why do we ALWAYS look for imperfections and over expose them? Why can't we look past our disagreements and focus on what we do agree on? WTF

[YaHuWaHservant]

@freakman420 I have no idea how to properly respond to that.

[freakman420]

@YaHuWaHservant Well I do, I bet that you'll be voting for Ron Paul like I am? Or am I misjudging? Oh and that jerk off RationalismDefined... you shouldn't even reply to that poor excuse of a youtube user.... peace ;]

[RationalismDefined]

@freakman420 I'm sorry, have I said something incorrect?

[slickbtk]

@YaHuWaHservantwe deserve everything we got commin and more

[JusticeSpray]

Vote for liberty people!!

[Gamermatt99]

end the fed

[Gamermatt99]

awesome