Ask A Libertarian is Back

Got a question for a libertarian? Then give it your best shot on Tuesday, June 12, when Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch answer any and all queries, such as:

Should anything be banned?
Aren't libertarians just Democrats who hate poor people?
Do you really want to legalize Heroin?
Who will you be voting for in November?
Where did you get that blouse?

Gillespie and Welch are the authors of the book The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America, out in paperback June 26.

On Tuesday, from 11AM ET til 4PM ET, Gillespie and Welch, will receive questions via Facebook, Twitter, and email, and, with the help of Reason.tv's crack team of videographers, will post rapid-fire video responses to your most probing and provocative queries.

The lines are open, so think up your toughest question and send it our way.

To ask via email, send to letters@reason.com
To ask via Facebook, go to Reason's Facebook page
To ask via Twitter, send to @reason
To ask via YouTube, comment to this video

And on the day of the event, we'll scan the comments section at Hit & Run and our Ask a Libertarian page.


For more info go to: http://www.reason.com/askalibertarian...

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[sgtmcwallace]

Holy crap when did that jeporady happen

[RustyDaleShackleford]

"Don't ask a liberal, don't ask a conservative, and don't ask Chris Matthews"? You already said not to ask a liberal.

[felixjazzage]

What questions, sweetheart? I just read a series of bad insults about "libertardians."

Now, please say hello to the centipedes under your customary rock.

[felixjazzage]

Oh, are you admitting defeat, you whiny, cowardly little libtard hyena? Yes, that's it, go crawl back under your rock and cringe.

[felixjazzage]

Also, I never said the FBI was not a government agency in my earlier posts. I never implied such, but just ridiculed your idea that government agencies are beyond reproach and can never be abused by those who control them. When I called Hoover a "proprietor," this is what I meant: that he ran it often according to his own whims. You never debunked this claim.

Now, really, stop showing yourself up as an utter fool (and coward) in public.

[felixjazzage]

No, it says you are a bad troll or a complete coward. So shut your pie hole, hyena.

Well, as of the moment, I have a private well, so that insult's useless with me. I pay to have the water quality tested periodically and use water filters out of my own pocket. I've also paid for fire protection as a subscriber at other locations in the past, just as was done in 19th century America. But, you libtards can't tell the difference between minarchism and anarchism, anyway.

[felixjazzage]

Show your channel, you damned coward. Otherwise, you're like a skulking little hyena, which, is, I think, a fair analogy.

You also have very poor reading comprehension. I was critiquing your idea that government agencies are objective, rational things that are always better run than privatized entities. This wasn't always true when Hoover ran the FBI, certainly, and he abused his power enormously at times, and for decades.

[felixjazzage]

Sure it was, just ask all of the civil rights leaders Hoover singled out during the 1950s and 1960s or their families. Hoover ran the place as sort of his own fiefdom at times, whether "government agency" on paper or not.

[MrGman543]

i think we can all agree. conservatives are much better than liberals!

[ericharris76]

One is used to determine the other. Sounds like they aren't the same thing at all. Related things, but different things.