A Minority Viewpoint with Libertarian Jabriel Ballentine

Jabriel Ballentine abandons the DC Republican Party to pursue libertarian solutions to the problems in the beltway. Libertarian Party member Melissa Dawson interviews Mr. Ballentine about racial politics in the age of Obama, and what freedom means.

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[mustangzach467]

I like this guy. He's smart. We need more people like him in this nation.

[tedsmommy]

What a clear headed young man. Jabriel seems to have come to the LP the same way I did, just much faster... by reading. I hope he is able to spread his viewpoints in the DC area. Our inner cities need vision like his. Perhaps there is some hope for the future of the American experiment.

[Relinquishtheloot]

@libertarianjury Reach out in what way? By telling them they are against the laws that made slavery illegal? Against the Civil Rights Act? Seriously? How does that conversation go? Hey black community we want you to support us so we can remove every single protection the USA has worked so hard to give minorities! Seriously?

[Relinquishtheloot]

@libertarianjury How does removing the Civil Rights Act help minorities? How does going back to a time when whoever was in the majority decided the rights of the minority not "oppressing minorities"? When are you kids going to stop believing whatever a candidate says and actually apply logic and reason to it instead? Think about what would actually happen. It isn't hard to do, it is our past. Read your history.

[Relinquishtheloot]

@GNAA9000 So glad you found a little Uncle Tom mascot to help your agenda.

[Relinquishtheloot]

The reality of a Libertarian society is a country divided into 50 states that can do whatever they want, make their own laws, including laws regarding civil rights. So Miss., Alabama, SC, Florida, etc. decide hey... remember when we had slave labor?! Let's do that again! Who stops them? There is a reason we moved away from this way of thinking. There is a reason we became the UNITED states of America. There is a reason we needed the Civil Rights Act (which Ron Paul is opposed to).

[TafariBuruk]

God willing, THIS will be the year that people come to better understand libertarian ideology! Launch the Revolution and restore our Republican Democracy!

@Jah_Bread

[pleasewaittovoteagai]

Jabriel, don't you get it? The government schools will never teach proper "Civics" because they have a direct financial incentive to teach submission. Once the government has become corrupted, if it fights that corruption, it eliminates the benefits of corruption that corrupted it. That will not happen. If you want change, you must force change, externally and internally, through infiltration. Moreover, as Marc Stevens notes, you cannot create citizens (only slaves) by compulsion.

[pleasewaittovoteagai]

Jabriel needs to get in touch with Paul Butler, and help him organize massive jury nullification in D.C.! Check out the book "Let's Get Free" by Paul Butler, and "We, The Jury" by Jeffrey Abramson. Also excellent is "Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine" by Clay Conrad. ...Those books describe the optimal path to helping people who are suffering as political minorities. The strategy is mutually-inclusive to working with the Libertarian Party.

[jpollard117]

Remember, libertarian is about individual liberty not group think liberty. Groups are not granted special benefits anymore than they should have anything directed to inhibit a group. Individual.

[greekmavros]

@libertarianjury

there's a free state project in wyoming? that's pretty cool......Free State: Wyoming or New Hampshire.