The Heartland Libertarian Conference: Opening Remarks

Senator Mike Gravel gives his opening remarks at the Heartland Libertarian Conference debate.

The Senator is the only declared candidate in the race for the Libertarian nomination with both domestic and foreign policy experience, and a history of public service. He's the only candidate who can stand toe to toe with Senators Clinton, Obama, and McCain.

Debate highlights coming soon.

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[SuperJesus316]

But it's an unfair contract because the worker does not have the same bargaining power as the owner. Do you think workers making $2 a day, 6 days a week doing extremely hard labour went into that contract under fair circumstances? See, anarchism = no rulers and no hierarchy. In capitalism, hierarchy exists and those at the top have more bargaining power, therefore the contract is made under unfair circumstances

[NatureLegalized]

Go Mike GO!!!

[oldhacks]

man you really kicked them in the ass. one brave ass mother fucker

[MoBushin04]

Here come the LP lies again - implying that polls say I am winning.

A desparate party that failed to land a much more qualified Ron Paul.

Libertarians - Republicans without morals, so desparate to keep their name alive, they brought in marxism. Just rename your party the Marxist party. Our Constitution's preamble must disgust a libertarian.

Conclusion: the only true libertarians are Republicans. Proactive in taking out Saddam, mid-east's Hitler, before he became a powerful Hitler.

[SuperJesus316]

I know.. I mentioned that in our other conversation, along with the criticism by Dejacque. Both of them were anarchists

[SSSLLLAAYYEEERRRR]

A person only owns that which he transforms and in doing so injects himself into that thing. One man cannot own many acres of land unless he works it. He cannot simply make a mercantile claim to all the land and have it. By the way freedom is not defined by what one can do, that is power, but by what one can think and do within his power. A state is an arbitrary barrier to freedom while property is a natural right that inhibits power.

[SSSLLLAAYYEEERRRR]

Dejacque coined the term not Proudhon. In fact Dejacque used it to criticize Proudhon for his support for ownership of the product of labor and an economy based on the market.

[mrpenguindude]

aha Root didn't get it asshole

[libertarianjury]

Hearing gravel blather on in favor of socialized medicine and an empowered EPA environmentalist gestapo like some kind of aging marxist douchebag, I have come to conclude that gravel isn't his last name, it's what's between his ears. I'm voting for Root in Denver, and contributing $20 bucks to him online right now, to make sure he beats this loser, and the Republican infiltrator (Barr) as well. We need a real libertarian on the ballot on Nov 4, 2008! ROOT FOR AMERICA!!!!

[SuperJesus316]

And Proudhon's rolling his grave at Rothbard's idea of property rights and stealing the word "libertarianism".

[SuperJesus316]

If one is allowed to own many acres of land, do whatever he wants with that land (ie: build apartments, a transportation system, etc), and set laws on that land.. then this so called free-market system in the capitalist sense is not anarchism but private state capitalism. You can leave the land-owner's land just like you can leave the US.. only in that sense is it voluntary. But it's a private state nonetheless.