We should hereby found the Libertarian Social Economic Party. We
embrace all of the tenants of the Libertarian party except for
Libertarian Capitalist Economics. We are not socialists, but we
subscribe some regulation of commerce, and believe in the concept of
public property, and believe that completely unregulated commerce is
like stealing. Regulation however, must not mean prohibition. So we
must set out and endeavor to clarify how commerce might be regulated,
without being unduly prohibited.
So, we should hereby set out and found this party. The next thing is,
I have a few ideas not necessarily related to this party:
One idea is that we could allow cities to ban store front commerce.
Then you would have to drive to another city or out to the County.
But this could keep drug bars, brothels, and gun stores (and casinos)
out of the city - as well as bars if that is what the city wanted.
But then, don't you want a bar? I do. Hopefully everyone in my city
does as well. You can found another city out in the County like Vegas
and have your brothels and casinos - and gun stores and drug bars too
if you want.
Also we should ban commercial advertising of addictive substances
entirely. You shouldn't even be able to call your store a liquor
store, or maybe even a tavern or a bar. You must make up some generic
name. Like "Henry's." Thus when an addict is trying to recover, s/he
won't think of alcohol or cigarettes. Aside from the free speech
concern it actually is an abomination that we allow cigarette and
alcohol advertising to continue in magazines, and on billboards. I
say this as somebody who fully sup****ts an individual's right to drink
and smoke in public anywhere. Perhaps the free speech issue is
significant enough of a concern, I haven't thought about it enough,
but we could at least try to persuade companies to willfully ban such
advertising. I know they got rid of cigarette advertising on t.v. and
supposedly don't show people actually "drinking" a beer on the beer
commercials. But that doesn't change the fact that just as with any
other product, when you see a Budweiser commercial you think, hmm...
maybe I'd like a cold one. If you're an addict I can only imagine how
destructive this could be to your attempts to maintain sobriety or
stay off cigarettes. One minute you've forgotten all about your
drug. The next minute someone is in your face trying to make money
off it by telling you it's a great thing to do.
We maybe have to be careful about this though, because then they
possibly could ban any commercial advertising for anything, by
dishonestly claiming that some people might have an addiction. For
instance, they could claim there to be an addiction to ****. Then a
cor****ation wouldn't be able to advertise ****ography. They could
claim there to be an addiction to television. Then a cor****ation
wouldn't be able to advertise television. They could claim an
addiction to a s****t. Then a cor****ation wouldn't be able to
advertise its s****ting products. So maybe a better idea would be to
get companies to willfully stop advertising alcohol and cigarettes.
And maybe we can pass laws that just aren't overruled - maybe I might
fancy that the companies go along with these laws and don't challenge
them. But then even this is a bad idea, because once every state has
passed a similar law apparently the Supreme Court will say your
unalienable right must not exist anymore because no one recognizes
it. So as far as the law goes I guess there is no middle ground. You
can't both have rights and not have them concurrently at the same
time. Although the idea was that we aren't passing such laws against
things like television and s****ts and ****. Just against these
addictive drugs. But once you start down that road where will it take
you? To book burning, the Soviet Union, Farenheit 451, 1984.
So maybe no commercial advertising of addictive drugs approved only
for recreation? Or would more of our rights just be taken, little by
little.
It seems like we have to figure out some solution however if we are
going to legalize recreational drugs though right? Surely we aren't
going to embrace advertisements for crack on t.v. are we?
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