Libertarian candidate detained from flight

Gary Nolan was barred from a flight to Atlanta because his name was apparently on a no-fly list of potential terroritsts.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/election/0504nation/25nolan.html

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Is * really that afraid of the Libertarians? They're too liberal on social issues to get RW votes, and too conservative on economics to get Liberal voters.

it's because most of the libertarian movement has been very strongly antiwar. The 'Republicans' need to start taking their party's name seriously and stop trying to impose a police state. B*stards.

I agree with those people on social issues, but I wonder if they were dropped on their heads when they were little when they talk about repealing food inspection laws and abolishing the minimum wage.

but perhaps not one that is fully to your liking may be a better way of putting it. I tend to agree with them on most things -- though I disagree with some things: the idea of abolishing a minimum wage, for instance.

At the end of the day no party is 100% to anyone's liking, nor is any ideology.

But the libertarians are way more principled than either of the two 'major' parties and in general I think the country would be way better off being run on libertarian priciples than neocon/fundamentalist or redistributive/paleoliberal ones. (I depart from hardcore libertarianism insofar as they do not recognise obligations on the part of individuals back to the larger community -- I disagree with republicans and with most democrats on what those obligations should be.)

Still more interesting, for me, would be a democratic party that would be reorganised along more libertarian lines. The republicans are beyond hope, but there are enough common points with democrats --especially on foreign and social policy -- that could make that attractive.