{"id":3963,"date":"2010-05-21T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2010-05-21T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:28:44","slug":"rand-paul-demonstrates-the-emptiness-of-his-libertarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/05\/21\/rand-paul-demonstrates-the-emptiness-of-his-libertarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Demonstrates the Emptiness of His Libertarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the central premises in libertarianism is that people will be accountable when they take actions that damage others. \u00c2\u00a0Your property rights shall not be infringed upon, and you shall not infringe upon the property rights of others and all that. \u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s the magic fairy dust that makes it all work, right? \u00c2\u00a0So with BP having engaged in a massive infringement upon the property of others, what&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/05\/rand-paul-obamas-bp-comments-sound-really-un-american-video.php?ref=fpa\">Paul&#8217;s reaction<\/a> to Obama saying that BP needs to take some responsibility?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paul said: &#8220;This sort of, you know &#8216;I&#8217;ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP,&#8217; I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul continued: The President&#8217;s reaction is &#8220;part of this sort of blame game society&#8221; where &#8220;it&#8217;s always someone&#8217;s fault.&#8221; Paul added: &#8220;Maybe sometimes accidents happen.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turning black people away from lunch counters and getting rid of regulations that keep workers safe, that&#8217;s all a necessary\u00c2\u00a0consequence\u00c2\u00a0of the sacred principles of his libertarianism. \u00c2\u00a0But holding a business accountable for the damage it does to the property of others? \u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s not only un-liberterian, but un-American!<\/p>\n<p>Christ, what an asshole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the central premises in libertarianism is that people will be accountable when they take actions that damage others. \u00c2\u00a0Your property rights shall not be infringed upon, and you shall not infringe upon the property rights of others and all that. \u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s the magic fairy dust that makes it all work, right? \u00c2\u00a0So with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}