On Friday, 26 August 2016 9:21:28 PM AEST Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
Libertarianism aims to stop this. To give parents full liberty they should be allowed to starve theor children. Also the Libertarian party in the US wants to legalise child porn.
Uh... [citation needed]
A quick Google of Mary Rewart will do. You know this of course, why do you even ask that? https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2012/01/even-with-gary-johnson-the-libe... The above is one of many articles that summarises this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ruwart Mary has been active in the LP for a long time in senior positions including representing them in a senate race.
(Disclosure: I am indeed a Yank, but for the record consider the USA Libertarian Party to be a mixture of loons and corporatist shills. I am a member of the USA Democratic Party, and deemed a liberal. I consider myself neither a large-L or small-l libertarian.)
The US Libertarian Party is accurately representing Libertarians then.
After a ~10 minute search, I find zero support for the above allegation. I find a claim that in 2008 the USA Libertarian Party considered but passed over for nomination an anarchist candidate named Murray Rothbard who favoured legalising child pornography, but find nothing else suggesting what Russell asserts.
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/mutual-aid-parecon-right-stealing-lib... You are being ridiculous here in describing Murray Rothbard as "an anarchist candidate". A better (and quite commonly used) description of him is "Mr Libertarian". He claims personal responsibility for stealing the word "Libertarian" from the left, see the above article which is one of many about this. Google indicates that the book "Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet" describes Libertarians as being active on pedophile forums on the net.
To the contrary, I also find a Quora debunking of the claim: https://www.quora.com/Why-has-the-U-S-Libertarian-Party-never-advocated-lega lization-of-child-pornography-possession-and-distribution
Quora is not working now. Mary Ruwart wrote in her book "Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision". When a senate candidate from a party makes such a claim in writing (on many occasions) you can't seriously claim that it goes against the party in question.
Thus, USA Libertarian Party is one of several _incredibly tiny_ (fringe, nutcase) USA political parties. _And yet_, it appears to be incorrect to assert that it 'wants to legalise child porn.
It's a fringe nutcase party that has a significant influence on the Republican party. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/