Barr
Former congressman and current Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr will be my guest on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com Friday June 13.
Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee. He helped lead some of the most important oversight hearings in the House on the Judiciary Committee, as vice-chairman of the Government Reform Committee and as an eight-year veteran of the Committee on Financial Services.
He occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union and serves as a board member at the Patrick Henry Center. He is a member of the Long-Term Strategy Project for Preserving Security and Democratic Norms in the War on Terrorism at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. And provides advice to several organizations, including consulting on privacy issues with the ACLU, serving on the Legal Advisory Board for Southeastern Legal Foundation, serving as the chair for youth leadership training at the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia, and as a member of The Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security. New York Times columnist William Safire has called him “Mr. Privacy.”
Barr is a contributing editor for The American Spectator, serves as a current contributor for CNN and appears frequently as a guest on various television news and opinion shows. He is also host of a weekly radio show on the Radio America network. His writings have appeared in numerous academic, local, regional, and national publications and he writes regularly for UPI and Creative Loafing.
Barr is the author of “The Meaning of Is, The Squandered Impeachment And Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton.”
He is a former United States Attorney, appointed by President Reagan, was president of Southeastern Legal Foundation (1990-91) and served a stint an official with the CIA. He is now in private law practice specializing in national and international civil and criminal law. And is a National Rifle Association board member.
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4 comments:
I thought Bob Barr was a Reagan Republican.
Now he's running as a Libertarian.
He'll just take votes away from McCain. The Democrats should push Barr's campaign as much as possible.
Those votes don't belong to McCain, they belong to the voters. If McCain wants them, he has to earn them. Complaining about election "spoilers" is childish.
I would like to address the logical conflicts within the established Libertarian Party of the United States while recognizing it does not capture the full spectrum of Libertarian philosophy. When we review the principle statements of the Libertarian party found at: Libertarian Platform Statements we see that >>>> Ooooops, there are no internal logical conflicting statements, fancy that. Having said that I will continue to say that it does not capture the true nature of the human species and an explanation to teh general public on how "social" or "group" issues are best addressed. We are social creatures and in that we must recognize that we cannot turn a blind eye to community need. Not all citizens have the capacity to make good choices because they have not had the necessary socialization skills to empower them to live productive lives. As a result we have crime, drug addiction, family abuse, prejudice and a host of social ills that make our quality of life deteriorate and as a group must make choices on how we address these issues. It is all very fine to sit on your porch with a shotgun waiting for some derelict to come and try to steal your pumpkin but this is not the best use of your time when that problem can be addressed before it is necessary to shoot. In that the Libertarian Party of the United States should establish one more policy statement to address facilitating productive community relationships. >>>>>
Community Need: "Complex community issues are best solved on the local level by emergent processes that organically arise to address the individual or integrated problems as they arise. No centralized system can realistically or cost effectively administer solutions to very community specific concerns."
>>>>>> I would further like to say that here in Canada the Federal and Provincial governments are balancing their budgets but this in actuality means they are absconding from the responsibilities they assumed from the community years ago to win votes. Now they are dropping social programs without reinvigorating the community systems(i.e. church,community groups, etc.) which dealt with it before. We have a natural process of managing change here and as municipal governments we simply do not have the realistic resources to financially address these issues from our land use tax base. The solution: "harness the community emergent processes and facilitate vertical silo communication so we reduce redundancies and maximize cooperation between agencies, churches, community groups, different levels of government and other NGOs to leverage existing resources to complex problems and provide a continuum of support." In essence, encourage local communities to work together to solve our problems. It costs no additional money. In our community even with the downloading of services we have seen a reduction of crime by 6% in 2006 when we initiated the project to reducing crime by 17% in 2007. In 2008 we hope to see an additional 25% reduction in crime. Do we need the Federal government taxing us to sit and talk, NO! Wish they had absconded years ago. One shoe does not fit all community's needs and the cookie cutter problem solving of Fedetral systems are best reduced to bare essential services on the National level. Though that is another discussion as to what those are and a complete new chapter.
PLEASE be the first one to actually ask Barr if he's changed his mind on Wicca.
Last time he actually mentioned the subject it was his desire to remove their equal first amendment rights.
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