{"id":378,"date":"2004-01-03T19:57:30","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T02:57:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-01-03T19:57:30","modified_gmt":"2004-01-04T02:57:30","slug":"libertarian-party-hawks-form-group-to-push-for-a-powerful-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/03\/libertarian-party-hawks-form-group-to-push-for-a-powerful-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian Party Hawks Form Group to Push for a &#8220;Powerful Military&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the January issue of the national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lp.org\/lpnews\/\">Libertarian Party News<\/a> (not yet posted on their website):<\/p>\n<p><P><b>LP Hawks Start &#8216;Fight for Liberty&#8217; Caucus<\/b><\/P><P>A Washington state Libertarian Party member has helped found an organization of &#8220;libertarian hawks&#8221; that will encourage the LP to support a more aggressive defense policy against terrorists.<\/P><P>The group, Fight for Liberty, &#8220;recognizes <b>the need for a powerful military<\/b>,   whether private or state, to vanquish the terror movement,&#8221; said Kevin Bjornson, an LP Life Member and former chair of the West King County LP.<\/P><P>The group supports a &#8220;victory over terrorism,&#8221; and <b>opposes Libertarians who would &#8220;shrink the U.S. military to dangerous weakness<\/b>,&#8221; he said.<\/P><P>The current LP platform, which calls for a non-interventionist foreign policy, the withdrawal of American military troops stationed abroad, and an end to foreign aid, is either &#8220;insanity or merely ridiculous,&#8221; said Bjornson.<\/P><P>Fight for Liberty has passed a six-point program that advocates allowing Iraqis to have AK-47s, privatizing the Iraqi Oil Industry, legalizing drugs for U.S. adults, charging allies for NATO-type defense services, preventing the &#8220;theocratic\/terror state of Iran&#8221; from developing nuclear weapons, and encouraging the &#8220;establishment of secular, rational government[s]&#8221; around the world.<\/P><P>Bjornson said Fight for Liberty will post foreign policy analyses, offer speakers for libertarian supper clubs and conferences, and serve as a &#8220;central posting board&#8221; for hawkish libertarians.<\/P><P><i>(bold type added for emphasis)<\/i><\/P><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"300\">\nOne of the early members of the new group is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.no-treason.com\/Starr\/\">Tim Starr, <\/a> a (now-former) San Francisco Bay Area Libertarian Party member (an &#8220;anarcho-hawk&#8221;) who advocates having the government pursue an interventionist foreign policy until it is abolished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the January issue of the national Libertarian Party News (not yet posted on their website): LP Hawks Start &#8216;Fight for Liberty&#8217; CaucusA Washington state Libertarian Party member has helped found an organization of &#8220;libertarian hawks&#8221; that will encourage the LP to support a more aggressive defense policy against terrorists.The group, Fight for Liberty, &#8220;recognizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}