{"id":1690,"date":"2007-06-14T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T18:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2007-06-14T14:46:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T18:46:24","slug":"kubbys-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"Kubby's Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarian candidate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kubby2008.com\/node\/38\">Steve Kubby<\/a>, signs a pledge:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>No Military Commissions Except on the Battlefield. I will not employ military commissions to prosecute offenses against the laws of war except in places where active hostilities are ongoing and a battlefield tribunal is necessary to obtain fresh testimony and to prevent local anarchy or chaos.\n<li>No Evidence Extracted by Torture or Coercion. I will not permit the use of evidence obtained by torture or coercion to be admissible in a military commission or other tribunal.\n<li>No Detaining Citizens as Unlawful Enemy Combatants. I will not detain any American citizen as an unlawful enemy combatant. Citizens accused of terrorism-linked crimes will be prosecuted in federal civilian courts.\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are ten points in total. And all of them are exactly what I wish the Dems would stand up for. *sigh* <\/p>\n<p>Most of the rest of his statements on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kubby2008.com\/node\/8\">\"The Issues\"<\/a> look good, too:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Civil Liberties<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Repeal the Patriot Act\n<li>Repeal the Military Commissions Act\n<li>Enforce the Bill of Rights\n<li>End government discrimination based on sexual orientation <\/ul>\n<p><strong>Energy & Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Require government and military fleets to go non-petroleum\n<li>End taxpayer subsidies to the petroleum and agriculture industries <\/ul>\n<p>Wait, what? What does he think military vehicles will run on? Is he thinking... nuclear-powered HumVees? Solar-powered F-16s?<\/p>\n<p><b>Foreign Policy & Iraq<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Immediate, unconditional withdrawal from Iraq\n<li>Return to America's traditional non-interventionist foreign policy <\/ul>\n<p>Fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guns<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No new \"gun control\" legislation\n<li>Repeal of all existing \"gun control\" legislation\n<li>Forbid and prosecute violations of gun rights by government\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ehh... I dunno. I like a little gun control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immigration<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open immigration for all peaceful people\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taxes & Spending<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Veto any and all tax increases, new taxes, and unbalanced budgets -- period.\n<li>Work to cut spending, splitting resulting surpluses between tax cuts and debt service.\n<li>Work to eliminate the federal income tax.\n<li>Until the income tax is eliminated, seek annual across-the-board tax cuts through increases to the personal exemption.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ah... that's where the Libertarians always lose me. I just don't understand their fear of the income tax. <\/p>\n<p><b>The War on Drugs<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>End it!\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah baby.<\/p>\n<p>So, I like 80% of what he says. But until today, I'd never heard of him. The two big parties maintain a pretty tight duopoly on politics. I only found him because of an ad running on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highclearing.com\/\">Unqualified Offerings<\/a>, and I wanted to see what the Libertarian position on global warming was, assuming it'd be amusing. It wasn't really as goofy as I thought; his plan is to get rid of government subsidies for oil companies and agriculture (which make gas too cheap and food too expensive) and make biofuels an economically-attractive option. Not bad, in a grand kind of way, I guess. But I suspect it'd be a nightmare in between the time gas prices hit the roof and the time an affordable replacement fuel became available. And I doubt Congress could be coaxed into any of it (or any of his positions). <\/p>\n<p>Oh well. Sometimes it's fun to cruise around the exotic car lot and think about what it'd be like to own one of those impractical little rocket roadsters. A little daydreaming is good for the soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarian candidate, Steve Kubby, signs a pledge: No Military Commissions Except on the Battlefield. I will not employ military commissions to prosecute offenses against the laws of war except in places where active hostilities are ongoing and a battlefield tribunal is necessary to obtain fresh testimony and to prevent local anarchy or chaos. No Evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}