Johnson-Weld ���Libertarian��� Ticket May Not Be What You Think It Is

Here is Alex Jones unloading on the Libertarian Party presidential and vice-presidential candidates Gary Johnson and William Weld, respectively. Even if you are not a big fan (or fan at all) of Alex Jones, I encourage you to watch this whole thing.

 

I���ve written before about libertarian candidates, and my problems with them, despite my own, strong libertarian inclinations. Add to the fact that I think they���re kooky (pay attention to Johnson and how he reacts here to the use of the term ���illegal immigrant���), the Libertarian Party, such as it is, has now been hijacked by leftists. This is something that has been in process for some time, but it appears that the takeover is largely complete. I���m not going to tell you that every position espoused by official Libertarian Party candidates these days looks like it came directly from the platform planks of the Democratic Party, but the similarity is startling, particularly when you consider that these people are supposed to be, well, libertarians.

Johnson is a supporter of the awful, hyper-globalist Trans Pacific Partnership, very soft on illegal immigration, and holds positions on a variety of other issues that put him in lockstep with many garden-variety Democrats.

For his part, Weld has always been a big gun control fan, once proposing, during his time as Massachusetts governor, a bill that limited gun purchases and would have prohibited the purchase of certain types of firearms. That said, it should be noted that he is still as anti-gun as ever. In a recent interview with Revolt.tv, Weld said, among other things, the following:

���The five-shot rifle, that���s a standard military rifle; the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon. And those are independent criminal offenses.���

As incoherent as that statement is (spoken by someone who aspires to be Vice President of the United States, no less), you can make out the gist of what he is saying: even relatively common rifles are pretty rotten things. At one point in that same interview, Weld actually said this: ���The problem with handguns is probably even worse than the problem of the AR-15.��� OK, so, in Weld���s world, possession of handguns really isn���t acceptable, either.

I���m no rocket scientist, but I���m reasonably sure that once you are rid of rifles and handguns, you have full-blown gun confiscation.

And this from the Libertarian Party���s vice presidential candidate.

My point is this: don���t any longer conflate ���libertarian��� with ���traditional, conservative, freedom-loving,��� at least as far as official representatives of the so-called Libertarian Party are concerned. The Libertarian Party is a whole different ballgame these days.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large