{"id":14434,"date":"2012-04-04T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14434"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:28:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:28:57","slug":"qotd-mike-riggs-refutes-van-jones-on-so-called-libertarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/qotd-mike-riggs-refutes-van-jones-on-so-called-libertarians\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Mike Riggs refutes Van Jones on “so-called Libertarians”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m going to have to mic check you there, Mr. Jones. You\u2019re not talking about so-called libertarians, but your former boss and current president. See, it\u2019s Barack Obama who supports \u201ctraditional marriage\u201d; Barack Obama who supports a drug war that sends an alarming number of black men to prison and destroys their employment prospects; Barack Obama who supports a foreign policy that kills children; Barack Obama who supports regulatory barriers that require the poorest of the poor to borrow their way into the workforce; Barack Obama who supports an immigration strategy that rips apart families and sees the children of undocumented workers put up for adoption.<\/p>\n

Whether Obama\u2019s support for those policies means he hates gays or brown folk is not for me to say. As the scriptures tell us, “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?”<\/p>\n

Libertarians, on the other hand, love brown folk, the gays, the lesbians, the people with piercings, and immigrants. Many of us, after all, fit rather neatly into those categories, and we show our affection for ourselves and our neighbors by supporting the right of all peoples to live free of state-sponsored violence, discrimination, undue imprisonment, and theft; as well as the entirely predictable consequences of both left-wing and right-wing social engineering.<\/p>\n

Mike Riggs, “Van Jones on ‘so-called Libertarians’: ‘They say they love America but they hate the people, the brown folk, the gays, the lesbians, the people with piercings'”, Hit & Run<\/em><\/a>, 2012-04-03<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going to have to mic check you there, Mr. Jones. You\u2019re not talking about so-called libertarians, but your former boss and current president. See, it\u2019s Barack Obama who supports \u201ctraditional marriage\u201d; Barack Obama who supports a drug war that sends an alarming number of black men to prison and destroys their employment prospects; Barack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,53,41,13],"tags":[158,119,554,550,199,99,661],"class_list":["post-14434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-drugs","tag-immigration","tag-libertarianism","tag-prohibition","tag-racism","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3KO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14436,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434\/revisions\/14436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}