The following excerpts come from the website of the Libertarian Party candidate, Steve Stoltz, whom the Democrat Party (yes you read that right) promoted in its literature as the true conservative running against the Democrat incumbent Gabrielle Giffords, shot in Tucson on Saturday, to bleed off votes on the right from the Republican challenger Jesse Kelly:
As a Libertarian, I am socially liberal, compassionate and humanitarian, but I am also fiscally conservative and principled.
The United States should have sound money that is backed by gold not the “monopoly money” of a fiat currency that is essentially counterfeited by the printing presses of the Federal Reserve which causes massive inflation.
As a Libertarian I believe that everyone owns their own body and can do ANYTHING they want with it, so long as they do not infringe upon someone else’s life/health, liberty or property (the 4rth amendment of the constitution says that people have a right to be secure in their person).
Government has no authority over the nature of a person’s consensual sexual relationships - even if they desire to engage in promiscuity and immorality.
The government has no right to tell a person what food they can eat, has no right to restrict their access to vitamin and mineral supplements, has no right to prevent a person from taking experimental drugs or getting medical treatments they feel will cure them of disease.
It is ironic that laws limit access to drugs, while the FDA has permitted poisonous/toxic substance like aspartame to be introduced into beverages.
Drugs like marijuana should be legalized, with increasing amounts of regulation and taxation applied to the more addictive drugs.
Society should lift prohibitions, but should regulate drugs the way alcohol currently is.
Lifting some drug prohibition could have a positive impact on national security.
Marriage is a legal contract protecting the rights of two individuals who decide that they want to live together and share property.
The state’s sole role is to enforce the property rights of the union, without placing stipulations on the nature of the union, whether it is between heterosexuals or homosexuals.
The equal protection clause of the 14th amendment says that every US citizen shall enjoy the equal protection of the law.
Since no group should be given special treatment relative to over another, the military’s current policy of “Don’t ask don’t tell” is un-Constitutional, and should simply be reduced to “Don’t ask”.
The military should not expel a member who has already proven they can do the job merely because that person has identified himself/herself as homosexual.
I believe the government must respect the 2nd amendment, and place absolutely no restrictions on gun rights.
Although I am totally opposed to violence, I find it amazing that those who would place restrictions over a private citizen’s access to guns also seem to place blind faith in the integrity of the police, merely because they are agents of government.
Social security ... The system should be restructured so that younger persons invest in a privately held account, the way the government originally sold it.
I do not believe that it is moral for a wealthy person to hoard their wealth without trying to use it to help people.
[I]t doesn’t make sense for the government to document illegal aliens.
I do not believe that illegal aliens who give birth in the United States should instantly be granted citizenship (i.e. “anchor babies”).
I don’t believe illegal aliens should enjoy special access to entitlements relative to US citizens.
[W]hile it might be unfair for the children of illegal aliens who don’t pay property tax to receive a free education in US school systems, they nonetheless fall under the same category as the children of US citizens who receive a free education because their parents rent and don’t pay property tax.
The illegal alien problem is a multi-faceted social problem that can’t be solved merely by erecting a fence.
Female reproductive rights/abortion – I am pro-choice.
The focus of the military should be primarily to defend the nation’s borders against invasion.
As a Libertarian, I believe that in order for anything to be regarded as a crime, there must be a victim. Civil fines for traffic violations that do not result in an accident or property damage or personal injury, and merely raise money for the state represent victimless crimes.
