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Caleob:

I watched the debate last night

 

Is there a video/audio of the debate posted anywhere?  I looked in youtube and didn't find it.

BTW, I attended Stefan's speech at the Philadelphia "ReTea" party July 4; it was very good.  Larken Rose spoke before him.

we're working on the video

I was at the debate in person, and it was so nice to feel apart of your family destroying cult.

On a serious note I think the biggest problem was Badnarik's removal of politics from Philosophy. This is what seems to happen in most "vanilla" political debates but becomes very problematic when one starts talking about anarchy.

I wonder, are we currently being "eternally vigilant" for any signs of slavery coming back into society or is this no longer a concern?  It's just time that makes these problems appear worse.  In the midst of a statist world there is much hand-wringing and brow furrowing over the idea of anarchy whereas when it does finally start turning around (I dunno, a few hundred years from now)  people will look back at our time and think, "Cripes, can you believe how paranoid those people were back then about a government!?"

Realist:

GregG:

Oddly enough, ronpaulforums.com has the best of them so far, but there are others. Have a look:

 

ronpaulforums.com:

"...FWIW, Badnarik is doing quite badly in defending his points and countering Stef's. I'm rather disappointed. I really hoped for a more significant and compelling defense of the minarchist position..."

"...I thought Michael was doing pretty good but someone asked him about taxation in a minarchist society. He stuck to the Constitution, which is what he's good at, but it really contradicted his earlier assertion that all theft is wrong..."

"...I was only able to catch part of the debate but imo the clear winner was Molyneux. He really sliced through some minarchist delusions quite neatly..."

"...It seemed to me that Molyneux made some outstanding points about anarchy being hands down the only way to go, and Badnarik did not argue with him. This seemed like a total mismatch. I don't think Badnarik, as smart as he is, saw this coming...."

 

Thanks Greg. That last comment is from me! :)

It's actually not surpising that ronpaulforums has a lot of commentary on the debate. About 30% of the posters there are anarchists. I think it's a good place to do some recruiting. Probably only about 10% or less were anarchists when it was at its peak during the primary elections...but many, including myself, have made the jump from small to no gov't with help from people like Stef and some brilliant posters over there.

I completely agree.  I was a minarchist posting on the forums when his campaign began and quickly moved over to anarchism.  Some people there are pretty hostile towards anarchism but I think there are others that are receptive.