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...civil rights: I've always been against laws that discriminate. In the '60s, in my libertarian phase, I opposed what I considered government interference with individual liberty. I changed my mind on that and said so publicly in 1971. My thinking as a voter ever since is, Does the law do more good than harm? Civil rights laws meet that test...
...nearly 30 years of what has come to be called deinstitutionalization. In the mid-1950s the widespread use and effectiveness of the antipsychotic drug Thorazine allowed the denizens of "insane asylums" to be treated outside the hospital where, all agreed, they were better off. The policy satisfied the civil-libertarian instincts of mental health advocates, while conservatives counted up the tax dollars saved. But an optimistically promised second stage of deinstitutionalization was not so easy to deliver: follow-up care in the community frequently failed to materialize. The number of mental patients in U.S. institutions did shrink, though, from...
CLUM believes that the anti-libertarian actions and policies of the South African Government will ultimately be defeated not by being hidden, but by being exposed in the marketplace of free ideas. Harvey A. Silvergate President, Board of Directors CLUM
Louw, a lawyer who heads South Africa's Free Market Foundation, and Kendall, editor of a conservative newsletter, offer a libertarian plan that favors the least possible government and the freest possible enterprise. They point out, however, that their own preferences need not be accepted, since the cantonal system would allow residents of each local unit to select by vote the system they prefer. "All the existing political parties and movements would be likely to come to power somewhere," Louw says. "Then we'll be able to see what works...
...matter of fact," said the colleague who had resigned from the Millennium Club, "I'm enough of a libertarian to think that as long as a club is really private, it ought to be free to exclude anybody it wants, women or blacks or Greeks or people with red hair or whatever. Let them all start their own clubs...