MISSION STATEMENT

1. BE A LIBERTARIAN

Today there are many very good libertarian writers stalking the pixels and column inches of the mainstream media. Very few of them explicitly call themselves libertarians. I don’t naysay this approach in getting the libertarian message to the public. The more approaches the better. It’s just not right for me. The socialists have spent at least a century smuggling their Marxist wet dreams into American institutions. They cover their intentions by calling themselves The Left or Progressives or by confiscating the Liberal label and turning its original meaning inside out. Many libertarians try to smuggle libertarian ideas under the cover of “Classical Liberal” or “Freedom Lovers” or “Fiscally Conservative and Socially Liberal” or simply espousing libertarian ideas without ever labeling them as such. Good for them, wrong for me. I’m explicitly libertarian.

2. BE ENTERTAINING

Before I started writing I spent many years reading. Not just the big mover and shaker libertarians but everyone who even sounded like a libertarian. At one time or another I’ve read articles and essays and blogs and, if not books at least book reviews, of every regularly published libertarian in America. I knew that if I was going to enter the writing fray I would have to bring something to the table that virtually no one else offered. And then I noticed what was missing in the modern libertarian movement. With very rare exception, nobody had a sense of humor. Libertarians were all academics and economists and philosophers and political policy wonks. All of which is fine. They’re great, we need them, and I admire them. But libertarians are people too, and people laugh and joke. So I combined my love of all things libertarian with my love of all things funny and began writing about serious issues in unserious ways. The anti-freedom airbags on the Left and Right deserve to be constantly poked with the sharp stick of disrespect, irreverence, satire, ridicule, mockery, contempt and just plain in-your-face derision. I have a good poking stick and I keep it sharpened at all times.

3. DON’T PROSELYTIZE

I’m not interested in changing another person’s views. The other person is responsible for changing his or her own views. After all, that’s the whole idea of libertarianism – individual freedom and personal responsibility. So I write what I write. Others can read it or not, agree with it or not, change their views or not. That’s their business. Me, I just keep on writing.

I’ve distilled the purpose of my writing into this simple tagline: Fun&Freedom.

Garry Reed

The Dallas Libertarian Examiner

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The Loose Cannon Libertarian

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