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**Dilangfh** · 10-06-2010, 06:06 PM

Certainly not the libertarians. It'd fly in the face of their almost nonexistent foreign policy.

I'd suspect many the tea party folks wouldn't want mercenaries being engaged in situations where we should be deploying our own forces and capabilities. Some see the insane costs of the wars overseas to be because of the amount of resources we spend for outside contractors to do the work the military once did for itself, others are very likely to have no clue of the use of Mercenaries and non government entities at all.

That's funny, I recall a few years ago, I read something in the Libertarian Party Official platform the following:

The appropriate way to suppress crime is through consistent and impartial enforcement of laws that protect individual rights. We applaud the trend toward private protection services and voluntary community crime control groups. Well, what is "private protection service"? Basically merc.

So have the libertarians changed their views on this issue of hiring private security firms to defend their interests and properties? They would have to have a 180 degree change here if what you said about them here is true.

And if what you said about tea party being against use of merc is true- then I applaud that. I too, am against the use of mercenaries, though perhaps for slightly different reasons.

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Dilangfh Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	Certainly not the libertarians. It'd fly in the face of their almost nonexistent foreign policy. I'd suspect many the tea party folks wouldn't want mercenaries being engaged in situations where we should be deploying our own forces and capabilities. Some see the insane costs of the wars overseas to be because of the amount of resources we spend for outside contractors to do the work the military once did for itself, others are very likely to have no clue of the use of Mercenaries and non government entities at all. That's funny, I recall a few years ago, I read something in the Libertarian Party Official platform the following: The appropriate way to suppress crime is through consistent and impartial enforcement of laws that protect individual rights. We applaud the trend toward private protection services and voluntary community crime control groups. Well, what is "private protection service"? Basically merc. So have the libertarians changed their views on this issue of hiring private security firms to defend their interests and properties? They would have to have a 180 degree change here if what you said about them here is true. And if what you said about tea party being against use of merc is true- then I applaud that. I too, am against the use of mercenaries, though perhaps for slightly different reasons.
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