What? A beer party.
Why? Neo-Cons stole the tea party and the coffee party counter is even dumber.
Who? Me, a few friends, you, and hopefully, more.
When? Now
Where? Online
How? By way of beer? Your help is needed on this one.
This is only a half-finished rough draft. A few of the reasons may change. They all need an explaination.
4 Principals
- Beer is good.
- Aggression is bad. You don't have the right to hurt or threaten to hurt innocent people. You don't have the right to send someone else to hurt or threaten to hurt innocent people.
- I own myself. Regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, immigration status, religion or lack thereof, height, weight, and tolerance, all beer drinkers have the right to enjoy beer, live freely, trade freely, possess property, and pursue happiness. All of the same applies to wine, cider, and liquor drinkers as well as non-drinkers.
- Taxation is theft. You do not have the right to demand money from me for enjoying beer. The same is true for working, living in my home, and exchanging ideas, goods, and services. It doesn't matter how many people voted for you or what you're going to use my money for, you still do not have this right.
20 Reasons
- The market is the collective will of the people. Politcal regulation is the will of special interests.
- Beer cartels are bad. Monopolies are worse.
- Central planners can't know what beer to produce. Beer producers study the demand for different styles of beer as they plan which varieties to produce. Without price signals, brewers might be brewing red ale when the people really want brown and wouldn't know it. This applies to roads, schools, and whatever the government builds.
- Everyone should have access to afordable, quality beer. Everyone should also have access to afordable foods to accompany said beers. State intervention forces producers out of the market allowing state-priviledged corporatations less or no competition and the ability to reduce quality, raise prices, or both. The same is true of health care.
- When seconds count, the police are just minutes away. Laws that disarm victims and promote gun violence are dangerous for the poor. Genocides are often preceded by the disarming of the victims. Gun control is not birth control, it never works.
- There's no such thing as an illegal beer. Brewing is not a crime. There's no such thing as an illegal human being. Living is not a crime. Immigration laws are regressive, oppressive, foolish, and quite often down right racist.
- It's not a war on drugs. It's a war on people. Prohibition didn't work in the twenties and it's not working now.
- Stop polluting my water, I need it for beer. The biggest polluter in America is the federal government, followed by big corporations whose monopolies and cartels could not exist in a free market.
- If I don't know you, then you don't represent me.
- I learned more drinking beer than in public school.
- You don't have the right to look through my things.
- Invading a foriegn land doesn't bring its people beer. You don't bring people liberty by pointing guns at them. Bring them beer. If they don't want beer, then leave them alone.
- You can't own an idea. If you steal my beer, then you will have a problem. If you make a beer with a similar taste or name to my beer, then I have a problem.
- Paper money is just that; paper, and not beer.
- Who you have sex with is none of my business.
- Adding more regulations is not "free" trade.
- I don't need your help to cross the street (for a beer). When it's two in the morning and I for stop a red right, I can make a better decision about when nobody is coming than a light that turns on and off periodically.
- A badge doesn't give you the right to beat people. Neither serving nor protecting includes beating an unarmed woman to death or shooting an unarmed man in the back of the head.
- If you try to steal my beer, I will try to obstruct you.
- Beers vary in color, density, and flavor. The same is true of human beings.
Cheers.
