Aspies For Freedom

A place for people to write their basic political beliefs. Note that I say basic, so no 5 page posts getting into your views on extradition or Maoist rebels in Nepal. Mine:

I believe in a simple liberatarian philosophy. People should be able to do whatever they want as long as they do not hurt others. This includes prostitution and drugs being legalized and taxed. I also disagree with corporate power. I think we should tax corporations, create a maximum wage and tax the rest to give it to the poor. This would create a balanced economy without depleting the reward system entirely. I got the idea from Huey Long. We would also have universal health care and numerous other government programs so that people could generally enjoy living. The FCC would be eliminated as a whole, and cars would not be allowed and be replaced by trains. I would also bring back the company town, because the idea always seemed good if it were properly designed.

An old thread, but I'll add the YLF manifesto with a link. Join the insurrection.

The Youth Liberation Front is not a central committee, a vanguard of intellectually-advanced leaders, or an elite group of honor-rollers who won the annual popularity contest. It is a battle cry, an acronym carved into a desk, a whisper between comrades passing in the hall. It is chanted by inmates in juvenile halls rioting against an abusive and illegitimate institution. It is a silk-screened patch sewn on the knap sacks of young hobos, bums and punks. It is carved into the baseball bat that cracks the skull of the long-since parent-turned-abuser. It is a tattoo worn by a grrl no longer willing to hate herself. It is a phrase that sends kids to the psyche ward, and sympathetic teachers to the unemployment line.

It is the seductive kiss that turns 4.0 GPA's into molotov cocktails and barricades. It is the reluctantly-embraced struggle taken up by those raised in strict doctrines of obedience and dicipline, long held sacred as tools of resistance and empowerment. It is the support and solidarity we give each other, tangibly and emotionally, in both the struggle and in day to day life. It is the inspiration for kids to get off drugs (i.e. rydalin) despite the efforts of their pimps (i.e. parents) to trick them out to all their clients (i.e. teachers, extra-curricular activities, their society of friends, and the next eligable young man or woman they've got lined up for you). It is the ire of parents, priests, principals, professors, and pundits. It is the joyful shout of an intraverted quiet kid as s/he takes a risk that defies all pre-concieved notions of social norms, and is in return presented with something long-coveted. It is the solemn mutter of the most witty, unapproachable class clown, eyes pregnant with tears.

It is an unapologetic raised fist in a world where we are not even allow to raise from our seat to go to the restroom without permission. It is the lone revolutionary still fighting a guerilla war against a totalitarian state that has long since been the victor. It is yet another movement of livestock that declares its individual soveregnty, rather than remain someone else's property to be used as bargaining chips or status symbols. It is the clique that smashes the boundaries of all other cliques, that celebrates our diversity, rather than dividing us up based on our sizes, tastes, unique abilities, sexual identities and preferences, classes, colors, creeds, and ages - for it is our division that makes us the most vulnerable to those in charge. It is a name that will echo in history as the banner that was raised by the most intimately of the oppressed of this or any other society. It is the simple declaration that ultimately we know whats best for us, though sometimes we need some support, guidance, and most importantly, unconditional love.

It will be the destruction of the nuclear family until our parents, who we love, can come to treat us as equals, just as the feminist movement has demanded of its male lovers. Conflict with those who have nurtured us and made us who we are is not a battle most of us want to fight, but for all of us, in one form or another, it is the only way to liberation.

This is only the beginning.

http://www.impassionedinsurrection.info/...index.html

I have the same basic pricable as Subatai_Baadur; people should be able to do what they want as long as it doesn't hurt other people.
Laissez Faire; the government shouldn't interfere excessively in people's lives or businesses.
Legalisation of prostitution and drugs to make it a bit safer, but also help for people who've got stuck doing those things.
Free healthcare.

EQUALITY. I'm a big believer in equality.
Social equality; Men equal to Women; Christians equal to Muslims; Whites equal to Blacks; straits equal to gays & transgendered; NTs equal to Aspies & Auties.
Economic equality perhaps not so much, but Socialism for the working class who will at least try to work, as leeching off the system is disgusting to me. Quite high taxes for the rich because the fact is no one NEEDS to have millions upon millions. You'll never spend it all. Still, an incentive would be there to work hard and get quite rich, "comfortably rich", at least.

No censorship. Some people have stupid ideas, but as Voltaire said; "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

My political belief...

I once believed in that everything should be as great as possible for as most people as possible, and partially in equality. Now I just see that other people often have to get things their way if I am to get things mine.

I think liberalism is good for a society with a government that have not adjusted itself good enough to its environments(including inhabitants, like if 90% of them was autistic the government would have to adjust itself to that). Socialism is for those societies that have adjusted itself its environments.