I React to Dave Smith on Debating Larken Rose

[CCTelander]

This will be interesting. Hope Patrick can get it set up.

[PAF]

This will be interesting. Hope Patrick can get it set up.

So far, nothing, but it would have been fun to watch.

Dave brings up some valid points, such as getting the message out there, which Ron Paul has and continues to do. Like Dave, I probably would not even be aware, had it not been for Ron.

I tend to think of "the message" as a stepping stone, where once the person is/becomes fully aware, the voting booth/active politics is not the way forward. As far as policy, it is good to have messengers such as Ron Paul, Tom Massie, Walter Block, Gary Bennet, Patrick Smith and a whole host of others, but the real and only solution comes down to the individual practicing civil disobedience. Tom Massie, (who I have had the pleasure of hanging out and conversing with), though he is a congressman, agrees with that also.

I believe that it takes many approaches to "get the message out there", which hopefully and ultimately leads to the individual governing him/her self. In the end, once one has matured and self-confident enough, Patrick's and Larken's methods are the only true and actual solution.