The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania - Forum

Imagine for a moment what life would be like if you had to queue up at every grocery store just to get basic food items for your family.  While you’re standing in line, your palms get sweaty , your heart pounds hard against your chest. Waiting to get to the point of sale seems like an eternity.  While in line, your fear intensifies with every step forward to the counter. Your fear is that you would have spent several hours in line only to be turned away at the counter with the dreaded words, 'sorry, come back next week.  We just ran out of ….'    For many, this is a difficult scenario to comprehend, but for my generation and that of my parents, this was reality during the 70’s and 80’s in Guyana, South America when we lived under the dictatorship of Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, the first President of this small South American country of only 83,000 square miles and a population of under one million people.

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I think we are making a major mistake with what's happening in Zimbabwe.  The situation there is very dire.   We should be advocating free and fair elections there in a much stronger fashion.   The crimes against the people are horrible.  We need to make more statements supporting the rights of people to determine their own destinies more forcefully, both here and abroad.