Libertarian Party of Connecticut

By Marc Guttman

It often seems that certain mainstream debates on issues like prayer in public schools, immigration, abortion, and gay marriage, are used by the establishment political parties to distract us from other overwhelmingly harmful policies that effect everyone.

When we spend time on these issues, we are not discussing and more importantly not criticizing our government’s aggressive and lethal foreign military interventions, massive corporate welfare and bailouts, international and domestic trade restrictions, and police state infringements into our civil rights to due process and privacy. Despite these tactics, these marginal issues really are important to the people who are most effected by these policies.
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