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On March 31, The New Yorker published an item in its humor vertical, Shouts & Murmurs, titled "L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department." At least 31,000 people liked it.

I can laugh along with parodies of libertarian ideology. But shouldn't a reductio ad absurdum start with a belief that the target of the satire actually holds?Tom O'Donnellproceeds as if libertarians object to the state enforcing property rightsthat is to say, one of the very few state actions that virtually all libertarians find legitimate!If America'ssheriffs were all summarily replaced by Libertarian Partyofficials selected at random, I'm sure some ridiculous things would happen. Just not any of the particular things that were described.

That isn't to say that there weren't parts of the article that made me laugh.It got me thinking too.If the non-libertarian approach to policing* was the target instead, would you need hyperbole or reductio ad absurdum? Or could you just write down what actually happens under the officials elected by non-libertarians?It is, of course, hard to make it funny when all the horrific examples are true.

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I was just finishing up my shift by having sex with a prostitute when I got a call about an opportunity for overtime. A no-knock raid was going down across town.

"You're trying to have your salary spike this year to game the pension system, right?" my buddy told me. "Well, we're raiding a house where an informant says there's marijuana, and it's going to be awesomewe've got a $283,ooo military-grade armored SWAT truckandthe kind offlash grenades that literally scared that one guy to death."

"Don't start without me," I told him. "I just have to stop by this pawn shop. It's run by some friends of mine from ATF. They paid this mentally disabled teenager $150 dollars to get a neck tattoo of a giant squid smoking a joint. Those guys are hilarious."

But when I got to the shop the guys weren't in any mood to joke aroundsomething about having lost their gunsagain. That meant I had extra time to get to the raid. En route, I headed through a black and Latino neighborhood, and who did I see on the street? A teenage male who made what I would describe as a furtive movement.

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N.L.P.D.: Non-Libertarian Police Department

MOBILE, Alabama At 61, Gary Johnson is a competitive skier, has climbed Mount Everest and wants to climb the highest peak on all seven continents.

His climbed Everest the tallest mountain in the world on a broken leg in 2003. But another goal might prove to be an even higher hurdle: Getting elected president of the United States as a Libertarian.

The former two-term governor of New Mexico who ran as a Libertarian in 2012 is not a candidate in 2016 yet. But he sounded like one as he worked the room at The Bull restaurant in downtown Mobile on Monday while soliciting donations for his organization, Our America Initiative.

I was born with an overdose of common sense, he told a crowd of about 20 as he shared his views on the economy, health care, foreign policy and social issues.

Johnson apparently also was born with a healthy dose of self-confidence. He predicted he would be a wildly successful president.

Johnson will attend a fundraiser in Montgomery Tuesday afternoon before participating in a forum on environmental policy at the University of Alabama at Birminghams Blazer Hall at 6 p.m. He will close out his Alabama trip at a fundraiser at Riverchase Country Club in Birmingham.

Diehard supporters would like to see Johnson give the presidency another shot. A Change.org petition to draft him has garnered 1,170 signatures.

Dennis Knizley, a Mobile lawyer who serves on the Alabama Libertarian Party Executive Committee, noted that Johnsons experience in high office sets him apart from many other of the partys candidates.

To the Libertarians, hes a godsend, he said.

Libertarians remain longshots

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Libertarian Gary Johnson once climbed Everest, but that might be only second-highest hurdle

Libertarian state Chairman Mario Barnes
Mario Barnes says the Libertarian Party has been growing as more people learn where it stands on the issues.

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DURHAM As Republicans battle for Sen. Kay Hagan's seat ahead of the May primary, the state Libertarian Party is trying to provide an alternative to Democrats and Republicans.

Prospective candidates Tim DAnnunzio, abusinessman, and Sean Haugh , the former executive directorof the N.C. Libertarian Party, participated in a forum in Durham during the state LibertarianConvention this weekend . About 40 people attended.

The Libertarian Party will hold a primary on May 6, its first since the 2000 gubernatorial election.

Libertarians, which makes up less than 23,500 registered voters out of 6.5 million in the state, is theonly third party officially recognized on the ballot in North Carolina.

DAnnunzio and Haugh are part of acrowded field vying for the U.S. Senateseat currently held by Hagan. Including Hagan, there are 13 candidates running forher seat as this will be one of the most competitive Senate races in the2014 election.

The deadline to register to vote in the Democratic, Republican or Libertarianparty primaries is Friday. The general election will be held Nov. 4.

At the convention, D'Annunzio and Hugh discussed the chances of a Libertarian candidate attracting media and popular attention during the election.

I'll be able to bring up the points and bringout the contrast between me and the Democratic or Republican candidates, DAnnunzio said.

Haugh said he would also focus on the contrast between mainstream and Libertarian Party platforms.

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N.C. Libertarians meet to discuss next primary candidates

Libertarian voter registration on the rise
The Libertarian Party is seeing significant growth in voter registration due to dissatisfaction with both the Democratic and Republican parties. Registration...

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