I'm not sure who Jim Peron is so this does not help me understand. Has the official party stance/platform been to repeal the age-of-cosent laws? Peron has been one of the most widely-visible authors of the Libertarian movement.
As for your question...Libertarian authors have written that members of NAMBLA are "among the most brutally state-oppressed individuals in this country", and that support for them is the "acid test" of one's Libertarian credentials. The 1984 Libertarian Platform stated "we oppose all legally created or sanctioned discrimination against (or in favor of) children, just as we oppose government discrimination directed at any other artificially defined subcategory of human beings".
Would you say they are against personal liberty, gun ownership, drugs, privacy, or immagration? Libertarians are simply anti-state. They have favored total nuclear disarmament, and the abolition of the CIA and FBI. They celebrated the fall of Saigon, have supported various communist guerrilla movements, have written that the U.S. is the "single most war-like, most interventionist, most imperialist government" of the 20th century, and some even CELEBRATED the terrorist actions of 9/11.
The Libertarian party believes that morality, ethics, values, rules, are totally subjective. Here's a direct quote from a leading Libertarian writer/speaker back in the 1980's..."Lying violates no Libertarian principle...You don't OWE [anyone] the truth unless he's paid you for it". In 1978, an initial platform statement "we condemn bigotry as irrational and repugnant" was removed...a former state party chairmain stated that "such a moralism simply has no place in a Libertarian platform...bigotry does not contradict basic Libertarian principle...To condemn is is to make an ethical value judgement, not a Libertarian political statement".
This is the anarchism inherent in the movement.
You can't have a system that protects liberties and privacy without also having some fundamental codes. Libertarians simply want "liberty" from the state, without the necessary established standards for human conduct. In many ways, they're like the New Left from the 1960's.
What is the role of government in a free society? The only proper role of a government is the defense and protection of individual liberties.
Kevin
