Contra Reason’s Radley
Balko, I explain in this Guardian
piece today why the issue of whether Libertarians want to
legalize child pornography is not just some conservative smear
job.
Item one: The first questioner at the
Reason event asked three candidates for the
Libertarian Party’s nomination if they would decriminalize it.
(They all said no.)
Item two: Mary Ruwart, one of the candidates for the LP
nomination, has said in the past that she doesn’t think kiddie porn
should be illegal, so long as it’s consensual. Ruwart, I remind, is
a candidate with a serious shot at getting the nod.