Libertarian Wrestler Glenn 'Kane' Jacobs On Not Sending 'Fascist Thug' Sheriff Arpaio a Donation

Via LRC blog

Writes Glenn Jacobs:

I received a solicitation for a donation to Joe Arpaio’s campaign today. The letter chronicled Arpaio’s battles with illegal immigrants, Mexican drug cartels, and “open-border” leftists. I find it alarming that a local politician is utilizing illegal immigration as a national fund-raising platform (especially a fascist thug like Arpaio). Meanwhile, we have the mosque controversy in New York, and a mosque under construction vandalized and burned in middle Tennessee.

Lew, it seems as if all that is needed is the right spark and the collectivist inclinations of so many Americans will explode into the police state that we all fear. The politicians and media have worked very hard to create the scapegoats with which to divert the public’s attention away from the failed policies of the State.

I wasn’t around in the ’60s and don’t remember the ’70s so I don’t have much with which to compare the current environment except history books, but things are starting to get really ugly, aren’t they?

And at Reason Hit & Run, Matt Welch quotes an interview with Jacobs from the Baltimore Sun:

I know you're an active member of the Libertarian party

and you author a political blog, The Adventures of Citizen

X. Have you ever thought about one day following in the

footsteps of Jesse Ventura and running for public

office?

Oh yeah, sure. But I think maybe with me it might be more

educational stuff — talking with young people and that sort of

thing as opposed to pursuing political office.

Do you think there will ever be a Libertarian or

independent president or will it always be someone from one of the

two major parties?

[Pauses] I don't know. Certainly I think the way things

are going with the economy, and this is not a rip on any particular

party because they're both at fault, but with the centralization of

the economy, central planning, that doesn't work. We saw that

everywhere it's been tried. As things unfold I think people will be

looking for answers, and I think the Libertarians, certainly the

people that understand real economics – Austrian economics – they

have those answers. So we'll see what happens. I think we do live

in very interesting times.

Previous article on Jacobs at IPR

For his part, Joe Arpaio has been making some alternative party related news recently as well by sending out a letter on behalf of Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo.