What 14th needs is neither of these 2

The electorate put the Republican Party on notice with the surprising win of Bill Foster over Jim Oberweis for Denny Hastert's U.S. House 14th District seat.

Oberweis was all about endless and expensive war. Foster would socialize the nation's health care system.

But there should be a new way out of the linear political spectrum offered to 14th District constituents -- foreign policy intervention by the Right and economic intervention on the Left.

This new way should be a system based on freedom instead of power, one that includes a frugal non-interventionist foreign policy, free markets and significantly lower taxes, and a policy that restores our constitutional rights.

Fortunately, there is such a political party that takes liberty as its most valued tenet without exception, whether it pertains to privacy rights so blatantly ripped away by the Republicans or the right to keep what one earns so cavalierly stolen by the Democrats.

It is a political party that believes America leads best by example -- through trade, diplomacy and the free exchange of ideas, not by imposing its will by the force of its war machine or by bribing nations funded by Americans' hard-earned productivity.

It is the Libertarian Party, the only political party that is consistent and principled in its application to limited government with a philosophy that advocates individual rights, personal responsibility, free markets and a non-interventionist foreign policy, a philosophy advocated by our founding fathers.

Live-and-let-live is and should be the American way.

Hopefully, the Libertarian Party will come up with a viable congressional candidate who expresses freedom from all vantage points and denounces the destructive policies of government intervention, both at home and abroad.

Kenneth Prazak

Co-founder

Fox Valley Libertarian Party

Elgin