Monday, October 16, 2006

Back to School

Heard from the School board candidates - Alpa Patel and Rosemarie Scott.

Ms. Patel is a lawyer and looks like a good candidate.

I talked with Mrs. Scott and will vote for her.
Perhaps of some interest to voters - registered for candidacy:

Patel 8-24
Scott 8-22

(Information thanks to Sandy at the Clerk's office.)

Why War?

Mark Fiore has the answer here:

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/profiteer.html

Friday, October 13, 2006

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

John Birch Society Members' books not bad

G. Edward Griffin's book, "The Creature From Jekyll Island" and James Perloff's book, "The Shadows of Power" are very informative. Written by John Birchers they tell a story of the take over of the U.S. government by the wealthy insiders.

The Birchers seem a little obsessed with the Commies. The real enemies are the people in control. This may seem more obvious in today's world. The New York Times and major news outlets refuse to acknowledge Libertarian candidates and mention a Republican who is a write-in candidate. Notice that they will mention "Establishment" candidates like the "Independent" from CONnecticut. (LIEberman the socialist-warmonger) (Many journalists are listed as part of the 'organization' - Council on Foreign Relations -CFR - and this is seen today.)

Birchers seem to love God a little too much. Makes us wonder if the Pope mates with the new Establishment - and popes have been the Establishment - will the Birchers follow that leader.

Still, these are good books for listing the enemies of "The People" and the Constitution. They list the enemy as Globalists. This may be the most correct term for the enemy. George Soros is rich and hasn't figured out exactly who the enemy is, but seems less of a Globalist. This may be an illusion as the Neocons are so big government Hitler and Stalin look like good alternatives. So the liberals don't look so bad, . . . today. And of course the Birchers were ahead of their time and may continue to be ahead of the curve. This they have also found out can be dangerous. (My counter to this is to always be on the front page if you can.)

A good quote from Perloff, "James Madison said: 'The accumulation of all power - legislative, executive, and judiciary - in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.'"

A change in the U.S. House (at the least) is welcome from most of us who cherish liberty.

For full disclosure G. Edward Griffin has worked with Aaron Russo on his latest release - "From Freedom to Fascism" and I support Aaron. Still this book "Creature" should be read by every American.

Monday, October 09, 2006

25 considered worst than Lugar

At http://www.beyonddelay.org/ we can see some of the dirtiest U.S. reps.

I asked about our filthy Lugar and eagerly await a reply.

I don't believe there are 25 worst than Lugar. He hasn't been caught. Give me a Constitutionalist who steals, beats his wife, and sometimes kills, and he may get my vote. These globalists should find another country.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Wake up c-span!

Due to a pathetic lack of coverage of one Libertarian candidate, I Posted this at Hammer of Truth:

Sent this letter to journal@c-span.org. Perhaps others can add their opinions.

Ed


Dear producers,

I’ve seen on Washington Journal and in a Cheney rally for a write-in candidate coverage of Delay’s old Congressional seat. Yet no mention of the Libertarian candidate Bob Smither. What’s the problem? I do not see this same noncoverage of all candidates polling second in U.S. Congressional Districts.

I hope you have Mr. Smither as a guest to make up for this terrible mistake.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/15313886.htm

Thanks for your prompt attention.

Ed Gluck, Terre Haute, IN

I'll post any reply from C-span.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Vigo School Board Elections

It looks like two good candidates have challenged Tom in the race for school board. The other incumbents are unchallenged.

One challenger worked as a civil rights attorney and the other mentioned she was for the individual.

I would like to question these candidates before I choose between them.

Read more here: http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_240233835.html

Thursday, August 24, 2006

BOOK REPORTS

Constitution in Exile: By Judge Andrew Napolitano

This book, by a Fox News guy was surprisingly Libertarian. His first book leaned a little Republican, although I must say I enjoyed his attacks on Reno.

This book must be read by all because he gives an excellent explanation of the difference between Legal Positivism and Natural Law. If nailed down, I would say that all laws are agreements between men which sounds positivist, but I believe that agreement must be on laws that do not disturb individual freedom that does no harm to others. Napolitano captures this thought of our founders. (For Libertarians, Jury Rights Day - September 5, reminds us that the jury rules on not only the facts of a case but also the law itself. If clarification is needed visit Fully Informed Jury Association - FIJA.)

My rating would be similar to the ones you can read at Amazon.com. The weakness I saw was, as in his first book, a belief that the government can demand a license for my traveling. (unless he is parsing words like the bad guys) He also seems to have missed the part in history about the founders having conventions so that the Constitution was approved not by the states but by We the People. It was the People who demanded a Bill of Rights be placed in the Constitution.



Size Matters: By Joel Miller

This book brings up all the Republican "ideas" on what is wrong with the U.S. and goes half-way in giving solutions. I will sound here like the Green guy (reviewer at amazon.com) who gave it one star when I say it points at a Social Security "problem" and the Republican solution of retirement savings accounts. Mr. Miller is young and perhaps influenced by his father Dennis Miller, who may be the "funny" guy/football commentator.

In a chapter on licensing and regulation, he writes this very true paragraph:

"By killing competition in a trade, we also remove a crucial incentive to improve quality. Once your job is safe from competitors who would happily filch your customers, it is easier to let stuff slip now and then, take it easy, stop pushing to improve and please, innovate and anticipate new customer demand. Such a lowering of quality is not inevitable, but the possibility goes up the moment competition goes down."

Four pages before that paragraph Mr. Miller ends a paragraph with this nonsense: "Given the highly specialized and technical knowledge needed to perform in some of these trades, licensing seems reasonable, even smart. License physicians? Of course!"

Mr. Miller does us one favor although by accident. He quotes Jefferson from his first inaugural:

"...[W]hat more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens - a wise and frugal government, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities...."

This part: "and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned" means no tax on labor. As income taxes are being raised on labor in cities, counties, and states, we see a transfer from slave labor to giant international corporations. Who pays for tax abatements and incentives to land new business? The workers and small business.

Since I did not see any call for banning homosexual marriages I admit this book could have been worse. Compared to his writing on Lew against the "Drug War" I found this book a let down. It gives a snapshot in time. I have thought about regulating engineers as their calculations have life and death consequences, but now they make less than teachers. (according to Paul Harvey - summer "moonlighting" not included) I give this book two stars out of five for giving Republicans something to hope for. Though we all know Republicans say one thing and do something very different.

My obvious comment: It is time the voters demanded real action. Don't vote for anyone who approved the Patriot Act or Iraq War. Congressional and Presidential candidates must favor Roberts Rules - NO LOG ROLLING! - vote one issue at a time.

Friday, August 04, 2006

Nader makes another good point

Here is an article by Ralph about Dem. LIEberman and a connection with corporate theives.

http://www.countercurrents.org/us-nader040806.htm

Once again the facists have us looking to the socialists.

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Watch As Nuts Bolt Away From U.S. Constitution

After reading discourse on Global Warming here, I noticed a similar type of argument put forth by Greenies and Neocons.

Neocon: WMDs are so scary and destructive we must do something. Waiting for facts is deadly. We must act NOW!

Greenie: Global Warming is so scary and destructive we must do something. Waiting for facts is deadly. We must act NOW!

How about this Boogeyman and solution:

Drug Warrior: The "Scourge of Drug Abuse" is so scary and destructive we must do something. Waiting for facts is deadly. We must act NOW!

This last example brings the right (more prisons, more cops, more courts, stricter laws limiting rights) together with the left (more government programs for addicts, more government child welfare bureaucracy, more government workers to investigate spouse and child abuse).

Are we teaching our children to listen to emotionally crippled crackpots?

What do textbooks tell our children?


Are there any School Board candidates out there with a better plan?

Are Conservatives ruining the U.S. faster than Liberals?

Once again we see liberals and libertarians coming closer on more issues. As the Republicans and so-called moderate and conservative Democrats move away from fiscal responsibility and toward stripping Citizens of God given natural rights, maybe the liberals are just looking better.

Libertarians are against NAFTA in that it is not free trade. This "highway for corporations" paid with local and federal money is not something Libertarians support. (See Major Moves at: http://lpin.blogspot.com/)

This is from Count Us at: http://www.i69tour.org/

COUNT US! QUESTIONS: Was building the NAFTA free trade corridor interstate really a 'CORE GOAL' for hoosiers? That is what the tier 1 record of decision allowed INDOT to claim. Is the 'NAFTA Free Trade Interstate' really more important than preserving our farms, forests, drinking water, air parklands, Amish communities and listening to the comments of 94% of hoosiers who bothered to answer the call for our stated opinion? Is it more important than existing Hoosier roads everywhere in the state? Will Martinsville and Bloomington quality of life be improved with a larger than I-465 highway infrastructure dividing their east from west? Does anyone, even Evansville, want a Toll Road? One owned by foreign owners? Does Evansville want Bloomington and Martinville residents to pay a toll every day for the rest of their and their children's and their grand children's lives so that Evansville can get the Interstate that they deserve? Follow this link to learn a little more about our Mexican boarder crossing point at Nuevo Laredo that some in our state are so interested in connecting to our communities! It is now considered the illegal drug capital of the world.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=nuevolaredo

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

JBS rates Congress

The John Birch Society came out again with ratings of the U.S. Congress.

Ron Paul of Texas scored 100.

Dems scored higher than Republicans.

Senator Lugar scored 0. If you don't understand that how about zero, zilch, nothing.
And this guy runs for President of the U.S.? Hey, if we change the Constitution to let Arnold run for Prez, how about Gorby or Putin.

Hostettler scored 60 or 67. Feingold scored 50 or thirty-something. I would tend to give more weight to the quesitons of Patriot Act and NSA and Feingold would actually score better. The difference between Hostettler and Ron Paul? Ron Paul represents Citizens under the U.S. Constitution. Hostettler thinks he can vote away our rights and Constitution. This blogger will not cast a vote for this sell out. (Sorry John but when your tyrant state comes about you may see me placing my flag in what you might consider an uncomfortable position.)

This is covered a bit more fully by Laurence M. Vance in this article.

My take: "Houston, we have problems." (Although Ron Paul represents Houston and he is not the problem.)

Monday, July 31, 2006

School Board Elections

Filing deadline to run for School Board is August 25 at noon.

If no money is collected (or a low amount) you only have to file your candidate committee and no CFA-4. This pays only $3000 per year but you will see opponents spending thousands. This is a way to get your feet wet in running for office. School board candidates run as independents.


DISTRICT I

One of three seats from Harrison Township is up.

Held by Guille Cox 2002 - 2006


DISTRICT II

One seat from Fayette Township or Sugar Creek Township.

Held by Joseph Minnis, Jr. 2002 -2006


DISTRICT IV

One seat from Lost Creek, Riley, or Pierson Township.

Held by Gene Shike 2002 - 2006


DISTRICT V

One board member from Honey Creek, Linton, Prairieton, or Prairie Creek Township.

Michael H. Tom 2002 -2006


County Clerk can tell you who has filed and has the needed forms.

How about candidates for the voucher system?

Even one candidate wanting to do away with "text" books would seem revolutionary.

New Treasurer/Secretary for Vigo County LP

Latest news from lpvc:

Robert E. Hamiliton has been appointed Treasurer/Secretary of the Vigo County Libertarian Party. Robert is a past Chairman of the Vigo County LP, resurecting it in 1999. He was chairman until the lpvc was affiliated in March 2000.

Welcome back Robert!

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Common Sense 2006

Here we see the "traditional" view of single line left/right orientation. Commentators and candidates believe moving to the center of this line will get the most votes. This may be correct to some extent, but this is a bad representation of where people stand. This misrepresentation is moving the United States into dangerous territory.

I suggest we take the left/right one-dimensional representation and curve the ends upward. Drag the people on the ends along with the line. Finally, connect the two ends to form a circle or oval. The result is a two-dimensional representation. If you place a vertical line at the bottom center, you will have a separation of the totalitarian regimes we commonly refer to as communism and facism. Communism and facism, as Walter Williams says, is two sides of the same coin. At the top you have freedom.

You'll notice that people considered on the left, like Feingold, would fall somewhere below Nader on the left side of this oval. The John Birch Society, sometimes called conservative, sometimes reactionary right, falls somewhere between Pat Buchanan and Thomas Jefferson.

Most "leftists" today do not rise above the halfway point because socialism has overtaken not only the U.S. but much of the world. The problem few notice is that corporate welfare and socialism are doing a one-two punch on the freedom of Americans. As a good friend once said about the Presidential candidates, "we are bottom feeding."

Changing attitudes from left/right to top/bottom is the challenge of the near future. A similar representation, as mentioned below, can be found at:

http://theadvocates.org

Randy Scheunemann: Office of The Secretary of Defense – Consultant on Iraq Policy, mentioned the blog below called the 1992 speech of Pat Buchanan facist. These Hitler-like attacks on freedom destroy this country. And the left/right thinking is to blame. Hillary Clinton is a bottom-feeder people consider left. Watch her sink into the totalitarian mud as 2008 approaches.

Think up/down and vote this way. Pat should shake hands with Russ. The voters need good examples, not the evil we see on TV every day.

GOOD

MADISON

JEFFERSON/GOLDWATER

BUCHANAN

NADER-BOB BARR

FEINGOLD

REAGAN

HOWARD DEAN

HILLARY-KERRY

WIDOWMAKER BUSH

STALIN-HITLER

EVIL

Sunday, May 21, 2006

PNAC to Government - but corruption stays the same

From this: http://www.reasoned.org/e_pnac.htm
religious site we have this information about PNACers (Project for a New American Century).
My comments on these globalists are in blue.


Known PNAC colleagues joining Dick Cheney were:

- Donald Rumsfeld: Secretary of Defense.
- Paul D. Wolfowitz: Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Assistant to the Vice President.
- John R. Bolton: Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
Isn't this the guy Bush put on as ambassador to U.N. during a recess so he didn't have to be confirmed by the Senate? Globalist or Imperialist? Same thing?
- I. Lewis Libby: Assistant to the President, and Chief of Staff to the Vice President.
C.I.A. Leaker?
- Zalmay Khalilzad: Senior Director – National Security Council; now Ambassador to Afghanistan, Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan, and Special Presidential Envoy to the Free Iraqis. Always on TV speaking on our relation with Afghanistan - We would do better watching "Rambo III.
- Peter W. Rodman: Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
- Christopher A. Williams: member of Pentagon’s Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel, and member of Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board; now Department of Defense – Special Assistant to Donald Rumsfeld.
- Paula Dobriansky: Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs.
- Aaron Friedberg: Vice President’s Deputy National Security Advisor.
- Abram N. Shulsky: Director – Defence Department’s Office Of Special Plans.
- Barry D. Watts: Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation – Office of The Secretary of Defense.
- Stephen A. Cambone: Special Assistant to Donald Rumsfeld; now Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Special Assistant to the Secretary and Director for Program Analysis and Evaluation – Department of Defense.
- William Howard Taft IV: Chief Legal Advisor to the Department of State.
I would have hoped for better from a Taft.
- Mark P. Lagon: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
- William Schneider Jr.: Chairman – Defense Science Board for the Department of Defense.
- Richard L. Armitage: Deputy Secretary of State. idiot
- Vin Weber: member – National Commission on Public Service. gets around
- Richard N. Perle: Pentagon Policy Advisor (resigned February 2004), member – Defense Policy Board. Guilty since Iran/Contra
- Randy Scheunemann: Office of The Secretary of Defense – Consultant on Iraq Policy.
- Gary Schmitt: Consultant to the Department of Defense.
- R. James Woolsey: member – Defense Policy Board, member – Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel, member – National Commission on Energy Policy. Ex- CIA liar. Promoted war before it was fashionable.
- Elliot Abrams: National Security Council – top advisor on the Middle East.- Henry S. Rowen: member – Department of Defense Policy Board. February 12, 2004: Presidential appointment to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Guilty since Iran/contra - and what about those WMDs? Ask Woolsey.
- Devon Gaffney-Cross: member – Defense Policy Board. Is this guy related to Frank Gaffney?
Frank Gaffney - Neocon Superhawk - against port deal though.
- David Epstein: employee at the Office of Secretary of Defense – Net Assessment.
- Richard V. Allen: member – National Security Advisory Board, member – Defense Policy Board.
- Penn Kemble: Department of State – Head, Eminent Persons Group, Sudan Slavery Commission.
- Jeffrey Bergner: study group member – Commission on National Security 21st Century.
- Francis Fukuyama: President’s Council on Bioethics. Now questions Iraq invasion.
- Nicholas Eberstadt: consultant for the State Department, consultant for the Bureau of the Census.
- Hillel Fradkin: member of the Advisory Committee on International Education – Department of Education.
- Seth Cropsey: Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau.
- Dov S. Zakheim: Under Secretary and Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Defense (resigned April 15, 2004).
- Rudy Boschwitz: Presidential appointee to the Holocaust Memorial Council.
- Robert B. Zoellick: U.S. Trade Representative – member of President’s Cabinet. Payola for a "conservative" reporter.
- Charles Krauthammer: member – President’s Council On Bioethics. Born Urugury raised in Montreal always on Fox News.
- Daniel Goure: consultant – Department of State, consultant – Department of Defense, consultant – Department of Energy.
- Victoria Nuland: (wife of Robert Kagan, co-founder and Project Director of the PNAC) Vice President’s Deputy National Security Advisor.

Also AEI has many PNAC members. These things are corrupt.

A website to find out about libertarians

Check out Advocates for Self-Government at: http://www.self-gov.org/

You'll notice a diamond shaped quiz. It still has left and right corners plus top and bottom corners. You'll notice we've been tricked into trolling the bottom between left and right. We need to move up from Authoritarian toward the Freedom this country was based on.

In 2004 Johnnie Sancedio said, "We have a choice of bottom feeders." Which reminds me, these bottom feeders enslave us, stealing the wealth of the poor and working class. We have to move to smaller government, get rid of the federal reserve, and end corporate welfare. (The federal reserve is a way to tax the poor by making their money worth less. Of course it is okay if you get your share of the goodies.)

Saturday, May 20, 2006

This is the sort of poster "conservatives" believe should be obeyed. Some self-confessed moderates are rightly outraged.

You can tell this is a serious poster because it lines up the V with Victory and then they hurry along to see how their Halliburton stock is doing.
http://www.outragedmoderates.org/Page3.html

Check out the quote from T.R.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Better Red than Dead

With Widowmaker Bush supporters willing to give up not only their rights but others' rights, it is time to tell a little history. In reponse to the divine rights of kings, Algernon Sidney wrote his Discourses Concerning Government and flipped the world of Natural Slaves into natural freedoms or rights. David Dieteman explains how this was put into our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights and it is the philosophy which defines the United States.

When someone says. "They can tap my phone, I have nothing to hide," they are correct in that their ignorance is showing for all to see. An inalienable right is one which can not be given or sold. That ignorant statement above is like someone saying, "Today I will place the sun in my pocket and you will live in darkness." It cannot be accomplished.

But you answer, the government does tap my phone.

No the government cannot tap your phone.

Your phone may be tapped by criminals who also get paid by the government, but by definition, criminals do illegal things.

All these people who support a better "Red than Dead" philosophy are not American. They are traitors.

Widowmaker must be impeached.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

"The Poor and the Working Class"

Just thought I'd post the words at the top of the LP Chairman Blog. If the Indiana LP was at one time elitist, it has now been taken over by Jeffersonians. It IS the opposition party. (See post on Corporate Whores)



State Chairman's Report
A Proud Libertarian State Chairman's Postings on the Exciting Progress and Success of the Libertarian Party of Indiana, Defenders of Small Business, the Poor and the Working Class


Chairman Blog