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The Libertarian Party recently announced that it was <a href="https://www.lp.org/lp-denounces-end-daca/" target="_blank">denouncing the end of DACA</a>, completely missing the mark and making themselves look like fools to much of their own party.<br />
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Quite honestly, the national party completely blew it. This could have been our time to shine, to point out how flawed the two-party system truly is, and how dangerous legislation through executive mandate can be, that one administration's policies can simply be undone with the stroke of a pen by the next administration, and that without following the process of turning a bill into law, that these executive orders are counter-productive to the welfare of our great nation.<br />
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Executive orders are the most removed from representation possible. There's a reason our laws are supposed to be approved by both the House and Senate - to ensure equal representation. Unilaterally implementing an executive order to change the immigration system does not present fair and equal representation of the people.<br />
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Our immigration system is very broken, and any executive order such as DACA is just a temporary, short-term fix, which can be easily undone as we've seen in these past few days. We must press Congress to permanently fix our immigration system through legislation. By ending the DACA executive order, congress must now act.<br />
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If this was a sudden, abrupt end to DACA, then the LP's article would be much more appropriate. It isn't. This is a 6-month phase-out, giving congress plenty of time to push through legislation to reform our broken immigration system and fix things permanently. Instead, the LP went with the kneejerk "sky is falling" reaction.<br />
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In a time when the country is so divided, and every reaction to government actions so polarized, the Libertarian Party could shine as the voice of calm and reason.<br />
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But just like when the LP Vice Chair called service members <a href="http://libertyviral.com/vice-chair-lp-service-members-moralless-murderers/" target="_blank">moralless murderers</a>, the national party seems completely out of touch with its members.<br />
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Simply put, the LP completely blew it.<br />
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<i>The is an opinion piece by Ken Buckler, independent contributor.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-3046806452514442712017-07-15T16:19:00.002-07:002017-07-15T16:19:09.762-07:00Allen Mathews, 2017 Bremerton, WA City Council candidate and USN Veteran talks Government Financial Accountability and Transparency<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Allen Mathews is running in 2017 for the city of Bremerton, WA City Council
position 1. You can follow Mathews on Facebook at </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mathews4bremertoncitycouncil" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">facebook.com/mathews4bremertoncitycouncil</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b> </b>and visit his website at <a href="https://mathewsforcitycoun.wixsite.com/mathews4bremerton" target="_blank">mathewsforcitycoun.wixsite.com/mathews4bremerton</a><b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> City Council candidate for Bremerton, WA is our guest today for an in-depth look at his campaign and plans. Thank you for joining us, Allen Mathews. Let's start off with a quick recap on what has lead you to this 2017 run and how things have been so far?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>AM:</b> First and foremost, thank you and the LCI for conducting the interview. What has led me to run in the first place? Well I would have to say it was finding out about hidden utility taxes. Former Bremerton city councilman Roy Ruby on and Mr. Robert Parker explained this all to me. In December the budget for 2017 showed 5.5 million dollars being siphoned off the utilities and into the general fund. This action submitted the idea to run, I watched the incumbent motion or second then vote yes on every bill that dealt with the text of utilities. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As far as how things have been campaigning, I guess great considering this is my first time running for public office. Voters are generally willing to talk and appreciate when you have a dialogue with them. Because of that dialogue I formed a non partisan platform that no one has complained about.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> Very important reasons to run this year and congratulations on taking the plunge to represent the people of Bremerton, WA. With that said, what other issues do you consider top priority for the city? What issues are you tackling that other candidates are not addressing?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>AM:</b> The other issues that I know haven't been brought up by either opponent is honest governance. I don't like hidden agendas when I comes to the services that the public pays for. That even goes into unreasonable justifications for spending.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I want to help develop means of repairing the decaying infrastructure that doesn't revolve around the current crisis management of waiting until there is Grant money.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is a dire need of a hospital in Bremerton with the CHI Franciscans but our of Harrison Hospital. I want to work with the council, the mayor and the elected officials of the 23rd and 26th LD to get a second provider in the county to compete with CHI.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because of the rising homeless and low income population there has been concern about Bremerton housing authority and Kitsap housing authority practices of not ensuring vouchers not staying in their immediate area. We need to ensure that our local funds stay local.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> Transparency is always a refreshing welcome in politics. Holding true to that; what are your plans on working with your peers on the council and the mayor? There is a lot of work to be completed in Bremerton.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>AM:</b> David I am a USN Veteran, I took an oath twice in my career with the Navy. City council is no different; there is an oath to uphold and defend the BMC (Bremerton Municipal Code), the RCW's, WAC, USC and the Constitution of the State and USA. I plan to work with my peers while best representing my voters within the scope of those laws, I plan to hold them accountable to their oaths as they should with me. This is part of the reason I call myself the Voice of Reason, If the voters or the fellow members don't particularly like a law, I am willing to help guide them in the right direction to get in contact with those who can change the law, such as State Legislators or Representative Derek Kilmer, Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. And with transparency I am ready to talk to voters on any vote I cast; I actually encourage the criticism that comes with the position.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> If you could tell existing council one thing right now for them to hear about your ideas, what would your message be?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>AM:</b> I have already started building a report with sitting council members who are not at risk of losing their seats, or not up for election. They know where I stand already on most things. The most important item is if they can not bring an ordinance change to the utilities on their own, be prepared for a voter initiative that I fully support coming down the road to change the utilities taxes and funding that they cannot control.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> How can citizens contribute towards your campaign? Are you accepting donations or volunteers for your campaign? If so how would they be able to contact you? What social media sites and or websites can you provide for us here?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>AM:</b> Citizens can contribute towards the campaign by cash or PayPal. I accept any volunteers I can get. Tiffany Diaz De Leon, Mark Kibler and Alex Williams have all volunteered time to help doorbell and banner wave. To sign up to volunteer follow the link to the campaign website; </span><a href="https://mathewsforcitycoun.wixsite.com/mathews4bremerton" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://mathewsforcitycoun.wixsite.com/mathews4bremerton</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Also there is a Facebook page that you can follow at </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mathews4bremertoncitycouncil" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.facebook.com/mathews4bremertoncitycouncil</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. There you can find my events message to volunteer, and donate. Finally if you go to PayPal and select to send money, use the email address <a href="mailto:mathewsforcitycouncil@gmail.com" target="_blank">mathewsforcitycouncil@gmail.com</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>AM:</b> David thank you for the time to speak. I am grateful for the support the Kitsap LP had afford me by endorsement, donations and volunteers. As we get closer to primary date I'll be picking it into high gear to ensure that I am the Voice of District 1 and the Voice of Reason at the Dias. Thank you again and continue the great work with LCI.</span></div>
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<i>This contribution is from Seattle-based independent journalist, </i><i><i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidmalekar" target="_blank">David Malekar</a></i>, Editor in Chief for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/libertychronicle" target="_blank">Liberty Chronicle Independent</a>; and publishes content to other online <a href="http://www.davidmalekar.com/" target="_blank">publications</a>.</i></div>
David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-80130488166498072192017-07-01T02:12:00.001-07:002018-03-15T19:16:00.960-07:00Phoenix Arizona DCS(CPS) Families Rally 6/16/2017<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">On June 16th, 2017 A group of families who have had their children seized by the Department of Child Safety (DCS/CPS) and other activists took to the streets of Phoenix, AZ. Many of them just want their story heard and for their children to be returned safely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is a huge issue here in Arizona. The state of Arizona doesn't have to have warrants to seize children unlike other states. DCS is loosely regulated and there are stories of abuse of power in various forms during investigations. This has had media coverage for the last year but legislatively nothing has been accomplished. Between 2011 and 2015 there was a sharp increase of children being taken away. 4,500 more children were taken away in 2015 than in 2011. If you look at the numbers you can tell there is a problem. However this is more than just about numbers. This is about rights of parents as well as children. Without seeking warrants (for non life endangered cases) to remove children from their parents homes and severing parental rights this goes against the 4th amendment. There's been cases of abuse in group and foster homes. Some of the abuse has been severe and those numbers continue to rise. While the department has been in trouble before for letting family abuse cases go in the past, they have turned the other direction where they are taking children away for simple issues in the family care. There are many sides to this issue but are these numbers and stories alarming to you? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Above is the start of the Rally going into the detention of a family member Beth Young Breen and AZ Gubernatorial candidate/activist Merissa Hamilton. They were held for most of the day at Maricopa County Jail in Downtown Phoenix after blocking the street during an order to disperse out of the street. Bond was paid and both of them were released by June 17th. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There was a point where we had to wait for light rail and a signal. This is where parents decided to speak a little on their thoughts on DCS and children being taken from their parents.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This was a meeting that Sami Stone (Chief of staff for Councilmember Sal Diciccio) was hearing the families of the children taken by DCS. This was mostly telling their stories of the seizures and cases. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.raisingarizonakids.com/2017/02/arizona-children-foster-care/">Interesting</a></span></span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comPhoenix, AZ, USA33.4483771 -112.0740372999999932.6020036 -113.36493079999998 34.2947506 -110.78314379999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-24170823157193977442017-06-25T11:16:00.001-07:002017-06-25T11:33:53.368-07:00Jennifer Hesse, 2017 Everett City Council candidate in Everett, WA focuses on Transparency, Communication, and Voluntarism<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer Hesse, Everett City Council candidate (Position 3) for Everett, WA 2017</td></tr>
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Jennifer Hesse is running in 2017 for the city of Everett, WA City Council
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<b>DM:</b> Everett City Council candidate, Jennifer Hesse joins LCI today to talk about her run and what she would like to see happen in Everett. Thanks for being with us, Jennifer. What inspired you to run for City Council this year and how has the campaign gone so far?<br />
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<b>JH:</b> Hi David, thanks for having me! I am running for city council because Everett residents are not being heard by their current representatives. It is important for us to listen to the communities we are impacting with our decisions and take their opinions into account, especially if we do not live in those neighborhoods. It is also for this reason I am for districting Everett - Everett city council currently has no member living anywhere near the Berkshire location where they have chosen to put low-barrier housing, which effects only those in the area. <br />
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<b>DM:</b> What are the most important issues you want to deal with as a part of Everett City Council?<br />
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<b>JH:</b> In short - transparency, communication, and districting.<br />
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The people of Everett should be as involved as they wish to be in every step of the decision making process. Behind the scenes meetings must be properly recorded and available for the public. I would also like to strengthen the volunteer programs in our area and look into drug crimes as a health concern rather than a legal one.<br />
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<b>DM:</b> Out of all of the issues, which are in your opinion, not being fairly addressed yet by the Council and how would you like to work with them in getting things changed?<br />
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<b>JH:</b> As I mentioned before, the Berkshire location and low-barrier housing has been a process wrought with problems - transparency, communication, and location of the representatives being chief among them. From the day I first received an email from a Berkshire neighborhood resident, I listened, visited the area, walked around, and realized exactly what he was saying. We are paid not to make decisions that help us as individuals, but rather to represent the entire city of Everett. We need to reach out and go out of our way to understand what the problems are.<br />
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<b>DM:</b> What are your other plans towards making progress in Everett with other council memebers?<br />
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<b>JH:</b> I very much would like to see Everett's social voluntary programs grow, which is something the current members appear to be supportive of. I would love to work with them and expand these programs.<br />
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<b>DM:</b> Ideally, what would you like to see accomplished within the first 100 days on council? <br />
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<b>JH:</b> We need to be looking at the decisions made without all facts heard and considered and look into wording of ordinances recently passed to ensure clear language that will not be able to be construed later on. I have witnessed too many of these issues in this past year and we need to take a step back and fix these problems before we can move forward.<br />
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<b>DM:</b> If you could give one message to the voters within Everett before they cast their decision by the primary, what would it be? <br />
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<b>JH:</b> Your voice matters, your livelihood matters, and your safety matters. I promise to hear everyone's concerns before deciding on any motions. <br />
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<b>DM:</b> For those who would be interested in getting involved with your campaign, donations, and more information, what links can you provide for readers such as Facebook and website?<br />
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<b>JH:</b> Please find me at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HesseforEverett" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/HesseforEverett</a>, where you can contact me directly, view all stances on issues, and respond to any of them. This is a place to agree, disagree, and for all of us to learn. <br />
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I am not fundraising - this is a decision I made based on a huge flaw I have seen in this system for years - thousands of dollars are raised for local elections. And where does that money go? Into signs and paper that will be thrown away! I prefer using money by giving to charities that serve our city and its citizens. If you would like to be involved with my campaign, please give to charities that serve Everett and make a short announcement of support through it, volunteer, and be a voice for your neighborhood.<br />
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<b>DM:</b> It's been a pleasure to speak with you about your campaign for Everett City Council. Closing, what final information would you like to leave for those reading?<br />
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<b>JH:</b> It would be my pleasure representing you. Please don't hesitate to
contact me - let me know what's important to you so that I can fight for
you. Thank you.<br />
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<i>This contribution is from Seattle-based independent journalist, </i><i><i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidmalekar" target="_blank">David Malekar</a></i>, Editor in Chief for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/libertychronicle" target="_blank">Liberty Chronicle Independent</a>; and publishes content to other online <a href="http://www.davidmalekar.com/" target="_blank">publications</a>.</i></div>
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<b>Steve ran for congress in 2016 as a Libertarian against Steve Santarsiero a Democrat and Brian Fitzpatrick, A Republican who ended up taking the seat. Mr Scheetz is an activist working on various projects within his community and the Libertarian Party. As he explains above he is working on a project for Justice system reform. He has also held leadership roles within the party. Below is more information about him and his Candidacy. He will be running for US Congress in 2018.</b></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comPennsylvania, USA41.2033216 -77.19452469999998838.141316100000004 -82.358098699999985 44.2653271 -72.030950699999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-59568476956136336942017-06-21T10:37:00.001-07:002018-03-15T19:17:12.618-07:00Phoenix City Community Meeting with Police Chief Jeri Williams<div style="text-align: center;">
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I was in attendance to this community meeting in my council district in Phoenix. The district is up for election and I have noticed that Jim Warring is running for reelection unopposed. Jeri Williams is new to the department. She started back in October and came from California where she's been in law enforcement for years. She explains about hiring more officers and talks about the most prolific crimes in the area which is property crimes. Above is a whole video of the meeting. </div>
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Arizona has a huge problem right now with DCS (Department of Child Safety (CPS)). They do not currently need warrants per state law. However Police departments may chose their involvement in enforcing laws. There is a separate division in the police department that works directly with DCS called the "Family Investigations Bureau." I was asked by a community member to ask questions related to DCS. I didn't get to ask my second question. She says it plain and simple AZ doesn't need "Warrants" to seize parental rights from parents. Doesn't this go against the 4th amendment and some others? While she went around the question a bit I got contact information and learned more about the Phoenix Police department. Below I have links in support of my claims and information about the department. This is just the beginning of my coverage on this issue as there was a Rally here last Friday that made the news. </div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comPhoenix, AZ, USA33.4483771 -112.0740372999999932.6020036 -113.36493079999998 34.2947506 -110.78314379999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-53497065019348869862017-06-21T00:33:00.001-07:002017-06-21T13:01:14.280-07:00Interview with Jilletta Jarvis, 2018 candidate running for Governor of NH<div style="text-align: center;">
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Jilletta is running for Governor a second time in 2018. In 2016 she ran against a Libertarian candidate by the name of Max Abramson as an Independent. Also running were Democrat Colin Van Ostern and the GOP candidate who won the seat Chris Sununu. She is fighting for mainly pragmatic issues. Mostly efficiency and well being of taxpayers. Jilletta will be running as Libertarian for Governor in 2018. There are links to learn more below. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Alex Love</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an independent journalist from Lynnwood, WA / Phoenix, AZ. He is a community servant and activist who also runs a non profit called <a href="http://www.facebook.com/love4liberty" target="_blank">Love 4 Liberty</a>. </span></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comNew Hampshire, USA43.1938516 -71.57239529999998240.2699256 -76.735969299999979 46.117777600000004 -66.408821299999985tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-62759350142695505202017-06-15T17:08:00.000-07:002017-06-15T17:11:49.146-07:00Del McArdle At DCS Policy Meeting<div style="text-align: center;">
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I was in attendance at this meeting where the public was invited to speak on the DCS Policy. While there were only a few people who showed up. Del McArdle spoke on the current issues with warrants. This was filmed at the DCS office on Thunderbird.</div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comPhoenix, AZ, USA33.4483771 -112.0740372999999932.6020036 -113.36493079999998 34.2947506 -110.78314379999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-56322220175530201832017-06-15T00:06:00.000-07:002017-07-07T17:58:25.752-07:00John Schryvers - Anacortes, Washington for City Council Interview<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Alex Love</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an independent journalist from Lynnwood, WA / Phoenix, AZ. He is a community servant and activist who also runs a non profit called <a href="http://www.facebook.com/love4liberty" target="_blank">Love 4 Liberty</a>. </span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comAnacortes, WA 98221, USA48.512604499999988 -122.6126717999999948.428407499999985 -122.77403329999999 48.596801499999991 -122.45131029999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-55022793479613109202017-05-31T00:29:00.002-07:002017-06-01T22:19:35.973-07:00Interview with Libertarian Party of King County Chair, Michelle Darnell and Plans for LPKC<br />
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The Libertarian Party of King County is a newly formed chapter, this year in early 2017. Michelle Darnell, who has been a semi-regular guest on LCI talks with us once more about LPKC's plans and how Seattle and King County affect the entire state of Washington.<br />
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Want to get involved? You can contribute to LPKC in the following ways:<br />
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Monthly Donation Support: <br />
<a href="https://secure.piryx.com/donate/IPp5gXk3/Libertarian-Party-of-King-County/sponsorshiplpkc">https://secure.piryx.com/donate/IPp5gXk3/Libertarian-Party-of-King-County/sponsorshiplpkc</a><br />
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One-time Donation Support:<br />
<a href="https://www.lpkingcounty.com/" target="_blank">https://www.lpkingcounty.com/</a><br />
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Volunteering:<br />
<a href="https://www.lpkingcounty.com/volunteer-with-lpkc" target="_blank">https://www.lpkingcounty.com/volunteer-with-lpkc</a> <br />
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Following LPKC on Facebook:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/KingCountyLP" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/KingCountyLP</a><br />
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Michelle Darnell has released the following to accompany this interview, as they are building LPKC and need your help: <br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">Dear
Friends of Liberty and Justice,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">I
know you have had enough of taxes, regulation and stifling oppression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You feel your freedom slipping away every
single day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are frustrated to see
the homeless on the streets and to be sitting in time sucking traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t know what to do about it though.
This letter is your first step!</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time has come for us to unite and fight
back!</span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">King
County is heavily under attack. Barely a day goes by that the headlines don’t
speak of an attempt to raise our taxes in order to respond to a crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Homelessness, a failing education system,
horrible traffic and income inequality are all used as excuses to for
increased taxes and regulation. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">Meanwhile
our liberty candidates struggle to gain a foothold. </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">That is what the Libertarian Party
of King County (LPKC) hopes to do. </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">We are building a party apparatus to support
liberty minded candidates and influence policy and legislation around King
County and in Olympia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will leverage
data, technology, our resources and a team of passionate and talented people to
increase our exposure in our county, reach voters with a positive libertarian
message and professionalize our party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">We already have taken the first steps toward our
vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have an 11 member board, a
website multiple social media channels, several candidates running and
donations are already coming in! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">If you want to see what we have been up
to, go here: <a data-mce-href="https://youtu.be/XdNiDCkP5Io" href="https://youtu.be/XdNiDCkP5Io" target="_blank">[https://youtu.be/XdNiDCkP5Io</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">We also have thousands of people ready to get to
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we need a place to call home,
a place to meet, work and store materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We also need a full-time director. Most of our team are volunteers,
working full-time jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need one
person now dedicated to helping us organize and keep things moving forward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">If I have learned anything in my last 8 years is
that politics is a numbers game and: </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We have to pay to play. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So help us put our flag in the ground and reclaim
King County from the progressive tax and spend agenda that is CREATING poverty
and homelessness and disempowering individuals and businesses. Help us build a
third party that truly represents YOUR interests and modernizes the way we
approach politics in King County. This is how WE win!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">As King
County goes, so goes the State of Washington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>King County is also the 14<sup>th</sup> largest county in the country so
we are in a strategic position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">We
need <b>your</b> help today to build this. Together we are LIBERTY
STRONG!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">LPKC <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">i<i>s
growing VERY quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to hire
paid staff and secure an office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
will allow us to take our next steps toward activating volunteers in our
community to canvass and assist our candidates this year and hereafter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We also want to collaborate with local individual
organizations in serving our community as an example of private organizations
responding to public problems. In so doing we DISPLACE government.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b><u><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In fact 10% of our regular contributions will
go to charitable efforts. </span></u></b></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Would
you consider donating $5/25/100 a month to help us achieve our mission? You can set
up a regular or onetime donate online at <a href="https://www.lpkingcounty.com/" target="_blank">LPKingcounty.com</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So help us reach our goal of $10,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Even if
you live our side King County you can help us reclaim our county, take back our
state and impact our country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are
building a bench of future congressmen and women and maybe even a President!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Join us
today! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many hands make light work!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I personally promise you, we won’t let you
down!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you <u>ever</u> have a concern
or suggestion you can contact me at </span><a data-mce-href="mailto:michellelpkc@gmail.com" href="mailto:michellelpkc@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">michellelpkc@gmail.com</span></a><u><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">.</span></u></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So what
are you waiting for? Lets get this party started!</span></u></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">We
thank you in advance for your support!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Your donation is greatly appreciated and will be used to grow our
organization, support our candidates and serve our community. </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So help
us reach our goal of $10,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many hands make light work!</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">BE
the change,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">Michelle
Darnell, Chair<br />
Libertarian Party of King County<br /></span></i><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">Donation Link:</span><a href="https://secure.piryx.com/donate/IPp5gXk3/Libertarian-Party-of-King-County/sponsorshiplpkc" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";"><br /><br />https://secure.piryx.com/donate/IPp5gXk3/Libertarian-Party-of-King-County/sponsorshiplpkc</span></a></b><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";"><br /></span></i> </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">P.S.
Please make sure to check our website for other opportunities, events and
candidate information or subscribe to our monthly newsletter at
<a href="https://www.lpkingcounty.com/" target="_blank">LPKingcounty.com</a>.</span></i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Website: <a data-mce-href="https://www.lpkingcounty.com/" href="https://www.lpkingcounty.com/" target="_blank">https://www.lpkingcounty.com/</a><br />
Facebook: <a data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/KingCountyLP/" href="https://www.facebook.com/KingCountyLP/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/KingCountyLP/</a><br />
Twitter: <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/KingcountyLP" href="https://twitter.com/KingcountyLP" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/KingcountyLP</a></span></i></blockquote>
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You can view some of our previous appearances of Michelle Darnell at the links below:<br />
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LCI Exclusive: "Liberty Rocks Seattle" - Libertarian Party of King County WA Event 4.13.2017 Featuring Local Candidates and LPKC Speakers: <br />
<a href="http://www.libertychronicle.net/2017/04/lci-exclusive-liberty-rocks-seattle.html" target="_blank">http://www.libertychronicle.net/2017/04/lci-exclusive-liberty-rocks-seattle.html</a><br />
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Libertarian Party of King County, WA Chapter Convention Launch 3.18.2017 (Including Interview with LPWA Chair candidate, Randy McGlenn):<br />
<a href="http://www.libertychronicle.net/2017/03/libertarian-part-of-king-county-wa.html" target="_blank">http://www.libertychronicle.net/2017/03/libertarian-part-of-king-county-wa.html</a><br />
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LCI Exclusive: 60 Minutes w/ Michelle Darnell 2016 -L 48th House of Reps candidate in WA State:<br />
<a href="http://www.libertychronicle.net/2016/09/lci-exclusive-60-minutes-w-michelle.html" target="_blank">http://www.libertychronicle.net/2016/09/lci-exclusive-60-minutes-w-michelle.html</a><br />
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<i>This contribution is from Seattle-based independent journalist, </i><i><i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidmalekar" target="_blank">David Malekar</a></i>, Editor in Chief for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/libertychronicle" target="_blank">Liberty Chronicle Independent</a>; and publishes content to other online <a href="http://www.davidmalekar.com/" target="_blank">publications</a>.</i></div>
David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-55132746607844211072017-05-28T17:36:00.001-07:002017-05-28T17:41:03.764-07:00A “right” to health care? A “right” to a job? These are Euro-Socialist Rights by Jeff Jared<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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DECLARATION ON SOCIAL RIGHTS </div>
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We the People sincerely hope for a society where: (1) no individual lives at a level of poverty below a certain minimum (<span class="_4yxo">1)</span> (2) no individual who is capable goes without a job<span class="_4yxo">2</span> (3) no individual goes without adequate health care<span class="_4yxo"> (3)</span> (4) no individual goes without adequate education<span class="_4yxo"> (4)</span> (5) no individual gets paid less for equal work<span class="_4yxo"> (5)</span> (6) no individual goes without social security or pensions (<span class="_4yxo">6)</span> (7) no individual goes without leisure, recreation, vacations and holidays with pay<span class="_4yxo"> (7)</span> and (8) no individual is privately discriminated against.<span class="_4yxo"> (8)</span></div>
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But the well-intentioned elevation of these ideals to "rights" would be counterproductive and directly violate the Principle of Individual Consent, thus ultimately showing disrespect for the individual and the concept of equally applicable universal human rights. For these laudable ideals are "positive" rights which ultimately and logically lead to a property claim on things that other individuals already have <span class="_4yxp">prior</span> inalienable rights to. </div>
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Such positive rights cannot be retained equally by all, thus they violate the principle of equal protection of the laws (Art. I, Sect. 1, Subsect. 7). Some people in wealthier societies, for example, would have "more" rights. But universal rights, by definition, are equal and timeless for all humans everywhere. </div>
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By elevating ideals to the status of rights, we tend to trivialize and inflate the notion of basic rights. "Negative" universal rights are really just rights <span class="_4yxr">from</span> government coercion-interference (or coercion-interference from anyone else); they do not require anything to be actively done by government, only that governments passively refrain from doing anything. </div>
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A right to contract, for example, (Art. I, Sect. 1, Subsect. 5) does not mean government will guarantee an individual a contract for something; it merely means that a government shall not impair the obligation of contract (<span class="_4yxo">9)</span> while it is in the process of forming or once it has already been undertaken between two or more consenting and capable adults. </div>
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A right to free speech doesn't mean the gov't must provide a website to you at no cost; it just means if you get one up and running, it can't take it down. <br />
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Social rights are prohibited because they require a right to something (usually the time, money, or property of another individual) that another individual already has prior rights to. Money--before taxation--belongs to the individual--as an extension of his body when he "mixed" his labor with property,10 and/or as a result of earning it through a consensual labor contract. Government actually produces nothing itself; it only takes via taxation. <br />
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Finally, giving government the moral mandate to operate a social welfare state also, unfortunately, gives it the opportunity to ever-expand. Universal, natural, individual human rights precede the state; they are not derived from it as social rights are. </div>
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If giving money or time is to help a fellow human being and is voluntary, then it is no longer taxation but, rather, compassionate, charitable and loving gift-giving. This kind of love, not more taxation, is the solution to our mutual human problems. And the intermediary private institutions of civil society including but not limited to church, labor organization, insurance pool, neighborhood association, community, club and family will provide these if left alone by government. </div>
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We the People hold once and for all that the superstitious 19th and 20th century belief that only governments can help the poor, underprivileged, unfortunate, and disabled is an outdated anachronism. We the People can and will take care of each other if left free to do so by governments. </div>
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1 From Article 25 of the UN Declaration, 1948. </div>
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2 From Article 23 of the UN Declaration, 1948. </div>
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3 From Article 12 of the United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 1966. </div>
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4 From Article 26 of the UN Declaration, 1948. </div>
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5 From Article 23, Paragraph 2 of the UN Declaration, 1948. </div>
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6 From Article 22 of the UN Declaration, 1948. </div>
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7 From Article 24 of the UN Declaration, 1948. </div>
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8 From Article 2 of the UN Declaration, 1948. </div>
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9 From Art. I, Sect. 10, Para. 1 of the United States Constitution, 1789. </div>
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10 From the philosophy of John Locke and his "labor theory of value," <span class="_4yxr">Two Treatises on Government</span>, 1678. </div>
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<i>This contribution is from Washington-based independent journalist and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/familyforeclosurelaw/" target="_blank">Lawyer</a>, </i><i><i>Jeff Jared</i> of the <a href="http://www.jeffjaredlaw.com/" target="_blank">Law Office of Jeff E. Jared</a>.</i></div>
David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-23292207316822367022017-05-18T15:15:00.000-07:002017-05-18T15:15:08.673-07:00LCI Exclusive - 2017 City Council candidate of Burien, Charles Schaefer talks Community Solutions and Working Together in WA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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LCI talked with Charles Schaefer in an exclusive interview about his 2017 campaign run for City Council of Burien, WA. He touched on a few issues such as a absence of law enforcement and community outreach. He is currently actively volunteering in the community, specifically with homeless issues. Charles wants to work on issues with the community and his fellow council.<br />
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You can connect with Charles on the following platforms and sign up to volunteer or donate:<br />
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CharlesSchaeferLibertarian/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/CharlesSchaeferLibertarian/</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/charlesinburien" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/charlesinburien</a><br />
Website: <a href="http://www.votecharles.com/" target="_blank">http://www.votecharles.com</a> <br />
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<span class="_5yl5"><span class="_5yl5"> While this article might be coming out two weeks after the events of "May Day" in Seattle on May 1st, 2017, this certainly will have the most coverage from the Westlake Park area where the "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPrayerUSA/" target="_blank">Patriot Prayer</a>" group held a meet-up that brought in over 150 Conservatives, President Trump supporters, Independents, Libertarians, Anarchists and other ideologies outside of the "left" spectrum.</span></span><br />
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Facebook Event "Stand Against Communism" link:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seattle Police Department were prepared for the worst on "May Day" in Seattle 5/1/2017</td></tr>
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<span class="_5yl5"><span class="_5yl5">The following video is the opening words at the Westlake Park meetup. The focus of the day was to be peaceful,
stand for all of the Amendments (especially the 1st Amendment) and to let the community know they are here.<br /><br />This video was originally broadcasted live on Facebook:<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LibertyChronicle/videos/1573327636052382/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/LibertyChronicle/videos/1573327636052382/</a><br /><br />Beginning video clip provided by Alex Love.</span></span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5"><span class="_5yl5"><b>"Conservative" Meetup Opening at Westlake Park in Seattle on May Day 5.1.2017 </b></span></span><br />
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Many have claimed that the conservative group that organized the Westlake Park meeting and march in Seattle, may have "saved Seattle."<br />
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We asked <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPrayerUSA/" target="_blank">Patriot Prayer</a> for a comment on the day and they replied that "people should keep an eye on Patriot Prayer if they want to get involved in future events."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many turned out for the Seattle "May Day" event on 5/1/2017</td></tr>
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Other LCI Independent Contributors Cody Rose, Alex Love, and Avery Hufford were at the event providing security and event coverage. Their service was appreciated on that day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A participant shows his "Kekistan" Flag in Seattle's "May Day" event</td></tr>
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<b> Antifa turns down free, uncensored media coverage - "May Day" Seattle 5/1/2017</b></div>
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Anon and Tyler speak on their thoughts about "May Day" in Seattle and discuss recent events, such as Berkeley that Tyler was able to attend.<b> </b><br />
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<b>John Beavers speaks with LCI, being attacked "The Battle at Berkeley," "May Day" in Seattle 5/1/2017</b></div>
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The following video is the first of two marches completed on "May Day" 5/1/2017 and is one of the actions by the "Conservative" group that many are saying "Saved Seattle" from Antifa and other provocateurs causing damage to the city.<br />
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We had full footage of the second march, but unfortunately it was lost due to Facebook Live-stream technical difficulties.<br />
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<b>"Conservative" March in Downtown Seattle on "May Day" 5.1.2017</b></div>
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After returning to Westlake Park in Seattle after marching through downtown areas; the "Conservative" group were greeted by more Antifa and other protestors that had come from other protests throughout the city.</div>
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The end of the "May Day" "Conservative" meetup/protest ended with a scuffle that resulted in police asking everyone to evacuate the area.<br />
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<b>Last Scuffle of "May Day" in Seattle at the Westlake Park Meetup 5.1.2017</b></div>
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Today<b> </b>on May 15th 2017 in an LCI exclusive, we were able to interview Kyle Broussard who was one of the key people during the "May Day" event at Westlake Park. He helped single-handedly defuse many "conflicts," including the final "scuffle" at Westlake Park that resulted in Police directly stepping in and telling people to leave the area. In this interview, Kyle talks about his Libertarian views and how we need to come together with open dialog on all sides.<br />
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<b>LCI Exclusive - Kyle Broussard Talks Seattle's "May Day" and Reflections Two weeks Later 5.15.2017</b></div>
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Closing out this Mega-Coverage of "May Day" in Seattle, we leave you with this clip. Taking over Mainstream Media Narrative, showing Peace and Unity while Protesting Censorship and Supporting our rights with the Amendments. Make sure to stick around for the ending.</div>
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<b>Seattle "May Day" "Conservative March" Takes Over Mainstream Media Narrative 5.1.2017</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"A complaint was
filed by multiple parties on Monday regarding California's
representation problem. Many parties including cities, individuals,
political parties and even a native tribe have filed a suit saying they
are not being represented correctly. With all districts in the State of
California reaching one vote for every 500,000 people in a single
district. This virtually waters down the individuals voting power to so
little there becomes minuscule purpose in voting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The purpose of our government is to accurately represent people. Having a
lower ratio of representatives in proportion to the population is
against the initial principles of this country. Citizens of California
have finally decided to question the State government as is apparent in
this complaint. The question becomes what will the State of California
do with this? How will the Attorney General respond? California has an
obligation to answer to its people these very serious questions. It is a
question to the nature of our republic."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Avery Hufford</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Courthouse News Service published an article on May 9th, 2017 on the subject as well.<br />Link: <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/feeling-underrepresented-california-groups-demand-1200-lawmakers/" target="_blank">https://www.courthousenews.com/feeling-underrepresented-california-groups-demand-1200-lawmakers/</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> An eclectic group of plaintiffs of all political stripes want to renovate California’s political system, which they say is burdened by an “oligarchic” state government shaped by exponential population growth and an influx of corporate money in local elections. <br /><br /> Led by a group of secessionists whose main goal is to eventually break away from California, the plaintiffs claim in a federal lawsuit that the Golden State has stubbornly refused to increase its number of elected state lawmakers despite a population that has ballooned to nearly 40 million. With just one state senator per approximately one million people, the Californians say their votes have been diluted and their elections “purchased” by candidates from the two major parties.<br /><br /> “California has the worst representative ratio in the United States,” said Mark Baird, plaintiff and member of Citizens for Fair Representation. “The founders envisioned one state senator per each county and one assemblyman for every 25,000 people.” <br /><br /> The diverse assemblage, which includes Baird’s secessionist State of Jefferson group, the California Libertarian Party, the Marin County Green Party, Native Americans and elected officials, wants a three-judge panel to order California to create new legislative districts.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Link: <a href="http://lcinews.net/JeffersonCase2017/JeffersonMay.pdf" target="_blank">http://lcinews.net/JeffersonCase2017/JeffersonMay.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is a preview of the complaint that is being filed by the following:<br /><br />Plaintiffs - CITIZENS FOR FAIR REPRESENTATION; CITY OF FORT JONES; THE CALIFORNIA LIBERTARIAN PARTY; THE CALIFORNIA AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY; THE MARIN COUNTY GREEN PARTY; MARK BAIRD; JOHN D’AGOSTINI ; LARRY WAHL; SHASTA NATION INDIAN TRIBE; ROY HALL JR; WIN CARPENTER; KYLE CARPENTER; PATTY SMITH; KATHERINE RADINOVICH; DAVID GARCIA; LESLIE LIM; KEVIN MCGARY; TERRY RAPOZA; HOWARD THOMAS; MICHAEL THOMAS; STEVEN BAIRD; MANUEL MARTIN; OTHERS SIMILARLY SITUATED; AND DOES 1-30<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> "A VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF FOR MISAPPORTIONMENT AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL VOTE DILUTION & ABRIDGMENT IN THE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY & STATE SENATE"</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> "The great experiment and promise of Independence - “We The People” – launched the American Revolution that led to The United States of America, was based on the fundamental founding organic principle of “No taxation, without Representation - Give me Liberty, or give me death.” Sadly, this paramount principle of representation - that the people themselves provide the basis for governmental sovereignty and legitimacy - has been abridged by California.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> This neglect of “We the People” as the organic basis for this Nation’s self-governance stems from the cap the California government placed on the number of Senators (limited to 40) and Assembly Members (limited to 80) in 1862, when the population of the State was less 420,000 people. This arbitrary cap has created an oligarchy inconsistent with representative self-governance because the same number of legislators (120 total) now attempts to represent California’s present population of nearly forty MILLION (40,000,000) people. By any metric, this is impossible; 120 legislators cannot possibly represent forty (40) MILLION people in any effective, equitable and meaningful manner as contemplated by the United States Constitution and Amendments thereto.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Since the end of the Civil War the United States has consistently strengthened its commitment to a representative form of self-governance by ratification of Constitutional Amendments and treaties designed to promote the people’s participation in governing at both the National and State levels. California's refusal to increase its levels of legislative representation to reflect its exponential population growth is both arbitrary and unconstitutional.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> As a consequence, the premise of the People’s right to participate in meaningful self-governance has been abandoned. California elections are effectively “purchased” by candidates who are in the service of the two major parties and no longer represent the people. Accordingly, Plaintiffs bring this lawsuit to return their representation to those principles contemplated by the founders for a representative republic, or in the alternative to sanction California for its brazen subjugation of the people’s right to govern themselves."</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></blockquote>
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<i>This contribution is from Seattle-based independent journalist, </i><i><i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidmalekar" target="_blank">David Malekar</a></i>, Editor in Chief for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/libertychronicle" target="_blank">Liberty Chronicle Independent</a>; and publishes content to other online <a href="http://www.davidmalekar.com/" target="_blank">publications</a>.</i></div>
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David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-44029781551194552672017-05-08T00:00:00.002-07:002017-05-08T00:00:34.445-07:00Seattle Mayor candidate, Casey Carlisle talks about the Homelessness Crisis, Living Costs and Much More<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Casey Carlisle is running in 2017 for the city of Seattle Mayor position. He recently was interviewed on the Todd Herman Show on May 1st, 2017 (link: <a href="http://ktth.com/listen/10018213" target="_blank">http://ktth.com/listen/10018213</a>). You can learn even more about Casey at his website <a href="http://www.caseyforseattle.com/" target="_blank">http://www.caseyforseattle.com/</a>, follow him on twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/caseyForSeattle" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/caseyForSeattle</a> and like him on Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/caseyForSeattle" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pg/caseyForSeattle</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>CC:</b> I'm running for mayor because I'm not satisfied with simply complaining about the direction our city is taking. We need a non-partisan, objective approach. Our city government shares much of the blame for making Seattle’s cost of living so high. I want to limit the size and scope of the City and focus more on basic services, not on social engineering.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> What do you consider the major issues to address in Seattle and then we can discuss those issues a little more in detail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>CC:</b> Cost of living, homelessness, and neighborhood autonomy.</span></div>
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<b>Casey Carlisle speaks at the Liberty Rocks Seattle event on 4/13/2017 </b>(4 minutes 27 seconds)</div>
Article Link: <a href="http://www.libertychronicle.net/2017/04/lci-exclusive-liberty-rocks-seattle.html" target="_blank">http://www.libertychronicle.net/2017/04/lci-exclusive-liberty-rocks-seattle.html</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> In regards to the homeless epidemic on Seattle, where do you plan on beginning with the issue? The regulations stopping affordable building solutions? The high taxation? Washington state's horrific mental health treatment history? It's a huge and complex issue and what is your take on tackling the issue?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>CC:</b> I agree that homelessness is a complex issue, and because it’s complex, not everyone will be pleased with the steps I or anyone else would like to take. It’s counterintuitive, but the City is currently fueling the rise of homelessness. How can we try to fix a problem that we’re currently aiding and abetting? I’d begin with scrapping plans for more City-sanctioned homeless encampments, and I’d close existing City-sanctioned homeless encampments on my 30</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> day in office. Lowering taxes will also help, and scrapping affordable housing mandates will help, too. Affordable housing mandates hurt the very same people we’re trying to help. For example, the upzone proposal for the International District mandates that 17% of all new apartment units be priced below market rates. Do you think developers and property managers will just eat the cost? Of course not. They’ll make up for the loss by raising the rents above market rates on the remaining 83%, which widens the wealth gap. “Inclusionary zoning” is just rent control in disguise, designed to make those who implement it feel good about their noble intentions while ignoring the negative, unintended consequences. Once we implement these changes, we’ll be able to focus on those who are in most need – the mentally ill.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> Cost of living issues go along directly with the homelessness epidemic, what additional information can you provide on how to make changes such as regressive tax focus, etc.?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>CC:</b> I agree that our tax system is regressive, but no mayor in Washington can change it. We’re stuck with it until state legislators change it, so the best we can do is lower the sales and property taxes. In addition, I’d place a moratorium on City hiring, and I’d evaluate the City’s 40 departments to see which we can do without. Also, I’d like every City employee – elected officials included – to take a 15% pay cut. If the City were to focus on just the basics, we wouldn’t need to have such ridiculously high taxes. The more the City tries to do, the more poor and divided we’ll be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> Regarding Neighborhood and community outreach, what areas do you wish to tackle on? What has worked? What needs eliminated? What do you want to see implemented?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>CC:</b> Developers shouldn’t be soliciting favors from the City. Upzone all of Seattle, and relinquish planning power to the neighborhoods. With this approach, all of Seattle will have the opportunity for economic development, and developers will have to deal directly with the neighborhood that they wish to develop.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>DM:</b> As Mayor, having all of the issues and ideas as we have discussed prepares you for the daunting tasks at hand. However, you will need to work among your peers in the City Council. What is your strategy to work efficiently and productively with them on the issues?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>CC:</b> Transparency is key. I want all of Seattle to know about what I wish to accomplish. If they’re aware of these plans, and if I have enough people to support them, the City Council won’t have the luxury of arguing with just me, considering I’ll have the backing of tens of thousands of Seattleites. This is not to say that I’ll be ignoring the City Council; quite the opposite. I look forward to having constructive debates with council-members, and I’d like those debates to be open to the public.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>CC:</b> I don’t want to seek reelection, so I think it will be very difficult to shrink the size and scope of the City as much as I would like to in four years. Public-sector unions don’t care about the greater good or about having a lower cost of living, so they will surely put up a fight to protect our bureaucrat-bloated government. For example, they want to continue negotiating collective bargaining agreements behind closed doors. That shouldn’t be legal. It’s our money that pays their bloated salaries, so the public should be made aware of those salaries. Unions would rather us be in the dark. Julian Assange said it best: secrecy breeds incompetence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>CC:</b> I plan to do more vetoing than rule making. In general, I want to reduce the size and scope of the City; however, I do have a couple ideas. I am eager to reform the way property is taxed. Property taxes are one of the most hated forms of taxation, but if we must have them, they might as well be more objective and equitable. I have been increasingly interested in the land value tax. Taxing only the land – instead of what’s on it – will reduce sprawl, lighten the tax load for those who share walls (apartments vs. houses), and remove the subjectivity involved in assessing home value. I am also very interested in changing the way we vote for political candidates. “Top-two” is disastrous for candidates not associated with the two, old parties, so I see “top-two” as stifling democracy in our very independent city. Ranked-choice voting and reforming the way property is taxed seem like a win-win forall, so I don't expect much resistance from the council on these two items.</span></div>
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<i>This contribution is from Seattle-based independent journalist, </i><i><i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidmalekar" target="_blank">David Malekar</a></i>, Editor in Chief for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/libertychronicle" target="_blank">Liberty Chronicle Independent</a>; and publishes content to other online <a href="http://www.davidmalekar.com/" target="_blank">publications</a>.</i></div>
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This was the big day for the decision on the Men's shelter in Bellevue, Washington on April 17th 2017. The council started off with a study session hearing at 6:30 PM to have hearings from project organizers and city leadership.They discussed the current location and the feasibility of having the current shelter open to temporary shelter during the build of the new site next to Bellevue College. The council, city and project leadership discussed public safety of the site and the current procedural duties of the current shelter that CHF runs.<br />
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During this meeting homeless credentialing came up where they would potentially require ID for anyone to come into the shelter. Whether or not if this would help safety issues is up in the air. However many homeless people don't have ID during the time they are homeless as an organizer for CHF explained. There is another issue which is public safety. The community doesn't feel that a "low barrier" site is a good idea in the zone that the shelter was planned at. Extra policing was brought up during this meeting and potentially hiring more officers.<br />
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There was a dangerous idea that a few of the council members brought up which is cracking down on camping in recreational vehicles or cars.This would cause more people to go to jail, lose their modes of transportation (or housing) and create extra homeless on the streets or in the shelters. Does this sound like a good idea to you?<br />
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There was talk about using the current temporary shelter during the construction but the council felt it wasn't viable due to building structure issues. The CHF experts were trying to fight for a spot for these people to have a place during the construction.<br />
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While safety was the main concern these issues can be addressed on a more pragmatic playing field. The meeting hall was packed with residents and the study session was pretty quiet. In the new site there is talk of a potential "interrogation room" to interview those who committed crimes and potentially have a police office at the site or even just having a PIO (Elimination of an Officer position possibly) there says Chief Steve Mylett. The site next to Bellevue college was the only mentioned during the study session.<br />
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We had the Regular session after which had record city council attendance with people spilling out of the main meeting room into the annex. They had a few regular business issues first. Then after they had 5 citizens that support the shelter and 5 opposed.<br />
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Michael Brown, a member of the organization started off in support "as a young father who is excited to see the community rallying behind the need". He states "the track record of Congregations for the Homeless is Stellar". You can watch all of the comments in support of the shelter below.<br />
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In opposition we had Catherine Pitchen who lives in the neighborhood. She and some of the other people opposed are worried about excess drugs and alcohol in their community. As you view below many are asking for another site for various reasons. I haven't been able to do a full interview with the Eastside Residents coalition but I hope to be able to soon as there is a side to this that might explain why the council wants the current location. Jared Neuhaus spoke in recommendation of using the ST3 land where the temporary shelter was located last year. Sound transit has 3 parcels of excess land after the projects. In the ST3 Package the state legislature required Sound Transit to donate excess land to affordable housing.<br />
John Carlson spoke in support of the council and Steve Roberts of CHF for working to help the homeless. While he is not in support of the current location he states "it's the right thing in the wrong place". He states this is due to improper land use regulations. He is proposing a location near Bell-Red. The speakers in opposition (Mostly location) are posted below.<br />
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John Stokes (Bellevue Mayor) continued to push the current location of this site along with the council which temporarily angered residents. He went back on the proposal by himself and the council. In the proposal they deleted the use of a safe injection site at the location. Council member Kevin Wallace spoke out in opposition of the current proposal. He asked for the current temporary structure to continue to house the current homeless. Also questioned the mayor and the rest of the council on the current proposed location of the Low Barrier Shelter by Bellevue College and asked for the council to do a study on 3 sites that had been given in alternative to the proposed.<br />
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The community after yelling and shouting at the mayor gathered in support as the Mayor and council agreed to continue to study these other sites. This meeting ended late after an extension with 3 sites to look at after a 4- 3 council vote to move forward. The Council is looking at the project being decided in the next few months. While the project completion date is looking out towards 2023.<br />
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While the issue to look at going forward should be the interaction between the city, police and the homeless on the streets. I came up on a scene on 05/01/17 on Bellevue Way NE SB of a cop pinning a homeless person to the ground and subduing him. While I am not sure what the altercation was due to, there is notice that the city is cracking down on people who stay on the street. There is footage of the council discussing public safety below.<br />
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<a href="http://realchangenews.org/2017/04/26/bellevue-sorta-approves-men-s-shelter">http://realchangenews.org/2017/04/26/bellevue-sorta-approves-men-s-shelter</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic;">Alex Love</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an independent journalist from Lynnwood, WA / Phoenix, AZ. He is a community servant and activist who also runs a non profit called <a href="http://www.facebook.com/love4liberty" target="_blank">Love 4 Liberty</a>. </span><br />
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The 2017 Libertarian Party of Washington State Convention was held in Moses Lake, WA from April 21st to 23rd, 2017. LCI was on-site for the Friday and Saturday festivities. Training for candidates and volunteers were held on the 23rd.<br />
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LPWA Website: <a href="https://lpwa.org/" target="_blank">https://lpwa.org/</a><br />
LPWA Facebook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/libertarianpartyofWA/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/libertarianpartyofWA/</a><br />
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<b>LCI Exclusive: 2017 LPWA State Convention (FB Livestream Coverage Video) 4.21.2017 </b></div>
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There was a great deal of surprise to everyone in attendance as current LPWA State Chair, David Traynor reported to the attendees that they were 3 members short of reaching quorum requirements to hold the business meeting portion on the convention. It was agreed upon by the body to host the business meeting portions of the State Convention on July 8th and possibly 9th, 2017; likely within King County to address the attendance situation. State leadership is said to have had the event in Moses Lake since City Council member, Don Myers is located there; along with the fact that Eastern Washington has held 4 of the last State Conventions and the East Side needed a turn. Despite the convenience of the location, only a small number of Eastern Washington Libertarians made the convention, primarily being an approximate 3/4 attendance from King, Snohomoish and Kitsap Counties.<br />
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<b>LPWA Chair, David Traynor Addressing Quorum Issue at LPWA State Convention 4.22.2017</b> </div>
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Libertarian Party of King County Vice Chair, Matt Dubin addressed the crowd and words of encouragement for the State Party.<br />
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LPKC Website: <a href="https://www.lpkingcounty.com/" target="_blank">https://www.lpkingcounty.com/</a><br />
LPKC Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KingCountyLP/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/KingCountyLP/</a><br />
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<b>LPKC Vice Chair Matt Dubin, speaks at LPWA State Convention 4.22.2017 </b></div>
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Caryn Ann Harlos, National Region 1 Representative and Libertarian Historian presented the "Statement of Principles" and history on the LP back in 1972-74. You can see Caryn Ann's handout with the presentation at the following link:<br />
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<b>Caryn Ann Harlos Speaks at LPWA State Convention 4.22.2017 - "Statement of Principles" of 1974 </b></div>
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2017 Kent City Council Candidate, Paul Addis addressed the convention with his own "Letter from Paul" to rally together members of the state party.<br />
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<b>Paul Addis Speaks at Libertarian Party of Washington (LPWA) State Convention 4.22.2017</b></div>
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2018 Potential Governor Candidate, Larry Sharpe had informative words as well, for the Washington State Libertarian Party in his presentation.<br />
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Sharpe Website: <a href="https://www.threadsofliberty.com/collections/the-look-sharpe-collection" target="_blank">https://www.threadsofliberty.com/collections/the-look-sharpe-collection</a><br />
Sharpe Facebook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Sharpe4LPVP/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Sharpe4LPVP/</a> <br />
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Don Myers, current Libertarian City Council member of Moses Lake, WA closed out the speaking session for that Saturday and had more words of inspiration for the LPWA body in attendance.<br />
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LPWA will continue on with their business session of the convention in July 2017. Stay posted with their website at <a href="https://lpwa.org/" target="_blank">https://lpwa.org/</a> and their Facebook page at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/libertarianpartyofWA/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/libertarianpartyofWA/</a>.<br />
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<i>This contribution is from Seattle-based independent journalist, </i><i><i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidmalekar" target="_blank">David Malekar</a></i>, Editor in Chief for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/libertychronicle" target="_blank">Liberty Chronicle Independent</a>; and publishes content to other online <a href="http://www.davidmalekar.com/" target="_blank">publications</a>.</i><br />
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<i>David Traynor,Matt Dubin, and Don Myers video courtesy of LCI Independent Contributor, Alex Love of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/love4liberty" target="_blank">Love 4 Liberty</a>. Editing by LCI E.I.C. David Malekar.</i> David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-19560588179323999682017-04-28T21:45:00.000-07:002017-04-28T22:01:41.216-07:00Caryn Ann Harlos Presentation - Libertarian Party's "Statement of Principles" 1974<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d8793e36-b7f2-fb6e-df84-6eb63d10a60e" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 24pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We hold that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Governments throughout history have regularly operated on the opposite principle, that the State has the right to dispose of the lives of individuals and the fruits of their labor. Even within the United States, all political parties other than our own grant to government the right to regulate the lives of individuals and seize the fruits of their labor without their consent.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We, the supporters of the Libertarian Party, rise to challenge the myth that government has the right to exist and act independently of its role as an agent for the protection of the individual rights of each citizen. In recognition of the nature of man, we hold as our first principles that the individual has the right to absolute dominion over and disposal of his life, in order that each may be free to attain the greatest happiness and realization of human potential possible to him. That every individual has absolute, in alienable and inseparable rights to his life, liberty, and all the products thereof, and that every individual has the right to seek and act in accordance with his proper judgment insofar so that he does not thereby violate the same rights of others.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The only justification for government is to provide for the defense of these individual rights. Government has no right not possessed by its individual citizens. We further hold that it is the right of every individual to enter freely into contacts by mutual consent. The only economic political system consistent with individual rights is laissez fair capitalism under a constitutionally limited government commissioned by citizens as an agent for the protection of each individual's rights. With this as our foundation, we propose the following specific platform.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Figure 7 (from Bill Cohen):</b></div>
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Man finds himself living among
men, either as a free man or a slave. Depending upon the ideas which men hold
concerning man's nature, and his proper relationship to other men, and the
institutions men have established, either the individual possesses the right to
his own life, or he exists by permission, his life justified by the benefits
that others derive from the use and disposal of his life and property. </div>
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Throughout all of history the
question has been who is to be sacrificed to whom accepting the premise that
man is by nature a sacrificial animal. His goodness is determined by using as a
moral standard the beneficiary of man's actions--if others benefitted that is
good; if he benefited alone that is evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Man is presented with a false alternative, either to sacrifice himself
or his values to others, or to sacrifice others to himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The name of this moral code is
altruism. It is the moral system which is dominant in this nation today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Men who hold altruistic premises are willing
to give their moral approval to laws which permit the sacrifice of some men's
values for the benefit of others in the name of the public interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is altruism which has brought this<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>society to its knees Unless it is challenged,
altruistic premises shall be implemented to a greater extent leading inexorably
to a totalitarian state in which all men will exist as right-less creatures at
the mercy of those who enforce the laws.</div>
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The principles of the altruist
ideology are incompatible with the requirements of man's life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The members of the Libertarian Party are
individuals who share certain principles and premises regarding man's nature,
man's relationship to other men, and the proper functions of government which
are fundamentally antithetical to the commonly held ideas and premises of
altruism. We recognize that the basic natural alternative confronting man is
that of life or death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of man's
actions are either pro-life or anti-life actions including the volitional
actions of man's mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the
only rational standard to use to make value judgments of man's actions is his
life on earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All pro-life actions are
good and all anti-life actions are evil. By this standard, a man has a moral
sanction to be free to take any action which his own life requires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The moral sanction to an action
in a social context is a right. Man has no automatic conceptual knowledge of
what his nature and needs are, and his life depends upon his freedom to acquire
this knowledge and to act in accordance with his own judgment. Since this is
true, it follows that each man has the right to interact with other men only by
mutual consent and does not possess the right to start the use of physical
force in any form against another man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Man is not a sacrificial animal. We hold that man has the right to act
in his own self-interest and that no man can seek to benefit himself by using
force against other men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No man has the
right to the use or disposal of the productive effort of another man, but each
man has the right to own, use, and dispose of the product of his own efforts as
he sees fit in order to exercise his right to his own life.</div>
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Any man who violates the rights
of another sacrifices any just claim to his own rights. A truly selfish man
does not seek his self-interest at the enslavement of others. There is no
conflict of interest between men to recognize the inalienable right of each man
to his own life and property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only
proper function of a government in a society based on these principles is the
protection of the individual rights. A government may only do what it
specifically delegated to do by the citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A citizen may not empower a government to perform an action which a
citizen himself does not have a right to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The source of man's rights is not the government, nor other men, but
rather his own nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A right can only
be recognized or violated. The extent to which a government fails to recognize
the rights of the citizens is the extent to which the citizens are
enslaved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our government has extended
its power far beyond those we consider to be morally justifiable by our standards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is our purpose to reverse the direction of
this nation, and not to be content until we until we succeed in reducing this
government to its proper function of its protection of individual rights. </div>
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A society based on the concept
of individual rights is capitalism, a term mistakenly applied to our present
society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Capitalism is actually the only
system in which the inalienable rights of an individual to life, liberty and
the ownership and use of private property are recognized in principle and law in
which all interactions among men are by mutual consent, including the
interactions between individuals and the government, in which the initiation of
physical force or fraud by individuals, groups, or government is outlawed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is our avowed purpose to create a
capitalist society because we know in reason that it is the only society in
which the individual man may flourish in an atmosphere of freedom, peace, and
justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such are our principles and
goals, our fundamental convictions upon which the following Platform is based.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Figure 8 (from Mark C. Frazier):</b></div>
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We, the members of the
Libertarian Party, aware that government at all levels has grown abusive and
that political parties have refused to respect basic moral principles, are
determined to offer simple and fundamental change. In place of the political
system which aggresses against individuals and insists that own's life is the
property of others, the Libertarian Party supports recognition of each person's
right to dispose of his life as he sees fit so long as he does not violate the
same right of others. The Libertarian Party defends individual sovereignty
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the individual owns his life, he owns
his property and may exist peacefully in whatever way he wishes. Consequently
the Libertarian Party holds that the protection of private property from
forcible or fraudulent seizure is the primary function of government and that
laissez fair capitalism is the only moral political economic system. All other
systems, from communism and fascism to welfare-state liberalism, forcibly
relegate the individual and his property to be controlled by others. Today's
politics are drifting into a total repudiation of individual sovereignty and
private property. To those who answer the question "Who owns your
life?" with "I do," the Libertarian Party offers the only
alternative.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Figure 9 (from John Hospers):</b></div>
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We, the members of the
Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state, and defend the
rights of individuals. </div>
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We hold that each individual has
the right to exercise sole dominion over his own life, and the right to live
his life in whatever manner he chooses, so long as he does not forcibly
interfere with the equal right of others to live their lives in whatever manner
they choose. </div>
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Governments throughout the world
have regularly operated upon the opposite principle, that the State has the
right to dispose of the lives of individuals and the fruits of their labor.
Even within the United States, with a government less totalitarian than most
others, all political parties other than our own grant to the government the
right to regulate the life of the individual and seize the fruits of his labor
without his consent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We, on the contrary, deny the
right of any government to do these things, and hold that the sole function of
government is the protection of the rights of individuals: namely (1) the right
to life -- and accordingly we support legislation prohibiting the initiation of
force against others such as killing, maiming, injuring, and all forms of
physical assault on life and limb; (2) the right of liberty of speech and
action -- and accordingly we oppose all attempts by government to abridge the
freedom of speech and press, as well as government censorship in any form; and
(3) the right to property -- and accordingly we oppose all government
interference with private property, such as confiscation, nationalization, and
eminent domain, and support legislation which prohibits robbery, trespass,
fraud, and misrepresentation. </div>
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Since government has only one
legitimate function, the protection of individual rights, we oppose any
encroachment by government into the areas of voluntary or contractual relations
among individuals. Men should be left free by government to deal with one
another as free traders on a free market; consequently, the only economic
system compatible with men's rights is laissez-faire capitalism. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Figure 10 (from Bill D. Susel):</b></div>
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We, the supporters of the
Libertarian Party, rise to challenge the myth of the omnipotent collective, to
assert and defend the sovereignty of the individual. We hold that each man has
a fundamental right to his own life. This right imposes no obligation on
another man except of a negative kind, to abstain from violating any other
man's rights. Libertarians recognize the right of each individual to act as he,
and he alone, chooses provided he does not violate the similar right of any
other individual.</div>
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The Libertarian disclaims any
right and refuses to recognize any claim to a right by others which requires
for its implementation or enforcement an unchosen obligation or involuntary
servitude on any other individual. The Libertarian renounces the initiation of
force to obtain his ends, he will thus not sanction the initiation of force by
any individual or agent, the government included, to obtain any end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Declaration of Independence established
the principle that to secure these rights governments are instituted among
men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus was provided the only valid
justification of the government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This principle
also defines our government's only proper limited purpose, to protect man's
rights by protecting him from coercion. The government may not go beyond its
limited purpose without violating individual rights and thus destroying
liberty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Liberty can only find its
fullest expression in the free market, where all exchanges of property and
labor among men are voluntary. Thus, the only socio-economic system capable of
expressing liberty is laissez faire capitalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is the only system consistent with individual rights.</div>
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Rooted in the philosophies of
reason, proclaiming the sanctity of individual rights, we do explicitly and
proudly affirm our dedication to fight the battle for capitalism, to wage the
ideological war that must be fought if liberty is to survive, to achieve that
society in which all men are free to seek their chosen goals, the enumeration
of the positions herein shall not be taken to disparage other positions which
libertarians may share.</div>
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We, the members of the
Libertarian Party, rise to proclaim that man's life is an end in itself, and
that the purpose of a man's life is his own happiness. We challenge the myth of
the divine right of the public good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
public good means only that the good of some individuals takes precedence over
the good of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We base our
political philosophy on man's nature and his relationship to [inaudible].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man is distinguished by the possession of reason
which is his basic need for survival. To the extent an individual abandons
reason in favor of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>authority, position,
or emotion, he is his own destroyer. A right is a moral sanction of an
individual's freedom to act voluntarily, without coercion, for his own goals.
The right to life is the source of all rights, and the right to property is its
only implementation. The right to property is the right to act, not to posses
an object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Individual rights are the
necessary condition for a society appropriate for human beings. The mind does
not work under compulsion. Force a man to submit or to act against his
judgment, in fact it paralyzes the capacity for reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A proper social system recognizes individual
rights and bans physical force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
encourages thinking by permitting the thinking individual to receive and
dispose of the fruits of his thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The collectivist society systemically does the precise opposite and
punishes thinking.</div>
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A government is an institution
which holds its perfect power enforcing the rules of social conduct in a given
geographical area. The two great values to be gained by social [inaudible] are
knowledge and trade for these very benefits indicate the limit and define what
kind of men can be of value to one another in what kind of society. Only
rational productive independent men in rational productive free society
[fragment]. A government is the means of placing [inaudible] control.
Libertarians regard government as the greatest potential for [inaudible]
individual rights. Since protection of individual rights is the only proper
purpose of the government [tape cuts out].</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1972 Statement of
Principles (Figure 13)</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Adopted
unanimously by the delegates to the first national convention of the
Libertarian Party, on June 17, 1972.</i></span></div>
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We,
the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent
state, and defend the rights of the individual.</div>
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We
hold that each individual has the right to exercise sole dominion over his own
life, and has the right to live his life in whatever manner he chooses, so long
as he does not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live their
lives in whatever manner they choose.</div>
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Governments
throughout history have regularly operated on the opposite principle, that the
State has the right to dispose of the lives of individuals and the fruits of
their labor. Even within the United States, all political parties other than
our own grant to government the right to regulate the life of the individual
and seize the fruits of his labor without his consent.</div>
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We,
on the contrary, deny the right of any government to do these things, and hold
that the sole function of government is the protection of the rights of each
individual: namely (1) the right to life -- and accordingly we support laws prohibiting
the initiation of physical force against others; (2) the right to liberty of
speech and action -- and accordingly we oppose all attempts by government to
abridge the freedom of speech and press, as well as government censorship in
any form; and (3) the right to property -- and accordingly we oppose all
government interference with private property, such as confiscation,
nationalization, and eminent domain, and support laws which prohibit robbery,
trespass, fraud and misrepresentation.</div>
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Since
government has only one legitimate function, the protection of individual
rights, we oppose all interference by government in the areas of voluntary and
contractual relations among individuals. Men should not be forced to sacrifice
their lives and property for the benefit of others. They should be left free by
government to deal with one another as free traders on a free market; and the
resultant economic system, the only one compatible with the protection of man's
rights, is laissez-faire capitalism.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1974 Statement of
Principles (Figure 14)</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Adopted by the
delegates to the second national convention of the Libertarian Party in Dallas,
1974.</i></span></div>
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We,
the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent
state and defend the rights of the individual.</div>
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We
hold that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their
own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long
as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in
whatever manner they choose.</div>
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Governments
throughout history have regularly operated on the opposite principle, that the
State has the right to dispose of the lives of individuals and the fruits of
their labor. Even within the United States, all political parties other than
our own grant to government the right to regulate the lives of individuals and
seize the fruits of their labor without their consent.</div>
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We,
on the contrary, deny the right of any government to do these things, and hold
that where governments exist, they must not violate the rights of any
individual; namely, (1) the right to life — accordingly we support prohibition
of the initiation of physical force against others; (2) the right to liberty of
speech and action — accordingly we oppose all attempts by government to abridge
the freedom of speech and press, as well as government censorship in any form;
and (3) the right to property — accordingly we oppose all government
interference with private property, such as confiscation, nationalization, and
eminent domain, and support the prohibition of robbery, trespass, fraud, and
misrepresentation.</div>
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Since
governments, when instituted, must not violate individual rights, we oppose all
interference by government in the areas of voluntary and contractual relations
among individuals. People should not be forced to sacrifice their lives and
property for the benefit of others. They should be left free by government to
deal with one another as free traders; and the resultant economic system, the
only one compatible with the protection of individual rights, is the free
market.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1974 Statement of
Principles (with mark-up comparison to 1972) (Figure 15)</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Adopted by the
delegates to the second national convention of the Libertarian Party in Dallas,
1974.</i></span></div>
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We,
the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent
state<s><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">,</span></s> and
defend the rights of the individual.</div>
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We
hold that <s><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">each</span></s><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;"> <u>all</u> individual<u>s</u> <s>has</s>
<u>have</u></span> the right to exercise sole dominion over <s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">his</span></s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;"> <u>their</u> own <s>life</s> <u>lives</u>,</span>
and <s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">has</span></s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;"> <u>have</u></span> the right to
live in whatever manner <s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">he</span></s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;"> <u>they</u></span><u> </u>choose<s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">s</span></s>, so long as <s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">he</span></s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;"> <u>they</u> do<s>es</s></span> not forcibly interfere
with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose.</div>
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Governments
throughout history have regularly operated on the opposite principle, that the
State has the right to dispose of the lives of individuals and the fruits of
their labor. Even within the United States, all political parties other than
our own grant to government the right to regulate <span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">the <s>life</s> <u>lives</u> of <s>the</s> individual<s>s</s></span>
and seize the fruits of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">his</span></s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;"> <u>their</u> labor without <s>his</s>
<u>their</u></span> consent.</div>
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We,
on the contrary, deny the right of any government to do these things, and hold
that <s><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">the sole function
of government is the protection of</span></s><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"> <u>where governments exist, they must not violate</u></span>
the rights of <s><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">each</span></s><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;"> <u>any</u></span> individual;
namely<u><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">,</span></u> (1) the
right to life — <s><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">and</span></s>
accordingly we support <s><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">laws
prohibiting</span></s><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"> <u>prohibition
of</u></span> the initiation of physical force against others; (2) the right to
liberty of speech and action — <s><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">and</span></s> accordingly we oppose all attempts by government to
abridge the freedom of speech and press, as well as government censorship in
any form; and (3) the right to property — <s><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">and</span></s> accordingly we oppose all government
interference with private property, such as confiscation, nationalization, and
eminent domain, and support <s><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">laws which prohibit</span></s><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"> <u>the prohibition of</u></span> robbery, trespass,
fraud<u><span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">,</span></u> and
misrepresentation.</div>
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Since
government<u><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">s</span></u><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><s>has only one legitimate function</s>, <u>when instituted,</u> <s>the
protection of</s> <u>must not violate</u></span> individual rights, we oppose
all interference by government in the areas of voluntary and contractual
relations among individuals. <s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Men</span></s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;"> <u>People</u></span>
should not be forced to sacrifice their lives and property for the benefit of
others. They should be left free by government to deal with one another as free
traders <s><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">on a free
market</span></s><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">;</span>
and the resultant economic system, the only one compatible with the protection
of <s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">man’s</span></s><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;"> <u>individual</u></span><u> </u>rights,
is <s><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">laissez-faire
capitalism</span></s><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;"> <u>the
free market</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="background: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua;">Style/Grammar Changes</span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Gender Neutrality and Related
Changes</span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Dallas Accord Changes/Nods to
anarchy and no ultimate position on the existence of the State</span></div>
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<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">Substantive other change in
terminology (arguable as to substantive)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">CASE STUDY:
TAXATION IS THEFT</span></h1>
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1972 Plank-The Economy</h4>
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Government intervention in the
economy imperils both the material prosperity and personal freedom of every
American. We therefore support the following specific immediate reforms:</div>
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(a) reduction of both taxes and
government spending;</div>
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(b) an end to deficit budgets;</div>
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(c) a halt to inflationary
monetary policies, and elimination, with all deliberate speed, of the Federal
Reserve System;</div>
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(d) the removal of all
governmental impediments to free trade -- including the repeal of the National
Labor Relations Act, the Interstate Commerce Act, all antitrust laws, and the
abolition of the Department of Agriculture, as the most pressing and critical
impediments;</div>
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(e) and the repeal of all
controls on wages, prices, rents, profits, production, and interest rates.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Figure 17:</b></div>
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1972 Plank-Long-Range Goals</h4>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Since we believe that every man is entitled to keep the fruits of his
labor</b>, we are opposed to all government activity which consists of the
forcible collection money or goods from citizens in violation of their
individual rights. Specifically, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we
support the eventual repeal of all taxation.</b> We support a system of
voluntary fees for services rendered as a method for financing government in a
free society.</div>
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1974 Plank-Taxation</h4>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Since we believe that all persons are entitled to keep the fruits of
their labor,</b> we are opposed to all government activity which consists of the
forcible collection of money or goods from individuals in violation of their
individual rights. Specifically, we support:</div>
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a.) those who challenge the
payment of taxes on legal and constitutional grounds; and</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">b.) the eventual repeal of all taxation.</b></div>
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We oppose as involuntary
servitude any legal requirements forcing employers or business owners to serve
as tax collectors for federal, state. or local tax agencies.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Figure 19:</b></div>
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1976
Plank-Freedom of Religion</h4>
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We defend the rights of
individuals to engage in any religious activities which do not violate the
rights of others. In order to defend religious freedom, we advocate a strict
separation of church and state. We oppose govemment actions which either aid or
attack any religion. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We oppose taxation
of church property for the same reason that we oppose all taxation.</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Since we believe that all persons are entitled to keep the fruits of
their labor,</b> we oppose all government activity which consists of the
forcible collection of money or goods from individuals in violation of their
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a.) recognize the right of any
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">b.) oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including
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c.) support repeal of the
Sixteenth Amendment, and oppose any in- crease in existing tax rates and the
imposition of any new taxes;</div>
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e.) support a declaration of
unconditional amnesty for all those who have been convicted of, or who now
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We oppose as involuntary
servitude any legal requirements forcing employers or business owners to serve
as tax collectors for federal, state, or local tax agencies.</div>
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All persons are entitled to keep
the fruits of their labor. We call for the repeal of the income tax, the
abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service and all federal programs and
services not required under the U.S. Constitution.</div>
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These specific policies are not
our goal, however. Our goal is nothing more nor less than a world set free in
our lifetime, and it is to this end that we take these stands.</div>
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How
much we humans contribute to Global Warming is a question that may
never be answered to anyone’s satisfaction, but here are a few comments
that may help mitigate the problem.</div>
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Using concrete instead of asphalt for roads and other surfaces will
reflect the sun’s rays instead of absorbing them and result in a
reduction of the air temperature of the surrounding area.</div>
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2. The same applies to roofs. White roofs reflect the sun’s rays and reduce the temperature of the surrounding area.</div>
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"Globally,
roofs account for 25% of the surface of most cities, and pavement
accounts for about 35%. If all were switched to reflective material in
100 major urban areas, it would offset 44 metric gigatons of greenhouse
gasses, which have been trapping heat in the atmosphere and altering the
climate on a potentially dangerous scale."</div>
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We
don’t want to mandate that you or anyone else paint their roof white,
but we do think that since the government is building roads and putting
up buildings of all kinds, then they should follow these simple
suggestions. Maybe you can help by doing this on your own.</div>
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3.
Open the transit market to competition. Some of the most polluting
vehicles are those owned by low-income people who do not have access to
other transportation services because in most American cities the
government has made it virtually impossible to own and operate a private
transportation business. By opening the transportation business to
other types of providers, low-income people will then have access to
alternatives that may reduce the number older polluting cars on the
roads. <b><i> One source estimates that widespread use of jitneys for
urban transit could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50%, or more but
other studies are not so sure. As the market changes, we will know more.</i></b></div>
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4.
Advancements in the technology of LED, light emitting diodes, may
significantly change the way we light our homes and workplaces. Some
estimate that the saving in electricity will be in the hundreds of
terawatts. Regulations that slow the adoption of new technologies need
to be repealed.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;">"If
all of the world's light bulbs were replaced with LEDs for ten years,
Schubert and Kim estimate the following benefits would be realized:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">Electrical energy consumption would be reduced by terawatt hours</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">Financial savings of $1.83 trillion</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">Carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 10.68 gigatons</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">Crude oil consumption would be reduced by 962 million barrels</li>
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The U.S. military and its worldwide deployment to some 700, or more
bases in 130 countries worldwide uses a huge amount of petroleum
products that can be reduced significantly. Thus reducing pollution and
saving considerable amounts.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> “</span><span style="color: black;">It's
impossible to overstate the challenge facing Defense. It is the
single-largest consumer of petroleum in the world. Oil fuels the world
economy; specifically, it fuels every weapons system operated by the
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></div>
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6.
Agricultural subsidies have shifted food production from areas near our
cities to cross country sites that require long distance trucking and
are subject to other numerous problems from the food-borne diseases rapid
spread of agricultural pest and disease.</div>
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The land management policies of government agencies have created more
intensive fires than what common sense would have thought possible thus
adding to the pollution problems.</div>
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CO2 released by fire contribute significantly to the issue, and poorly managed forests that burn hotter contribute even more.</div>
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8.
Zoning and other housing regulations have spread our cities out and
require more driving which contributes to unnecessary auto emissions.
We need to repeal zoning and other related laws.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><i>This contribution is from <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Michael Wilson,</span></span></i><i> Activist in the Libertarian Party of Washington<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span></i></span></div>
David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-69741261067913951912017-04-18T16:17:00.000-07:002017-04-18T16:17:04.672-07:00LCI Exclusive: Jessie Gamble, UW Alumni Speaks about Death Threats on campus, Milo/Antifa 4.18.2017<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jessie Gamble talks with Liberty Chronicle Independent about treatment at University of Washington, Antifa and Milo Yiannopoulos</td></tr>
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Went into the Lion's Den at University of Washington to interview the humble Alumni, Jessie Gamble about her time as a student and the horrific personal attacks by Antifa and others on campus, that she suffered after supporting Free Speech and open discussion.<br />
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Breitbart had covered the attacks previously in the following article: <br />
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/01/05/university-washington-leftists-post-racist-class-flyers-republican-presidents-face/" target="_blank">http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/01/05/university-washington-leftists-post-racist-class-flyers-republican-presidents-face/</a><br />
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I want to commend Jessie's courage to be able to open up on such traumatic issues and pave the way for future students who will be attending University of Washington. No one should be in fear of their life or be threatened with rape over supporting open discussions and free speech.<br />
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You can watch the day and night coverage of Milo Yiannopoulos at University of Washington on 1/20/2017 at the following playlist link or press play to start the playlist:<br />
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<i>This contribution is from Seattle-based independent journalist, </i><i><i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidmalekar" target="_blank">David Malekar</a></i>, Editor in Chief for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/libertychronicle" target="_blank">Liberty Chronicle Independent</a>; and publishes content to other online <a href="http://www.davidmalekar.com/" target="_blank">publications</a>.</i></div>
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David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-10430985986904880132017-04-14T03:36:00.000-07:002017-04-14T03:44:58.177-07:00LCI Exclusive: "Liberty Rocks Seattle" - Libertarian Party of King County WA Event 4.13.2017 Featuring Local Candidates and LPKC Speakers<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Website: <a href="https://www.lpkingcounty.com/" target="_blank">https://www.lpkingcounty.com/</a><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KingCountyLP/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/KingCountyLP/</a><br />
Facebook Event Link: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1511408208903655/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/1511408208903655/</a><br />
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The first video was streamed live via Facebook and has been converted to YouTube Format. This was an age 21 and over event.<br />
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Libertarian Party of King County hosted their first "Liberty Rocks Seattle" event at the Columbia City Theater in Seattle. The event featured LPKC Chair Michelle Darnell, LPKC Co-Chair Billy Doyle, LPKC Political Director David Johnson, Region 2 Associate Director of King County WA David Malekar, Everett WA City Council candidate Justin Murta in this first part of the event.<br />
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In this second half of the event, candidate of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CharlesSchaeferLibertarian/" target="_blank">Burien WA City Council Charles Schaefer</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Addis4Kent/" target="_blank">Kent WA City Council candidate Paul Addis</a> (previous interview with Paul link: <a href="http://www.libertychronicle.net/2017/02/paul-addis-l-kent-wa-city-council.html" target="_blank">http://www.libertychronicle.net/2017/02/paul-addis-l-kent-wa-city-council.html</a>), <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Casey-for-Seattle-270154856764235/" target="_blank">Seattle WA Mayor candidate Casey Carlisle</a>, and newly announced Seattle WA City Council candidate Amanda Carter, were speakers. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ElectPassey/" target="_blank">Seattle City Council Position 8 candidate James Passey</a> was able to make a brief appearance at the event.<br />
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<b>Liberty Rocks Seattle 4.13.2017 - Libertarian Party of King County Event, LCI Exclusive - Part 2</b> </div>
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The following is a transcript as read by Political Director David Johnson:<br />
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"Hello Seattle! Hello King County! Thank you for joining us tonight.<br />
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We've got a lot of great candidates here. I wanted to talk a little bit
about our strategy as an organization as well, and where we're going -
not only this year, but beyond this year, because I think our candidates
need to understand that this year is an awesome year, we've got awesome
opportunities, AND they're a part of something bigger here. And I want
you guys to understand that we're not in this just for this year; we're
in this to win this, long term, and we want your support long term.<br />
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You're all here because you're pioneers and we're striking out on a new
journey here. Like all pioneers we are operating lean here. This is our
first event; if you look at most Democrat events they have a lot more
people. We are the pioneers, the disruptors, the entrepreneurs right
now, fighting the big man.<br />
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So the exciting part is that the
journey has now just begun. You're here in this room; this is the
beginning of our journey. This is not the end, and we are going to get a
lot bigger, and a lot louder.<br />
Today could not be a better
reminder of why we are doing what we are doing. I lost track in the last
24 hours of how many countries we're bombing, or at war with, or are
nearly at war with. Does anybody have a number out there? I know it was
seven before Trump got into office; I'm losing track now. I would count
our own country at this point. I sure as heck can't count and I can't
explain how any of those wars are helping Americans at this point.<br />
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This is why we're doing what we're doing. After an election where the
Democrats put forward a candidate that wanted to shoot down Russian
planes, I can't blame people who tried to vote for the lesser evil. But
the reality is, there's no lesser evil. There's one evil. There is one
party that is a duopoly that is controlling our country right now. That
duopoly stands for three things that we stand against: Endless war,
militarized police, and crushing debt.<br />
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As we stand here today
facing not a two party system but a one party scam, we are here for one
goal; to form a SECOND party that stands for love, liberty, and logic. I
want to talk about what those three points are and what they mean for
us here when we're trying to spread our Libertarian message to our
neighbors.<br />
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Love means that you don't go around the world like a
monster bombing everybody. Some people say you're crazy if you question
the American war machine right now. I say you're crazy if you DON'T
think we should question why we should go kill somebody.<br />
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Logic
says that you don't make excuses for unsustainable debt as a path to
economic ruin. You don't have to believe in the principle that taxation
is theft to realize in practice that warmongering and irresponsible
social engineering are stealing the future away from our children.<br />
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And liberty says that you cannot protect life, liberty, and property
through a bigger, more powerful, more invasive state with the vain hope
that they will do good with that power. But rather, life, liberty, and
property are best protected by focused, limited government that leads in
respecting others by example, instead of leading through violence,
persecution, and bullying our fellow Americans. Whether it is a
Republican or a Democrat bullying a Republican, a Democrat, a
Libertarian, a Green Party [member]; it doesn't matter who you are, the
government shouldn't be bullying you, it shouldn't be telling you what
to do with your life, and it shouldn't be limiting your opportunities.<br />
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So these three pillars are the foundation on which the second major
party coalition will be built in opposition to the current major party
that is pro-war, pro-debt, and anti-individual; we are anti-war,
anti-debt, and pro-individual.<br />
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Here in King County it's critical
that we spread the message [that] not only do we believe people have
inherent right to life, liberty, and property because of abstract
principle, but also because those rights are the only means by which we
can allow the best in us to flourish. As the major party today leads by
example in attacking others and plays Americans against one another, we
must show the power to do good and live at peace with one another that
comes with liberty.<br />
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We will show King County that free people can
choose to feed the homeless. We will show King County that free people
see problems with addiction and want to empower them rather than
imprison them. We will show King County that free people can race to the
top building more homes for more people instead of trying to control
more and keep homes from being built. And we will show King County that
free people can talk about hard issues while treating each other with
dignity and finding reasonable common ground with each other.<br />
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Our
candidates today are the front-line soldiers in this fight, running out
by their own choice into a battle where the army behind them is still
being recruited, putting everything on the line. I've sat down with all
of our candidates as political director; I see every day the stress they
go through, the hard work they put through, and the barriers that are
put in the way that they fight. Unlike real war, where the people on the
frontlines go and they get shot, and they die, and you have a nice
ceremony for them, our candidates get back up after every attempt, and
we get stronger. This is a fight to do our best this year, AND this is a
journey where we will change an entire generation. We will not win
AGAINST any individual, whether they're a Republican, a Democrat, voted
for Green Party, or didn't vote at all - they're the people we're
working with to build a better world.<br />
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I've been to Democrat and
Republican events over the past several months, and let me tell you the
worst-kept secret in politics here: the major parties are literally
dying. There are no young people at any of their events. They're a sea
of gray hair, whether you're in Seattle or Kirkland or anywhere.<br />
We're the future. This is not a gray audience. I don't see almost any
gray hair out here. It's a completely stark contrast. There's a little
bit, and we appreciate it. But if you go to a Democrat or Republican
event, no comparison. We are the new generation. We are going to outlive
the people who we are fighting against right now.<br />
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The
Libertarian Party tells the story of the next generation, and I am
honored to help write your story, and I look forward to the incredible
journey ahead."<br />
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David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-61098315284518816722017-04-09T19:21:00.004-07:002017-04-09T20:21:38.969-07:00LCI Exclusive Interview with Snohomish County's Libertarian Party WA chapter 4.4.2017<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In the following videos, we are able to interview Anthony Welti (Chair), Brian Luke (Communications Director), Mike Luke (Political Director), and Dave Shriner (Graphics Designer) about the newly formed Chapter and what plans they all have in store for SnoCo.<br />
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Libertarian Party of Snohomish County (LPSC)<br />
website: <a href="https://snocolp.com/" target="_blank">https://snocolp.com/</a><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SnoCoLP/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/SnoCoLP/</a> <br />
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Don't forget to like their page on Facebook and check their website. Go for more info on how to get involved, donate and keep up with events and candidates running in Snohomish County.<br />
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Libertarian Party of Snohomish County (LPSC)<br />
website: <a href="https://snocolp.com/" target="_blank">https://snocolp.com/</a><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SnoCoLP/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/SnoCoLP/</a><br />
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David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-19051779109281920462017-04-07T19:34:00.001-07:002017-04-07T19:38:31.410-07:00Media Release: Jesse Fullington, candidate of Tennessee for the House of Reps. 79th LD, Military Action from President Trump on Syria 4.7.2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="_5yl5">Jesse M. Fullington is seeking election in the 2018 State Representative Race in the 79th District in Tennessee.</span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5">Official Release: April 6, 2017</span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5">It saddens me deeply to hear the news that tonight, Donald J. Trump took military action against Syria. I say Trump and not America, simply because we didn't ask for another war. No approval by either Congress or the American people was given for these actions, though four years ago it was something he criticized about Barack Obama. It is deplorable and a very threat to our Liberty as Americans to condone this kind of behavior from a Commander-in-Chief. We should be considering this as an affront, not as a justified action. We had the power to help these people by giving them a safe haven, but yet we turned them away and attacked what they have left. This will accomplish nothing more than another endless war, with a body count neither side should want on their hands.</span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5">Now is not the time to blindly support actions, it's time to critically think as individuals to make informed decisions. The government is to be held accountable by us and to be the voice of the people NOT the other way around. We are literally seeing our voice CRUMBLE before our eyes. The question that remains is, are we going to let it?
Furthermore, I would call on all Libertarians to join me in standing against these, or any acts of aggression, that could lead to further conflict.</span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5">- Jesse M. Fullington
79th District Libertarian State Representative Candidate</span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Jesse4aBetterTN" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Jesse4aBetterTN</a></span><br />
<span class="_5yl5">Website: <a href="http://jesse4abettertn.com/" target="_blank">http://jesse4abettertn.com/</a> </span>David Malekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798085153713809939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319661074570842649.post-90546675240386623052017-04-07T06:35:00.003-07:002017-04-07T06:35:31.424-07:00Syria Bombing Proof of Failed Two Party System<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the biggest arguments I heard from Trump supporters, on why people shouldn't vote for Clinton, was that a vote for Clinton was a vote for a war with Russia.<br />
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Yesterday, Trump authorized the bombing of a Syria air base.<br />
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For those not aware, Syria and Russia are close allies. In fact, Russia provides a <a href="http://archive.is/A2O2" target="_blank">lot of weapons</a> to Syria. So apparently, a vote for Trump was also a vote for a war with Russia.<br />
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Don't get me wrong, the use of chemical weapons, especially against civilians, is a heinous crime and should not be tolerated. However, the United States is not the world's police force - that's what the United Nations is for.<br />
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Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson received a large amount of criticism for asking "What is Aleppo?" <a href="http://archive.is/8fmWv" target="_blank">during an interview</a>. Personally, I'd rather have a president who doesn't know where Aleppo is, compared to one who wants to bomb it.<br />
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But I digress. The fact of the matter is, we now have had multiple consecutive presidents from both parties take military action against other countries without congressional approval. Enough is enough. It's time we started electing leaders who will actually follow the constitution, and work to preserve peace, not wage war.<br />
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It's time to vote Liberty.<br />
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<i>Ken is an independent contributor for the Liberty Chronicle Independent.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com