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Gov. Gary Johnson Libertarian candidate for president : White House make up your minds on gay marriage
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Libertarian Lee Wrights Goes On the Road to Stop All War
Libertarian Lee Wrights Goes On the Road to Stop All War
ATHENS, Ga. - R. Lee Wrights, a longtime libertarian writer
and activist, is seeking the Libertarian Party nomination for president because
he wants to stop all war. He's so committed to insuring that this is the
Libertarian Party message in November, regardless of who gets the nomination,
that he's taking his campaign on the road – literally.
Wrights will attend the Georgia Libertarian Party State
Convention in Athens March 25-26. Then
he will embark on a two-month odyssey, traveling by car, that will crisscross
the nation twice. He'll attend Libertarian state party conventions and events
in Georgia, California, Mississippi, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas/Missouri, Ohio,
Texas, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and New York.
“We must not only stop the wars in Afghanistan and on other
countries, we must stop the war on drugs and alternative lifestyles, we must
stop the war on civil liberties, we must stop the wars on food, healthcare,
guns -- you name it,” Wrights said. “We must stop all war.”
Wrights said that all politicians, Democrats and
Republicans, liberals and conservatives, manipulate every calamity and issue
into a war on something or somebody to instill mindless fear into Americans, to
divide us, and to con us into surrendering more and more of our liberty in the
vain hope of insuring our security.
“We have waged war on poverty since the 60's, and people are
still poor,” he said. “We've waged war on ignorance since the 70's, and our
children still cannot read, write, or think critically.”
“And we have gallantly fought the Demon Drugs for decades,
and all we have done is put more people in prison for non-violent crimes than
any other nation, while funding terrorists who kill people all over the world,”
Wrights said.
Rather than bringing change, President Barack Obama has
reneged on his promise to reverse the trampling of civil liberties begun under
the Bush Administration. “He’s done just the opposite,” Wrights said. “He’s
expanded federal power to invade our privacy and curtail our rights, or detain
us indefinitely.”
“What is most frightening and appalling of all is that
President Obama has ordered assassination of American citizens, making himself
judge, jury and executioner, in total disregard for the rights guaranteed under
the U.S. Constitution,” Wrights said. “We’re all now suspects, not sovereigns.”
“President Obama has also bombed more countries than any
other Nobel Prize winner in history,” Wrights noted.
Wrights said that the Republican candidates for president,
except one, challenge the right of the president to do any of these things.
“Only Libertarians do that,” he said. “Only the Libertarian Party is committed
to peace, which will bring prosperity.”
“The libertarian promise of peace and prosperity is one
Americans are longing to hear,” Wrights said. “We don't need to soften, refine,
modify or craft what we believe to appeal to conservatives or liberals to win
votes. Instead, we must embrace our beliefs and wear them proudly.”
“As the Libertarian candidate for president I'm ready,
willing and able to take this bold stand. I've never been afraid to speak truth
to power,” Wrights stressed. “I'll take the true libertarian message of peace
and prosperity to all 50 states and won't be ashamed to say in a loud, clear
and unequivocal voice: Stop all war!”
The Libertarian Party is the third largest political party
in the U.S. Libertarians believe the answer to America's political problems is
the same commitment to freedom that earned America its greatness: a free-market
economy and the abundance and prosperity it brings; a dedication to civil
liberties and personal freedom; and a foreign policy of non-intervention,
peace, and free trade as prescribed by America's founders.
Libertarianism is essentially the application of the Golden
Rule to politics: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. “This
means that no one, not even the government, has the right to tell you how to
live your life, or what you can do with your property so long as you respect
other people's right to live as they please and use their property the way they
want,” Wrights explained.
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855-4-LeeWrights
Contact: Brian Irving, press secretary
919.538.4548
Gov. Gary Johnson Libertarian presidential candidate : 30,000 drones over the U.S. : Government snooping at an entirely new level
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Constitutional Carry Bill in Georgia
“Rep. Ann Purcell, can you hear us now?”
Thanks to your phone calls and emails we had the opportunity to speak in support of “Constitutional Carry” at a hearing for the House Public Safety and Homeland Security committee today.
But giving testimony at a hearing won’t change Georgia law. Only roll-call votes by the legislature will enact “Constitutional Carry."
At the hearing, Committee Chairwoman Rep. Ann Purcell stated that she hadn't gotten any calls about the bill. She said this in reply to a question about blocking a roll call vote.
Really, Rep. Purcell?
Please CALL and then email Rep. Ann Purcell and demand a roll-call vote on Constitutional Carry in committee!
Rep. Ann Purcell - ann.purcell@house.ga.gov
404-656-5139 | 912-826-5465
Leave voice mail. Leave messages. Demand to speak directly with Rep. Ann Purcell. Don't take "no" for an answer.
Follow-up with an email reminding Rep. Purcell that inaction is the same thing as a vote against your 2nd Amendment rights.
Thank you for your continued support in this fight!
Yours in Liberty,
Nathan Adams
Interim State Coordinator
Georgia Campaign for Liberty
P.S. Don't forget to sign our "Constitutional Carry" petition and share this email with all of your friends and family.
P.P.S. Contact Rep. Ann Purcell at 404-656-5139 and demand a roll-call vote on the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2012.
This message was intended for: doug@vikingmetals.com
Town hall with Governor Gary Johnson
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Noted Libertarian Economist Endorses Lee Wrights for President
Noted Libertarian Economist Endorses Lee Wrights for President
BURNET, Texas (Feb. 9) - Ken Schoolland, a long-term board member of the International Society for Individual Liberty and associate professor at Hawaii Pacific University, has endorsed Lee Wrights for President and joined the campaign as economic advisor.
In libertarian circles Schoolland is best known as the author of the animated video “The Philosophy of Liberty” popular on the Internet. He wrote the illustrated libertarian primer “The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A FreeMarket Odyssey,” which has been translated into more than 40 languages.
Schoolland, who was Hawaii LP chair for five years, is also the author of “Shogun’s Ghost,” an expose on education in Japan, where he taught before accepting his current position in Honolulu. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, an international organization of economists, philosophers, historians, intellectuals, business leaders, and others who favor classical liberalism.
ISIL is a non-profit, non-partisan libertarian educational organization encouraging activism in libertarian and individual rights.
Schoolland issued this statement:
"I like Ron Paul. I like Gary Johnson. I'd probably like all the libertarian candidates running for President. But liking someone isn't a reason to vote for them. When I became a member of the Libertarian Party back in 1976 I signed a non-aggression pledge. I take that pledge very seriously. That has been my guiding principle ever since.”
"I simply don't vote for anyone who compromises on that principle, as the Libertarian Party has too often been willing to do in recent years to broaden candidate popularity. I applaud Ron Paul and Gary Johnson for promoting the libertarian program, but if people don't grasp the underlying principle, then gains will turn to losses in an instant of mob passion. No compromise with principle.
"The libertarian message is rooted in an appreciation of individual rights … not state's rights, not practical moderation. That is why I enthusiastically join the Lee Wrights campaign and endorse him for the 2012 Libertarian Party Presidential nomination. When I listen to Lee Wrights speak, as he did at the Libertarian Party of Hawaii convention last May – traveling on his own dime – I was reminded of that great, successful libertarian abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, who said:
I am aware, that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- and I will be heard.”
R. Lee Wrights, 53, a libertarian writer and political activist, is seeking the presidential nomination because he believes the Libertarian message in 2012 must be a loud, clear and unequivocal call to stop all war. To that end he has pledged that 10 percent of all donations to his campaign will be spent for ballot access so that the stop all war message can be heard in all 50 states. Wrights is a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party and co-founder and editor of the free speech online magazine Liberty For All. Born in Winston-Salem, N.C., he now lives and works in Texas.
Lee Wrights for President
Contact: Brian Irving, press secretary
press@wrights2012.com
919.538.4548
Gary Johnson: Let's get America moving again
Replacing income and capital-gains taxes with Fair-tax is a good place to start
With the real unemployment rate probably well above 10 percent, we have to, as President Kennedy said, "get America moving again." When I visited Occupy Wall Street, I felt the frustration of young people who wanted to work but couldn't get an interview, much less a job. What's even more frustrating is that when I visit business owners and employers, I meet people who want to hire, but can't.
Capitalism requires capital. When government robs capital from investors in the form of high taxes, it takes away the money that creates jobs - real private-sector jobs that contribute to the health of our economy. The businessmen I meet want to expand, want to hire and think they can find a market for what they sell, but they lack capital.
Meanwhile, the federal government is spending us deeper and deeper into debt while we shell out billions in foreign aid we can no longer afford and trillions more for foreign wars in which our national interest is just not apparent to me.
Republicans and Democrats have both failed to respond to this reality. In order to create jobs now, we need radical surgery, not a haircut. Here I present a simple but drastic economic plan to foster a boom in America.
First, we need to get rid of the income tax. When our first great Supreme Court justice, John Marshall, equated the power to tax and the power to destroy, he was predicting what's happening to our country right now. Giant, slow corporations spend their money on lobbying because tax avoidance is where their profit is. General Electric earned $14.2 billion in 2010 and paid zero taxes on it. Why? Because it has the lobbyists to get subsidies and tax breaks.
But those mom-and-pop stores? The tech startups? The nimble new corporations with new ideas and new visions for our economy? They pay as much as 35 cents on every dollar they earn. When the company pays its employees, the government taxes that money again. We need to stop taxing work, savings and investment. I advocate removing all income taxes, all capital-gains taxes, and replacing them with a consumption tax, kind of a national sales tax called the Fair-tax.
We also need to get rid of payroll taxes. Look at it from the perspective of employers for a moment. When they want to hire someone, it costs more than just the wage they're paying. They have to pay payroll taxes, including for Social Security and Medicare. That cost is about 10 percent of the wages they pay an employee. Remove that burden, and employers will be able to hire 10 percent more people. With an unemployment rate of 10 percent, why wouldn't we jump at this chance? The Fair-tax replaces employment and payroll taxes.
So how does Fair-tax fund the government? When anyone purchases a new good or service for personal consumption, be it a DVD or a yacht, the person is taxed. Fair-tax doesn't tax used goods or business-to-business purchases.
Some think the Fair-tax is regressive, but in fact it's progressive - taxing the wealthy more than the poor. Fair-tax issues a "prebate" for families to spend on food, clothing, transportation, medical care or whatever they want to spend it on - it's their money. Undocumented immigrants will pay their taxes if they want to buy anything. They need a Social Security card to receive a prebate, so the incentive is for immigrants to get themselves on the books as fast as possible.
At the same time, I have proposed cutting the federal budget by 43 percent to bring it into balance. It can be done. It requires the will and ability to ignore and even fight the special interests that have a vested interest in more and more government spending. Our system is corrupted by special-interest campaign contributions. Crony capitalism permeates our government. The result is that, as the Congressional Budget Office reported this week, the deficit for 2012 will once again exceed $1 trillion.
When I was governor of New Mexico, I had the highest job growth of any of the 50 governors. But I didn't create a single job - businesses did. I just got government out of their way. We have an unprecedented opportunity to use today's crisis to return us to economic growth and prosperity. Never before has the government been such an obstacle to employment. Republicans and Democrats have regulated and taxed our economy to where we're lagging behind Brazil, Russia, China, Israel and India in terms of growth and innovation.
Government can't grow us out of this mess - government is the problem. Radical tax reform and spending discipline can bring America back. Let's get America working again.
Paid for by Gary Johnson 2012Contributions or gifts to Gary Johnson 2012 are not deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purposes.
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Momentum is building for Constitutional Carry but we need you help.
Momentum is building for Constitutional Carry, but we have a long hard battle ahead of us. The politicians under the Gold Dome in Atlanta aren’t going to make this fight for liberty easy!
Because of the pressure applied by grassroots activists like you, the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2012 (H.B. 679) now has four co-sponsors in addition to the bill’s original sponsor, Rep. Jason Spencer (R-Woodbine). Now the real work begins.
As I mentioned in the last update, House ‘leadership’ tried to derail our efforts by assigning the bill to the Public Safety and Homeland Security committee instead of the Judiciary Non-Civil committee where all other 2nd Amendment related bills have been assigned.
But we will not back down or be cast aside so easily.
That is why I am asking you to keep the pressure up and please contact the House Public Safety and Homeland Security chairwoman, Ann Purcell, and ask her to schedule hearings for H.B. 679 as soon as possible:
Capitol Office: (404) 656-5139
We also want to send a clear message to the other Representatives that you have already been contacting: As someone who claims fidelity to the 2nd Amendment, you need to co-sponsor the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2012!
Please contact each of these Representatives and ask them: “Why haven’t you co-sponsored the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2012?”Rep. Mark Hatfield - mhatfield@wayxcable.com
(404) 656-0109 | (912) 285-1675
Rep. Rich Golick - rich.golick@house.ga.gov
(404) 656-5943 | (770) 319-7200 | (770) 444-3224
Rep. Wendell Willard - wendell.willard@house.ga.gov
(404) 656-5125 | (770) 392-0676 | (770) 481-7100
Rep. Alex Atwood - alex.atwood@house.ga.gov
(404) 656-0152 | (912) 265-5515
Rep. Doug Collins - doug.collins@house.ga.gov
(404) 651-7737
Rep. Christian Coomer - christian.coomer@house.ga.gov
(404) 656-0109 | (770) 383-9171
Rep. Sharon Cooper - sharon.cooper@house.ga.gov
(404) 656-5069 | (770) 956-8357
Rep. B.J. Pak - bj.pak@house.ga.gov
(404) 656-0254 | (478) 953-4557
Rep. Matt Ramsey - matt.ramsey@house.ga.gov
(404) 656-7146 | (706) 632-2221
Rep. Ed Setzler - ed.setzler@house.ga.gov
(404) 656-0177 | (770) 420-0520 | (678) 290-6572
Yours in Liberty,
Nathan Adams
Interim State Coordinator
Georgia Campaign for Liberty
P.S. Don’t forget to sign our Constitutional Carry petition and share this email with all of your friends and family in Georgia.
P.P.S. Contact Representative Ann Purcell at (404) 656-5139 and demand public hearings on the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2012.
This message was intended for: doug@vikingmetals.com
Gary Johnson : Is your Library Card Really Yours? Repeal The patriot Act Now.
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