================================================ |*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*| Old Dominion Liberty Letter Issue #6 |*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*| ================================================ This issue distributed on Wednesday, February 25, 2009.
CONTENTS 1. Tidewater Libertarians Demand Accountability 2. The Only Real 'Bailout' 3. Eric Holder Says Americans Are Cowards! 4. Next SCC Meeting April 2009 5. Video of the Week: Candidate Commercial - Morey Straus (NH) 6. Featured Web Page this issue: Your Suggestions Needed! ================================================ 1. Tidewater Libertarians Demand Accountability ================================================ From Don Tabor, 2/24/2009: "Tonight, I brought the Tidewater Libertarian Partys request for a citizen review board on the police procedures revealed by the Ryan Frederick case to the Chesapeake City Council. I must have run a bit long, as when I was wrapping up, Mayor Krasnoff asked me to wrap it up. It was hard to read their reaction, I guess we will have to wait and see." Read the rest: http://tidewaterliberty.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/request-to-chesapeake-council-for-citizen-review/ ================================================ 2. The Only Real 'Bailout' ================================================ So the economy continues its shakeout, escalating layoffs loom large, and governments try to bring back the roaring 2k's with bailout scheme after bailout scheme. It won't work. Here's the only bailout plan that will work: 1) Abolish the individual income tax & eliminate the IRS, 2) eliminate welfare in its entirety, including the Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Ponzi schemes, 3) slash federal, state, and local government spending by 75% or more, 4) bring the troops home and de-mobilize them, 5) eliminate all but about ten of the 150,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulations, 6) repeal drug prohibition and end the war on drugs, 7) eliminate all federal and state law-enforcement activities except for agencies necessary to investigate official corruption in local police departments, 9) remove all impediments to starting up new businesses, such as zoning laws that limit making money to areas zoned "commercial" or similar, and 10) cease the practice of official state counterfeiting by stopping the printing presses and instead back the dollar with commodities that have dependable value, such as precious metals (or, better yet, allow competing coinage/currency). Vote Libertarian. Further reading: Walter Williams http://www.creators.com/opinion/walter-williams/economic-miracle.html ================================================ 3. Eric Holder Says Americans Are Cowards! ================================================ So Eric Holder thinks the United States is "a nation of cowards" on matters of race, does he? Well, now... The truth is that society can't have a candid discussion on race because politicians, lawyers, and leftists have all but prohibited it. Mr. Holder is a member by choice of all three categories. Anyone who dares to utter a peep that isn't Politically Correct gets labeled a bigot. Here are a few ideas for Mr. Holder: - Individual rights should not be denied, abridged, or enhanced at the expense of other people's rights, on the basis of sex, wealth, race, color, creed, age, national origin, personal habits, political preference, or sexual orientation by the laws at any level of government. - Government-imposed discrimination disrupts the normal relationships of people, sets neighbor against neighbor, creates gross injustices, and diminishes human potential. Anti-discrimination enforced by the government is the reverse side of the coin, and will for the same reasons create the same problems. Mr. Holder, if you want a frank discussion on race relations, why don't you work to eradicate all government attempts to regulate private discrimination, including discrimination in employment, housing, and privately owned so-called public accommodations? The right to trade includes the right not to trade -- for any reasons whatsoever. Mr. Holder, if you and the rest of your friends in government would stop forcing people to mix when they prefer not to, they will mix more peacefully in their own time and at their own discretion. Consider this: without any law forcing them to do so, the number of marriages between whites and blacks went from 65,000 in 1970 to 422,000 by 2005. Among all interracial couples, they represented two percent of marriages in 1970 according to a Stanford University study. In 2005, that number was up to seven percent. If Mr. Holder and his fellow busybodies in the nanny sector would just leave Americans alone, and get out of both their bedrooms and boardrooms, Americans will find the way forward just fine, thank you. Further reading: Eric Holder http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2009/ag-speech-090218.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/holder_race Jeff Jacoby http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/02/25/this_is_not_a_nation_of_cowards_mr_holder/ Walter Williams http://www.creators.com/opinion/walter-williams/a-nation-of-cowards.html ================================================ 4. Next SCC Meeting April 25 2009 ================================================ The next meeting of the state committee will occur on April 25 at 12:00 pm, with an 11:00 am lunch preceding. It will again be held at the Bleu Bistro. Please note the SCC is currently polling to change the date to April 18th (the Bring your appetite, your ideas, be ready to roll up your sleeves, and help us win a free country! ================================================ 5. Featured Video: LP Candidate Campaign Commercial ================================================ Morey Straus, Libertarian candidate for NH State Rep, explains the alternative to the authoritarianism of the major parties: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__fQBgCQ-44 This is one of the better campaign commercials produced by an LP candidate at the state level in 2008. ================================================ 6. 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