================================================ |*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*| Old Dominion Liberty Letter Issue #52 |*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|*| ================================================
In this issue: 1. FEATURED PAGE: Dave's Redistricting Page 2. LPVA State Committee Meeting This Saturday, April 9 3. Tobey sues over political detention 4. The Leftist Double Standard 5. NATIONAL NEWS: LP Issue Bumper Stickers 6. VIRGINIA EVENTS 7. Libertarian Radio in Virginia BECOME A LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE IN 2011: To get started, visit http://Campaign.LPVA.com and let us know! And don't forget, I'm still looking for the right local campaign to drop a few nickels on: http://freevirginia.blogspot.com/2010/08/1000-challenge.html ================================================ 1. FEATURED LINK: Dave's Redistricting Page ================================================ Now here's a fascinating site. You can draw your own US House and state legislative boundaries -- it always seemed to me to be rather insane for state and federal-level districts to cut across county & city boundaries. I recognize it has to happen sometimes, but... http://gardow.com/davebradlee/default.html The developer, Dave Bradlee, is a hard-left liberal, but nevertheless he's written a really cool web app. The only thing that would make it better -- and this may already be implemented somewhere that I haven't found it -- is a "transparency" link that would reveal all of the underlying data so that his work can be checked. That's the only part I don't trust: Leftists (I was one before I became a Libertarian) have a long tradition of using trickery to get their way (like the old saw sometimes attributed to one Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin: "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (see http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/stalin_quote.htm ). As an example, the sequestration of underlying data so methods and conclusions can't be recreated, is what confirmed my skepticism about anthropogenic climate change. See: http://www.climategate.com/phil-jones-admits-withholding-scientific-data Anyway, try your hand at fiddling around with district lines and see what you come up with. Can't be any worse than what the two oligopoly parties inflict. ================================================ 2. LPVA State Committee Meeting This Saturday, April 9 ================================================ The State Central Committee of the LPVA will hold a quarterly meeting at 1:00 p.m., on Saturday, April 9, 2011, at: West Main Restaurant http://maps.google.com/?cid=634138268045893340s=9922421896652190731 333 West Main St., Charlottesville, VA 22903 (434) 293-2605 Lunch is at 12:00 noon, the meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. All LPVA members are welcome to attend the meeting (and join us for lunch before the meeting). LUNCH INVITATION: If you would like to have lunch with us, some of us typically gather for lunch an hour before the meeting, and that is the plan this time as well - arrive at 12:00 to join us. Again, you need not be an SCC member! IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS about the location, contact: James Curtis, (434) 409-4691, or email <[email protected]>; or Jim Lark 434-973-5958 or email <[email protected]> SEE YOU THERE! By the way, the LPVA Calendar page lists this meeting as well. Scroll down to April 9: http://lpva.com/Calendar/default.php ================================================ 3. Tobey sues over political detention ================================================ "A 21-year-old Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area is demanding $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge. ... Among other things, the federal lawsuit claims wrongful detention and a breach of the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment." (03/14/11) http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/4th-amendment-on-chest/ While I'm glad the charges against him were dismissed, I'm not sure how penalizing the taxpayers will teach the bureaucrats a lesson. I'd prefer that he offer the government a choice: 1) Government must pay money if they lose court case; or, 2) Offer a settlement where the government must fire all officials involved, and prohibit them from ever again being employed by the federal government. What do you think the chances would be that the government would choose door #2? ================================================ 4. The Leftist Double Standard ================================================ You know the big hue and cry over Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's requests for Michael Mann's underlying data that was used to create Mann's "hockey stick" fraud? Remember the cries about "academic freedom" and "witch hunt"? Over just a request for data? So when Dr. James Enstrom blew the whistle on the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for, among other things, failing to publicize that Hien Tran, the lead author of the study that was used to justify the new regulations, falsified his education credentials (he purchased his PhD from an online diploma mill), Enstrom's employer -- UCLA -- not only didn't come to Enstrom's defense, but told him that, after 34 years at the university, he was out of a job: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5J32_ba-y0 So let's see if we have this straight: 1) An academic, Michael Mann produces work that benefits the left by "making the case" for increased government regulation. But he must be allowed "academic freedom" to hide his taxpayer-financed data. Meanwhile: 2) Another academic James Enstrom finds out that a bureaucrat producing work that benefits the left has fraudulent credentials, and makes public the facts. But he must NOT be allowed "academic freedom". "Good enough for me, but not for thee." Don't get me wrong... For the same reason I don't think Mann should have been on the public payroll, I don't think Enstrom should be, either. In fact, *nobody* should be on the government gravy train. Enstrom's former employer, UCLA, should be sold off to the private sector -- for the same reason that UVA should be. The problem with public ownership is that this sort of partisan political abuse is part of the package. You can't root out the corruption, because corruption is an integral part of every taxpayer-funded enterprise. "Academic freedom" in the public university sense involves money taken from people against their will. 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VIRGINIA EVENTS ================================================ To stay current on upcoming activities of Libertarians across the state, check out the Calendar: http://lpva.com/Calendar/events08.asp ================================================ 7. Libertarian Radio in Virginia ================================================ What's on your mind? Unlike those right-wing or left-liberal extremist shows, Free Talk Live is talk radio that ANYONE can take control of. Yes, even you. Free Talk Live is the next generation of issues oriented talk. What is the meaning of freedom? This show is about Liberty with a capital L. Check out some of the archives on the FTL Main Page http://freetalklive.com/ to get an idea of what this all means. FreeTalkLive ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call Freq Band City Affiliate Live? 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