Tag: Libertarian Party

Removing Support for Gary Johnson

As of today, June 7, 2012, I am officially removing my support for the Libertarian Party’s Candidate for President of the United States.

To be quite honest, I never was greatly impressed with Gary Johnson at all, I simply supported him, because I thought he was a sane alternative to the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney. However, after reading this interview, which I will quote and link to; it is obvious to me, that Gary Johnson and myself are not on the same page at all. Also too, Gary Johnson does not strike me as someone who is serious about even running for office. He also strikes me as someone who is, “on something,” if you know what I mean.

Anyhow, here is the interview excerpt that I wish to comment on:

Via Newsmax (Video at link):

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 2012, tells Newsmax the overriding theme of his White House candidacy is: “Say no to government.”

Johnson believes the United States should abolish the income tax and the IRS, end the war in Afghanistan and the war on drugs, cut tax loopholes and eliminate the jobs of half the lobbyists in Washington.

He also calls for a form of amnesty for illegal aliens in the country and the legalization of marijuana to stamp out violence along the U.S.-Mexican border.

See the parts that I underlined? That is my problem with Gary Johnson and because of that; I am removing my support for the man. I am sorry, but, illegal immigration with me, and legalizing of pot; well, that is just crazy talk in my humble opinion. Also doing away with the war on drugs; coming from someone who grew up in Southwest Detroit and someone who saw what drugs did to that city back in the 1980’s — I just cannot support such nonsense. Also too, that Drug problem in southwest Detroit? It is about twelve times as bad, than it was, when I lived down there.

In fact, let me relay a short story: In the 1980’s, when I lived in southwest Detroit. We had a drug dealer on our street. His name was Charlie, I have forgotten his last name. Anyhow, he lived down the street from me. He sold pot and I believe cocaine too. Anyhow, one night, a guy named Marty came wanting dope, and Charlie would not sell to him. I believe it was because Marty was already high. Anyhow, Marty, who was a guy who lived in the neighborhood; ended up cutting Charlie’s throat from ear to ear. All because Charlie would not sell him any drugs. Marty ended up going to jail for that murder and our neighborhood was never the same after that.

I said that above to make a point and that point is this; I am all for small Government, I am all for low taxes and breaks for small businesses. What I am not for is the removal of a thing that keeps this Country running —- Rule of Law.  There are those that feel that the removal of the rule of law would make this Country freer than it is now. I am sorry, but I happen to disagree with that. Anyone who has lived in the inner city and seen what drugs have done to those inner cities; knows that the war on drugs should in fact continue.

Because of that, I am now going to remove my support for Gary Johnson from this blog. I wish Gary Johnson the best, but I cannot support an idiotic platform such as his.

Action Alert!: A Baptist Church has a fire, has no insurance

This an action alert for all Christians and Conservatives alike. There is a Baptist Church tonight without a building to call their own. I received this information via e-mail. The pictures are a bit small; but I think everyone should get the message.

It seems that a Baptist Church, that I learned of from Chuck Baldwin‘s website, has suffered a horrible fire.

From the e-mail:

Proverbs 17:17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The evening of June 30, 2009, the Gateway Anabaptist Church building sustained an electrical fire rendering the complete loss of the contents and use of the current building, but no loss of any lives. Praise the Lord! Firefighters  were able to contain the flames to the second floor, but water damaged all other contents – including, tracts, Bibles, books, printers, furniture….

The water-logged pews were taken out immediately and “air-dried” to use for services outside under the “tabernacle”. We will meet here until weather forces us to a rented facility.

As God provides the funds, we will be rebuilding on the same property. God has led us into a building program. We have always stated that we could use more room to facilitate our church family and all the church and printing ministries.  Our old facility auditorium was a mere 29’ x 30’ but we hope to build a new  full  two story building  35’ x 50’ on a concrete pour, on the back corner of our property.  We estimate it will cost near $125,000 and in four weeks we have raised $10,300 in gifts so far. Once the new building is done we will then level the old building to make more parking. So, we totally trust God, by faith, to give us a miracle. We know the task is immense, but God is bigger than this “bump in the road”. The enemy meant it for evil, …but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Genesis 50:20


Here are the pictures:

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Pastor Dan looking at the Damage
Pastor Dan looking at the Damage
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However, these people refuse to quit. They are faithful to his word and will not allow Satan to destroy, what God has Created:

The Church Pastor, Pastor Dan Hardin Leading Worship
The Church Pastor, Pastor Dan Hardin Leading Worship
The Congregation of Gateway Anabaptist Church meeting under a tent! They WILL NOT QUIT!
The Congregation of Gateway Anabaptist Church meeting under a tent! They WILL NOT QUIT!

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Please note, this Church did not have insurance. Pastor Dan does not believe in registering his Church with the state, because this, he cannot get insurance. So, this Church is depending on God (and possibly his people!) to get them back on tract.

If you would like to help this Church, please send a Check or Money Order to: (Sorry, no PayPal!)

Gateway Anabaptist Church

6146 E Dunbar Rd

Monroe, Michigan 48161

313-703-8536

Pastor Dan Hardin 734-777-6676

Contact Pastor Dan for any information..

Please, DO NOT send any money to me! I have no way of getting it to Pastor Dan! Send anything and everything to Pastor Dan via the Church Address Directly! Thank you!

Update: Here is the Article about the fire in the Monroe News.

More Sad News: Libertarian Blogger Mark Yannone Found Dead

I was just over at Freedom’s Phoenix, some sad news to report:

Steve Yannone (no relation – close friend) steveyannone at aol.com (reports):

Will provide more details when family comes to town. Close friends can contact Steve for more details. It is 001-0720140919-Mark_Yannone3believed that he died from an epileptic seizure that he regularly suffered from. Sometime between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. We’ll have more details as they become available.

Many of us have known Mark since the mid 90’s as a very principled and active libertarian. He was expected to be heavily engaged in the coming election cycle again. He will be missed.
Ernie

Mark’s Blog is here; Mark also run on the Libertarian ticket, that website is here.

What a sad loss for the Freedom Movement! :-((

Oh Please!

Now the Neo-Conservative Republicans are saying that people like me, who voted for Bob Barr have no morals.

Q&O lays it out in his typical well-done manner:

Bob Barr pulled all of 511,324 votes. Statistically that’s 0% of the electorate. Had every Bob Barr voter voted for John McCain, he’d have ended up with 58,854,995 votes instead of 58,343,671 to Obama’s 66,882,230.

Apparently Clouthier believes that libertarians are a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP and due a righteous lecture for their lack of support.

It may be time for a little reality check for the good doctor.

A) Obviously if every vote Barr got had gone to McCain, it wouldn’t have increased McCain’s final count by even a percentage point. So the attempt to blame your abysmally poor GOP candidate’s abysmally poor showing on Barr voters is technically a non-starter.

B) The reason the GOP sucked so badly in the last election has absolutely nothing to do with Bob Barr and/or libertarians.  It had to do with how poorly your party governed.  Like most libertarians I haven’t voted for a Republican since Reagan. And frankly what happened to the size of government under Reagan is one reason why. Bush compounded the problem (Medicare Part D? “No Child Left Behind”?) and the eternally squishy McCain promised more of the same.

C) The only reason libertarians even somewhat identify with your party is because it sometimes pretends to be concerned about less spending and smaller government. Unfortunately, as I imply above, the GOP mostly just talks the talk and rarely walks the walk.

D) The GOP picked John McCain, not libertarians. John McCain was the worst of all worlds and your party gave him the nod. He was a candidate who had once been considered as a VP pick for John Kerry for heaven sake! He proved he was an enemy of the 1st Amendment with his campaign finance bill. His definition of “compromise” was to give the Democrats what they want.

E) Libertarians don’t owe the GOP a damned thing. You want libertarian support?  Then quit whining and lecturing and earn it! Put up candidates that actually do what you claim to want to do in terms of spending and the size of government. Yeah, that’s right – cut spending drastically and reduce the size of government radically and then you can start asking why libertarians aren’t supporting the GOP. Then you’ll have grounds to do so. But until then – we owe you nothing.

Barack Obama sits in the White House not because of Bob Barr or the libertarian vote. He sits there because the GOP has completely and totally failed to live up to its claimed philosophy and its word for decades. John McCain’s nomination told libertarians all they needed to know about the lack of seriousness within the GOP to remedy that situation.

If the GOP wants libertarian votes, then it had better mend its ways. We don’t do “tents” and we don’t do “plantations” and we don’t belong to the GOP. You want us, you’d better do what it takes to get us – and you’re not even close right now

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Fixing the GOP is your job, not ours – you need to quit trying to outsource it. Libertarians have no desire to be a part of the GOP per se because there is enough not to like to keep us away. But libertarians will support a GOP that commits itself to the principles of less spending, smaller government and less government intrusion. But only when the GOP actually does something about them – find and run a candidate who actually believes in those principles and elect Republicans to Congress who will help he or she act on those principles.

Until then libertarians aren’t going to support the GOP. You can call it “flopping around the edges” or whatever you wish, but that won’t change the fact that until the GOP actually does the hard work of recreating itself in alignment with its stated principles it can’t expect support from libertarians just because the GOP thinks the Democrat’s candidate is worse than theirs.

Well put. This is why I just do not believe that women have any place in politics whatsoever. I really wish the Doctor would do something lady-like and very Conservative; like go have a baby or something, and leave the politics to the men folk and more importantly; the adults.

Further more, when the Republican Party starts acting like it’s name, instead of the Socialist-lite, that it has been since George W. Bush took office, then I might be inclined to vote for them. Otherwise, I will continue to vote Libertrian on a National Level and Republican on the State level.

Others: The Moderate Voice, Riehl World View, Ace of Spades HQ, AmSpecBlog and The Other McCain

Please note: this posting is a replacement for one that I pulled, because I posted when I was angry. Something I should not do. Apologies to those who might have seen it. My feelings about Dr. Melissa Clouthier being a clueless oaf, remain unchanged.

Neo-Libertarians now calling Paleo-Libertarians Faux Libertarian Conservatives.

A little bit of a disclaimer here. The link I am pointing to, is NOT the person that wrote this. That is Glenn Reynolds’s Blog. The link that he points to, is the one in question. The reason why I am not directly linking to the Blog, is because I refuse to send that idiot ANY traffic directly at all. Not after the way he spoke to me in an e-mail. He’s a Wilsonian Neo-Libertarian. Just wanted to point that out, before anyone started sending Reynolds any hate mail.

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Click and follow the link to read. One word; Unbelievable.

Of course, when you’re a blogger/person that comes down on the side of the Wilsonian’s or as I call them, warmongering Neo-Cons; AKA people that take their talking points from John Podhoretz and William Kristol, what do you expect?

Countdown to the race baiters attacking me…in 5….4….3…2…1

The Southern Avenger on "Lindsey Graham Republicans"

When Lindsey Graham denounced Ron Paul-style libertarianism and advocated for George W. Bush-style neoconservatism during a speech at the South Carolina Republican Convention, it was worth pointing out that Graham’s suggested GOP path is the road to nowhere.

The Southern Avenger on "Tea Parties vs. The Warfare State"

How in praising the tea parties one week, then defending President Bush on torture and his “War on Terror” the next, conservatives negate their alleged anti-government message.

The Southern Avanger’s Blog

The Southern Avenger @ Taki’s Magazine

Bob Barr Criticizes the two party political system

This is great, I like this:

America is being short-changed by fixating on a two-party political system said Bob Barr, 2008 third party presidential candidate, during an address in the Marvin Center Tuesday night.

“There is more to politics in America than just those two parties. However, they are the current status quo of politics in America and we just sit and live with it,” said the former congressmen and Libertarian Party member. He noted how the status quo apparently existed at GW as well, when he took a playful jab at Program Board’s advertisements, which featured co-sponsorship logos from both the College Democrats and the College Republicans.

Also a graduate of GW, Barr challenged students to always strive to change the status quo no matter what field of work they pursue.

“The status quo is the most powerful force in the world, and it is difficult to change it,” he said.

Voicing frustration about the quality of candidates available from the two party system, Barr said he felt the candidates were not articulate enough to earn their desired position. “A certain governor from Alaska refused to take some questions from the media…to make herself ‘look good’ in front of the public,” he said. “Sen. McCain was asked a question on education, and he started rambling that obesity in schools was a major cause for concern. That was not the question!”

via Bob Barr Criticizes Two-Party System : The Daily Colonial.

Very true. I voted for Bob Barr, it is truly a pity that America did not see the things, the way I did. We are a poorer nation for it.

(H/T The Independent Political Report)


The Southern Avenger on "The Radical Right"

The Southern Avenger’s Blog

The Southern Avenger @ Taki’s Magazine

Books Mentioned:

The Southern Avenger on "States' Rights and The Left"

Synopsis:

When a number of states passed state sovereignty resolutions recently, though these measures came from right-wing resistance to Obama’s statism, the Left would do well to take note.

The Southern Avenger

The Southern Avenger @ Taki’s Magazine