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TSA Body Scanners Unconstitutional – 2010 Liberty Candidates Speak Out

Gigi Bowman1 Comment

 

Liberty Candidate, Cisse Spragins, Speaks Out against Body Scanners

Adam VS The Man with Adam Kokesh Naked Body Scan or Pat Down

Robert Broadus

I think there is something not being discussed here, which is that the Federal Gov’t should not be conducting security for private airlines. The very existence of the TSA shows an overreach of the commerce clause, and is an unjustified expansion of gov’t. What SHOULD have happened is that the airport or the airline in question should provide its own security, and if the company then required body scans or pat-downs, then it would not be a violation of the Constitution, and if the customer did not like it, he could take his business to another airline or another airport. Because of federal involvement, every airport will soon have the same standards, and therefore every citizen will be in a position of having their 4th amendment protections violated. 

So for me, the answer is to end the TSA.

Alexander Snitker


It is truly amazing how far we will infringe on the liberties of our fellow Americans. This is where we must take a stand. What does the government have to do in order for people to understand this will not end until we decide it is enough? I will not fly until the body scanners are removed.

Steve Susman and David Smith

It is the choice of the airlines in these airports-Participate in tyranny and we will put you out of business. This time, the public will not bail you out. If the incumbents bail you out, we will get rid of them too.( We in Houston have joined forces with Oathkeeper Jay Stang(son of the late Alan Stang) and will organize a massive protest 11/24. David Smith and I are bringing in WAC Houston, the Houston Free Thinkers and more to combat this agregious rights violation) Planning begins immediately after the End the Fed Rally http://lptexas.org/meetup/end-fed-rally

Barry Hess


I think it’s very telling that among the apologists for the TSA, no one has suggested the obvious way to resolve this nonsense. 

I, for one am only flying privately because the minute some governmonkey touched me, my wife or any child, I’d probably end up with a felony on my hands. This thing is just a way to desensitize the public and destroy any sense of personal modesty.

Why must you appear naked before the Emperor and his minions? How can it be explained to a child that an adult ‘touching’ them inappropriately is “okay” if it’s an idiot with gloves? The whole thing flies in the face of being a “free” person with a government that is charged with protecting our individual rights.

The mental midget’s who think any of this makes them safer deserve their degradation, but I don’t. I am not afraid, to any degree of any so-called ‘threat’. I refuse to live in fear and under the delusion that somehow all this inconvenience and personal invasion makes me ‘safer’.

The obvious way to really make us “safer” is to simply declare Peace on the rest of the world and take away any reason for anyone to threaten any of us. Coupled with an armed Citizenry (yes, even on board the planes) we would all be as safe as is humanly possible. The Constitution was very well thought out, and the Declaration of Independence explicit in its intent

Jackie Miller


have refused to fly now for some time. I simply refuse to have my Fourth Amendment rights violated & I “walk my talk.” Until “The People” wake up to what is really going on ala Nazi Germany & fight with all we have against this (latest) assault on our civil liberties it will get worse! I am currently on vacation & doing “The road less traveled,”as I always do. It has amazed me that so many Americans are clueless as to what a truly beautiful Country we have. BOYCOTT the airlines! Tell Homeland Security that our LIBERTY means something to us. The sad part of my recent travels however are so many Liberties which have been taken away; something when I get back home I’ll be sharing a great deal about. Please be aware though that as usual we are also fighting the MEDIA & their propaganda machine. We must also spread the message that the bottom line to all of this is “Follow the Money!” And that it has NOTHING to do with “security” but also everything to do with CONTROL. “We the People” are the protectors of the Constitution, NOT the politicians & it is high time we began acting like it! If we do not stop this now, the next thing will be “checkpoints” for vehicles at all of our State borders, & I don’t think that is too far-fetched to believe.

Jake Shannon


The TSA is a red herring. They’ll concede and Republicans will take credit as liberators… Meanwhile we will still have war with Iran, the Fed won’t end, and the IRS will continue to terrorize Americans. We must stay focused and not be satisfied with false victories. We must not be satisfied with anything less than total liberty.

Cecil Anthony Ince


“Those who would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin

This nation is a nation of delusional freedom today. It no longer resembles the national of our forefathers when the elected pass laws that violate and supersede the Constitution. We as a nation exist in a state of despotism and deny it claiming freedom which does not exist for U.S. under the law. Freedom is as real as a thought, a belief, a faith. It is the forgotten practice of agent-hood, and is the knowledge to make decisions and to take actions on ones own will or upon ones morality.

If we believe that liberty only exists because government allows it or that freedom is guaranteed by laws that dictate how individuals act and interact, then we are blinded and blinded unto a state of tyranny that we proclaim as liberty and we are doomed.

The reality is the government exists because the people permit it, and that liberty existed before governments and will continue even after they fall.
It is not the Government nor its laws that restrain me from killing another person it is my GOD given morality, the natural sense of right and wrong. It is not a “Red-light” law that prevents me from running a red light, it is my common sense and self-preservation that prevents me from pulling out into the intersection and being t-boned by another car.

“I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the minds of man.” – Thomas Jefferson

RJ Harris


“Following Orders” No Excuse for Sexual Assault!

Serving as I am here in Afghanistan many of you have asked me why I am here. I have replied that if asked to execute an illegal or immoral order I would refuse and I still hold to that. My point here is that were I a TSA agent…I would refuse orders to do what they are now doing. Those of you still clinging to the notions that our government is not corrupt and that it considers the defense of our liberty as anywhere near the priority that the founders did need look no farther than what is going on at the TSA. These are not solitary random acts of disgruntled agents which does not reflect the ethics of the rest of the agency…this administration and this agency are perpetrating these acts upon us knowing full well what they are doing and yet they tyrannize us anyway. When will you rise up America and fight for your freedom? Will it be after your sisters and your mothers and your wives are molested by government agents? When will you say that the degradations are too great? The founders who espoused to the notion that no exchange of freedom for security was a worthy bargain would be ashamed of what we have allowed already and I say it is time we told the government enough. Don’t fly if you can avoid it. Don’t go through the scanners if you must fly and video any and all searches to be used in court against the agents and agency at a later time. “Following orders” has never been a viable excuse for committing sexual assault and those of you being grope searched should seriously consider filling charges against even individual agents. WAKE UP AMERICA, ITS TIME TO FIGHT FOR LIBERTY

Doug Marks


As a liberty candidate I’d like to start off with displaying the Fourth Amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Fourth Amendment was written in direct response to British general warrants where the Crown would grant general search powers to British law enforcement officials. These officials could search virtually any home, or person, they liked, at any time they liked, for any reason they liked but were not bound to having justification to do it, it could be on a whim or for folly.

The “right of people to be secure in their persons”, as already ruled by the supreme court, is your right to privacy and by being forced to display yourself naked, or face an intimate groping physical search, removes this right. If this can be done in airports, what is stopping the government from using this as a precedent for doing this in all public places? If, as a citizen, I was to perform any of these actions I would be jailed so how is it legal for the government to not be liable for breaking our battery, child abuse and child pornography laws?

The government is installed to preserve and protect our natural rights not strip them away, under any circumstance. The public is no safer now than we were before the Christmas bomber or September 11th. If someone is determined to bring down an aircraft there are methods available that are way beyond the technology of a strip search so believing that degrading people and stripping their rights makes them any safer is ludicrous at best. As we continue to move deeper and deeper into this “police state” we are telling the terrorists, they won. Their desire is to control through terrorizing and our government is completely following their desire.

‘Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium’- I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. By willfully accepting the actions of our government we are accepting slavery as we are no longer the masters of our bodies, we are giving away that mastery to the government. As we give away our rights, we are also dissolving our republic and the rule of law which it was founded upon.

Where does it end? When do the people realize they have become slaves to the master in Washington? When do we fight back? If not today, when?

VIDEO! Ron Paul Introduces HR 6416: The American Traveler Dignity Act

 

TSA Tyrannical Practices forced to the Forefront by Your Emails! Napolitano to meet Travel Industry! Our boycott is working!

http://www.DailyTeaParty.com
Boris in Miami –

Stepped-up security screening at airports in the wake of foiled terrorism plots has provoked an outcry from airline pilots and travelers, including parents of children who say they are too intrusive. (Reuters)

Since the inception of the porn scanners at our airports the Freedom Movement at large has been up in arms about it; blogging, commenting, and making the case for the unconstitutionality, backwardness and ineffectiveness of such intrusive electronic searches and intimate pat downs.

Recently, pilot Michael Roberts posted a letter at LewRockwell.com “Pilot to TSA:  No Groping Me and NO Naked Photos“” which went on to be picked up by the Main Stream Media and became viral, inspiring a larger wave of indignant articles from the MSM and the Freedom Movement.  Michael also inspired the Allied Pilot Association to join the protest.

Read More:
http://dailyteaparty.com/2010/11/12/grassroots-win-tsa-tyrannical-practices-forced-to-the-forefront-by-your-emails-napolitano-to-meet-travel-industry/

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The Myth of the Wasted Vote

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The Myth of the Wasted Vote

by Charles L. Hooper
by Charles L. Hooper

Recently, I was surprised to see a long-term Libertarian’s car sporting a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker. “What’s with the Kerry bumper sticker?” I asked my friend. “Isn’t it self-explanatory?” he replied sarcastically. “Okay, okay, I see that you’re going to vote for Kerry. I just want to know why. I thought you would be voting Libertarian.”

He then proceeded to tell me that while he doesn’t like Kerry, he simply despises George W. Bush. “You don’t want to waste your vote on somebody that you fundamentally disagree with, do you?” I asked him. “I’ve been wasting my vote for years by voting Libertarian,” he replied bitterly.

“Ah, but you will be wasting your vote this year because Kerry is almost assured to take California. One extra vote won’t make a difference.” I hadn’t run the numbers, but I was sure that my friend’s vote wasn’t going to affect the California electoral vote and, therefore, had no chance of affecting the national result.

Since our conversation I have run the numbers, and they are mind-boggling. Based on these results, reasonable people may conclude that they should never vote. But if you do decide to cast your vote, as I have, you should vote for the best candidate and abandon any attempts to displace the disliked Kerrys, Bushes, Clintons, Reagans, Carters, and Gores of the world.

To run the numbers, I created a Monte Carlo computer simulation model and ran well over 300,000 simulations. My model has two pretty evenly matched main political parties and three smaller ones that fight over roughly ten percent of the vote total. I defined voting groups, each with probability distributions. With these groups defined, I ran multiple runs of the model at 5,000 iterations (5,000 elections) each while varying the number of total voters.

It turns out that your one vote, and mine too, has a probability of swinging any evenly-matched election based on the following formula: Probability equals 3.64 divided by N, where N is the total number of votes cast. So for a small election, say for a homeowners’ association with 100 members, your probability of casting the vote that determines the outcome is about 3.64 percent (or 0.0364). Stated differently, you’d have to vote in 27.5 elections to determine a single one. As we move up to the state and national level, the odds fall dramatically. With 11 million voters in California, where my friend and I live, the probability drops to 3.3 x 10-7 (0.00000033), which means that you’d have to vote in over three million presidential elections to determine the winner in California just once.

Of course, California isn’t the whole country. California currently has 55 electoral votes out of a total of 538, with 270 needed to elect a president. Since 1852, when Californians first voted for U.S. president, California has been a key swing state in only two presidential elections. In 1876, California cast 6 electoral votes for Rutherford B. Hayes, who beat Samuel J. Tilden by the razor-thin margin of 185 to 184. In 1916, California cast 13 electoral votes for Woodrow Wilson, who beat Charles E. Hughes by 277 to 254. In either election, if California voters had gone the other direction, the national totals would have followed. In every other presidential election, however, the winner was determined regardless of how Californians voted. By acknowledging that California has been a swing state in only two of its 38 elections (5.3%), we can get to our final answer: A voter in California would have to vote in 57.5 million elections to determine one President of the United States.

This ignores voting error and fraud, but even with them, there is still a point at which the official vote total swings from candidate A to candidate B. The question is whether you will cast that key vote. And the answer is that it’s extremely unlikely.

What does this mean? Well, first of all it means that you’d have to vote for a very long time – 230 million years – to swing one election and all you’d have to show for it is a Bush in the White House instead of a Kerry (or visa versa). If you are like me and many other voters, you can’t get very excited about either Bush or Kerry, so your final payoff would be lackluster, at best. For those who still think these odds look acceptable, consider the following comparisons. You are 12 times as likely to die from a dog attack, 34,000 times as likely to die in a motor vehicle accident, and 274 times as likely to die in a bathtub drowning as you are to swing a presidential election.

My friend thinks that his Libertarian votes have been wasted and that his vote for a Democrat will matter. This analysis shows that his vote for Kerry has a vanishingly small expected value. Even if he would be willing to pay $10,000 to determine the winner in November, the expected value (probability times value) of his vote for Kerry is only $0.00017. Americans won’t even stoop to pick up a penny on the ground yet every four years they happily cast votes worth one fiftieth as much. Voting may still make sense, but the overall satisfaction of participating in a great democracy must be compared to the time and costs of voting. The expected vote-swinging outcome is rounding error. In fact, if you drive to your polling place, you are approximately ten times more likely to die in an accident on the way than you are to swing that presidential election.

Now, what if my friend votes for Michael Badnarik, the 2004 Libertarian candidate? Is that vote wasted? Well, it is clear that no third-party candidate will win the 2004 election, but my friend’s support would certainly help his favorite political party stay in business and therefore get noticed. While it is in business, his party will help define election issues and could even get lucky and elect a president. Abraham Lincoln and Jesse Ventura are good examples of third-party candidates who were elected. Ross Perot in 1996 and 1992, American Independent George Wallace in 1968, and Progressive Robert LaFollette in 1924 were presidential candidates who got a large percentage of the popular vote. More likely, as any third party becomes successful, the Democrats and Republicans will simply adopt that party’s platforms. The same thing happened with the Socialist party early in the 20th century. As Milton Friedman points out, the Socialists failed miserably with a popular vote total that peaked at only six percent in 1912. But they succeeded in the way that matters most. Dig below the surface and you’ll find that virtually every economic plank of the Socialist’s 1928 platform has since been written into law. The votes cast for these Socialists certainly weren’t wasted from the point of view of those who cast them.

Your one vote has the same power to affect the results whether you vote for a major or minor candidate, but a vote for the candidate you respect and agree with gives you the expectation of a better outcome. If you are like me and do take the time and effort to vote, you should put your X beside the candidate you think will be the best president, not the one most likely to beat the guy you dislike. The myth of the wasted third-party vote is just that – a myth. If there is a wasted vote, it is the one cast futilely against the candidate you dislike in an attempt to swing the national election.

September 21, 2004

Charles L. Hooper [send him mail] is president of Objective Insights, a company that consults for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. His forthcoming book, coauthored with David R. Henderson, isThinking Works: Your Inside Track to Great Results. Charley is a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institution.

Copyright © 2004 LewRockwell.com

And Now for My Summation of The Tea Party by Gigi Bowman

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There are three distinct facets of the tea party within the local communities and within those facets there are more arms and legs running nowhere.

The Tea Party which began in 2009 represents The Republican Party. They say they don’t but they put Sarah Palin at the helm as it’s voice to show that it was a NEW version –and really, they aren’t any different –she rubs shoulders with Kissinger and she pals around with it’s controlled opposition in the form of Glenn Beck and they fight to get Republican’s in office to replace Dems.

Then there is the Tea Party from 2007 which represents Libertarian/Ron Paul Republican’s who have a Mission Statement that guides their rationale as a whole which includes Sound Money, Free Market, Individual Liberty, Constitutional Government and Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy.  This mission puts them at odds with the Tea Party/Republican Party because  of the anti-war/non-interventionist stance which doesn’t sit well with the Religious Right of the Tea Party troopers.  Also, They feel that the Fed does not only need to be audited, but Ended Completely which seems a bit conspiratorial for the Republican/Conservative Tea Party.  With a penchant for Austrian Economics the voices that represent this sect of the tea party are Judge Napolitano, Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell, Michael Badnarik to name a few.  They are Libertarian bent but many of the Ron Paul rEVOLutionaries are also Conservative Republicans, Anarchist, Minarchist, Voluntarist, big and small L Libertarians and on and on with labels for every sort of personality.  As you can see this group is broken into numerous facets in itself. The only thing that ties the group(s) together is Ron Paul.

And last but not least,  there is the Tea Party Express Tea Party which is represented by the Newt Gingrich, sect of the Tea Party.  The Neocon Republicans who are truly sitting at the head of the table alongside the Left though acting as it’s enemy –we can see that they are at work together through the implementation of everything from loss of Individual Liberty through legislative policies like The Patriot Act and FISA (and Obama voted for both as Senator).  We can put John McCain in this group with his recent hosted bill titled “Detain Americans Indefinitely without Trial”  http://smargus.com/2010/03/sen-john-mccain-authors-bill-to-detain-americans-indefintely-without-trial/ . These People are the most vile Anti-Liberty subhumans and they are in control of our country along side the left.  The most uncanny thing about the Republican Tea Party and the Tea Party Express Tea Party is that they led an entire movement to get Scott Brown elected (based on his single vote against Obamacare –yet he helped to implement Socialist Romney care????) and as soon as he was elected, based on “Tea Party Principles”, he turned right around and was the FIRST to jump on John McCain’s outrageous bill –which just proves that both facets are really one very polished diamond who know exactly what they are doing and how to gather the troops (tea party people) to do exactly what they want while trying to disguise themselves as PATRIOTS.

These Tea Party Patriots favor legislators like Jim Demint and Michele Bachmann who actually VOTED TO CONTINUE the Patriot Act!

So in reality there is no difference between the Tea Parties….Jim Demint plays all sides and sucks them all in –even the Ron Paul Tea Partier’s have a fondness for him because he helped to implement the “Audit the Fed Bill” (HR 1207) by speaking out for it and being one of the first to sponsor it.

One of the few journalist who knew exactly how to tie together the fact that the Right and the Left were one BIG party was our dear departed Alan Stang who is sorely missed by me!  In the 2008 election he explained how both Obama and McCain had the same foreign policy advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and it did not matter who won we were going to continue this war indefinitely!  http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan170.htm .

Alan Stang also, right before he died, had a lot to say about The Tea Party and it should be heard by all.  This is a man who was Awake, Aware and unfortunately no mold was made of him 😦 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgiRVgfN7j4

So the same “Politicians” are playing all sides…..and meanwhile no one is even talking about the fact that the right and the left are truly one big TEA party playing two sides AGAINST Liberty  –and while everyone is fighting Right vs Left —Agenda 21/aka Communitarianism has it’s tentacles enmeshed in all our lives and it keeps creeping in little by little every single day –from Red Light Camera’s to GMO foods to the Green Revolution and Climate Change and Obamacare on the left while John McCain wants to make sure no one can buy vitamins and the Military Industrial Complex is an excuse to call ordinary citizens terrorist on the right.

EVERYONE IS FULL OF SHIT –and no one has a clue how to fight back!

I started an organization called Liberty Candidates http://www.liberty-candidates.org  because I wanted to help real, aware, awake humans who are making a run for office –inspired by their “swallowing of the red pill” which basically occurred when these people reached out during 2008 to get Ron Paul elected. (you can see documentation of this in the movie “FOR LIBERTY: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree Of Liberty” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emaeln–tzo .  We have had up to 260 Liberty Candidates and I stand by them because I believe that if anyone is going to change things through politics and fight the good fight by making people aware about things like Forced Vaccines and Sustainable Development and Corporatism destroying our food supply through Monsanto and our drug supply through Big Pharma –at least these people know what the hell is going on!

I had hoped the “Tea Party” would show it’s strength and take on wings and stand behind these liberty candidates…but they HAVE NOT!  What has the Tea Party done?  What is their purpose? To fight Right vs Left.  Their ultimate goal is to get Democrat’s out and Republican’s in –and that’s just more of nothing.

So all we have left is education.  And the first place to start is by passing on Niki Raapana’s “What is the Hegelian Dialectic”http://nord.twu.net/acl/dialectic.html which I do every day because there is NOTHING else that explains how we are mere pawns in the big game of RISK that a handful of Vampire Ghouls are playing with our lives, our American Sovereignty and our Planet.

Liberty Candidates Pledge to ‘End the Fed’

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The following pledge was composed by Steve Susman, Liberty Candidate for Texas Congress 22nd District.  The signers are below the pledge:

Liberty Candidates Pledge

I, Steve Susman, as a Liberty Candidate, pledge upon election to Federal Office to do the utmost to destroy and dissolve the private banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve Bank. I pledge to not only support pending legislation as HR1207 and S604 but to oppose any “watering down” of said bills. Should these be struck down, I pledge to work with other Liberty Candidates to write and enact similar legislation to dissolve the Federal Reserve.
Dated April 10, 2010
Signed, Steve Susman

Signers: [2010]

Anthony Tolda – Congress, New York 2nd District
Barry Hess – Governor, Arizona
Brandon Brooks – Delegate, Maryland 11th District
Brian Miller – Congress, Arizona 8th District
Carlos Rodriguez – Congress, California 28th District
Chelene Nightingale – Governor, California
Chris Cantwell – Congress, New York 1st District
Collins Bailey – Congress, Maryland 5th District
Darren Brinksneader – Congress, Kentucky 3rd District
David Smith – Congress, Texas 2nd District
Delia Lopez – Congress, Oregon 3rd District
Doug Walters – State Representative, Pennsylvania 93rd District
Edward Klapproth – Congress, Nevada 1st District
Floyd Bayne, Congress, Virginia 7th District
Gino DiSimone, Governor, Nevada
Greg Fischer, State Senate, New York 1st District
Jake Towne – Congress, Pennsylvania 15th District
John Annarumma – Congress, Florida 6th District
John Wayne Smith – Governor, Florida
Joseph Martellaro – US Senate, Missouri
Kurtis Liston – State House, Ohio 44th District
Logan Bell – Congress, New York 24th District
Marc Delphone – US Senate, Oregon
Marcus Rivchin – State House, Florida 117 District
Mary Ruth Edwards – Congress, Washington 4th District
Michael Benoit – Congress, California 52th District
Michael Frisbee – Congress, Georgia 13th District
Michael Gular – State House, Arizona District 16
Michael Labno – US Senate, Illinois
Mike Beitler – US Senate, North Carolina
Mike Simmons – US Senate, Missouri
Nathan Eaton – State House, Missouri 48th District
Nick Landeros – State House, Montana 64th District
Pat Sellers – Congress, Nevada 6th District
Randy Stufflebeam – US senate, Illinois
Sam Brannon – Congress, Texas 25th District
Learn more at the End the Fed Network http://endthefedusa.ning.com/

Defining a Liberty Candidate, Endorsements, and Links

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WHAT IS A LIBERTY CANDIDATE?

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/119360

I am the organizer for Liberty Candidates  – a facebook page with over 5,000 members that has a coordinating committee meet up and a blog http://gigibowman.wordpre… We just had our first Money Bomb [2010] on the Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and it was very successful! Hopefully all of the candidates received some kind of donation. They need them badly. In the meantime the links are there so that we can donate to them at any time. Our next Money Bomb is The Great Patriot Money Bomb on April 16th thru April 18th [2010]. I hope you can help and donate to them at this time!

Here is the link to the facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=196730146003

The Meetup Committee if you would like to be a part of the committee http://www.meetup.com/Liberty-Candidates-2010/

The Website!

www.liberty-candidates.org

But What is a Liberty Candidate?

Liberty Candidates are Ron Paul Republicans/Libertarians/Constitutionalist. Most of them are Liberty Candidates because they know who Ron Paul is. They have, in the past, been a delegate, donated to him, were inspired by him, were on a Ron Paul meet-up, know how to fundraise, hang a sign in the most obsolete areas of the planet and get teary eyed when they see the movie “For Liberty”. A Liberty Candidate will understand what I’m saying here.

Usually I will see a Liberty candidate not skip over “Foreign Policy” in the issues part of their candidate website because they are adamant about wanting the war to end and wanting to bring our troops home now! Even if they are running for comptroller I’ll still know how they feel about wanting the war to end, ending the fed and sound money so It’s easy for me to tell a liberty candidate. If I were running I would be one. I’m here because of Ron Paul. If you look up my name on google you will see that I was a delegate for Ron Paul, dressed in black at night and hung signs on overpasses for Ron Paul, donated to Ron Paul, I ran a Ron Paul meetup, I’m an organizer for a Campaign for Liberty Group and I am the Suffolk County, NY Organizer for Campaign for Liberty.

So on this note, I have a lot of people posting on the Liberty Candidate page asking me why they are not listed. I have their friends asking in a huff why they are not listed. I have candidates telling me they are Liberty Candidates and then I read their websites and it appears they want to make sure all the terrorist and muslim jihadist (a phrase that Liberty candidates would never use) need to be blown off the face of the earth and we need to go to war with Iran and I wonder…..does this person know what a liberty candidate is?

The people listed as Liberty candidates now are Liberty candidates. Adam Kokesh is a liberty candidate. Go and read Adam’s page and then tell me if you are a liberty candidate before you send me email demanding to be on this list. Don’t post your name on the page saying you are a liberty candidate when you haven’t been accepted yet. Our Liberty Candidates have been asked to be Liberty Candidates or were listed as such because it was obvious they were or they were put before a committee who decided. We want to makes sure that they stand apart from the Rest. Liberty Candidates are NOT Neocons. (and we know this phrase from Ron Paul’s speech Neo-Conned)

The only way to change our government is to elect Liberty Candidates. There is no other way to do that. I see no difference between the old boss and the new boss that we have now. The war continues as does The Patriot Act.
This is not change. If you want change donate to our liberty candidates today*

Thank you, Gigi Bowman – Liberty Candidate Supporter

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In the words of Stephen Vasquez, New York State Coordinator for Campaign for Liberty and past-Congressional Candidate:

The Law by Frederic Bastiat should be required reading for ALL Liberty Candidates 🙂

You may download this book for free through Mises.org

http://mises.org/books/thelaw.pdf

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Our Candidates Support the ReTake Congress Platform:

The Retake Congress Platform

RetakeCongress.com

Our goal is to find and support at least one candidate to run in all 435 congressional districts who will solemnly swear to uphold this simple non-partisan platform that covers 4 areas:

  • The Economy: Honesty and transparency must be returned to our financial system. There should be a thorough investigation and evaluation of the Federal Reserve System. The arbitrary power to create money with no oversight must be ended. There should be no increase in the national debt. The Federal Government needs to stay out of the affairs of  private business. There should be no taxpayer bailouts of corporations and no corporate subsidies.
  • Individual Rights: Individual rights and sovereignty are supreme and inherent. The proper role of government is to protect our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property. The federal government must serve the people by protecting these rights within the borders of the states that make up the union. We must repeal the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the FISA legislation. We must reject the notion and practice of torture, elimination of habeas corpus, secret tribunals, and secret prisons. We must deny immunity for corporations that spy willingly on the American people for the benefit of the government. We must return the checks and balances as intended by the founders.  The illegal use of signing statements and illegal use of executive orders must be ended. The government must not regulate the content of the media.
  • Foreign Policy: We must stand for a strong national defense. The military is the main responsibility of the Federal Government. Our military should be used to protect only our citizens and defend our borders. We need to get our troops out of foreign countries and politics. Our foreign policy should not impose our will or way of life on other nations. We must not act as world police. We must reject international treaties that could destroy our national sovereignty.
  • Congressional Promise: No member of congress should ever vote for any bill they have not read!

http://www.retakecongress.com/ThePlatform.aspx

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Liberty Candidates Endorse The Libertarian Observer http://thelibertarianobserver.com/
Liberty Candidates Endorse The Liberty Guardian http://thelibertyguardian.com/
Liberty Candidates Endorse Lpmndc – The Libertarian Party of Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County http://lpmndc.org/index.php
The Liberty Candidates Endorse the Live Free or Die Rally www.livfreeordierally.com

2010 N.H. 5th annual Live Free or Die Rally

Liberty Candidates supports Free & Equal
Free And Equal
https://www.freeandequal.org/

Liberty Candidates support the 10-4 Pledge

10 for 2010

10-4: The Tenth Amendment Center Pledge
1.  All just political authority is derived from the People, and government may only be established and maintained with their consent.
2.  The People of each State have the sole and exclusive right and power to govern themselves in all areas not delegated to their government.

3.  A government without limits is a tyranny.

4.  The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people to the federal government in the Constitution, and also that which is necessary and proper to advancing those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution of the United States.  The rest is to be handled by the state governments, or by the people themselves, as they determine.

5. In order for a federally-exercised power to be “necessary and proper” it must be a) something that, without which, would make the enumerated power impossible to exercise, and b) a lesser power than that which has been enumerated

6. The “Interstate Commerce Clause” in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, does not permit Congress to regulate matters that merely affect commerce among the States.  It only permits Congress to regulate trade among the States.

7. The phrase, “general Welfare,” in Article I, Section 8 does not authorize Congress to enact any laws it claims are in the “general Welfare” of the United States.  The phrase sets forth the requirement that all laws passed by Congress in Pursuance of the enumerated powers of the Constitution shall also be in the general Welfare of the United States.  This was affirmed by James Madison when he wrote: “With respect to the words “general welfare,” I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”

8. The federal government is not authorized to tax the People to raise monies for unconstitutional purposes.  Likewise, the federal government is not authorized to condition funding to State or local governments on compliance with mandates which require them to do what the federal government is not authorized to do directly.

9. When Congress enacts laws and regulations that are not made in Pursuance of the powers enumerated in the Constitution, the People are not bound to obey them.

10. When the federal government exceeds its Constitutional authority, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.  Without that remedy, the People would be living in a tyranny, under the unlawful and excessive control of one or more branches of the federal government.

As a public office holder, or a candidate for public office, I promise that, as long as I hold office:

1. My votes will always be in favor of the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this State.  Every issue.  Every time.  No exceptions.  No excuses.

2. I do, and will continue to, oppose any and all efforts by the federal government to act beyond its Constitutional authority.

3. I will proactively introduce and support measures designed to adhere to the Tenth Amendment and preserve, to their fullest extent, the powers of the People in my district, and of the legislators and administrations of my State.

4. I will introduce, sponsor and support a resolution affirming the sovereignty of the People of each State under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

5. I will introduce, sponsor, and support legislation that seeks to repeal laws and regulations that are outside the scope of the powers delegated by the people to the federal government.

6. I will introduce, sponsor and support legislation that provides such relief as is necessary and proper to provide fair redress to the citizens of my State in response to actions by the federal government which exceeds its Constitutional authority.

7. Whenever I vote in favor of a new federal power, I will always make public my justification for it within the confines of the enumerated powers of the Constitution.

8. I will only vote in favor of a bill that I have thoroughly read, considered and understood.

9. I will be accountable to voters.  Upon request, I will make public every vote I cast while in office.

10. I will keep this pledge public, and will provide a link on my website which directs constituents to the text of this pledge.

The Federal Pledge  http://pledge.tenthamendmentcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/10th-amendment-pledge-federal.pdf

Some of  Our Liberty Candidates are also endorsed by the following Groups:

 

Republican Liberty Caucus http://www.rlc.org/
Bring Home the Politicians http://bringhomethepoliticians.com/
The Voters With Change Logo
Voters with Change http://www.voterswithchange.com/
Independence Caucus  http://www.ourcaucus.com/endorsed2010.html
9-12 Candidates http://912candidates.org/
End The Fed Network
End the Fed Network http://endthefedusa.ning.com/

The Federal Pledge

As a public office holder, or a candidate for public office, I affirm that:

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Electing the Next Statist

by Ken Matesz for Governor, OH

Many supporters of my campaign are aware that I teach classes about the US Constitution. In fact, my first public announcement of my candidacy for Governor of Ohio occurred at the very end of one of my classes last winter. A month or so later at a tea party gathering where I briefly spoke, one of my students came to me and said, “I really appreciate your class and everything you are doing, but I will not be voting for you. I have to cast a vote for the Republican candidate. We can’t let the Democrats stay in office.”

This makes me wonder about the value of the tea party groups. If their only goal is to prevent Democrats from being elected, then why all the education? Why bother with learning the Constitution? Why bother circulating petitions for health-care amendments? Why bother calling and writing to congressmen and senators? Why bother learning more about free-market economics? Why study the founders and our founding principles? If the solution lies in electing Republicans, then there is no more you need to know. Just show up and vote Republican and all will be well.

I get emails from some of my students telling me how horrible the Obama spending binges are – how his deficits dwarf those of George W. Bush; how the debt under Obama is increasing wildly, when it “only” increased by $4 trillion under Bush. And I ask them, do you have any idea how much money $4 trillion is?

In Ohio, you have three viable choices for governor; but you only have two choices in ideology. You can either work to elect me, a strict constitutionalist, or you can elect a statist. Both John Kasich and Ted Strickland are statists.

What is a statist? This term gets thrown around here and there. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines statism as, “concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry.” Evolving statism is what we have across the United States right now. As we’ve seen under the Bush and Obama administrations, our elected officials no longer have any qualms about using taxpayer dollars to bailout private firms such as financial institutions and automobile industries. Step by step we are moving closer to, not just statism, but totalitarianism.

Now, totalitarianism is defined as, “centralized control by an autocratic authority” or “the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority.” John Kasich, in particular, is totalitarian minded. This was most blatantly revealed in a recent interview he had with radio host Brian Wilson on Toledo’s WSPD radio station (1370 on the AM dial). First, Mr. Kasich indicated that the assault weapons ban he championed as a career politician in Congress was not “effective” and he “doesn’t think” we need to do something similar right now. In other words, if he thought it would be effective, he would be all for the state dictating your gun rights. This is a statist view.

Mr. Kasich likewise champions the statist view that government or a majority has the power to decide what rights a person has. When asked about the smoking ban and the rights of private property owners, he simply said that he likes the law and supports it. He does not want personal property rights defended.

Neither Kasich nor Strickland care about your private property rights, your natural rights, or the very freedoms supposedly preserved in the Ohio Constitution’s Bill of Rights. If you are busily circulating and supporting initiatives like the Ohio Project (Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment) or state sovereignty issues and amendments, you might as well stop doing so if you are going to cast a vote for John Kasich or Ted Strickland. Neither one has the ideology to support these initiatives. The only reason we even need these initiatives at all is because we have elected officials who are statists. What good does a constitutional amendment do if no one in office cares about the constitution? Our Ohio Constitution already prohibits the new federal health care mandates, but do you see anyone (i.e. Ted Strickland or John Kasich) talking about that? Of course not. Because they don’t care. They just want to get elected. Neither one knows of any successful life outside the political arena where they live off the public dole.

Fortunately for them, they are running as part of the Democrat or Republican Party. And we all know that everything will be solved if we just elect the Republican this time around, because “we can’t let the Democrats stay in office.”

I hope you will be happy with your next statist governor of Ohio! I guess the good news is that you’ll still have something to hold protest rallies for!

A Short Introduction to Libertarianism

by Chris Cantwell – Congress 2010 New York

(as posted on the Conservative Society for Action Message Board 12/15/09)

The Basic Principles

1. Self Ownership – You own your life, you own your body.
2. All Rights Derive From Property – You have the exclusive right to exercise control over your property.
3. Non-Aggression – The Only limitation to your rights is the equal rights of others.
4. The Right To Contract – The Right to contract is one of the most fundamental human rights, and
is essential to economics and human interaction.
5. The Only Purpose of Government is to Protect The Rights – Including and especially, the rights of the minority.

These rights do not come from government, the constitution, citizenship, or any other source but the laws of nature.

Examples,

You have the right to freedom of speech, not because of the first amendment, but because you own your lungs, you own your lips, your vocal cords, and your mind and your ideas. If someone tried to limit your freedom of speech, they would be implying some ownership over these things.

You have the right to keep and bear arms, not because of the second amendment, but because you have the right to protect your property.

Your freedom of speech is limited by the property of others. I do not have the right to say whatever I like on this forum, it is a privilege for me to do this, because the database is owned by meetup.com and they have the absolute right to delete any post I make or ban me from the site. Stephen Flanagan has made a contract with meetup.com (his agreement and payment to run this group), so he has the right to delete my post or ban me from this group at any time, for any reason or no reason at all. Either or both entities may do this because they have the right to protect their property.

Meetup.com has the rights, and has made a contract with Stephen Flanagan to delegate some of those rights to him. President Obama cannot grant Stephen Flanagan the authority to exercise control over the meetup.com database because President Obama does not own the database.

Only the owner of the property can exercise control over property, or delegate authority to someone else to exercise control over the property.

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Government is made up of human beings, and they have no rights or claims higher than any other human beings, you cannot grant the government any powers that you do not have yourself.

You have the right to protect your property, so you make a contract (your vote and taxes) with the government to protect your property for you (Police). This is important because for an economy to thrive, people need to be able to trade without threat of violence or coercion.

You have the right to contract, so you make a contract (your vote and taxes) with the government to create courts which will enforce contracts. This is important because without contracts, our economy would shrivel up and die.

You have the right to travel, so you make a contract (your vote and taxes) with the government to make sure there are paths by which you may travel without violating private lands (roads).

You do not have the right to someone else’s property. You have no right to make a contract with your vote to take away my money to pay for your health care, nor can you make a contract with the government to compel doctors to treat you for free.

You do not have the right to abridge someone else’s right to contract. You have no right make a contract with your vote to prevent two men, or a man and five women, from making a marriage contract. You do not have the right to decide who an employer may or may not make an employment contract with (immigration).

You do not have the right to kill, outside of self defense. So you have no right to make a contract with your vote to have the government kill outside of self defense on your behalf.

You have the right to use drugs, it is your body, your life, you have the exclusive right exercise control over them, to destroy them if you see fit, you also have the right to shoot yourself in the foot, or burn your house down, I don’t recommend you do any of these things, but I support your right to do so. But you do not have the right to steal to obtain drugs, or to collect welfare because you are unable to work due to your addiction.

It is the role of government to secure borders to guard against aggressors
It is the role of government to protect, not redistribute, property
It is the role of government to enforce, not abridge, contracts
It is the role of government to punish aggressors

It is not the role of government to grant any preference to one culture or religion over another
It is not the role of government to legislate morality
It is not the role of government to create a perfectly safe environment
It is not the role of government to make sure you have what you need or want

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