The Oklahoma Gazette publishes a piece by James Branum demanding a genuinely open and accountable State House. There's a mention of this article at 42nd & Treadmill by Chaz of Dustbury.

What does Congress think about reinstating conscription? Mothers Against the Draft wants to know.

Ballot Access News reports that ballot access reform bills in Missouri, North Carolina, and North Dakota are moving forward.

The Edmond Sun publishes a letter from Richard Prawdzienski asking if it might be good to get Tony Hill and Howard Wooldridge together to find solutions to drug problems.

Richard Engle reserves his right to be unreasonable and makes a public statement regarding his wishes in case of incapacitation.

Would you rather win with a phony lawyer, or lose with a real one?, commentary from a California newspaper on the folly of state licensing.

OCPAC Luncheon Bulletin: Praise for OKLP Friend of Liberty award winner Sen. Kathleen Wilcoxson, and a request for a property tax freeze for Oklahoma County.

Josh Butler favors state's rights in the Schiavo case.

Mike reflects on Cal Hobson's troubles at the blog Okiedoke.

Robert Sharpe writes to the Muskogee Phoenix that locking up non-violent drug offenders with hardened criminals is a bad idea.

The Department of Ivory Towers is not questioned about conflicts of interest writes Tibor Machan, although everybody that ever worked in the private sector is.

Roger Bloxham is home and recovering, writes his wife Lynn.

WorldNetDaily columnist Kyle Williams says fixing the steroid problem with baseball is not the job of Congress.

The Edmond Sun reports on Howard Wooldridge talking about ending the Drug War with Edmond Rotarians. Howard is riding horseback across America to end prohibition, click here for more information on Howard's trip.

War is bad writes Joseph Sobran.

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Roger Bloxham is home and recovering.Oklahoma media is getting the spin according to SoonerPolitics.com wn Kyle Williams, and he thinks Congress ought to stay out of baseball's business.

Pick and choose Christian wants to ban common law marriage.

Troubles continue for the Muskogee DA as now the State Auditor is investigating. How many public officials need to be corrupted before the powers of seizure and forfeiture are reigned in?

Howard Wooldridge, currently making a historic horseback trip across America, spoke to the Edmond Rotary about ending drug prohibition.

Joseph Sobran questions the justification for wars.

James Neville was the only candidate on the ballot for mayor in Baxter Estates, NY, and he still lost.
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OKLP outreach booth at the Muskogee ABATE Biker Swap Meet - Sunday, March 20th - Muskogee Fairgrounds

Tulsa Area Libertarians Convention & Officer elections - Thursday, March 24th - Diamond Jacks, 51st & Harvard, Tulsa

Central Oklahoma LP meeting - Sunday, April 3rd - At the Goss residence (Tentative)

OKC Libertarian Meetup: Tom Laurent to speak - Tuesday, April 20th - Chen\'s Buffet, 23rd & Meridian, OKC

Appeal of the denial of a Motion for Temporary Injunction in the case of Libertarian Political Organization v. Clingman - TBA

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Tulsa Area Libertarians Convention & Officer elections - Thursday, March 24th - Diamond Jacks, 51st & Harvard, Tulsa

Central Oklahoma LP meeting - Sunday, April 3rd - At the Goss residence (Tentative)

OKC Libertarian Meetup: Tom Laurent to speak - Tuesday, April 20th - Chen's Buffet, 23rd & Meridian, OKC

Appeal of the denial of a Motion for Temporary Injunction in the case of Libertarian Political Organization v. Clingman - TBA

Below appeared in the Daily Oklahoman on April 7th, 2004

Appellate court reverses state election law ruling
2004-04-07
By Robert E. Boczkiewicz
The Oklahoman

DENVER -- An appeals court ruled Tuesday that an Oklahoma law requiring semi-closed primary elections is unconstitutional.

The ruling came in a case where the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma challenged the law that prohibits a political party from allowing registered voters of other parties to vote in its primary and runoff primary elections.

The 3-0 ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a judge in Oklahoma City, who ruled last year that the law is constitutional and refused to grant an injunction to permanently bar enforcement of the law.

"This is a good victory for the First Amendment," said James Linger of Tulsa, a lawyer for the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma. "They (the appellate judges) are saying each political party can decide on its own" whether to allow registered voters of other parties to vote in its primary and runoff elections.

The ruling does not change the option of parties to close their primary elections to members of other parties. Republican and Democratic parties do not want members of other parties to vote in their primary and runoff elections, Linger said.

The Libertarian Party wanted to allow Republicans and Democrats to vote in the party's 2000 primary election, but the state Election Board would not allow it. The Libertarians, who had 382 registered voters, sued.

The appellate judges concluded that Oklahoma's election laws "impermissibly violate" the Libertarian Party's constitutional right "to freedom of political association."
The Libertarian Party thinks each party should be allowed to decide for itself and that the law should not bar registered voters of one political party from voting in another party's primary if the party does not object.

Oklahoma's law provides that a political party may allow registered independents to vote in its primary and runoff elections, but may not allow registered voters of other parties to vote in its elections.

A spokesman for Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, who represented the Election Board in defending the law, said Edmondson will not comment on the decision until his staff has made a thorough review of it.

Some Republican and Democratic voters, some of whom were candidates, joined the Libertarian Party in its lawsuit.

The appellate judges said the rights of parties "seeking to restrict the associational opportunities of their registered members" do not outweigh the party's right to "associate" with members of other parties.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot in Oklahoma City, in ruling against the Libertarian Party, had upheld the law on grounds that it helped insure "that the results of a primary election ... accurately reflect the voting of the party members."

CIVIL RIGHTS CONFERENCE
Through House Concurrent Resolution 1048 the Representatives congratulated the League of United Latin American Citizens for scheduling a conference entitled "Status and Future of Minorities' Civil Rights in Oklahoma."

The goal of the conference is "to engage the public and private sectors and community leaders in creating awareness and learning opportunities about civil rights," the resolution explains. To accomplish that goal the league "hopes to create a dynamic forum of information exchange to address the many important and complex issues
associated with civil rights across the state."

The conference is scheduled March 6 at Oklahoma City Community College.

The Carol Arnold show on Radio KOMA Oklahoma City has contacted me about debating with an Oklahoma State Senator or Representative on the show about a certain new tax proposal that the State would love to foist off on us taxpayers of Oklahoma. Naturally I am vehemently opposed to any new taxes almost regardless of the reason for their proposal.

The show is supposed to air either Thursday or Friday morning and I'm betting that it will be on Friday morning due to the fact that the lawmakers are not in session on Fridays here in Oklahoma.

Quite frankly I fail to see what part of NO! it is that they don't understand. The reason I say that is that several years ago we voted in a constitutional amendment that says that no new taxes may be levied without a vote of the people and so far I have not heard any talk about presenting this one to the people for a vote.

That's just one of my arguments against the proposed new tax at the retail sales level.

The show will air at 10:30 A.M. today on KOMA radio 1540 A.M. and will feature myself debating Oklahoma State Representative and Speaker of the House of Reps, Larry Adair.

This will be a half hour show and so will also be a call in show. The call in number for the Carol Arnold show is 405-478-1520. Please call in and voice your opinions. I'd start calling right at 10:30 and keep on dialing until you get in because the line will probably be very hard to get once the show starts.

US-CERT
US-CERT, a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) and the private sector, has been established to protect our Nation's Internet infrastructure. It will do this through global coordination of defense against and response to cyber incidents and attacks across the United States.

US-CERT's objectives are to

* aggregate available cyber security information
* provide it to individuals and organizations in a timely and understandable manner.


Introducing the National Cyber Alert System

US-CERT also provides a mechanism that allows citizens, businesses, and other institutions to communicate directly with the United States government regarding cyber security information. US-CERT has created the National Cyber Alert System, which is America's first cohesive national cyber security system for identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing emerging vulnerabilities and threats. The system provides credible and timely information on cyber security issues for both technical and non-technical users.

Homeland security virus alerts

Michael Moore, McGovern Surrender to Clark

In a sign of abject and anyone-but-Bush desperation, leftie filmmaker Michael Moore and George McGovern, the dove of the Democrats in 1972, have both come out for General Wesley Clark.

Moore, in a January 14 posting on his website, wrote, "I believe that Wesley Clark will end this war. He will make the rich pay their fair share of taxes. He will stand up for the rights of women, African Americans, and the working people of this country. And he will cream George Bush."

Why Moore thinks Clark will get the United States out of Iraq and end that war is beyond me. I've listened to Clark in almost every debate, and he has no plan for ending the war. Unlike Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton, he is against pulling the troops out. He tends to say much the same thing as Howard Dean or John Kerry or John Edwards or Dick Gephardt: internationalize the effort, get the U.N. more involved, and bring more troops in from other countries. Clark wants to hand over much of the task to NATO, which has long outlived its original mission and is now, essentially, a U.S. interventionary force around the world. That's fine for Clark. But should that be fine for Michael Moore and George McGovern?

Moore claims that Clark "will insist that trade agreements do not cost Americans their jobs and do not exploit the workers or environment of Third World countries." How is he going to do that? In the debates, Clark is one of the more avidly pro-free trade among all the Democrats, perhaps second only to Joe Lieberman (the sole Democrat Moore says he would not back). Unlike Gephardt or Dennis Kucinich, Clark is not for abandoning NAFTA or the FTAA or the China deal. He utters the obligatory phrases about protecting jobs and the environment, but he doesn't back that up with anything. And sometimes, he is just plain pro-business.

"I think that American business is the source of jobs and opportunity in this country," Clark said in the September 25th debate. "We need to look very carefully at how we create positive incentives for business."

Clark has come out with a relatively progressive tax proposal, and he now parrots the Democratic line on abortion, affirmative action (to his credit, he filed an amicus brief in support of the Michigan case, Moore notes), education, health care, and the environment. But here is a guy who voted for Nixon and Reagan and praised George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney early in the Administration.

Moore deflects this by saying Clark is "the best candidate to bring millions of other former Reagan supporters to our side." But Moore refuses to acknowledge another way to win, and that is by turning out new voters: progressive young people, poor and working class people who don't believe either party delivers for them, and an increased percentage of the black and Latino vote. Instead, Moore focuses on what he calls "the fence sitters."

Like Moore, McGovern has one overwhelming concern. "I wanted to figure out which of these Democrats has the best chance of defeating Bush. [Clark] is the one," he said on Sunday in New Hampshire, according to The New York Times.

But both Moore and McGovern, who are known as peaceniks, need to explain a few things.

First, there's the war in Yugoslavia. As Supreme Commander of NATO during the Kosovo war, Clark was ultimately responsible for targeting the bridges and electrical grids of Yugoslavia and for using cluster bombs and depleted uranium. (I asked him at a press conference in Madison, Wisconsin, this fall about depleted uranium. He said: "There is no indication it causes any trouble," except perhaps if you put something in your mouth that is covered with it.). During the Kosovo war, Clark also repeatedly targeted Yugoslavia's TV headquarters, killing twenty people there.

"At least 1,200 civilians have died in NATO accidents," Steven Erlanger of The New York Times reported at the end of the war.

On May 27, 1999, The Wall Street Journal ran an article that said: "On the sensitive topic of civilian casualties, Gen. Clark emphasized that no air war was perfect and that, to prevail, the (NATO) ambassadors should brace themselves for more collateral damage."

During the war, Clark also fobbed off the problems facing the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kosovo whom the Serbs predictably forced out after NATO started the bombing. Refusing to drop relief supplies to the refugees, Clark said, "Our view on this is that, frankly, this is a problem that's caused by President Milosevic. He needs to address this problem."

Second, there is Clark's support for the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, which has trained some of the most notorious human rights abusers in the hemisphere. On the campaign trail, as Joanna Weiss of the Boston Globe noted on January 17, Clark "vigorously defends" the School of the Americas, which now goes by the name of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Weiss also found a quote from Clark's 1997 testimony before the Senate Armed Services on the School of the Americas: "This school is the best means available to ensure that the armed forces in Latin America and the armies in Latin America understand U.S. values and adopt those values as their own."

Clark gave a graduation speech at the school in 1996, Weiss added. I found a copy of that speech on the web. "I have met School of the Americas' graduates who are aides to the highest military leaders, and I have met School of the Americas' graduates who are highest military leaders," Clark said. "I think you know in your command structures who the School of the Americas' graduates are, and you know that they are respected."

Many progressives are going to find Clark's support for the School of the Americas very difficult to swallow, just as they are troubled by his past support for Nixon, Reagan, and the Bush team.

But it is the inexorable logic of the anybody-but-Bush position that even a nominal, newly minted Democrat who favors business and lauds the School of the Americas is acceptable.

For Michael Moore, who endorsed Ralph Nader last time, and for George McGovern, who so courageously opposed the Vietnam War, to enlist behind General Clark now is tantamount to waving a white flag on some basic progressive issues.

-- Matthew Rothschild Columnist

The government announced today that it is changing its emblem to a condom because it more clearly reflects the government's political stance. A condom stands up to inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of **icks, and gives you a sense of security while you are actually being screwed.


"Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of Hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature placed in our power. Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." --Patrick Henry

Oklahoma House of Representatives
Mike W. Ray, Media Division Director
January 16, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: State Rep. John Trebilcock
Capitol: (405) 557-7362
Broken Arrow: (918) 594-0441

Contact: State Rep. Forrest Claunch
Capitol: (405) 557-7395
Midwest City: (405) 733-7054

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Two Republicans in the state House of Representatives have filed unrelated measures that would circumscribe political activities of Oklahoma legislators.

House Bill 1871 proposes a requirement that any state lawmaker who seeks election to some other political office would be compelled to resign from the Legislature prior to or at the time of filing for the other office, if election to that office would require the legislator to resign from his/her House or Senate seat.

If HB 1871 is approved, the referendum would be submitted to a statewide vote of the people.

The author of the proposal is Rep. Forrest Claunch, R-Midwest City.

"This is not a partisan issue," he said. "I just don't see how anyone can adequately represent their constituents while out campaigning for another office."

Claunch recalled that two House members, one Democrat and one Republican, retained their posts while running for vacated Senate seats last year; a Republican state Senator kept his office while campaigning for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission in 2002; the incumbent chief executive officer of Oklahoma, Brad Henry, a Democrat, held onto his state Senate seat while campaigning for Governor; a Republican state House member remained in the Legislature while waging a successful campaign for election to a vacant U.S. Congress seat in 2001; and the Democratic state Insurance Commissioner, who was re-elected in 2002 to a four-year term, has announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

The other GOP measure, House Bill 1888, would prohibit any former state lawmaker from lobbying the Legislature for two years after that person's last day in office in the state House or Senate. The author of that proposal is Rep. John Trebilcock, R-Broken Arrow.

"People in Broken Arrow have asked me about the 'revolving door' at the State Capitol: legislators leaving to become lobbyists and vice versa," Trebilcock said. "We have a lot of legislators who, at the end of the session this year, will be voting on bills that could affect potential clients of theirs if they become lobbyists after term limits
go into effect. We need to remove the temptation, or the appearance of impropriety."

HB 1888 would become effective this Nov. 1. The prohibition would have a significant immediate effect: constitutional term limits will claim 41 of the 149 state lawmakers this fall (28 in the House of the Representatives and 13 in the Senate), and at least one other lawmaker has announced his retirement after this session of the Legislature.

Trebilcock is a first-term legislator who was a high-school government and history teacher for five years. "I taught government the way it is, but also the way it should be," he said.

HBs 1871 and 1888 both will be assigned to committees after the Second Regular Session of the 49th Legislature convenes Feb. 2.

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We are all aware of public perception and it's effects on both people and nations. This is the fruit of our efforts in Iraq and other parts of the world. It is high time that we who are the citizens of this United States of America start to actively impress upon our leaders that this nation cannot long survive when our neighbor nations have these kinds of opinions of us. While many today advocate getting out the shotgun and the rifle as the only remaining solution to the problems we face today, this author believes that we can show them our displeasure in more acceptable ways than that and with a whole lot less blood being shed in the process. It is way past time to forget about traditional politics and see what we can do to vote in Libertarians. If enough people were to do that to even scare the current crop of politicians we might be able to convince them to take other courses of action than going around trying to conquer the world which is most likely an impossible task anyway. Whatever we do we need to tell them we are not happy with the current state of affairs no matter how we go about doing it.

Posting to Headlines Wire of Scoop
Column: STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
Date: Monday, 12 January 2004
Time: 11:37 am NZT



Accepting PreEmptive Defence Cost Of U.S. FTA Deal

Embracing Pre-Emptive Defence Philosophy Likely Cost of U.S.
Free Trade

By Selwyn Manning – Scoop Co-Editor

New Zealand's nuclear free policy is the first rung on long ladder
leaning toward securing a free trade deal with the United States.
Most certainly New Zealand will also be required to embrace the
international law breaking U.S. policy of ‘Pre-emptive Defence'.

Compliance with U.S. foreign policy will be assumed.

Should New Zealand pursue this course, the only consequence possible
will be insignificance and disgrace. With international justice
ideals cast aside, abandonment of the Clark-Government's hard
earned social justice brand, New Zealand's independent voice
on international affairs would be exhausted handing the United
States a siphon to sap the country's identity of unified moral
self-respect.

The meetings of the Republican Six this weekend in Auckland's
Sheraton Hotel with New Zealand Ministry of Trade representatives
was no more than a preliminary exchange of musts and what-ifs.
Assertions by Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff that New Zealand
is playing ‘its part' in U.S. global military operations is concerning.
Certainly, the United States trade boffins will have interpreted
Goff's statement as a beginning point in NZ/U.S. trade negotiations.

It will be this assertion that the six-man Republican team will
herald once back in Washington.

Pre-emptive defence is cited within the September 2002 National
Security Strategy document, implemented by George W. Bush, as
reason to militarily strike foreign nations that are believed
by the U.S. president to pose risks to United States global dominance.

The National Security Strategy is the blueprint that gave Bush
license and sway within the United States to abandon the required
United Nations authorisation of an invasion of Iraq. International
law was consequently broken as the United States president created
rogue-state precedence, invaded Iraq on falsified claims that
the oil-rich state contained and was prepared to use weapons
of mass destruction against the USA and/or its ‘friends'.

The National Security Strategy renders the UN Charter's article
51 as meaningless, forges the U.S.'s right to wage 'preventative
war' against another nation, a concept advanced by expressing
rhetorically ‘imminent danger' fears presented to mask the USA's
true motives - as was demonstrably clear during U.S. justifications
on invading Iraq. Iraq is a precedence setting operation, not
an end.

Beyond the grand strategy lies abandonment of universally accepted
rules of justice. The denial of human rights, including the absence
of charges, and rights to possess detail of accusations justifying
one's imprisonment erodes the fundamental principles of which
the so called free world once held sacrosanct.

Those held gagged, hooded, bound, beaten in a legal no-man's-land
as ‘enemy combatants' at Guantanamo prison camp has drawn scorn
from even the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general in
a report that the Bush Administration chose to ignore.

Even without citing history, the state of the U.S. union has
abandoned the ideals laid down by its founding fathers. The currently
litany of abuse is long, continues daily inside the United States,
Iraq, Afghanistan, on the Korean Peninsula and elsewhere.

For New Zealand to willingly oblige this rogue-superpower with
compliance at what must be its lowest point of moral standing
is simply shallow and unbecoming of a country such as ours, founded
in modern times on ideals of global peace, international justice,
and recourse for those who fall victims to tyranny. New Zealand's
nuclear free legislation is surely a more enduring national identity
than 15 men in black jerseys fumbling for a rugby ball. This
mantel is worth preserving.

Indeed it is time to counter U.S. demands of what New Zealand
must do to enter a free-trade-pact. New Zealand now has an opportunity
to cite what the U.S. must relinquish to become a nation worthy
of friendly-nation status.

Way to go for the Libertarian Party

I am seeing the Libertarian Party webpage at http://www.llp.org coming across my screensaver screens quite often now as a result of their having adopted my suggestion below.

This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the program is working and working well for us.

We just need more Libertarians to get with the program, get an old computer or two up and running and pounding out the Libertarian message. Every state ought to have at least one or two computers running the program to help get publicity for their state's webpage.

All you need to do is go to and sign up for the program. and just let your computer run while you are sleeping or at work or for whatever other reason are not using your computer and it will help get the Libertarian message before the public.

You could hardly find a cheaper way to help the Libertarian Party in your state. Nice part about it is that your "donation" to the party does not have to be reported as any kind of campaign donation.

So let's get this thing rolling because it will work big time with only a few computers helping spread the word.

All it is going to cost is a little bit of juice to put some real "Libertarian juice" into the next election.

The semitic view of Libertarians and Republicrats.

The crisis of capitalism is systemic, it is insatiable greed and corporate drive for maximum profits.

And the results are the millions of unemployed, underemployed and homeless. And the crisis of capitalism is racism and an emerging "new" form of antisemitism. It is the terrible infant mortality rate, lack of access to quality health care and unaffordable life saving medicines. It is the fact that there are more African-American young men in jail than there are in college. It is drug-infested, crime-infested ghettos and barrios of our country, where hope and future are two words rarely heard. With capitalism there is government waste, but in private enterprise there is human waste. The Republicans and the Democrats are all responsible for this crisis, but the Republican Right is totally out of touch with reality. The party of Lincoln has become the party of war and aggression -- and anti-labor capitalist greed. What we really need is a people's party, to move the political spectrum all the way to the left. There isn't a dimes worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats, or the anarcho-capitalists [so-called "capitalist" Libertarians]. And, liberals don't go far enough. The system can't be simply reformed because the profit motive is the crux of the problem. Needs are essential but materialism has clouded any sense of humanity.

Hank Roth

Court Finds Felon Disenfranchisement Law Discriminatory
Miami Daily Business Review

In an opinion that reviews the history of the Florida Constitution, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a trial for convicts seeking to restore their civil rights. The class action could affect more than a half million people who are currently denied the right to vote. A Washington, D.C., think tank estimates that 13 percent of black men are unable to vote nationally because of such felon disenfranchisement laws.

If it ends up being ruled that one cannot be deprived of his right to vote because of such disenfranchisement laws then might it not also be illegal to deprive ex felons of their right to keep and bear arms as well as other discriminitory laws now in place depriving ex felons of their rights? Where in our constitution does it allow for the deprivation of any right of a free man? Throughout most of our history it has been a time honored tradition that if a person had paid his debt to society then that was the end of it.

Just to show how much our viewpoints on such matters have changed, a few years back an ex felon sued the state of Oklahoma because the state still had an old law on the books that said that upon his release from prison the state had to give the felon a horse and a gun and $20.

He won the case and got his horse and his gun but the law didn't say what kind of a horse nor what kind of a gun they had to give him. Needless to say the horse he got didn't eat anything and the gun didn't fire any bullets either. (LOL)

And of course they immediately repealed the law. But the story does tell us how much our society has changed in regard to felons.

The IRS Claims New Patriot Act Type Powers to Punish Political Dissenters

by Robert R. Raymond
November 28,2003

In a precendent-setting case, the IRS wielded new power to punish the
political speech of those who "espouse views" the government considers
"inconsistent" with government-held beliefs. In a hearing originally closed
to the public in a secret tribunal on a military island, but moved to a
public location after protests from the press and the public, the IRS wants
to wield this power against a former IRS whistleblower, who was forced to
resign upon his discovery of fraud in the agency. After monitoring and
taping the whisteblower's appearances on Sixty Minutes, talk radio shows,
and
political publications where he rebroadcast his findings of IRS fraud, the
IRS initiated this inquisition against their former whistelblower. This new
power may find new political targets soon enough.

The IRS, through the small office of "Director of Practice," claims the
authority to wield carte blanche authority over all the other powers of
government -- the authority to monitor, surveil, and eavesdrop on political
dissenters, the authority to pry into the private financial records of
banks, businesses, and taxpayers, the authority to conduct secret
investigations under a criminal grand jury, and the authority to censure
political dissenters by branding on them a badge of infamy and stripping
them of governmentally-protected licenses. In short, under the guise of a
"practice" investigation, the IRS claims the right to wield all intrusive
and
invasive powers of government available.

A "license" to practice before the IRS -- even for people who have never
requested such a license or actually practiced before the IRS, but are given
one as a matter of law if they are accountants -- "licenses" the IRS to
conduct private audits without notice to the taxpayer, confer with criminal
prosecutors without disclosure, and bring special "disbarment" proceedings
against disfavored dissenters, even if the alleged "disreputable" conduct
has nothing to do with any "practice" before the IRS.

The IRS now claims it can use these so-called "practice" investigations
of anyone who Congress licenses to practice before the IRS -- regardless of
whether they actually practice before the IRS -- to surveil the public
appearances of dissenters, eavesdrop on the political conversations of
dissenters, benefit from secret grand jury investigations, hold secret
conferences with the criminal investigators, surreptiously tap the private
database of taxpayer information, including taxpayers who merely have some
financial "connection" to the accused, audit the political dissenter's
personal financial records, and use all this information against the
dissenter in the "practice" proceeding.

Under the guise of a "practice" investigation, the IRS can ignore all
the normal procedural protections against an illicit audit while it conducts
such an audit. Simultaneously, the IRS can ignore all the legal protections
afforded a person accused of a crime while conferencing with the people
conducting a criminal investigation. Indeed, the IRS can even ignore the
sunshine laws, as the records of such "practice investigation" are exempt
from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, as are grand jury
proceedings.

The IRS claims it can exercise this authority in a secret proceeding
without allowing a person the opportunity to cure any alleged mistakes, the
opportunity to prepare a defense by knowing the exact facts they are accused
of, without any opportunity for discovery, without any opportunity to call
witnesses necessary for their defense, without any opportunity to cross
examine their accusers, without any opportunity to testify at their own
hearing about the merits of their position, without being forced to testify
against themselves without such an assertion being held against them, and
without even an opportunity for a hearing on the evidence.

This power of this little office with a Napoleonic vision goes even
beyond the Patriot Act type authority and stories of FBI monitoring of war
protestors.

Too Hoover-ish to be true in modern America? Just read the case of the
IRS against Joe Banister scheduled for a "hearing" -- a hearing where the
IRs prohibited Banister from introducing any witnesses or presenting any
evidence as to his defenses, and even discussing the sincerity, the truth or
the "reasonableness" of his positions -- on December 1 in the city by the
bay, in the Tax Court chambers of the federal courthouse in San Francisco.
History is being made.

For more information contact:

Law Offices of Robert G. Bernhoft S. C
207 East Buffalo Street
Suite 600
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
ph. 414-276-3333
fx. 414-276-2822
rgbernhoft@bernhoftlaw.com
rebarnes@bernhoftlaw.com

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Subject: Voting Records of Arabic/Islamic States

Listed below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States.
These voting records are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations' records:

Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time.
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time.
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time.
United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the! time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the ti! me.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.

US Foreign Aid to those that hate us:

Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United
States, still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.

Jordan votes 71% against the United States and receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

Pakistan votes 75% against th! e United States receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

India votes 81% against the United States receives $ 143,699,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

In the last year The Taliban terrorized the people of Afghanistan and gave safe haven to Osama Bin Laden, they received $143,000,000 in US Foreign Aid.

Sudan voted 75% against the United States and received $1, 121,000 in US Foreign Aid. (The US State Department stated that the Sudanese government is guilty of providing a haven for a variety of terrorist groups including Osama Bin Laden's organization, The Egyptian Jihad, The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hamas. The Islamic government has also conducted a literal reign of terror against the Christians living in the southern part of the country.)

The Palestinian Authority will receive $500 million dollars in US Foreign Aid over the next five years(!!!) This happened due to the Oslo "Agreement"
of 1993, a deal which was endorsed and avidly supported by now New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who was then First Lady. The Clinton Administration sought to establish good relations with terrorist groups despite their support of terrorism and anti-Western stances. The Palestinians were seen on ABC News openly celebrating and dancing in the streets at the news of both suicide bombings on Sept. 11th.

Israel, it must be noted, receives three billion in US Foreign Aid.
However, for the last five years it has an average record of voting with the United States 94% of the time.

There is clearly no incentive for most countries to support the United States, as they will receive US Foreign Aid regardless of their stances.

Perhaps it is time for the United States to deny things such as money, scientific, technological, medical expertise, and education to nations who simply will not assist or protect American interests? Worse yet, your Federal dollars go to and support all of the anti-American groups trying to destroy the "American way of life".
This may still not balance the budget, but it seems a good place to start.
Send this to all your congress people and have your friends do the same.

Liberal NitWits strike again.

Las Vegas Sun Article
Quote:

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Illinois governor considers taking over casinos
By MAURA KELLY
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO (AP) -
Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Thursday he is considering an unprecedented state takeover of Illinois' casinos and hiring a company to operate them for the state's profit - an idea immediately called absurd by experts in and out of the gaming industry.

He also said he is considering auctioning off the nine licenses currently in use to raise money to fill the state's $5 billion budget deficit.

The casino industry immediately called the proposals "preposterous."

The governor said his legal, budget and policy teams are "aggressively" exploring the idea of taking back the casino licenses. He pointed to a casino in Ontario, Canada, that is state-owned but run by a separate management firm.

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There ya have it. Once you become a liberal, even confiscating legal privately owned businesses becomes Okee Dokee.

After all, who gives a shit about someone else's private property when there's gold in them thar hills.

LOL

OH BUT WAIT:
quote:

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""Sometimes you have to say, 'Can you get more money for schools by taking an approach that maybe you wouldn't do at other times,'" Blagojevich said. "

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It's for the lil chillens. I guess that makes it ok then.

Some time ago I posted about an article that was put out by the Federal Reserve System telling us what our financial future is likely to become. I'm sure that a few of my readers might remember that article. In it the Fed was discussing the future of the U.S. economy and what is in store for us. They referred to the Japanese economy which tanked about 10 years or so ago and apparently is still in deep economic recession with little or no relief in sight. And it tanked when interest rates went through zero percent and into the negative interest rate area.

America built the Japanese economy after the war by buying their transistor radios and their TV's and all the rest of the electronic miracles and automobiles and the steel they produced in gargantuan quantities. And we did it on deficit spending and fiat money. On false promises we could never hope to fulfill in any sustainable manner. And then we abandoned them to move first of all to Mexico and the Latin America's whom we have also abandoned for China and the Asian Rim countries because of labor and environmental concerns. And when we passed NAFTA, we also tanked the Japanese economy. Of course, there were other reasons such as corporate mismanagement, bank scandals and other Enronic scenarios, so it wasn't really all our fault. The Japenese themselves were not entirely faultless either.

The point to be made here is that once the interest rates went negative the Japanese money supply dwindled to a mere trickle due to the fact that nobody would loan out money at such rates even though they could and would charge interest on any money loaned to the private sector, it still had to be loaned out at very low profit levels, hardly enough to make loaning money worthwhile.

And that is basically what happened during the great American depression. The banks became frightened and simply would not loan money and the money supply contracted to the point where very little was to be had anywhere and so the stock market crashed. What money was available suddenly became so valuable that we could buy eggs for a nickel a dozen and a loaf of bread for a dime. Wages were at about 15 to 20 cents an hour and nobody could find any work to earn even that. All because the money supply was shut off by the banks. And when Roosevelt took over the reins of power he immediately set up legislation to prevent that from happening again and it was known as the Federal Reserve System. Roosevelt's reasoning was that if the money supply were in the hands of the government rather than private bankers the money supply could not ever be shut down like that again and America would never suffer another great depresssion again. Simply could not happen, he claimed. And the land was healed because everybody believed him.

And now we are faced with just exactly that which could never happen again, thanks to Nafta and Gatt and the various other trade treaties. And now things are made so cheaply that nobody will borrow money to set up new factories to build new businesses or search for new energy sources or much of anything else except the private sector who will borrow incessantly beyond their means at the slightest excuse all made easy by plastic money.

So what is the Fed to do about the interest rates. They can't raise rates because if they do the economy will tank even faster. They can sit tight for a while and do nothing at all about lowering the interest rates even though economic honesty demands that they act to continue to chase the inevitable downward spiral.

They can also start charging interest on money held in savings accounts and other trust instruments, but that isn't feasable at this time because there is no way to track the actual path of each banknote. They would all have to have the RFID tags in the money and they would have to be incredibly smarter than RFID tags are today or are ever likely to be and the support system to monitor the money would be virtually impossible even with the modern technology we currently have. So even though it is feasable it is not a practical solution.

Another thing the Feds said earlier that they could do would be to buy huge quantities of foreign currency such as the eurodollar and the yen and whatever thereby distributing the downward pressure more evenly among the other nations but doing so might be illegal and even if illegal the other nations would soon put an end to that. So the Fed said that was also not a viable option.

So about the only thing left that would be both legal and feasable would be to use surplus cash to buy government debt instruments. Doing so would be about the only viable option the Fed said in that earlier article. And in that article the Fed said that is probably exactly the course of action they would pursue.

And early this morning I opened an email from somewhere discussing a mysterious and curious phenomena which had been observed by Matt Drudge of the Drudge report who could not understand why it was that over the last two months our money supply had been dwindling at the alarming rate of 11 billion dollars a day over the last two months. I think we have the answer. The fed obviously seems to be doing exactly what it duscussed in it's mid summer report which is to buy government securities with it's vast storehouse of liquid cash in a last ditch effort to keep the interest rates from being forced into negatiivity and the economy from crashing. But even they admitted that the problems with the American economy are so deep that serious doubts exist in the minds of the Fed economists about the eventual workability of such action since they too are eventually and inexorably heading for the proverbial brick wall bearing the words "ALL WEALTH HAS IT'S LIMITS"

The burning bush question then becomes one of how on earth can the Fed legally use worthless fiat instruments of debt to buy equally worthless instruments of debt but of a different stripe and expect to get away with it?

"But" wait, you say, "How can it be that I am predicting all this doom and gloom when the latest economic indicators show that the economy has grown by 8% this last quarter? Surely that proves that Bill Bauer is full of it as he is so often accused of being. "

To those who believe that nonsense I ask, "Don't you imagine that the Fed releasing 11 Billion a day into the money markets buying CDs and other worthless instruments of debt is going to cause a nice rise in the stock and money markets as we have recently been seeing and would that not show up as an increase in the economy thereby artifically presenting a nice rosy picture for the populace who will later be incredulous as they wonder how such a robust economy could possibly have tanked? The markets may indeed be rising but I am confident that we will soon see the end of that and a deafening crash in the equity markets and our entire economic system.

Maybe Matt Drudge can't figure out the mystery but to me it is about as plain as the nose on one's face. And while Matt and the rest of the pundits are trying their best to figure out this mystery I have other better advice and that is to get your money out of the markets while they are rising and invest it in more useful things such as gun powder which you had best store in a nice safe dry place because I seriously doubt that the day is far off when you will be needing it desperately.

And to those not so lucky as to have stocks and bonds and such I say that you had best invest all the money you can lay your hands on in food, alternative energy systems and staples as well as guns and ammo because the day may not be far off when you decide to go to the store and your fiat money would not buy anything even if they had it in the stores to sell you. You need to understand that if all incoming supplies to the grocery stores were suddenly cut off there would not be enough stock in their back rooms to last even one day. A few hours at most.

We can hope against hope and we can decry such as I as being fear mongers or what you will. I sincerely hope you are right and I am wrong, but the handwriting is most definitly on the wall and the Fed has already foretold the probable future a few months back.

And there is absolutely not one thing in our economic future that could possibly pull us out of it. Our farms can no longer be our economic base nor have we any factories capable of fulfilling that role either. All have gone South or to the Asian Rim countries.

Our military is much weaker than it used to be and is apparently in no small amount of trouble in Iraq and other places.
It will be we the people who will most likely have to eventually defend our homes and our nation and if we are disarmed we will be totally unable to do so.

Let us not be fooled. We need to start understanding the processes at work here and what the future protends. We need to take precautions against the probability of a bleak future. Those who are debt free and have liquid items to sell or barter for food and other staples are the ones who will come out winners in the near future.

That is why it is so important to eliminate whatever debt we cannot hope to pay in the short term and pay down to almost nothing that which we can pay down, but we must do so in ways that do not blemish our credit.

Those who heed the above advice will be in good shape no matter what happens and those who do not will surely wish they had sooner or later.

Here is an amazing free tool for webmasters.
THE LIBERTARIANOK BLOG
Here is an amazing free tool for webmasters.

And here is one for everybody. This one has a great advantage. It is a free online bookmark system and you can share your bookmarks with others and also have private bookmarks. This is an important tool for everyone for several reasons and you really should use it. Here is why it is so valuable.

1. You can access your bookmarks from any computer anywhere.
2. If you crash your browser or use mulitple browsers you won't lose your bookmarks.
3. If your computer crashes you won't lose your precious bookmarks.
4. You can share your bookmarks with friends and other researchers. This can save a lot of valuable time for everyone.

My backflip has over 600 links in it.

11-26-03

Employer Simkanin Prosecution Ends in Mistrial

Judge Stymies Both Jury & Defense
DOJ Intends to Retry Simkanin ASAP

Jury Hung at 11-1 Favoring Acquittal

After almost 6 months of incarceration in isolation awaiting his federal trial, non-withholding employer Dick Simkanin’s trial ended this evening in a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict on federal charges that Simkanin failed to Withhold taxes from his employees.

Simkanin, a successful Bedford, Texas business owner, had been charged with 12 counts of Willful Failure to Withhold employment taxes for his employees and 15 counts of filing False Claims for requesting refunds of tax pre-payments that had been made by Simkanin on behalf of those employees.

Facing years in federal prison, his trial lasted only hours, beginning and ending yesterday – largely because the Court denied Simkanin the opportunity present any expert defense witnesses or legal evidence regarding the contested legal obligations under US income tax statutes. Jury deliberations started this morning and the mistrial was declared around 6 PM Central time. A report from several sources close to the Simkanin team was that the jury hung 11-1 in favor of acquittal.

US Attorney Jarvis stated that he intended to retry Simkanin “as soon as possible.” Simkanin, who has NO criminal record, was immediately ordered back into federal custody by Judge John McBryde.

Reportedly contributing to the jury’s inability to reach a verdict were nine separate requests and questions from the jury including a request to see a written copy of the jury instructions, a request to see a copy of the Internal Revenue Code and for the judge to provide a copy of the specific US statute that required Simkanin to withhold. Judge McBryde refused these significant requests. According to court observers, Judge McBryde also significantly impaired and repeatedly interfered with defense counsel Arch McColl's cross examination of government witnesses.

One example of how Judge McBryde dispensed justice during the short trial occurred following the testimony of one of the IRS expert witnesses who testified that the definition of “employee” that applied to Simkanin as an “employer” was found at Internal Revenue Code Section 3401 (which is for legal definitions), and defines “employee” as:

“For purposes of this chapter, the term “employee” includes an officer, employee, or elected official of the United States, a State, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality of any one of the foregoing. The term “employee” also includes an officer of a corporation.”

During a break, Judge McBryde requested US Attorney Jarvis for the legal definition of “employee” to include in the jury instructions. Defense attorney McColl then attempted to show the judge the definition in the IRC at section 26 USC 3401 that had just been testified to by the IRS witness. According to court observers, the judge dismissively “waved off” McColl with a flip of the wrist and a comment, “I know what your position is Mr. McColl, and I disagree. That is not a definition. It says ‘includes’ not ‘defines’. I want Mr. Jarvis' position.”

According to courtroom observers, US Attorney Jarvis later recalled the IRS employee to the witness stand, and the witness subsequently “corrected” his previous testimony to affirmatively declare that the definition of “employee” which applies to Simkanin was not from Section 3401, but rather from Section 3121(d).

Although the definition of “employee” found at 3121 is certainly more encompassing than the legal definition first asserted by the IRS witness, the subsequent definition may ultimately cause unanticipated problems for the government if it attempts to retry Simkanin. The following citation is from section Section 3121(e), which, (per the “corrected” testimony of the IRS witness), also contains legal definitions for the terms “State” and “United States” for the purposes of the withholding chapter that Texas resident Simkanin was allegedly charged with violating:

(e) State, United States, and citizen

For purposes of this chapter -

(1) State

The term ''State'' includes the District of Columbia, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and

American Samoa.

(2) United States

The term ''United States'' when used in a geographical sense

includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,

Guam, and American Samoa.

An individual who is a citizen of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

but not otherwise a citizen of the United States) shall be

considered, for purposes of this section, as a citizen of the

United States.

During the two previous years, Simkanin had appeared before two separate federal grand juries, each apparently refusing to indict him after hearing Simkanin directly testify about the true legal substance of the US Income Tax Code. At each of these grand jury proceedings, Simkanin also provided each grand juror with substantial documentary evidence showing both the constitutional problems with the income tax system and evidence of how our government has conspired to contain these truths through deception and abuse of the public trust.

According to sources on the defense team, in early October, Simkanin, believing his trial was being “railroaded” by the federal prosecutor, acting in collusion with the District court, plead guilty to a single tax charge. Weeks later, the plea bargain was withdrawn by the DOJ because of an error in the government’s original plea offer. Simkanin, apparently, reconsidering his earlier decision to plea, decided to go to trial and seek bona fide justice.

Today, he almost got it.

More details will follow as available...

Air Force One remodeled ALA George Bush

Way to go for the Libertarian Party

I am seeing the Libertarian Party webpage at http://www.llp.org coming across my screensaver screens quite often now as a result of their having adopted my suggestion below.

This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the program is working and working well for us.

We just need more Libertarians to get with the program, get an old computer or two up and running and pounding out the Libertarian message. Every state ought to have at least one or two computers running the program to help get publicity for their state's webpage.

All you need to do is go to and sign up for the program. and just let your computer run while you are sleeping or at work or for whatever other reason are not using your computer and it will help get the Libertarian message before the public.

You could hardly find a cheaper way to help the Libertarian Party in your state. Nice part about it is that your "donation" to the party does not have to be reported as any kind of campaign donation.

So let's get this thing rolling because it will work big time with only a few computers helping spread the word.

All it is going to cost is a little bit of juice to put some real "Libertarian juice" into the next election.

12,000 estranged fathers take their lives last year. One every 45 minutes in the USA. One male will commit suicide every 22 minutes in the USA. Expect the number to be even higher each year. Sign the petitions. Send the petitions on to others. BECOME ACTIVE.

Despite being unable to work due to health problems, John Linville is threatened with being jailed in December ( - some Christmas present ) for being unable to pay child support for children he is refused access to by his ex..
Please sign the petitions for him via the link below.

John has been driven to the brink of suicide by the monstrous and inhuman child support system of America. Fathers from all over the world are fighting on his behalf.

Two petitions relating to John Linville's case have been hosted at petitononline. Please sign them and distribute widely!! Goal is 1000 signatures at least for each petition, closing dates for both is December 4th. The signatures will be downloaded and faxed in time to the Court and the District Office.

The Division of child support enforcement Petition to Virginia Lynchburg District Office Division of child support enforcement was created at: Petition on line

The Bedford Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Petition to Bedford Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court was created at:
Court petition

Sign and distribute the petition for RESTORATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
another petition on line

Ed WARd, MD
edward19@cox.net
Member of FORCE in Louisiana, Founder of Hunger Strike for Justice in USA
FORCE-LOUISIANA
Yahoo HSFJ group
Sign and distribute the petition for RESTORATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
Rites ABC

NCFC.net
SPCA.ORG
NCFM.ORG
MENS-NETWORK.ORG
HTLWORLD.COM
J-ACCUSE
MAGNA CARTA NEWS SERVICE
CREDITWRENCH BLOG
CREDITWRENCH WEBSITE

PETITIONS
AGAINST THE SMOKING BAN

Sign one yourself.

Print one out and have others
sign.

Sign On-Line!:  Libertarian Party of NY -- Petition Against the Smoking Ban

"We the undersigned, whether
smokers or nonsmokers, agree with the Libertarian Party that bans on smoking in restaurants and bars should be overturned. Bar and restaurant owners should have the right decide whether to permit smoking or not on their property. The public has the right to choose whether or not to patronize or work there. The government should not interfere with their choices." 

Print One Out!: Help out in getting signatures to our nanny politicians! You can also print out a version of the Libertarian Party petition when you go to sign on-line or choose to use the NYC C.L.A.S.H. version:

"Repeal the smoke-ban you imposed on privately owned restaurants and bars throughout the state.  Free choice and clean air are not incompatible.  Advanced filtration can achieve both goals.  As employees, customers and business owners -- and simply as adults -- we demand equal treatment." 

(Please set your printer to landscape for proper printing)


If you are unable to open the NYC C.L.A.S.H. file, write and request one be mailed to you.

Return completed sheets to NYC C.L.A.S.H., P.O. Box 1036, Brooklyn, NY 11234

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POSTCARDS AGAINST THE SMOKING BAN

Conservative Party Kicks Off 

Statewide Campaign To Amend Smoking Ban

GRASSROOTS STATEWIDE EFFORT TO GATHER SIGNATURES
ON POSTCARDS TO AMEND
SMOKING BAN

Message from Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long:  The statewide postcard campaign is another way for voters to voice their concerns and let the legislators know that they have gone too far with the smoking ban.

We must make every effort to amend this bill….our postcards should be available in every local bar, pub, restaurant, bowling alley, Veterans Hall, Elks Club and every other place affected by this bill.

The postcards will be available through our county organizations or by contacting the Conservative Party directly. 

View our postcardsagainst the Smoking Ban and then e-mailus to order yours. Please let us know how many you'll need for your friends
and family.

CPNY
Anti-Ban Legislative Memos and News Releases

From: Christopher S Powell
Date: Mon Nov 3, 2003 9:42 pm
Subject: Bass Pro protest rally - please forward to interested parties

Mark your calender for THURSDAY, NOV. 20TH.

A rally to protest the Grand Opening of Bass Pro Shops in Bricktown will be held at 9AM on the north side of Reno Ave. between Byers and Stiles.

Confirmed speakers at this time:

Moshe Tal
- Oklahoma City businessman

Chris Powell
- Chairman, Oklahoma Libertarian Party

Charlie Meadows
- President, Oklahoma Conservative Political Action
Committee

No matter your political viewpoint, if you oppose corporate welfare, government favoritism, and abuse of our tax dollars, please come stand up for your beliefs on Nov. 20th.

# posted by Liberty : Sunday, November 09, 2003

One of the biggest problems Libertarians face is getting the Libertarian message before the people..
This idea does work and if we can get enough Libertarians to set up such systems as I have described below we could literally flood the internet with Libertarian messages in order to help our candidates in the next elections.

Here is a free advertising tip that really does work far better than newspaper ads if you have a website or a blog. All you need to do is click on this link and install a free screen saver and let it run even while you sleep and it will bring tons of targeted hits to your website or blog. It works so well for me that I took 3 old computers that I had gathering dust and set up with this free screen saver method and let them run.

If you don't happen to have any old computers around you can usually get old ones for a very few bucks and they work just fine even on DSL or cable. Don't try this with a 56k or slower modem. It won't work real well although it can be done. You just need a 4 port router and 3 old computers or even get a hub and you can run even more computers. Believe me, it is well worth it to do just that and it isn't even hard to do. Sign up for this free program and your hit counters will really start to spin in a very short time. You can even network a second computer behind your first computer and do it that way, one computer working through the first computer. That way you don't need a router or even a DSL or Cable connection. Just a plain old 56K modem will work just fine using two computers in a peer to peer connection for the networking.

I had just over 2000 hits during the first week of operation from just one computer. I haven't put hit counters on the other 2 yet but I will and there is no reason all of them aren't doing equally well.

Just stop to think about what that kind of advertising power can do. If we could come up with even a hundred people willing to put up 1 old computer each and leave them run full time we would easily have over 35 million Libertarian messages delivered to the voting public by the time the 2004 elections rolled around. I seriously doubt that the Dems or the Republicans will come anywhere near that number of hits to their websites.

Since both parties are claiming that webpages and blogs are going to win the next election for them, shouldn't we try to beat them? And since your webpages or blogs can be put up on free website hosts the cost will be almost zero.

Your Libertarian webpage should have sound on it as well. You should plan on reading the material you are presenting and embedding the .MP3 audio at the very bottom of the page so it don't slow down the loading of the page itself. The audio portion of the webpage should be 9 minutes long since that is usually what people have set to rotate their screen savers. But since there will also be many who rotate every minute you need to pack all you can into that first minute.

You can also ask for donations to the party on your webpage and set up with PayPal to handle the incoming donations. That will hopefully help the party a lot too. With paypal the donor does not need to have paypal account at all but can fund their donations using either a debit or a credit card. So not only can we get the word out but we just might get a goodly amount of donations to the party coffers as well. It is an easy and inexpensive way to help the Libertarian Party and it's candidates win the 2004 elections.

One other thing to watch out for is that the screenblaze program I am telling you to use has quite a few different categories you can set your program to run under you need to rotate categories every couple of days or so and watch out that you are not advertising in a business type category during weekends and holidays when nobody is in their offices.
You want to be doing family or sports orientated cagegories on the weekends. But in any case, rotate the categories every couple of days or your hits will start to decline. In any case you will want to be certain that your page or blog or whatever is seen and heard by the greatest number of people possible so rotating the categories ensures that you will reach the broadest spectrum of audiences possible. If you have a hit counter installed on the page you can easily tell when the hits start to decline just a bit and that is the time to change categories but you should change the categories every two or three days in any case.

And since the program to do the audio is pretty expensive ($500.00) I'll offer my services to help you out. You can do your audio on a tape recorder and mail me the tape and I will put it on your website for you.

Bill Bauer
OKlahoma City, Ok
405-616-7901
ICQ #244754923
Yahoo messenger ID = creditwrench
I do have webcam, mike and speakers so you don't even have to spend money calling me on the phone.

And if you start doing this and your friends or acquaintances want to do it as well then please send them here to sign up. After all, its my idea so I will want to get some credit for it. (LOL)

Clark Calls for Civilian Reserve Force
Tue Oct 14, 7:39 PM ET


CHAKA FERGUSON, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Democratic candidate Wesley Clark said Tuesday that if elected president, he would mobilize thousands of volunteers for a civilian reserve to respond to terror attacks and national disasters.

Wesley Clark

Clark said the reserve, much like the National Guard, could be called up by the president in times of national emergency. Every American 18 or older could register for a five-year tour and would serve as long as six months if called to duty.

"In the 21st century, we've learned that armies alone aren't enough," Clark said in a speech at Hunter College.

Those called to duty would receive health care, a stipend and the right to return to their jobs when their service had been completed. Clark, one of nine Democrats seeking the nomination, said the program would cost about $100 million a year and would be within the Department of Homeland Security.

A similar program exists in some states; almost 12,000 volunteers are registered with various state defense forces to back up the National Guard. Clark's program would be national, and he hopes it would involve millions of people.

The civilian reserve would not add another layer of bureaucracy to the government and would mainly draw volunteers already serving in nonprofit organizations, Clark said.

In times of national emergency, such as floods, forest fires or terror attacks, the president would have the power to call to duty up to 5,000 civilian reservists. They would wear no uniforms nor carry military weaponry.

Civilian reservists also could be sent overseas for jobs such as reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, working in positions from translator to truck driver.

The reserves "will reinvigorate America's ethic of service, tap the vast reservoir of skill, generosity and energy that is the American people and call millions more Americans to duty," he said.

Clark, a retired Army general, also called for expansion of the Peace Corps and of the AmeriCorps national service program created by former President Clinton.

Creditwrench Website

Creditwrench Blog

CONTACT INFO:
Illinois Marijuana Party
Richard Rawlings
1022 Collins Ct.
Bartonville, IL 61607-1714
USA
Phone: 309-633-1023
illinois@usmjparty.com

Illinois Libertarian Party website

Two Candidates currently slated to run in 2004

The Illinois Marijuana Party is publicly announcing that two Candidates are seeking office in the 2004 election.

The Illinois Marijuana Party, a branch of the US Marijuana Party (www.usmjparty.com) is announcing publicly today that we have two Candidates that you will be hearing a great deal about in the near future.

Richard Rawlings of Bartonville Illinois, 18th District has decided to run for US Congress. Mr. Rawlings is an experienced activist and seeker of reform and abolishment of laws pertaining to marijuana.

Brian K. Meyer of Belleville Illinois, 12th District announced that he is running for US Congress. Mr. Meyer has an lengthy background on marijuana laws, lobbying, writing, legal research and treatment issues. He is also versed in financial and insurance issues. His positions are clear and direct:

"Abolish the prohibition of marijuana as a drug, industrial, and agricultural plant as it was for thousands of years and offer treatment for the drug aspect instead of incarceration. The aspects of spending billions of dollars on prisons and probation that only deepen despair of a drug addict, and alienate them from society with a drug conviction is ludicrous."

"It seems that the US government got into the act of personal control over each individual and that is the duty of the local governments, not the US Federal Government. Addressing a social problem with Draconian incarcerations and stripping away of what freedoms are left is unconscionable" "If an individual of mature age decides to smoke marijuana for medical reasons he/she should not be threatened with federal prosecution."

Mr. Meyer is a former Director of MicroSense of St. Louis LLC which during his year there had difficulties in obtaining FDA approval for a medical device, and he knows the paperwork involved in bringing a product to market. "The amount of scrutiny on a new product is outrageous for many drugs that occur naturally. I believe that the evidence of thousands of years of marijuana use, along with the hidden studies from private drug companies trying to contain the active ingredient(s) is a farce. The composition of marijuana is one of natural balance, not individual accomplishments."

Mr. Meyer believes that the federal government has overstepped its powers in the arena of private citizens and should be made to back down and stop asserting powers over the states and its citizens in personal attacks against its citizens.

"The war on drugs was just a fill in since there were no wars to fight during the past era. We now have real problems and the folly of putting people away for long periods of time for smoking pot are expensive, irresponsible, and in the long run are causing many more social issues, such as fatherless homes. Now there will be more dependence on the US Government for that aid. Ultimately more chemical dependency problems from the children who believe have been abandoned or that the government had their parents taken away from them for a crime that is a social problem."

"In the attempts of winning the hearts and minds of the world, the US government have crushed the hearts and minds of thousands upon thousands of individuals, with collateral damage in the millions. Our tax dollars working hard for you!"

Mr. Meyer is in favor of abolishing many of the gun control laws as they are only enforced against certain persons. For stronger privacy bills through revision of current laws regarding spam, telephone solicitors. Enacting truth in trial laws. For laws allowing the purchase of prescription drugs abroad for price reduction, Medicare reform, social security reform, For open disclosure of criminal actions that have occurred against citizens of the US along with trials if need be of government officials who are guilty of treasonous acts against the people of the United States. In favor with abolishing minimum mandatory sentences, or the one crime fits one sentence thinking. In favor of campaign finance reform. In favor of open government and public access. In favor of rooting out public corruption, at all levels. In favor of cleaning up Capitol Hill as "the stone is turning grey from the suet of the burning anger and flesh of our countries citizens."

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"The current government treats us like mushrooms, keeps us in the dark, urinates on us regularly, feeds us dung and we grow into a giant interwoven mass underground. But with that combination they do not understand they are creating some of the most expensive and desireable mushrooms known to man. Almost magical. "
Brian K. Meyer
Meyer for Congress