NEW MEXICO LIBERTY

“Let Freedom Ring”

Editor / Publisher Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@comcast.net ]
Print Distribution Ron Bjornstad / Bill Koehler

September 2006 The Official Newsletter of the Libertarian Party of New Mexico www.lpnm.org
www.lpnm.org/newsletter / groups.yahoo.com/group/nmliberty
TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTES FROM THE EDITOR
by Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@comcast.net ]
Page 1
• Notes from the Editor My comments from last month:
• Wondermark – In which a Plan comes For those in the Reform Caucus who want to disavow the ZAP and Pledge entirely
together and sanction some initiation of force, I ask the following questions –
Page 2 How much force is too much?
• Field Reports
• LPNM's 2006 Candidates Are there any issues for which that sanction doesn't or shouldn't apply? If so, what are
• The Unanimous Consent Challenge they, and why should that sanction not apply?
• Calendar I'm still waiting for answers to these questions – how long are my fellow anarchists
• Uranium Enrichment and I expected to wait for those answers?
Page 3 – Voice of the Chair On this note, I apologize for this month's issue coming out so late, but I've been rather
depressed about the LP's prospects in light of the Portland Purge, and the recent
Page 4 threats to Joseph Knight from the Texas LP's Vice Chair, Kevin Tunstall.
• The Tax Man and The Moving Van
• Kakistocracy What will it take for the LPNM's fortunes to improve? First, last and ALWAYS, it's
going to require that more of the membership get active in promoting the ideas
Page 5 involved. The core principle is that Zero Aggression Principle [ZAP] I keep bringing up.
• 2006 Prometheus Awards Winners If you don't like the wording that's on page 10, just tell people that it's all about the
Announced idea that if you're not hurting anyone else, you have the the right to do whatever you
• Remember – want. The corollary to this, of course, is that if anyone else isn't harming anyone
• Tailgate Party, Anyone? others, they also have the right to do as they please.
Page 6 – One Dollar Gas
Page 7
• The LP's Presidential Candidates
• Airport Security
Page 8 – Contacts / Internet Resources
Page 9 – Debit / Credit Donations
Page 10 – Administrivia
Page 11 – The Concealed Carry Lie
Page 12 – LPNM Enrollment / Renewal
LPNM OFFICIAL MAILING ADDRESS
AND PHONE NUMBER Wondermark – An Illustrated Jocularity
#220 – In which a Plan comes together
918 Ivory Road SE by David Malki [ www.wondermark.com ]
Rio Rancho, NM 87124
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If the date on your mailing label is before "Naturally, the common people don't want war, neither in Russia, nor England, nor for
09/01/06, it's time to renew your LPNM that matter Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is leaders of the country who
membership. determine the policy; and it is always a simple matter to drag people along, whether it
is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Voice or no voice, the people can be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is
easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the
“Want a clear indication of what the welfare pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same
state is really all about? Note that the barest in every country."
necessities of life – food, clothing and – Hermann Goering at the 1946 Nuremburg Trials
shelter – are all taxed.”
– L. Neil Smith, Tactical Reflections,
www.lneilsmith.com/tactical.html
New Mexico Liberty – September 2006 – Page 1
las FIELD REPORTS CALENDAR
From County / Campus Chairs
See groups.myspace.com/lpnm for details, updates, etc.
Bernalillo – The BCLP is hosting two meetings per month, as
well as a weekly hour-long TV show (The Weekly Sedition) on SPECIAL EVENT
Albuquerque Comcast Ch.27. Show times are Wednesdays at Central Committee Meeting – Roper's Family Restaurant
8PM. For more information, see the BCLP website – (Wyoming and Central SE) in Albuquerque. Lunch at 12:00 PM,
www.lpnm.org/bernalillo. New Mexico's Consumer Advocate meeting at 1:00 PM. Contact Jay Vanersloot (505-362-1733) or
resumes in October, 2006. Mike Blessing (505-710-5197) for directions or details.
The Weekly Sedition and New Mexico's Consumer Advocate are REGULAR EVENTS
now available in webcast format. For the viewing links, see
Channel 27 [ www.quote-unquote.org ] or the KCUF Media Thursday, 7 September – Bernalillo County Liberty Forum meets
website [ www.myspace.com/kcufmedia ]. in Albuquerque, 6:00 to 7:00 PM at Fiesta's Restaurant &
Lounge (Carlisle & Montogomery NE). Contact Mike Blessing,
The Bernalillo County LP is currently seeking one or more 505-710-5197, for details.
persons to represent the BCLP in front of the Albuquerque City
Council and / or Bernalillo County Commission in the public- Saturday, 9 September – San Juan County LP meets at 6PM –
comment sections of those bodies' meeting agendas. contact Bob Ziesmer, 505-327-6681, for details. The San Juan
County LP's Central Committee will meet at 5PM.
Dona Ana – The LPDAC Central Committee has been having
monthly meetings, as well as an information table at the Las Wednesday, 13 September – Interested Dona Ana County
Cruces Farmer's Market. See the LPDAC website – Libertarians are invited to attend and to contact Siebert Ickler,
www.lpnm.org/dona-ana – for details. 505-541-9079, for information on location and time.
Sandoval – The LPSC is having its monthly meetings at the Thursday, 21 September – Bernalillo County Liberty Forum
J.B.'s on 528, north of Intel. meets in Albuquerque, 6:00 to 7:00 PM at Fiesta's Restaurant &
Lounge (Carlisle & Montogomery NE). Contact Mike Blessing,
LPNM'S 2006 CANDIDATES 505-710-5197, for details.
• Siebert Ickler for U.S. Senate. Saturday, 23 September – LPDAC will host an information table
• John Pfersich for Commissioner of Public Lands. at the Farmer's Market in downtown Las Cruces from 8:30 AM to
• Stan Raczynski for State Treasurer. 12:30 PM. Contact Siebert Ickler, 505-541-9079, for details.
• Bill Koehler for U.S. House or Representatives, Wednesday, 27 September – Sandoval County meets at JB’s
District 1 restaurant on 528 near Intel. Contact Ron Bjornstad, 505-288-
• Paul Trujillo for Valencia County Commission, 4228, for details.
District 3
• Mike Blessing for Bernalillo County Sheriff TV Shows – Channel 27 in Albuquerque
• Jay Vandersloot for Bernalillo County Commission, (not necessarily endorsed by LPNM)
District 5 The Weekly Sedition
Wednesdays at 8PM
THE UNANIMOUS CONSENT CHALLENGE www.myspace.com/kcufmedia
CASH Ø10,000 PRIZE Hemp TV – Tuesdays at 7PM
To the first person to write a logical and documented essay www.myspace.com/nmhemptv
showing one of the following to be compatible with the =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
Declaration of Independence:
Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Federal Communications Act of 1934
National Firearms Act of 1934
Banking Act of 1935
The Internal Revenue Code
Controlled Substances Act of 1970
RICO Act of 1970
Federal Elections Act of 1970
Plumbing Products Efficiency Act of 1992
Anti-Money Laundering Act of 1992
USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
To claim your prize, contact
Mike Blessing at 505-710-5197
or gunssavelives@comcast.net.
The Unanimous Consent Challenge is available online at the
KCUF Media site – www.tinyurl.com/hn982
Uranium Enrichment
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by John Trever of the Albuquerque Journal
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have."
– Thomas Jefferson
New Mexico Liberty – September 2006 – Page 2
Voice of the Chair
Jay Vandersloot
jayvandersloot@yahoo.com
Dissent and Aggression
(I have plagiarized about half of the following from a letter by
Ralph R. Reiland, published in the September 2006 issue of
Liberty).
I have been following various LP related forums for some
time now and letters published in various LP related
publications, and I find that a vast number of postings to the
forums and many of those in the publications are of the
nature of attacking one another because of each other’s
positions. Someone attacks someone else for his or her
views, and then another attacks that person for attacking the
first person. While I may agree or disagree with either of the
positions involved, I cannot agree with either of the parties in
their attacking and trying to demean or belittle each other.
We need to take to heart the quote from Voltaire (upper right
corner of this page). If you disagree with someone else’s
views, then address that disagreement. Talk against those
views, not the person. Eliminate the emotion, and give
logical reasons, supported with facts, to back up why you
disagree with those views. But do not attack the person.
And do not attack someone who has disagreed with
someone else’s views. Again, address your disagreement
with what that person has stated.
We seem not to have learned, after years of “preaching” it,
that censorship is far more dangerous than free speech; that
we’re more likely to find the truth through freedom of
expression and open-mindedness, through free inquiry and
an uncensored exchange of ideas, than through the
suppression of ideas and the repression of free speech.
The idea that people should be silenced so that they won’t be
able to say anything that might be “offensive” to someone
else, the concept that the individual must submit to a group-
think orthodoxy, the idea that the individual must submit to
what’s best for everyone else, for the collective, represent
direct strikes at the heart of American democracy and
individual liberty.
Nineteenth-century British social reformer Charles Bradlaugh
wrote, “Without free speech no search for truth is possible.
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of
free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays
the life of the people.”
LP Platform Undergoes Major Change
There were major changes to the LP National Platform passed
at the Convention in July. Mainly, it eliminated the majority of
the planks. I envision a flurry of efforts between now and the
next LP Convention in 2008 to reinstitute as many of the planks
as possible.
Let’s take a look at the second of the remaining planks from
our LP National Platform.
I.2 Freedom of Communication
The Issue – We oppose any abridgment of the freedom of
speech through government censorship, regulation or control of
communications media, including, but not limited
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to
the death your right to say it.”
—Voltaire
to, laws concerning:
a) Obscenity, including "pornography", as we hold this to be
an abridgment of liberty of expression despite claims that it
instigates rape or assault, or demeans and slanders women;
b) Reception and storage equipment, such as digital audio
tape recorders and radar warning devices, and the
manufacture of video terminals by telephone companies;
c) Electronic bulletin boards, communications networks, and
other interactive electronic media as we hold them to be the
functional equivalent of speaking halls and printing presses in
the age of electronic communications, and as such deserving
of full freedom;
d) Electronic newspapers, electronic "Yellow Pages", file
libraries, websites, and other new information media, as
these deserve full freedom; or
e) Commercial speech or advertising. We oppose speech
codes at all schools that are primarily tax funded. Language
that is deemed offensive to certain groups is not a cause for
legal action.
We strongly oppose the government's burgeoning practice of
invading newsrooms, or the premises of other innocent third
parties, in the name of law enforcement. We further oppose
court orders gagging news coverage of criminal proceedings
– the right to publish and broadcast must not be abridged
merely for the convenience of the judicial system. We
deplore any efforts to impose thought control on the media,
either by the use of anti-trust laws, or by any other
government action in the name of stopping "bias."
The Principle – We defend the rights of individuals to
unrestricted freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the
right of individuals to dissent from government itself. We
recognize that full freedom of expression is possible only as
part of a system of full property rights. The freedom to use
one's own voice; the freedom to hire a hall; the freedom to
own a printing press, a broadcasting station, or a
transmission cable; the freedom to host and publish
information on the Internet; the freedom to wave or burn
one's own flag; and similar property-based freedoms are
precisely what constitute freedom of communication. At the
same time, we recognize that freedom of communication
does not extend to the use of other people's property to
promote one's ideas without the voluntary consent of the
owners.
Solutions – We would provide for free market ownership of
airwave frequencies, deserving of full First Amendment
protection. We oppose government ownership or subsidy of,
or funding for, any communications organization. Removal of
all of these regulations and practices throughout the
communications media would open the way to diversity and
innovation. We shall not be satisfied until the First
Amendment is expanded to protect full, unconditional
freedom of communication.
Transitional Action – We advocate the abolition of the
Federal Communications Commission.
New Mexico Liberty – September 2006 – Page 3
 Liberty, Opportunity, Prosperity
The Tax Man and the Moving Van
Despite Growing Popularity as Relocation Destination, Census
Data Show New Mexico Has Seen Net Outflow of Native-Born
Residents – State’s Poor Tax Climate to Blame
by Paul Gessing [ pgessing@riograndefoundation.org ]
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) The Albuquerque Journal recently
publicized Census data indicating that New Mexico is becoming
an increasingly popular destination for people to move to from
other states. According to the August 17 article, about 4.1
percent of New Mexicans moved here from another state within
the last year which puts New Mexico at No. 9 in the nation for
the percentage of its residents who had moved from another
state within the previous year.
However, the data provide only a limited picture of migration
patterns. They do not show, for example, whether the state is
suffering net losses of migrants or whether young, educated
people are moving to the state or if in-migrants are primarily
retirees.
To answer some of these questions using recent economic
history, the Rio Grande Foundation studied Census data from
1995-2000 to determine who was coming and going to and from
New Mexico and whether it was economic policies, climate, or
some other factors that spurred migrations. We also studied the
factors that determined New Mexico’s relative attractiveness to
migrants from other states.
As Matthew Ladner, Vice President of Research for the
Goldwater Institute, and Paul Gessing, President of the Rio
Grande Foundation find in their new study, “The Tax Man and
the Moving Van,” New Mexico suffered a net loss of citizens to
other states during the late 1990s, not to mention, a greater net
loss of young, single, college educated people than any other
western state (defined as Rocky Mountains or further west). The
primary culprit was the State’s poor tax climate.
While Americans flocked south and west during the late 1990s,
they generally flocked to places other than New Mexico. For
example, Colorado’s Constitutional tax limitation called the
Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights strictly limited government spending
and taxation, thus making it one of the most popular states for
migrants. Colorado, like the rest of New Mexico’s neighbors,
gained migrants during this time period while New Mexico lost
significant numbers.
This study empirically illustrates that New Mexico cannot rely on
its favorable weather as a relocation selling point. And, while
recent income tax cuts may have improved the state’s tax
climate somewhat, other tax and fee increases may have offset
those benefits. In the absence of new data, it is hard to tell the
out-migration, particularly of young, single, and educated
citizens, is continuing.
Rather than waiting for the next round of Census data to come
out, New Mexico’s elected leaders should consider ways to
further improve the state’s tax climate by using plentiful revenue
to further reduce income tax rates and/or adopt strong
Constitutional protections for taxpayers similar to Colorado’s.
For the full study, go to this page –
www.riograndefoundation.org/papers/internal_migration.pdf
Paul Gessing is president of the Rio Grande Foundation is an
independent, nonpartisan, tax-exempt research and educational
organization dedicated to promoting prosperity for New Mexico
based on principles of limited government, economic freedom
and individual responsibility.
KAKISTOCRACY
www.rationalreview.com/content/17018
Posted on 09.01.06 by Michelle L
kak·is·toc·ra·cy: Noun. Inflected forms: pl. kak·is·toc·ra·cies
Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
In what can only be serendipity, I have finally found the perfect
description of our government; all but the most rabid Bushites
would recognize both "least qualified" and "unprincipled" in our
administration. Where crony is a job prerequisite and blind
allegiance always trumps knowledge, the current residents of
Washington are a case study in reverse evolution – where the
weak prey upon the strong.
We citizens are strong, aren't we? We do still possess the
pioneer spirit and free will of our forefathers, don't we? We still
retain the ability to see through the Ponzi schemes and rise
above the smoke and mirrors, no? We're not so blinded by crass
consumerism and seductive commercialism that we would trade
our freedoms for the appearance of safety, are we?
One of the advantages of roaming this Earth for as many years
as I have is that it has afforded me the opportunity to meet and
talk to many people; people of various ethnicities, socio-
economic and religious backgrounds – and the vast majority of
these folks are intelligent, thoughtful people . . . not gullible or
foolish enough to follow the lemmings over the cliff. So why are
we led by the least qualified, the unprincipled; why are they the
only ones who seem to be up for election?
It has been said that we have exactly the kind of government
that we deserve; that if we insist on spending our time glued to
American Idol instead of researching political platforms, we will
continue to be lead by morons and profiteers – and we will have
only ourselves to blame.
It can be very trying to sift through all the information required to
make informed decisions; and sitting though local party debates
can induce a mother of a headache – the only other option
would have us depend on the mainstream media and talking
heads ... who rarely if ever mention anyone other than the two
major parties or the fact that "None of the Above" is an option.
It's high time we kick the crooks to the curb.
"Sunshine go away today
I don't feel much like dancing.
Some man's gone -- he's trying to run my life
He don't know what he's asking ...
How much does it cost? -- I'll buy it
The time is all we've lost -- I'll try it.
He can't even run his own life-
I'll be damned if he'll run mine...."
– Jonathan Edwards, "Sunshine (Go Away Today)"
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"It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation
by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced
with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but
almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts,
provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not
the known that breaks men's spirits, but the unpredictable. A
dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the
unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has
to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic
uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear."
– Ayn Rand
New Mexico Liberty – September 2006 – Page 4
 2006 PROMETHEUS AWARDS
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
From the Libertarian Futurist Society [ www.lfs.org ]
26 August 2006
The Libertarian Futurist Society presented its annual
Prometheus Awards in three categories Aug. 25 at the World
Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim, Calif.
British author Ken MacLeod won his third Prometheus Award for
best novel for Learning the World, an inventive first-contact
novel that explores the politics involved from two perspectives:
the natives of the planet and the "alien" (human) visitors.
MacLeod also won Prometheus Awards for The Stone Canal
(1998) and The Star Fraction (1996.)
[ See MacLeod's site – kenmacleod.blogspot.com – MWB ]
The other Prometheus finalists for Best Novel, a category
recognizing pro-freedom novels published in the previous
calendar year, include Chainfire, by Terry Goodkind (TOR
Books); 47, by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown and Company); The
Hidden Family, by Charles Stross (TOR); The Black Arrow, by
Vin Suprynowicz (Mountain Media); and RebelFire: Out of the
Gray Zone, by Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman (RebelFire
Press)
Author Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd are the winners of
this year's Prometheus Award for Best Classic Fiction (Hall of
Fame) for V for Vendetta, an innovative and visually striking
graphic novel about an anti-state anarchist hero who fights
authoritarian repression.
The Prometheus Award for Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame)
honors novels, novellas, stories, graphic novels, anthologies,
films, TV shows/series, plays, poems, music recordings and
other works of fiction first published or broadcast more than five
years ago:
The other Hall of Fame finalists: A Clockwork Orange, a novel
(1963) by Anthony Burgess; “As Easy as A.B.C.,” a short story
(1912) by Rudyard Kipling; It Can't Happen Here, a novel (1936)
by Sinclair Lewis; and The Lord of the Rings, a trilogy of novels
(1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Special Awards committee submitted a recommended
citation about Joss Whedon's film Serenity that was
subsequently approved in a vote of the entire LFS membership:
"To Serenity, writer-director Joss Whedon's fun-loving and pro-
freedom movie that portrays resistance fighters struggling
against oppressive collectivism (based on the unfortunately
short-lived TV series Firefly)."
This is the first Special Prometheus Award to a film and a film's
writer-director. Special Awards, only presented four times
before, have recognized libertarian anthologies (such as Free
Space), an adaptation of a Prometheus Best Novel winner into a
graphic novel (The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel) and
for lifetime achievement (Poul Anderson).
The Prometheus awards for Best Novel, Best Classic Fiction
(Hall of Fame) and (occasional) Special awards honor
outstanding science fiction/fantasy that explores the possibilities
of a free future, champions human rights (including personal
and economic liberty), dramatizes the perennial conflict between
individuals and coercive governments, or critiques the tragic
consequences of abuse of power – especially by the State.
The Prometheus Award, sponsored by the Libertarian Futurist
Society [ www.lfs.org ], was established in 1979, making it one
of the most enduring awards after the Nebula and Hugo awards,
and one of the oldest fan-based awards currently in SF.
Presented annually since 1982 at the World Science Fiction
Convention, the Prometheus Awards include a gold coin and
plaque for each of the winners.
A list of past winners of LFS awards can be found on the LFS
web site at www.lfs.org.
LFS Board member Fred Moulton coordinated the Worldcon
Prometheus Awards ceremony. For more information, contact
Moulton (programming@lfs.org) or LFS Board President Chris
Hibbert (hibbert@mydruthers.com)
Publishers who wish to submit novels published in 2006 for the
2007 Best Novel award should contact Michael Grossberg
(mikegrossb@aol.com, 3164 Plymouth Place, Columbus OH
43213), Chair of the LFS Prometheus Awards Best Novel
Finalist judging committee.
REMEMBER –
by Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@comcast.net ]
As a juror, you have the right and duty to vote your conscience
not only on the facts of the case – did the accused do what s/he
is accused of – but also on the law itself –
• Is it a good law?
• Is the law being properly applied?
• Does the punishment asked for fit the crime?
Using jury nullification, just one percent of the population that
disagrees with a bad law (victim disarmament, Drug Prohibition,
the tax code, etc., etc.) can start getting these bad laws knocked
off the books.
See www.fija.org for more information.
See also You & The Police, by Boston T. Party, available at
Javelin Press [ www.javelinpress.com ].
TAILGATE PARTY, ANYONE?
By Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@comcast.net ]
The day after the inauguration of a Libertarian Party candidate
as President of the United States, I'll saw off a shotgun barrel to
less than 18 inches in the parking lot of the local F-Troop
(Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) office.
I'll probably make a tailgate party out of it.
Date – 21 January 20__
Place – 3rd and Marquette NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico
www.tinyurl.com/nw6jr
Mike Blessing, Executive Heretic,
KCUF Media [ www.myspace.com/kcufmedia ]
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"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it
more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to
promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not
to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new
programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the
Constitution ... or have failed their purpose ... or that impose on
the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to
discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first
determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I
should be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I
shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty,
and in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
– Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate
New Mexico Liberty – September 2006 – Page 5
 One Dollar Gas
by L. Neil Smith [ lneil@lneilsmith.org ]
www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle383-20060903-08.html
One Dollar Gas
This file is available as a 13.89-inch x 4.17-inch
(1000 x 300 pixel) printable bumper sticker
Copyright © 2006 Rylla Cathryn Smith
Special to The Libertarian Enterprise
Prepared for the Libertarian Party
Of Larimer County (Colorado)
Monday evening, August 21, 2006
Ladies and gentlemen, honesty compels me to admit, right at
the beginning of this presentation, that the title "One Dollar Gas"
is misleading.
The fact is, under the "system" of unfettered individual liberty
that we all advocate, and to which many of us have dedicated
their lives, the price of gasoline should be considerably lower
than a dollar a gallon. The exciting news is that, if libertarians
make this clear to voters who are increasingly outraged at the
current price of gasoline, it could represent a new beginning for
the Libertarian Party.
When people ask you how one dollar gas is possible, begin with
the easy and familiar. There are special excise taxes on fuel that
do not apply to other commodities: 18.4 cents per gallon federal,
40.4 cents per gallon here in the state of Colorado, an average
of 2 cents per gallon at the local level, for an approximate total
of 61 cents per gallon. The first, most obvious thing to be done
about this mess is to remove these taxes from the price of gas.
There should have been some sort of emergency trigger to
accomplish this automatically a long time ago.
However to work properly, to get the price of gas down to a
dollar a gallon – or less – you have to go further than the price at
the pump. At the beginning of the Ed Clark campaign in 1979,
his handlers floated a trial balloon involving the removal of all
taxes from every stage of the production, processing,
transportation, distribution, and sale of food, figuring that no one
who claimed to be humanitarian – liberal or conservative – could
say a word against it. Someone must have said something,
because the finger-in-the-wind boys soon dropped the idea like
a hot potato and that was the last that anyone heard of it.
Too bad, because it was a great idea.
A libertarian gas program must encompass the entire chain of
fuel production, from the bottom of the well to the tip of the
nozzle. A libertarian president could declare a state of
emergency to accomplish that, and then "jawbone" other
jurisdictions into following suit. If our enemies didn't care for that
use of presidential emergency powers, they could pass
legislation to revoke them and libertarians would win, anyway.
There are those who may accuse us of favoring the special
interest of the gas companies. So I would go even further,
removing all taxes from all the necessities of life, including food,
clothing, shelter, transportation, and self-defense. Add de-taxing
anything protected by the Bill of Rights, you have a splendid
program for the LP or anybody else.
One of my earliest speeches to libertarian groups described an
eight-fold multiplier that will manifest itself in the absence of
government interference with the lives of individuals.
On average, each of us pays out half of his or her income to one
government or another. Remove those taxes, and it will
immediately double your real wealth. You'll have twice as much
money to spend, on anything you like.
And in terms of purchasing power, the relative price (not the
absolute price – we'll get to that) of gasoline drops from $3.00 to
$1.50.
Before we even get to special excise taxes, the people who
provide the goods and services we rely on pay out half their
income to the government, as well – only they don't pay it, of
course, we do. Get rid of their taxes, and the price of goods and
services – including gasoline – gets halved again, and, in terms
of purchasing power, in terms of real wealth, we're now
effectively paying a mere 75 cents a gallon.
But, as Ron Popeil always tells us, there's more! I had long
estimated – and writers like Dixy Lee Ray later confirmed – that
the cost of complying with government regulations doubles the
price of goods and services. Without those regulations and
those who force compliance with them, the price of everything
we buy would get halved again.
And now gas is costing us 37 1/2 cents per gallon.
"Q" as the saying goes, "ED".
For those who won't listen to that argument, I have another.
Thermal deploymerization.
Thermal deploymerization is a relatively new method by which
every possible kind of garbage, from the results of turkey
processing, to mountains of cast-off tires, to old computer
cabinets, can be turned into "artificial" gasoline at an ultimate
cost of just eight dollars a barrel.
The only trouble with this technology is that it gores just about
every ox presently blundering around our sorry political and
economic landscape. The current fuel crisis isn't really so much
about oil – there's plenty of that, and it will never run out, as
you'll see in a moment – it's about what sources of oil we'll be
allowed to use by our political and corporate masters, as
opposed to new sources they desperately want to shut down as
soon and as completely as possible. There's no profit for George
Bush and his petropals in recycling old tires.
That's almost certainly why the first thermal deploymerization
plant built to full-scale and located in Carthage, Missouri, right
next to the Butterball Turkey plant was found to have 5000
defective welds in its maze of piping before it could begin
operation. It's almost certainly why the Butterball plant suddenly
raised the price of its garbage so that the cost of converting it
would be prohibitive. And it's almost certainly why the governor
of Missouri ordered the thermal depolymerization plant shut
down, claiming it was "too smelly".
Ever smell a turkey processing plant?
Some friends of mine, online, attempting to estimate a per-
gallon cost of gas from this source discovered that the per-barrel
price of oil has never been as low as eight dollars – the
estimated cost of oil made by the company performing the
thermal depolymerization. It was at least double that amount
when I started college, cigarettes cost 35 cents, and gas was 23
cents a gallon. Thermal depolymerization means that Americans
can have all the fuel they want, and watch the landfills gradually
disappear. And in an age where automotive exhaust consists of
very little besides carbon dioxide (very good for the plant life)
and water (very ditto), any environmentalist who fails to endorse
this new technology enthusiastically is a bald-faced lying
hypocrite.
New Mexico Liberty – September 2006 – Page 6
But, if you can't get people to share in the hope of cheap energy The task before us now is to put both wings of the "Boot On
from garbage, you can tell them about a fantastic discovery that Your Neck" party out of our misery. Gas prices could be the
was actually made several decades ago, one with demonstrated weapon to do it with.
predictive qualities, but which is only now becoming a matter of
general public knowledge: renewal from deep below, of oil Just tell them, "One Dollar Gas – Vote Libertarian".
reserves long thought to be depleted. But tell them loud and tell them often.
Understand, to begin with, that most petroleum – perhaps even THE LP'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
all of it – has a non-biological origin. It's not made of dead by Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@comcast.net ]
dinosaurs, or of dead plants. It was made – it is still being made
– by the same processes from which the Earth arose from dust As for the national LP, there are quite a few declared
and gas condensed by their mutual gravitic attraction. Water, presidential candidates at press time –
methane, and a few other substances, subjected to high • Michael Badnarik – www.badnarik.org
pressure and temperature, become raw petroleum.
• Lance Brown – www.freedom2008.com
The fact was predicted by astronomer Fred Hoyle in the 1950s, • Jim Burns – www.jimburnsforpresident.us
used by the Russians who went from oil importers to the third • Dave Hollist – i.am/trading
largest oil producer on the planet. It was explained and explored • Steve Kubby – www.kubby.com
by Thomas Gold, author of The Hot, Deep Biosphere, and word • George Phillies – www.phillies2008.org
was spread by George Crispin.
• Mike Ross – mike-for-prez-2008.tripod.com
Crispin provides a typical example: • Christine Smith – www.christinesmith.us
"Eugene Island is an underwater mountain located about 80 • Doug Stanhope – www.myspace.com/stanhope08.
miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1973 oil Speaking for myself, while I like Stanhope's style and attitude, at
was struck and off-shore platform Eugene 330 erected. The field present I'm supporting “None Of The Above,” as I'm of the
began production at 15,000 barrels a day, then gradually fell off, opinion that the presidential campaign is a waste of money
as is normal, to 4,000 barrels a day in 1989, Then came the (rather, FRNs) that could be better spent on local races – for
surprise; it reversed itself and increased production to 13,000 example, State Representative, State Senator, County
barrels a day. Probable reserves have been increased to 400 Commission, City Council, Magistrate Judge.
million barrels from 60 million. The field appears to be filling
from below and the crude coming up today is from a geological =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
age different from the original crude, which leads to the
speculation that the world has limitless supplies of petroleum. . .
"Similar occurrences have been seen at other Gulf Of Mexico
fields, at the Cook Inlet oil field, at oil fields in Uzbekistan, and it
is possible this accounts for the longevity of the Saudi Arabian
fields where few new finds have been made, yet reserves have
doubled while the fields have been exploited mercilessly for 50
years."
None of this should be very surprising. There have been clues to
the non-biological origin of petroleum scattered along the way
for at least a couple of hundred years. The composition of the
outer planets – the so-called "gas giants" – should have been a
dead giveaway. Their atmospheres contain all the ingredients,
and some astronomers have even speculated that perhaps it
rains petroleum on Jupiter and Saturn.
Interstellar space is full of methane clouds and I, among others,
have suggested the possibilty of life evolving there, without a
planet.
Three quarters of the asteroids in the Asteroid Belt possess Airport Security
water and a substance called "kerogen" – the same black gold 11 August 2006
found in oil shale. John Trever of the Albuquerque Journal
The price of gasoline at the pump has risen to a point that is not
only absurd, it's obscene. People are starting to look longingly at
little Eurotrashmobiles again, instead of the SUVs and trucks
they truly love: it's going to be costly this winter to stay warm You have many rights as an American
enough to live. citizen toady. Pre-Paid Legal can show you
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Make no mistake: this situation is the direct responsibility of that cost. With Pre-Paid Legal you can prepay
collection of criminals and cretins we refer to as the Bush your most common legal needs, much like
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would have done just as badly as the Republicans if they'd only rights as an American citizen.
had the cojones. In a fairly strange inversion of the historic
Call Jay Vandersloot, Independent
relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover,
Associate, at 505-362-1733
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Colfax
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or religion will legislate its creed into law Roddenberry's Andromeda, It's amazing what one has to believe to
if it acquires the political power to do so, “The Unconquerable Man”) believe in gun control
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seize early the minds of the young, and That one accidental death is too many,
by killing, locking up, or driving but thousands of people dying because
underground all heretics.” the means of self-defense were not
– Robert A. Heinlein, available is unavoidable and not worthy
Time Enough For Love (1973) of worry.

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 The Concealed Carry Lie
by Richard C. Evey, Libertarian / Patriot
www.jpfo.org/ccwlie.htm
Rights are defined by Black's Law: "A right of. free action. Rights
are "inherent" and cannot be extracted from a person. A right is
something that you can do without permission. A privilege is
something that cannot be done without permission.
Rights are granted to me by my creator.
Rights and privilege are opposite.
Rights and responsibilities are inseparable. Every right implies
responsibilities and the only limitation on those rights, is the
equal rights of others.
The right to defend and protect myself even to the use of deadly
force is granted to me by my creator and guaranteed by the
United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. That right
extends to the carrying of a firearm for the purpose of self
defense.
A right cannot be licensed or permitted. A license/ permit can be
granted/ revoked at any time, at the will of the government that
granted the license/ permit or by a higher form of government.
Concealed Carry permits/ license (CCP) laws have been passed
by over 35 states nation-wide. There is pending federal
legislation that would make states recognized other state CCP
as they do their own, just like drivers licenses, marriage
licenses, etc.
CCP licenses/ permits are nothing more than gun registration. If
I have a license / permit granted by a government, then that
government knows that I am carrying a concealed weapon and
they can check on me, at any time, to see what I am doing and if
I am complying with their dictates. If I have a CCP then the
government also knows that I own at least one weapon.
The state of North Carolina passed a CCP law in the late 1990's,
stating the county sheriff would be the only ones to have any
records on who had a CCP. Within three years after the law
went into effect, they changed the law and put all CCPs on a
state wide data base. Telling every government law enforcement
person in the state who is carrying and owns at least one
weapon.
Now the federal government wants to be real nice and kind and
wonderful and tell all states that they have to acknowledge all
the other states that allow CCP. Once this law is in place, then
the federal government will have a data base of all those who
have at least one weapon. GUN REGISTRATION.
FACT: if you have a CCP, then you own at least one weapon
and with a state permitting / licensing system and the federal
government acknowledging it. Then the federal government will
not have to go through a lot of paper work to start it's
confiscation of all weapons when the mood hits them.
Law enforcement people will not be exempt; if law enforcement
(federal, state, local) do not go along with the system then they
will give up their rights and their status as the elite. Remember:
"we are all equal, some more equal than others".
When states passed the CCP laws, it was just a way to keep the
sheep off guard and a lot of us fell for the betrayal and lies that
were told to us by the elected freedom takers. The lie was: just
ask for a permit/license because we want only the law bidding
and the good people to have a permit / license to carry a
weapon. Would a criminal apply for a permit / license?? That
was the first lie; telling us to prove that we are innocent is in
violation of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution. The
next lie: The license/ permit will be just paper work and there will
be no data base kept. They changed the law a few years later
with no fan fare and the watchdog pro-gun groups missed that
one. Then we got betrayed again.
The next lie: Now they want a federal law that will make all
states recognize other states' CCPs, so that we can go about
our lives and not be concerned over legal issues, which will lead
to a federal database. And the rest will be history.
There are states that allow people to carry a weapon open but
then there is a law that say, you can be charged with "going in
terror of the public", catch 22.
Then there are the states that do not required a license / permit
if you want to carry a concealed weapon. Remember: "an armed
society is a polite society" and "a safe society is one where the
criminal does not know who is armed", the criminal / enemy can
be the government, federal, state, local, it does not matter.
Until we get elected people who will not make new laws but
repeal and/or modify old laws that would make it a right for all
decent citizens to be able to carry a weapon, without the need of
paperwork; anyway, anywhere, anyhow and the right of the use
of deadly force without the fear of prosecution. We will be under
control of the government and we will be their slaves and they
will be our masters.
When was the last time that you got a permit/ license to go to
church, read a magazine, write a letter to the paper, voice your
opinion? Do you need a license/permit to remain silent?
The government must know who is carrying. Licensing /
permitting is a ploy by government to know who has the
weapons and knowing who has a CCP; the government does
not have to collect all the paper work that was used to buy the
weapons. The government just checks the CCP data base and
these will be the first who will have their weapons taken away,
when the gun confiscations starts, by hook or by crook, by will or
by force. Then there will be the ones who will rat out others just
to save their skins, the first ones will be the politicians, law
enforcement, lawyers, judges, and government employees and
others will follow. All these people will have to do is rat you out
and they save themselves from a possible prison time. They will
still give up their weapons but they will not be in prison, just
slaves.
What can you do?
1. Find out what are all the laws and rules are in your state
related to CCP and weapons ownership.
2. Destroy your CCP, advise your local, county, state law
enforcement that you do not have a CCP. Make sure that
your information is off any and all state data bases.
3. Work to get people elected that will alter/ change laws that
will make it legal to carry without a permit/license.
4. If you must carry, be very careful, with the search rules that
are in place by the courts, you will be taking a chance.
5. Advise others of the CCP lie and what is going on in your
state.
We must work together to bring back the United States
Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is not just a piece of paper
and it is not a living document. It is the law of the land.
Remember the Trojan horse, the unintended consequences of
laws, regulations and rules and how, when passed they
appeared good but later they were twisted and the back page
was learned and the truth came out about their real intention,
Patriot Act I & II, National ID Act, RFID chip Act.
A lot of laws that have been passed within the last ten years
looked good, sounded good and were meant to be good, but
what could'a, should'a, would'a, wasn't.
Wake up people, the coffee is boiling over.
New Mexico Liberty – September 2006 – Page 11
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