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The Liberty Pledge News is produced monthly for members of the National Libertarian Party's Pledge Program, Independence '88 and the Torch Club. It is also distributed to National Committee Members and State Party Chairs, in appreciation of their contributions and to make available information on activities at Headquarters and on libertarians in the news. Clippings and other items of interest are appreciated. Libertarian Party Headquarters 301 W. 21st St. Houston, TX 77008 713-880-1776 HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR PLEDGE? WANT TO RAISE IT? CALL 1-800-682-1776 PHONE 1776, VOLUNTEER DAY AND CLIPS Dear Monthly Pledger, recruiter . There we can pass it out to the recruit- You are the backbone of the Libertarian ers and the public. Party. And now is the perfect time to check on Of course we send out news releases and call something that can form the backbone of your the news media. I believe the media will view local Party's outreach — listing your Party phone this as an extremely positive and news worthy number in the local phone directory. event. I think we would all enjoy this kind of In some areas, the phone book companies are positive contact with the public. within weeks of their deadlines for shutting out The points we can make: new listings in the 1988 book. I urge you to check * our government does many things we with your local phone monopoly today. With the disagree with, but one thing we certainly support presidential campaign, 1988 is going to be a is the all volunteer armed forces — this is pre- super growth year. People will be looking for our cisely how a free society defends itself. number in the phone book. • voluntarism is working well in the Ken Bush, Public Relations Director of the military, Republican and Democrat politicians Missouri Libertarian Party, recently placed the should stop talking about returning to the draft National LP 800 number (1-800-682-1776) in the or a national service program. St. Louis phone directory under the Libertarian Party of Missouri. When people from Missouri * a free society should not have to force call the National Office on the 800 #, we send citizens to defend it and in America we have them an info-pac of information and their name, always had enough volunteers. address and information to the appropriate per- * the draft is unnecessary except in un- son in the Missouri Party. just and unpopular wars, the LP supports an end We promise to be accommodating in working to draft registration, freedom for non-registrants with your state or local party. Everyone using like Gillam Kerley who is in federal prison in one national 800 line is very cost effective. Leavenworth, Kansas, and the abolition of the Selective Slavery System. Mr. Bush also tells me that if persistent enough, a person can (in most places) get the last * our candidate for president, Ron Paul, 4 numbers of the local party number changed to has been a crusader against registration and the 1776. That sounds like a good number to me. draft and in favor of an all volunteer force. * * * * * Let me know what you think about this idea. Among the people I've talked with about this One problem in some areas will be the January idea, there is a great deal of interest in the weather, so if you have suggestions for northern National LP sponsoring a Volunteer Day. On states they will be most welcome. I would expect January 27th, 1988 — the 15th anniversary of the news media to ask why Libertarians are Nixon's ending of the draft — I propose that we braving the elements which presents an opportu- bake a cake to celebrate this birthday and take nity to tell them. References to Valley Forge that cake to the biggest downtown armed forces would be in order. October 1987 I need your feedback. Contact the campaign at (713) 333-1988. * * Let us know, Iowa and New Hampshire Lib- Clippings include a great article on Ron Paul ertarians, if you find some ways to get media in the Christian Science Monitor, a column about attention from the decaying old parties' prima- new LNC Regional Rep. Joe Dehn, news articles ries. Super Tuesday and other primaries and from New Hampshire and Iowa, and more. political events are headed toward all the states. We are hoping to get reprints of the Christian * * * * * Science Monitor article to distribute. I'm very happy to be working here at the Congratulations to Mr. Joe Dehn and many National Office. Chair Jim Turney has an- others who make news by writing letters to the nounced that he will appoint me to the position of editor, being active or reaching out to Frank LNC Office Manager subject to National Zappa as super Oklahoma Libertarian Robert Committee approval. I am so excited about the Murphy did recently (back page). coming election year and the long-term health and growth of our Party that I was willing to start I included the Iowa and New Hampshire sto- immediately as a staff member. I look forward to ries because these two states are very important working with and hearing from you often. politically right now. The news media is focused there and the Ron Paul campaign is now setting Yours for li erty, up air time for radio and TV ads in these two states. Activists in New Hampshire and Iowa are probably thinking about how they can promote the campaign. The news media should certainly Paul Jacob get a release on the running of television ads. National Office Staff

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1987 THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR RON PAUL In former congressman, Libertarians think party has best candidate ever

By Howard LaFranchi cw1 w_riipr of the Christian Science Monitor Lake Jackson, Texas There is no tri-color bunting outside the small building where Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ron Paul has his office here, no posters or bumper stickers. Only the letters F.R.E.E. above the door, indicating the emphasis of the man inside who would be president. "Tb me Libertarians stand for a freedom philosophy," says Dr. Paul, listing a few of the major elements making up that philosophy: non-interference in civil liberties; a free, "I mean really free," market; a non-interventionist foreign policy; abolition of the federal reserve system and return to a gold standard for currency; and minimal federal spending, primarily for a defensive military and "the amount necessary to ensure justice for individuals." The Libertarians have never scored big in a presidential election. The party attracted about a million votes in 1980, in what was its best showing, for candidate Ed Clark. Many political scientists say that voters who put their "X" by the Libertarian candidate's name are generally not voting for the individual but rather are protesting the choice offered by the two major parties. But party supporters believe the Libertarians will make Paul: Party 'stands Mc a trtradorn phitatopte Please see PAUL next page INTERNATIONAL

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At the state level, particularly in its budget—directly to the voters on California, referendums and initia- television? How about a debate be- tives have enjoyed a resurgence. tween Lee Iacocca and the Japanese Citizens have forced issues onto the ambassador on the merits of the auto ballot, sparking hot debates over import quotas? property tax levels and schooling. In many cases, such public debates Scores of other gut-level issues have are being held and the voters are been taken directly to the voting reading and tuning in. But the miss- public all across the United States. ing link is that the voter can't vote Why can't we do that on a national on the issues that affect his future. scale? By using touch-tone tele- So, really, why care? phones, computers and cable televi- If each voter received a private vo- sion, nationwide referendums could ting number, he or she could—on the be held on important issues. People designated polling days--simply pick Talking to the Libertarians— can decide themselves about what up the telephone, call the appropriate POLITICS AND TECHNOLOGY many of whom work in the electron- kinds of programs they will pay for, "Yea" or "Nay"computer and punch in TOKYO — It's getting into the next ics industry, by the way—was re- and live with, or do without. his number. political season, and the response of freshing. Here were people taking Take the education issue. Nothing Technically, the information net- most people is "ho hum." That's too bad, their time to support a political par- is more clear to me, after eight years work needed to inform the voters is in because current technology could give ty with no chance of gaining power, in Japan, that the United States place. The ability to vote by a key- the developed world a leap into a next- just because they believe in some- must commit more of its resources to telephone-computer network was dem- generation political system that would thing called "liberty." education. While 98 percent of the onstrated years ago. excite every thinking man and woman. Japanese graduate from high school, The question now is whether the In the U.S. the candidates for Ronald VOTE BY PHONE only three out of four Americans voters are confident enough in them- Reagan's job will include Ron Paul, a I believe that democracy—revital- earn a high school diploma. One in selves to take responsibility for their former Congressman from Texas. ized by modern technology—will seven Americans is considered func- own lives and their own nation. I Ron Who? emerge from its current doldrums and tionally illiterate. believe the average American is Ron Paul, the candidate of the Lib- again become a system of government A bill to increase federal funding for smart enough to know what he ertartaaParty, was nominated at the by the people. That wasn't possible 200 education, with accompanying taxes, wants. An era of participatory de- party's convention, held at the Seattle hundred years ago, when it took the might or might not be a good idea. The mocracy could give people a compel- Sheraton a few weeks ago. By chance, Founding Fathers a week to get to point is that most people in Japan, the ling reason to listen, think, discuss, I stayed there a few days on my way Philadelphia by horseback. United States and Europe have vote and if necessary, change his or back to Tokyo from summer vacation. Times change. reached educational levels which per- her mind and vote the other way. There was never a dull moment that Currently, the voters elect represen- mit them to vote intelligently about After all, its a lot easior to blame weekend. tatives who in turn vote on bills, guided such important issues. things on Tweedledee of the Republi- The Libertarians espouse the least in their thinking by lobbyists, opinion Besides newspapers, Macintosh-gen- cans or Tw:2edleclurn of the Demo- amount of government and the maxi- polls, media commentators and the mi- erated leaflets, and street corner orato- cracts, cry in your proverbial beer mum amount of individual liberty pos- nority of constituents who are political- ry, a powerful new media is with us. and wonder why the nation's youth sible. Ron Paul, a Texas physician, will ly active. Television, specifically the cable televi- are going to pot. hit the campaign trail with a platform Most ordinary people feel that their sion channels devoted to airing public of low taxes, a military devoted to de- own opinions, and their vote, count for issues, is a forum for debates on nation- Feedback can be sent to Easylink: fense, an end to foreign aid, a return to little. Voter turnouts have dwindled al issues. 62660860; Compuserve: 76664,112; the gold standard and a philosophy of and Washington has become the battle- Can you imagine Charlie Sporck The Source: BDQ870; Telex: U.S.# individual responsibility. ground of special interest groups. taking the case for Sematech—and 888141; or facsimile: 813-316-0961. MARROU continued smaller towns across the country and spreading the Libertarian mes- —Domestic subsidies: "I would Marrou, 48, is a real estate bro- sage. get rid of all agricultural subsidies, ker who came to Las Vegas nine, He and presidential candidate like tobacco. I would also stop sub- months ago from Alaska, where he Paul will sputa $5 million budget sidizing dairy products." had served one term as a member- and they will not accept federal - —Federal government: "I would of the state's House of Representa- matching funds. Marrou's cam- cut the government bureaucracy tives as the country's only Liber- paign is being managed by Russell down to "a fraction of the size it is tarian legislator. Means, a well-known American In- now. I would drastically reduce A native of Texas who moved.to dian activist who lost the presiden- what all Amercians contribute to the government." Alaska in 1973, Marrou was "kind tial nomination to Paul in Seattle. of a Republican" who voted twice Marrou said the party's goals are for Richard Nixon before he was to garner 7 percen t to 10 percent of Idaho Statesman, wooed to the Libertarian cause the vote for the ticket and to get 1976. Libertarians elected to state legis- Boise,ID 9-20-87 Coming out of a small business latures. About 60 party members convention, Marrou was handed a, are in elected posts across the pamphlet, which he took because country, but they are all in local Libertarians, Hansen he said "I always want to see what government, from school boards to these fringe groups have to say." city councils to county commis- On Sept. 7 and 8, The Statesman ran ar- Marrou said the Libertarian sions. ticles in which former Congressman message hit him "like a bolt out of Marrou also said he will be fight- George Hansen claims that Libertarians the blue" soon after he became a ing against efforts by the country's have asked him to be their presidential member of the Anchorage party. major parties to hinder efforts by nominee. This claim appeared two days He became state vice chairman of third parties such as the Libertar- after the Libertarian Party, meeting in the 'party in 1977, but one year ians to get on ballots. Seattle, nominated former Texas Con- later he had a falling out with a gressman Ron Paul as the party's 1988 A Reno federal judge ruled last presidential candidate. Libertarian leader and essentially year that Nevada Libertarians withdrew from civilization for two Libertarians in Idaho and throughout would have access to the ballot and the nation appreciate the battle which Mr. years. the party fielded several dozen can- Hansen has waged against both IRS and He and a companion, who later didates in the state. But concern F EC tyranny; however, for Mr. Hansen became his wife, lived in an isolat- still exists here and in other states, to suggest that he has been asked by ed part of Alaska, fending for Marrou said. Libertarians to run for the presidency is themselves, reading and discussing "They (Democrats and Republi- ludicrous. No substantiation exists for this philosophy. cans) want to keep the American claim in libertarian movement newslet- "I did a lot of thinking," Marrou' public from having a choice," Mar- ters; not once was Hansen mentioned in recalled. "I finally decided I was rou said. "All we ask for is an equal this context by any of the 700 individuals not going to lie down and let them who attended the Libertarian Party opportunity to compete for votes." Presidential Nominating Convention over (the government) roll over me." Marrou also believes the Liber- He returned and made an unsuc- the Labor Day weekend. tarians have a forum to present Libertarians also decline Mr. Hansen's cessful bid for the Alaska House in their views and he will be traveling offer to form a coalition of libertarians 1982 before winning the seat two to communities presenting his with conservatives. Libertarians are not years later. stands and those of the party. conservatives; we neither wish nor seek During his tenure, Marrou said, Some of his positions on domes- an alliance with the ultraright-wing par- he introduced more legislation tic and foreign policy issues in- ties enamored with Mr. Hansen. Specifi- than any other lawmaker and man- clude: cally, we refuse to associate the good aged to get three bills out of the —The Persian Gulf: "We should name. of liberty with the racist, xenophob- House, one of which became law. ic, sexist and homophobic fear-mongering not be there at all. People who that characterizes Mr. Hansen's friends After losing his re-election bid should be there are thOse who use among the Populists and other ultraright last year, Marrou and his wife, Ei- the oil in t.:•..e region." organizations. leen, moved to Las Vegas, where —Aid to the Contras: "I'm SANDY SONNTAG and three co-signers her parents live. As the party's vice against it. Look what happened in Boise presidential nominee, Marrou's fo- Vietnam." cus will be talking to groups in Register-Citizen, Torrington,CT 9-3-87 Libertarian Sloan joins race for mayor By CHRIS HEALY crat Harry A. Hamzy and many rank and file will listen and Sloan said his stand on drugs is Register Citizen Staff petitioning candidate Aldene "Sen- respond to his message. realistic. TORRINGTON — Add Libertari- ator" Burton. "I feel much better known than I "If a person does drugs it doesn't an Mark W. Sloan to the mayoral "So many people are asking me was before and I'm surprised at mean they're addicts. If they're race. to run, I felt I would let them down the amount of elderly support I addicts then they should be : Sloan, 31, who garnered 106 votes if I didn't," said Sloan. "They felt have received," said Sloan. "They treated," he said. "We don't throw as the party's mayoral candidate disillusioned with the two major agreed with a majority of what I alcoholics in jail unlesss they hurt in 1985, said Wednesday he will parties, and I feel that I'm much had to say." someone." enter the fray, contingent upon a more responsive than they ever During the 1985 campaign, Sloan "Not endorsing drugs, but educa- state party nomination. could be." proposed enlisting retired resi- tion is better than legislation," he . Sloan has until Sept. 9 to file a According to figures in the office dents to teach or tutor public said. "eandidacy with the City Clerk's of the Registrar of Voters, there school students. He also proposed Sloan, who is single, is a grad- office, and needs a validated en- are three registered Libertarians decriminalizing the possession of uate of Lewis Mills High School in dorsement before he makes it on on the city voting rolls. marijuana and suggested a city- Burlington and has a bachelor of the ballot against Republican in- Sloan dismisses the lack of "on wide lottery to pay for capital arts degree in psychology from the 'cumbent Delia R. Donne, Demo- paper" voters and argued that improvement projects. University of Connecticut. THE CHRFSTIAN 'SCIENCE MONITOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1987 NATIONAL

ISONNSWVOIMIMAMS:1004 with the Democrats."

PAUL from preceding page d Paul, who has signed photos of V / Reagan and Vice-President George l A Bush in his office, says he was an

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1988 than in the past, in large part 0 early supporter of the President, but because Paul is a former four-term 0 quickly became disillusioned. "It Republican congressman with a didn't take me more than a month track record for drawing voter inter- after 1981," he says, "to realize est, winning elections, and raising there would be no changes." money. They expect that Paul, as the The Houston obstetrician-gyne- party's standard bearer, will be in- cologist and father of five says the strumental in placing the Libertar- Iran-contra scandal was a major fac- ian ticket on the ballot in all 50 tor in his decision to switch parties, states — so far they have qualified because it revealed that Reagan's for 20 — and in electing Libertarians "rhetoric didn't match up with his to various local and state posts. policies." Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Just what changes would Presi- secretary for Thxas, says he expects dent Paul implement? The income Paul to do at least as well as John tax would be outlawed, as would the Anderson in 1980, who took about 6 Central Intelligence Agency, the percent of the vote. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and "We've never had a candidate draft registration. Welfare, which he like Ron Paul before," Mr. Johnson calls a "criminal act" of government- says. "Before we've always run the sponsored "theft from one's neigh- intellectual professor type," he bor," would be abolished. "Welfare adds, "but just being able to say never works," he says, noting there 'former Congressman Ron Paul' will 'The American people have are "more street people today than be different." to wake up, and we hope ever before. It's because [Libertar- Political observers disagree, how- we can be the group to ians] are caring that we want [an ever, noting that Paul's is not a economic] system that works." known name, and that members of wake them up,' Paul says. Paul becomes most excited when Congress tend to be invisible entities 6180SINSONMMAMTNWANWP/V he talks about the Internal Revenue outside their own districts. Service, which he says is the only The Libertarians can expect to The ticket was nominated Septem- agency in the country permitted to attain something around the million ber 5 at a convention in Seattle. presume citizens are guilty — of tax votes they attracted in '80, says Paul, who represented Texas's evasion or nonpayment — until Austin Ranney, a political scientist 22nd congressional district south of proven innocent. "It's an outrage at the University of California at Houston from 1976 to 1984, was that the IRS can decide you're guilty Berkeley. "That's not an unre- known for his libertarian sympa- and come take your property or •spectable figure for a third party in thies while in Congress, and gained whatever they want," says Paul. this country," he says. But he adds something of a national following Paul says there is much in the that Paul almost certainly will not for his support of a gold standard. Libertarian platform that is "very garner enough votes in any one state He also founded the Foundation for attractive" to conservatives and to make a difference. Rational Economics and Education liberals. The Libertarians' problem Even 1 million votes may be diffi- (thus the F.R.E.E. above his office is that those points that might ap- cult for the Libertarians to attain in door). In 1984 he left what he calls a peal to conservatives are often '88, says Arizona State University "safe seat" to oppose Phil Granun anathema to liberals, and vice versa. political scientist Thomas Keating, for the Republican US senatorial Still, Paul says he feels the time •is since the conservative movement nomination, but was defeated. ripe for Americans to consider an has "lost a lot of momentum" in Paul says he left the Republican alternative to the two major parties. recent years. Paul himself admits Party because it offers little that is "There's nothing static about his- that the Libertarians are "somewhat different from the Democrats. tory nothing that says we have to in disarray," with fewer party mem- "A lot of people think we're doing continue electing officials from two bers than a few years ago. great [economically], but it's all on parties that never change policy," he Paul's running mate is former borrowed money," says Paul. "Ron- says. "The American people have to Alaska legislator Andre Marrou, a ald Reagan has given us a deficit 10 wake up, and we hope we can be the real estate agent in 'Meson, Ariz. times greater than what we had group to wake them up." M anch Libellgtians Want To Change Fed Register-Guard ,

SEATTLE (UPI) — Newly nominated Libertarian Party est ,presidential candidate Ron Paul, a former Texas congress-

man who left the Republican Party because he disagreed er U with its economic policies, challenged the constitutionality yesterday of the Federal Reserve System.

The four-term congressman said that during his eight years ni in Washington he was frustrated by his inability to subject the nation's financial regulatory agency to scrutiny. on-L "I had nothing to say about it," Paul said during his first

news conference as the presidential ead candidate for the 16-year-old Liberta- rian Party. "I couldn't look at the re- cords of the Federal Reserve. It's a er

totally secret organization." , M Paul, 52, defeated American Indian Libertarians

activist Russell Means for the party an nomination on the first ballot Satur- day during the party's convention in ch

Seattle. e hang in there An obstetrician from Houston, Paul st

has said he broke from the Republican er THE LIBRARIANS are sort of the Rodney Party last winter because he was dis- Dangerfields of politics: They get respect — and couraged by the "broken promises" of ,NH 9 darned few votes. the GOP's conservative wing. Ran Paul That doesn't bother Joe Dehn much. He pointed to the still unbalanced balanced budget, the fed- "I don't think you can measure success by the eral income tax, the Federal Reserve System, labor laws and -7 number of people who get elected as Libertai ians," the welfare system as areas in which government has

-8 he said. "Our first goal is not to be elected for usurped individual liberties and responsibilities. ourselves." 7 And a good thing, too, because no Libertarian has ever been elected to Congress or to national office. THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 The Libertarian creed of as much personal freedom — and as little government — as possible has never attracted even a million votes nationally. Dehn (pronounced Dean) is a Eugene resident Libertarian Party Picks Ron Paul, who is now Lane County Libertarian Party chairman. He once was an unsuccessful Libertarian candidate Former Congressman, for '88 Bid for the Connecticut Legislature. "We want to be elected as representative of the idea to preserve people's rights," he said. "If we get By WALLACE TURNER elected because people like the way we smile, or Special to The New York Times through some fluke confuse our names with SEATTLE, Sept. 5 — Former Repre- speech before the vote on the Presiden- somebody else, that's not going to do any good." sentative Ron Paul of Texas was nomi- tial nomination: "I am concerned that nated Saturday as the Libertarian Par- the Libertarian Party can become The message, in ty's candidate for President. His clos- known as the last refuge of the conser- other words, is more est rival in the vote at the party's na- vatives, and that is not true. We are a important than the tional convention here was Russell radical party. I am concerned that the medium or the Means, the Indian leader from South front-runners joined the party to run messenger. It is, by Dakota.. for President." While the Libertarian Party supports any measurement, a Andre Marrou, 48 years old, who re- radical message. cently served a two-year term in the the right of women to choose an abor- Alaska Legislature, was nominated as tion, Dr. Paul believes that abortions The Libertarian the Vice Presidential candidate with- are morally wrong. The Libertarians Party platform calls out opposition. for Life group failed in its attempt to for ending — among ..Dr. Paul, a 52-year-old obstetrician change the party position. other things — tax- from Lake Jackson, Tex., a suburb of The voting for the Presidential nomination appeared to be influenced by supported public HoustOn:served as a Republican mem- education, welfare, ber of Congress from 1979 to 1984. delegate desires to broaden the party's He drew 196 votes on the first ballot base. Mr. Means was seen as poten- farm supports, Social to 120 for Mr. Means. Trailing far be- tially opening an avenue to ethnic mi- Security, the Postal norities, while Dr. Paul was seen as of- Service, Civil Service, hind were Jim Lewis, of Old Saybrook, Joe Dehn Conn., the 1984 Libertarian vice presi- fering the candidacy of a trained, artic- immigration laws, dential nominee, and Harry Glenn, a ulate political campaigner skilled at National committee member foreign aid, the 55 .retired welder from St. John, Ind. Mr. fund-raising. mph speed limit, the Lewis received 49 votes and Mr. Glenn Dr. Paul has raised about $250,000 Occupational Safety and Health Act and U.S. had 3. Fourteen delegates rejected all for his campaign, and hopes to be able membership in the United Nations. four candidates. to win enough support to merit a place Both leading candidates for the in the Presidential debates sponsored Far out? Dehn says no. Presidential nomination became by the League of Women Voters. Libertarian Party members last Feb- The delegates also adopted a plat- "You see people campaigning using libertarian Nary, which made some delegates un- form plank on military policy that calls rhetoric because they know that the people like it," easy about the candidates' dedication for the United States to remove all its he said. "Look at Ronald Reagan — when he was to the party's principles. nuclear weapons from Europe and to elected the first time, his campaign speeches had a One of the delegates who had misgiv- terminate the 19/2 agreement that lot of libertarian ideas. ings was John Vernon, who said in a limits antiballistic missile systems. Las Vegas Review Journal 9-14-87 Eugene, OR 9-23-87

"HE KEPT TALKING about making government smaller, and letting free enterprise work. Libertarian Party's Unfortunately, whether through incompetence or whether he really didn't mean it in the first place, the result during the Reagan years has been an increase in government." VP contender takes Dehn, 33, a computer software developer, moved to Eugene with his wife, Nadine, in 1985 when she was hired as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Oregon. This month he stand on issues was elected one of 30 national committee members at the party nominating convention in Seattle. By Jon Ralston That convention nominated former Texas Review-Journal Republican Congressman Ron Paul as party standard Las Vegan Andre Marrou be- bearer for 1988. Paul defeated American Indian lieves people should be allowed to Movement co-founder Russell Means on the first 'smoke marijuana or snort cocaine ballot. without criminal penalties. - (The convention attracted little attention — a He also thinks that Americans situation•the Libertarians are growing used to, though should pay only as much in taxes not fond of.) to the government as they deem Also elected to the national committee was Tonic reasonable. Nathan of Eugene, who in 1972 was the party's first And he says U.S. troops should vice presidential candidate. The ticket got on the be recalled from installations ' in ballot in only two states and got only 2,691 votes. But Western Europe, Japan and Cen- by 1980, the Libertarian ticket headed by Ed Clark tral America. was on the ballots of all 50 states and won more than 900,000 votes. Marrou, who has many other strong amvictions, also happens to Then in 1984, the party slid off the ballot again in be a contender for the vice presi- several states — including Oregon — and got only dency of the United States on the 227,000 votes. ticket of the country's third largest The beginning of the end of a political party. movement? Dehn says not. He was nominated for the vice "One of our problems in 1984 was a kind of presidency at the Libertarian Par.! ANDRE MARROU overconfidence," he said. "People saw how well we ty's national convention in Seattle ...on Libertarian ticket did in 1980 and automatically assumed that we'd do 10 days ago. Ron Paul, eformer at least as well in 1984. That didn't happen." four-term Texas congressman, wat "What we advocate is personal responsibility," Marrou said. "We THE PARTY IS DOING more nuts-and-bolts chogen• as the . party's presidential organizing now, he said, and struggling to get back on nominee. believe in decontrolling drugs and the ballot in all states. That's not easy. In Oregon, for The party, which stresses indi-' decontrolling guns. It's your busi- example, Libertarians must get 51,577 signatures on a vidual liberties and less govern- ness and the government should nominating petition by next August. ment, has several hundred mem- have nothing to do with it." Meanwhile, a Libertarian lawsuit against the state bers in Nevada and about 25,000 see MARROU next page is to be heard next month by the Oregon Supreme nationwide. Court. With good libertarian logic, the suit contends that people who want to be on the ballot have the Davenport, Iowa freedom to be there, that voters have the freedom to vote for them, and that neither freedom should be 8A QUAD-CITY TIMES Sunday, Sept. 6, 1987 impinged by ballot-access requirements. There's a certain basic appeal to the party's get- government-out-of-our-lives philosophy. But when you consider the implications spelled out in the platform — wholesale abolishment of basic government ertarians choose protections and programs — it hardly seems a formula for political success. And given the party's failure to generate a big ential nominee following for that far-out platform in 16 years, you could logically conclude that it's destined to be nothing more than an asterisk on the pages of history. SEATTLE (AP) -- Former year," Paul promised in an inter- Dehn hopes not. "I'm in this for the long term, Republican Rep. Ron Paul of view. "They cannot ignore the and I think most Libertarians see it that way," he Texas was nominated Saturday as Libertarian message. The nation said. "It's taken 200 years for the country to get the the Libertarian Party's presiden- is starved for it." way it is, and we're not going to turn it around in four tial candidate for 1988. The first-ballot vote squelched years or eight years." the hopes of Indian activist Rus- With a laugh, he offered a sampling of Libertarian Paul, who had spent about sell Means, an Oglala Lakota optimism: As far as where we are today, I don't Sioux who was a leader of the Just slow progress." $230,000 campaigning for the nomi- view as a failure so much e, nation, won on the first ballot. 1973 Indian uprising at Wounded "We are going to see a lot of Knee, S.D., and spent a year in Libertarian politics this nest jail for inciting a riot. Los Angeles Times , 9-13-87

LOOSE ENDS: This week's Bill- credentials: He knows his way board points out that five teen-age around Capitol Hill (he's testified solo artists have had hits in the past in front of Congress lately), he's year and a half, the biggest chart often sought by television shows showing for teens since the halcy- (he's been quoted as an expert on on days of Tony DeFranco, Leif political and music-related issues Garrett and the newly resurgent frequently in recent months) and (maybe) Donny Osmond. The lat- he's had 20 years experience point- est crop: Janet Jackson, who was 19 ing out the foibles and follies of life at the time of "What Have You in the United States. But while he Done for Me Lately," current pops- may have made a visible, colorful ter Debbie Gibson, Texas guitar whiz Charlie Sexton, balladeer candidate, Zappa declined to attend Glenn Medeiros and rapper L.L. the convention—and after study- Cool J. . . . Last weekend, the ing the party platform and meeting Libertarian Party nominated for- with Murphy for several hours in mer Texas congressman Ron Paul L.A., he declined to run. The Frank Zappa. . reason? "Philosophical differenc for president. But before they Mr. President? chose Paul, at least some highly es," says a Zappa spokesman. placed Libertarians had their eyes on somebody who's more familiar RON PAUL for PRESIDENT Andre Marrou Campaign to rock fans than politicos: Frank (713) 333-1988 Zappa. Robert Murphy, a Libertar- (702) 435— 3218 ian delegate from Oklahoma and a frequent candidate himself, ap- proached Zappa before the party's Pacific Business News , Honolulu, HI 8-13-87 Seattle convention and asked him to attend the gathering and consider the offer. Zappa has appropriate

77.1WQMT, New York Post , 9-10-87 1,10trg tr*-' volt.FOFV,"" ',..4",:e4r71VPrn, f F,.;•^#11111.,,V Setting Zappa straight ritorn I'VE been a Frank Zappa fan since 1967 and a Libertarian Party member since 19 /2 and Frank is wrong if he thinks L.P. people want no govern -,nent at all (Page Six, Sept. 4). Obviously he mixed up the Philadel- phia. Society for Indi- vidunl Liberty and the Radical Caucus with the party itself. The beliefs of the Zappa Libertarian Party are no different than those of the anti-Feder- alists who ran this country from 177.6- 1787 and from 1801-1825. Our heroes are Samuel Adams, "NO MORE TAX INCREASES" was the message last Wednesday of local Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Al- business and political leaders who gathered at the State Capitol. On hand to bert Gallatin, not bomb-throwing Red recommend that President Reagan veto any future federal tax hikes were, from left, anarchists. Haunani Dew of the Liberty Caucus, Dr. Blaise Harris of the Libertarian Party of Like most liberals, Frank obviously be- Hawaii, Dan Dew of the National Tax Limitation Committee, BEttie—Tatum of the lieves in civil liberties but not in • economic freedom. A free man must have National Federation of Independent Business, Howard Chong of the Republican both, not one or the other. Party, and Samuel Slom of Small Business Hawaii. The Democratic Party declined WALT KARWICKI, York, Pa. to send a representative. —PBN Photo by David Free