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January 2009 The official publication of the Libertarian Party of California November 20th Fundraiser Imperialism Equals Bankruptcy by Lynne Mosier y dad, former Alaska around the federal budget? Initiative plan requires legal vet- Senator and LP presi- I agree with my father. If the ting before anything reaches Mdential candidate Mike People had a right to vote on the ballot. The People would Gravel, wasn’t able to attend the budget, they would not vote never be asked to vote on his scheduled appearance for more bombers, more nukes, something that is unconsti- at the LPC’s November 20th and more overkill. They would tutional or against the Bill of fundraiser. He’d just returned decrease the overall budget to Rights. from Sweden, where he’d lec- lessen the tax burden, then re- Currently, California’s initia- tured on direct democracy, and organize the remaining budget tive and referendum politics are he caught a bad cold on the around education, healthcare, designed by representatives return flight. So I substituted and infrastructure. with a vested interest in the for him. I mentioned Ben Cohen’s ballot propositions being slop- Former LP presidential can- (of Ben & Jerry’s) Oreo dem- pily worded, sometimes illegal, didate Ed Clark also spoke at onstration, which you can see and a pure money game. the fundraiser. on YouTube. Ben describes The People would be the During my talk, I focused the federal budget in terms of first to vote money out of pol- on an issue that both Obama stacks of Oreos. His analogy is itics. Unfortunately, our rep- and the media are avoid- easy and understandable. Let resentatives have a different ing: Imperialism equals the People decide how they agenda. Bankruptcy. want to spend their money. Lynne Mosier is former Senator When will our leaders look I also discussed Prop 8. Mike Gravel’s daughter, and a lib- to the Pentagon for budget Under my father’s plan, Prop 8 ertarian activist in her own right, cuts? When will the media do would never have appeared on with a focus on peace issues. Her email: [email protected]. Photo: Kevin Takenaga their job to challenge the dialog the ballot, because his National Lynne Mosier at the LPC’s November 20th fundraiser

After some debate, LP Vice LNC Meeting Report Chair Michael Jingozian offered a substitute motion to establish a “dispute resolution commit- Adulation and Acrimony in San Diego tee” to address the situation. His motion passed. by Michael Seebeck Keaton resigned from the LNC after the meeting, citing ver the weekend of are at www.independentpo- allyn-root-addressing-libertar- health issues, and questioning December 6 - 7, 2008, liticalreport.com/2008/12/ ian-national-committee. the competency of most of the the Libertarian National draft-minutes-from-december- LP founder David Nolan in- O officers. Committee convened in San lnc-meeting. troduced a resolution express- Nolan introduced a reso- Diego to pass the 2009 LP LPC Chair Kevin Takenaga ing the LNC’s disappointment budget, review the Barr/Root opened the meeting on with the Barr campaign perfor- continued on page 6... campaign, appoint half the Saturday, Dec. 6, by welcom- mance, and listing some of the Platform Committee, announce ing all to California. Then Dr. campaign’s failures. The reso- the 2010 National Convention, Jim Lark proposed a resolu- lution failed. (It is in the above Michael Seebeck is the LPC’s and consider disciplinary action tion honoring the late Marshall draft minutes.) Legislative Analyst. His email: against LNC At-large member Fritz. Takenaga then summarized [email protected]. Angela Keaton. Former LP VP candidate the LPC’s recent activities. He Flood’s charges at: www.in- About 30 party activists at- Wayne Allyn Root reported on recognized candidates elected dependentpoliticalreport.com/ Ron Paul’s tended. his campaign, the disconnect to office, activists’ opposition to wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ CA Vote Totals The meeting was broad- between his and Barr’s cam- Prop 8, and the LPC’s recruit- 2 resolution-of-discipline-for- cast live over the internet— paigns, his unreimbursed ex- ing of Orange County Register Judge Jim Gray angela-keaton_11.pdf and an LNC first—by this author. penses, and lessons learned columnist Steven Greenhut. Fundraiser his evidence at www.inde- 3 The wireless connection was for the future. Root reiterated Then came the hearing pendentpoliticalreport.com/ spotty (hence, incomplete), his intention to run for the 2012 into further disciplinary action Crony wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ Capitalism but clips are at http://justin. LP presidential nomination. against LNC At-large member 4 resolution_evidence_1.pdf .] tv/tannim123. I also “twittered” Riverside County LP Angela Keaton. Keaton spoke in her own Cherry Picking the meeting, available at www. Western Vice Chair Gene LNC Region 4 Representative defense. She raised issues, Your Race independentpoliticalreport. Trosper taped Root’s speech, Stewart Flood presented evi- 4 forced an open airing of all al- com/2008/12/michael-see- which is at www.independent- dence that Keaton had al- Feds Block legations, and read a prepared beck-broadcasting-from-lnc- politicalreport.com/2008/12/ legedly engaged in various Anti-Cancer Drug statement. 7 in-san-diego. Draft minutes gene-trosper-video-of-wayne- forms of misconduct. [See PAGE 2 • California Freedom • © 2008 All rights reserved From the Editor On Angela Keaton and Ron Paul Vol. 7 • Issue 1 • January 2009 Freedom, Libertarian, American California Freedom by Thomas M. Sipos Angela resigned a day or Independent, and Green is the official monthly newspaper of so later. She cited health rea- sons. Eric Garris, her boss at Parties, respectively. The lat- the Libertarian Party of California. ome of our best liber- Antiwar.com, issued a letter ter four were officially certified Opinions, articles, and advertisements tarians—our most prin- saying that Angela’s LNC work write-in candidates. published herein do not cipled and productive S was interfering with her duties Most Californians were un- necessarily represent official party libertarians—are outside the at Antiwar.com, and she must aware that Ron Paul was a positions unless so indicated. party. For instance, Ron Paul. choose one or the other. [See: certified write-in candidate and And joining him now, Angela PUBLISHER www.lewrockwell.com/blog/ that votes for him would be Keaton. Libertarian Party of California lewrw/archives/024323.html.] counted. Even so, Paul pulled 14547 Titus Street, Suite 214 I’ve heard rumors that Garris over 17,000 votes—without Panorama City, CA 91402-4935 • Angela Keaton appearing on the ballot, with- Web site: www.CA.LP.org was merely offering Angela a gracious excuse to exit. One out a current campaign, with- Telephone: (818) 782-8400 Angela Keaton resigned Facsimile: (818) 782-8488 Flood’s presentation of longtime Los Angeles LP of- out the public even knowing her At-large seat on the LNC ‘charges’ and ‘evidence’ ficer opined to me, “I think that he was a viable option. shortly after their December EDITOR against Ms. Keaton came off Angela just got tired of all the Imagine how many votes Thomas M. Sipos meeting, during which she was as the clown show it was. petty b*llsh*t on the LNC, and Paul would have won had E–Mail: [email protected] subjected to a silly and un- Accounts from on the spot de- said ‘to hell with it.’ And I don’t the public known that write-in important disciplinary hearing, STATE CHAIRMAN scribe open laughter from the blame her.” votes for him would count? orchestrated by LNC Region 4 Kevin Takenaga audience and a public near- Angela Keaton will now de- And how many additional Representative Stewart Flood. E-Mail: [email protected] nervous-breakdown on the vote her full time to Antiwar. votes had Paul been on the Michael Seebeck reports on ballot? the meeting on page 1 of this Even many Libertarians were GRAPHIC DESIGN AND LAYOUT issue, along with links. unaware of Paul’s official write- Brad Reynolds Most of the charges against E-Mail: [email protected] in status. Some told me after Angela were of her publicly the election: “I’d have voted WEB SITE criticizing the LP and its lead- for Paul, had I known my vote E-Mail: [email protected] ers, with her usual irreverent would count.” wit. She’d also joined a Boston Chuck Baldwin was the Tea Party Facebook account, ADVERTISING SALES Constitution Party’s write- E-Mail: thus lending support to a com- in candidate. The American [email protected] peting political party. (Whereas Independent Party (which had Telephone: (818) 782-8400 Bob Barr only contributed mil- been the CP’s California af- lions of PAC dollars to GOP filiate) split over the war issue. candidates running against LP CONTRIBUTORS Baldwin supported the CP/ candidates, while he sat on Lynne Mosier, Michael Seebeck, AIP’s traditional noninterven- Don Patterson, Ron Getty, the LNC. Small potatoes com- tionist position. Alan Keyes James P. Gray, Mark Ames, pared to a Facebook account.) was the choice of the pro-war Brian Miller, Kevin Takenaga, Yes, Angela speaks freely faction. A California court ruled Lawrence K. Samuels, and doesn’t care if she of- Steve Kubby that the Keyes faction was the fends. She can be abrasive legitimate AIP representative, and blunt and impolitic. She so Keyes’s name appeared on SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO: does not easily tolerate fools. the ballot. Libertarian Party of California She asks tough questions of James Harris ran on the 14547 Titus St., Suite 214 LP leaders, and demands strict Socialist Workers Party. Frank Panorama City, CA 91402 adherence to principles. A no- (877) 884-1776 Some of the “evidence” in the case against Angela Keaton Moore ran on the Just Makes nonsense nun, ever ready to Sense Party. Moore has been smack mushy-headed libertar- part of Flood himself. Keaton com and the cause of world described as a “performance ians with her ruler. Or with a SEND NEWS, LETTERS, acquitted herself quite well, peace. The LP’s loss is human- ESSAYS, PHOTOGRAPHS OR funny zinger. continued on next page... speaking in her own defense... ity’s gain. ADVERTISING TO: I wasn’t at the LNC meet- She denied the LNC’s author- Editor, California Freedom ing, but like others, I followed 14547 Titus Street, Suite 214 ity to dictate what opinions • Ron Paul it live on IndependentPolitical Panorama City, CA 91402-4935 she would express or how she Report.com. IPR eyewitnesses Telephone: (818) 782-8400 would express them,” [See: On December 13, 2008, the reported that, as Flood pre- Facsimile: (818) 782-8488 http://knappster.blogspot. California Secretary of State is- E-Mail: [email protected] sented his “evidence,” attend- Your $$$ com/2008/12/d1-situation-re- sued the official results for the ing activists began to laugh. port.html.] 2008 presidential race, write-in So did some LNC members. SUBMISSION DEADLINES Flood’s resolution moved to votes included. They are: Flood grew ever more irate, suspend Angela’s LNC mem- Buys Liberty All news stories, editorials, and which increased the laughter, announcements are due six weeks bership, to be rescinded upon Barack Obama ...... 8,274,473 LPC activists are which further incensed Flood. prior to the month of publication: her submitting a letter, for pub- John McCain ...... 5,011,781 fighting statist Judging by the laughs, the lication in the LP News, apolo- Ralph Nader ...... 108,381 repression and Advertising orders and artwork are funniest exhibit in Flood’s case gizing for a laundry list of alleged Bob Barr ...... 67,582 speaking truth to due eight weeks and four weeks, against Angela [see: www.in- power—but LPC respectively, prior to the month of misdeeds. [See: www.inde- Alan Keyes ...... 40,673 dependentpoliticalreport.com/ dues don’t cover publication. 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Darth Herr Vader.” replied: “I will under no circum- didates for the Democratic, In describing the event, stances submit to any commit- Republican, Peace and D o n a t e ! Thomas Knapp said: “Stewart tee investigation.” Libertarian Party of California January 2009 • California Freedom • PAGE 3 Letters to the Editor Meet Judge Jim Gray Celebrate with your Libertarian colleagues as Judge Jim Gray transitions from the Orange County bench to libertarian activism, at a fundraiser in his honor, to be held on Saturday, January 24th, sonal feelings. How many of us 2009, 5 pm to 10 pm, in Fullerton, California. Ossetians Are can say that in truth? the Good Guys The main principles of the LP Judge Gray is likely Orange County’s best known and most re- are for Freedom of Choice and spected Libertarian public figure. But do you know about the rest Smaller Government, less interfer- Philip Giraldi was correct, in his of his distinguished past? See and hear what surprising talent and ence in our personal lives. But article of your November issue, accomplishments he’ll bring to his new role as a libertarian influ- from what I have witnessed this on his blaming the U.S. for being ence in Orange County! past year, we have fallen short. on the wrong side of this conflict. True Freedom and Liberty gives Georgia is the creation of Russia. Your donation admits you to an evening of delicious food and everyone personal choice and The country would never have ex- drink, and entertaining insight into Jim Gray’s career and his ideas equal rights. But instead of writ- isted were it not for Russia. for promoting liberty by moving the Libertarian Party to mainstream ing planks that support these Russia had shed a lot of blood status. This event is also an opportunity to donate to California’s principles, we support planks defending this country against its Libertarian Party, and engage in spirited conversation with your that provide more government Persian and Ottoman overlords political colleagues. interference; the opposite of our since the late 1700s. In trying to principles. shore up this tiny Christian en- Proceeds to benefit the Libertarian Party of California. Call Beau Cain The best example of this was clave encircled by Islamic neigh- at 818-782-8400 or e-mail [email protected] to reserve your admission. Prop 8. bors, Russia had given Georgia If Prop 8 had been to take a lot of lands that weren’t hers. $50 Single admission donation Government out of marriage, Stalin annexed further lands from $90 Couple admission donation where it does not belong in the its neighboring republics. $45 Coffee Club admission donation first place, we would have drawn Regrettably, given domi- $25 Student admission donation (with current valid student ID at the door) the people together for the cause; nance of five non-Georgian freedom from government-con- ethnic groups and enclaves, the trolled marriage laws. Georgians’ attitude has been to Instead, look at the divisions forcibly convert them. This had created among the people. One led to a lot of reluctance and re- side pitted against the other. sistance. In one instance last year, We cannot build the party if our Russia had intervened to stop planks do not uphold our found- the Kosovo style massacre of the ing principles, or create divisions Ossetians. among its members. We ought to be on the side The Republican and of Ossetians if we don’t want to Democratic parties are 180 de- contradict our own policies and grees from where they began, principles that we had only re- and we are headed in the same cently exercised in Kosovo direction. We need to change the — Aarde V. Atheian direction of the LP now, before Los Angeles, CA it is too late. We must stand true to our founding principles, or we will struggle and achieve very little for all our efforts since the party LPC Violated began. Fail or succeed. The choice is Principles on up to you. continued from previous page Prop 8 — Barbara “Joy” Waymire [They are] Del Norte County, rates are $109 a night. Calaveras County, CA artist,” so his campaign might Mono County and San Benito The LPC state convention In December ’07, I said it have been an extension of that, County.” will be held this April, in Visalia, would be Obama that would get rather than a serious politi- So it seems that Paul re- California. That’s near Fresno. the nomination over Hillary, and cal endeavor. His running mate ceived more votes than re- See the ad in this issue. he would be elected to office. was cable access TV “sex ther- corded in the state’s “official” Many wanted to bet me I was apist,” Dr. Susan Block. report. Which is somehow • Late Issue wrong. I did not bet, but held my Curiously, both Harris and poetically appropriate, consid- ground. Stated that this is the Moore received under 55 write- ering the candidate and the This issue arrived late be- way time must play out. No one in votes. One must obtain state. cause it advertises an upcom- believed me. YOUR Letters signatures from 55 pledged As Joseph Stalin reputedly ing Judge Jim Gray fundraiser But the most disheartening electors to be a certified write- said: “It’s not who votes that (see above), and state law for- was what occurred within the Welcome! in candidate in California, so counts. It’s who counts the bade this notice (and thus, the LP. Even though all knew our it seems that even their elec- votes.” paper) from being printed until candidate would not be elected, But we can’t publish tors didn’t want to “waste their what we don’t receive. after Judge Gray was safely we had an opportunity to raise votes” on Harris and Moore. * LP Conventions retired, on January 5th. our percentages in the polls and On December 14, the prove to the people that we were Please submit your Constitution Party’s Bill letters to: I congratulate the LNC on a viable third party. But the mem- Lussenheide reported on Ind one good decision. The 2010 bers could not see beyond their ependentPoliticalReport.com: LP national convention will be noses. Caught in the here and [email protected] “There were three counties in held in St. Louis. Good choice. “Strike against war, now, instead of taking the steps California that did NOT count A cheap locale for most pover- for without you no battles needed to one day succeed as a the write in votes for either tarians, conveniently situated can be fought!” party. Chuck Baldwin or Ron Paul. in the middle of the continental Regardless of how I felt about [And presumably, not for Harris U.S., and not in some pricey ~ Helen Keller the LP’s candidate, I voted for the and Moore.] Their totals should state like Hawaii, or on an future of the party, not my per- not be considered complete. expensive cruise ship. Room PAGE 4 • California Freedom • © 2008 All rights reserved 2008 Election Corporate Welfare Fiasco Cherry Picking Crony Capitalism At Its Worst Your Race by Ron Getty here does your tax U.S. Bancorp...... $6.6 billion ...... $76 million money go? Actually, Capital One...... $3.55 billion Superior...... $69 million by Don Patterson Wmassed printed-up Regions...... $3.5 billion Nara Bancorp...... $67 million s we look ahead to the trict (Norwalk, Pomona, etc.). monopoly play money. SunTrust...... $3.5 billion Southern Bancorp.. $60 million next election cycle, it’s How did he do it? The financial firm bailout fig- Fifth Third Bancop...$3.4 billion Capital Bank...... $42 million Aworth reviewing the re- A strategy and hard work. ures below add up to some BB&T...... $3.1 billion Southern Community...... cent California results. Although Agrella ran against a single $366 billion. Crony capitalism New York Mellon...... $3 billion ...... $42 million this has not been our best opponent. No Republican ran. —Alexander Hamilton must be Keycorp...... $2.5 billion Simmons...... $40 million year in history, if you feel the We must be encouraged when real proud. The figures exclude Comerica...... $2.25 billion Heritage Commerce...... Libertarian Party is not grow- 26,429 voters put their X in a Freddie and Fannie. Once State St...... $2 billion ...... $40 million ing, or that our cause is hope- Libertarian box. Those voters again showing private enter- Marshal & Ilsley...... $1.7 billion Cascade...... $39 million less, consider the results in the will remember the LP, and will prise, which is big business Northern Trust...... $1.5 billion Porter Bancorp...... $39 million California congressional and be looking to learn more about and big government working Huntington Bancshares...... Peoples Bancorp...... state legislative races. us and to perhaps join us. hand in hand, against free mar- ...... $1.4 billion ...... $39 million The Reform Party, Other opportunities pre- ket enterprise, along with the Zions...... $1.4 billion Encore Bancshares...... Constitution Party, and sented themselves last election. Fed...... $34 million American Independent Party More will present themselves in Next up, the Big Three. Synovus...... $973 million Severn Bancorp..... $30 million ran no congressional or the future. Although letting them all file si- Popular Inc...... $950 million Bancorp Rhode Island...... state legislative candidates. Let’s look for single party multaneous bankruptcy would First Horizon...... $866 million ...... $30 million Independents and other third races and jump in. You don’t be best. Then they could re- Associated Banc...... HF Financial...... $25 million parties ran candidates in the even have to live in the district. structure under court orders ...... $530 million Heritage Financial...$24 million following number of districts: The registrars post paper pull- and cut up all them feather- Webster Financial...... First PacTrust...... $19 million ings on the web as candidates bedding union agreements, and ...... $400 million Commerce Holdings...... Independent: begin their campaigns. We can all those fat retirement/health City National...... $395 million ...... $17 million see where the single candidate packages, and all that execu- TCF...... $361 million First 1st Financial....$16 million Congress ..... 5 races will be. tive compensation for driving a South Financial...... $347 million. Broadway Financial...$9 million State Senate ..... 1 In the 2008 election, there business into the ground. Valley Nationa...... $330 million Assembly ..... 1 were eight single candidate Consider that $5,000 of the East West Bancorp...... And as a final “cherry on congressional districts, seven cost of a new car is for retire- ...... $316 million top,” the AP recently reported Peace and Freedom: such assembly races, and one ment benefits, then add all the Citizens Republic Bancorp ..... that $1.6 billion in bonuses such state senate race. various state and federal taxes ...... $300 million was recently paid to executives Congress ..... 5 Let’s take advantage of for another 25% of the cost of UCBH...... $298 million of the bailed-out banks. [See: State Senate ..... 1 these opportunities in 2010. a new car. So a $30,000 car Cathay...... $258 million www.wtvm.com/Global/story. Assembly ..... 2 is $5,000 benefits and $6,000 Trustmark...... $215 million asp?S=9561326 ] Taxpayers taxes, or a third of its cost out Umpqua...... $214 million money, of course. How nice Green Party: of your wallet to cover fluff. Washington Federal...... they got to use it so wisely. Bailout figures courtesy of ...... $200 million Congress ..... 6 Steve Dekorte, San Francisco Pacific Capital...... $188 million Ron Getty is a San Francisco State Senate ..... 0 LP. First Niagra...... $186 million LP activist. His email: [email protected]. Assembly ..... 1 FirstMerit...... $140 million AIG...... $190 billion Banner...... $124 million Libertarian: Citigroup...... $25 billion Signature...... $120 million JP Morgan...... $25 billion Iberiabank...... $115 million “What is the militia? Congress ..... 20 Wells Fargo...... $25 billion Taylor Capital...... $105 million It is the whole people, State Senate ..... 5 B of A...... $15 billion except for a few public Assembly ..... 15 Goldman Sachs...... $10 billion Midwest Banc...... $85 million officials.” Merrill Lynch...... $10 billion First National Bancorp...... If that doesn’t convince you Morgan Stanly...... $10 billion ...... $80 million ~ George Mason, 1788 and others that we are the PNC...... $7.7 billion Columbia Banking...... strongest, most active third party consider this: Don Patterson is the Southern The LPC’s Christopher I cited in the column some met only by silence. thing else. District Chair for the Orange County occasions on which that fa- About four months thereaf- Second, he’d met with the of- Agrella received 26,429 votes LP. His email: donpat8@yahoo. in the 38th congressional dis- com. vorable treatment had actually ter, the CHP had a new com- ficials of the 11-99 Foundation, been given. missioner named Joe Farrow. and was successful in obtain- I sent a copy of the column I sent him a letter, along with ing their promise to cease the to then-CHP Commissioner an explanation of my request distribution of the license plate Advice for YOUR Activism Mike Brown, along with a hand- and a copy of the previous col- frames and identification cards written letter, requesting him to umns. Within three weeks, I re- by this coming January. He’d Government investigate the situation, and ceived a telephone call from his also instigated a movement to possibly discontinue this prac- secretary inviting me to have recall the license plate frames tice. My reason was that our lunch with the new commis- and ID cards that have already Belongs to Us system of justice in traffic court sioner. been issued. and everywhere else should be At that lunch, Farrow told This is government at its by Judge Jim Gray free from even the appearance me he had taken action in two best. That was the laudatory of favoritism. ways: message I gave to Farrow. n October 2007, I wrote a card that (coincidentally) could I received no response to First, he issued a strong Government had been respon- column about the California be placed next to that person’s my letter. statement to his troops that sive, responsible, professional, Highway Patrol’s 11-99 driver’s license. I A few months later, in an- they were not to be influenced and had acted with integrity. Foundation. When a person The implication was that the other column, I reported that by 11-99 Foundation member- Why am I writing about this donated a minimum of $5,000, donor would receive favorable I had not received a response ship in exercising their sound experience? Because it dem- he or she was given a license treatment from the CHP out from Brown. I sent him a sec- discretion about whether to onstrates that we can and do plate frame and a membership on the state’s highways. And ond letter. Which again was issue traffic citations or any- continued on next page... Libertarian Party of California January 2009 • California Freedom • PAGE 5

Foreign Interventionist Failure Ossetia never liked the idea of facto czar, Vladimir Putin, been too reckless, too profli- being part of Georgia. During counterattacked—some say gate, and too arrogant as an the violent land scramble that he’d set a trap—and by the unopposed superpower. Even End of Empire occurred after the collapse of end of that long weekend, the decent patriotic folk were start- the Soviet Union, the South Georgians were in panicked ing to worry that America was by Mark Ames Ossetians found themselves retreat. The Russian army then suffering from a classic case of cut off from their ethnic kin in pushed straight through South Celebrity Personality Disorder, n the sunny afternoon and opens it. It’s a U.S. military North Ossetia, which remained Ossetia and deep into Georgia becoming a nation of Tom of August 14, a Russian model. “This is a little trophy— part of Russia. proper, halting less than an Cruise party-dicks dancing in army colonel named a gift from one of my soldiers,” O The Russians, who’ve had a hour’s drive from Saakashvili’s our socks over every corner Igor Konashenko is standing he says. “Everything that the small peacekeeping force here luxurious palace. and every culture in the world, triumphantly at a street cor- Georgians left behind, I mean since 1992, managed to keep All around me is evidence of lip-synching about freedom as ner at the northern edge of everything, was American. All the brewing conflicts on ice for a rout. A Georgian T-72 tank we plunged headfirst into as Tskhinvali, the capital of South the guns, grenades, uniforms, the last 15 years. But in the turret is wedged into the side much risky business as we Ossetia, his forearm bandaged boots, food rations—they just meantime, the positions of ev- of a local university building, could mismanage. from a minor battle injury. The left it all. Our boys stuffed eryone involved hardened. The projecting from the concrete And now, bleeding money spot marks the farthest point themselves on the food,” he Georgians weren’t happy about like a cookie pressed into ice from endless wars in Iraq and of the Georgian army’s ad- adds slyly. “It was tasty.” the idea of losing a big chunk cream. Fifty yards away you Afghanistan, we’re a sick giant vance before it was summarily The booty, according to of territory. The Ossetians, an can see the remains of the ve- hooked on ever-pricier doses crushed by the Russians a few Konashenko, also included 65 ethnic Persian tribe, were more hicle that the orphaned turret of oil, paid for with a cur- days earlier. intact tanks outfitted with the adamant than ever about join- originally was part of: just a few rency few people want any- “Twelve Georgian battalions latest NATO and American (as ing Russia, their traditional ally charred parts around a hole more. In the history books of invaded Tskhinvali, backed by well as Israeli) technology. and protector. in the street, and a section of the future, I would wager that columns of tanks, armored Technically, we are standing The tense, but relatively tread lying flat on the sidewalk. this very spot in Tskhinvali will personal carriers, jets, and within the borders of Georgia, stable, situation blew up late Russian tanks now patrol be remembered as both the helicopters,” he says, happily which over the last five years in the evening of August 7, the city unopposed, each one geographic highwater mark of waving at the wreckage, cra- has gone from being an ally when on the order of president as loud as an Einstrzende the American empire, and the ters, and bombed-out build- to the U.S., to a neocon proxy Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s Neubauten concert, clouding place where it all started to fall ings around us. “You see how regime. But there are no army swept into South Ossetia, the air with leaded exhaust as apart. well they fought, with all their Georgians to be seen in this leveling much of Tskhinvali and they rumble past us. great American training—they breakaway region—not unless surrounding villages, and send- But listening to Colonel abandoned their tanks in the you count the bloated corpses Mark Ames is the author of ing some 30,000 refugees flee- Konashenko, it becomes clear heat of the battle and fled.” still lying in the dirt roads. Going Postal: Rage, Murder, ing north into Russia. to me that I’m looking at more and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Konashenko pulls a green Most of the 70,000 or Within hours, Russia’s de than just the smoldering re- Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine compass out of his shirt pocket so people who live in South mains of battle in an obscure and Beyond. He is editor of the regional war: This spot is Moscow English alternative weekly, ground zero for an epic his- The eXile, available at: http://exile. torical shift. The dead tanks ru. His email: [email protected]. Raise your Cup to Coffee Club Members! are American-upgraded, as are the spent 40mm grenade e want to thank the following members who have stepped right up and Judge Gray shells that one spetznaz soldier joined the LPC Coffee Club since its kick–off. A Coffee Club member do- continued from page 4 shows me. The bloated bodies nates a minimum of $42 per month or $500 or more each year. W on the ground are American- have an influence in our gov- trained Georgian soldiers who Suzanne Bell Curt Cornell Lawrence Samuels ernment—at all levels. If we are have been stripped of their persistent, there is little that we Ted Brown, Jr. Don Cowles Paul Studier American-issue uniforms. cannot accomplish, at least in Beau Cain Bruce Dovner Kevin Takenaga And yet, there is no American the long run. Audrey Carlan Terry Floyd Charles Tolman cavalry on the way. With government, like many T. J. Campbell John Inks Robert Weber, Jr. For years now, everyone situations in life, familiarity does from Pat Buchanan, to hybrid- Ed Clark Carolyn Marbry not breed contempt; it breeds powered hippies, have been Alicia Clark Chuck Moulton access. Another way of say- warning that America would ing this is that government is a Zander Collier, III Alan Pyeatt suddenly find itself on a his- “contact sport.” All of us should torical downslope from having make advocacy a regular part of our everyday lives. Our form of government depends on it. Many elected officials have �� told me that when they receive individually written letters, �� +,-.�/+01 ��-�� 2��3� ��4��0�� 51 ��-�� &��'�� they attach great significance �� and weight to them. They have a formula that for every per- �� sonalized letter they receive, they feel that at least 35 other �� !�"�� people in their district probably ��#�� !$�� have the same views. So don’t %�� &� �� '�� &��#��(�� )��)�� )�� be bashful about writing those �� &� �� $$��******************************************� letters. Of course, your letters will �� have more chance of influenc- ing elected officials if you can �� actually vote for those officials.

�� A letter you send to your own '�(��!)�!(�� member of Congress will more $��*�� likely have an influence than a ��+�� !�� """#!�#�$#��% ��&� letter to a member outside of your district. Please Join our Coffee Club continued on page 6... PAGE 6 • California Freedom • © 2008 All rights reserved Judge Gray Seebeck Whatever your issues are, you continued from previous page... continued from page 1... “Against our traditions we are now entering upon an unjust and trivial can and should turn your pas- war, a war against a helpless people, and for a base object—robbery. But take this action a step sions into that power. Why? lution to change the Mission At first our citizens spoke out against this thing, by an impulse further. Getting a group of 10 Because if we do not have Statement to focus more on natural to their training. Today they have turned, and their voice is to 15 or more voters in your government at its best, we only networking within the freedom elected official’s district, who have ourselves to blame. movement, to create public the other way. What caused the change? Merely a politician’s trick— a high-sounding phrase, a blood-stirring phrase which turned their are united and vocal about a policy change in a libertarian certain issue, would increase James P. Gray is a retired uncritical heads: ‘Our Country, right or wrong!’ An empty phrase, a direction, beyond just elect- the odds that the person would Orange County judge and former silly phrase. It was shouted by every newspaper, it was thundered from ing candidates. The resolution not only respond to you, but LPC candidate for U.S. Senate. was tabled to the next LNC the pulpit.... And every man who failed to shout it or who was silent, He will appear at an LPC fund- even meet with you on the sub- raiser on January 24th, in Fullerton meeting. was proclaimed a traitor.” ject at a place of your choosing. California. See the notice on page On Sunday, the LNC fo- ~ Mark Twain Relationships are power. 3 for details. cused on the budget. LP Treasurer Aaron Starr gave a long line-by-line presentation. An Executive Session was held �� to discuss staff cuts. �� )*+,�-)./ ��+��0�� 1��0�� 2��0�.�� Washington state LP Chair �3/ ��+�� !&�� Ruth Bennett discussed �� the LPW’s efforts to repeal � �� Washington’s “Top-2” vot- �� ing scheme via a lawsuit. She �� asked the LNC for financial �� help, noting that if Top-2 is re- �� !�� "�#��$��%�� &�� tained, it would spread nation- ��'��'��&� ��'��&��$�� wide and kill third parties. �� &��"((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((� �� The LNC voted to send �� $15,000 to the LPW to continue its lawsuits. �� Two-2 was defeated this

past November in Oregon. It �� may appear in California in the '�(��!)�!(�� future. $��*�� The LNC then passed the ��+�� !�� """#!�#�$#��% ��&� 2009 budget. Platform Committee members were selected, in order of votes received: Rebecca Sink- Burris (IN), Adam Mayer (OR), �� Richard Randall (CO), Brian �� " ��#$"�� %��&��'�� Holtz (CA), Alicia Mattson (TN), �� #(� �� !�� Stephen Gordon (AL), Jon �� Roland (TX), Rob Power (CA), �� Joe Hauptmann (IN), Susan �� Hogarth (NC), Chris Barber �� !��"�� # (Alternate) (GA). Alicia Mattson ��$�� %�� named interim chair. �� The 2010 National �� Convention was announced for �� the Renaissance Grand Hotel �� in St. Louis, over Memorial �� Day Weekend. Room rates are �� $109. Further details TBA. Bylaws Committee reported �� ,�-��-�� that their work had begun. �� Three alternates were selected: �� !��"�� "��#��$�%�#&� ��!�� %��'��%''�%��( )��'�'%�'�%'�$$ ***�� $'+� Vicki Kirkland (FL), M Carling (CA), and Starchild (CA). The LNC unanimously passed a resolution condemn- ing the use of military forces for domestic police operations �� (within the U.S.) in direct contra- �� #!��$�# ��%��&��'�� vention of the Posse Comitatus �� $(� ��'�� Act of 1878. �� The next LNC meeting will �� be in Charleston, SC, February �� 28 through March 1, in con- �� !��"�� # junction with the next state LP ��$�� %�� chairs conference. �� “If you can’t annoy �� somebody with what you �� write, I think there’s little point in writing.” �� ,�-��-�� ~ Kingsley Amis �� !��"�� "��#��$�%�#&� !�� "�� %��'��%''�%��( )��'�'%�'�%'�$$ ***�� $'+� Libertarian Party of California January 2009 • California Freedom • PAGE 7

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The 2008 elections are over, but LPC activists re- main hard at work, educating tomorrow’s voters with libertarian ideas and principles. When Regulations Kill Seven LPC volunteers attended the recent Junior State of America Convention, held at the Santa Clara Feds Block Anti-Cancer Drug Marriott on November 22, 2008. Mark Hinkle and Jim Eyer, pictured above. by Steve Kubby CBD works by blocking the science supporting CBD, it is activity of a gene called Id-1, criminal for the U.S. govern- esterday, I received word which is believed to be respon- ment to continue its destructive about a very special lady, sible for the aggressive spread and misinformed war on the “There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and Ywho is also my cousin. of cancer cells, away from the medical use of cannabis. most are Negroes, Hispanics, Philipino’s and Entertainers. She is fighting for her life. Her original tumor site -- a process Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana name is Lisa, and she is losing called metastasis. Past work usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual her battle with breast cancer. has shown CBD can block ag- relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.” What saddens me most is gressive human brain cancers. that there is an epidemic of The latest work found CBD ~ Harry Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics, 1937 breast cancer—although we appeared to have a similar ef- already possess an effective, fect on breast cancer cells in nontoxic, and powerful anti- the lab. cancer drug that could save The U.S. government not her. Right now, we have the only knows about CBD, it even technology and peer-reviewed holds a patent on the use of �� science to save millions of cannabinoid medicines. So lives with a harmless extract why does our government con- Steve Kubby helped draft and from the cannabis plant called tinue to make CBD a Schedule pass California Prop 215, which �� Cannabidiol, aka CBD. 1 Drug, and thereby sentence legalized medical marijuana in 1996. He is the author of The Cannabidiol is safe and non- my cousin Lisa to death? �� psychoactive. Lives could be Politics of Consciousness and It’s a tragic situation. And Why Marijuana Should Be Legal. �� saved now, using CBD in can- in light of the emerging new He can be contacted via his web- nabinoid lozenges, produced site: www.Kubby.com �� by a company I founded—except that CBD has been de- �� termined by Congress to be a �� Schedule 1 Drug. �� CBD alone is not intoxicat- �� ing, but it appears to relieve �� convulsion, inflammation, anxi- �� ety, and nausea, and to inhibit cancer cell growth. Recent �� studies have shown cannabi- �� diol to be as effective as atypi- �� cal antipsychotics in treating �� schizophrenia. �� In November 2007, it was �� reported that CBD reduces �� growth of aggressive human �� breast cancer cells in vitro and reduces their invasiveness. It thus represents the first non- �� toxic exogenous agent that �� can lead to down-regulation of tumor aggressiveness. It is also �� a neuroprotective antioxidant that provides powerful protec- �� tion from paralysis in spinal �� injuries. �� PAGE 8 • California Freedom • January 2009 © 2008 All rights reserved Libertarian History LP’s Antiwar Roots by Brian Miller he Vietnam War was an Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and allowed the government to going to. Worse, important—arguably the July 8, 2002], writes: “The dis- impose inflation easier. Along I shouldn’t have Tmost important—forma- enchantment of a few over with the ‘illegal’ Vietnam War, to. tive stimulus behind the cre- the Vietnam War and President loss of fiscal conservative di- Some peo- ation of the LP. Richard Nixon’s wage and rection of the Republican Party ple in the LP’s In his seminal analysis of the price controls has grown into and the socialist directions of Neocontarian Vietnam protest movement, what they say is the nation’s the Democrat Party, the group faction are prone The Vietnam War on Campus, best-organized and most suc- started the think tank to come to mendacity. Marc Gilbert writes: “Only a cessful third party. ‘Other par- up with a better political solu- But even allow- united front, the students real- ties come and go,’ said David tion for real limited government ing for “forget- ized, would truly threaten the Nolan, considered the party’s and individual freedom.” [See: fulness,” losing Establishment. As the 1960s founding father. ‘The reason lpcolorado.org/about-us.aspx ] the anti-foreign- crumbled around them and we have staying power is that Or ask the Libertarian Party interventionist the forecast for change in the we are consistent.’” of Michigan, whose website heritage of the 1970s looked bleak, these (If only Mr. Nolan’s state- notes the groups that came to- LP is just another way that the students decided that only a ment was true today, just six gether to form that state’s party party’s heritage is being stolen. Brian Miller is national Secretary completely new way of thinking years later.) affiliate, including: “Goldwater The reason the LP’s for Outright Libertarians. His email: and acting would force such Still not convinced? supporters. Karl Hess’s rheto- Neocontarian faction is suc- [email protected]. institutions as the government, Suspicious of academia and ric inspired many citizens in a cessful is because too many the university, and more amor- the press? country torn over the Vietnam Libertarians are quiet and timid, phous ‘social order’ to respond Why not ask the Libertarian War. Defining liberty and its accept the Neocontarian’s to their demands.... For some, Party of Colorado, which pro- defense becomes more than faulty premises, and spend this dream came true in the claims on its website: “David academic when you have a more time coming after their creation of the Libertarian Party Nolan and several other friends draft card in one hand and a friends than after their adver- in 1972.” got together in the summer of rifle in the other. Later, many saries. Not into academic citations? 1971 after being disgusted with supporters became active in Wasting time “proving” tru- How about the mainstream then president, Richard Nixon Young Americans for Freedom isms like the LP’s origins in press, in one of its few balanced announced to the public the and College Republicans.” anger over the Vietnam War examinations of the Libertarian implementation of wage and [See: michiganlp.org/Shared only keeps Libertarians on the Party? Mike Smith, reporting price controls, which basically %20Documents/25thann.htm ] defensive against the indefen- for the AP [as reprinted in the removed the gold standard I could go on and on. I’m not sible.

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