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Liberty Pledge Newsletter LIBERTY PLEDGE NEWSLETTER The Liberty Pledge Newsletter is monthly publication for the contributors in the National Libertarian Party's Liberty Pledge Program and the Torch Club. It is also distributed to current National Committee Members and State Party Chairs in appreciation of their involvement and to serve them as a regular update on Libertarian activities at Headquarters and in the news. Clippings and other stories of interest are appreciated. Libertarian Party National Headquarters • 301 W. 21st St. • Houston, Texas 77008 • 713/880-1776 MAY 1986 Dear Supporters of Liberty, What a month April was for our Party! Lots and lots of news from everywhere. Try as the world might, we just couldn't be blown out of the news; pushed back a page or two, but we were there. There's so much news this month, that I'm going to forego a page of my writing and just let the clippings speak for themselves. By the way, for those of you who don't know it: we receive an average of 100 clippings a month, having to do with the activities of libertarians (individuals and groups). I have to fight with myself each month as to which clippings to print and which not to. Granted, some of the clippings are of the same story, repeated in the papers of one community or a nearby town, but let me tell you folks, this Party's moving! I guess the hottest number for April was the "taking" of Big Water, Utah by the Utah LP. Evidently all five city council members and the mayor switched to the Libertarian Party. A reporter stated that Big Water is the first community in the nation "controlled" by the party ... I think "un-controlled" is a better description. In addition, the Utah LP is fielding 52 candidates in upcoming elections! The next time you have a drink in your hand, drink a toast to LP State Chairman, Bob Waldrop and the Utah activists. Well done, Utah!! Norma Jean Almodovar (candidate for lieutentant governor) is really staying in the press in sunny California. Her credentials are excellent: Who knows law enforcement like a police officer? Who knows the reality of persecution for victimless crimes like a prostitute? And who could voice the futility of trying to legislate morality better than a person with a background in both occupations? This lady is definitely worth her weight in Kruggerands. April was a month for many well planned tax protests. Andre Marrou was center stage in Anchorage where he took part in a march with 100+ others to the IRS offices. There Andre gave a speech decrying the income tax. He'd have made a better splash in the media, but our government bombed the Hell out of Libya the day before. It's an old ploy of stage magicians . ... when you don't want the audience to look at your left hand, catch their attention with your right. So, fellow Libertarians, the rest is in the clippings, read on and enjoy. SEE YOU NEXT MONTH! Pendery expects chorage Times Tax protesters stage lively rally Anchorage, AK Tax day to lose by a lot _1_ 7 .2 An April 15, 1986 Ventura Star Free Press by Jim Springer Studdert said. "They bulldoze, Times writer Ventura, CA Record Searchlight /April 3, 1986 they buffalo, they bluff a lot. Tax protesters rallied and pa- They're always threatening to Redding, CA April 16, 1986 raded today in a festive spirit take us to court. They act like that belied their resentment over they're the law and they're not." Libertarians get By BILL MILLER federal tax policies. There's no question that Har- A few feet away, Jerry Rapp, Getting horn blowing support ry Pendery, a little-known phys- age 11, was taking the day off from many passers-by, 100 or noisy response ician from Paradise, will win his from school to join the protest. political party's June primary. more demonstrators lined C "You know how parents are to call for protest But, according to his own Street on the Delaney Park Strip always right? Well, my parents forecast, the 2nd Congressional to display their conviction that hate the IRS and so I guess I hate District candidatE should lose federal income taxes are uncon- them too," Jerry said. "They There were a lot of motorists the general election by a land- stitutional. Enjoying balmy tem- just take money to help other honking their horns at Chuck slide. peratures, some were costumed Wright of Thousand Oaks Tues- people, but they use it to make "I think I'd be ecstatic with 5 and many carried colorful signs day night. bombs to blow up the earth . percent of the vote," he said blasting the Internal Revenue And it was music to his ears. It's gonna get like Russia." Wednesday in Redding. Service, hours before the mid- They were doing just what Wright Surveying the scene with sat- Pendery, representing the Lib- night tax deadline. wanted. isfaction was Rep, Andre Mar- ertarian Party, said his role in As a member of the Libertarian At noon, they headed off on a rou, the Alaska legislature's lone the ereollon lies in educating the Party, Wright was protesting the trek to the Internal Revenue Ser- Libertarian. public about what Libertarians federal income tax by picketing vice building where more rally- s'IlTiTis growing opposition are all about. Rep. Andre Marrou the post office in Oxnard. ing and speeches were planned. to unconstitutional taxes," Mar- Generally Libertarians sup- . opposes income tax His sign said, "Honk if you hate "I think the people here are rou said. "People are scared of port almost anything that trans- people who sense the govern- taxes." lates into less government intru- have always - been people who the IRS and in the United States ment is much more powerful A good number of procrastinat- sion in private lives, he said. have spoken out, but this is the — people shouldn't be afraid of than it is entitled to be under the ing taxpayers — the ones who It's essentially a free-market first time we've joined together government." were running in and out of the philosophy with an emphasis on Constitution," said rally organ- in unison." He said federal income taxes post office to mail in their last- individual rights. izer Jeff Dickstein. He said the Toting a sign proclaiming would be unnecessary if the gov- minute returns — did just that. That translates to calls for marchers were part of a loosely "IRS/KGB," Charles Studdert of ernment was "cut back to a level For men such as Wright, paying voluntary taxation, removal of knit group called People Against Anchorage explained why he was the founding fathers intended." taxes is the moral equivalent of government restrictions like gun Unconstitutional Taxation. demonstrating. He said excise and sales taxes, sin, he explained. control, an end to criminal pen- "It just sort of came to- "I support the movement to along with other consumption He and a half-dozen other party alties against marijuana cultiva- gether," Dickstein said of the get the IRS to back down from taxes, would be sufficient to fund members passed out flyers. tion and prostitution and so on. boisterous gathering. "There some of their gestapo tactics," government operations. "Haven't you said 'Uncle' Long Could such a system really Enough?" was one of the pam- work in the U.S.? Absolutely, phlets' headlines; "Taxation is Pendery said. theft," was another. A former Republican who be- measure, to put words into any. He believes the savings mix politics and religion, you Does he pay taxes himself? came a Libertarian six years deeds: that can be gleaned from more get too many politicians playing "Of course I do," Wright said, He urges increased privatiza- efficient government can more God." "I'm not in favor of going to jail. ago, Pendery said he's exam- ined the major political parties tion of most government sery than make up the difference. Pendery has a wife, Norma, The 16th amendment is the law, "and found them lacking. My ices, such as operation of fed The candidate also came out and three grown children. but we want to change it." campaign will be wrapped al dams and power plants. e strongly against attempts by The announced retirement of Wright said that his party around the slogan, 'We can do complains about "pork ba rel" groups like the Moral Majority incumbent Rep. Gene Chappie, would like to see governmemt better.' " defense spending and decries to drag moral issues into the R-Chico, triggered a rush of minimized. Although he's never run for the development of a "military political arena. interest in the vast 2nd District, Said fellow Libertarian Harry political office before, Pendery welfare system" overseas, in- "I think too many times one which covers 12 northern coun- Canter of Newbury Park: "The is confident that his low-budget cluding U.S. aid to foreign dicta- group or another has taken their ties, including Shasta, Siskiyou problem is that bureaucrats be- campaign will attract disenfran- torships. moral agenda and tried to make and Trinity. The primary elec- lieve the government is God and chised Democrats and Republi- As for income taxes, Pendery it the law of the land. When you tion is June 3. that they are kings and queens." cans — "abstract thinkers" who questions why there needs to be The Libertarians passed out share his party's government- their anti-tax pamphlets to any- limiting views. one who'd hold out their hand.
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