LIBERTY PLEDGE NEWSLETTER Published exclusively for members of the Libertarian Party's Monthly Pledge Program MARCH 1990 Tax Protests to 'Illustrate Outrage' Tax Protest Day (as if we could forget) is illustrate outrage at taxation—whatever they coming up on April 16. A wide variety of local [local LP activists] can discover to grab the local activities are expected around the country. media." Some groups plan to collect signatures in favor of repealing the income tax. Other local party affiliates are expected to make use of the -- CAMPUS UPDATE -- LP's recently available television advertisement University of Virginia LP activist Jim Lark on taxation to run on their local television sta- has just completed a successful organizing swing tions. Interested persons should contact the through North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, National HQ for more information on obtaining and Alabama, visiting nine colleges. He plans a copy of the commercial. another tour in late April through six campuses Toni Black, LP Outreach Chair, said she in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio. In recent hopes for "a lot of innovative, new ways to weeks, new college contact names have been coming in at a rate of about one every other day. The LP has recently purchased 30 "Politi- Paul to Chair New Coalition cally Homeless Quiz" Booths from the Advocates To Lobby for Drug Legalization for Self-Government for use by our most active college chapters. The LP College Program will has agreed to chair the new also be helping college chapters fund advertise- "Coalition to End Drug Violence." The group ments in college newspapers a few days ahead will focus on drawing up legislation to legalize of their hosting the booth. drugs on the federal level, educating congress- men and their aides on the issue, and soliciting endorsements and sponsors for the bill. A con- April 1st: Census Fools Day? gressional luncheon is being planned for this Don't forget: April Fool's Day is also summer to further education and lobbying "Census Day." Responses to our 20,000 piece efforts. Also in the works is a "National Drug mailing on the issue are coming in. We've Peace Summit" scheduled for August to focus on also started receiving invitations from media congressional supporters of the legislation. interested in interviewing LP spokespersons The bill will be a "hard core, pure Liber- about the Census. Whenever possible, we tarian" bill, according to activist Don Ernsberger, hope to place LP representatives alongside detailing our position favoring complete drug Census officials on talk shows and other pub- re-legalization. These efforts should let Liber- licity vehicles. Several state party organiza- tarians know which congressmen are willing to tions have planned protests for the day. give the idea of drug legalization a fair hearing.

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syphilis from a *ink* ing the government out of individuals' liven an* with Nancy Lord or not, she his mew Lord Help Us seer I don't know." the National Abortion Rights Action League, thing the other candidates Mk Meet "It's nuts. They put the National Rifle Association, and the *bon- The idea of a libertarian running for public Libertarian Nancy Lord Says, so many barriers in the a Taxman Union, to name a few. officer,* seen about as self-ccotradictory as a "Give Me Liberty or Give Me way that people just While *ram, with those groups, she ma a "righaws-life" activist appiying for a lob at m throw up their hands taunter of hbertarans and found they liana • abortion clinic. But Lord says she Mints a the District Building" and go out there and get common *lament,. thanes to struggle against government from Detroit Free Press, Jan. 10, 1990. a job." "I've always had a libertarian mentality. I withim."7e have to make dung, better. You artery Lord rustles through six chubby She also fashions ha, didn't know who to call it," she says. 'Toe al- mit pa mum from it," die anye "I would per- volume of the District's 1990 budget in self an Education May- ways named paying *es for thing I didn't smart* to goo A. but you can never 1min:oral precedent Nher Dupont Circle apartment. For the 38- a, promiung to decen- think were with it. I used to think I was a 1th- get army from d cry. The 's no place year-old Libertarian Party activist. the tomes tralize D.C.'s school end because I'm very much tolerant of other you can go and compietely get away. If thee I wish to commend Joseph Sobran on his embody the folly of the D.C. government—a system. Under Lord, people, and I think other people should be left I probably would have gone dim." lumbering monster that treads on individual the Department of Edu- alone, should be free to make their own deci- — Wald' Jan. 4 column, "Panama invasion elicits liberties and squanders taxpayer dollars on in- canon's Division of Cur- otos, should be responsible foe their actions, effectual welfare programs. Lord plans to riculum and Education- but I didn't really know what it was until a few gringo jingo lingo.' The questions he raises plumb every appendix and bar graph and make al Technology would be years ago. I didn't real* that what we call lib- concerning the correctness of U.S. action in note of tarry agencies to be pruned or axed. She terminated with ex- erals have created a lot of the social problem" knows that cutting social programs is taboo in treme prejudice. She Decidedly new to canapamnang, Lard speaks Panama point clearly to the U.S. D.C.'s progressive circles. That's why she's would return the power in ideological spurts—not forced but re- =nag for mayor. to the school pomp*, hearsed. After each sport, she smiles, as government's increasing disregard of the "We have the highest infant mortality rate, letting them decide though surprised that all the words came out the highest murder rate, a school dropout rate what ant of shoot they right. She is alio not well-mud in the Deities limitations imposed on it by the Constitution. of 55 percent, and taxes that are higher than 48 met to run—be it a vo- government: She pow* reamiam the pub- Every day we see further evidence of the states'," Lord proclaims, peering through big cational school, an arts lie housing system with a voucher prom= se red glasses. "This city is the quintessential ex- school, a college prep though it were a revolutioney idea. When told erosion of our inalienable rights by ample of why socialism can't work. This is the school, a math and sci- that D.C.'s Tenon Ammer= Program (TAP) most socialized city m America and it works este school, or a mag- is essentially a voucher program, she admits government iii this country. Now, as Sobran the least. I am perfectly capable of going into net school. Parents she's never head of it. that government and deciding what agencies could send their child- Opposing Lord for the Libertarian Party says, "they want to treat our neighbors' ought to be eliminated. I think I'm more gush- ren to any whoa in the nomination is Prissy Williams-Godfrey, a property as their own backyard," taking over fial than someone who's been m there and is coy, and schools would former prostitute and maim who is rmp* entrenched m the system." receive funds based on id* of the D.C. chapter of the prosingion the countries of those who disagree and She points to the budget. "I think there's a the number of children advocacy group COYOTE (Caw Off Year Old lot of that stuff that could go." that attended. Lord Tired Ethics). Williams dalim the soma of forcing them to accept our positions. The ' Lord is seeking the mayoral nomination of would also abolish fem- the downtown streetwalkers and their-diem* the D.C. Libertarian Party. Rooted in the ale, introduce. merit as mil as the family and triads of people she immoral precedent set by this interventionist classical liberalism of the 17th-century English pay, and institute alter- has mere MI. Searepreneur Damn Sob*, action will harm world freedom for years to Revolution, preaches the virtues native certification of who is bidding for the party's at-large city of limited government and holds individual teachers, so that capable councilmember nomination, is backing her, come. freedoms above all else. Today's libertarians pupa could teach with- mo. Lord and Williams Godfrey will vie for the outdo liberals in their laissez-faire approach to out a formal education nomination on Feb. 16, at a tam convention of Lynn Bellair social mores, advocating the legalization of &gra. the D.C. Unitanans. drugs, prostitution, and blackmail, among oth- Lord doesn't own a Lad could breathe life into the amen issue- Libertarian Party er moral improphenes. But the party's strident gun (they're illegal in less campaign for mayor—if only she could free niarketeerism makes Ronald Reagan look the District), but her gain the podium. There's not much ideological Ens Detroit like Ralph Nader. rap to the right to bear difference bean* the Republican candidate, A licensed physician who is now in her final aims is pure Charlton Maurits: Turner, and the four dyed-in-die-wool year of law school at Georgetown, Lord has Heston. "The Second liberal Democrats now running: John Ray, never run for public office or worked m gov- Amendment was put m Sharon Pratt Dam, Charlene Drew Java and ernment. Even if she captures the party's nom- the Constitution for a Dave Clarice. All five are running on their po- ination—and it's likely that she will—she legalizing drugs would drive dealers out of years working at Abbott Laboratories, a man companies and doctors for misadministering mason," Lord says, parroting the NRA adver- litical experience and character. Whether you doesn't have a chance of winning the general business. All the non-libertarian mayoral can- drug company in the Midwest. Her job includ- drugs. tisement of last summer. "This is the ultimate election. The D.C. Libertarian Party boasts didates have denounced drug legalization. ed running psychomotor tests and urine Lord has been working with pro-legalization right, this is the right to protect all other Augusta, GA Chronicle, Jan. 19, 1990. only 32 members, and according to the D.C. Lord boosts a broad knowledge of the phar- screens for a new psychotherapeutic drug that advocacy groups like the National Drug Polley rights, if the government ever gets really op- Regis= of Voters, even fewer have registered macopoeia, both licit and illicit. After complet- Abbott was developing. Before enrolling at law Network since the mid-'80s. To better under- pressive, 1 don't think they're there yet, but if as Libertarians. But that mimes the point. ing medical school at the University of Mary- school, Lord ran a private consulting business, stand her enemies, she says she has met with they really get weird, if we had guns, if the Like William F. Buckley Jr.'s 1965 campaign land's Baltimore campus, she spent several doing research for plaintiffs who sued drug some of the nation's leading prohibitionists, in- populace was armed we could protect our- for mayor of New York, Lord's bid is moody • cluding former prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani selves. Look at what happened in Twommen rtariams gathering forum for the candidate's views. "I decided to and Reggie Walton. who now works under Square. Those poor kids. If they'd only had Ai run for mayor because I'm very frustrated with drug czar William Bennett. riff* All they would have had to do was shoot the ever-growing encroachment of government "I really went an with an open mind. I want- a couple of those soldiers. If they could have into our lives—from the misguided war on Detroit Free Press, Jan. 10, 1990. ed to understand why they thought these drug Nn shot two or three of diem, they would have drugs to the outrageous vacs to the nda-thous laws were necessary," Lord says. "But the only turned around." frorC&igaifist zoning PrOposat regulations that prevent people from getting argument they had to make was this moral ahead," she says. "I want to bring these issues message, and I don't consider that a good argu- ancy Lord didn't travel the conventional Addicted to government t mad to libertarianism. Shea he( a lapsed out, and I want to force the other candidates to ► ment. What they were telling me was that the confront them." drug laws aren't for the addict—'cause they're Nconservative or a repentant liberal. Her Apart from proselytizing Washingtonians, • Regarding the Jan. 2 story "Drug .1 not helping the addict, they'll admit that. epiphany didn't follow the ingestion of Ayn By Diane Spitzer votes supposedly, so we ought to have the right.. Lord's goal in the campaign is to earn local bal- enforcement actions strip away rights, critics They're afraid that people like me and you, if Rand's Atlas Shrugged. She hasn't pored over South Carolina Bureau to fire them," King said. "I believe four years., lot status for the party. To win a place on the we don't have the government telling us not to Ludwig von Mises' Hunan Amon or memo- Fee a November ballot, the Libertarian Party must •say": America is being destroyed by the me drugs, are going to run out and use them. I rized passages from Murray Rothbard's AIKEN — The Aiken County Libertarian is a little too long for some of these people. It's'-• collect 3,000 valid signatures from registered deadliest and most addictive drug ever find that an insult. I know using drugs is cra- NM, Liberty. Rathbard is widely co*** the a little too long for them to remember this is.; D.C. votm between July 6 and August 29. To zy. I don't need the government to tell me that. founding father of the modern libertarian Party began rallying support Thursday night movement, but Lord draws a blank at the win ballot status foe the parry through the 1992 developed: No, I don't mean heroin or crack; It's so paternabstic....That's worth shooting mention of his name and others from the liber- to fight a proposed county zoning ordinance. America, and there is a constitution. It's got- eiectiorth Lord must snare 7,503 veers at Nov- the drug I refer to is government. people on the streets?" ember. Mayor Lord wouldn't have the power to re- tarian pantheon. "What we're going to do is monitor it ( the ten absurd." The daughter of an optomenst and a real es- Me-Me King, a national Libertarian Party This past year produced a bumper crop Of peal drug laws. But she says she would tell the tate agent. Lord grew up in Silver Spring. Her Ms. Seymour said she hoped the party staffer and member of the local party, says Metropolitan Police Department to stop en- ordinance), and when it does come up for one liberties violations, including the vehicle first flirtation with political activism came in winning ballot status would save the party forcing those laws, making D.C. a sort of Am- her senior year of high school, when she swal- of these public hearings, we need to do our could get 5,000 people in Aiken County to sign about $3,000 and "a bunch of time and head. checkpoint in Inkster, entrapment tactics M sterdam on the Potomac. "No undercover lowed a few lungfuls of tear-gas in an anti-war aches. This is more money that can go into stings," she says. "No buy-and-busts. Just best to stop it," Mary Lou Seymour, a party the petition. She said it would be a good tool to Mt. Clemens, hand DEA harassment-otm- demonstnuion at the Justice Department. Alli- party development and making the campaign leave these people alone and focus on the mur- use against the County Council when the pro- visible. Ballot access also lends a certain "suspicious-looking" travelers — son Krause, a friend of Lord's from North- member, told a group of about 25 people at Ai- amotmt of credibility to the party and makes it particularly young and black — at Metro- Lord would also strip authority from the wood High, was one of the four protesters shot ken Technical College's Auditorium. posed zoning ordinance comes up for a vote. easier to attract candidates who might other- Department of Consumer and Regulatory Af- and killed by the National Guard at Kent State. wise think it's not math their time." Airport- _ li fairs, which licenses and regulates local busi- But Lord herself was politically dormant "That means we have to get everyone you "Y'all came here tonight, and that's a great As the drug war escalates, goverrunents Dimes, and hence rennas the free exchange of throughout the '70s, as she earned an under- start. It's up to us in this room, if this. thing is opping Lord's platform is the war on goods. "My hairdresser needs three different graduate degree in chemistry at the University know to attend the meeting. They (Aiken drugs. Like other advocates of drug legal- gets bigger, erodes more freedom, and costs types of licenses, plus her operating license," of 's College Park campus and went County Council) do not understand reason. going to pass in this county," Ms. Seymour ization--relerahsanon, she calls it—Lord she protests. "Six needs a license as a hairdrew to med school in Baltimore. It wasn't until she T moved back to D.C. in the mid '80s that she blames drug prohibition for the nation's crack more. Yet, people blindly cry out for still see, as a manager, and man owner. Her sham- They do not understand laws. All they under- said. "If we can get recall in South Carolina, epidemic. Prohibition boosts the drug's pace, more. If 52 percent of Americans are actually ** girl needs a license, and they all need sy- began working with an macrunent of political stand is public pressure." then we'll have a real good weapon." making dealing profitable, goes Lord's logic; philis tests. Now how you're expected to get groups that reflected her ccammittmait to keep- • • • - willing to have their houses searched without Tom King, chairman of the local party, told The party hopes to have enough signatures a warrant, as an ABC/Washington Post poll the group that the state Libertarian Party is on the petition to present it before state legis- .6 FEBRUARY 9. P90CITY WEI indicates, then I dare say' we are quickly kicking off a "Right to Recall" campaign. lators before this year's session is over, King building-our own Iron Curtain around said. ourselves. He said the party will try to get at least It's long past time that we overcome our 10,000 people across the state to sign petitions "It's not the complete answer, but it's a psychological addiction to government, asking state legislators to pass a recall bill. start that's going to upset them tremendous- legalize the far less dangerous substances of The bill would allow voters to recall state and ly," King said. "We're (the party) out to build heroin and cocaine, and restore local officials from office if enough think the any master party to go head to toe with the Constitutional freedom. person should no longer be in office. Democrats and Remiblicans. All we want is Kenneth G. Morris "We have the right to hire then:1_111.1th •; Libertarian Party of Michigan Carleton Real Puzzle E pg. 11

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V BY JAMB ICASHIAN' Jackasses here are many people who feel that our entrenched two-party system holds no political home for them. To these people, the terms "Left" and "Right" have little clear meaning. For many of these citizens, the excitement of And choosing between being a Democrat or a Republican is about as much a battle of conscience as choosing between a Ford or a leaM :'.Ii Buick. This is where Advocates for Self- anti un Government comes in. /2*Mow"iiifff,_ A non-profit group, Advocates for Self- Government has set up booths for what it - gnythirlk that our calls the "politically homeless" on campuses and at fairs around the country. ,twoparty system. They gdminister what is touted to be the "World's Smallest Political Quiz." The ten olds no political question test determines a "Personal Issues Index" and an "Economic Issues Index." The Personal Issues Index and Economic ome for them. Now Issues Index are then plotted on the Nolan Chart, which offers a more concise into' the breach has breakdown of political labels. Instead of discovering your position on your innermost rushed a non-profit moral ideas and beliefs on a line graph somewhere between Left and Right, the roup that sets up numbers reveal your position on a box chart g that offers five different groups: Liberal, informational booths Conservative, Libertarian, Authoritarian, and Centrist. for what it calls thee The Nolan Chart was invented in 1970 by' David Nolan, a political science graduate of M.I.T. and founder of the Libertarian Party. "politically homeless." In 1987, Marshall Fritz, National President Story, page 4.

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of the Advocates for Self-Government, put Method to draw out ideas on how to be "That's a question about who's going to the chart on a business card with a quiz. more active politically, as well as paint4he line down the middle of the road. Since that time, he states, the Advocates The most recent discussing and sharing their political ideas Right now we should worry about rolling have distributed over three-quarters of a with one another. The leader is there only government back," Roffers says. as a prod to create an environment, as the million of the tests:- - -, • bboth that the Advocate's Purpose reads, "to help local dvocates for Self-Government is a libertarian volunteers to become self- he Advocates do not do policy nationwide non-profit educational Advocates for replicating." They are educated about the analysis, lobbying, or political organization. They "share the same Self-Government "alternative philosophies other than the campaigning for the Libertarians. Abasic political philosophy as the traditional left," according to Roffers. TRoffers says that the Libertarians Libertarians and work together with them themselves do very little direct lobbying. on non-electioneering activities," according sponsored was, at "You'd be hard pressed to find a to a group spokesperson. They state their Libertarian lobby group," she says. The purpose as "a self-kelp support group for the Rum.mage-o- offers states their philosophy as Advocates and the Libertarians both work Libertarians who are tired of being one of "non-coerdve, non-violence," on a grass-mots level. "If a representative unproductive, strident lapel-grabbing Rama at the working ideally, in her own view, leans toward less government in something ideologues." toward "freedom coupled with you write to them but that is usually as far Mary Roffers, State Chair of the State Fair Park responsibility," When asked for the point as It goes," Roffers says. Libertarian Party as well as the Advocate's when government should interfere in the Roffers says that it's more fun do the Wisconsin hapter President, contends that privivilives of citizens she says "when Advocate work because the seminars where all Advocates are not Libertarians, nor the where they gave someone is hurting something." She cites new members first meet are political reverse. The quizzes are given, she says, to murder, theft, and fraud as examples of a discussions using Socratic Dialogue, "remind people to think about freedom."_ out several point where society should punish a private drawing people out, "talking to people and "If the person polled finds that their - • citizen. "Crimes against property and - not pressuring them with petitions.", When responses plot them in the Libertarian box, hundred quizze, s,pe'son " she says she first started giving these quizzes she we ask them If they want to go further," "Freedom and responsibility are the was, lust tickled to find how Libertarian Roffers says. They are asked to a meeting if and had people principles on which this country was most people are." they wish to become active in the A founded. The government set up by the The most recent booth that the Libertarian Party, "or just meet with people take the tests for constitution was perfectly fine," she says. Advocates for Self-Government sponsored who think the same as they do." Pressed for an example of what part of the was at the Rummage-o-Rama at the State Roffers smiles when she says "the government could go, Roffers shrugs. 'Well, Fair Park in November. Roffers says they quizzes are partly educational and partly a themselves and Congressmen and Representatives were not gave out several hundred quizzes, having test to join. We aren't looking for Joiners, supposed to be full-time. They were to be people take the tests for themselves and for though it's nice." for both Senators called in when they were needed," she says. both Senators Herb Kohl and Bob Kasten. The next step is a breaklast or dessert At what level would these changes be "If you have any doubts about the seminar. One of the Advocates meets with Herb Kohl and made, would more fall to the state and accuracy of the quiz, give it to a politician, five or more people to talk about their new local level? Roffers says that they could go or take it for them," Roffers says. "You can place, now that they are no longer Bob Kasten. at all levels. How about maintaining the probably understand why most of them plot "homeless." The leader uses Socratic schools and roads? somewhere in the 6ntrist Zone."