LIBERTY PLEDGE NEWSLETTER Tax Protests to 'Illustrate
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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 Ron Paul 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. LIBERTARIAN PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1528 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E. • Washington, D.C. 20003 • (202) 543-1988 THEDISTRICTLINE THEDISTRICI'UNE 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, libertarianism 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.