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Indy Libertarian News
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Libertarian Party of Marion County
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Apr 08, 2009 07:48 PDT
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"May the non-initiation of force be with you." - Richard Benjamin Boddie
In this issue:
1. Annual county convention is Saturday April 18
2. Libertarian Party opposes bailouts
3. Indianapolis Tea Party, Wednesday April 15th
4. Libertarian views, mostly
5. Other news and information you can use
6. Multi-media corner
7. Quotations du jour
And now to the news and views:
1. Annual county convention is Saturday April 18
The Libertarian Party of Marion County (LPMC) will hold its annual
convention on Saturday April 18 at 1:00 p.m. at JSReutz Café at the John
H. Boner Community Center located at 2236 E. 10th Street.
This meeting will include special guest Chris Spangle who will report on
his recent travels to the Libertarian State Leaders Alliance Conference.
Additionally, LPMC chairperson Tim Maguire will be leading a special
group exercise for the purposes of leadership and volunteer development.
LPMC County Conventions are held once a year to elect delegates and
alternate delegates for the Libertarian Party state convention, to make
amendments to the county by-laws and to do an annual financial
accounting. Because there are no elections in Indiana in 2009, we will
not be nominating any candidates for office this year.
If anyone wants to suggest an amendment to the bylaws, please send your
change request to cha-@indylp.org. To view proposed amendments to
date, please see: http://www.indylp.org/2009_annual_county_convention .
Please RSVP at Free Hoosiers so we can have a head count:
http://freehoosiers.ning.com/events/marion-county-convention
Parking is available on the North side of the John H. Boner Community
Center. There is also some parking on the East side of the Burger King
lot and a few spaces on 10th Street.
2. Libertarian Party opposes bailouts
Indianapolis, IN - Indiana Senator Luke Kenley (R) and Indianapolis
Mayor Greg Ballard (R) presented the State's plan to bailout the
Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board (CIB) today. Instead of asking
the users of CIB properties in Indianapolis to step up and pay their
fair share first, lawmakers will be considering a statewide increase of
alcohol taxes, ticket taxes, food and beverage taxes, and the Innkeepers
tax.
Timothy Maguire, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Marion County,
criticized the move to attach this bailout to the state budget. "There
is no excuse to force those who don't directly use the stadiums to pay
for the short-sightedness of the CIB first."
"The appropriate step should be a direct tax on the immediate users of
the CIB facilities," said Maguire. "These Republican-sponsored increases
will give us the highest hospitality taxes in the nation, which will
only serve to drive off the convention business the City leadership
claims to protect. Hurting a $3 Billion industry with unwise taxes will
only put more Hoosiers out of work."
"It was an increase in taxes that outraged the voters of 2007 that swept
the Republicans into office," commented Ed Coleman, Indianapolis
City-County Councilor At-Large. "It is a shame that the Mayor and other
City Leadership, after only a year and a half, have forgotten the will
of the voters. If the Statehouse and the Mayor look to raise taxes on
the hard working owners of hotels, bars, restaurants and our City's
guests first, then they truly do not understand the forgotten man in all
of this."
Coleman is asking everyone to contact their state legislators
immediately, to voice their opposition to high taxes. "The voters of
Indianapolis need to remind their officials of their outrage from 2007,
and that they won't forget a move like this come election time. Ask them
to put the average taxpayer first, and the owners of the Colts and
Pacers second."
http://timothyjmaguire.com/wordpress/?p=448
3. Indianapolis Tea Party, April 15th
When: Wednesday April 15 from 4:30 until 6:30 p.m.
Where: Indiana Statehouse, south lawn
For more information, go to http://www.indianapolisteaparty.com/
4. Libertarian views, mostly
Our problem is immortality by Walter Williams
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/04/01/our_problem_is_immorality
Liberty and law, not "law and order" by William Norman Grigg
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=31
European socialism to run our financial system by Dick Morris
http://www.newsmax.com/morris/?s=al&promo_code=7D79-1
"Seasteading" and the supposed failure of libertarian political activism
by Patri Friedman
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_04_05-2009_04_11.shtml#1239074395
Of the origin and design of government in general by Thomas Paine
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/sense2.htm
States rebellion pending by Walter Williams
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/03/25/states_rebellion_pending
Government deception by Walter Williams
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/04/08/government_deception
Butt out, feds by John Stossel
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/03/25/butt_out,_feds
The universal pre-K scam by John Stossel
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/04/08/the_universal_pre-k_scam
The government and car control by Ron Shirtz
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shirtz/shirtz14.html
Confessions of an economic hitman by Jude Wanniski
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wanniski/wanniski53.html
Congress created monster it seeks to tame by Ann Woolner
http://www.northjersey.com/business/opinion/41642617.html
Obama socialism will wreck the nation by Dick Morris
http://www.newsmax.com/morris/obama_socialism/2009/03/25/195965.html
Bailout boundary dispute by George Will
http://townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/03/29/bailout_boundary_dispute
American medicine yet to discover Ginkgo Biloba by Bill Sardi
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi109.html
How CA should respond to medical marijuana raid by Anthony Gregory
http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=1705
Sell the roads by John Stossel
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/04/01/sell_the_roads!
5. Other news and information you can use
Smoking ban divides local residents
http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/region_1/Smoking_debate_divides_local_residents_20090324
Fidel praises Lugar as "soft or pro-socialist"
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=7089
Marion Indiana Tea Party
http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/articles/2009/04/05/news/doc49d81b4b1c72d813136586.txt
Austrian banks could trigger global depression - again
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Creditanstalt/2009/04/06/200200.html?s=al&promo_code=7D7D-1
China and Argentina in currency swap
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/eba6405c-1d7e-11de-9eb3-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=a22ad130-8ad8-11db-8940-0000779e2340,print=yes.html
Find stimulus projects by state or territory
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/
FBI raids downtown Dallas building
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa090402_lj_fbi.96b29611.html
Chill winds take heat off global warming
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/chris_ayres/article6011157.ece
Hannity, Morris agree with “conspiracy people” about New World Order
http://www.infowars.com/hannity-morris-agree-with-conspiracy-people-about-new-world-order/
Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090403/ap_on_re_us/iowa_gay_marriage
Cloward-Piven, Obama and the fall of America by Laer
http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/09/28/sunday-scan-92808/#high_4
'Ontario residents only' at Tent City
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-tents18mar18,0,1589130.story
Newest contributor to road rage
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123811365190053401.html
Doctors Are Opting Out of Medicare
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/business/retirementspecial/02health.html?_r=1
U.S. Troops to practice mass gun confiscation in Iowa
Source: Daily Times Herald in Carroll, Iowa.
http://waronyou.com/topics/us-troops-to-practice-mass-gun-confiscation-in-iowa/
Google voice
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/fashion/02voicemail.html?_r=1
Currency exchange controls and Special Drawing Rights
http://www.augustreview.com/news_commentary/global_banking/special_alert-looming_u.s._exchange_controls_20090330116/
Several Clay County officials arrested on federal charges
http://www.wlextv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10037216
Developing brains: alcohol worse than marijuana
http://www.physorg.com/news157280425.html
Which states are worst for personal freedom?
New Hampshire, South Dakota, Colorado rank best
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91539
Famine in Russia
http://www.ralphmag.org/famineZO.html
http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-304090.html
Terrorist Bill Ayers may finally be brought to justice
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/936
The death of Latin
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/uttm/main4896058.shtml
Marijuana ingredient may reduce tumours-study
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/04/01/marijuana-ingredient-may-reduce-tumours-study/
Martial-law gun rights bill passes Idaho House
http://freedomfighterradio.net/?p=5725
There goes the dollar
Geithner "open" to China currency proposal
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0309/Geithner_open_to_China_proposal.html?showall
States consider drug tests for welfare recipients
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090326/ap_on_bi_ge/states_welfare_with_strings/print
Blundering suicide bomber blows up 6 militants
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSISL330182
No citations for giving the finger to police, judge says
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09083/957786-85.stm
Irony in Feldkamp family tragedy
http://www.gingiedmonds.com/
Holistic Health Fair at the City Market on April 18 from 11:00 - 2:00
For more info, contact Shirley K Vargas 317-253-9381
Late on a Car Loan? Meet the Disabler
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123794137545832713.html
6. Multi-media corner
Tea Party in Indianapolis April 15th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpKdZrIhSIE
The End of America with Naomi Wolf
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_end_of_america/
Bachmann questions Bernanke and Geithner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9DgMG-_6Ls&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatriotsforamerica%2Ening%2Ecom%2Fvideo%2Fvideo%2Fshow%3Fid%3D2734278%253AVideo%253A57642%26xgs%3D1&feature=player_embedded
Urgent FEMA update
http://www.endtimesroundtable.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10268
Program note: Robert Higgs and Ivan Eland (with Ron Paul) to appear on
CSPAN
Higgs:
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=10300&SectionName=In%20Depth
Eland:
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=10226&SectionName=After%20Words
Why you should never talk to cops without a lawyer
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/342.html
Mayor Hazel
http://videos.komando.com/2009/04/04/mayor-hazel/
Judge Napolitano discusses the Transportation Safety Administration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfYwmXgEE58&annotation_id=annotation_2713&feature=iv
Freestaters in Hew Hampshire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojKOFSh1zqU
7. Quotations du jour
“It is a superstition and an ungodly thing to believe that an act of a
majority binds a minority.” - M. Gandhi
"Now, take the constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy
the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other
hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely
hostile to the existence of slavery." - Frederick Douglass
"There are people, frankly, in Congress, who can't abide the thought
that you might be able to pay for something without going down there and
kissing their ring for the money." - Mitch Daniels
"In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of
ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved
from the necessity of forming opinions of their own." - Alexis de
Tocqueville
"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best
state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
- Thomas Paine
"A non-violent man or woman will and should die without retaliation,
anger or malice, in self-defense or in defending the honour of their
womenfolk. This is the highest form of bravery. If an individual or
group of people are unable or unwilling to follow this great law of
life, retaliation or resistance unto death is the second best, though a
long way off from the first. Cowardice is impotence worse than violence.
The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others,
maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A
coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a
society of men and women." - M. Gandhi
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