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Indy Libertarian News
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Libertarian Party of Marion County
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Oct 27, 2009 19:27 PST
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"Don't just stand there. Un-do something." - Robert Higgs
In this issue:
1. (Northside) Indianapolis Libertarian October Meetup is next week
2. Important national LP membership deadline looms
3. A note on Marxism
4. LPMC After Hours: Unelection Edition
5. LPIN debuts LPStuff store
6. Libertarian views, mostly
7. Other news and information you can use
8. Multimedia corner
9. Quotations du jour
And now to the news and views:
1. (Northside) Indianapolis Libertarian October Meetup is tonight
(Wednesday)
When: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:00 PM
Where: Borders - River Crossing, 8675 River Crossing Blvd, Indianapolis
IN 46240
2. Important national LP membership deadline looms
Oct 31 is last day to join the national Libertarian Party or renew your
membership to have your membership count toward determining our state's
delegate allocation for the next national convention (next spring in St
Louis). Now is the time to pay your membership dues.
Visit https://www.lp.org/membership to join the national Party!
3. A note on Marxism and the Bible
From “laborer” at the Indy Star message boards
Acts 11:29 "Then the disciples, every man according to his ability,
determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea."
Acts 4:35 "And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution
was made unto every man according as he had need."
The phrase "to each according to ability to each according to need" is
not a socialist principle but instead is the Christian principle for
charity that has its roots in scripture and is based upon the
commandment to love your neighbor. "(E)ach according to ability"
literally means a scriptural liberal who freely gives away their own
honestly made money or property as charity to chosen ministers in order
for the ministers to distribute it among the needy.
In other words, I - because I have the ability - do freely give / donate
to the appropriate minister a milk cow, for example. The minister in
turn gives the cow to a person in need. This is called charity... the
perfect law of liberty. Charity not socialism is how the first century
Christians stayed separate from the Romans, i.e., by not participating
or accepting Roman benefits or privileges and thus avoiding "in loco
parentis" status to the Roman government. Socialism leads to dependency
on government. Charity leads to freedom from socialism.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckForum&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3ab6d4564b-a6ec-4b8e-bb74-56388809ef99Forum%3a79880248-d3bb-4617-a442-17e53e2a997cDiscussion%3a94d76b37-bdb0-4c2f-bf08-bd233e6fbc36&plckCurrentPage=3&plckCategoryCurrentPage=0
4. LPMC After Hours: Unelection Edition
When: November 18, 2009 from 6 p.m. onward
Where: Shallo's Restaurant & Brewhouse
The Libertarian Party of Marion County welcomes you to a special "After
Hours" event at Shallo's Antique Restaurant & Brewhouse for a night of
food, drink, and liberty. We start at 5 p.m. until everyone leaves. You
are welcome to attend all or part of it.
Shallo's Antique Restaurant & Brewhouse is on Indy's Southside near
County Line Road. When travelling on US-31, look for the store sign
reading Old Time Pottery. Shallo's is right next to Old Time Pottery in
the same building.
For more details and t0 RSVP, go to Free Hoosiers:
ning.com/events/event/show?id=2477119%3AEvent%3A14769&xgi=1Hp28TDJWSRkfV
5. LPIN debuts LPStuff store
The Libertarian Party of Indiana is proud to announce a new way to
support the LPIN! We've partnered with the website LPStuff.com to
produce the Libertarian Party of Indiana store.
Click here to visit the store now!
http://www.lpstuff.com/affiliates/jrox.php?id=17_1_bid_5
Check out the items for sale, and wear your items proudly! Shirts, mugs,
jackets, and name tags all can be great conversation starters that will
enable you to invite future libertarians to our next event! If you are
actively involved, you can order business cards and banners as well.
Purchasing merchandise also benefits the state party financially. By
visiting LPStuff.com through the LPStuff.com banner or LPIN Store link
above, the LPIN will receive a commission.
6. Libertarian views, mostly
Jacob Hornberger on Judge Napolitano's "Freedom Watch" program,
Wednesday 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. ET
Watch the program live on the Internet at
http://live.foxnews.com/strategy-room
A Nobel Prize for showing freedom works by John Stossel
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/10/21/a_nobel_prize_for_showing_that_freedom_works
Are we stuck with the dollar? by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2636
Witness the freest economy: the Internet by Dan O'Connor
http://mises.org/story/3766
The dubious case for a carbon tax by Robert Murphy
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=751.
Wall Street wizards get chance to do it again by Margaret Carlson
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20091022/ARTICLES/910229983/1112
How the federal government obstructed private flood insurance by Eli
Lehrer
http://www.independent.org/publications/policy_reports/detail.asp?type=full&id=36
Big government's war on tobacco by Patrick Semmens
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/semmens1.1.1.html
American idea by Walter Williams
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/10/21/american_idea
Fox Wars by Charles Krauthammer
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/10/23/fox_wars?page=full&comments=true
7. Other news and information you can use
Special election stumps experts
Balloting on schools and hospital has already been unusual
http://www.indystar.com/article/20091024/NEWS05/910240354/-1/frontpagecities/Nov.+3+special+election+stumps+experts
Economic freedom index
http://www.heritage.org/Index/TopTen.aspx
Federal jury finds author of "Cracking the Code" guilty of tax fraud
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091026/METRO/910260410/1361/Federal-jury-finds-tax-protestor-guilty
Judges start nixing foreclosures
http://www.counterpunch.org/martens10212009.html
Swine flu cases overestimated?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/21/cbsnews_investigates/main5404829.shtml
Justice Department: Blacks must have Democrat label to know how to vote
http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=15
ABCs of School Choice
http://www.friedmanfoundation.org/newsroom/ItemAbc.do?filterId=87
Surveillance rankles the British public
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/world/europe/25surveillance.html
Easy money mortgages are still available, from the federal government
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/19/feds-help-feed-new-market-for-easy-mortgages/?feat=home_top5_shared
Tea-Party activists complicate Republican comeback strategy
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125564976279388879.html
Senate passes measure that would protect gays
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204689.html
Wall Street's naked swindle
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30481512/wall_streets_naked_swindle/print
Man shot by deputy after altercation dies (his weapon was a shovel)
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20091022/ARTICLES/910229983/1112
Self-claimed Republicans at a 26-year low
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/10/only-20-percent-claim-to-be-re.html
Ohio joins states declaring gun independence
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2206-Cleveland-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Ohio-joins-states-declaring-gun-independence
8. Multimedia corner
Two Democrats on an escalator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWttKddn_Hw
Climate pranksters pose as U.S. Chamber of Commerce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67LYEacBoE&feature=related
Freedom activist (and Goldwater speechwriter) Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-574553336386396499#
9. Quotations du jour
“The dollar is our currency, but your problem.” - John Connally
"The State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or
moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit
or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be
forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the
strongest." — Henry David Thoreau
"How selfish so ever man may be supposed, there are evidently some
principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others,
and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing
from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." – Adam Smith
"The revenue laws are a code or system in regulation of tax assessment
and collection. They relate to taxpayers, and not to nontaxpayers. The
latter are without their scope.” United States Court of Claims, Economy
Plumbing and Heating v. United States, 470 F.2d 585, at 589 (1972)
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