Aloha.
I believe I speak for all
Libertarians when I state that Libertarians cherish Freedom.
- Freedom from violence.
- Freedom from interference
in your business.
- Freedom from interference
in your life.
- Freedom from oppressive
taxation.
- Freedom from fraud.
Freedom of
Association
Your business is your business.
Your farm, your factory, your press or storefront or fruit
stand. You have the right to your own time. You have the right
to organize your labor with others who share your skills,
or to strike out on your own. No one has the right to restrict
your access into the trade of your choice, nor should you
expect to be sheltered from honest competition. Our government
should neither coddle the incompetent nor hobble the inventive.
Your body and your home are your
business, and unless you threaten others, you should be left
to your innocent pleasures. It has to be a legitimate emergency
for our government to interfere with our lives, to pull us
over on the street, to search our homes, or to lock us up.
Whenever our rights as citizens and as human beings are abridged
for light and transient causes, it becomes more and more a
matter of routine to place the whim of the state over the
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects.
Hard Money
Generations ago, our dollar was
made of silver, and it was huge. Today, in violation of the
Constitution, our government no longer guarantees the value
of our currency. Lyndon Johnson’s debasement of silver
coinage and Richard Nixon’s
repudiation of the gold standard unleashed the inflation that
has savaged our savings and eviscerated our investments for
three decades.
When governments discover the
power to create money from paper, backed up by nothing but
a politician’s promise, they inflate themselves into
poverty and tyranny. As the Century of the Leviathan State
withdraws into history, it is altogether fitting and proper
that we return to the principles that bore this Republic,
and restore honesty and durability to our national currency.
A Secure Frontier
Just as we must organize locally
to protect ourselves from murderers, rapists, and thieves,
we must organize on a national level to protect America from
foreign aggression. The world is perilous, and we must never
neglect the unknown. Whether from a Peoples’ Republic
of Atlantis, or a rogue asteroid on a collision course with
the Earth, we must prepare for all possible threats.
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The
Libertarian foreign policy is simplicity itself:
“Do what you will with your own, and be at peace
with the USA. Trifle with us at your peril.”
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This is a policy of strict self-defense
and non-interference. It is not isolationism, and it
does not mean that Americans may not express their
moral outrage at the atrocities committed by religious and
racist zealots worldwide. It does not mean that individual
Americans would be barred from supporting the partisan’s
of their choosing, or even taking up arms on their behalf.
It means that the American Government must spend American
Dollars and spill American Blood only when it is in our vital
national interest.
Consistent with national defense,
the Federal Government has a responsibility to explore and
to secure the frontier. President Jefferson did right by sending
Lewis and Clark to Oregon, and President Kennedy did right
by sending Apollo to the Moon. We don’t know what dangers
lurk in the heavens – solar storms to disrupt our weather,
stray comets to vaporize our oceans, or massive meteor strikes
to rain ruin onto our cities. We can’t know if we don’t
look, and to dismiss the possibility and refuse to prepare
for danger is suicidal recklessness.
Toward that end, I propose that
America re-establish a permanent orbital presence – a
presence unstained by internationalist sentiments, unrestricted
by internationalist intervention, and unimpeded by internationalist
involvement.
The Responsibilities of the
Militia
Sometimes, when I’m facing
assembled voters who demand to know what I would do about
protecting Kona Coffee, or getting water to Ka’u, or
cleaning up Kahoolawe, I’m tempted to say, “Vote
for me and I‘ll make it rain.” But I can't work
magic, and neither can government.
I’m not selling free lunch
or pie in the sky, we have to work to make this happen.
I address my remarks, after all, to the Militia, and I mean
it. The Militia is us. Every able-bodied Citizen has
a responsibility to protect this Republic and its Constitution
from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It’s an oath
I swore when I served in the Standing Military, and it’s
an oath I’ll swear again as your Representative.
And, it is an oath that Democrats
and Republicans violate every time they bring home another
slab of unauthorized pork. Whenever they propose more federal
aid to local education, federal contracts to local contributors,
or ramping up the hysterical Drug War, they ignores their
oaths of office, and consequently, breach their contracts
with you. They have played us for chumps for generations.
It’s easy to point the finger
of blame at our adversaries, but what of us? Are we
shirking our responsibilities? How many reading this
go about armed? Now, don’t send in an inventory of your
personal ordnance or your standing at the firing range. If
the question were not rhetorical, it would be rude, intrusive,
insensitive, and invasive. Following the highest law of the
United States, the Bill
of Rights, places us in direct conflict with unlawful
restrictions on our right to keep and bear arms.
So don't answer, but take comfort
in the knowledge that it is far safer for you if a would be
attacker knows not whether you have the calibre and the courage
to stand him down.
Would that Dave Sanders, high
school teacher in Columbine, or any of dozens of doomed air
travelers of September last had been packing heat, the world
would little note nor long remember the passing of a few dead
punks.
Prelude to the Big Finish
The Federal Government has no
right to intrude into the private or commercial affairs of
honest and peaceful Americans. Unlike my bipartisan competitors,
I promise no federal pork, nor will I invoke personal or religious
vendettas to bind our neighbors to some fictional mainstream
stereotype. The Federal Government’s duty is to protect
our frontier from external injury, to Enforce our Bill
of Rights, and to insure a stable, inflation resistant
currency based on gold and silver coin.
Every election is said to be
pivotal in America’s history, and consequently for the
world. At these moments we ask ourselves if it’s time
to free ourselves from the frauds perpetrated by our bipartisan
government and its willing shills in the press who dictate
that we can vote only for the anointed insiders. Our benevolent
masters tell us what to eat, what not to smoke, how much money
to surrender, and soon, maybe, how often to floss and which
doctors we can see.
Shall we continue to enshrine
Big Government and pretend that there’s a difference
between the Democrats and the Republicans? Shall we reward
them with re-election after re-election after re-election
and encourage them to continue leap-frogging each other in
their race towards socialist tyranny? Should we embrace the
coming dark ages of higher taxes, tighter security, longer
lines, shorter tempers, fewer choices, and more misery?
Or are we done with it?
Some Choice
Too much is too much, and too
long has the tiresome twosome pretended to offer us a choice.
It’s rather like a choice between poison gas and lethal
injection. We can sense that we’re doomed, but we hope
one option will be less painful.
As long as Republicans and Democrats
are re-elected, over and over and over, they will never get
the message. Obviously, I want people to vote for me and for
the rest of the Libertarian
slate, but if you can’t bring yourself to agree with
us more than you agree with the Greens or Constitutionalists
or Aloha Aina, then so be it. There are differences between
Libertarians and the other Independent Parties, and one day
soon we’ll have to have that particular argument. But
not this year. This year we must understand that we don’t
need to endorse our lesser adversaries even as we appreciate
the injury that they inflict on our larger enemies. Every
vote denied a Bipartisan Betrayer is another step towards
freedom.
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I urge you to vote every time
you have the opportunity, and always to vote as your conscience
dictates. Don’t squander your franchise or waste your
time by echoing the instructions of the Advertiser’s
Editorial Board or the pundits on the six o’clock news.
If you never ask for what you really want, you’ll never
get it. If you never vote your heart’s desire, it will
never happen.
With or without your help, America’s
future will be brighter, better, freer, more prosperous, and
just more decent and kind. With or without your help it will
happen. With or without your help this dream will come true.
With or without your help. Without your help it may take generations,
it may take disaster, it may take bloodshed, famine, war,
or pestilence, but it will come to pass.
With your help it starts today.
So grab yourself a vision, roll
the dice, and get on board. Link over to the contributions
page, or check out some of our other Liberty-friendly
links. There is a wealth of choices in how you can help.
We have a lot of hard work to do. The risks are enormous,
but the rewards are richer than any ever achieved or conceived.
Life.
Liberty.
Peace.
Prosperity.
The Pursuit of Happiness.
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