Taxpayer Tea Party

UPDATE 2: There is a group putting on a Taxpayer Tea Party in Boone on the 15th. We could combine that with the Slave Revolt idea to make them both even stronger. Here is the link to the facebook groups for both:
Slave Revolt: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=71682520571

Boone Area/ASU Taxpayer Tea Party: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=55274866106&ref=ts

UPDATE: We are go for the table. I think as many of us as possible should go down there. If anyone wants to do it again on the 15th in Asheville, I can't do it because of the SLAVE protest going on here, but work on it anyway.

Hey everybody. I got an email from an organization called Freedom Works. They are organizing rallies across the nation to protest the bailouts and government waste of the taxpayer dollars. One of the "parties" is in Asheville on April 15th. Another is in Charlotte on April 4th. I would personally prefer the 4th, since it's a Saturday. Anyway, I emailed the guy in charge of that one and asked if the Campaign for Liberty could set up a table or have a speaker there. I'm still waiting to hear back.

here's the website: http://www.freedomworks.org/petition/iamwithrick/index.html

here's the info I have:

We have a busy few weeks ahead of us here in North Carolina. The politicians are in for a rude awakening as we send them a message loud and clear that we are tired of the wasteful spending, the bailouts and the increase in taxes on the average working family. Enough is enough!

Please join us for the event that is closest to you. We will be holding taxpayer "tea parties" around the state in the next few weeks, and we need YOU to be there to make your voice heard!

April 4th
Charlotte, NC
11:00am - 1:00pm
Marshall Park
rsvp: Allen Page, a.page@mindspring.com, 336-213-1167

April 15th
Raleigh, NC
11:00am - 2:00pm
State Capitol
rsvp: Allen Page, a.page@mindspring.com, 336-213-1167

April 15th
Asheville
4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Buncombe County Courthouse
rsvp: Bill Lack, bill_e_lack@yahoo.com, (828) 253-5709

Garden Symposium

Hey, my brother-in-law and sister, Lucas and Sarah Smith, are hosting an open forum about gardens/related topics, and any and all among you who are interested are more than welcome to come. The format will be question and answer among the attendees, so brainstorm in advance if you have specific queries! There will be a large crowd of people with varied experience, and while the focus will be traditional vegetable gardens, there will be sources with knowledge about other farm skills (from bees to mushroom logs to pigs, etc).

The night is intended for anyone who is interested (or just wants to find out if they are interested) in gardening and self-sufficiency, irregardless of previous experience. You can come with a laundry list of questions, or just come and observe, it's your pleasure...and here are the details:

When: Friday, March 27th 7:00p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Where: The Agricultural Center (the exact room is not confirmed, but there will be signs or people to point you in the right direction).

If you know for sure that you are coming, you can let Sarah know (lucasnsarah@yahoo.com) and that will give her a general idea of how many chairs to set up, but an RSVP is not necessary.

I hope you all can come. Oh, and if you have any other questions, feel free to e-mail them at that address.

Domestic Terrorists

Here's a link to an article about the Missouri State Police Report.

http://www.kansascity.com/116/story/1086524.html

It's definitely some scary stuff..

Liberty Maniacs

If you have not checked out www.libertymaniacs.com yet, then you are missing out on alot of fun. The products and designs are dynamite, albeit pricey. You can customize nearly everything. What are you waiting for??? Go!

Rebel on tax day.

I don't know if anyone else wants to do this, but here is a poster I made for something that I want to do on April 15th. Whether or not the club officially sponsors it is of no consequence to me, but I think other members might be interested.

Liberty Bell Sponsorships and Distribution

I am trying to get some feedback on how everyone is doing with the distribution of our first issue. I've been running around town the last few days to a lot of businesses asking about having a stack of Liberty Bell's and I've been getting shot down left and right. The predominant message I've been getting is that it's too politically bias and many of them said that if they are going to considering sponsoring it in the future we need to provide a more diverse collection of opinions. With that, I was thinking for the second issue that we get a decent amount of reader responses and publish ones that don't share ours. It appears that is the only way we will be able to keep the Liberty Bell going, at least from a financial standpoint. I also spoke with the university about getting some money from them for our club and it's currently under review, I'm pretty sure a couple of us will have to appear before a panel of administrators at some point to get final confirmation on that.

Andrew B

And the 'Tin Foil Hat' award goes to...

"Educate-Yourself.org"
Oh, the name sounds nice. You will be surprised.
Suggested Reading:
Succor Punch (haha... ha.. haahaha or maybe I'm ignorant)
Insights on Aliens
Zeitgeist, Illuminati Critique or Psy-Op?
Peak-Oil (they think it's a joke, yea, oil will last forever)
Global Warming

Actually, if they trimmed some fat from the site, there would probably be some good information there. In its current state, I can't bring myself to scan through the muck to get to the good stuff, honestly.

Common Market is a pretty cool hiphop band out of Seattle. I'm going to see them out there on the 15th. A buddy just introduced me to them, and I've only sampled, but it sounds good.
The song I dig most maybe is thissun' here.

Buy some silver today. Cheaps

Edit:
My President - Young Jeezy
I'm sure Obama appreciates his support.
"My president is black, my Lambo's blue, and I'll be god-damned if my rims ain't, too!"

If you get this, I salute you.

The Liberty Bell

Ok, so after trying to print the publications ourselves, we realized that it takes a very long time to do so. I think we should try to print them with the Appalachian Print Shop. Andrew M., I've been trying to contact you. Will you call or go over there tomorrow to see what kind of price you can get. Andrew B., when we have the prices, we can rework the math. Also, start writing/sending in any submissions for the second edition, as it will be released a week to two weeks after the big release of ed. 1

Peace.

Henny, Caffeine, Green, Nicotine?

So just how are we going to pay back our massive debts to China? I figure we can just sell them some weapons, we're good at making those. Wouldn't it be funny if, once again, we were selling (or giving) weapons to the very groups that intend to use them against us/our interests?
No, it wouldn't be funny.

National Geographic - 21st-Century Slaves

Saw this a bit ago and forgot to post it. There was something on RawStory about the topic yesterday I think.

I, uh, yea.

Illegal immigrants sue Arizona rancher for $32M for "civil rights violations" centered around him holding them at gunpoint when he found them TRESpassing through his ranch. You guys and gals should read this article. This is pretty sad, but I have to assume there's no way they'll get a thing. The guy has turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants over the last 10 years. Wow...

Dallas folks turn in guns for $50 grocery cards. Justification from sheriff's dept? Now those guns won't be in houses for kids to make mistakes with and, "they might have been used in a crime in the future." Who here blames the pen for bad grammar? There are better ways to avoid those things that don't result in a loss of people's ability to defend themselves from harm. Great.

AH WTF!

Dinner and the Documentary

Hey guys, the details for Sunday are as follows: we'll start the first half of the movie right at 2:30 (so you may want to arrive a bit before), break for dinner, then watch the second half. Let me know by Saturday morning if you can come, just so I make enough food for everyone. If you happen to eat an unusually large amount, then rsvp for two people. :)

If you missed the recent C4L meetings and you don't know what this is about, my family has invited you all over for dinner and to watch a stellar documentary called "The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs". It's a crash course history of the area since 1948, and includes interviews with many of the important figures of the conflict: Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Yasir Arafat, Ben-Gurion, King Hussein (of Jordan), Ariel Sharon, etc. It's a very intriguing historical context, and especially so in light of the current conflict.

If you've never been to our house, please don't let that hinder you. You are more than welcome, and it would be great if you would make this your first time. Email me at ixthus01@yahoo.com and I'll send you directions.

See you then!
Hannah

Hope Libertarians Can Believe In

As a believer in libertarianism, I understand that it can be difficult. That people sometimes just don’t care. That some perhaps choose not to see the world as I believe it is. But I see absolutely no reason, whatsoever, to be pessimistic. None. I look at history. I look at what’s happened.

Imagine five hundred years ago, it was not thought people could rule themselves. Self-government? Hah! We need the divine right of Kings. Yet we know this didn’t last. Starting with the Magna Carta, leading to the Declaration of Independence, we established the idea of natural law, of “unalienable rights.” Among them “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Just imagine this: an entire nation founded on principles – the principles of liberty. A nation that I believe has been, and still is, the greatest on earth. Coincidence?

And how could we forget, that at the same time economist Adam Smith was laying the foundations for not only the most prosperous, but the most liberating set of economic philosophy ever devised by man.

Of course these things don’t come easy. Less than a century later Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels laid the foundation of a promise. Alas, this promise resulted in perhaps two world wars and the death of millions through mass deprevation and genocide. Yet these ideas failed. And they failed because they were not on the right side of history: that of liberty, and that of justice.

I look at the last half century, and see the steps we have taken as a people towards ending the ignorance and immorality that is codified segregation. I see the gains the criminally accused have made from the right every man, woman, and child has to an attorney to the growing uneasiness with capital punishment. I see places like Denver, CO ending the prohibition on marijuana. I see the right of a woman to have control of her body protected by the highest authority in the land, the Supreme Court. I have seen this same court rule that individual possession of fire arms is a constitutional right, and I expect soon we will see this same court rule it unconstitutional to deny homosexual couples the right to marry, as has already been done in states like Massachusetts.

Human history can be viewed as nothing but a process of liberalization. I am thankful for the timeless works of von Mises, Rothbard, Hayek and countless others, several of whose works are available in our school library. I’m thankful there is a place where I can go and talk with like-minded individuals about liberty, and I’m thankful this place is just one small chapter of a nation-wide movement.

While every step we take may not be one forward, the marathon our forefathers have run is. Libertarianism is the future because it offers the consistency that people are looking for. It is a flame that burns in us. It burns so strongly that our ancestors fought for it. They died for it. And most of all they simply believed in it. This is why libertarianism cannot, and will not, die. Never again will that spirit of liberty be lost, never will it die. That is why I am optimistic for our future.

Is this real life?

Backs:
Whoever controls the loot, controls the fruit
John Adams, I never trust a guy with two first names...
Why?

Front:
Scary Face

Ha, ok well so I print em by putting the images in ms word, doesn't matter which comes first, edit the margins to 0.18" which is the minimum, then print double-sided, don't forget to select that in the printer options. Andrew might know of a better/easier way so go for it. The slicers in there work well, I'm blabbing.
I'll see you folks tomorrow, and yea, Adam, I'm gonna just bring a crock pot/ask for others' crock pots. You should do the same, otherwise, minimal soup will be cool anyway. Burner=bad idea, I'm not trying to get my brewing equipment confiscated. The rules are clear, and surely enforced.
Later folks.

Really Kellogs? Really?

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