Trick or Treat
Posted in Tuma's Toons by R Lee Wrights on October 31st, 2007 Archive for October, 2007
Posted in Tuma's Toons by R Lee Wrights on October 31st, 2007 
From tiny tear to the end of fascism
Posted in Walking Towards Liberty by R Lee Wrights on October 31st, 2007 by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Halloween, 1976 was special. I had made princess outfits for the girls, then two and three. They were excited by the promises of sweets to be plopped into their own little plastic pumpkins. Dawn, the oldest, dressed as a small version of Snow White, asked what she was to do when the pumpkin was too full. I told her I would take a pillow case. Pausing, she told me to take two. Dawn remains an optimist today.
Trick-or-Treating was always fun. The kids and costumes always made you smile. But that Halloween we had a special added feature. Mom, that was me, had made special Halloween literature to pass out with the Trick-or-Treat announcement. The kids had that down cold. They had passed out their first literature with their first anti-tax rally the April 15th before.
Our Presidential candidate was Roger MacBride.
Roger was a jolly candidate. The adopted grandson of Laura Ingalls Wilder, he was then often in Los Angeles working on the TV Series from the Little House Books. He had promised to have the National UnVictory Party right there in LA if we got him on the ballot in California. The Party was planned for the old Ambassador Hotel. We all went.
What a celebration it was!
Posted in Doing Something by R Lee Wrights on October 30th, 2007 by Michael H. Wilson
Recently a group of drug reform people had a conference in New Orleans. Now the Libertarian Party of which I am a member may have had a presence there I don’t know, but I couldn’t make it. However, my wife and I did attend a local conference in Portland, Oregon on the issue. It was more of a celebration. And what a celebration it was!
I have been doing politics for some twenty-seven years as a Libertarian. I have been a party officer, flunky and sometimes a candidate. This past weekend I got a chance to see what success looked like.
I spent all day Saturday at a function honoring twenty-five years of work by the Mosier, Oregon based Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse in the field of marijuana legal reform and education. To put it bluntly I am amazed and envious of their success. For most of those twenty-five years they have been a shoestring operation. Holding bake sales, operating on pennies offered up by volunteers and with luck the occasional grant. They have traveled the state, talked to newspapers, radio and television stations. Educated members of the legislature as well as many local politicians and challenged popular wisdom on the drug issue. And they have dealt with members of law enforcement through out the state. They have originated initiatives of their own and helped with those originated by others.
Citizens’ group blasts Hamm for remark about dropping out of school
Posted in Sound Off Soapbox by R Lee Wrights on October 30th, 2007 by CCRKBA staff
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is taking issue with a crass remark by Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, in which Hamm contended in a Fox News report that self-defense advocates have no business on college campuses.
Hamm’s remark, reported by Fox News on Wednesday, was, “You don’t like the fact that you can’t have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school.”
CCRKBA Executive Director Mark A. Taff, himself a part-time college student, fired back, “For a fairly bright, though philosophically misguided guy, Peter said a remarkably stupid thing and he ought to apologize to every college student who believes that their right of self-defense should not be nullified simply by stepping onto a college campus.”
Phillies praises Kucinich on impeachment for Cheney
Posted in Stand Up For Liberty by R Lee Wrights on October 29th, 2007 by Phillies campaign staff
In a surprising statement aired September 27, 2007 on the Ed Schultz radio show, U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said, “I’m seriously thinking about calling a privileged resolution on impeachment of the vice president, and forcing a vote on the floor of the house…”
On April 24, 2007, Dennis Kucinich introduced three Articles of Impeachment of the Vice President to the floor of the House, alleging that the Vice President pressured the intelligence community to change its findings to support the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and to suggest a connection between al Qaeda and Iraq. The articles also accuse Cheney of openly threatening Iran, which posed no real threat to the United States, and undermining national security interests.
Kucinich believes the time has come to force the vote. “We have a government in place right now that we need to challenge,” said Congressman Kucinich. “People have to stand up and say whether they believe in the Constitution anymore, or whether we’re going along with an administration that defies the principles that founded this country…”
The First Amendment is as important as the Second
Posted in Power to the People by R Lee Wrights on October 29th, 2007 by SAF staff
The Second Amendment Foundation today called the arrest of WPLG reporter Jeffrey Weinsier a “First Amendment outrage” that only subsequently focused on a concealed handgun he was carrying “simply to deflect public attention from the fact that Weinsier was arrested for doing his job.”
Weinsier is licensed to carry a concealed handgun, and reportedly does so because his investigative reports have resulted in death threats. He was arrested Tuesday at Miami Central High School while working on a story about school violence, and reportedly charged with trespassing on school property with a weapon, resisting officers, and possession of a firearm on school grounds. SAF has reviewed video of the incident.
Reject authority; or, Who gave you the right to tell me what to do?
Posted in Liberty Rant by R Lee Wrights on October 28th, 2007 by Donna Mancini
“As good as you are, as bad as I am. I am as good as you are, as bad as I am.”
(One of my grandmother’s favorite toasts)
- Donna Gosnell Walker (1893-1974)
The main thing that continues to boggle my mind in life is, even if the dead founders, or current ruling elites, have made “laws” that pass constitutional muster initiating the income tax; business licensing and regulation; gun control; the military draft; prohibitions of alcohol, drugs, trans fats or smoking… SO WHAT? I did not agree to follow any such rules or grant a so-called “representative” control over my life, nor did anyone I know for that matter!
I admit that most people I know think I am nuts. They wonder why I am unhappy with the status quo, which is, in my humble opinion, nothing less than slavery. My critics proceed to give me the old and tired, “Get-over-it-this-is-the-best-country-in-the-world story. The majority of these people have never been out of the region, much less the country.
The Answer
Posted in Dangerous Politics by R Lee Wrights on October 27th, 2007 by Claude A. Bohn
To a question posed to me by Louisville’s “Plain Brown Rapper,” Carl Brown
(With special thanks to my editor, confidant and friend, Alan Handleman)
Democracy sucks! I could possibly manage to work up a pretty good hate for the thing, if I didn’t loathe it so much. There! I’ve said it; so sue me! Just make sure it’s in a common law court. As Paul Simon sang: “I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers.”
DEMOCRACY: “A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them, or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.”
So, what’s the beef? What’s not to like about government “of the people, by the people and for the people?” Well, just this, historically speaking, whenever “the people” of any country come to practice pure democracy, the rule of law goes out the window, along with justice, freedom, common sense and a wholesome respect for those inalienable individual rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence! Reason enough, in my book, to resent the democratic spirit.
Guide to the US Political Lexicon - 2004
Posted in LFA Flashback by R Lee Wrights on October 26th, 2007 by Paul Delacroix
New Democrat–A big government socialist who believes in “Democracy”, whose personal heroes are Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR. Believes in lying, wars of empire, and the “end justifies the means.”
Neo-Conservative–A big government socialist who believes in “Democracy”, whose personal heroes are Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR. Believes in lying, wars of empire, and the “end justifies the means.”
Libertarian- Anarcho-capitalists and numerous squabbling factions of a political movement that is stubbornly anti-authoritarian.
Authoritarian- 99.6% of the American electorate.
Democrat- (see New Democrat)
Republican- (See Neo-Conservative.)
Global warming
Posted in Sound Off Soapbox by R Lee Wrights on October 25th, 2007 by Tom McClintock
Speech given at the Western Conservative Political Action Conference, October 12, 2007
You have extended to me a very dangerous invitation tonight - to speak to a gathering of political conservatives on the day that Al Gore has received the Nobel Peace Prize for discovering that the earth’s climate is changing.
I’ve heard that he’s going to contribute half of his prize money to environmental causes and use the other half to pay his electricity bill. And anything left over will come in handy to help pay for the fleet of private jets that allow him to travel around the world to tell us that you and I need to ride our bikes to work.
You have to admit, there is a certain Helmslyesque quality to it all - “We don’t conserve - only the little people conserve.”
Of course, for those in the liberal elite who jet to environmental conferences in Gulfstream Fives and drive around in Hummers singing the praises of hybrids and bicycles, the Left now sells indulgences - you can actually calculate your sins on-line and they’ll gladly tell you how much money to send them (all major credit cards accepted) to assuage your conscience.
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