Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Table of Contents through December 2008

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

“Debt as Slavery” with Jim Capo and Mike Munger on LibertyTube TV

In this episode of LibertyTube TV, Jim Capo talks about the debt-based fiat currency, usury as a root cause of the financial crisis, and the connection between debt and the ancient concept of slavery. There are clips of the crowds gathered outside the stock exchange in 1929 and at a bailout protest on Wall Street in 2008. Michael Munger talks about easy credit and the Federal Reserve system.



LibertyTube TV is produced by Dean Garris and Alex Scholz and is broadcast in and around Chapel Hill on The People’s Channel at 8pm on Mondays.

Permalink to this episode: http://blip.tv/file/1455893

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Wake LP Meetings and Events

If you believe in self-ownership, peace and freedom, the Libertarian Party might be your political home. If you believe government's only role should be to protect our rights - not feed or clothe or house us - if you believe that charity should come from the heart rather than the state, come to a local LP meeting and find out what America's most viable ‘third’ party is all about!

Wake LP Monthly Business Meetings
Regular business meetings of the Libertarian Party of Wake County are currently held on the second Tuesday evening of each month at 6:30 pm at Loco Lu's Coffeehouse in the Oak Park Shopping Center on Glenwood Avenue. All Libertarians are welcome to attend.

Weekly Social Meetings
For casual dinner and discussion with local libertarians, come to Tir Na Nog Irish Pub and Restaurant in downtown Raleigh on Thursday evenings. People begin to gather around 6:30, but if you can't get there until later in the evening, come when you can. The hostess can tell you where to find the group, usually in the ‘Cottage’ until 9:30 or so.

Continue…Triangle Libertarian Meetup
The meetings above are posted to the Triangle Libertarian Meetup calendar, along with weekly social meetings in Durham, film nights, and other events in the Triangle.

LPNC Events
For meetings of the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina, and other LPNC events, see LPNC Upcoming Events.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Letter from Jordon Greene, Founder of North Carolinians for Free and Proper Elections

Originally published on North Carolinians for Free and Proper Elections, November 5th, 2008. Republished with permission.

Dear Concerned North Carolinians:

The 2008 election of November fourth has brought North Carolina several good turnouts. First, Republican State Senator Jim Jacumin, who has expressed his desire to push for free and fair elections and has promised to introduce legislation in the NC General Assembly to do such, won his re-election bid with just under 58% of the vote. The NCFPE will be working with Senator Jacumin as closely as possible to ensure a bill to alleviate the ballot problem is introduced, yet, we assure you that we cannot do this alone. We will need the support and help of the citizen's of North Carolina to make sure our message is heard and acted upon in the NC General Assembly. So be sure to keep checking back at the NCFPE website for updates on the future bill in the NC General Assembly.

Second, the North Carolinians for Free and Proper Elections would like to applaud all of the Libertarian candidates who ran for election this year, and we especially applaud Mike Munger, Libertarian candidate for Governor, who was able to garner 2.87% of the vote (120,890 votes) for Governor and in the mean time guaranteed the Libertarian Party of North Carolina ballot access for 2010 and 2012. His achievement is a great one, that will allow the Libertarian Party of NC to run more effective campaigns in the future by being able to focus their funds on campaigning instead of ballot access. Again, we congratulate the Libertarian Party of North Carolina in their success.

Now that the elections are over, please do not put politics aside and return to life as normal, but rather keep in mind the struggles that third political parties and unaffiliated candidates in North Carolina have ahead of them now, and find ways to help out. With voter turnout for the 2008 elections overall being one of the highest for the state in twenty four years (over 68%), ballot access for third parties and unaffiliated candidates in North Carolina is going to be difficult with our current laws. New political parties will now have to obtain at least 84,430 signatures to simply qualify their party for the ballot, this is over 14,500 signatures more than was required for ballot access in 2008. It is also important to note that these numbers do not include the extra signatures a party will need due to the signatures that the state throws out, meaning that for a new political party to obtain ballot access in 2010 or 2012, they will most likely have to obtain around 121,000 signatures total. So please, keep the problem of ballot access on your mind and make sure that your newly elected representatives in the NC House of Representatives and NC Senate know where you stand on ballot access. Let's make alleviated ballot access and truly free and fair elections an issue that the North Carolina General Assembly cannot ignore any longer.

For Liberty's Sake,
Jordon M. Greene
President, North Carolinians for Free and Proper Elections
*Statistics given above are based on unofficial election results from the NC State Board of Elections web site as of 1:20 AM on 11-05-2008.

For more information on the ballot access issue, some interesting history of ballot access laws in North Caroina, and NCFPE-PAC's draft of a bill to address the ballot access problem, check out the NCFPE website.

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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Election 2008 Summary

This is a list of the articles posted here related to statewide and local Libertarian candidates and their campaigns for the 2008 election. Links to online videos of debates and to local candidates’ websites are included while they are available.

Post-election Commentary

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Michael Munger for NC Governor


Phillip Rhodes for Lieutenant Governor


Candidates to represent Wake County in the NC General Assembly


Bob Barr for President


Christopher Cole for US Senate


Will Adkins for US Congress


Local Candidate Lists


Related Articles

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Post-election thoughts from Mike Munger

"Election Reflections" video from Duke University News

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

NC Libertarians Keep Ballot Access!

Contributed by Darren O’Connor
The Libertarian Party of North Carolina succeeded in getting more than 2% of the vote in the gubernatorial race, thus meeting the state government's oppressive requirement for staying on the ballot for the next four years without having to complete another obscenely time consuming and expensive petition drive!

Mike Munger, Libertarian candidate for Governor, received 2.87% of the vote. Along the way, he managed to spread the message of liberty to all corners of the state. He showed people fed up with the state-sponsored parties that there is another choice.

The Republicans and Democrats have worked for decades to make sure the public doesn't hear other voices. They don't want people to know that there is a philosophy out there that is based on cooperation and achievement rather than coercion and pandering. Now we have a good four years to focus on breaking through the government's barriers to our message and helping North Carolinians get to know the libertarian philosophy–the only philosophy that's built on freedom in ALL areas of life, not just certain select categories. More on that in my next post.

Again, great job by Dr. Mike Munger and all our candidates across the state!

This article was originally posted at ‘No Coercion’.

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Mike Munger takes a dive in the ocean

Mike Munger finishes up his "Murphy to Whalebone" tour of North Carolina by taking a dive in the ocean “for WRAL and WTVD.” See it for yourself in this video.

Update: The YouTube version of this video

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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Third Party Presidential Candidates Debate

The City Club of Cleveland sponsored a debate Thursday between the Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, Independent Ralph Nader, and the Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin. The debate was broadcast by C-SPAN several times over the last few days and is now viewable online as flash video provided by C-SPAN in their video library. There’s a glitch in their video at about 57 and a half minutes, which seems to cause a repeat of most of the debate, so I recommend watching this YouTube found on Bob Barr's campaign website:

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