Derek Johnson
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If anyone is interested, I've had some interesting talks with a GOP candidate for Texas State Legislative Representative, Marva Beck. Please feel free to comment or criticize me...I'm trying to be as clear as I can, thanks!
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Hi Marva!
Nice talking to you last night. As for consideration of removing my name from the ballot for District 57, I've CC'd Robert Butler, who is the director of the Libertarian Party in the state of Texas to see if that option is even available. He's not going to like hearing this, but if he reads this e-mail, and understands our negotiation and your commitment, we may all win in the long run. Ron Paul and Barry Goldwater are at the very core of this negotiation.
We have a very interesting situation:
I'm the Libertarian district 57 Texas state rep challenger to Jim Dunnam - D
You're the Republican district 57 Texas state rep challenger to Jim Dunnam - D
Neither of us like Jim Dunnam's philosophy or track record, voting for anyone and everyone the way he wants if they are not present to vote (as the media boldly portrayed for his eternal shame) and together we can't come up with one good thing to say about his ideas other than the nightmare could end this coming November.
We are both Barry Goldwater, Ron Paul supporters....and this leads to this negotiation that I want you to consider, per your previous request. This e-mail will be a record, please read it through and feel free to pass it on.
You stated that you are Republican because you have nowhere else to go, and still be politically viable. Sad, but true, I guess. This shame of Republicanism is in no small part the due to the damage Speaker Gingrich did 1994-96. Something John McManus of the John Birch Society and Murray Rothbard did not leave unnoticed. Also, both Bush white houses were nothing short of an embarrassment in government excess, largesse, overspending, and a massive mound of unpayable debt.
I'll address your issues from your web page one by one with comments:
Anti-abortion
Abortion is murder and a violation of property rights granted from our sovereign God, the God of the universe, the father of our savior Jesus Christ. Government's only role is to defend property rights, and under the 5th and 10th amendment to the constitution of the US, the unborn human is fully and unquestionably entitled to those rights. This, as most issues are, a state issue, and in the state of Texas abortion should and must be considered murder unless there is extreme case: rape, incest, medical reasons....that's about it. Convenience abortion is murder, period.
Second Amendment Rights
Yes amen, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Shall not means shall not, and I find many Republicans a total disgrace for not understanding the "SHALL NOT" part of the 2nd amendment.
Balanced Budget with NO Tax Increase
And I'll add the removal of many government offices, state jobs, welfare programs and regulators that would greatly reduce the need for compulsory appropriation of money from the private sector to the public (taxes).
‘No’ to ObamaCare
This is disgusting, and if there is a compulsory single payer socialized medical mandate (to name one grotesque form of instututional socialism), I opine that the 10th Amendment's legality of secession as well as the 1787 conditional ratification based on reserved secession rights of Virginia, Rhode Island, and New York as a legal foundation of secession from the United States of America (to the Sovereign Republic of Texas in our case) bill or resolution needs to be introduced to the Texas house floor. I'll help you draft such a bill or resolution.
Pass Voter ID
State ID, valid TX driver's license to vote, yes absolutely - an overdue idea, a new so-called "Federal ID" no.
Protect Private Property
This is the only legitimate (ref. Bastiat "The Law") role of government. Government, local, state and federal alike should do nothing but this...as explicitly outlined in our constitution.
Other issues that Republicans have shied away from that sometimes separates mainstream Republicans from "Barry Goldwater - Ron Paul 'libertarian' Republicans":
The 16th and 17th Amendments need a revisit. The state legislatures should again return to selecting the Federal Senators to balance Federal and State power as intended by Jefferson etc. The 16th amendment is a grotesque shame to 20th century America. This is betrayal to our founding fathers, this treason must end now.
The Federal Reserve system needs an audit, and then be tried for theft and treason. The warfare and socialism in the 20th century is entirely fueled by fiat and unbacked paper money. If there were no "Federal Reserve" system, America would still be the wealthiest nation on Earth, such as it was prior to the Fed in 1913.
The 50 billion dollar per year "war on drugs" and larger "war on victimless crime" needs a revisit. It is the responsibility of individuals, families, pastors and small communities to regulate seat belts use, helmet use, narcotics, tobacco and alcohol use, cheese, salt and cholesterol intake (and so on and so forth)...not any form or branch of the state or any government bureaucracy.
Private property, discrimination, and the Civil Rights Act. Rand Paul just took a lot of heat on the Rachel Maddow show for his support of private property rights in terms of "discrimination": specifically white against blacks in Walgreens from bygone eras. We now live in an era of legal discrimination that entirely interferes with private contracts and property rights. There are employers that are told by the government that they must hire a certain quota of certain groups.
This must end, as all forms of government endorsed legal institutional racism and discrimination must end.
.....
Public discrimination is and should be illegal (city busses, public schools for example), but private land, business, and otherwise private property does include the right to legally discriminate, at there own peril. If someone is dumb enough to hang a "whites only" or "blacks only" sign in their shop window....they have every right to do so, and are perfectly within their own right to do so, as well as the full flood of negative repercussions that it will surely bring.
The answer to this and all matters of concern is found in the US constitution, and we must return and submit to the Jeffersonian (as opposed to the Hamiltonian wake of 1787 - which has led to modern leftist collectivism, liberal judiciary activism, judicial supremacy, Federalist--Whig - neoconservative Republican and neoliberal Democrat statism) constitution poste-haste. If you are fully committed to publicly vow that you are a Ron Paul-Barry Goldwater small l libertarian Republican who will threaten Washington DC with succession over the death-march to socialism, legalizing constitution money (gold and silver) to compete with unconstitutional Federal Reserve "Debt Notes", protecting the Texas-Mexico border until we get a handle on what could be 10-20 million people in the US illegally (an invasion), ending the 50 billion dollar "war on drugs" and other similar victimless crime (non 'property rights' related crime), and otherwise reducing government to its only legitimate role of defending property rights...then I will strongly consider supporting you with all my ability, removing my name from the ballot etc.
If you turn your back on these Goldwater-Paul principles in office then I'm the sucker and you will be the betrayer, and I'll make your betrayal as well known as I can, count on that.
If you get to the state house and uphold the constitutional, Jeffersonian, Goldwater-Paul ideology, you will be a hero to me, Texans and well beyond those in Texas. This is the only way the US will even survive. Ron Paul is 100% correct, and many are starting to realize this. Long term, constitutionally principled ideology is the answer...just like Dr. Paul repeats over and over and over.
The future of the Republican party is indeed Dr. Ron Paul as well as his son Dr. Rand Paul, Adam Kokesh, Peter Schiff, John Dennis, Jake Towne, Debra Medina, RJ Harris, Dr. Mike Vasovski...and if you are congruent to this group, Marva Beck.
Please read this e-mail closely and let's discuss our options and your commitment to Jefferson's vision of America's constitutional Republic system of government. I look forward to our meeting this Saturday in Marlin.
Below is a copy of Murray Rothbard's (a hero of mine, John McManus of JBS, and Ron Paul) charges against the GOP he made in 1994 a week or so before the great man died. This is exactly why so many have fled from the GOP.
http://www.antiwar.com/rep/wp_auth.html
also here:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-926049.html
By Murray N. Rothbard
Friday, December 30, 1994 ; Page A17
"E. J. Dionne is wrong in identifying the Republican elites, in particular the Gingrich faction, with the libertarian revolution {op-ed, Dec. 6} . The truth is that since we have been stuck with a two-party system, any electoral revolution against big government had to be expressed through a Republican victory. So it is certainly true that Newt Gingrich and his faction, as well as Robert Dole, have ridden to power on the libertarian wave.
But to speak, as Mr. Dionne does, of "the rise of libertarians as a key party constituency and the centrality of libertarian ideas to many of the party's new leaders" is going a bit too far.
As Ralph Nader -- no libertarian -- pointed out, it took less than a month for Gingrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the others to betray the new revolution by collaborating with President Clinton and a discredited Congress to push through the World Trade Organization, which institutionalizes government management of world trade, complete with punitive sanctions and fines.
Anti-interventionism (smeared as "isolationism") is at the heart of the Old Right, as Dionne mentions, and it is also the source of the libertarian split from the conservative mainstream during the Cold War. Yet, now that the Soviet Union and the Cold War are happily dead and gone, the Republican and Democratic elites continue in lockstep to favor pushing other countries around for their own alleged good, while imposing vast burdens on the American taxpayer. Gingrich and Dole, in fact, criticize Mr. Clinton's foreign policy for not being interventionist enough.
What could be a clearer example of the rift between the Gingrich-Dole-Armey Republican elites and the mass of the American public? The American people couldn't care less about Bosnia or Somalia or Haiti; they resist government-made multinational trade cartels, and they oppose foreign aid. Yet the Republican "conservatives" are at least as enthusiastic as Democratic liberals about these programs.
The same is true on the domestic front. The libertarian Old Right was born in opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. Yet Gingrich has repeatedly emphasized his devotion to FDR ("the greatest figure of the 20th century"), to his statist political program ("the truth is we would have voted for much of it"), and to his legacy ("He did bring us out of the Depression"). Accepting as truth the most damaging anti-capitalist cliche of the century, Gingrich reveals his ignorance of history as well as of economics.
Gingrich's support of the libertarian revolution is, so far, only lip service. His concrete proposals would likely expand the welfare state's burden on the taxpayers, for example, by forcing states to create and operate a vast array of government orphanages and group homes. Instead of being rearranged, spending should be slashed and the money returned to its original owners.
The Gingrichians had petty reservations about the Clinton crime bill, but they enthusiastically supported the dangerous nationalization of crime-fighting functions, which, according to both libertarian precepts and the Constitution, are supposed to dwell exclusively in the states and local communities. And we should never forget that Gingrich advocated a compromise with the president on health care.
Indeed, if a Democrat had delivered Newt Gingrich's acceptance speech, calling on the nation to "reach out together as a family" and promising to right every social wrong, Republicans would have ridiculed him as another Mario Cuomo. But call social engineering the "opportunity society" and it becomes "futurism."
Dick Armey, who in his early years in Congress was indeed, as Dionne says, influenced by the libertarian Ludwig von Mises, has also succumbed. In addition to his vote for the WTO, Mr. Armey has emphasized his strong support for the "untouchable" Social Security.
Social Security, now the largest government program, was also the biggest single tragedy of the New Deal. It plunders income and savings, wastes them in government spending, and then taxes people again to pay for the "insurance" benefits. No libertarian could pronounce this bankrupt and disastrous racket to be sacrosanct.
As Dionne would be the first to understand, though, none of this means the prognosis is hopeless. The Republican sweep has brought to Washington a number of libertarian-minded backbenchers. They will pressure the Republican elites from the libertarian right, reflecting both passionately held ideology and the libertarian mood of the people who elected them.
The writer is S.J. Hall distinguished professor of economics at the University of Nevada, and heads academic affairs for the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala.
Articles appear as they were originally printed in The Washington Post and may not include subsequent corrections. "
God bless - see you Saturday,
*****************************
Hi Marva!
Nice talking to you last night. As for consideration of removing my name from the ballot for District 57, I've CC'd Robert Butler, who is the director of the Libertarian Party in the state of Texas to see if that option is even available. He's not going to like hearing this, but if he reads this e-mail, and understands our negotiation and your commitment, we may all win in the long run. Ron Paul and Barry Goldwater are at the very core of this negotiation.
We have a very interesting situation:
I'm the Libertarian district 57 Texas state rep challenger to Jim Dunnam - D
You're the Republican district 57 Texas state rep challenger to Jim Dunnam - D
Neither of us like Jim Dunnam's philosophy or track record, voting for anyone and everyone the way he wants if they are not present to vote (as the media boldly portrayed for his eternal shame) and together we can't come up with one good thing to say about his ideas other than the nightmare could end this coming November.
We are both Barry Goldwater, Ron Paul supporters....and this leads to this negotiation that I want you to consider, per your previous request. This e-mail will be a record, please read it through and feel free to pass it on.
You stated that you are Republican because you have nowhere else to go, and still be politically viable. Sad, but true, I guess. This shame of Republicanism is in no small part the due to the damage Speaker Gingrich did 1994-96. Something John McManus of the John Birch Society and Murray Rothbard did not leave unnoticed. Also, both Bush white houses were nothing short of an embarrassment in government excess, largesse, overspending, and a massive mound of unpayable debt.
I'll address your issues from your web page one by one with comments:
Anti-abortion
Abortion is murder and a violation of property rights granted from our sovereign God, the God of the universe, the father of our savior Jesus Christ. Government's only role is to defend property rights, and under the 5th and 10th amendment to the constitution of the US, the unborn human is fully and unquestionably entitled to those rights. This, as most issues are, a state issue, and in the state of Texas abortion should and must be considered murder unless there is extreme case: rape, incest, medical reasons....that's about it. Convenience abortion is murder, period.
Second Amendment Rights
Yes amen, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Shall not means shall not, and I find many Republicans a total disgrace for not understanding the "SHALL NOT" part of the 2nd amendment.
Balanced Budget with NO Tax Increase
And I'll add the removal of many government offices, state jobs, welfare programs and regulators that would greatly reduce the need for compulsory appropriation of money from the private sector to the public (taxes).
‘No’ to ObamaCare
This is disgusting, and if there is a compulsory single payer socialized medical mandate (to name one grotesque form of instututional socialism), I opine that the 10th Amendment's legality of secession as well as the 1787 conditional ratification based on reserved secession rights of Virginia, Rhode Island, and New York as a legal foundation of secession from the United States of America (to the Sovereign Republic of Texas in our case) bill or resolution needs to be introduced to the Texas house floor. I'll help you draft such a bill or resolution.
Pass Voter ID
State ID, valid TX driver's license to vote, yes absolutely - an overdue idea, a new so-called "Federal ID" no.
Protect Private Property
This is the only legitimate (ref. Bastiat "The Law") role of government. Government, local, state and federal alike should do nothing but this...as explicitly outlined in our constitution.
Other issues that Republicans have shied away from that sometimes separates mainstream Republicans from "Barry Goldwater - Ron Paul 'libertarian' Republicans":
The 16th and 17th Amendments need a revisit. The state legislatures should again return to selecting the Federal Senators to balance Federal and State power as intended by Jefferson etc. The 16th amendment is a grotesque shame to 20th century America. This is betrayal to our founding fathers, this treason must end now.
The Federal Reserve system needs an audit, and then be tried for theft and treason. The warfare and socialism in the 20th century is entirely fueled by fiat and unbacked paper money. If there were no "Federal Reserve" system, America would still be the wealthiest nation on Earth, such as it was prior to the Fed in 1913.
The 50 billion dollar per year "war on drugs" and larger "war on victimless crime" needs a revisit. It is the responsibility of individuals, families, pastors and small communities to regulate seat belts use, helmet use, narcotics, tobacco and alcohol use, cheese, salt and cholesterol intake (and so on and so forth)...not any form or branch of the state or any government bureaucracy.
Private property, discrimination, and the Civil Rights Act. Rand Paul just took a lot of heat on the Rachel Maddow show for his support of private property rights in terms of "discrimination": specifically white against blacks in Walgreens from bygone eras. We now live in an era of legal discrimination that entirely interferes with private contracts and property rights. There are employers that are told by the government that they must hire a certain quota of certain groups.
This must end, as all forms of government endorsed legal institutional racism and discrimination must end.
.....
Public discrimination is and should be illegal (city busses, public schools for example), but private land, business, and otherwise private property does include the right to legally discriminate, at there own peril. If someone is dumb enough to hang a "whites only" or "blacks only" sign in their shop window....they have every right to do so, and are perfectly within their own right to do so, as well as the full flood of negative repercussions that it will surely bring.
The answer to this and all matters of concern is found in the US constitution, and we must return and submit to the Jeffersonian (as opposed to the Hamiltonian wake of 1787 - which has led to modern leftist collectivism, liberal judiciary activism, judicial supremacy, Federalist--Whig - neoconservative Republican and neoliberal Democrat statism) constitution poste-haste. If you are fully committed to publicly vow that you are a Ron Paul-Barry Goldwater small l libertarian Republican who will threaten Washington DC with succession over the death-march to socialism, legalizing constitution money (gold and silver) to compete with unconstitutional Federal Reserve "Debt Notes", protecting the Texas-Mexico border until we get a handle on what could be 10-20 million people in the US illegally (an invasion), ending the 50 billion dollar "war on drugs" and other similar victimless crime (non 'property rights' related crime), and otherwise reducing government to its only legitimate role of defending property rights...then I will strongly consider supporting you with all my ability, removing my name from the ballot etc.
If you turn your back on these Goldwater-Paul principles in office then I'm the sucker and you will be the betrayer, and I'll make your betrayal as well known as I can, count on that.
If you get to the state house and uphold the constitutional, Jeffersonian, Goldwater-Paul ideology, you will be a hero to me, Texans and well beyond those in Texas. This is the only way the US will even survive. Ron Paul is 100% correct, and many are starting to realize this. Long term, constitutionally principled ideology is the answer...just like Dr. Paul repeats over and over and over.
The future of the Republican party is indeed Dr. Ron Paul as well as his son Dr. Rand Paul, Adam Kokesh, Peter Schiff, John Dennis, Jake Towne, Debra Medina, RJ Harris, Dr. Mike Vasovski...and if you are congruent to this group, Marva Beck.
Please read this e-mail closely and let's discuss our options and your commitment to Jefferson's vision of America's constitutional Republic system of government. I look forward to our meeting this Saturday in Marlin.
Below is a copy of Murray Rothbard's (a hero of mine, John McManus of JBS, and Ron Paul) charges against the GOP he made in 1994 a week or so before the great man died. This is exactly why so many have fled from the GOP.
http://www.antiwar.com/rep/wp_auth.html
also here:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-926049.html
By Murray N. Rothbard
Friday, December 30, 1994 ; Page A17
"E. J. Dionne is wrong in identifying the Republican elites, in particular the Gingrich faction, with the libertarian revolution {op-ed, Dec. 6} . The truth is that since we have been stuck with a two-party system, any electoral revolution against big government had to be expressed through a Republican victory. So it is certainly true that Newt Gingrich and his faction, as well as Robert Dole, have ridden to power on the libertarian wave.
But to speak, as Mr. Dionne does, of "the rise of libertarians as a key party constituency and the centrality of libertarian ideas to many of the party's new leaders" is going a bit too far.
As Ralph Nader -- no libertarian -- pointed out, it took less than a month for Gingrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the others to betray the new revolution by collaborating with President Clinton and a discredited Congress to push through the World Trade Organization, which institutionalizes government management of world trade, complete with punitive sanctions and fines.
Anti-interventionism (smeared as "isolationism") is at the heart of the Old Right, as Dionne mentions, and it is also the source of the libertarian split from the conservative mainstream during the Cold War. Yet, now that the Soviet Union and the Cold War are happily dead and gone, the Republican and Democratic elites continue in lockstep to favor pushing other countries around for their own alleged good, while imposing vast burdens on the American taxpayer. Gingrich and Dole, in fact, criticize Mr. Clinton's foreign policy for not being interventionist enough.
What could be a clearer example of the rift between the Gingrich-Dole-Armey Republican elites and the mass of the American public? The American people couldn't care less about Bosnia or Somalia or Haiti; they resist government-made multinational trade cartels, and they oppose foreign aid. Yet the Republican "conservatives" are at least as enthusiastic as Democratic liberals about these programs.
The same is true on the domestic front. The libertarian Old Right was born in opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. Yet Gingrich has repeatedly emphasized his devotion to FDR ("the greatest figure of the 20th century"), to his statist political program ("the truth is we would have voted for much of it"), and to his legacy ("He did bring us out of the Depression"). Accepting as truth the most damaging anti-capitalist cliche of the century, Gingrich reveals his ignorance of history as well as of economics.
Gingrich's support of the libertarian revolution is, so far, only lip service. His concrete proposals would likely expand the welfare state's burden on the taxpayers, for example, by forcing states to create and operate a vast array of government orphanages and group homes. Instead of being rearranged, spending should be slashed and the money returned to its original owners.
The Gingrichians had petty reservations about the Clinton crime bill, but they enthusiastically supported the dangerous nationalization of crime-fighting functions, which, according to both libertarian precepts and the Constitution, are supposed to dwell exclusively in the states and local communities. And we should never forget that Gingrich advocated a compromise with the president on health care.
Indeed, if a Democrat had delivered Newt Gingrich's acceptance speech, calling on the nation to "reach out together as a family" and promising to right every social wrong, Republicans would have ridiculed him as another Mario Cuomo. But call social engineering the "opportunity society" and it becomes "futurism."
Dick Armey, who in his early years in Congress was indeed, as Dionne says, influenced by the libertarian Ludwig von Mises, has also succumbed. In addition to his vote for the WTO, Mr. Armey has emphasized his strong support for the "untouchable" Social Security.
Social Security, now the largest government program, was also the biggest single tragedy of the New Deal. It plunders income and savings, wastes them in government spending, and then taxes people again to pay for the "insurance" benefits. No libertarian could pronounce this bankrupt and disastrous racket to be sacrosanct.
As Dionne would be the first to understand, though, none of this means the prognosis is hopeless. The Republican sweep has brought to Washington a number of libertarian-minded backbenchers. They will pressure the Republican elites from the libertarian right, reflecting both passionately held ideology and the libertarian mood of the people who elected them.
The writer is S.J. Hall distinguished professor of economics at the University of Nevada, and heads academic affairs for the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala.
Articles appear as they were originally printed in The Washington Post and may not include subsequent corrections. "
God bless - see you Saturday,
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