[Lnc-business] A little good news
Ron Windeler
rowindeler at aol.com
Wed Nov 26 20:21:40 EST 2014
Last month, in US News and World Report: "Libertarian Party chairman Nicholas Sarwark, officially neutral on the matter, says 'there is a possibility that the delegates in Orlando would nominate Sen. Paul and if they were to do so, I'd work hard to support their choice.'” He doesn't need to "defect" any more than I do when I participate in several parties.
But, don't worry about Rand seeking our nomination in 2016. He won't try, because we have too few votes to be worth chasing, and he needs to distance himself from our party (and his father's policies) to keep conservative voters. The magazine is just trying to stir up trouble by tarring him with rumors of our support.
I don't agree with many compromises that he is making to gather support from conservatives either, but I suggested that bill because, just by Congress considering the question, the warfare/welfare state would be weakened. My bill was designed to be a sheep in wolves' clothing. The unintended consequence of you asking him to withdraw that bill is that you are defending the status quo, and helping to keep "the lives of American soldiers at stake"
I'm not worried much by your statement, because 626 likes on Facebook is the only notice that it got on the world stage. Right now, you have an opportunity to make headlines worldwide if you issue a press release something like this:
I urge Congress to defeat Senator Paul's bill to declare war on ISIS. Doing so would reign in our dictator/President's fraudulent "War on Terror" that is really a war of terror on our American values.
A better way to degrade ISIS and win the War on Terror is to stop murdering Moslems. I ask Congress to pass a law prohibiting all acts of war not justified by a Congressional declaration of war.
Moslems are beginning to hate us, justifiably, not because of our way of life, but because we have committed mass murder against them with thousands of acts of terrorism around the world since 1991. If guiding an airplane filled with explosives into a building filled with civilians is the penultimate definition of terrorism, then our President is the most dangerous terrorist warlord in the world because he has ordered thousands of such drone strikes.
The two Authorization of the Use of Military Force passed by Congress only authorize the President to use "appropriate force" to stop terrorism. They are not declarations of war and they don't justify the regime changes, mass murders, or genocide that we have committed in the name of fighting terrorism.
Our fraudulent, immoral, and un-patriotic foreign policy is deliberately cultivating the world terrorism movement and is threatening our way of life. When we invaded Iraq, there were no known terrorists there. President Bush said "Bring them on!" Now there are tens of thousands of them. The Iraqi people (and the world) are much worse off since we "liberated" them from our puppet dictator.
I urge Congress to defend our homeland by stopping the murderers in our own government.
That is an unambiguous statement of a pure libertarian position against the wars. Those soundbites I highlighted will power it into the public media. It will draw attention to Rand's bill, while distancing us from his campaign. But you will leapfrog over Rand's minor effort and make a much bigger splash that could be the beginning of the end of the fraudulent war.
I'm not advocating his bid for the Presidency (in 2020 or '24 - there are rumors that his father may run again in 2016 instead of him) just asking you to "work with him" (and not against him) to help weaken the warfare/welfare state.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Sarwark <chair at lp.org>
To: lnc-business <lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
Sent: Wed, Nov 26, 2014 5:18 am
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] A little good news
Ron,
I have not misunderstood Senator Paul's purpose, any more than I've
misunderstood Charlie Rangel's periodic bills to reinstate the draft.
Both are gambits played with the lives of American soldiers at stake.
Both are political moves that are carefully designed.
Senator Paul has done good work on criminal justice issues with
Senator Booker to reduce the draconian Federal penalties for drug
crimes. I applaud that work and would be happy to work with him on
similar issues. But he also opposes marriage equality and Federal
legalization of marijuana and doesn't get a pass on those
anti-libertarian stances.
Senator Paul's purpose is to obtain the Republican nomination for the
Presidency. The Republican Party is a competitor of the Libertarian
Party. My purpose is to build up the Libertarian Party, support the
state affiliates of the Libertarian Party, and support Libertarian
candidates. Unless I missed the news that Senator Paul has defected
to the Libertarian Party, his purpose is not my purpose.
-Nick
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Ron Windeler <rowindeler at aol.com> wrote:
> Nick,
> With regard of your open letter, I’m afraid that you have
> misunderstood Rand’s purposes in proposing a declaration of war against
> ISIS. Nobody, including the Senator, expects his bill to pass. The fact
> that Congress will choose not to officially declare war will make it more
> difficult for The Powers That Be to wage illegal wars by Presidential
> decrees. The inevitable defeat of his bill will be a victory for liberty.
> Of course, the illegal wars will continue, but they will be constrained
> somewhat by his action. The most likely reaction will be for Congress to
> pass a third Authorization for the Use of Military Force. The resulting
> AUMF won’t be so much of a blank check as the previous ones were. It will
> likely include some restrictions similar to his that might not have been
> included when and if they eventually got around to passing such a bill.
> Even if his bill accidentally passes, the situation would be improved
> somewhat by the limits he included. (ingenious innovation: the limited
> declaration of war) Whether his bill passes, or just prompts another AUMF,
> it would deter future Presidents from taking similar actions without first
> consulting Congress.
> I suggested this idea to him, just as I persuaded his father to submit a
> similar bill in 2002. When Congressman Paul submitted my bill to declare
> war on Iraq to a Congressional subcommittee, they refused to consider it and
> said, in the Congressional Record, that they didn’t need a formal
> declaration because the Constitution was no longer valid.
> Ron used those quotes to raise so much money from conservatives that he was
> able to wage his campaign for the Presidency and start Campaign for Liberty.
> I suspect that Rand will get more mileage out of this issue than his father
> got.
> It will improve his standing with conservatives who couldn’t stomach his
> father’s overt anti-war stance. And it will either result in his nomination
> for Vice President, or strengthen his position in the Senate as a leader for
> change. In no way can it hurt the cause for liberty.
> Please don’t interfere with reformers plans just because they aren’t
> perfect. Propose some more perfect plans instead.
> The simple way to win the war on terror is to stop killing Moslems.
> Identify the real bad guys, cut off their funding, and bring them to
> justice. Then pay restitution to the victims of American wrongdoing.
> I suggest that you should call for a bill to deny funding to any individual,
> organization, state, or allied organization that has practiced beheading as
> a punishment for any crime since WWII. Besides stopping funding for ISIS
> allies in Syria and Iraq, and ending most of the war on terror, it would
> deny aid to Saudi Arabia, Thailand, France, and Germany.
> If you want to see real videos of beheadings, Google “Saudi Arabian
> beheadings.” That’s the way our “friends”, the real radical Arabs, do
> beheadings, not with rubber stage knives in faked Youtube videos. ISIS,
> like al Qaeda before it, is just another CIA front organization, but with
> slightly better propaganda production values.
> Another libertarian and Constitutional bill to propose would be a Letter of
> Marque and Reprisal against the young dictator and his supporters in North
> Korea, authorizing their military, or anyone else to effect a regime change
> by rendering the criminals (who have really threatened America with nuclear
> attack) to justice in South Korea. Such a bill would require a pledge from
> the South Korean government to accept all North Korean military personnel
> who cooperate into the South Korean military with rank and pay preserved.
> (Justice could be carried out later) A reunited Korea would bring peace to
> the peninsula after sixty years and bring prosperity to people who have
> suffered for too long.
> A bill proposing sanctions against all nations who develop nuclear weapon
> outside of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty would expose our close
> allies of Israel, India, and Pakistan, along with North Korea as being far
> greater threats to our security than Iran.
> The President of the United States has authorized the majority of acts of
> terrorism (violence or the threat of violence against civilians for the
> purpose of causing political change) committed since 1991.
> The current President, and all recent Presidents, should be charged or
> impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors including murder, mass murder,
> genocide, ethnic cleansing, and religious persecution for their criminal,
> immoral, un-American actions in furthering the fraudulent war on terror,
> which is really a war of terrorism against our American values. The AUMF
> only authorizes the President to use "appropriate force" to fight terrorism,
> not regime change, murder, genocide, or acts of terrorism.
> The Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be ended with my four state solution
> that includes Jerusalem as an international religious city state (as
> dictated by the United Nations in 1948), and Gaza as a separate state from
> Palestine. Palestinian territory could be under a protectorate of Jordan
> until they establish a stable nation. Israel deserves defensible borders
> much smaller than they currently control.
> The Iraq problem could be solved by disbanding the puppet democracy forced
> on them by America. The American people have no interest in preserving
> that corrupt and failing pseudo government.
> It and the American military, are directly responsible for the rise of ISIS
> in its territories. The Baath party, which we illegally and immorally
> overthrew, was the legitimate government that had kept the radical Islamic
> terrorists under control since the withdrawal of the British Empire. When
> we left, the Baaths came back into power, but with radical overtones.
> The Kurdish areas should be placed under Turkish protectorate status with
> the directive that they form a new nation in the Kurdish regions of Turkey,
> Iran, and Iraq. The Shiite regions of Iraq should be under a protectorate
> of Iran with the same goal of creating a new nation. The Sunni regions of
> Iraq should be under a protective of Kuwait or Jordan.
> In a similar fashion, Pakistan should establish a protectorate of the
> Pashtun regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the goal of creating
> greater Pashtunistan (or whatever they want to call their nation) The rest
> of the non-nation of Afghanistan should be given a United Nations
> administered plebiscite to determine whether they want to be part of a rump
> Afghanistan or rejoin with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, or Paraguay.
> In each region where borders are readjusted, they need an independent
> charitable real estate agency to allow people to move equitably to the
> territory where they are welcome. With appropriate borders between ethnic
> groups, most conflicts would be ended. The United States could bring this
> about using peacekeepers from neighboring countries, not American or Israeli
> forces.
> We should pay one million dollars to the family of every person killed by
> our illegal wars of terrorism against the people of Iraq, Iran, Pakistan,
> The Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, and any other
> nation that we wronged.
>
> Ron Windeler
> rowindeler at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Sarwark <chair at lp.org>
> To: lnc-business <lnc-business at lp.org>
> Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 7:53 pm
> Subject: [Lnc-business] A little good news
>
> http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2014/11/libertarian-party-retains-ballot-access-in-30-states-following-midterm-election-best-ever-midterm-result-for-lp-best-of-any-alt-party-in-100-years/
>
> -Nick
>
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