September 2009 Libertarian Strategy Monthly

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Libertarian Strategy Monthly Volume 1 | Issue 5

Herding Cats Since May 2009 Tuesday, September 1, 2009

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.” Samuel Adams In This Issue: Pages 2-4 Opinion

Get Your Campaign Noticed By The Media Pages 4-7 Opinion

Iron Pentagon Pages 7-10 News & Analysis

1980 Presidential Campaign Analysis Pages 10-13 News & Analysis

LPMO Chair Address MIAC Report Page 13 News & Analysis

LNC 2010 Updates Page 13 News & Analysis

Website Templates Page 14 News & Analysis

Privacy Alert:

Issue Brief:

From Former Congressman Bob Barr’s Privacy Watch

Excerpted From A Concord Coalition Press Release

August 25, 2009 There are more than one million surveillance cameras in London, England. Yet a recent survey found that their value in solving crimes and catching criminals was minimal, at best. In fact, for every 1,000 surveillance cameras, only an average of one criminal was nabbed – a success percentage of one-tenth of one percent. A British government official noted that the real value in blanketing the city with surveillance was more to “help communities feel safer” than to actually make them safer.

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For more information, please see,

Guest Article

Time To Hit The Streets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi /uk_news/england/london /8219022.stm

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With today’s release of new budget projections from the Obama administration showing deficits totaling more than $9 trillion over the next 10 years, The Concord Coalition said that cost control must be the primary focus of health care reform and called for a bipartisan deficit reduction plan. Furthermore, the administration’s numbers are optimistic when compared to what would occur if we simply extended current policy. The Concord Coalition Plausible Baseline, created using the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) updated projections, shows that current policy would lead to $14.4 trillion in deficits over the next 10 years. “You would have to be in a coma for these numbers not to be an effective wake-up call.” said Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby.

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Opinions of our guests do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Jake Porter or J.D. Porter Consulting.

Get Your Campaign Noticed By The Media Conversing With Jake By Jake Porter

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Libertarians, we know that our candidates do not always get the respect they deserve. In fact, they are often kept out of debates, and sometimes even denied mention that they are even running for office when the major party candidates are allowed to give detailed profiles in the daily newspaper which is read by thousands. We could complain that we are treated unfairly by the media. We could complain that politicians make laws that favor the two major political organizations. It won’t do much to change things and we could get the reputation of complainers which, as was explained in my article last month, not good for votes. On the other hand, we could strive to run professional campaigns and force the media to give us the respect and recognition our candidates deserve. As you may know, I have done some limited work in the media. I have also created advertising campaigns. In fact, many of the readers of this newsletter are here because of our recent Google © 2009 Jake Porter--all rights reserved

advertising campaign. What I am going to share is some of my experiences and research about getting the attention of the media without making you look like a crazy fringe candidate.

J.D. Porter Consulting Business, Non-Profit, and Political Services E-mail: [email protected] www.jakeporter.org

The media wants to report on something that interests their readers, viewers, or listeners. Your 21 point plan on some obscure issue does not sell. What does sell, for example, is that you are launching a statewide radio advertising campaign. That is newsworthy. How to send press releases: 1. Have a single dedicated contact person to distribute the press release. This person should not be the candidate. 2. Determine if the press release will be newsworthy. Newsworthy press releases include announcements of an exploratory committee, announcement of candidacy, announcement of local events to local reporters, and announcements of advertising campaigns. 3. Send it only to news organizations that could benefit from it. 4. If contacted by the media in response to your press release,

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September 2009 answer your phone, or reply to your email as soon as possible. 5. Check for errors including factual, dates and times, and typos. Additionally, have a second person check. 6. Add press releases to your website and have it sent out to those who subscribed to press releases on your website. When sending your press releases, do not just carbon copy every reporter in the state. A press release regarding a campaign event in a small town in the northern part of the state should go to that community and not also to a community in the southern part of the state. Another reason not to carbon copy every report is that it will anger many reporters such as the sports reporter who will not be reporting on your campaign unless perhaps if you pledge to bicycle to each campaign event. Additionally, have a single contact at each news organization. It might really anger someone if they find out another reporter is also covering the same information that you gave to them. And always remember to respect that reporters have deadlines and never make demands that they put your story in the newspaper. I remember when someone told me she demanded a local human interest story be placed on the front page of a local newspaper. The result was that she angered the reporters and I don’t think the story even made the last page. Below is a sample template for a press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date Contact Person

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Page 3 Phone Number Fax Number E-mail MISSOURI COUNCILMAN ENDORSES PORTER FOR LNC SAINT JOSEPH, MO -- Longtime Libertarian Party activist and Saint Joseph, Missouri city councilman Mike Bozarth endorsed the next generation of party activism this morning, speaking warmly of Jake Porter's campaign for an at-large seat on the Libertarian National Committee. "I just met Jake at the Heartland Libertarian Conference in Kansas City this month," says Bozarth, "but he impresses me as a bright young man with a very promising future. I believe Jake has the best interests of the Libertarian Party at heart and will have much to contribute to the party." Porter, of Des Moines, serves on the Iowa LP's executive committee and at the tender age of 20 has worked on a number of Libertarian campaigns. He currently serves as chief of staff to presidential candidate George Phillies. Bozarth, a small businessman, was elected to the St. Joseph City Council in 2006, having previously served in several appointed offices and as a Clarksdale councilman in the

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September 2009 1980s. He's been an LP member since the early 1970s. The party will choose the next Libertarian National Committee at its presidential nominating convention next month in Denver, Colorado. -30about 180 words For more information on Jake Porter's campaign, see: http://www.jakeporter.org. For more information on Mike Bozarth, see: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ Mike-A-Bozarth/14489557141 Create an online media room:

Page 4 served as Chief of Staff to the George Phillies Presidential campaign, Iowa Coordinator for the 2008 Bob Barr Presidential campaign, and worked as Business Manager for the Saint Joseph Telegraph. Today, he is the owner of J.D. Porter Consulting, and is the Alternate to Region 6 of the Libertarian National Committee.

The Iron Pentagon By Dr. George Phillies

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is not a new idea. Successful businessmen have been doing strategic planning for millennia. 25 years ago, it was understandable that the newly-founded Libertarian Party would have done little in the way of strategic planning. It is now 2000, not 1972.

Your online media room should include the contact information for your Communications Director, links to previous press releases, links to positive articles from other media regarding your campaign, high-resolution photos of the candidate, a biography of the candidate, a list of campaign events, your campaign logo, and an opt-in e-mail subscription to future press releases.

This letter presents an example of strategic planning and analysis. The analysis shows some of the things that we need to do for the future. The analysis Your Ad Here! also demonstrates what our national Contact: leadership should have been doing over jdporterconsulting@g the past half-decade mail.com to assist us in achieving the for advertising rates Libertarian future.

J.D. (Jake) Porter, a 2008 Business Administration graduate, previously

The strength of the DemocraticRepublicans is based on a set of interlocking support

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September 2009 structures, sometimes described as the "iron triangle". Support structures are not the voter base itself. Support structures are the things that let the Democratic-Republicans capture and retain adequate voter bases. I'm going to call those structures "The Iron Pentagon", but the need is the same. To compete with the DemocraticRepublicans, to capture a voter base that will let us win major elections, we need the same interlocking institutions that the Democratic-Republicans presently have. What are the faces of "The Iron Pentagon"? • • • • •

Money --- PACs and fundraising supports Ideas --- Think Tanks and Special Interest Groups Press --- Friendly Media People --- Candidates and Incumbents Patronage --- Using Resources to Help your Friends

The book "Stand Up for Liberty" merged PACs and Special Interest Groups into one category. Special interest groups actually provide two very different types of support: financial, and intellectual/emotional. Here I treat these two sorts of support separately. PACs AND FUNDRAISING: Money is the lifeblood of politics. The other national parties -- besides their national committee and state committees -- have a variety of Federal and state PACs to support their candidates. For example, the Democrats and Republicans each have House and Senate Campaign Committees. The corresponding Libertarian Congressional PAC was only formed in 1999. State after state has a long list of partisan PACs. Only in the

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Page 5 past few years do we read of Libertarians forming PACs (under various names) at the state level. Beyond overtly partisan PACs, each of the other major parties is supported by special interest Your Ad Here! groups speaking for specific issues and Contact: groups of people. Special interest jdporterconsulting@g groups do indeed mail.com respond to their constituencies, but for advertising rates many of them function primarily in the context of supporting one of the duopoly parties. The NRA and NARAL are not the National Republican Association and the National AntiRepublican Action League, but their entirely lawful activities tend to lean particular ways. Democratic and Republican supporters of the 1st or 2nd amendments and other special interests can find special interest groups that speak for their causes while funding their Party. To be successful, the Libertarian party must create or capture corresponding special interest PACs that speak for causes while simultaneously aiding Libertarian candidates and state parties. THINK TANKS AND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS: To create a Libertarian future, we must be ready to govern when we win elections. We can mouth vague slogans that DemocraticRepublican solutions are no good. Those slogans don't replace detailed proposals for transitions and sound-bite-length defenses of our proposals. The press

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September 2009 adopts one tone when quoting politicians, and a different tone when quoting spokesmen of think tanks. We need think tanks to supply quotable answers -- and to be sure that reporters know which questions really count. A Libertarian victory will be built in part on a Libertarian spirit of the age, which requires that Libertarian ideas are seen to be coming from non-party institutions of Libertarian inclination, not just from the party headquarters. Many Americans only care about a few political issues. A special interest group that talks about their topics, while giving answers with a Libertarian slant, can be the bridge that leads supporters of the duopoly party across to the Libertarian party. When we create Libertarian Think Tanks and Special Interest Groups, we will gain the benefits that follow from having them. LIBERTARIAN MEDIA: Do we want editorial endorsements for our candidates? Do we want sympathetic (actually, do we want non-zero) coverage of our candidates and campaigns? Do we want the public to hear our think tanks giving Libertarian answers, someday even to Libertarian questions? Press outlets that are open to our directions will be significant for our success. In the last century, many newspapers were funded by a particular Political Party or Faction. Today, many newspapers and television stations can be counted upon to support candidates of a particular bent. The Libertarian Party needs corresponding support of its activities and campaigns by sympathetic media outlets. To get sympathetic outlets, we need to create outlets or to

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Page 6 convert existing outlets to our side. The Internet will pick up part of this burden, but print and broadcast media remain important. A young Libertarian who wishes to pursue an interesting career while at the same time building her party could do worse than to enter journalism. CANDIDATES AND INCUMBENTS: Elected politicians are a source of strength. Incumbents may spend half of their politicking time doing fundraising, and they are far more effective than most non-incumbents. Incumbents are heard, simply because they are incumbents. When one of the duopoly Parties wants to recruit a candidate for U.S. Senate, they have the President of the United States or the Speaker of the House available making recruiting telephone calls. An elected official who is willing to work hard for her party as well as herself, by serving as a spokesman, by inciting activism, and by raising money can make enormous contributions to her party's progress. Never forget: the core purpose of a political party is to elect candidates to office. That purpose requires finding candidates, electing them to office, and re-electing them at later dates. A substantial task for all Libertarians at every level of the party is to incite activists to run for office and to support their fellow Libertarians in running for office. In the end, putting the Libertarian agenda into effect requires winning elections. PATRONAGE: The concept Libertarian Patronage will make many Libertarians uncomfortable. After all, if we are the party of rather little government, there will be rather little patronage to distribute. However, some

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September 2009 patronage is honorary or constructive. Civilian decorations such as the National Medal of Freedom can go to people who have championed the Libertarian freedom ideal. Appointments to advisory panels can go to competent persons who happen to support the entire Bill of Rights and who favor market solutions to complex problems. Furthermore, it is unlikely that we will instantly win a total victory. It is highly likely that to govern at all we will have to accept fractions of loaves at a time, rather than getting the entire bakery on the first day. For example, we Libertarians have the objective of getting the Federal government out of its practice of hiring schoolteachers and building academic administration buildings. While we are a Congressional minority, we will make some progress in this direction, but by agreeing to make less progress in our desired direction, we can bargain to make other changes. Patronage? For example, we could insist in exchange for our votes, e.g., that educational research funds will be preferentially focused toward "individually-designed curricula recognizing the cultural unicity of every child". In English translation, we could make sure that educational research money is spent in ways that benefit our home schooling constituents, as well as benefiting parents who think they can trust the government, rather than only being spent to benefit state schools. We always remember that our long term objective is to shrink government a great deal. However, when money would have been spent anyhow, patronage is arranging for that money to be spent in ways that benefits our side rather than their side.

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MONEY (PACs and fundraising supports), IDEAS AND FRIENDS (Think Tanks and Special Interest Groups), PRESS (Libertarian-Friendly Media), PEOPLE (Candidates and Incumbents), and PATRONAGE (Using Resources to Help Our Friends).

The above analysis is an example of strategic planning. I looked at the issues confronting us, and worked out a piece of what we need to do to build a strong future for the Libertarian Party. A capable leadership of our party would have done this sort of analysis years ago, would have presented its analysis and underlying rationale to our Party's members as a strategic plan, and would have led by example in putting the Plan into effect. The actions of the Libertarian National Committee are on the record. What have they been doing this past quarter century? Are they giving us the strategic planning that our party deserves and needs? Go to http://www.lp.org. Look up the answer for yourself.

1980 Clark Presidential Campaign Analysis From the Archives

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ibertarian Strategy

Monthly has discovered a report from Ed Clark’s 1980 Presidential

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September 2009 campaign that analyzes both their successes and failures. In his Presidential race, Clark received 921,128 votes which was 1.06% of the total vote. Clark received a higher vote total and percentage than any other Libertarian Presidential nominee. We have decided to excerpt a small portion of it in this month’s issue of Libertarian Strategy Monthly. The entire document can be read on our website for free at: http://jakeporter.org/content/report1980-libertarian-presidential-campaign

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7 Potential Campaign Goals Name Recognition You can run for a higher office to establish name recognition for a future run for a local winnable office. Party Building You can use your campaign to build a base of supporters and get those supporters active. Help Down Ticket Candidates

STATE ORGANIZATIONS Growth and development of state Libertarian organizations was one of the areas of greatest accomplishment of the Clark campaign. This was at least as much a result of the overall beneficial impact of Libertarian activity this year as it was the conscious efforts of the national campaign. Nevertheless, certain procedures and innovations were instituted by the campaign which tended to maximize the benefits. One of the ways to measure the improvement is to use the admittedly subjective "key person" test. That is, if one key person were to disappear from a given state, would the Libertarian organization be severely affected, or would there be enough other people already active who would take up the slack? Before the

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When a candidate runs a strong campaign for higher office, local candidates often see the benefits. Ballot Access Would a campaign for a specific office make ballot access easier if you obtained a certain vote percentage? Practice It is impossible to become good at doing something if you never try. Win If you win the election, you have the opportunity to change public policy. Impact The Public Debate Make the other candidates address an important issue.

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September 2009 campaign started, there were perhaps 10 to 15 states where the loss of one key person wouldn't have meant serious problems. By the end of the campaign, the number of states had risen to the 35.to 40 range. Initial Development The Clark for President Master Plan detailed a number of proposals to build state organizations. Most of the details of these proposals - the "How To" manuals are a glaring example -- either were not implemented or were implemented in greatly simplified form. The "How To" manuals, for example, were replaced by periodic memos to State Clark Chairs and other activists on specific points, supplemented to some degree by "How To"-type bulletins distributed by the LNC. Early in the campaign, the national staff prepared a "workbook," complete with dividers, memos, instructions, etc., and sent a copy to State Clark Chairs. One of the sections of discussed various volunteer coordinator functions - media coordinator, special projects coordinator, finance chair, etc. and included a suggested state organization chart by function. While this chart was rarely followed exactly, there was a significant amount of division of labor among key activists in each state as a result of this suggested approach.

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The selection of each State Clark Chair was the first order of business for most states. Wherever possible, the Clark campaign -- working in conjunction with the existing party leadership - tried to appoint a Clark Chair who was not already a state Libertarian Party Chair. This reflected a desire to work with an individual whose primary area of responsibility would be the Clark campaign, without competing pressures, and it also reflected a desire to encourage relatively new people to assume leadership roles wherever appropriate. Not every choice was a winner, of course, but most selections worked out well and there were few instances of conflict between State Clark and State Party Chairs. The three activities which tended to produce real, working organizations were ballot drives, candidate appearances, and literature distribution. Those states which did not have the opportunity to organize for all three of these activities suffered relative to those which did. The campaign initially wanted to set up a structure which relied heavily upon regional coordinators, responsible for blocs of 6 to 10 states. While regional coordinators nominally were appointed for most states, none except two or three were utilized to any degree. The extra layer of management simply

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wasn't needed for this campaign; for the most part, the national staff worked closely and directly with the key activists in each state.

Clark Chair, and Martin Buerger, the Northern California Clark Coordinator. The discussion covered such things as management skills, publicity, and .fundraising, but set as the major goal the distribution of thousands of pieces of Clark literature in each key state.

State Coordinator Program In mid-August, the campaign made the decision to identify, recruit, and hire field coordinators in "key" states, defined as those where the Clark vote percentage was expected to be the highest. The definition of key states was later expanded to include some high-population states where the level of volunteer activity was already high. The key states were: Alaska (Anchorage), Arizona, California (Southern), Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming. In many instances prospective coordinators were identified from outstanding work performances during ballot drives; others were already working as volunteers in their states and were willing to go full-time given minimum payment. All prospective coordinators were brought together, along with several interested volunteers, at a twoday intensive training session at the Northern California Clark for President headquarters in Berkeley. Leading the sessions were Chris Hocker, Eric O'Keefe, and Howie Rich of the national campaign, Carolyn Felton, the Northern California

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Each state coordinator was a real asset to the Clark campaign and in many states to other campaigns as well. Many of the coordinators show promise of becoming extremely valuable additions to the Libertarian efforts of the future. In addition to the coordinators recruited and paid by the national campaign, several other states had full-time coordinators and/or full-time headquarters. A complete listing of states with coordinators and headquarters appears as an addendum to this section. In addition to the Clark campaign analysis, Libertarian Strategy Monthly has found similar documents that we expect to be releasing in future issues.

LPMO Chair Addresses Controversial MIAC Report

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Chair Glenn Nielsen’s written testimony to the Interim Committee on State Intelligence Analysis Oversight is below.

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July 28th, 2009 Missouri House of Representatives 95th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session Interim Committee on State Intelligence Analysis Oversight

the Non Aggression Principal, a core principle of libertarianism.

Chair Dixon and members of the committee,

Where motives were listed for those who committed violence, they were based on racist, antigay, anti-semite, neo-nazi, white supremacist, anti-immigrant or anti-abortion views.

Thank you for conducting these public hearings on oversight of the Missouri Information Analysis Center. First I will speak to the MIAC Modern Militia Movement Report, then make a few recommendations. MIAC Modern Militia Movement Report The MIAC Modern Militia Movement Report chronicled actual cases of violence in recent decades perpetrated by individuals with extreme hateful views. The report went on to make sweeping generalizations regarding political views and political parties who violent extremists might associate with. Including the Libertarian Party and our 2008 Presidential Nominee, former Republican Congressman Bob Barr.

Those who advocate violence are not welcome in the Libertarian Party.

Libertarians are staunch advocates for individual liberties. Libertarians celebrate the individual while ignoring group characteristics such as skin color, race or religion. Libertarians believe you should be free to live your life and enjoy those natural rights and liberties you cherish, as long as you don't harm another individual or their property. And you should allow others that same freedom, even if you don't agree with the choices they might make for their life.

September Calendar September 17 Constitution Day September 27 Samuel Adams, 1722

When joining the Libertarian Party, new members certify that they do not advocate the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals. This is

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September 2009 The hateful bigoted views which motivated the violent extremists chronicled in the Modern Militia Movement report are in direct opposition to the views held by libertarians. There is a strong LGBT caucus in the Libertarian Party called the Outright Libertarians, including here in Missouri. Libertarians hold a wide range of religious beliefs, including Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists and agnostics. Libertarians are more moderate on the issues of abortion and immigration than those on the far right. Personally pro-choice and prolife libertarians can agree on many abortion policy issues. For example, not using our tax dollars to promote or subsidize abortions, something those who are pro-life find morally reprehensible. This is why libertarians have been so outspoken about the MIAC Modern Militia Movement Report. It associated libertarians with violent individuals who's motivations we find reprehensible. In 2004 a known white supremacist filed to run for office as a Democrat. The Missouri Democrat Party denied him access to their ballot. The Republicans said they would do the same. When he filed as a Libertarian, the Missouri Libertarian Party also denied him access to our ballot. In 1996, a

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Page 12 number of militia members appeared on the August primary ballot in St. Louis as Republicans. The report by making such sweeping generalizations could have listed the Democrat and Republican Parties as well. By trying to tie libertarians to these violent extremists the authors of this report demonstrated their ignorance of the Libertarian Party and libertarian principles. Spreading ignorance via this report to law enforcement, who are authorized to use force by the state, is very dangerous to our civil liberties. In addition to increasing the likelihood of our civil liberties being infringed by law enforcement due to political profiling it can have a chilling effect on participation in the political process. Libertarians do not fear coming to harm from an attack by foreign terrorists. Libertarians do not fear coming to harm from domestic terrorists. Libertarians do have a valid concern, as evidenced by the MIAC Modern Militia Movement Report, that they may be profiled by law enforcement for their political views, resulting in infringements on their civil liberties. Recommendations

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September 2009 From the MIAC Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights Policy: "In fulfilling its public safety role, MIAC may actively seek, analyze, disseminate and retain information that is based on criminal predicate, reasonably suspected terrorism nexus, or that which negatively impacts public safety. Such information must be relevant to investigation, prosecution, and/or mitigation of genuine public safety incidents." "MIAC will not seek or retain information about individuals or organizations based solely on religious, political, or social views and/or activities." At a minimum, there should be permanent oversight of MIAC by the elected representatives of Missourians to ensure MIAC complies with its own policies. In addition, MIAC should restrict its operations to hard facts for those who have actually threatened to commit violence and avoid speculation and generalization. Ultimately, libertarians see no need for the Missouri Information Analysis Center. The actual threat to our security does not justify the infringement on our civil liberties.

Page 13 temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Thank you for your consideration, Glenn Nielsen Chair Missouri Libertarian Party You can view the video of Mr. Nielsen’s testimony at: http://www.youtube.com/user/MissouriL P

LNC 2010 Race Updates Region 6 Representative, Julie Fox does not plan to run for the LNC next term. Current Region 6 Alternate and owner of Libertarian Strategy Monthly, Jake Porter intends to run for Region Representative next term.

Website Templates For The Candidate J.D. Porter Consulting has customized a few Drupal templates for candidates to use as their websites. Additionally, J.D Porter Consulting has a few html templates for candidates. Please e-mail [email protected] if you campaign could use a free website template.

To quote Benjamin Franklin, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little

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Page 14 means running for office, becoming an effective activist, planning rallies or becoming an expert presenter on a topic they feel passionately about. LOLA: Conspiring to attract libertarian women into the movement One activist at a time www.ladiesoflibertyalliance.org

Ladies of Liberty Calendar Note: This is about LOLA the Ladies of Liberty Alliance, not the old Kinks song with the same name. From Liberty for America’s August 2009 Issue: Many women involved in the liberty movement have experienced the frustrating feeling of isolation when they look around and realize they are just a needle of estrogen in a haystack of testosterone. The Ladies of Liberty Alliance is a brand new organization working to end that feeling of isolation forever! This September 17th the LOLA ladies will unveil their first project at the Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Valley forge, PA. http://www.campaignforliberty.c om/event/2009northeast.php Sixteen bold, beautiful and brilliant women are spotlighted in the LOLA calendar, each representing an issues that is passionate to them with a focus on activism. For a minimum donation of $25, individuals can support this brand new organization and learn about some of the very active women in our movement. Donations will help the LOLA ladies provide an educational curriculum designed to empower women to be leaders in whatever capacity they desire: this

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Time to Hit the Streets for Liberty By street fighting man Don Meinshausen

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hese are times that try our spirits.

Our liberty is being attacked on almost every front. We now have to stop attacking each other for a while (just a little while). This is just a short list of happenings that could take our message to the activists who have not heard about us. (1) During the August recess many congresscritters are having town meetings. You have seen these events on You Tube become great confrontations on bailouts, socialized medicine and cap and trade. Do your part to make sure that these events are principled, and well attended. Show the 9/12 and other allied groups that we are on their side. Help keep these sessions focused on the issues and peaceful so that they won’t be called off. Bring literature and collect a mailing list. We can find new friends here. What labor organizing is to the left taxpayer organizing is to us. Show the

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September 2009 ACORN and other leftists that they are supporting the banksters and the war by supporting Obama. Hit the fundraisers as well as other events supporting the feudalistic federales. Don’t be afraid of going to ACORN functions and other leftie forums. (2) On 9/12 there will be a huge anti-tax rally in Washington DC. Campaign for Liberty is a sponsor and Judge Napolitano is speaking. The LP is not allowed to be a sponsor because that would mean that the GOP could also be a sponsor and we don’t want that. We need to show that the GOP and the conservatives do not speak for the tax revolt. They have sold us out too many times. We need to be there in large numbers. No, not to assemble as a group but to circulate through the crowd and pass out literature, OPH etc. We also need people to distribute anti-war and anti-drug war literature. We can recruit candidates, donors and activists here. They will remember that we came to support them and they will then support us. Ride with a bus or car pool with them so as to spend quality time to explain who we are and how we can work together. (3) There are many of us who want to run around the streets with black flags. Do not do that with first two suggested actions. If you want to be rowdy and don’t mind getting tear-gassed then here is your venue. On Sep 24/25th there will be a G20

Page 15 meeting in Pittsburgh Your Ad Here! with protests Contact: against the states jdporterconsulting@g running the mail.com world economy. for advertising rates This makes sense even if the protesters don’t. I did all that stuff in the 60’s and the 70’s and I can’t outrun the cops anymore so I have to take a pass. There is also the option of arranging a debate on free trade with the protesters at some nearby university. Hopefully we’ll get some radical Rothbardian to defend our case. In this case the Mises is the Medium. So if the political people can put together a program for our progress this is potentially powerful. If you have more actions let everyone know. Free Online Libertarian Strategy Monthly Subscription! Subscribe To The Libertarian Strategy Monthly Online For Free: Visit: http://jakeporter.org/lsm

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