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by R. Lee Wrights
 “Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual – or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”
- Samuel Adams, in the Boston Gazette, 1781
Every election Libertarians are invariably confronted with the charge that a vote for a Libertarian candidate is a wasted vote. The accuser claims that if you really wanted limited government you should vote for the candidate who has a chance of winning – the Republican. In some rare cases, the assertion may be that if you really wanted to protect civil liberties you’d vote for the candidate who has a chance of winning – the Democrat. And yet, our liberty goes unprotected as government grows unimpeded.
To my utter astonishment, this bogus argument invariably causes some genuine freedom-loving people to betray their stated beliefs. Why do they leap from the Ship of Principle into the stormy Sea of Compromise at the very moment their strength, courage and resolve are needed the most? Only one thing makes a person abandon everything they’ve ever believed in and fought for – desperation, the feeling that all is lost and the best one can do is choose the lesser of two evils. Even telling them that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil doesn’t seem to dissuade them from their decision.
Little do they realize that they have once again been duped by the Wasted Vote Lie. It is a deliberate, carefully crafted fable concocted and perpetrated by the Democratic and Republican duopoly to maintain their stranglehold on power. They cleverly employ the propaganda trick of tyrants throughout the ages; if you repeat a lie loud enough and often enough eventually people will believe it.
The worst thing about voting for the “lesser of two evils” is that it actually has the opposite effect of what it’s intended to do. Winning candidates don’t know, they don’t want to know – and frankly don’t care – why people vote for them. They certainly don’t know and don’t care how many of the votes they got were so-called protest votes. All they want is enough votes to win. They’ll consider all the Continue reading The Wasted Vote Lie
This is a continuation of the LPAR bringing you blog posts by our upcoming speakers at our State Convention on April 8th. This was originally posted at Liberty for All.
by Mary J. Ruwart
As a consequence of the increasing development times, new drugs often enter the marketplace with only a few years of patent life remaining. Consequently, manufacturers had to charge excessive prices for new drugs in order to make up their increasing research and development costs. To counter this trend, Congress passed the Waxman-Hatch Patent Restoration Act in 1984 to extend pharmaceutical patent life. Companies could recover up to half of the time lost to regulatory requirements, as long as their total patent life at time of marketing didn’t exceed 14 years. (Patents generally expire 17 years from the time of issuance or 20 years from date of patent filing, whichever is later.)
The Act estimated the “regulatory review time” as the number Continue reading Congress affirms that regulations account for over 80% of drug development time
The dates for the Libertarian Party National Convention in 2012 have been set. The meeting will be held from May 4th – May 6th 2012. The Libertarian Party will be the first national party to hold their convention in Las Vegas, NV.
According to Paulie Canolie blogging live in New Orleans at the LNC meeting, the location for the 2012 Libertarian National Convention will be the Red Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The vote was 11 ayes and 5 nays.
The Libertarian National Committee is meeting this weekend in New Orleans, LA. Mark Hinkle, the LNC Chairman, has proposed the agenda.
If you will notice, there is a 5 minute section for the Affiliate Support Committee report under the Reports of Standing Committee category. Why is this important to us? Because the LPAR has . . . → Read More: LNC Meeting this weekend
The Libertarian Party of Arkansas purchased 2000 door hangers from the LP along with labels to add our specific contact information on each hanger. These door hangers are available for any LPAR member to use to hang on door, hand out at events, etc. Please send me an email with your address and the . . . → Read More: Get your FREE LP Door Hangers!
This is a reprint from an article posted at Gold America Group by AuGeo.
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What Your National Committee is Doing
by: AuGeo
Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 14:09:50 PM MDT
Forwarded from Liberty for America magazine Our many sources on the LNC send us various tidbits that we believe to be valid:So what did the LNC do last month? They met. There was a long discussion of Green Party vs LP, with no one Continue reading What Your National Committee is Doing
I don’t normally repost these, but since this one hits so close to home in Arkansas with it’s blue laws, I thought this was worth reprinting. – Rodger
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August 9, 2010
Dear Friend of Liberty,
It’s been just over a year since I moved to Washington, D.C. to work at the Libertarian Party Headquarters as Executive Director. What a change from Texas.
In addition to being much closer to the federal government and its constant flow Continue reading National LP Monday Message: Sunday Beer
WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, June 23, marks the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Kelo v. New London decision. Today the Libertarian Party published the following open letter:
We, the state chairs of the Libertarian Party, and members of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), wish to call attention to the fifth anniversary of the wrongful Kelo v. New London decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Susette Kelo and her co-plaintiffs simply wanted to be left in peace in their homes, but the New London Development Corp. wanted their land for its own development purposes, and convinced the Continue reading Libertarians note anniversary of bad Kelo decision
The minutes from the National Convention have been posted at lp.org, for those of you who are interested.
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