I urge you and everyone else reading this message who are able to do to become delegates to the 2006 LP National Convention in Portland or at least contact LP News and other libertarian media sources and keep spreading the idea as far and wide as possible. It would greatly assist whoever runs for president in 2008, hopefully Michael Badnarik.
For life and liberty, David Macko ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melanie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Macko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <libertarianpartyreformcaucus@yahoogroups.com> Cc: <Libertarian@yahoogroups.com>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Badnarik 2006" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <badnarik2008@yahoogroups.com>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "George Phillies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [badnarik2004] No National Convention in 2008! >I agree whole-heartedly. DO IT!!! Great points, > David, thanks!!! > Melanie Marshall, > makepotlegal555.org > > --- David Macko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The Libertarian Party should not have a National >> Convention in 2008! >> Now that I have your attention, let me assure >> everybody who is reading this >> message that I am not a neocon saboteur hellbent on >> destroying the Libertarian Party. >> I recommend that we hold our National Convention to >> nominate a presidential candidate >> for 2008 in 2007. >> This was our practice from 1976 until 1996. The >> arguments for the change seemed plausible at the >> time, including more publicity in an election year. >> Since then it has been proven conclusively >> that the establishment media is our enemy and will >> not give us fair coverage. >> The most blatant proof of the media bias is the fact >> that if two presidential candidates had >> been arrested in Russia, Iraq or Iran it would have >> been front page news and covered by all >> the networks. Yet when Michael Badnarik and Green >> Party candidate David Cobb became the >> first presidential candidates in American history to >> be arrested while campaigning, not to mention >> that they were handcuffed and jailed for attempting >> to commit free speech, even Libertarians >> without access to the internet did not know about >> this atrocity for weeks. >> Nominating our candidates a year before the >> convention would give them more time to campaign >> with unified party support. It would make >> petitioning easier in many states with more time and >> less expense for paid petitioners where necessary >> since there is less competition in odd-numbered >> years. >> Now is the time to promote this return to our >> original practice through all available media, >> including LP News. >> >> For life and liberty, >> David Macko >> >> For life and liberty, >> David Macko > > > Cannabis is safer than alcohol or cigarettes. http://makepotlegal555.org > Prohibition has failed us again. > We CAN change our drug laws and free the wrongfully imprisoned! > Drug abuse is bad but the drug war is worse: Law Enforcement Against > Prohibition: http://leap.cc What would Jesus do? Teach Peace! > > Hitting out of anger is assault, and children have a right to be free from > assault. Control yourself: http://www.angermgmt.com > > Conservative driving saves gas. Be a TRUE patriot and help America become > independent from foreign oil. 55 is still faster than a horse! But it would take four days instead of three and a half to drive to Portland from northeast Ohio!! DM > Abortions do kill baby humans; dehumanized only because of where they > live. Exercise your right to choose to wait to mate until you want a baby > and have the time to raise up a good one yourself. > And rapists should be chemically castrated. It's painless, reversible, > and will save countless from so much pain, peacefully! ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpTY2A/lzNLAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/badnarik2008/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
