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Welcome to the March 2015 issue of the online newsletter of the Libertarian Party of Michigan, the Michigan Libertarian. The newsletter is our main vehicle for sharing what's happening for Libertarians in Michigan. You may manage your subscription by going here or visiting our Website www.michiganlp.org).

From Mary
chair@michiganlp.org

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest— but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." — John F. Kennedy

Mark Your Calendars

LPM Leadership Meeting
Saturday, March 14
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Place: Capitol Area HQ
2722 East Michigan Ave.,
Lansing, MI

No registration necessary. Free refreshments. As far as I know all the people on the LEC are not running for re-election and several major committee chairmanships are waiting to be filled. Some affiliates are looking for active leadership, and we all need good ways to turn names on an inquiry list into active volunteers. We also need a chance to talk about strategies and plan how we can better recruit candidates and engage voters to win races in the next election cycle.

What we’re doing isn’t working and we need a new plan. Let’s brainstorm.

We have a lot to talk about. Please consider attending.

State Convention 2015 “Let’s Grow Liberty”

This year’s convention will be held on Saturday May 9th at the Holiday Inn-W (Western Michigan University), 2747 South Eleventh Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49009. Registration will begin this week.

Prices:
Full Package (Includes Lunch and Banquet) - $65.00 After May 1st - $80.00
Convention + Lunch - $35.00 After May 1st - $50.00
Convention only - $25.00 After May 1st - $40.00
Banquet only - $35.00 After May 1st - $50.00

Special room rate of $105.00 per night single/double occupancy available until April 21st To reserve your room call 269-375-6000 and inform the clerk that you’re with the Libertarian Party.

Convention speakers:

C Michael Pickens will deliver the keynote address. He is the current Chair of the Libertarian Party of Washington and author of the book “Libertarian Leadership.”
Darrel W. Perry an award winning author, publisher and radio/TV personality will be the banquet speaker.

Make sure your LPM or LP membership is up to date to be able to vote on platform and bylaws changes. For those who’ve never been a member of either the LP or the LPM you must join before April 9th. Go to www.michiganlp.org to join or update your membership.

The following is from Vicki Kirkland (an LNC member) about appointments to national convention 2016 committees. Apparently, it's happening at the next LNC meeting at the end of March (this is just for folks being appointed by the LNC, not the state-appointed seats on those committees). So, if anyone would like to apply to the Credentials, Bylaws or Platform committees, they should send their resumes to the LNC secretary (Secretary@LP.Org) by March 14th.

In Liberty,

Mary

By Leonard Schwartz, LPM Political Director

Libertarians' greatest success is in nonpartisan elections. There are 92 LP members currently serving in nonpartisan elected positions; four in Michigan.

Nearly all Michigan cities have nonpartisan elections this November. Here is how to get on the ballot:

1. Contact your city clerk to learn (a) the deadline for submitting candidate paperwork and (b) the number of valid signatures you need. Also ask if you can get on the ballot by paying a filing fee instead of petitioning and whether the fee is refundable. Your city clerk will provide petition forms and an "Affidavit of Identity."

2. Unless you will pay a filing fee, gather signatures from city residents.

First ask friends to sign. Some might also help get signatures. Next petition door-to-door in your neighborhood. Petition only in daylight. Saturday and Sunday afternoons are best. Because some persons aren't registered to vote at the address they put on the petition, get at least 20% more signatures than you need. [Read full column here.]

By Webmaster, Brian Wright

In the bizarro world case of Scotty Boman being a defendant for trespassing on public property—the college where he teaches—after having been the victim of gross police misconduct, the trial continues on Wednesday, March 11, at 1:30 as shown in the image on the right. Please try to attend in support of Scotty for this proceeding that has no logical grounds for not having been dismissed immediately.

The trial started on Tuesday February 24th at 8:30 AM. It continued on Wednesday at 10 AM. Wednesday the prosecution rested after having their witnesses take the stand. Defense witnesses were taking the stand when the trial was adjured to March 11. [It was supposed to be a jury trial, but no jurors were available. The 36th District court just gets the leftovers from the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. There were no left-overs. Scotty had the options of rescheduling and facing another delay, or having a bench trial and getting it done.]

Scotty's FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/scottyboman?fref=ts

Email here: scottyboman@hotmail.com

By Scotty Boman

Brass Roots founder Jon Coon with Brass Roots Michigan activist Mike DeVore displaying the Plaque in front of the Michigan State Capital Building. It was presented at a second rally in 1995. Forty First District State Representative Martin Howrylak has introduced a new bill to get the Brass Roots Plaque displayed in it’s rightful home on the grounds of the State Capital Building.

You may Contact your State Representative and ask him or her to cosponsor or support HB 4240 at: house.mi.gov … and you may also encourage your state senator to introduce or support a Senate version of HB 4240 at: senate.mi.gov

However, the most immediate action that must be made is to move this bill out of committee. To do that there needs to be a committee hearing. Bradford Jacobsen is the Chair of the Government Operations Committee. So it is urgent that he schedules a hearing. Please contact anyone you know who may be in the 46th State Representative District, and ask them to call Representative Jacobsen at 517-373-1798 ( 855-737-2723 toll free) or email him at: BradJacobsen@house.mi.gov

Other Committee Members Must Be Contacted Too! If you are in any of these districts please contact your representative and urge him or her to have a committee hearing for this bill. If you know anyone in one of these districts, urge your friend to do likewise:

• Bradford Jacobsen (R) Committee Chair, 46th District
• Michael Webber (R) Majority Vice-Chair, 45th District
• Andrea LaFontaine (R) 32nd District
• Tim Greimel (D) Minority Vice-Chair, 29th District
• Sam Singh (D) 69th District
• Malika Abdul-Basir, Committee Clerk 517-373-7256

Scotty

Guest Column by Neil Carrick

Dear Friends,

Many of you may know that I spoke at the Wayne County Libertarian Party Monthly meeting on Thursday (2/5/15) regarding Libertarian ideas on marriage and my lawsuit and generally about Religious Freedom.

If you heard my radio interview with Bob Dutko you know that I spoke about my views on marriage as being a libertarian view. It is not simply about a single group being able to marry to me. But that all people should have the right to do as they please in their houses of worship so long as abuse or fraud are not taking place.

I have had people try to drag me down over the same sex and polygamy component, my views on it, my religious beliefs, even discussions on my divorce and churches I have worked for, personal information etc. But when everybody gets to the issue, few disagree that the state of Michigan should not have this kind of power over people.

I hope you support my efforts, I hope you come and listen to what I have to say and I pray you will join me in this effort to change the law or at least the manner in which it is viewed and enforced in this state. Here is a link to my page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neil.carrick?fref=nf
Neil Patrick Carrick 734-469-0122
neilpatrickcarrick@gmail.com

Per the UK Guardian, the Chicago police department in a fully unconstitutional operation authorized at the highest levels of Chicago city government, the state of Illinois, and with federal government complicity, has been running a black prison site for detaining persons arbitrarily where they are held incommunicado for days and often tortured, even murdered. [Keep in mind Illinois is one state west of Michigan, and if you don't know your directions, just face north and west will be on your left. :)] Anyway, this is a significant development, right on our home soil, not too far away. Considering what they're already doing to our Scotty, not to mention Doreen Hendrickson, and hundreds of other freedom people, the knot is tightening. Does anyone expect the various governments to do anything? Nah! Second stupid question: Does anyone expect the mainstream media to be all over this atrocity like white on rice? Duh!

The people must come together and rise up as one against such acts of wanton tyranny. Best practical tool to dust off: Jurybusters! Form (common law or first principles... at this stage it doesn't matter, because it's obvious the state judiciaries are complicit in destroying the Constitution and our liberties) grand juries, fully empower them to bring presentments (indictments of government official crime and corruption), and officers of the court to fall in line to carry out the people's justice. We have a small window, all it takes is one person to petition a judge to get the ball rolling.

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“Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

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Take a stroll down memory lane with this excerpt from one of the longest-running state Libertarian newsletters. Click on this link for the full online version of this newsletter.

Former editor and LPM archivist Greg Stempfle has compiled the entire body of available Michigan Libertarian newsletters up on this page of the LPM Website (most if not all of the newsletters have been transferred over to the new site if you have a particular issue you're interested in and it doesn't show up on the page, please contact Webmaster@michiganlp.org).

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More... For all events, see the full online calendar on the Website:
http://michiganlp.org/?page_id=61. Note for those who do not have online access, please contact your local affiliate representative or call the office at 1-888-FREENOW (373-3669) to get a description of events in your area. The Michigan Libertarian ONLINE is distributed on the first of each month. Send calendar events and news articles by the 25th of the prior month to: e-newsletter@michiganlp.org

 

Note: The final print edition of the Michigan Libertarian is available online at http://www.michiganlp.org/Past%20Newsletters/
Michigan%20Libertarian%2038.2%20summer%202009.pdf

 

The Michigan Libertarian is published/posted on the first of each month. Send calendar events and news/articles to e-newsletter@michiganlp.org by the 25th of the prior month. The Michigan Libertarian is one of the longest-running Libertarian newsletters in the country, debuting in 1973 shortly after the founding of the Libertarian Party of Michigan. The "new" Michigan Libertarian (a predominantly online version) debuted on August 1, 2009 and replaced the weekly LPMOnline and the printed-and-mailed ML.  We will post the newsletter on the Website and deliver via email on the first of every month. A printed version of the new Michigan Libertarian will be sent free to anyone who signs up, which you may do at the LPM web site www.michiganlp.org (or www.mi.lp.org).

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