- Upcoming Events
- Libertarianism 101
- Victim's Finger Should Have Been on Trigger Instead of...
- Thank You
- Campaign to thwart government attack on medical privacy
|
- Upcoming Events
-
April 7, 2001 - 6:00 PM
- The Libertarian Party of West Michigan is holding its annual Liberty Banquet. The special guest speaker is Bob Metz, founder of the Freedom Party of Ontario, Canada. If interested in attending, please RSVP with Jeff Steinport. Please respond by Noon on Wednesday. You can pay at the door if you RSVP by that time. The cost per person is $20. The Liberty Banquet will take the place of April's Monthly Meeting.
- Location: Highlander Restaurant in Standale - 4072 Lake Michigan Drive NW.
- Contact: Jeff Steinport Phone: (616) 293-5056 E-mail: jeffs@pathwaynet.com
-
April 9, 2001 - 7:00 PM
- CLARE-GLADWIN LIBERTARIAN PARTY MEETING. Refreshments provided. Review success of St.Patrick's Day Parade, discuss the State Convention and Ballot Access Petitioning.
- Location: MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ROOM 167.
- Contact: Ghazey Aleck Phone: (517) 386-2699 E-mail: ghazey@alecklawfirm.com
-
April 9, 2001 - 7:00 PM
- LP of Livingston County invites you to our monthly meeting. Dinner is at 7 p.m. and business begins at 8 p.m.
- Location: Mexican Jones Restauante, 675 W. Grand River, Brighton, MI.
- Contact: George Sise Phone: (734) 498-3298 E-mail: sise_george@hotmail.com
-
April 11, 2001 - 6:30 PM
- Libertarians of Macomb County monthly meeting. Drinks and dinner at 6:30 PM, business begins at 7:00 PM.
- Location: Miles World Resturant, 17689 Masonic, Fraser, MI 48026, 810-415-4500.
- Contact: Diane Barnes Phone: (810) 774-1625 E-mail: dbarnes98@aol.com
-
April 12, 2001
- The Libertarian Party of West Michigan is NOT having its monthly meeting for April. The Liberty Banquet (April 7th) is taking the place of the meeting for this month.
- Location: -
- Contact: Jeff Steinport Phone: (616) 447-0721 E-mail: jeffs@pathwaynet.com
-
April 16, 2001 - 4:00 PM
- Libertarians of Macomb County Tax Protest Event! Meet outside the post office and distribute literature to the poor souls mailing their tax returns.
- Location: Sterling Heights Post office (corner of Metro Parkway and Van Dyke)
- Contact: Paul Soyk Phone: (810) 977-3523 E-mail: paulsoyk@flash.net
-
April 16, 2001 - 6:30 PM
- Tri-City Libertarian Party of Michigan. 6:30 PM Dinner Club 7:00 PM Guest Speaker 7:30 PM Regular Business Meeting and Election of Oficers
- Location: Howard Johnson restuarant M-81 and I-75 Saginaw MI
- Contact: Clint Foster Phone: (517) 671-TCLP E-mail: cooljay@triton.net
-
April 18, 2001
- Monthly meeting of the St. Clair County affiliate.
- Location: Figaro's is located at 1503 11th Street, Port Huron, MI 48060. TX: (810) 987-3588. Join us for dinner at 6:00 PM. Business begins at 7:00 PM.
- Contact: Richard Friend Phone: (810) 982-7178 E-mail: rfriend@advnet.net
-
April 19, 2001 - 7:00 PM
- The April meeting of the Van Buren County Chapter of the Libertarian Party. Everyone welcome! (food will be available at 6:30)
- Location: CT's Restaurant, South Haven (on the corner of M-140 and Blue Star Highway)
- Contact: Mike Dickson Phone: (616) 637-1788 E-mail: free@cybersol.com
-
May 1, 2001 - 6:30 PM
- Monthly Meeting - LP of Wayne County Dinner 6:30pm. Program starts at 7:45pm.
- Location: La Trattoria Restaurant - Dearborn MI
- Contact: Joann Karpinski Phone: (313) 925-6917 E-mail: Momjoann@aol.com
- More
- For more events, see the online calendar at:
- http://www.michiganlp.org/lpmonline/events.php
- Libertarianism 101
An important reminder! Libertarianism 101 will take
place on Thursday (4/5) at 7:30PM at LPM Headquarters (619
E. Nine Mile Rd, Hazel Park). Please come and bring your
non-libertarian friends for an illuminating look at
Libertarianism and the political spectrum.
Back to Contents
- Victim's Finger Should Have Been on Trigger Instead of...
by Press Release
Victim's Finger Should Have Been on Trigger Instead of
TelephoneLibertarians Say
3/27/01
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Tim O'Brien
(313)562-5778
(248) 591-3733
HAZEL PARK. "Begging a 911 operator to please have the
police hurry is hardly the best use of the few seconds you
have when an armed and dangerous person is trying to break
in to your home," observed Libertarian Party of Michigan
chair Stacy Van Oast.
She was referring to the tragic incident on Monday in which
Detroit resident Stephanie Rice and her brother were
murdered by Ms. Rice's former boyfriend -- as she was on the
phone calling for help. The killer then took his own life.
"We can't fault police," Van Oast continued. "Their response
time appeared to be about as good as can be expected. The
simple fact is that the police just cannot be everywhere in
order to effectively deal with a crime in progress. You need
to be able to do that yourself," she added.
"The ones who do bear some measure of responsibility are the
politicians like Prosecutor Duggan and Sheriff Ficano who
promote gun control. They disarm and leave helpless good,
law-abiding people like Ms. Rice on the bizarre theory that
this will somehow deter deranged criminals like the one who
killed her.
"When an angry man -- already known to authorities as
someone with a history of domestic violence -- came breaking
into her home, instead of a weapon Ms. Rice used the
gun-controller defense: call 911. The result is three dead.
And two orphans," she added, referring to Ms. Rice's two
teenage daughters who were at school at the time of the
incident. "And a gaping hole in the lives of everyone who
knew this decent, loving family."
"Perhaps Prosecutor Duggan," the LPM chair concluded, "would
like to give the eulogy for Stephanie Rice. It will be good
practice. If he succeeds in his efforts to overturn the new
'shall issue' law, he will be writing the epitaph for a lot
more folks just like her."
Back to Contents
- Thank You
by LPSC
The Libertarian Party of Shiawassee County would like
to thank George Sise and Matt Dickenson of the Libertarian
Party of Livingston County and Mike Miller of the
Libertarian Party of Mid-Michigan for helping to gather
signatures for our referendum drive to repeal the Owosso
Historic District, which destroys property rights by making
homeowners subject to the whims of a board of unelected
beauracrats.
On March 28, we turned in a little under 1700
signatures, which may not be enough to cover for invalid
signatures. If not, we will have 10 days from the Owosso
City Clerk's notification to make up the difference. We will
keep everyone posted as soon as we know where we are. In
the meantime: George, Matt, and Mike, your help in getting
us this far was greatly appreciated. Call on us when you
next need a hand with something!
Back to Contents
- Campaign to thwart government attack on medical privacy
WASHINGTON, DC -- Americans have less than three weeks
to block a federal regulation that would require health care
providers to turn medical records over to the government --
which could then share them with third parties such as
private marketers, police agencies, and even foreign
governments.
"If this regulation is approved, you can kiss your medical
privacy good-bye," said Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party
national director. "Soon a prospective employer, local cop
or even a nosy neighbor with a government job may know if
you've ever undergone drug or alcohol treatment, had an
abortion or contracted an embarrassing disease."
Dasbach announced that the Libertarian Party has launched an
Internet campaign to kill the regulation, based on the
party's successful effort to derail the FDIC's "Know Your
Customer" bank spying law in March, 1999. Americans can
visit http://www.DefendYourPrivacy.com/ to sign an e-mail
petition asking their Congressional representative to block
the regulation.
By April 14, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy
Thompson must decide whether to implement the "medical
privacy" rules submitted in the waning days of the Clinton
administration. The rules, published in the Federal Register
on December 28, 2000, mandate that every doctor and health
care provider turn patient records over to the HHS and other
federal agencies for "safekeeping" -- regardless of whether
patients consent.
"If you like the way the government protected the
confidentiality of your Social Security number, you're going
to love the way it protects your medical records," Dasbach
said. "The first step toward protecting your health data is
to make sure the government doesn't have it -- which is why
we need to block this regulation immediately."
Dasbach noted that the prestigious American Association of
Physicians and Surgeons is also fighting the regulation,
which the group says would "enable if not guarantee
wholesale invasions of privacy." The organization has lodged
a formal protest against the regulation in a letter to
Thompson, which can be read at
http://www.aapsonline.org/aaps/confiden/hhscounscomm.htm
The regulation would:
* Allow the disclosure, without patient consent, of all
medical records for "public health surveillance activities"
and dozens of other purposes. Providers could refuse to
treat people who refuse to surrender their records.
* Permit police agencies to access medical records without a
search warrant.
* Give the government the right to access the private notes
of a psychotherapist.
* Allow foreign government officials to see Americans'
health records, as long as the U.S. government claims it is
doing it for a "national health purpose."
* Establish a "unique patient identifier" -- a number that
would make accessing medical records as easy as reading an
individual's credit history is now.
* Allow private insurance companies to access the medical
information and compile it into a database.
* Give direct marketers access to medical records, and allow
pharmacies to share prescription records "for the purpose of
marketing health-related products and services" -- all
without patient consent.
* Prevent patients involved in health research projects from
accessing their own medical records.
"If these proposals aren't stopped, your medical privacy
will be in critical condition," Dasbach said. "Fortunately,
there's a way to prevent them from going into effect -- but
time is running out. Go to DefendYourPrivacy.com immediately
and join the Libertarian Party's campaign. Protect your
medical privacy by pulling the plug on these frightening new
regulations."
Americans who visit the site will be able to send an e-mail
to their Congressional representatives urging them to
co-sponsor a House resolution that would block the rules.
The measure, HJR 38, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul,
R-Texas, declares that the rules "shall have no force or
effect."
"Libertarians proved that e-mail is the musket of the 21st
century when we flooded the FDIC with nearly 300,000
comments in February and March, 1999, forcing the agency to
abandon its attack on Americans' financial privacy," Dasbach
said.
"Now we intend to deploy that weapon again to thwart a raid
on medical privacy, and we're all inviting all Americans to
join us. What part of the word 'privacy' doesn't the
government understand?"
Back to Contents
|
|