This is my newest tattoo, the one I am calling “Freeom: Laws Redefined”. It is a cross made of 2 nails, with an 8 made of 2 more nails. Faith and Freedom are two of the most core ideas to my being – indeed, the intersection of those two ideas is what has driven [...]
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I first met Mike Sabot in early April when I called together a meeting of area liberty lovers to try to begin coordinating the area pro-liberty efforts. In fact, that was the first time I actually met several people, including Donna Driskell and Tom Knighton. I’ve been on Mike’s email list since about that time, [...] I’ve been thinking about some things recently, the subject of a blog post that I’ll be writing tonight. But those things got me thinking in another direction, namely how important an entity’s beginnings truly are. I like reading biographies because you begin to get an idea of how these people came to do everything they [...] This is also from the email series that generated so many of the other posts here at SWGA Jeff so far… Again, the LP-Ga position (under ‘Sexual Rights and the State’) first: Recognizing that abortion is a very sensitive issue and that libertarians can hold good-faith views on both sides, we believe the government should [...] This one needs the setup from the email that kicked off the response: Another obstacle to overcome is the fact that Americans are not used to a third party. Conservatives may agree with the issues and like the candidate, but we are conditioned to think that we are throwing our vote away when we vote [...] From LP-Ga, on ‘Sexual Rights and The State’: We hold that individual rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of sex or sexual preference. We call for repeal of all laws discriminating against women, such as protective labor laws. We oppose all laws likely to impose restrictions on free choice and private [...] Again, starting with the ‘official position’ of LP-Ga from their site, followed by my own thoughts: While all Americans have a legitimate concern about terrorism, we believe that the new “War on Terrorism” is being used by politicians and demagogues to promote extraordinary and unnecessary increases in government power. Most of these powers had been [...] Drugs: Here’s the ‘official position’ of LP-Ga, from the platform page of their website: “We believe the so-called “War on Drugs” is more accurately described as a war on freedom and the U.S. Constitution. It has provided a rationale by which the power of the state has been expanded to restrict greatly our 4th Amendment [...] 
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