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Here's the truth. If you are neither lower class nor wealthy, or if you prefer an unusual lifestyle, your freedom and your opportunity to improve your life will continue to be under incessant and continuous attack unless a major change is made.
Your Freedom and Growth Opportunities Are Under Attack, not by a tyrannical foreign government like Hitler's or Stalin's in the past, or Saddam Hussein's or Pol Pot's in the present. They are under attack by those good old boys at our capitol buildings, as they ever expand the governments you keep electing or don't bother to vote against year after year. Yes -- the truth is that you and millions like you are the cause of your own ever increasing loss of freedom to live as you please, loss of money to taxation, loss of time to filling out forms and worrying about excessive laws and regulations to obey; and loss of free market solutions for many societal and economic problems, prevented by government restrictions. It's like Pogo Possum's, "We have met the enemy and he is us".
In short, the truth is that almost invariably, Government is the Cause of, Not the Solution to, Our Problems. So when you keep voting for one of the old parties promising you "reforms", you are unintentionally voting to perpetuate and very likely even worsen the problems you hope they'll solve. If they haven't solved them already, why would you believe they will suddenly solve them now? Does a leopard change its spots?
The truth is that, with every month that goes by, More and More Laws Taking Away Our Freedoms are passed by legislators at all governmental levels, each infatuated with power, each seeking the glory of having his name permanently emblazoned on yet one more bill that will take away another freedom from or put another burden on some of us subjects. "Some of us" is the key to their strategy. If all their impositions were placed on all of us at once, they know we'd revolt at the ballot box and throw them out. So they divide and conquer, a strategy Napoleon, Hitler, and other aggressors have used successfully throughout history. Each special interest group uses the government to imposes its agenda on us via lobbying the legislature, and unless it hits you or me hard we may not even notice. Sometimes we may even applaud when it hits a group or class we don't like. But when it hits us, we'll notice and how! Then we'll scream and complain, and plead with others to help us. But of course, those who are unaffected won't notice or care, just as we didn't. Ultimately, like the famous "water drops on the forehead" torture treatment, noxious laws and regulations will keep piling up until many of us can't take it anymore. And that's about where we are now. But most people don't think anything can be done about it, and so they hunker down, inured to the assault of an excessive government, hoping that somehow it will right itself if they just vote out the worse of the two old parties -- the "lesser of two evils" theory. But the truth is the lesser of two evils is still evil.
And the sad truth is that although There Is Something That Can Be Done about it, you won't hear about it through any popular news channels. That something is not voting for the lesser of the two evil old parties like we've all tried to do without success for so long. That something is voting for real and substantial reform by voting in a new party with an old proven philosophy - one with the goal of restoring the philosophy of the founding fathers that made this country great -- the philosophy of individual freedom and personal responsibility. The philosophy of a government small enough to need no income tax - yes you read right - no income tax.
The truth is The Only Party Offering You That Option is the Libertarian Party.
The truth is that around the world today, and historically, Libertarianism is the Solution. To the extent that a country is libertarian, it is prosperous and enjoyable to live in. One only has to observe Hong Kong under transition from a relatively free social and economic system to a system increasingly controlled by the communist government of China, and the exodus of money and people from it, to verify the truth of this principle. Ditto the rise of the U.S.A. and influx of people from 1865 to 1920.
The truth is that most of the federal and state laws and regulations plaguing us would be declared unconstitutional If the Supreme Court Would Read the Plain Language of the Constitution and Abide by It. But that would give them little discretionary power, and they like power. So they "interpret" it. As a consequence, they, and the legislators -- especially the federal legislators, and the President, and the governors, and the other federal and state elected officials repeatedly break their sworn oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution. And although accepting payment for a job which one has contracted to perform subject to a false promise, is purely and simply a felony, they get away with it with impunity. If any of us were to lie to get a job, these same judges and elected officials would have us sent to prison for fraud without a second thought. But not so themselves. So, as strange and bizarre as it may appear, we are all being governed by a legion of unindicted violators of the very same document which legitimizes their power!
The truth is that the Constitution shows that most of this country's founding fathers were libertarians who believed in a very very limited government at all levels, especially the federal level. Those founders would undoubtedly roll over in their graves if they could see how the limitations they thought they had placed on government power in writing the Constitution have been so blatantly ignored and usurped by the passage of almost every kind of law imaginable, decade after decade after decade.
The truth is that the unconsitutional laws being passed that take away far more power and money from you than was ever intended by the founders, have had many intended and unintended harmful consequences, which are aggravated by rules and regulations created by career bureaucrats. Occasionally some of their inequitable or noxious consequences are discovered by reporters and publicized, resulting in a patch quilt of "fixes" that make the laws incomprehensible, not only to the citizens at large, but also to the lawyers, who can not predict with confidence what the outcome will be in court. By contrast Libertarian principles are simple, natural and straightforward. Laws based on them would be more just, and intuitively predictable by most people without a lawyer, so they could conduct their everyday business with confidence.
So, you may wonder, if Libertarian principles are so attractive, Why Is It That You Rarely Hear About This Point of View from the Press? Why is it that most of the press (which the founders had hoped, when they decided to add the First Amendment to the Constitution assuring freedom of the press, would be the vigilant force to alert us to transgressions of the powers given the branches of government by the Constitution) never tell you about the Constitution being repeatedly ignored or about Libertarian principles? The answer again is power - personal power. The reporters and columnists like power too. And the bigger the government they can influence to implement and impose their ideas on us, the bigger the power they wield. And if that isn't motive enough, they don't want to work any harder than they have to; and the greater the power of government, the easier it is for them to find big stories. They only need to hang out at the seats of government power -- the capitol buildings, the white house and governors' offices, the courts, the city halls, and the police stations. So even though they are not directly controlled by the government as in a totalitarian state, they have a vested interest in seeing to it that the government is big and powerful. And to effectuate that scenario, they influence the politicians by spinning the news to control public opinion, including, whether you realize it or not, your opinion. You may be a very smart and logical person, but your conclusions can be arrived at only from the facts and opinions you receive from the media as news and commentary. And by selecting and emphasizing what they will report to you, and slanting how it is stated they are able to lead you to come to the political outlook they want you to have -- to believe that government is the protector of your freedoms and your livelihood, when as operated by the old parties, government is just the opposite for most of us. Even the few reporters who don't like the old parties' ways must cooperate with government sources or risk losing access to breaking news.
But as if the bias of the press weren't enough, the government bureaucracy also enjoys power. And it also has a vested interest in growing a bigger, more powerful, and more expensive government for them to run. The way the bureaucracy fosters government growth and power is very much like the press does it - by slanting informational reports to induce the politicians and the media, and through them, or sometimes directly, the public, to form opinions they want them to have.
Under this constant brainwashing, is it any wonder that despite our democratic elections that give you repeated opportunities to cut your governmentís size and cost by voting Libertarian, the old parties have consistently received your vote? But Just to Make Doubly Sure You Won't Become Aware of Your Alternatives and Vote Them Out, they have rigged the election process to perpetuate their power by making it practically impossible for any other party to get an equal chance to tell you its philosophy and seek your vote. Their method of doing this is three-fold: (1) They make access to the ballot by other parties difficult and expensive with the intent of nipping new parties in the bud; (2) They write laws to funnel tax money to parties in proportion to their private donations, but only if the donations exceed an arbitrary minimum, and (3) Their adherents sponsor TV debates omitting other parties. Thus they magnify the monetary and publicity advantage they already enjoy over newcomers, and starve out the smallest newcomers altogether. In addition, as a further safeguard to their power, they limit donations from any one person other than the candidate himself, to forestall an upstart party backed by a few wealthy advocates (notwithstanding the fact that the press would expose such concentrated backing and attempt to rip apart the reputation of the leaders of such a movement as they did to Perot and the "Reform" Party in '96).
Now You Know the Truth. The old parties are confiscating our money and our freedoms while expanding an ever larger and more burdensome government. Only the Libertarian Party wants to break this downward spiral. But because the media and the bureaucrats feed you information designed to make big government look necessary and good, and because the old parties use tactics that effectively rig election campaign practices to block other parties from reaching you with their message, we members of the Libertarian Party are pursuing the only avenue we have left. We are relying on a truly grass roots political process called LIFE (for Libertarians Informing Folks Efficiently), by personally offering this carefully compiled web site you are now viewing - the LIFE Web Site, as the only practical way to get a full and complete description to you and other non-Libertarians of what the Libertarian Party stands for.
Thank you for taking the time to read about this big problem we all face. I hope it has convinced you that This Web Site May Be Your Only Chance to Find Out Exactly What the Principles of the Libertarian Party Really Are. Please take advantage of this opportunity. It'll clearly prove that you can handle the truth!
Respectfully yours,