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What better day to declare your independence from the corrupt to party system. Declaration of Independence from the Corrupt Two-Party System by Kathie Glass.

The basic precept of the philosophy called "libertarian" is the non-aggression principle: that initiation of force is wrong and should not be used to achieve individual or societal goals. Defensive force or retaliatory force is not prohibited. Conclusions about what is morally right stems from the application of this basic premise.

The political party known as the Libertarian Party attempts to apply this concept to politics. It seeks to work within the political realm to achieve a more libertarian society -- a more free, limited government as envisioned in the Constitution.

Because there are differences in how a philosophy and a political party work, the philosophy (small "l" libertarian) may seem more absolute while the political party (big "l" Libertarian) can be more accepting of a more gradual approach as long as the step or trend is n the right direction.

I am going to be speaking at this event. I would love to have the opportunity to meet you.

Here are videos of two of my recent speeches.

Grand Prairie Standing Together for Liberty

Burleson Day of Resistance

Potomac Redskins, it is.

Ah, the strawberries. That’s where we had them. It can be scientifically proven with mathematical precision.

The post to which I was replying said that Obama was going to campaign to become the next pope (a joke, I am sure, as was my reply).

The first Muslim pope.

I am a Texas attorney who litigated a case like this of starvation in a hospital (result was an over a million dollar judgment). NOTE: I have no interest in taking this or any other case outside of Texas. Here is what you need to know now.
1. You will never get through to this or most any other doctor. He spouts talking points he learned in medical school and that have been firmly reinforced in practice. He does not think nutrition matters, and it is an affront to him for you to think otherwise.
2. You must get your mother protein. Demand to see your mothers blood test results. Look for serum albumin (a measure of protein in the blood and a marker for malnutrition). It will show both the reading for your mother and a range of normal including panic values.
When the body does not get enough protein, it gets protein from its organs. The lung is the largest organ, hence the saying: death by starvation is death from pneumonia. Ensure is high in protein. Glucerna is an Ensure like product for diabetics. They even make a clear liquid product.
3. The persons you need to ally yourself with are the dietitians. Their whole purpose is nutrition. They were taught that nutrition matters. They are used to fighting the stupid games doctors play. Insist on meeting with your mother's assigned dietitian and the head dietitian. Insist on reading the dietitian's notes in your mother's chart. Don't be surprised if she has recommended a feeding.
tube.
Good luck. Your mother depends on you.

"judges decide which laws are constitutional"

Yes and no. Yes, courts are supposed to rule on the constitutionality of laws. But, no, they are not the only ones to do so, and their opinion is not superior to yours or mine. The oath I took did not say that I would support and defend the Constitution "as defined by the Supreme Court."

NULLIFY!

"judges decide which laws are constitutional"

Yes and no. Yes, courts are supposed to rule on the constitutionality of laws. But, no, they are not the only ones to do so, and their opinion is not superior to yours or mine. The oath I took did not say that I would support and defend the Constitution "as defined by the Supreme Court."

NULLIFY!

This is a collectivist idea -- that because some of us owe some others of us, "we" owe it to "us."

I am not owed any of this debt. And I do not believe that I owe any of it. This debt will affect me but I bear no responsibility for it.

Default, I say.

Wickard v. Filburn has been implicitly overturned or at least greatly undermined.

I remember that. Your scarf, it was apricot.

As someone who ran for Texas governor in 2010 as a Libertarian, I will follow this thread closely. Conservatives (who knew about me)agreed that I would be a better governor than Rick Perry but they voted for him anyway. I continue to try to to understand this.

Quite true. That is why I was a delegate to the Republican state convention in 2008 and to the Libertarian state convention in 2010. I reached my "fed up" moment a little sooner that most people on this thread.

I am in SD 7. I shared a stage with Dr. Donna at the Austin Tea Party in 2010 when I was running for governor and she for Lloyd Doggett's seat. She is a classy and dynamic lady. Tell her I said "hello."

January 21, 2013 is the time to start talking “third party.”

I largely agree.

I signed up here as the Libertarian Party candidate for Texas governor in 2010. I have been very restrained in posting on this forum so as not to wear out my welcome. But I read regularly here and find the discussion of "lesser of two evils" and "wasted vote syndrome" within the conservative movement fascinating.

When you get to the point of considering a third party, I will be glad to share what I have learned about that subject. For a quick study, Houstonians can hear me speak at the John Birch Society meeting on April 19th on my plan to save America in Texas using nullification and the Texas Libertarian Party. Or, you can catch my You Tube speech at LibertyFest West on the same subject.

Toward Liberty, Kathie Glass

I fear that I do not have enough time to do this post justice, but here goes.

I hope never to lie. In any event, I stand by my belief that we do not have the leaders we need in Texas in the battle for America. I dispute that Pery has done anything for our Texas sovereignty.

Perhaps in a post-Perry Texas we can talk about what we need to do instead of everything being about what Rick Perry did or did not do. Hard to realize, but there was a Texas before Rick Perry and there will be one after him.

I totally agree that Strauss must go and that Steve Hotze and Norman Adams are big disappointments, to be kind. Bruce Hotze and his mother have been stalwarts in the liberty movement -- I don't know what they must think about Steve now.

The State Guard can be whatever their leader (the Governor) wants them to be. Remember -- these are TEXANS. As it is now, our Governor wants them to be a bunch of doughnut-eating traffic controllers and that's pretty much what they are (many in the State Guard are serious about their service and resent how they are marginalized -- I have heard from them). But they can be so much more (remember, they are Texans) and with very little effort or time. If they need help with uniforms, transportation, weapons, etc., they will get it from the State of Texas, Texans, other Americans, or anybody else who believes in this cause. And those people are legion.

Yes, they are volunteers, but I like that. They only "answer the call" if they believe in the mission. They believe in the mission of securing the border.

How long is boot camp? In a couple of months, my uncle was brought from someone with an 11th grade education to a medic in the 82nd Airborne who died caring for wounded soldiers in the D-Day invasion. If we need to take a month or two to get our act together, we can do that. But get our act together WE WILL, and then things will start to change. As to Arizona's law, I defend the right of any state under the 10th Amendment to defend its border as it thinks best. But I think that my approach is better. If we want to secure the border - and we do! -- then secure it at the border, not after the border has been breached and people have come across and become intertwined in our society.

"where in life did your method work for you? Did your mama teach you to cook or did she turn on the gas and give you a box of matches?" Well, not to poison me with my fellow Freepers, but being a (highly successful) trial lawyer for one. And cooking and raising children for another.

It's not that you don't pay attention to the experience of others, it's that you refuse to accept their approach as the only one or even a good one when the evidence is that it is a sure loser. You take what you can learn from them knowing that we wouldn't be in the mess we are in if their methods worked.

Oh, and my mother tried to teach me to cook, but I was not interested -- until I moved to Texas from Georgia on 7/7/77. When we had our family I had to learn and found that I enjoyed it. I learned about the gas and matches all by myself because Mother always cooked on an electric stove (and of course she advised me about cooking and children by phone).

"It wouldn’t work as Governor of the State of Texas, that’s for sure." We'll have to disagree about that until we can test the theory by electing me governor. ;<) You may see this as a kind of "hail Mary" pass (I don't because I see it as well thought out, logical, and prudent), but the time may come when most agree that a radically different approach is the only thing that will save us.

"what do you think Obama would say if we tried?" Of course, I thought this through, too.

He wouldn't like it and would say really, really bad things about Texas, its crazy people, and that hardheaded, naive lady governor who just doesn't get it that she cannot do what she is actually doing and refuses to listen to people who have been in government since she was playing with dolls and have all told her that she simply cannot do what she is doing. We would ignore him, laugh at him, verbally attack him back, whatever was needed, and keep doing what we were doing.

He would then sue us for a variety of reasons, like he did to Arizona. We would be in much better shape because we would not be enforcing federal immigration law -- we would just be enforcing Texas state law re: trespass and other acts of violence using the State Guard which is authorized by not only state but federal law. But if we lost -- and this is key -- we would ignore it, laugh at it, verbally attack, whatever was needed, and keep doing what we were doing. Because you do not start down this path unless you are determined to see it through no matter what they throw at you. The other side is deadly serious about their goals, and we have to be just as determined to stop them.

A standard phrase in my campaign was: "we are in a battle for America, and Texas is the battleground, but we are not battle ready -- because we have no leaders." That is more true now than then and will be even more true in days to come.