--Freedoms Walk--
'Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall....
--Bradley Byrne Governor 2010--
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Bradley Byrne was born and raised in Mobile where he attended University Military School. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University, magna cum laude, and his law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law. He practiced law in Mobile for over 25 years, primarily in the areas of business and employment litigation. From 1994 to 2002, he was a member of the Alabama State Board of Education. From 2002 to 2007, he represented District 32 [Baldwin County] in the Alabama State Senate where he served on the Education Committee, the Education Budget Committee, and the Judiciary Committee, and chaired the Joint Oversight Committee on State Parks.
Mr. Byrne has worked for over 20 years to improve education in Alabama and has served on numerous boards and committees to this end, winning a number of awards along the way, including the Phi Delta Phi Outstanding Lay Person Award in 1998, the Alabama Association of School Boards’ Champion for Children Award in 2004, the Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools Legislative Leadership Award in 2004, and the South Alabama Literacy Champion Award in 2006.
He is also committed to conservation and won the Legislator of the Year Award from the Alabama Wildlife Federation in 2005. In his last year in the Senate, 2007, the Alabama Civil Justice Reform Committee honored Mr. Byrne with their Leadership Award. He is a member of Leadership Alabama, the Alabama State Bar, and a Honorary Life Member of the Alabama PTA.
Mr. Byrne was appointed by the Alabama State Board of Education in May of 2007 to serve as Chancellor of the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education, in which role he serves as the chief executive officer of Alabama’s two-year college system. The Alabama College System includes 21 community colleges, four technical colleges, Marion Military Institute, Athens State University, the Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute, and the Alabama Technology Network. With a total budget of nearly $1 billion, the Alabama College System served more than 300,000 people in the 2005-06 academic year.
In his role as Chancellor, Mr. Byrne also serves as Chairman of the State Workforce Planning Council. In that role he oversees all of Alabama’s workforce development efforts.
He is married to the former Rebecca Dukes of Montgomery, and they are the parents of four children: Patrick, Kathleen, Laura, and Colin. Mr. Byrne lives in Fairhope where he attends St. James Episcopal Church.
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--NO TOLERANCE FOR PUBLIC CORRUPTION--
Human nature being what it is, politicians of all parties and persuasions are going to violate laws and be corrupted by power. When Republicans are duly charged with crimes, their fellow Republicans must resist the temptation to circle the wagons around their friends and professional colleagues. We must make it clear that while no party is unblemished by corruption, the ALGOP shall be known as the party that won't tolerate, facilitate or apologize for it once it comes to light.
Nothing showcases the lack of accountability and corruption in state government quite as well as Alabama’s two year college system. It's one gigantic taxpayer funded shell corporation where political favors and "good-ol-boy" patronage are bought, sold, and traded--and a fine "gravy train" for political insiders. Alabama’s two year college system is a perfect illustration of the "cancer of corruption" and "abuse of public trust" plaguing our state government.
The proposed changes to the two year system have, of course, been fought tirelessly by powerful [AEA] union boss Paul Hubbert, Joe Reed and their "double-dipping" cronies in the Alabama legislature. A state legislature dominated by teachers, former teachers, teacher union-backed representatives and funded by teacher-union contributions.
In his book "Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership," James Strock notes that at one point while he was a New York City police commissioner, Roosevelt lamented there was not a single politician or newspaper in the city that supported him. His complaint is of lasting value. We profit by reminding ourselves that leadership is often a lonely endeavor, the fruits of which take years to reap; and in the meantime integrity and principle must be their own reward.
Alabama Republicans should remember this as they fashion an agenda that, while consulting public sentiment, cannot aspire to universal favor and still remain meaningful. Such disagreements, after all, are why we have political parties. And yet these big issues transcend parties. We must hope that in time, they call forth leaders willing to do the same.
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--INDIVIDUALISM--
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities [and the smallest minority on earth is the individual.] " --Ayn Rand
"Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered." --Ayn Rand
"It is not as late as you think. It is merely early -- in the age of the rebirth of individualism." --Ayn Rand
"The right to the pursuit of happiness means man's right to live for himself, to choose what constitutes his own, private, personal happiness and to work for its achievement. Each individual is the sole and final judge in this choice. A man's happiness cannot be prescribed to him by another man or by any number of other men. ... These rights are the unconditional, personal, private, individual possession of every man, granted to him by the fact of his birth and requiring no other sanction. Such was the conception of the founders of our country, who placed individual rights above any and all collective claims." --Ayn Rand
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after p o w e r and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only p o w e r any government has is the p o w e r to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.* Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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: : Food for thought : :
Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense:
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. [emphasis added]
If Thomas Paine were to witness today’s government, in Alabama or from Washington, D.C., which category would he place it into? A necessary evil or an intolerable evil?
I also find it interesting that Paine was so easily able to distinguish between government and society. This is a distinction that I think far too many people don’t understand.
Unfortunately, tolerance is one of those things that has a contextual nature: the greatest of evils are tolerable while they are actively being tolerated.
Payne also said, “When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.” Given this, and the high degree of fear that many normal, Americans have for their own government, I think we’re approaching a point at which we won’t tolerate much more.
Betty Peters
BETTY PETERS (R) ALABAMA STATE
SCHOOL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 2
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--Ronald Reagan--
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"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path". --Ronald Reagan
"The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." --Ronald Reagan
"Man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts." --Ronald Reagan
"This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. For almost two centuries we have proved man’s capacity for self-government, but today we are told we must choose between a left and right or, as others suggest, a third alternative, a kind of safe middle ground. I suggest to you there is no left or right, only an up or down. Up to the maximum of individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism; and regardless of their humanitarian purpose those who would sacrifice freedom for security have, whether they know it or not, chosen this downward path”. --Ronald Reagan
"I had a copy of the Soviet Constitution and I read it with great interest. And I saw all kinds of terms in there that sound just exactly like our own: 'Freedom of assembly' and 'freedom of speech' and so forth. Of course, they don't allow them to have those things, but they're in there in the constitution. But I began to wonder about the other constitutions -- everyone has one -- and our own, and why so much emphasis on ours. And then I found out, and the answer was very simple -- that's why you don't notice it at first. But it is so great that it tells the entire difference. All those other constitutions are documents that say, 'We, the government, allow the people the following rights,' and our Constitution says 'We the People, allow the government the following privileges and rights.' We give our permission to government to do the things that it does. And that's the whole story of the difference--why we're unique in the world and why no matter what our troubles may be, we're going to overcome." --Ronald Reagan
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again." --Ronald Reagan
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--Here are some quotes from great Americans--
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." --Benjamin Franklin
"Government, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." --George Washington
"He who governs least, governs best." --Thomas Jefferson
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." --Thomas Jefferson
"Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization, & a very unexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants." --Thomas Jefferson
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America." --James Madison
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session." --Mark Twain
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." --Calvin Coolidge
"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government." --Barry Goldwater
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." --Thomas Jefferson
"Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you." --Abraham Lincoln
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." --John Adams
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." --Thomas Jefferson
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." --Patrick Henry
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." --Mark Twain
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." --George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian [1994]
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." --P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." --Will Rogers
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." --P.J. O'Rourke
"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." --Mark Twain
"The conscience of the Conservative is pricked by anyone who would debase the dignity of the individual human being. Today, therefore, he is at odds with dictators who rule by terror, and equally with those gentler collectivists who ask our permission to play God with the human race." --Barry Goldwater, Conscience of a Conservative
"The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed--where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once." --Judge Alex Kozinsky
"I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me." --E.W. Howe
"The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic." --H.L. Mencken
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"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776
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"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." --THEODORE ROOSEVELT Paris Sorbonne,1910
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TO THE LAND
OF THE FREE
AND THE HOME
OF THE BRAVE:
"The two enemies of the people
are criminals and government,
so let us tie the second down
with the chains of the Constitution,
so the second will not become
the legalized version of the first."
--Thomas Jefferson--
"Life is tough. It's tougher when you are stupid." --John Wayne
--Milton Friedman--
~The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.~
--Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution--
"Any objective observer can see that the Tenth Amendment is the most widely violated provision of the bill of rights. If it had been enforced, America would be an astonishingly different country. Today’s atmosphere of big government, ever-expanding entitlement programs, and bloated spending threaten to undermine the very basis of American liberty and self-reliance.
To bring about positive social change and to strengthen our most effective and efficient social institutions, we must rein in government, reject calls for expanded entitlement programs, and demand that government intervenes in only very limited ways and only when absolutely necessary.
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
~Milton Friedman~
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"There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income."
~Milton Friedman~
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"What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself. The essence of political freedom is the absence of coercion of one man by his fellow men. The fundamental danger to political freedom is the concentration of power. The existence of a large measure of power in the hands of a relatively few individuals enables them to use it to coerce their fellow men. Preservation of freedom requires either the elimination of power where that is possible, or its dispersal where it cannot be eliminated. It essentially requires a system of checks and balances, like that explicitly incorporated in our Constitution..."
~Milton Friedman~
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--What is a Libertarian? An individual who loves freedom, life, and liberty for everyone, and who believes in free markets, personal responsbility, and zero government intrusion into any aspect of your life! It saddens me that many Americans are willing to give the government so much power over us for the sake of "keeping us safe."--
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--Libertarian Philosophy--
I believe the libertarian philosophy is attractive. The philosophy transcends party politics. With a country facing imminent collapse, such a radical idea becomes an intriguing option. Have not both parties been responsible for bringing us to the brink of destruction? Why should government increase in size and scope every year? Why must our civil liberties be destroyed? Why not obey the Constitution? Cannot change be affected at the local level most effectively? Does the United States really need to police the world? Would people not be more prosperous if their labor was not taxed by the federal government to pay for boondoggles? Why is our money backed by nothing? Why does the Federal Reserve debase our currency?
These are hard questions to answer. This had led many people to put their faith in themselves, friends, families, free markets, God, and their fellow man. Often misunderstood, libertarians are not simply greedy or lacking compassion. They see the problems that arise from unrestrained government in collusion with big business and honestly consider their philosophy as being the most efficient and intelligent way for restore peace and prosperity for all.
Libertarians understand that the state has made many obligations to its citizens. The only way these obligations could actually be met would be by dramatically decreasing spending, withdrawing troops from around the world, and by living within our means. Eventually it would be great to see these programs phased out at the federal level as people can best be cared for by their communities, but this is not an immediate goal or a pressing concern. Do not be mistaken by propaganda and lies, libertarians do not want to put people out on the streets.
Let us not fear each other. I suggest we all try to put aside our differences, learn from one another, and cooperate to achieve our similar goals. By working together, we can return our country to greatness.
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--WHO ARE WE--
We are not anarchists.
We are not Far-Right or Far-Left. We are the seventy percent in the middle.
We are not Capital “L” libertarians, although we do have sympathies with their platform.
We are neither bitter clingers nor conspiracy nuts.
What we are is a group of folks that think we see liberty and freedom eroding in our beloved United States. We see the policies
and agendas of the hirelings in Washington D.C. heading toward an abbreviation if not outright abrogation of the Bill of Rights.
We think that the Federal government is grasping to consolidate power using the current crisis, since as Rahm Emmanuel said,
it’s a terrible thing to waste. We think the Federal government, not just this administration, is more interested in self-serving
personal, political, and party power than it is in actually doing its best to do the least.
This President didn't make it this way. It has been heading along this path since Woodrow Wilson held political prisoners and
FDR held four terms as president; since Johnson's Great Society and Nixon took us off the gold standard; since Bush Sr. lied
about no new taxes, Clinton desecrated the Oval Office, Bush Jr. rammed through the Patriot Act, and NCLB, and Obama wanted every high school kid to "volunteer."
For almost a hundred years, our country has been heading towards becoming a Socialist, centrally planned, Nanny State where
the Federal Government tells it citizens how to conduct business, what they could grow in their own gardens or on their own
farms, and now even how much a private citizen is allowed to earn before punitive and illegal taxation takes it away.
Now is the time to make it stop.
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