Calen Fretts for U.S. Congress 1st District Florida!

Liberty Underground Show Hour 2 9 Dec 11

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If This Guy Wore A Tie He Could Be Jeff Miller (R) 1st Congressional District, FL

Extending Your Debt Limit

PRESS RELEASE: Sky Monteith, current candidate for the Destin City Council and former Secretary of the Libertarian Party of Okaloosa County (LPOC), abruptly resigned from its Executive Committee Jan 18th when questioned about public statements he made in the Destin City Council Candidate Forum 10 January 2012. Mr. Monteith came under pressure from LPOC members when he made public statements that he could not support gambling in Destin, that it promotes crime, and implied that he favored city government intervention in other areas. “Sky has a been an active supporter of LPOC events for years, and these public views came as a surprise” said Pete Blome, LPOC Chair. “It has always been the position of the LPOC that gambling may be something a person personally disapproves of, but it is not a matter for government intervention unless force or fraud are used. In America, individual ownership of a person’s body and their property are critical to liberty, and government prohibiting people to gamble with their own property arbitrarily restricts their ability to achieve their own happiness and prosperity. Government intervention is a major problem in many aspects of our great country today. Libertarians will not turn away citizens of Destin who favor gambling in their city. ” Mr. Blome added that “The decision to resign was entirely Mr. Monteith’s, and he did so before many other questions about his 10 January forum appearance could even be presented.” Later, in a separate vote, the remaining members of the Executive Committee decided not to support Mr. Monteith’s campaign until he made changes more consistent with the Party Constitution.

Is This How Liberty Dies?

On Thursday, December 15 - the 220th anniversary of the Bill of Rights - Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which can be used by the President to indefinitely detain Americans without charge or trial; an utter eradication of the Fifth Amendment, without apology. Our Congress decided the President needs more power at the expense of the people and the Constitution.

Is this what our veterans and our forefathers fought and gave their lives for? Is this what Americans want their Congress to do? Place power like this in the hands of one man - the President - to do as he wishes with American citizens?

The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution recognizes your right to due process: "No person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The Fourth Amendment, for what it's worth, also recognizes that your right to be secure in your person and in your house (among other things) cannot be infringed by sidestepping the legal process. The explicit recognition of these rights by our government is one of the things that has always made our country exceptional. But this new law is a misguided attack on our country's 220-year recognition of these inherent rights.

Let us look at the final text of the bill. In "Subtitle D--Detainee Matters", Sec. 1031, "Congress affirms that the authority of the President...includes the authority...to detain...any person...who was a part of or substantially supported...enemy forces." The keyword here is "substantially supported." This designation is extrajudicial - that is, at the President's discretion. Sec. 1032 says, "The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States." The keyword here is "requirement." In other words, the President has the authority to indefinitely detain any person who "substantially supported" the enemy, and is in fact required to do so - unless it is a U.S. citizen, in which case it is at the President's discretion.

What if opposition to certain government policies - the Patriot Act, or the TSA, or certain military actions, for example - is deemed "substantially supportive" of the enemy? What if a President's discretion, in lieu of a Constitutionally-guaranteed jury trial, is faulty and harms innocents? Obama himself, and those who succeed him, will now decide whether to send government agents to your living room to apprehend and detain you, without charges, for whatever duration they wish (or for as long as there is a War on Terror), under a Congressionally-condoned false pretense and color of law. Did we not learn from Russia, China, and Germany in the past century?

The so-called "conservatives" in Washington who are, at least in public, constantly at odds with the Obama agenda are the majority of whom voted for this bill. How dare they give this (or any) administration even more broad unilateral power to unequivocally control the very lives and liberty of We the People?

Couple that with the fact that Predator drones are now being used inside the United States as police tools, and we are looking at an outrageous reality. We must be honest with ourselves: America is becoming a police state. It cannot be overstated how serious of an offense this is. All those in Congress who supported this legislation must be voted out of office for violation of their oath to uphold the Constitution. That is the least that should happen in response to such an egregious assault on our liberties.

We cannot allow the slow death of our Republic.

Over the past decade, our rights have slowly been dissolved. Some say, "It couldn't happen here. This is America!"

Wake up. Congress just made it happen.

This has got to stop.

Calen Fretts is a Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Florida 1st District

Read the Destin City Police Department proposal on the Downloads page!

(Destin) Shelves Police Department Proposals as Proponent Says He May Run For City Council Destin Log 5 August 2011

Courtesy Economicrot.com

LPOC Calls For County Sheriff to Arrest TSA Agents for Violations of Florida law (No Fourth Amendments rights nor protection from lewd and lascivious conduct)

Please visit Jim Kearney's Libertarian Viewpoint, and

Karl Denninger's The Market Ticker

LPOC Stands Against Destin Red Light Cameras! See articles page...(To Make You Safe they Cause More accidents and Cost You More Fines!)

What is a Libertarian?

We are your neighbors, your friends, and business partners…

• -          Someone who supports the Constitution
• -          Someone who supports the rule of law
• -          Someone who is not afraid of people making decisions for themselves
• -          Someone who supports individual responsibility in all things
• -          Someone who believes in competition
• -          Someone who knows government creates more problems than it solves, and so should be kept small
• -          Someone who thinks the purpose of government is to protect individual rights, not hand out favors.
• -          Someone who is opposed to the use of force or fraud in society, especially by government.
• -          Someone who maintains the right to control their own body
• -          Someone who does not believe in victimless crimes
• -          Someone who is against rigged markets
• -          Someone who knows big government, frauds, bailouts, and the two party monopoly in America go hand-in-hand
• -          And someone who knows those who could not see America’s calamities coming do not know what to do now that they are here!

Help us in our fight for a better Okaloosa.  Send donations to:

The Libertarian Party of Okaloosa County, P.O. Box 483, Shalimar, Florida 32579-0483, www.libertarianpoc.org,

Northwest Florida Fair Poll Results

Does Government Do a Good Job?

Oct 2011

.......................LBT....REP....Dem....Ind

Always................0.........0.........0........2

Usually...............0.........1.........1........0

Half the time......0.........6.........2.......4

Seldom..............2.........17........5.......8

Never.................6..........2.........3.......2

Oct 2010

.......................LBT ....Rep.... Dem.... Ind

Always................... 0 ........ 0 ....... 0......... 2

Usually.................. 0 ........ 1........ 7......... 2

Half the time......... 0 ........ 4 ....... 2......... 1

Seldom................. 5 ........ 18...... 1 ........ 15

Never ................... 5 ........ 6 ....... 0 ........ 10

Click Below for the Karl Denninger Presentation to the LPOC 9 December 2009

YouTube - 2009-12-09 - LPOC Speech.mp4

This is the place to make Okaloosa County government better, to meet other libertarians, pursue real happiness and prosperity, and to join in any of our public events.  Welcome aboard!

The best parts of living in America will always be Libertarian!

Libertarians are about individual rights, adherence to the Constitution, adherence to the rule of law, real limits to government, reduced taxation, privacy, self sufficiency, free markets, property rights, being in charge of your own mind and body, being free to pursue happiness as you see fit as long as force or fraud are not used by you or the government on others, …it is these libertarian aspects of the American way of life that allowed us to become the happy and prosperous country that we are. But....

150 years of the Republican/ Democrat political monopoly has killed the golden goose.

These parties may say they value Libertarian principles, to get your vote, but only make government bigger, more powerful, and more intrusive in your life...they are scamming you!

Don’t just fall in line and take it…

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The Libertarian Party of Okaloosa County needs money and volunteers to get out the message.  Become part of our team. We have events going all the time...and now there is an Okaloosa Libertarian Club that is doing even more.  If you are on the fence, you don’t even have to be a libertarian to join the Club.  Use the contact links and get involved.

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Register and vote Libertarian.  Most people heartily agree with Libertarian principles, but keep voting for the DemRep Party that time and time again has increased the power and cost of government at their expense.

Fight back!  Contact the Okaloosa County Supervisor of Elections about registering as a Libertarian.  850-689-5600  (www.govote-okaloosa.com)

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