[fRtF] 2/23 - The Long March towards Freedom: Will the LP be the vehicle for realizing America's Vision?

Thought of the moment:
"If the Cocaine Industry had commissioned a consultant to design a mechanism to insure profitability, it couldn't have done better than the War on Drugs."
- Nancy Gertner, US District Court Judge

- Current Article -
The Long March towards Freedom: Will the LP be the vehicle for realizing America's Vision?, by The Melinda
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/long_march_to_freedom_lp_vehicle_america_vision.html
If you were wondering why the LP is stalled and spinning its wheels you will be glad to know that there is a reason. You will also be heartened to know that there is a solution that will bring in new recruits, eager to work for change that fulfills the original Mission Statement Thomas Jefferson set out in the Declaration of Independence. It is time to get serious about freedom.

- New Last Week (Articles) -
Take your sneak peek at the Bush Library at SMU! You will be glad you did.
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/sneak_peek_smu_bush_library.html
The Bush Folks have decided that SMU is the right place for it; close to the Dallas Cuntry Club and easily reachable by dozens of Bush Pioneers and Rangers and by Bush and Cheney themselves from their homes now being built just blocks away. How will a Librry without printed material available bring in the public? In cooperation with Disney and Major Corporations the answer comes forth. Bushland, open for you in 2008. Get your tickets from the White House now.

Adventures in Activism, Motherhood, and Marriage: The Untold Story of the 1991 LP Convention.
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/adventures_in_activism_motherhood_and_marriag
At the 1991 National Convention in Chicago the focus was all about nominating a candidate for president. Those who controlled the convention also controlled the LP and would do so with a rapacious hand and greedy design for another decade. Woven into that action a smaller drama was being played out that, if understood, would have told some interesting truths about those in power.

Show Down in Crawford Texas: When the Truth Triumphed.
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/show_down_in_crawford_texas_when_the_truth_tr
There was one moment in the 2004 campaign when the truth won through. W. Leon Smith, Editor of the Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas, endorsed John Kerry for reasons that were objective and honest. The eruption of vilification from Bush supporters were monumental. But most Americans recognized that one small paper had stood up and simply done the right thing, no matter what the cost.

- New Last Week (Wine Reviews) -
Luna di Luna 2005 Chardonnay Italy
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/luna_di_luna_2005_chardonnay_italy.html

Nobel 2003 Merlot France
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/nobel_2003_merlot_france.html

Aaku 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon South Australia
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/Aaku_2004_Cabernet_Sauvignon_South_Australia.html

- The Way-Back Machine -
America is off course - Time for a change., by The Melinda
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/america-is-off-course-time-for-change.html
Protect the rights of Americans - Elect another kind of animal for President

At the close of the First World War the Elks wrote a check for $1,000.000.00 so that America's Veterans could have a hospital for the first time. That is how it happened. Hardly anyone knows that today.

Beware of government, it takes credit for what it did not do - and it blames us when it fails.

Elections were on all of our minds when I went to Elks that Tuesday, but the questions that became the central focus of our discussion. lead us in unusual directions.

My friend Robert Crouch, a professor of economics who teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara, asked me what I had been doing with myself over the summer.

- Two Previous -
SMU: The Battle of Petitions, by The Melinda
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/smu_petitions_battle_referendum_bush.html
At Southern Methodist University the spectre of a George W. Bush Library is awakening Methodists to the horror of living cheek and jowl with someone who endorsed torture. This has brought on line petitions that allow Methodists - and all Americans to speak their minds in plain sight, rendering an effective referendum on the Bush presidency.

Poisoned Spies and Conspiracy Theories, by Garry Reed
www.reasontofreedom.com/poisoned_spies_and_conspiracy_theories.html
The ongoing saga of the former KGB operative offed by a radioactive substance continues to titillate conspiracy connoisseurs. It's the greatest undercover caper since the Twin Towers were secretly booby trapped by government boobies and imploded in league with Islamo-zealot suicide pilots, and reportedly has Kennedy Assassination Plot investigators crawling out from behind their grassy knolls with wild-eyed theories of magic polonium bullets.