George Phillies: It’s Time for Something Else

Posted by George Phillies in Gold USA Group and in the December 2014 Liberty for America:

This will be the last regular issue, at least for a while, of Liberty for America. There will be occasional electronic issues. When scandals or scoundrels surface again, so will we. The smiting light of truth will again save Lady Liberty. Until then we are going into suspended animation.

Our Party faces major problems, but they are not the same problems we have faced in the last two decades. Different problems call for different solutions. We had needed an effective purgative, finally administered; we now need good curatives, to be prepared.

Purgatives? We were the first to reveal that the LNC had funded the parts of pre-nomination Harry Browne 2000 campaign, by letting the campaign use the national party mailing list repeatedly, at a special rate, and only pay much later. We regularly covered spending by major LP candidates, including Badnarik, Browne, Barr, Johnson, and Howell. We reported on marvelous LNC debates, for example when the Chair insisted on addressing Starchild as Mister Starchild. We covered the LNC staff members who gave an LNC member a five-digit no-bid-that-we-could-find consulting contract.

These issues needed purgatives, administered via a monthly newsletter. Some issues remain, but many are gone! Yes, the current LNC did refuse to give the new National Chair his choice of National Committee members, a show of hostility by a few members of the antique guard without recent precedent. In our opinion, the LNC would be better off if Messrs Lark, Lieberman, Redpath, and several Regional Alternates were replaced. However, for a change LNC debates are mostly constructive.