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Libertarian AND Christian

By Jeff, on March 7th, 2010%

Yes, Bill, I saw your post. You didn’t bother to link here, so I’m not going to bother to link to your upstart either. I also maintain my commitment to not work with you so long as you harbor the known liar Mike Sabot. With that said, your post does deserve a response, and here it is:

Free Will.

It is God’s greatest gift to mankind – the very gift that necessitated the Mosaic Law (which was always meant to be temporary) and the Cross (the permanent Sacrifice).

The Big Government Party, with its proxies the Tea Party and the Coffee Party, wants to infringe upon that penultimate gift from God to humans. I hold that in doing so, you try to put yourselves above God Almighty.

As a Christian, I believe that NO ONE is higher than God and that each and every man, woman, and child who ever lived, lives, or will live, must choose each day whether they will serve God or sin. It is NOT my place to tell them how they should live, though I am certainly free to act as an individual and peaceably let my feelings be known.
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Once Unthinkable, State Legislators Now Poised to Raise Taxes

By Jeff, on March 7th, 2010%

As recently as 6 weeks ago, Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives David Ralston was saying that there would be no talk of tax increases to balance the state budget.

Now, it appears he and other legislators may be ready to sing a new tune – though they are going to do their best to avoid the term “tax increase”.

I know I’ve already talked to a few legislators who have mentioned this issue to me, and their claim is that this will charge the user what it currently costs the state to do the service.

The problem is, a lot of these things the State charges user fees for aren’t really things government needs to be handling in the first place.
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4 Principles. 20 Reasons. New Movement.

By Jeff, on March 7th, 2010%

Last week, I told y’all about a mostly Democrat-oriented response to the mostly Republican-oriented Tea Party that is calling itself the Coffee Party. I was even invited on The Morning Drive with Frank Barnas on NewsTalk 105.9fm in Valdosta to discuss this movement.

After much discussion (admittedly mostly joking about it), the liberty movement is starting our own response to both of these movements, which I also mentioned on air Friday (jokingly even then):

The Beer Party.

Our aim is simple: To restore genuine Liberty in this land – and to have some fun while doing it.

The Tea Party is a bunch of pissed off people mostly mad because the OTHER guy gets to dictate what you will or will not do now. The Coffee Party is a bunch of people finally happy that THEY get to dictate what you will or will not do now – and ironically, their actions haven’t been very much different from the people they were so “oppressed” by.

We in the Beer Party just want to leave you the Hell alone and get government OUT of your daily life, since it was never meant to be there to begin with.

We’re a very young movement, with very old ideas (like, Founding Fathers old). But we do have a FB fan page, and we’re working on getting everything else set up, such as a website, twitter account, etc.

The Libertarian Party of Southwest Georgia Annual Convention will be just under 3 weeks from now, on March 27 at 3pm. I’m looking at possibly kicking off the area Beer Party at Harvest Moon after that meeting, probably around 5-6p.

Anyone and everyone is welcome at either event. Don’t like alcohol? We’re not forcing you to drink, and we won’t judge you if you don’t. Feel free to enjoy the beverage of your choice. No worries!

Here’s a couple of resources to get an idea of what we think (and remember, unlike those other two Parties, we actually genuinely encourage open debate around these ideas!):
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