Liberty Drip

The Libertarian Party of Broward County is honored to invite you to the presentation “What Happened to the Constitution?” by Tom Regnier, libertarian lawyer, teacher and lecturer, explains "What Happened to the Constitution?" If the U.S. Constitution is supposed to protect our liberties, how did we get the runaway government that we now have? Tom focuses on key provisions in the U.S. Constitution and how they have been disparaged, distorted, and disregarded by those in power. By the end, you will understand why the U.S. Constitution is a logical, straightforward, and understandable document and not the unintelligible, complicated mess that the courts have made it.  PLEASE BRING A FRIEND AND ENJOY  A NIGHT FULL OF LIBERTY! WHERE The Loyal Order of Moose   6191 Rock Island Rd, Tamarac, FL 33319 WHEN Friday, April 20, 2018 7:00 PM The cause of Liberty is difficult. We face an entrenche...

By Michael Smith In 1492, there were over 3 million free people living and thriving on the island of Hispaniola   (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).  In 1508, there   were   only 60,000 people left alive, struggling to surviv e   on the island.  These 3 million free and productive humans were wiped out by other   humans driven by the desire to please their government. This snapshot illustrates the destruction that comes when people begin to give government power over their lives and simply become accepting followers.  Whether you are currently the hunter or the preyed upon, on top or on the bottom,  does not matter,  for that can change at any moment.  What matters is you must never   accept the government, the current rulers or the current   kings, or let them cause you to put their policies ahead   of the most sacred human policy – thou shall not kill, harm, or act in aggression towards your fellow hum...

It’s December 14, 2012 and I’m riding a bus from Hollywood to Aventura mall. It would be a 30 minute drive. It’s a 90 minute bus ride. I’m reading a book. I arrive at the mall and walk to the retail establishment where my dead-end job is located. I tell myself I hate my life. I’ll feel like an idiot about that feeling very soon. I punch in and then jump on line. There’s been a shooting at a school in a little New England town no one I know has heard of. I know Sandy Hook, Connecticut because my sister lives there. A few blocks from the school. I call her and she doesn’t answer. I know my niece and nephew don’t attend that school but it’s still, literally, too close to home. I am a father of four and I’ve always had a soft spot for kids so any tragedy involving a child always hits too damn close to home. We will later this day learn that twenty children and six faculty members will die in that school. They are the victims of a sick young man who will also die there. His day ...

It’s about 6:45 AM and I’m in the gym on a treadmill jogging along at 4.3 MPH. I don’t tell you this to impress you. I’m a little embarrassed so let’s just say I’m on a treadmill before the sun has risen and pat me on the back for that. I am not here for vanity, but for health. I read the crawl on CNBC intently, knowing that I’ll have forgotten most of what I read before the market opens nearly three hours from now. Another million slips through my fingers. Below where the TV is mounted is an eight-foot window that spans the length of the workout room and affords us speedsters views of the basketball court. For the last few minutes, an older lady, probably in her late 60’s, has been playing a little one-on-none. She makes some shots, misses others, and runs awkwardly after the ball when it bounces away. She returns to her comfort zone and takes another shot. CNBC is talking about a pharmaceutical company reporting better-than-expected earnings. The crawl on the bottom of the screens te...

By Michael Smith When did you start accepting murder? When did you become perfectly comfortable voting for a political party that murders? Surely you were not raised to accept and embrace murdering? Think of someone you love dearly, your mother for instance. What is the worst thing someone could do to her? Yes, murder her is the most likely answer. It doesn’t matter where you come from, whether you are American, Irish, or Peruvian, Black, White, or Hispanic. To have your mother be murdered would be the worst possible thing that could happen in your life. The murderer is someone bad, so this is not someone you would support or enable in any way, right? But if you are like most American voters, that is exactly what you are doing. 95% of the voters in the 2016 election voted Democrat or Republican. You are breaking my heart. 95% of us supported dropping a bomb on someone’s mother while she was walking home from the market with groceries. You are breaking my heart. 95%...

President Trump allegedly called Haiti and some other countries in the Third World, “Shitholes.” We didn’t hear the president say this and the original source is one of his political enemies, Dick Durbin, who has a reputation for not being the most honest fellow. The world is in a fake uproar over the alleged comments, with people calling the president a racist and screaming at the sky and finding all kinds of other ways to protest, including projecting the word “Shithole” onto the facade of a Trump hotel. I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and I believe that the burden of proof falls on the accuser. I also believe our illustrious president has given up any claim on the benefit of the doubt because in his first year in office, he has hardly been able to get through two days without sticking his foot in his mouth. Should people be offended by the comments? I don’t know. I believe that while words have meaning, their power to inspire and especially to offend...

This analysis is in no way scientific. I’m just a guy waiting for the coffee to kick in. I started thinking about the three parties in the U.S. I understand there are more of them out there but I refuse to accept the Socialists or Communists and the others are too insignificant and frankly I doubt I could name them. Nor would I want to. So, what’s in a name? Democrats are, we guess, engaged in democracy, which is a form of government. Republicans are supposed to be for a republic, which is also a form of government. The U.S. is a representative republic, not really a democracy, although we democratically elect the people who exploit and ruin our republic. Confused? As you should be. The two concepts are distinct, but lately the people who should be influencing the decision makers have been squeezed out of the process, making our government something that is neither democratic nor a republic.  Libertarians advocate liberty. Doesn’t that sound nice? A lot better than those two groups...