What You Can Do - Hand Me the Weedwhacker

The author added this to this week's article.  I believe he sent it as reference material for me, but since it's so well structured, I'm going to add it (mostly) verbatim and tack my 2 cents onto the end.

A small fraction:

A) On the practical level [with regard to "practically whack the statist weeds in the garden"], probably the most significant political achievement of recent times is the near successful attempt in 2002 of Carla Howell and other Libertarians in Massachusetts to repeal that state's 5% income tax.  The issue, called Ballot Question 1, received 45.4% of the vote, and was approved by more than 30% of the cities in Massachusetts. 

Chances are good the team will reload in a future election.  (An initiative to reduce Waltham, Mass., local taxes by 24% is already on track.) They need help and financial support to retire debts for fighting the good fight, and certainly to help in new plans.  http://www.smallgovernmentact.org/

B) At the local level across the nation, Libertarians are in office and making a positive change in government.  The movement at all levels is worth being part of.  It requires commitment to knowledge, life, and freedom.  In an admittedly brief search, for libertarian organizations, the best site from which to branch: http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefpolitics23.htm

C) Particularly, if you're young and innocent, check out our favorite libertarian bookstores: Laissez Faire Books and Liberty Tree. 

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In the world as we know it and as we can affect it, there is only one cause, and that cause is freedom.  If you're an American, freedom is your birthright.  Check it out and make it happen.  If you're not an American and you love freedom, welcome aboard, we can use some help.  We're restoring a dying planet—to extend the blessings of liberty, worldwide. 

Final Note:

Ayn Rand and her designated heirs never accepted the libertarian manifesto (much less understood the "State" qua Americana), and they decried and continue to decry the Libertarian Party as patently evil.  Still, several latter-day freethinking Objectivists are making positive contributions to reason and, derivatively, liberty.  David Kelley and his colleagues at The Objectivist Center continue to engage the forces of darkness, and many other wise sites will spring forth to you from that location:

"Neo, free your mind!" 

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Now my 2 cents . . .

I'll claim this statement as my own, even though I'm sure someone else has said the same thing;

"just Vote, 'No!'"

If you do not have the time to do the in depth research needed to understand the issues (viewing TV ads probably isn't sufficient), then just vote 'No' to any amendments, propositions, bonds, bills, and everything else being submitted by a governmental official for a popular vote.  We know who wrote these bills, and do you really trust them to write something that will be good for you?

Someday we will again be able to trust our elected officials 'to do the right' thing, but until then, the weeds need a whacking.

Best Regard,

M.J. Taylor

PS:  If you like a good weekly laugh (cry?), you might try the cartoon This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow.