This Time Bomb is Poli-Ticking!

I really, really, really want to be part of the Free State Project.  But it seems up until now I can’t…

Why?

Because I am an expatriate.  I have lived outside of the boundaries of the United States for two decades.  I don’t miss participating in elections (I’ve always voted!) and I take part in the political debates.  I am a big “L” Libertarian and have been for many years so I see the Free State Project as something that I really would like to do.  One of my customers has even successfully made the move from the Akron, Ohio, area to New Hampshire in the past year.

I’m jealous!

Maybe there is some help for me after all though?  I am looking for a trusting porcupine who might do me the favor of “loaning” me his / her address.  What do I mean by that?  Let me briefly explain.

I was born and raised in southwestern Arkansas and with the exception of a brief move to Coushatta, Louisiana, I spent my early years in Prescott, Arkansas.  My family is there.  I graduated high school there.  But when I was 18 I moved away to join the Navy.  After the Navy I moved to Los Angeles for a short time before moving to South Korea.  Since I moved to South Korea I registered as a voter at a friend’s house in Walnut Creek, California, and after this friend sold his house I re-registered at another friend’s address in Venice, California, and have voted with Venice as my home of record ever since – even though I moved around from Seoul to live in Saigon, Hanoi and now Bangkok.  So if I could find a kind hearted home owner in the Free State I would gladly give up my California registration and register in New Hampshire and do what I can for libertarian causes, even if it is mainly via the ballot box and the occasional blog.  It doesn’t involve doing anything outside the boundaries of the federal election law.  The only difference to my status quo would be a New Hampshire home of record so instead of sending an absentee ballot to California I would be sending it to New Hampshire – greater supporting the cause of freedom.  I just know my absentee ballot is worth much more in the Free State than the left coast republic.

Are there any kindred spirits who would be interested in helping me to help the project? Let me know through my personal website or through Facebook (you can search “Gary Dale Cearley” or find me at the Free State Project).  I am waiting to hear!

I have been seeing lots of mumbo jumbo in the media about Bob Barr hurting John McCain’s chances for election as the United States president.  I would respectfully disagree with the general assertion that Bob Barr’s candidacy overwhelmingly supports Barrack Obama to McCain’s detriment.  For one, I believe that our mainstream media has fallen into the ill logic that equates Bob Barr’s candidacy to Ralph Nader’s independent run in 2000.  Here the media concluded that the Nader run cost Al Gore the presidency.

Simply put, to believe this conclusion is to accept that only Florida’s vote
mattered in deciding the year 2000 presidential election.

Concerning the matter that Bob Barr will cause John McCain more pain than Barrack Obama is to deny the fact that first and foremost Bob Barr is running as a small government Libertarian candidate which neither Barrack Obama nor John McCain are doing.  Libertarian candidates like Bob Barr are for minimizing government influence over our lives and shrinking the governmental apparatus.  If Al Gore was in fact “Naderized” it would have been more due to the fact that Ralph Nader ran on very similar issues to the Democrats.  Ralph Nader simply put an anti-establishment spin on his message and as a result it resonated well with many younger liberal voters.  Bob Barr on the other hand has serious differences with both John McCain and Barrack Obama regarding the war in Iraq, how to deal with Iran, the overblown fiscal budget, border security, the detainees in Guantanamo and many other issues.  Secondly, not only is Ralph Nader also in this race but so is Cynthia McKinney, who is running for the Green Party.  She is not only a former Democratic congresswoman but she is also an African American. Both Nader and McKinney will put a drag on Barrack Obama rather than John McCain.

There are clear distinctions on the Libertarian sides of the major issues facing our country as opposed to both the Republican and Democratic sides.  I would hope that Americans would be much more responsible in looking closely at the candidates rather than simply whining that a third candidate only hurts their candidate’s chances of winning.  When it comes down to it, if there is more merit in John McCain’s positions he won’t have to worry about Barrack Obama nor Bob Barr.

Personally, I think anyone should look at where Bob Barr stands before deciding against him.