Libertarians Look to Grow at Milwaukee Convention

 

Libertarian Party of Wisconsin

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Press Secretary—Tim Krenz

April 12, 2023

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Libertarians Look to Grow at Milwaukee Convention:

More Membership to Highlight Livecast

Ubet, WI—The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI) plans to build its membership and its public appeal during its April 14^th to April 16^th Convention at the Potawatomi Casino & Hotel in Milwaukee, using an online Live Cast on Saturday, April 15^th, to share its message of prosperity and peace for all.

“Our party’s platform calling for the peaceful consent by the governed, NOT the violent coercion by a government, has a universal appeal and logic, and can solve the ethical and material decay of our state and our nation,” the LPWI Press Office said in a statement. “The LPWI’s principles translate as the idea and action we practice and propose for the world: ‘Don’t hurt people; don’t steal from them.’ It stays that simple and positive. People can understand it.”

As traditionally the third most important party in the state since its founding fifty years ago, the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin knows that a larger membership, reflecting the diverse people of the state and its communities, can take it to another, higher level in politics.

“The LPWI’s ideal of a general peace and its free-commerce and free-minds agenda would allow individuals, their families, and their communities to control and run their own affairs better than a forceful and centralized government,” the statement said. “Watch our convention on the Live Cast to find out more.”

For more on the LPWI platform or details about the convention, including the Saturday online Live Cast beginning at 8 AM, please visit the website: www.lpwi.org (“Convention”).

Libertarians Will Defend Free Speech at Convention: Government Censorship Bill Looms Like a Guillotine

 

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March 31, 2023

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Libertarians Will Defend Free Speech at Convention:

Government Censorship Bill Looms Like a Guillotine

Ubet, WI--”The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI) will vigorously defend the basic right of everyone to access and use free speech and technology that harms NO ONE. We OPPOSE this legislation,” the LPWI Press Office said in a strongly-worded statement about a government censorship bill.

Libertarian Party members and guests in Wisconsin will meet in annual convention, April 14^th to April 16^th, in Milwaukee, as the US Congress considers the radical confinement of personal and public thought in the RESTRICT Act bill. The measure, if passed, goes far, far beyond banning social and other media apps owned by foreign companies, such as mainland China’s TikTok.

A major concern with the act, introduced March 7^th by Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), involves the entangling language of Presidential Executive Orders and findings, investment networks, definitions of entities, agents, interests, and effects, and “legalisms” that can potentially give the Federal government control over any, or all, online activity, sources, or content—basically originating from anywhere, and containing practically anything.

At its convention in Milwaukee, the LPWI will possibly have a floor motion, referencing its platform principle for all honest people: “and the protection of their individual rights, namely — life, property, and liberty of speech and action;” in defiance of the proposed RESTRICT Act, or variations of it.

For more on the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, its platform, or for details to attend the event, or to watch the April convention simulcast on-line, visit www.lpwi.org .

Freedom & Rights Activists Will Address Libertarians

 

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Press Secretary—Tim Krenz

March 28, 2023

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Freedom & Rights Activists Will Address Libertarians

Ubet, WI—The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI) will have two keynote speakers at its annual convention in Milwaukee, Saturday, April 15th. Elizabeth Coquillard and William Henry, who co-direct Liberty Offense, a non-profit organization that addresses constitutional and personal rights violations, will conclude the day’s events at the evening dinner. Coquillard and Henry work through public and community action to address the issues of rights violations through all branches of government and media.

The LPWI convention, which will take place at the Potawatomi Casino & Hotel, begins at 8 AM, Saturday, April 15^th, as part of a weekend for networking, meetings, and party business, including the elections for the Executive Committee for the 2023-2025 term. The events and the convention will simulcast online at www.lpwi.org .

Coquillard, a noted liberty political activist, and Henry, a veteran and a communications professional, address the Libertarians as a pressure builds among American citizens against the discredited two-party system for the bipartisan inability to solve the material and ethical problems facing America. Coquillard and Henry speak as two private citizens who empower people to fight peacefully for their right of free choice and consent in all political, economic, social, and cultural matters against the ever-increasing, and abusive, power of government

For more info on the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, the convention and simulcast, or to view the Party platform, please visit www.lpwi.org .

Wisconsin Libertarians to Hold Convention in April

 

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March 17, 2023

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Wisconsin Libertarians to Hold Convention in April

Ubet, WI—The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI) will hold its annual convention the weekend of April 14^th, 15^th, and 16^th, at the Potawatomi Casino and Resort in Milwaukee. The convention celebrates fifty years since the official founding of the party within the state.

The main annual business portion of the convention will begin that Saturday morning at eight o’clock, April 15^th. Members may pay dues that day to participate.

During the business session, the LPWI will address the usual party concerns, including the by-laws and constitution review and changes, platform amendments, and most importantly, electing its Executive Committee officers and delegates for the new two-year term.

The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin advocates a philosophy of “do no harm to others, and steal from nobody,” supporting the inherent right of individual and family consent, never threats or force, in public matters for the greater good. Besides supporting an end to nation-state conflict and a civil peace within them, the Libertarian Party philosophy includes the personal responsibility and self-accountability to aid and protect those who cannot help or defend themselves.

All members of the Libertarian Party must sign a pledge upon paying dues that states, “I certify that I oppose the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals.”

While it offers different packages for the weekend events, paid “members in good standing” may attend the Saturday business meeting at no cost. With the press and public welcome to observe, the LPWI will also simulcast the Saturday meeting on its website, www.lpwi.org . To find out more about the LPWI or for more info on the convention, please visit the party website.

Libertarian Party of Wisconsin Questions Court Candidates

 Libertarian Party of Wisconsin’s

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February 15, 2023

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Libertarian Party of Wisconsin Questions Court Candidates

Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI) officials, as a service to the public, sent a questionnaire to all four registered candidates for the one open seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. With only two of the candidates to advance after the Tuesday, February 21^st, state-wide spring primary, only candidate Judge Jennifer Dorow responded to the LPWI’s questionnaire. The two-top vote getting candidates in the primary will advance to the state’s spring general election in April. Voters can view the questionnaire and Judge Dorow’s answers on the party’s website, at: https://lpwi.org/2023/02/15/judge-jennifer-dorow-questionnaire/ .

The questionnaire asked all the candidates to state such things as their judicial philosophy, and how they will make rulings; their stance on the practice of judicial activism, or where judges can create new law with their rulings without legislative oversight or voter consent; and other questions on role models, interpretations of original law, etc.

The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin supports the individual’s right to live their own life free of unreasonable government obstructions and coercion; the people’s right to own and dispose of the property they have earned by their hard labor; and to pursue their own happiness that should never harm other free people or steal the property of others. The LPWI believes in an independent judiciary that protects the rights of all people to live free of the forceful coercion used by governments. As 18^th Century legal commentator William Blackstone wrote, “...the public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights,…”

For more on the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, visit: www.lpwi.org .

Libertarian Party to Co-Sponsor Peace Rally in Milwaukee

 

Libertarian Party of Wisconsin

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Press Secretary—Tim Krenz

February 15, 2023

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Libertarian Party to Co-Sponsor Peace Rally in Milwaukee

The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI), in partnership with the People’s Party and the Wisconsin Green Party, will co-conduct an anti-war peace march in Milwaukee, Sunday, February 19^th. The rally of peace advocates will take place from 11 AM to 11:20 AM, near the Peace Action office building at 1001 E. Keefe Avenue and up to N. Weil Street.

For the peace, amity, and safety for all people, this coalition of common hopes to stop aggression, militarism, violence, and war—around the globe—unites the attendees in the philosophy and practice of non-coercive, non-violent politics and policies by governments everywhere. As the rally happens on the street outside, Peace Action will show a simulcast live-stream of the “Rage Against the War Machine” anti-war peace rally in Washington, D.C., also hosted by the Libertarian Party USA.

For its part, the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, chaired by Operation Iraqi Freedom-veteran and Wisconsin National Guard-veteran, Mr. Jacob VandenPlas, requires all members to sign a pledge that states, “I certify that I oppose the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals.”

While absolutely against unprovoked aggression by all nation-states, in its principles and philosophy, the LPWI asserts the rights of all individuals and communities to the acts and means of self-defense, to protect their families and homes from any threats, violence, hostility, and criminal acts from wherever they originate. In a world rapidly engaging in its self-destruction through conflict and war-centered politics, the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin stands with its peace rally partners hoping to provide a united effort to end militarism and war, and bring peace on earth and good-will toward all humankind.

For more info on the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, please visit: www.lpwi.org .

End the Income Tax, Wisconsin Libertarians Say

 

Libertarian Party of Wisconsin

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LPWI Press Secretary: Tim Krenz

February 1, 2023

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End the Income Tax, Wisconsin Libertarians Say

Responding to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and his call to raise state spending, and increase shared revenue, by at least $1.3 Billion, the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI) Press Office issued a statement over the weekend, calling for cuts to the current state budget and for ending the state and Federal income taxes.

Starting from the premise that “the power to tax involves the power to destroy,” as said by the US Supreme Court (McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819), and that it can endanger private enterprise and impoverish citizens, the LPWI Press Office quoted the party platform:

“We [the LPWI] advocate phasing out taxes on incomes, personal property, and real property, along with corresponding decreases in the size of government. We advocate phasing out taxes on corporations and businesses.”

The explanation of the platform went on to say:

“The two party system—BOTH Democrats and Republicans—believe that government exist to do or support all one thing or all of the other, to benefit their own side, of whoever holds the power,” said LPWI Press Secretary Tim Krenz. “If the present governments can only survive and act by massive taxation on incomes for the benefit of certain interests, it hurts the average person, the common person most. Income taxes come only with the threat of force, itself a fraud committed against free people.

“Consensual fees for local governments and services, if required, will prevent the evil that all governments can do when they destroy freedoms, through forced taxation or other means.”

For more on the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, or to read its platform, visit www.lpwi.org .