Your cordial host will be myself, Mike Blessing, with Bill Koehler behind the camera running the technical side of things.

1. Reposted —
   1. KCUF Media — Blogspot / Myspace
   2. New Mexico Liberty / The BTPNM Blog / The LPNM Blog / Mike Blessing for State Representative

New Mexico Turn Around posts a challenge for the rest of us —

CHALLENGE: In 100 words suggest a solution for the economic mess toward which we head.

Oh, really?

Here’s my response — let’s see if I actually need the full 100 words . . .

1. Cut spending across the board — no special handouts for anyone.
2. Cut taxes across the board — no special breaks for anyone.
3. Repeal regulations across the board — no special breaks for anyone.
4. Repeal bad, wasteful laws across the board — no special breaks for anyone.
5. Bring the troops home from Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere else.
6. Return to a sound money system (gold? silver?) for government transactions.
7. Repeal legal tender laws.
8. Repeal any law repugnant to the written U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights.

I count 80 words.

And I dared to use That Word Which Shall Not Be Uttered In Contemporary Politics — “repeal” — not just once, but four times! Shame on me!

1. Reposted — The BTPNM Blog / The LPNM Blog / Mike Blessing for State Representative

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I suppose I should mention that I’ve been an admirer of Adam’s speaking skills and principles for about a year now, since we of the LPNM first heard of him. Then-State Chair Ken Cavanaugh had spoken with him about running on the Libertarian Party ticket at that time. I went to his house in Santa Fe in June 2009 for an organizing meeting.^[2] I went to his Independence Day event at Santa Fe College on 4 July 2009 — that was where he made the official declaration to run for Congress as a Republican (about 12:15 AM on the 5th, actually). I was the one who got him scheduled as a guest on Hemp TV in August 2009.

I wasn’t exactly surprised when Mullins jumped into the Republican primary against Adam — the GOP has a history of running primary challenges against libertarian-leaning Republicans; they’ve been doing this with Ron Paul for twelve, fourteen years now. So when one of his campaign staffers volunteers him as a speaker for the Bernalillo County LP, well . . . . I wasn’t really against Mullins as I was FOR Adam. But then Mullins decided to do that interview with Cassy Fiano and join the smear campaign against Adam. With that decision, Mullins slit his own throat as far as I’m concerned.

I admit that I leapt to supporting Adam on a bit of blind faith on Ken Cavanaugh’s say-so. But whatever fears and reservations that I had were wiped out after talking with Adam on 21 June 2009 at the organizational meeting — I had asked him where he stood on the issue of marijuana. He responded by saying that he approached the issue from the vantage point of self-ownership. BINGO! — Hole in one!

1. After the Cassy Fiano interview, I had put “@mullinsforcongress.com” into my mail filters in Mozilla Thunderbird, and set the filter to delete the relevant traffic without me ever having to see it. I had forgotten to do that with the BCLP email address, and thus . . . PLOP!
2. I got lost on the way up from Albuquerque, had to call Bill Koehler after arriving in Santa Fe, as Google Maps gave me bad directions.
3. Reposted at New Mexico Liberty, my personal blog.

Dear Friends,

Today at the State Republican Party Pre-Primary Nominating Convention I received 107 votes and my opponent received 26 votes, totaling 133 votes. These results give us 80.45 percent of the delegate vote, confirming our expectations. This victory really means two things. irst, that my name will be listed first on the Republican Primary Ballot. Some have said that winning this ballot position is worth up to four percentage points in an election. Second, this result demonstrates that the New Mexico grass roots support that I have been talking about for several months is fully supporting our campaign. Our internal polling information agrees with these results that my opponent has a core group of committed supporters, but will be unable to attract the majority of the support necessary to win against Ben Ray Lujan, Jr. I believe that I am the candidate that will best represent not only the Republican party, but also the party of Knowledge in November. I have never been afraid of competition, but given this level of support, I am hopeful that my primary opponent will decide that he has little chance to win and will join our effort to defeat Ben Ray Lujan, Jr. This is an expensive endeavor and having a united effort, as early as possible, will ensure that we change the culture of corruption and dependence. But, who knows? As a rookie to the political business, the one thing I can tell you is that nothing can be predicted.

The party of knowledge includes Democrats, Independents, Greens, Libertarians, and Republicans. The party of knowledge has spoken in Albuquerque with the election of a new council and Mayor R.J. Berry. It spoke in New Jersey, Virginia, and most recently in Massachusetts. It is my belief that the party of knowledge will speak again in November and elect me to represent the 3rd Congressional Dis

I can’t speak for other members of the Libertarian Party, Boston Tea Party, New Mexico Patriot Alliance, and any other organization that I belong to, but I personally refuse to provide the slightest increment of support for this person.

I realize that I’m not a 3rd District voter, nor am I registered as a Republican. But I can still donate, write letters and post blog entries supporting the candidate who best represents my positions. I can promote that candidate’s events using the blogs and such available to me.

And the candidate who best represents my views, in all three of New Mexico’s districts, is Adam Kokesh.

One of the Libertarians on the BCC list for the above asked me the following —

I was not aware of any smear campaign. Is there a synopsis somewhere for me to look at ?

Basically, the neo-cons are pissed at Adam because in 2007, he protested the Iraq Occupation after being shot at during the Fallujah campaign (Feb-Sept 2004) and being discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2006.

Here’s a sampling of links from the smear campaign.

Or just go to thisainthell.com — seems to be the center of the Kokesh Hate Club.

It looks like this is part of a larger campaign by the neo-cons to purge the GOP of its libertarian faction, as the same people going after Kokesh are also whining about Ron Paul for the same “reason” — Paul objects to the Iraq Occupation. They refer to Paul as “RuPaul,” “NorLuap,” etc., and anyone associated with him as a “Paultard,” “Paulbot,” “Paulestinian,” “moonbat,” etc.

They don’t limit this sort of trash-talk to Paul and Kokesh, either. They went after Dr. Rand Paul, Ron Paul’s son, running for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, Debra Medina, running for Governor in Texas, and B.J. Lawson, in North Carolina.

Libertarians such as myself, they refer to as “libtards.” If you take a look at Free Republic [freerepublic.com], you can’t miss it — just run a search for “libertarian” or “Ron Paul” there, and you’ll see what I mean.

Then they get pissed at us when we (LP members, BTP members, RLC members, C4L members, etc.) don’t support their candidates as much as they want us to (which would most likely require us to spend ourselves into poverty). This is part of what gave America Scott Brown as a U.S. Senator.

This is the same Scott Brown, who in 2006, supported MassCare, Mitt Romney’s mandatory health-insurance scheme, which I suspect was the template for the mandatory-insurance part of ObamaCare.

This is the same Scott Brown who recently voted for to spend 15,000,000,000 bucks for a “jobs bill.”

Here’s what Jim Bancroft, one of the anti-Kokesh hate squad, had to say about Scott Brown after I pointed out the “jobs bill” vote —

I have to sadly confess that I did not do my homework on scott brown…

We were so happy that a republican might win the Kennedy seat, I didnt care to look up who he was or what he was about

I went to his rally in Worcestor the Sunday before, was happy as a clam when he won, got totally embarrassed when he said his daughters were available, disowned him when he said he was proud of his posing for Cosmo because it got him exposure…and totally hated him since he voted for the spending bill because it meant ‘jobs’ for Mass……

The term up here is MASSHOLE…

All I can say is, hey, it was MASS, what did we expect?

the only consolation is it isn’t a democrat…except he is now buds with that RINO McLAME???

Brown wasn’t in Romney care originally, he was part of the mass care bill, true, I didnt know that either…(sigh)

the things you learn so late, I heard him in his speech say he was sorry he voted for MASSCARE but was totally AGAINST national healthcare…I dont trust him to be any more genuine conservative than LIEberman…

that means he will vote just like McLAME…ie, 90% like Ted Kennedy anyways

makes me so mad I could spit. So, on this one…I wont call you a moron.

Hence my previous comments — if they don’t want our ideas, then they don’t deserve our financial and material support.

Here’s the links where Mullins takes potshots at Adam —

Tom Mullins: Adam Kokesh is an internet celebrity and a war protestor who makes poor choices

Mullins: Kokesh’s actions “dishonor the military”

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The following letter is from Tim Dunlap of Farmington, NM:

Personally speaking as a two-time war veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, I fully support Mr. Kokesh in his endeavor to become a representative in the United States Congress from the state of New Mexico. He has been serving the people of the United States for as long as I have known him. Mr. Kokesh represents New Mexico values.  He has what it takes to become one of the best representatives for this state, and he will bend over backwards to assist the people with key issues. The courage and motivation that drives Mr. Kokesh is inscrutably unique.

I am from Farmington, New Mexico.  I was born here, and lived here my whole life, except for the time I spent serving our country. During these times I was stationed in Ft. Hood Texas with the 4th Infantry Division, 1/66 Armor. This is who I deployed to Iraq with in 2003. After my service there, I went to Ft. Drum, New York where I served with the 10th Mountain Division on a reconnaissance unit, 3/71 CAV (RSTA). I deployed to Afghanistan with this unit in 2006. One of my good friends in this unit who sacrificed the ultimate price won the Medal of Honor. His name was SFC Jared Monti. During this same firefight I was injured in Gowardesh, Afghanistan, and ended up spending almost three months in a hospital, and another year in physical therapy.

This is when I met Mr. Kokesh. Dealing with overcrowding, patient rights, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the other problems that returning injured solders were facing were significant. Mr. Kokesh had come up and assisted me with some of these issues. It was great to see someone reaching out to help when most were either too busy or just seemed not to care. I have had the pleasure of knowing some outstanding citizens of this country and am proud to say that Mr. Kokesh is one of them.

The values of a state represent the people. These values include integrity, perseverance, and dedication. Mr. Kokesh represents these values and will represent them for the state of New Mexico. He will represent the values of New Mexico for all the people fairly and justifiably. To serve in this sense takes a representative of courage and honor, and I know exactly what it means to serve with courage and honor. This courage and honor that Mr. Kokesh displays is exactly the dedication that it will take to represent the people and veterans of New Mexico.

I knew Mr. Kokesh when I was in the military and he showed exemplified service. Mr. Kokesh served with honor, loyalty, and the many values that this state is in need of. I know exactly what it means to speak out, and he has the voice and knowledge to do just that. Mr. Kokesh will listen to the voice of the people and the veterans, and fight for what is right. Whether it is standing up for the opinions of the people, or stepping up to President Obama, if it needs to be done, he will do it.

This kind of incomparable service that Mr. Kokesh will represent for our state and the people within our state makes veterans like me proud. He will stand up for us veterans with the most sagacious representation and will make the people of New Mexico very proud. Mr. Kokesh has what it takes to beat Mr. Luján in economic issues, health care, and standing up for constituents. Mr. Kokesh will actually make things happen, and speak out for the people. Speaking as a veteran, a citizen, and as a person who is constantly active within his community, I would like to see Mr. Kokesh representing myself, my district, and my state.

1. Originally posted at kokeshforcongress.com
2. Reposted to resistnet.com, my personal site, New Mexico Liberty, KCUF Media

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Albuquerque Liberty Forum — Thursday, 4 March 2010 at 6:00 PM. Bernalillo County Libertarians meet in Albuquerque at Fiesta’s Restaurant & Cantina Carlisle & Montogomery NE) for no-host dinner. Contact Mike Blessing [ 505-515-7015 / mikewb1971@gmail.com ] for details. Suggestions for speakers are welcome.*

Friends of Capitalism — Tuesday, 9 March 2010, at 5:00 PM at the Rio Chama Steakhouse — 414 Old Santa Fe Trail in Santa Fe. Featured speaker — Jim Scarantino of New Mexico WatchDog.

Albuquerque Tea Party Meet-and-Greet — Friday, 5 March 2010 at the Albuquerque Convention Center

Alamogordo — Saturday, 6 March 2010 at 12:00 noon at Our Country Kitchen, 1201 New York Ave.

Ruidoso — Saturday, 6 March 2010 at 6:00 PM at Hotel Ruidoso, 110 Chase St.

Alto — Sunday, 7 March 2010 at 11:00 AM at Home of Marvin & Millie Woods, 238 Santiago Circle

Albuquerque — Thursday, 11 March 2010 at 6:30 PM at 66 Diner, 1405 Central Ave. NE

Rio Grande Foundation

Quarterly Luncheon featuring Joe the Plumber
Thursday, 18 March 2010 — 12:00 noon

“If Obama is elected he will ‘put the middle class through the wringer’.”— Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacker AKA Joe the Plumber

Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North, Yucatan Ballroom
5151 San Francisco Road NE (just west of I-25, off of Jefferson), Albuquerque, NM

Admission
$35 prepaid reservation on or before March 11
$40 reservation after March 11

To RSVP and make payment please contact us at riograndefoundation.org/rsvp or call 505-301-9953

Liberty on the Rocks — An Informal Gathering for the Cause of Liberty
Thursday, 18 March 2010

Join us on the 3rd Thursday of every month (except December)
5:00PM to 7:00PM
No-Host Happy Hour
$1 off Drinks and Meals
Compliments of Independence Grill — 6910 Montgomery Blvd. NE, Albuquerque

Featuring a Guest Speaker on Specific Topic at 5:45 PM
Followed by Q&A, Discussion Teasers and a Call to Action
$25 Gift Certificate Drawing (at 6:30PM)

RSVP Not Required but Always Appreciated!

Many thanks to our partners in Liberty — Independence Grill and D.W. Turner!

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I was looking through the blog of former Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca, and found this gem —

I just completed my yearly dance with Turbo Tax.  I am getting money back this year because of credits for installing three kilowatts of Solar Voltaic Panels on my roof.  Even after that we would not have owed any additional taxes to the Feds or the State other than what was withheld.  This is wrong. 

We did not pay enough income taxes.  Yes, I really feel that way.  You could put our annual income last year in the upper middle class and we should  have paid more in taxes but the congress and state legislature have no ‘huevos’ to do the right thing and rescind bush’s and the state’s income tax breaks.

If anything, it reminds me of a comment by a NM Green Party member back in the 1990′s — “I was audited last year, and not only were the auditors pleasant and professional, but they were right.”

Of course, no one in Libertarian ranks (or even amongst the libertarian-leaning Republicans) is stopping Baca or anyone else from sending MORE cash into the tax-collecting agencies. Never mind that if Mr. Baca and his cohorts spent as much time directly helping via private charity those they profess to care so much about, America wouldn’t have nearly as many people having economy-related troubles.

That, and he’s still got problems with us the Great Unwashed carrying self-defense tools — see here:

The legislature actually passed on to the Governor the bill allowing concealed weapons in liquor establishments that serve food.  As a former State Liquor Director in the 1980s I have to say this is one of the stupider things I have ever seen our lawmakers pull off.  Of course I hope the current head of the liquor department will urge the Governor not to sign this act.  Oh, the legislature still does not allow concealed weapons in the State Capitol Building where they work.  And the Governor has armed body guards in case someone comes into his office packing heat under their jacket.

And I thought that I had set him straight back then in 2001. Not that it mattered much for his political career — he still lost his bid for re-election for Mayor to Slick Marty Chavez.

If you’re happy and you know it, shake your chains
If you’re happy and you know it, shake your chains
If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it, shake your chains

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While I first heard about Joseph Stack’s suicide run at tonight’s episode of Liberty on the Rocks, I didn’t get any details until after following a link provided by skiffy writer J. Neil Schulman, via Facebook.

Already the lamestream snoozemedia are attempting to pin this one on the Tea Party groups. Never mind that Stack made NO mention of the Tea Party movement, the We The People Foundation, or any other organization in his six-page suicide letter.

Alex Jones’ infowars.com reports that the FBI knew that Stack was planning this attack. First they dropped the ball on stopping “9-11,” now this. Aren’t they supposed to be watching the tax honesty movement as “potential terrorists” ? Great job you’re doing, guys — wasn’t the USA-PATRIOT Act of 2001 AKA the “Patriot Act”^[1] railroaded through Congress, often without being read by the members voting on it, specifically to stop this sort of thing?

Expect Obama and Janet Napolitano^[2] to manufacture from thin air, BS and hyperbole “discover” a link to the Tea Party movement, a Texas-based militia group, and anyone else that they think that the non-political public will accept being demonized. Why would you expect them not to try this? They’ve tried it before, what with Janet’s report that military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, along with Constitutionalists and Second Amendment activists, were “potential terrorists.” (See here for a summary, or here for the actual report.)

Conspiracy-fantasy advocates will say that the Stack manifesto was manufactured by the Obama Administration, the Council of Foreign Relations, the Bildebergers, the Trilateral Commission, the Committee of 300, or all of them put together, and it was done so to give the Obama Administration an excuse to re-authorize the “Patriot Act.” Regardless of the cicrumstances, the Obama Administration WILL cite Stack’s suicide run as a rationale for doing exactly that.

Not only will Obama, Holder, Napolitano push for re-authorization of the “Patriot Act” and try to link Stack’s suicide run to the militias, tax honesty groups, Tea Party groups, etc., etc., but they will use this as their excuse to push for expansion of the “Patriot Act.”

I find this aspect of the whole affair to be particularly vulgar, in that while rank-and-file Democrats were pissed at their members of the U.S. House and Senate for supporting the “Patriot Act,” my fellow libertarians foresaw that those Democrats were supporting it NOT to be “bipartisan,” as they often call upon the GOP members of Congress to do, but so that when a Democrat held the executive-branch reins of power, then Democrats could use the act to go after Republicans (and anyone else they didn’t like) —

I suspect that the real reason most Democrats supported the USA-PATRIOT act of 2001 is that they saw their 2004 presidential candidate in the White House come 2005 and then they would have access to that power and get to use the Act to chase Republicans.

This is what’s happened with the IRS — Reagan and Bush I used it to go after Democrat-supporting groups, and Waco Willie used it to go after the NRA.

1. USA PATRIOT is short for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism”
2. Judge Andrew Napolitano (see also judgenap.com) actually has read and understands the Constitution.

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Some reading this may or may not have heard of Albuquerque’s conservative / libertarian-leaning alternative to the Weekly Alibi — the New Mexico Breeze.

In quite a few ways, the Breeze is everything the Alibi is NOT — the Wikipedia article that I linked to lists the Alibi’s strong points as their movie listings (NOT the reviews!), annual “Best of Burque” contest, and funky personals adverts, which are always good for a few laughs.

In contrast to the Alibi, the Breeze offers insightful commentary about the politics of New Mexico. Instead of whining that “we need more [public] money for ________” and “this needs to be regulated,” writers for the Breeze actually have the temerity to ask questions like, “Why is this necessary?” and even better, “Should the State be involved in this at all?” Imagine that!

Why you haven’t heard about the Breeze, I don’t know — Paul Gessing has done some no-charge publicity for the Breeze — and that was six, seven months ago. Still, like everything else in the Land of Entrapment, the word takes a while to get around.

See also —

• Capitol Report New Mexico, published by the Rio Grande Foundation

 

• New Mexico Liberty, official newsletter of the Libertarian Party of New Mexico

 

• The Patriot Times, V.2, official newsletter of the New Mexico Patriot Alliance

1. First published at newmexicoliberty.com

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