Houston Area Liberty Campaign

WARNING…

This article contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth..
There is also language here that some people may find offensive.
So, before you flame me, just think about what I’m about to tell you.

Just so you’re warned, you can read with caution…
and hopefully, take heed.

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How to wreck a really good country in 40 easy steps
By:  HALC.us staff
[Editorial by HALC.us staff member, which in no way represents the opinions of the entire staff, just the author.]

1. Control their water (ever gone more than a day without drinking water??);
2. Control their food (ya gotta eat sometime, right??);
3. Tell them what kind of structures they can or cannot put on their land.  If you let them do something to their own land, make them pay you some money for permission of what they want to do with it.  If you don’t like them or their plan, keep their money but don’t give them the permit;
4. Make them rent their land that may have been paid off and in the family for 100 yrs.  Do this every year, in ever-increasing rates and dollar values;                                                                                                                                                                 Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to Guy McLendon and Jason J for passing this along. The final quote from Thomas Jefferson, from 1802, gives great insight into the current devaluation of our currency. My personal favorite is the second-from-last quote.

It’s also been said the Jefferson did his largest amount of thinking when he dined alone. Obviously, Thomas Jefferson was much wiser than our Federally-controlled public education system gave him credit for. Imagine our Congress today, if Thomas Jefferson were working hand-in-hand with the likes of Rep. Dr. Ron Paul and other true conservative libertarians… anyone for Congressional sessions only lasting a month?

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution.

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Dear all:

Below is a compilation of the emails related to the Texas Liberty Campaign Convention Sub-Committees’ work to date. Their work is pretty much finalized. The lines of asterisks separate each individual email.  The files referenced below after “HOTELS” is in the “Files” section of the Meetup.com site (membership & login required).

Much of this information is also summarized on the following website, which was used during the Ron Paul ’08 Presidential campaign:https://forum.ocati.org/ .

I’ve tried to summarize the most crucial information below as:

1) general information about the San Marcos Texas Liberty Campaign Convention in July

2) Second Texas Liberty Campaign Convention Committee’s Minutes of the Meetings (teleconferences, separate files)

3) Adopted report of the agenda subcommittee (separate file)

4) Initial Report of the Bylaws Subcommittee (separate file)

Please check the above website and read the materials there, as it will answer most of your questions not answered in the information below. I’m updating this document as soon as I can after it becomes available.

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General information about the Second Texas Liberty Campaign Convention

WHO: Anyone who cares about their liberties and is willing to come, per below. It’s not a prerequisite that you attended the Feb 28-March 1 Austin convention to be able to attend this convention, as a guest. If you were a delegate to the first convention, you are a delegate to the San Marcos convention. If you were an alternate, you’re an alternate again, same seating order as before. However, if you joined HALC after 2/27/09, you can only attend as a guest. You can likely run for a delegate or alternate seat in your respective SD, assuming you are qualified to run there.

WHAT: The Second Texas Liberty Campaign Convention, which arose out of the first convention, held in Austin TX on Feb. 28-March 1, 2009.

WHEN: Sat., July 25 & Sun., July 26, 2009. Starts @ 9:00 am both days. Ends @ appx. 5:00 pm Sat 7/25/09 and NO LATER THAN 5:00 pm Sun 7/26.

WHERE: Texas State University, 601 University Dr., San Marcos, TX 78666. Phone: (512) 245-2111. Website: www.txstate.edu. A Powerpoint presentation of the TSU campus is on the HALC Meetup.com site as Texas Liberty Campaign Host Report.ppt. Here’s a general Mapquest map of the location: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=San+Marcos&state=TX&address=601+University+Dr.&zipcode=78666 .

HOW MUCH: Cost is $20.00 per person, for both days of attendance. They had anticipated having “remote locations” where pre-registered delegates & alternates could have participated. However, that did not become a primary option. They decided to hold the convention in person; and they authorized remote voting. Delegates who wish to participate remotely will be allowed to do so, to the extent allowed in the rules adopted at the convention. The details of the remote voting method we are proposing and preparing for is described in the proposed rules.

PREREGISTRATION: Following is the link to register. Make sure to fill in all fields; otherwise, it won’t let you go to the payment page, and you will have to start over:  http://convention.ocati.org/RSVP/.

MEALS: Lunch will only be available for those who prepay (see under “Preregistration”) & we need a head count on those interested in purchasing breakfast items on site.

HOTELS:: If you are going to get a hotel room, you need to book it sooner rather than later–as in today. All prices are quoted for both July 24 & 25 for double rooms. All currently have rooms for the weekend of the 25th. All are within 5 minutes of the University. Without any guarantee’s we cannot get “block rates” because of tourism.

These are off Hwy 123 (Guadalupe Street) and IH35 (frontage road east side of I-35):
Holiday Inn Express & Suites–108 IH 35 North, (800) 465-4329, (512) 754-6621 or (512) 754-7707
Suites only available $149

These are on the west side of I-35 on the frontage road at Aquarena Springs:
La Quinta Inn–1618 IH 35 North, (800) 531-5900 or (512) 392-8800
$129

Quality Inn–1433 IH 35 North, (800) 228-5151 or (512) 353-7770
$100

Ramada Limited & Suites–1701 IH 35 North, (800) 2-RAMADA or (512) 395-8000
$129

Super 8–1429 IH 35 North, (800) 800-8000 or (512) 396-0400
$129

Other alternates in town:
AmeriHost Inn & Suites–4210 IH 35 South, (800) 434-5800 or (512) 392-6800, $149

Best Budget Inn–903 IH 35 North, (512) 392-3990, $79

Best Value Inn–1507 IH 35 North, (888) 315-2378 or (512) 396-6060, $75

Best Western San Marcos–917 IH 35 North, (800) 780-7235 or (512) 754-7557, available July 25th only, $100

Comfort Inn of San Marcos–1611 IH 35 North, (800) 228-5150 or (512) 396-5665, $120

Crystal River Inn–326 W. Hopkins, (888) 396-3739 or (512) 396-3739, $130-$150 (a Medina room)

Days Inn–1005 IH 35 North, (800) DAYSINN or (512) 353-5050, $110

EconoLodge–811 S. Guadalupe St., (800) 55-ECONO or (512) 353-5300, $80

Motel 6–1321 IH 35 North, (800) 4MOTEL6 or (512) 396-8705, $76

Microtel Inn & Suites–902 IH 35 North, (888) 771-7171 or (512) 754-7766, $75

Parkside Inn & Suites801 IH 35 North, (800) 228-2000 or (512) 353-1303, $100

Red Roof Inn–817 IH 35 North, (800) REDROOF or (512) 754-8899, $100

Stratford Inn–1601 IH 35 North, (512) 396-3700, $120

Welcome Home Inn–1635 Aquarena Springs Dr., (512) 353-8011, no pricing info given

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Second Texas Liberty Campaign Convention Committee’s Minutes of the Meetings (teleconferences)–

For the minutes of the 4/26/09 TX Liberty Convention Committee meeting:

See separate file on HALC Meetup site: “CommConvention-20090426.pdf”

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For the minutes of the 5/19/09 TX Liberty Convention Committee meeting:

See separate file on HALC Meetup site: “CommConvention-20090519.pdf”

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For the minutes of the 6/13/09 TX Liberty Convention Committee meeting:

See separate file on HALC Meetup site: “20090613-ConventionMeeting.pdf”

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For the minutes of the 6/27/09 TX Liberty Convention Committee meeting:

See separate file on HALC Meetup site: “20090627-ConventionMeeting.pdf”

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For the adopted report of the agenda Subcommittee:

See separate file on HALC Meetup site: “Tx Liberty Campaign Convention Agenda 7-25&26-09.doc”

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For the Initial Report of the Byloaws Subcommittee:

See separate file on HALC Meetup site: “Bylaws initial-report 20090708.pdf”

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END OF REPORT
Thanks.

During last night’s general meeting, the open discussion turned to green jobs, cap and trade and Obama’s misdirected policies on getting us out of the recession. During this discussion a startling piece of news emerged citing a case-study done of Spain (one of the most eager countries to embrace Federal funding of green jobs) where “stimulating” the Spanish economy with green jobs failed miserably.

Indeed, according to Dr. Gabriel Calzada’s study, an economics professor at Juan Carlos University in Madrid, “Spain’s experience (cited by President Obama as a model) reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created.”

Obama repeatedly has said that the United States should look to Spain as an example of a country that has successfully applied federal money to green initiatives in order to stimulate its economy.
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Most people recognize today as Cinco de Mayo – the oft misunderstood holiday where Americans get to go drink tequila pretending to celebrate Mexican Independence day. (Although Mexican Independence day isn’t actually until September 17)

Here at HALC we choose instead to recognize May 5th for something else. Karl Marx’s birthday.

With the state of the country and the direction of the Obama administration, it would be imprudent to ignore the man who, arguably made all this possible.

So instead of going out to some Mexican Restaurant tonight, come join us at Saute around 7:00p to gather around the light of Liberty and Capitalism and de-celebrate the birth of Karl Marx!

Before the Houston Area Liberty Campaign was the Houston Area Liberty Campaign we were just a bunch of motivated folks who wanted to affect change during the 2008 presidential primary season. Someone found meetup.com and we immediately flourished.

Yet, times are a changin’. Since our rag-tag activism days we’ve adopted official bylaws, had two officer elections and have expanded our purpose. Up to this point we’ve used our meetup.com site as the primary way of communicating with our members but it has its limitations.

Our new site will make it easier than ever to tell our story to our existing members and new ones alike. We can feature specific events based on how well they align with our mission, keep members up to date with Executive Committee and Action Group goings-on.

Even though we’re working on a shoestring budget (this site costs about $30/year to put up) you’ll find HALC.us full of advanced features such as mobile access (for posting AND reading), the dynamic commenting system Intense Debate and much more!

We hope you enjoy the site!