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Tom Rankin (Tom Rankin sheepdog) [Message] Interim state coordinator 700 General Hodges Morgan City, LA 70380

Steven Hand (Chris Hand) [Message] Interim state coordinator 31551 Netterville Rd Denham Springs, LA 70726

Welcome to Louisiana's Campaign for Liberty

Please join our team of dedicated activists to take our country back.

We will focus our political activism primarily on local politics. We will influence state and federal legislation through emails, calls and petitions; but, taking back our local governments is a necessity for true representation. This is how we can Save our Republic.

Ban The Cams in Louisiana Petition

US Congressman Audit the Fed Petition

Senator Mary Landrieu Audit the Fed Petition

Local Grassroots Development

◊ Become a C4L Local Coordinator

Take ownership of the Campaign for Liberty and its place in politics by paying your annual dues. Then, become a local coordinator. This crucial step allows for you to receive grassroots training; which provides an opportunity to understand your local political landscape while teaching you how to win. This is accessible through the dashboard of all local coordinators.

◊ Attend Meetings

Attend local political parties, school boards, water district, city/parish councils, etc... . Place your meeting's information on your parish calendar on this C4L.

◊ Dress for Success

It never hurts to be the best dressed in the room, but it does to be the worst dressed.

◊ Leave controversial issues that will marginalize you at the door

Do not discuss issues that have little or no relevance to governance or local issues.

◊ Be professional and respectful

What you say or do as a representative of Campaign for Liberty is a reflection of the organization.

◊ Get the local C4L members to attend with you

Be successful in encouraging C4L members and friends to attend your meeting. Begin by attending yourself and reporting back to C4L with a blog. Blogs are read by a lot of people and your encouraging words will persuade others to do the same. Email and call to remind members about meeting time and place.

◊ Get to know your local issues

Recognize the leaders in the room, and get to know them on a personal level through personal conversation. Recognize local issues that you have in common, like taxes, property rights, civil liberties, water issues, etc..., and develop alliances with members.

◊ Organize political activities around local issues

Be a leader and organize political activities around these common local issues . Walk your local streets with informational flyers, about these local issues, have informational booths at farmer's markets and community events. Report back your success to the members of your meetings, write a blog and tell C4L about it.

If you are active in a political party work for it, find those issues and candidates that you can agree with and focus your political activities on them. You will earn the respect and trust of the established local party leadership for your organizing. Work harder than anyone.

◊ Influence your local governance

Be your local political activists for the cause of Liberty. When there are local issues, be known as the group that is willing to hit the streets and make a real difference. When ever there is an issue of importance, let the local establishment know that there will be local grassroots organizing. With a few local victories, you will have successfully influenced your local governance. With influencing local politics, you have established yourself as a local leader, your neighbors and friends will expect you to have information about local issues. You will be expected to lead. You are now a political leader. This is the key.

Should you become the precinct walkers and political activists of your local party, you will have real influence on party politics. The local party can only mobilize on issues that are in alignment with you and Liberty.

◊ A true leader makes more leaders

Encourage others to do the same. Find the other "go getters" and encourage them to organize in their local districts. Compare notes with them, on what works and what doesn't work. Learn from each others mistakes to build and forge stronger relationships.

2011 Candidate Survey Posted by Chris Hand

Posted 10/21/11

2011 Candidate Survey

Louisiana Campaign for Liberty Members,

Can you depend on common sense from the government?

ITEM:  Police shut down lemonade stand run by two little girls

ITEM:  SWAT team raids Amish farm for selling milk straight from the cow

ITEM: Federal Bureaucrats fine Missouri family $4 million for their son’s sale of $4500 worth of rabbits

No wonder nearly 80% of Americans believe this country is going in the wrong direction.  It is as if government bureaucrats have gone off the deep end and blissfully ignore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

For the last decade the Bush and Obama administrations have been running roughshod over innocent citizens who just need to fly across country to comfort a hurting relative or tend to a family emergency.  The TSA treats the area between the ticket gate and the door to the airplane as the old Soviet Union – demanding to see your papers and to see you naked in their scanners or to be felt up by their people if you dare refuse.

Hope is not a strategy and praying for common sense to be exercised by government officials is no longer an option.

We have to start repealing the laws that bureaucrats are using to run roughshod over the citizens.

That is why the Louisiana Campaign for Liberty sent every candidate for state legislature a survey of seven basic questions.  Important questions that you need to know a straight answer to before you vote this weekend.

Here are some examples:

• Will you oppose efforts to cooperate with a national ID card system and vote to block all state funding for and cooperation with any national ID scheme including the Real ID and Pass ID programs? 
• Do you oppose the use of unmanned devices being used for law enforcement and given the power to fine citizens?
• Will you support legislation that would allow TSA agents to be charged with sexual assault if they use invasive “pat-down” procedures?

Do you want to know where your candidates stand on these issues?  Click Here to see the survey results.

Sincerely,

Chris Hand

Louisiana Campaign for Liberty

P.S.  Campaign for Liberty does not support or endorse specific candidates for office, but we do have a duty to our members to let them know where the candidates stand on important issues. Click Here to see how your candidates responded to our 2011 candidate survey before tomorrow’s primary election.

Thoughts on the Debt Ceiling Posted by KevinYeaux

Posted 07/29/11

As a nation, we need to be honest with ourselves: we're broke. Sorry. No debt ceiling increase, no tax increase, and no spending increase will fix that problem. Liberals and fake conservatives can try and say that a $14 trillion deficit is "manageable", it's not. Stop lying.

Our credit rating is worthless, "AAA" doesn't mean much when the only way we can pay our bills is to borrow more or devalue our Dollar. We're the most unsustainable large economy on earth by our deficit spending alone. You want to save our "pristine" image? Cut seriously. Bring the troops home, demand every dollar not yet payed back from bailouts (and don't believe that it's all paid back... we lost billions on Chrysler alone). President Obama says he wants spending cuts, yet in three years he's showed no sign of wanting to cut anything except the Republican's ability to control Congress (and in that he failed). The GOP is no better, aside from their fiscally liberal President Bush inheriting a surplus and ending with a massive deficit, no one in GOP leadership wants to cut the program that MUST be slashed to make any real change in our budget: the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Pakistan. While the libertarian/Tea Party wing has helped somewhat, the leadership's still not there.

On taxes: taxes supress the economy. Plain and simple. They take money out of circulation and put it in government where it is almost always put to less efficient use. If wealthy people feel that they want to "contribute" more to the Federal Government,  you can make a contribution to the Treasury if you'd like. Not raising taxes in one of the highest taxed nations (counting state and local taxes) isn't about "loving rich people", it's about wanting to have a workable economy. Our economy is strong, even during the worst of the recession. I hated John McCain, but he was absolutely right when he said "the fundamentals of our economy are strong". It's the government that's too big.

There's no easy way out... it's our parents and their older generations that got us into this mess and we're going to have to pay for it. I believe our generation, who will begin to populate Congress in about fifteen to twenty years, will be a better, more responsible group because we know what irresponsibility can do to a nation. In the meantime, how about the generation that got us into this mess grow a pair and deal with the fallout of their actions, instead of dumping it on their kids?

Intentional Destruction by the Government Posted by Beausolei

Posted 05/13/11

The Army Corps of Engineers will be opening the Morganza Spillway to the detriment of the small towns in the spillways path,knowing full well that they will be destroying everything in its path.Homes,churches,businesses,camps,whole communities will be under water for at least a month.I live right in the middle of ground zero in Butte Larose,Louisiana,but I am not writing this to complain about it,only to shed some light on what we are doing about it.

I am also a founding member of Article VI Motorcycle Club,and we have already started soliciting donations from corporations and individuals for the relief efforts that we are co-ordinating for this and other communities that will be intentionally destroyed by the Corps.

We are attempting to have everything needed to rebuild these communities in place at local staging areas so that when we are allowed back in to rebuild our homes and our lives,we will have everything in hand to do so.

So,no,we will not be begging for assistance from the Federal Government to do what needs to be done,instead we will come together as a community to rebuild our lives and our homes together,and unlike the Red Cross we will not skim a percentage off of the top on the donations.

There are roughly 20 communites that will be affected by the Morganza opening,and we are attempting to set up to assist all that are affected by this.

All I ask is for other members here at C4L help spread the word about what it is that we are attempting to accomplish,and understand how daunting of a challenge we are putting in front of ourselves willingly.

http://www.articlevimc.com

Ban the Cam being heard Tomorrow Posted by HeatherHand

Posted 05/18/11

Our Ban the Cam message has been heard loud and clear.

Tomorrow, the 19th, the Senate Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs will be hearing SB 75 - a full statewide red light camera ban.

The Committee will be meeting, in Room F of the Capital, after the full Senate meets at 9 am. Most times the Senate takes an hour.

There are several things you can do to ensure that SB 75 passes: (1)Call the committee members and letting them know that this bill must be passed. (2) Come to the Committee hearing and show your support of the bill by filling out a "Green Card". If you wish to testify just put it on the "Green Card". (3) Sign the petition and pass it on to everyone you know.

Here's a list of the committee members and their contact information:

Senator AG Crowe - (985) 643-3600
Senator Lydia Jackson - (318) 676-7029
Senator Elbert Guillory - (337) 943-2457
Senator Fred Mills, Jr. - (337-365-8484
Senator Jonathan Perry - (337) 740-6425
Senator Karen Carter Peterson - (504) 568-8346
Senator Cynthia Willard-Lewis - (504) 243-1919
Senator Edwin Murray - (504) 945-0042

The Senate Switchboard is (225) 342-2040

I will see you tomorrow!

Keep up the great work!

Steady Erosion of Liberty Posted by Tim Shoemaker

Posted 05/18/11 Last updated 05/18/11

Judge Napolitano discusses the misnamed "Patriot" Act, the recent Indiana Supreme Court decision, and Supreme Court decision that are effectively shredding the Fourth Amendment and casting the Constitution into the dustbin of history.  The Founding Fathers fought a revolution against this very sort of government tyranny.  Liberty is never lost overnight, but over the last ten years it's erosion by government has stepped into overdrive.