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May 28th, 2009

Birmingham/Shelby County “Tea Party – A Celebration of Freedom”

Description: The Alabama Republican Liberty Caucus is pleased to announce our support for the upcoming Birmingham/Shelby County Tea Party. “Tea Party -A Celebration of Freedom” will be held on July 4th at the Verizon Wireless Music Center.

Title: Birmingham/Shelby County “Tea Party – A Celebration of Freedom”
Location: Verizon Wireless Music Center (formerly Oak Mountain Amphitheater), Pelham, AL
Link out: Click here

We’ll be announcing additional details soon, but we’re trying to get the word out now so you can place the date on your calendar. Also, the event is in need of volunteers and vendors/sponsors.
Start Time: 5:30
Date: 2009-07-04

By Stephen Gordon • Posted in Organizational, Upcoming Events • 3 Comments
May 27th, 2009

ALRLC encourages Alabama’s congressional delegation to support Federal Reserve Transparency Act

(Birmingham, AL) On Tuesday night, the Alabama Republican Liberty Caucus unanimously adopted a resolution encouraging Alabama’s congressional delegation to support H.R. 1207,  the  Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009. Wikipedia describes H.R. 1207 as follows:

According to its short title, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 amends Title 31 of the United States Code “to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported”. It strikes exceptions to the audit protocol in 31 U.S.C. § 714 for the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United States, and replaces an indefinite deadline with a deadline of December 2010.

“All Americans should support this important legislation regardless of their political views,” said Alabama Republican Liberty Caucus Chair Scott Boykin. “Transparency in public institutions is a fundamental value in a free society.”

The bill currently has 179 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, including Congressmen Robert Aderholt, Mike Rogers and Spencer Bachus from Alabama.

“We like to thank the three members of our congressional delegation who have signed onto the bill,” said ALRLC Media Director Stephen Gordon. “This should be an incredibly easy bill for any Republican to support and we’ve already got 35 cosponsors from the Democratic side of the aisle. We’d like to encourage Joe Bonner, Artur Davis, Bobby Bright and Parker Griffith to jump on board before the train leaves the station.”

The Alabama Republican Liberty caucus is committed to advancing the cause of liberty by advancing pro-freedom legislation and electing pro-freedom candidates to public office.

By Administrator • Posted in Legislation We Support, Press Releases • 1 Comment
May 27th, 2009

Resolution regarding HB1207

Last night at our May meeting, with unanimous consent, the Alabama Republican Liberty Caucus passed a resolution, commending Congressmen Spencer Bacchus, Robert Aderholt, and Mike Rogers for co-sponsoring Dr. Ron Paul’s House Bill 1207, known as the Audit the Fed bill. The resolution also encouraged the remaining Alabama Congressmen to join their names to the growing bi-partisan list of co-sponsors.

By Shana Kluck • Posted in Organizational • No Comment
May 24th, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24

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May 24th, 2009

Please help us get a regular nationally televised slot for Judge Andrew Napolitano

A bunch of us are trying to get Judge Andrew Napolitano’s online program Freedom Watch into a televised slot at Fox News. According to an e-mail I received from Judge Napolitano’s colleague Shelly Roche, the Fox producers are telling her the two most important things we can do are “flooding Fox with emails and showing high view counts on the videos.”

If you don’t blog, but would like to see more libertarians on national television, please quickly e-mail Fox and let them know you’d like to see the Judge get his own TV slot.

If you’ve got a blog, you can help out even more. The details are here.

By Stephen Gordon • Posted in Organizational • No Comment
May 22nd, 2009

The hops are finally free

It’s been reported that Governor Riley has signed HB373, the Gourmet Beer Bill, into law this morning. We’d like to thank the Governor for supporting this basic freedom for beer enthusiasts across the state.

This has been one of the best run positive grassroots campaign I’ve ever seen. It serves as a perfect example of what to do when trying to effect political change.

It also serves as a perfect example of an effective online campaign. Not only the website, but social networking made a lot of difference.

Finally, the Hops could have never been freed if not for the work of thousands of people across Alabama. Congratulations to each and every one of you for a job very well done.

By Stephen Gordon • Posted in Legislation We Support • No Comment
May 21st, 2009

Tweet the Hops

We’re in the final stretch to pass the Free the Hops bill. The legislation has made it through both chambers at the State House and now it needs Governor Riley’s signature before Monday. Please contact Governor Riley to urge his support of Alabama’s Gourmet Beer Bill.

By Administrator • Posted in Legislation We Support • No Comment
May 20th, 2009

The GOP needs libertarians more than libertarians need the GOP right now

Stephen Gordon chimed in regarding the debate between senior GOP personalities over at The Next Right. He concludes:

There aren’t enough libertarians out there right now to become the dominant force in American politics. As election results continue to prove, there aren’t enough people willing to support business-as-normal inside-the-beltway Republican types, either. Should the national GOP leadership re-invite libertarians to the table (as they are doing in some places at a state and local level), the Republican Party might once again become more significant in the national political arena.

Obviously, neither side in this fight is afraid to duke it out. Libertarians have one critical advantage, though.

Libertarians are used to wandering in the wilderness like political nomads. We know we’ll be called upon from time to time to act as tour guides in order to lead the Republican leadership towards some safe small-government oasis or waterhole of individual liberty. We don’t even need maps or compasses, as the routes are permanently etched within our minds. Being tough and hearty political travelers, another forty years in the wilderness doesn’t scare us all that much.

We are, however, becoming increasingly annoyed with Republican leaders who have established a pattern of stiffing us on the bill for our services — making us significantly less inclined to help out in the future.

We warned Republicans in 2004. We showed some resistance in 2006. We showed most of our cards in 2008. Months after the election, the John Cornyn/Mike Huckabee/Lindsey Graham wing of the party continues to hurl insults at us. At this point, any reasonable person might ask why libertarians would even care to lift a finger to help.

Without enough allies to fight the Democrats or even the skills to find the path to small government and individual freedom, the current Republican leadership may not be destined to forty years in the wilderness. Without libertarian assistance, they may not even make it to the next oasis.

With or without the GOP, libertarians will somehow survive. Can the GOP survive without libertarians?

By Administrator • Posted in Commentary, Media • 1 Comment
May 18th, 2009

Mark Sanford regarding that dirty little “l” word

By Administrator • Posted in Media • No Comment
May 15th, 2009

Liberty on the Rocks

Title: Liberty on the Rocks
Location: Birmingham
Link out: Click here
Description: What do you get when you mix alcohol with the politics of freedom? An argument can be made that we owe our Republic not only to a lot of bright and brave people, but also to a lot of booze.

In order to bring out freedom fighter in all of us, as well as to provide some networking opportunities and just plain fun, we\’ve now opened the Birmingham branch of Liberty on the Rocks.

The first scheduled Birmingham Liberty on the Rocks event will be held on Tuesday, May 19
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-05-19
End Time: 23:45

By Administrator • Posted in Organizational, Upcoming Events • No Comment
May 10th, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10

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By Administrator • Posted in Tweets • No Comment
May 10th, 2009

Rocket City Brewfest draws thousands

ALRLC members were busy working to Free the Hops over the weekend.  While AL-RLC Secretary Shana Kluck and member Austin Wilkes were working the Free The Hops booth, media director Stephen Gordon was tweeting event updates to the cell phones of event participants and others around the state who couldn’t attend the event.  He was also interviewed by Huntsville’s WAFF 48 News.  Video on the news coverage is located here and at the sidebar.

By Administrator • Posted in Legislation We Support, Media • No Comment
May 10th, 2009

Guns save lives!

A friend and I have been covering this Georgia Second Amendment success story, which is probably the most under-reported piece of news I’ve seen this year. This might be a good time for a refresher course on how many lives might be saved if not for Sarah Brady and her evil ilk. Here’s some background for the upcoming video from Wikipedia:

On Wednesday, October 16, 1991, Hupp and her parents were having lunch at the Luby’s in Killeen. She had left her handgun in her car to comply with Texas state law at the time which forbade carrying a concealed weapon. When George Hennard drove his truck into the cafeteria and opened fire on the patrons, Hupp instinctively reached into her purse for her weapon, but it was in her vehicle. Her father, Al Gratia, tried to rush Hennard and was shot in the chest. As the gunman reloaded, Hupp escaped through a broken window and believed that her mother, Ursula Gratia, was behind her. Hennard put a gun to her mother’s head as she cradled her mortally wounded husband. Hupp’s mother and father were killed along with twenty-one other persons. Hennard also wounded some twenty others. As a survivor of the Luby’s massacre, Hupp testified across the country in support of concealed-handgun laws. She said that had there been a second chance to prevent the slaughter, she would have violated the Texas law and carried the handgun inside her purse into the restaurant.

It’s worth the five minutes to watch her testimony. Even if you’ve seen it before, it’s a good reminder of the price we pay for allowing enemies of the Second Amendment to hold seats in Congress.

You know how the gun-grabbers keep insisting that guns kill? Folks with rational minds know that people, not guns, are the the real killers. We know that a gun is merely a tool. However, as long as they continue to spout their mindless mantra about evil guns running about our streets all willy-nilly killing folks as they please, we may as well remind them that GUNS SAVE LIVES!

By Stephen Gordon • Posted in Commentary • No Comment
May 6th, 2009

Draft the Judge

There’s a new Twitter account to draft Judge Andrew Napolitano to  public office.

It looks like there’s going to be a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court which needs to be filled.  On the extreme off-chance that the Obama administration has set their litmus test to be a very thorough understanding of the Constitution, then Napolitano’s certainly their man. We won’t be holding our breath around here for a Napolitano appointment from President Obama, though.

By Stephen Gordon • Posted in Commentary • No Comment
May 3rd, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03

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