At its August meeting, the Hamilton County Libertarian Party unanimously adopted the following statement in regards to the City of Chattanooga’s proposed annexation plan:

In recent months, the City of Chattanooga has begun to take steps to forcibly annex communities at the perimeter of the City. Despite widespread and vocal opposition, there have been no signs that the City intends to alter its course.
At this time, the City of Chattanooga is unable to provide adequate services to its citizens; enlarging its service area will only exacerbate this problem. Property owners in …

Friends of Liberty,
It’s once again time for another edition of the HCLP Liberty Update (ok, actually I’m a few days late; I apologize … it’s been a very, very busy week).
As always, if you know of anything that might be of interest to members of the Hamilton County Libertarian Party (and since we are providing a home for some folks in North Georgia that don’t have local LP affiliates, that includes those areas as well), please let me know, or feel free to send an email to the group at …

“The free market failed.” These are words that will cause any Libertarian worth the powder to put him out of his foolishness to cringe. If one is going to assert this position, then that begs an obvious question: How can we call what we have here a truly free market when the very money we barter with is enslaved to Central Planners? Is this even a fair or accurate statement?
It has been argued that Libertarians are obsessed with our Gold Standard – it is not so much that we are …

Friends of Liberty,
It’s time for issue #3 of the HCLP Liberty Update! I had intended to send this out yesterday, but I ran out of time to wrap it up, so it’s a day late. My intention is to send these out every Wednesday going forward.
As always, if you know of something of interest to our group, send it my way and I’ll distribute it to the group … or, if you’d like, you can also just email libertarian-381@meetup.com and it will go out to everyone in the group. This …

The current grass roots efforts across the country, in approximately 450+ cities, is the result of various circumstances.
Foremost, is the current spending frenzy in Washington, D.C.. When government approves any new laws or pork programs (and most, if not all of them are unconstitutional), the Federal Reserve (a cadre of non-government-private bankers) prints and loans the fiat currency to the government with interest to cover the expense, there’s nothing of value to back it up.
The burden of this interest is passed on to the constituents, and taxpayers in the form …