prez2008left.jpg

About the Campaign
Search This Site

Join the
E-mail Updates List
Lance's Projects
E-Actions for Freedom
Easy online actions for advancing the cause of freedom.

PNAC.info
An effort to investigate, analyze, and expose the Project for a New American Century, and its plan for a "unipolar" world.

CampusLP.org
Free web sites for campus libertarian clubs!

The Little Brown Reader
A rolling catalog of articles and web sites of significance that Lance is reading.

The Nevada County Libertarian Party
"Your Local Party of Principle" (Chairman)

The Nevada County Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Dedicated to Creating a Civil Liberties Safe Zone in Nevada County, California. (Co-founder)

The Free School on the Internet
A developing effort to create a superior online K-12 school, with free attendance.

StopCarnivore.org
Stop the FBI Spy Tool Carnivore Now!"

GreenLiberty.org
Where Green values meet Libertarian principles.

Useful Lance

Support freedom in our lifetime:

metuxtpf.jpg
Classic Lance
What people are saying about Lance Brown for President:

   "I've been reading some of the political content at freedom2008.com, and find it damn interesting.
   "I am nominally a Democrat, but have never been seriously politically active, mainly because I'm fed up with a lot of what the major parties say and do. ...you could say I'm looking for an intelligent alternative.
   "I'm not ready to declare myself a Libertarian, but your site piques me and makes me think. And that's (at least) half the battle.
   "Very interesting."
-- Kurt B.,
Allentown, Pa.

   "Wow I am amazed and joyous! Your views are just what this country needs! I am going to spread the word about your campaign."
-- Elizabeth Ward

   "I read every article posted on your site and was amazed to find myself repeatedly saying 'Wow, I agree with that.'"

   "I'm pro-Lance as long as I'm not also running for prez" - 
-- Mojo Nixon, entertainer and revolutionary

   "You are probably this country's last chance at freedom in this lifetime."
-- ¡Obay!

   "I stumbled upon your website and it is WONDERFUL. You can count on MY VOTE and MY SUPPORT in 2008!!!"
-- Alan Handleman,
Grayson, KY

   "This is the blog belonging to my former boss and aspiring President of the United States. I remain pledged to moving to Ireland if he actually wins but still it's an interesting site."
-- Adam Graham,
Boise, Idaho

   "I just want to take a minute to tell you that we really do appreciate your writing over here. I find the state of this country so outrageous that I mostly sit around pulling my hair out and fantasizing about Canada. But, incredibly, you don't stew! It's like you're on a whole other plane.
   "It's so easy to lose sight of reality with all that glare from the fancy magic show illusions of our 'two' party system. Seriously. Your message is hopeful and real."
-- Kristen Werner,
Rollinsford, N.H.

Please click this and help my rating:

January 03, 2003

TV Turn-around

I had a TV appearance yesterday which took a bunch of cool turns for the better, resulting in a lot of talk about libertarianism and individual liberties -- in other words, politics a la Lance. :-)

The scenario was that I was one of the three hosts of the Nevada County News Hour, the community access TV show that I was a guest on a few weeks ago. It was intended to be a "2002 in Nevada County" review-type news hour, but the conversation kept wandering into abstract political theorizing-- mostly, me espousing libertarian views and the other two hosts debating back and forth with me about them. I wasn't really trying to pull the show that way, but the other two sort of encouraged and went along with it.

We kept going back to local politics and news, but there was just a lot more abstract political debate than anyone expected. The main host, Eric Tomb, even joked at the end by closing with, "You've been watching the Nevada County Political Theory Hour." I don't know if the people watching it were as amused by us as we were, but it was good fun nonetheless. The other host is a woman named Sharon Boivin, who has worked in government since she finished college, and who tends to support a fairly sizable central government. She's a sorta moderate-conservative, working younger grandmother type. She's lived in Nevada County for over 50 years. Which is to say, her and I are a little different. ;-) I get along pretty well with her-- she's a really nice lady, and she gives me a lot of credit and respect, even though I'm just a punk kid in comparison to her. Though now that I think of it, she did try the 'ol "I used to think like that when I was younger, too" trick once. Mostly she's really supportive though, and listens and asks questions like she really wants to hear what I think. She was very complimentary toward me both during the show and afterward. She admires my ability to stick to my principles and defend them so adamantly. I told her I work hard at it, which is true. I like that I'm able to get along well with people from a variety of spectrums of society-- particulary people who are significantly older than me. Nevada County has a demographic slant toward the older age groups-- my age group is the smallest of all, I think. Most of my friends and primary acquaintances locally are in their 40's, 50's, and beyond. (I'm 30, BTW.) It's kinda weird, but it's kinda cool, too. It's like I'm skipping a grade, socially, and moving up to the older kids class. Not that I do a lot of "normal" socializing-- most of my interactions locally are in the course of activism of some sort or another. I don't do much of the casual, have-a-good-time time socializing. I got my fill of that routine during high school and college.

Anyway, back to the TV appearance. I don't think I'll put the whole thing online, because a bunch of it is local political stuff which won't mean much to folks without the local background. Maybe I'll grab a few clips of the juicier freedom debate portions that came up. It won't be right away, because I'm behind and bogged down in work and projects and stuff. I have to do some catching up.

That's also why I lamely missed posting on the first two days of this year. I have a lot of different things going on, and my days are overflowing with things I need to get done. It's a temporary condition...I'm slowly pulling out of it. I almost wrote and posted this message last night, but then I got derailed by a way-overlong phone call, and the overflow effect mounted some more. I'm inching my way back, though, and I think I'll be back to posting daily again now.

Posted by Lance Brown at January 3, 2003 04:22 AM | TrackBack
Comments
Post a comment









Remember personal info?






Email this entry to:

Your email address:

Message (optional):

Please click the following to help my rating at these sites:

Top 25 Libertarian Sites
(Currently #10)

Blogarama's 'What's Cool' List
(Currently #10)

Blogster Top 25
(Currently #21)
Recent Entries
Explore the Archives
September 2003
Su M T W Th F Sa
  1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30        
I'm a Member of:
Music I Love
TV I Watch
Blog Places
Blogroll
Web Rings I'm In
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64

Click here for more technically-legal signs for your library
Civilian casualties update
Assorted Links

All contents of this site Copyright © 1996-2003 by Lance Brown for President in 2008. 
Please distribute and link freely; and please let us know by e-mailing editor@freedom2008.com.

Thank you very much for your visit.



Ring of Freedom & Liberty
[Previous 5] [Previous] [Skip 1] [Next] [Next 5] [List] [Join]