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updated 30 June 2009

ELECTIONS COME AND ELECTIONS GO
BUT FOMENTING FREEDOM IS FOREVER

Garry
Reed
formerly
known as
The
Loose Cannon Libertarian
is
now writing as
The Dallas Libertarian Examiner
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A RECENT EMAIL:
Thanks for the
great reporting. I am a lifetime registered Republican. I am very angry
with all the politicians. I have voted republican all my life, but
things are really changing now. The more I read your articles and listen
to the media, the more I think I'm a Libertarian. I also consider myself
a Conservative and an Independent.

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MISSION
STATEMENT
1.
BE A LIBERTARIAN
Today
there are many very good libertarian writers stalking the pixels
and column inches of the mainstream media. Very few of them
explicitly call themselves libertarians. I don’t naysay this
approach in getting the libertarian message to the public. The
more approaches the better. It’s just not right for me. The
socialists have spent at least a century smuggling their Marxist
wet dreams into American institutions. They cover their
intentions by calling themselves The Left or Progressives or by
confiscating the Liberal label and turning its original meaning
inside out. Many libertarians try to smuggle libertarian ideas
under the cover of “Classical Liberal” or “Freedom
Lovers” or “Fiscally Conservative and Socially Liberal” or
simply espousing libertarian ideas without ever labeling them as
such. Good for them, wrong for me. I’m explicitly libertarian.
2.
BE ENTERTAINING
Before
I started writing I spent many years reading. Not just the big
mover and shaker libertarians but everyone who even sounded like
a libertarian. At one time or another I’ve read articles and
essays and blogs and, if not books at least book reviews, of
every regularly published libertarian in America. I knew that if
I was going to enter the writing fray I would have to bring
something to the table that virtually no one else offered. And
then I noticed what was missing in the modern libertarian
movement. With very rare exception, nobody had a sense of humor.
Libertarians were all academics and economists and philosophers
and political policy wonks. All of which is fine. They’re
great, we need them, and I admire them. But libertarians are
people too, and people laugh and joke. So I combined my love of
all things libertarian with my love of all things funny and
began writing about serious issues in unserious ways. The
anti-freedom airbags on the Left and Right deserve to be
constantly poked with the sharp stick of disrespect,
irreverence, satire, ridicule, mockery, contempt and just plain
in-your-face derision. I have a good poking stick and I keep it
sharpened at all times.
3.
DON’T PROSELYTIZE
I’m
not interested in changing another person’s views. The other
person is responsible for changing his or her own views. After
all, that’s the whole idea of libertarianism – individual
freedom and personal responsibility. So I write what I write.
Others can read it or not, agree with it or not, change their
views or not. That’s their business. Me, I just keep on
writing.
I’ve
distilled the purpose of my writing into this simple tagline:
Fun&Freedom.
Garry
Reed
The Dallas Libertarian Examiner
libergarryan@aol.com
The
Loose Cannon Libertarian
www.freecannon.com
reedcannon@aol.com
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