Purpose, Principles, and Program

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• Purpose, Principles, and Program
• of the Campaign for Liberty
• A presentation by Adam de Angeli

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Purpose

• Official Mission Statement To promote and
  defend the great American principles of
  individual liberty, constitutional government,
  sound money, free markets, and a
  non-interventionist foreign policy, by means of
  educational and political activity.
• I say To promote and defend is not enough you
  must succeed! The mission is not to try, it is
  to win.

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Purpose

• My Mission Statement To restore and secure the
  great American principles of individual liberty,
  constitutional government, sound money, free
  markets, and a non-interventionist foreign
  policy, by establishing them as the principles of
  a prevailing number of leaders in all levels of
  government.
• Still, same basic idea

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Purpose

• ...through educational and political activity.
• We reject the initiation of violence
• We believe the government must be elected by the
  people
• We believe that liberty is inherently popular,
  and a critical mass of well-organized action is
  all it needs to win
• As a 501c4, Campaign For Liberty HQ cannot
  endorse candidates. But it can give you the
  tools and training to find candidates, train
  activists, and win elections.

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Purpose

• The system will only ever change if the American
  people change. Massive political change does not
  occur because like-minded people talk amongst
  themselves it occurs when they engage others.
  This we do methodically, block by block, precinct
  by precinct.

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Purpose

• The system will not be changed by protests, by
  isolated resistance, or even by massive
  resistance if the resistance is unable to replace
  the old decision-makers with better ones.
• If we cannot elect disciplined liberty candidates
  at the moment of revolution, how could we
  expect to in future elections? Change will not
  last unless people are replaced.
• We need a new school of politicians. We need to
  find them (preferably before they find usfewer
  opportunists).

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Principles Individual Liberty

• Individual is the sovereign rule is lawful only
  with the consent of the governed
• Equal rights for all people regardless of group
• State is not permitted to infringe on individual
  whether or not majority would allow it

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Principles Constitutional Government

• Rule of law, not of politicians
• All provisions of Constitution must by abided
• Undesirable provisions must be properly amended
  and may not be disregarded
• Key aspects of Constitution
• Separation of powers
• Sound money
• Bill of Rights

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Principles Sound Money

• Money must be redeemable for a given amount of
  physical asset on hand cannot be created from
  thin air
• All fiat money systems collapse
• Saving is meaningless if currency collapses
• Our system a banking cartel steals from the
  value of the dollar to allow government to buy
  population into dependence

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Principles Free Markets

• Economic problems caused by lack of, not
  existence of, free market
• Little known fact big evil corporations
  benefit from regulation and lobby for it
• Government provides welfare to largest companies,
  regulation harms smallest ones most
• Public interest grants/incentives often backfire

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Principles Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy

• The world is not good guys v. bad guys
• Empires fall, ours showing all bad signs
• Alliances are liabilities, not assets
• Managing a global empire is not affordable
• Opposition to American imperialism is causing a
  worldwide call for global government, which would
  put individual liberty at greater risk than ever
  before

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Program

• Recruit
• Train
• Equip
• Mobilize
• Coordination at appropriate level (county,
  district, state, national)
• Action all grassroots

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Program Recruit

• A revolution takes a certain number of
  revolutionaries
• Engage your family, your friends, business
  contacts
• Practice and make a skill of getting people
  involved
• Unlike other types of revolution, no need to be
  secretive
• This topic covered in more detail in the next
  presentation

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Program Train

• Three major skill sets activists often need
  communication (written and verbal), public
  policy, team management
• Two minor (but not trivial) ones party politics,
  parliamentary procedure
• Three ways to learn reading, watching, practicing

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Program Train

• Leaders don't create followers they create more
  leaders.
• Debbie Hopper, VP of Membership, Campaign for
  Liberty
• Like in martial arts, the pro is really just an
  advanced beginner
• Teaching and learning is actually exciting when
  not in stuffy classroom
• As you gain experience, begin teaching, practice
  teaching
• Lots of material is and lots more will be at
  campaignforliberty.com
• Be patient people come from all sorts of
  backgrounds and all are valuable

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Program Equip

• CampaignForLiberty.com, the communication
  network. Learn from members all around the
  country, even the world. Form groups in your
  community, plan local campaigns, work with state
  campaign.
• Campaign For Liberty will provide materials to
  activists in time such as voter list, survey
  tools, and more
• State and local orgs develop material for their
  campaigns
• Campaign For Liberty database for keeping
  dependable records

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Program Mobilize

• Engagement, engagement, engagement
• In your neighborhood, canvassing
• Organizing public events
• Confronting your elected officials
• Creating news
• Party politics leading your local party
• Electoral politics helping voters make an
  informed choice

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Summary

• We believe in liberty economic freedom, sound
  money, neutral foreign policy, individual
  liberty, limited government
• We intend to make America a free country again
• Recruit create a large enough group to win
  support of the electorate
• Train teach friends, neighbors, fellow activists
  real economics, real politics, communication and
  project management. (four things scarcely taught
  in schools, yet who didn't have to dissect
  animals in science class?) Teach activists how to
  teach more activists
• Equip CampaignForLiberty will provide all it
  can grassroots produce the rest
• Mobilize Run candidates, win elections, teach
  the people, take back the country