Our party is committed to America's heritage of freedom:
- individual liberty and personal responsibility
- a free-market economy of abundance and prosperity
- a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace, and free trade
Who We Are: The Libertarian Party of Shelby County, Tennessee
The members of the Libertarian Party of Shelby County, Tennessee, are a group of normal Americans going about our daily lives. Realtors, doctors, retired, housewives, businessmen, students. We don't really want to dedicate much of our attention to politics - the practice of exerting power over others - but we find that our lives cannot be lived without the incessant intrusions of our government at all levels.
We want to do what we can to reduce the taxes we pay and to go about our business or our leisure activities without our government telling us what is good for us, and criminalizing what they select to be "bad."
For example, we think wearing seat belts makes sense; but making it a crime not to doesn't. Most of us avoid cigarettes; but we defend the right of others to choose otherwise. Some are hunters, others cherish all wildlife. Some do both. But we all agree that we have the right to choose our own style, and not any power to restrain others unless they are harming us or our property.
We don't want our land or possessions taken and sold to someone who will profit by it - and generate more money for local government.
We don't want a nation, or our local community, to be a place where any level of police can probe into our personal affairs without specifically warranted suspicions, in the name of the "war on drugs", or "the war on terror."
We don't think it's smart or right to build a sports arena with money taken from local citizens by force (that is, after all, what taxes are). And we are aghast when that facility is soon deemed obsolete and is replaced by another.
We don't think the government should keep us from building any refineries for the last 30 years, and then tell us we have to conserve on fuels.
The Shelby County Libertarians meet monthly to discuss such local and national issues, share a pleasant meal, and occasionally run candidates for office. We like to invite speakers of local and national interest, and discuss the issues with them. We lobby informally to initiate, support, or oppose specific legislation.
We'd like you to join. And we'd sure like you to donate time and money to support our - and your - political defense.
Hal Rounds
Chairman LPSC